Having regard to Directive 2000/30/EC on the technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating in the Community and its amending Directive 2003/26/EC , and in light of recent tests carried out by the UK's Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA - the UK Agency responsible for ensuring the complian
ce of operators and drivers with road traffic legislation), the results of which were published on the VOSA website dated 16 July 2007, and which found that 33 out of 56
vehicles tested had multiple offences ...[+++] including defective tyres, leaking fuel tanks, missing shock absorbers, faulty breaks and insufficient tachograph charts,