
Article 1 
The Commission hereby gives its agreement to exempt until 31 December 2009 from vehicle tax in accordance with Article 6(2)(b) of Directive 1999/62/EC the following vehicles of 12 tonnes or more, which are used exclusively for the carriage of permanently installed equipment for public and industrial works in France:

1.. Self-propelled lifting and handling gear (cranes mounted on road chassis);
2.. Mobile pumps or pumping stations permanently mounted on road chassis;
3.. Mobile motor compressor sets permanently mounted on road chassis;
4.. Concrete mixers and pumps permanently mounted on road chassis (except drum vehicles for transporting concrete);
5.. Mobile generating sets permanently mounted on road chassis;
6.. Mobile drilling machines permanently mounted on road chassis.
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
Done at Brussels, 20 June 2005.
For the Commission
Jacques BARROT
Vice-President