
Article 1 
The Commission hereby gives its agreement to exempt until 31 December 2014 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, 15 October 2009.
For the Commission
Antonio TAJANI
Vice-President