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În data de 01.01.2020 a intrat în vigoare modificarea Legii nr. 13/1997 privind căile de comunicație rutiere, astfel cum a fost modificată, introducând (printre altele) o nouă categorie de vehicule scutite de la plata taxei rutiere.

In December 2019, hauliers were charged tolls by CzechToll in the total amount of nearly CZK 725 million. For the whole of 2019 hauliers were billed the total amount of CZK 10.946 billion, i.e. by 1.19% more than in 2018.

Prague, 1 January 2020 - CzechToll successfully completed another part of the contract for the delivery of the new satellite toll system. As of today, it has expanded electronic toll collection to additional 868 kilometres of 1st category roads and 34.9 kilometres of motorways. A total of 2,409 kilometres of roads and motorways are currently subject to toll payment in the Czech Republic.

As of 1 January 2020, tolls for vehicles over 3.5 tons will be expanded by an additional 868 kilometres of 1st category roads. For example, I/20 road between Pilsen and České Budějovice, I/3 from Benešov towards Tábor, I/35 from Hradec Králové towards Olomouc and also I/43 from Svitavy to Brno will also be subject to payment. The specific sections can be found in the table and on the attached map.

Since its launch, the new satellite toll system has registered more than 3.5 million vehicle passages on toll roads using the new on-board unit. CzechToll collected more than CZK 40 million in tolls on Monday. Due to the presence of traffic police officers and significantly better driver cooperation than the company had expected, only minor and short-term complications in traffic were reported.

CzechToll's new toll system is working without any problems and despite the Sunday ban on lorry driving the amount of tolls collected from carriers reached over CZK 7 million. With the first working day of the operation the points of sale became significantly busier. At some borders crossing drivers need to wait up to 30 minutes to be able to continue. From early morning until approximately noon, as a result of the registrations an approximately 2-kilometre queue was formed at Lanžhot border crossing. The trucks stood in the side lane all the time, while passage on the D2 motorway was possible with caution without limitation in both lanes.

Prague, 1 December 2019 - CzechToll of the PPF Group successfully launched the new satellite toll system today. The Czech Republic replaced the obsolete microwave technology with a satellite one. The investment will start to pay off for the government already in 2020 in massive savings on operation and increased toll collection revenues thanks to charging of additional 860 kilometres of 1st category roads as of 1 January 2020.

During the expected onset of small foreign hauliers during the launch of the new toll system, CzechToll will double the capacity of border points of sale. From an average of 60 employees, the company strengthened the capacity to 120 people. At the Czech border, CzechToll is ready to register 15 thousand vehicles per day and additional 65 thousand vehicles inland per day.

A week before the start of the new toll system 274 thousand vehicles are registered, 60% of the total expected number of vehicles, for the new system. In the Czech Republic, 21 thousand vehicles yet remain to be registered and 54 thousand in Poland. During the ninth week of the registration, CzechToll dispatched an average of 8,200 OBUs from Monday to Friday every day.

CzechToll has launched extraordinary measures aimed at minimizing traffic complications caused by small foreign hauliers who are not registering in sufficient numbers for the new toll system in the Czech Republic. The priority of all the measures is to ensure free passage for passenger car drivers and the responsible lorry drivers already equipped with the new on-board unit. The measures will also reduce waiting time for the on-board units at border crossings.