Regional organization model

Market Information Meeting- september 10th,Brussels

1. Cooperation Agreement•Joint public procurement•Creation interregional agency•Coordination backoffice enforcement and interregional support/exchange

•Bandwidth tariffs km-charge

•Uniform tariff E-vignet + periods, eventual discounts and exemptions•Interregional distribution key (revenues)

2. Interregional Agency• Founded by 3 regions (2013) – only government bodies,

no private bodies/concessionaires (art 92 bis BWHI)

• Concessionaire (Sofico) will join the tender procedure for SSP via ‘samenvoegingsoverkomst’ – merger-agreement

• Interregional agency = penholder in tender procedure• Possibility future concessionaires to join interregional

agency is still ‘under study’• Interregional agency will be created in spirit of good

governance (special majorities, veto-rights, etc…)• Concessionaire (Sofico) can be represented in the board of

governors via Walloon Region• Agency will be staffed by civil servants

2. Interregional Agency

Interregional Entity

Service provider(s)Road charge & vignette

users

• Cooperation agreement• Nomination/ Dismissal Board

of Directors• Monitoring

• Choice SSP• Recognition other SP(s)• DBFMO contract• Monitoring of execution / KPIs

• Communication• Coordination

enforcement• ‘Ombudsman

• Execution of traffic control• Staffing of enforcement

center• Imposition of fines,

collection and enforced recovery

Brussels-capital region

Walloon region

Flemish region

Subcontractors

• DBFMO contract

Concessionaires

•Sofico•Other potential concessionaires

• DBFMO contract

• Concession agreements

•Sofico (Société de Financement Complémentaire des infrastructures) was created in 1994 by the government of the Walloon region and is a public corporation.•Sofico’s objectives are twofold:

-The financing, renovation and maintenance of the existing Walloon road network;

-The completion of missing junctions in the existing Walloon road network which were identified by Europe.

•Sofico’s role in the road charge system:-Sofico will on the one hand be a contracting party in the

DBFMO contract and on the other hand work together with the three regions in the interregional entity during the operational phase.

-Sofico will both collect the user payments and disburse the availability payments which relate to its own road network.

-Sofico will have no role in the road vignette system

2. Interregional Agency

Regions & concessionaires

Interregional entity

Toll charger function

• Definition of tariffs •Consultation regarding tarif range

•Elaboration and adjustment of regulatory framework

•Consultation regarding the definition and adjustment of the regulatory framework

•Monitoring and directing technical innovations and development of Value Added Services

•Registration and certification of other Service Providers

•DBFMO contracts with the Single Service Provider

•Monitoring the payments of the Single Service Provider and other Service Providers

•Development of a notified body and ombudsman - conciliation body as independent organs

3. Role Agency

Regions & concessionaires

Interregional entity

Collection road charge and road vignette

• Road charge: provision and definition of tariffing objects (roads and tariffs)

• Monitoring agreed KPIs

• Determination of the compensation payments to the Single Service Provider and other Service Providers

Enforcement

• Execution of traffic control, pulling over vehicles

• Consultation regarding enforcement strategy and operational coordination

• Staffing the enforcement center • Monitoring agreed KPIs

• Imposition of fines –enforced recovery

• Determination of the compensation payments to the Single Service Provider

3. Role Agency

Regions & concessionaires

Interregional entity

Communication

•Determination of communication strategy road charge and road vignette

•Execution of communication of public interest

3. Role Agency

Monitoring KPI’s:

• SSP sends rapport to interregional agency in 20 days after each month

• If expected KPI’s not respected -> SSP has to report in 24 hours

• SSP gives access to data in databases

• Interregional can perform audits in SSP (max. 20 days a year collaboration SSP, free of charge)

3. Role Agency

• Each region autonomous for enforcement• 3 legal frameworks:

– Each region decides on type of infractions– Each region has its own REA and RASA– Controle-officers work only in their territory

But cooperation agreement wil foresee in coordination and mutual exchange: for exemple: level of fines, REA’s can share same building, mutual legal cooperation to stop vehicles

4. Enforcement