New rules about traffic safety for cyclist.

13 new come into force on 1 January 2016. Some are welcomed with a smile as the drop in fuel prices, others with a face … Make your market, and here are thirteen reforms that take effect on the day of New Year’s Eve.

The bonus replaces the RSA business activity and employment bonus from 1 January 2016. This financial aid is intended for the poorest workers. It must encourage this disadvantaged public to regain employment.

The premium segment is open to young professionals from 18 years, employees and apprentices students meet the criteria determined by the text.

This amount is an additional resource is paid monthly. Recipients must report their quarterly earnings; quarterly…

CAF said that the current beneficiaries of the RSA will be switched automatically to the premium business.

Distinguish own vehicles and other…

The certificate CRIT’Air appeared. This document gives a green dot, violet, yellow or orange depending on the pollution level of your vehicle. It costs 5 Euros and is not required (note: for now). It allows, in the big cities: In the age of e-mails and SMS, timbre seems increasingly obsolete yet it still exists.

It increases by 3.6% on 1 January 2016. It will increase from 76-80 Euro cents for priority letter and 68-70 cents for a green letter.

Taxi drivers were the first victims of the lack of visibility of price shopping. To end the vagueness which affected the image of the profession, now the rules are simplified and clarified.

Each regional prefect issued December 23, 2015 the rates applicable in each department. The drivers have two months to change their meter. Beyond February 23, 2016, they may be fined.

From 1 March 2016 flat rates were introduced for taxis between the Rosy, Only and Paris:

Between Paris airport – Charles de Gaulle and Paris right bank: € 50

On 1 January 2016 will go down in private. Gone are the only Social Security to cover the care of employees in reflective accessories, the employer must now have subscribed mutual. It is an obligation…

The law was passed June 14, 2013 and provided its generalization on 1 January 2016.

The employer’s contribution must be at least 50%, the remainder being borne by the employee.

Employers should make you play sports. From 1 January 2016, if you are traveling by bicycle, they will benefit from a tax reduction.

The employer will benefit from this tax reduction if he puts the bicycles available to its employees.
A bicycle mileage allowance (IKV) for employees who use this mode of transport should also be established.

In this context businesses are forced to provide parking spaces for bicycles. Everyone remembers the events of bikers against the obligation to operate a safety vest on the back. The project has been removed, but instead from 1 January 2016, the bikers will don the famous fluorescent jacket when they stop in an emergency. If they wear yellow or orange vest they will be fined … They will also be sanctioned if they do not present the famous safety equipment during a check…

The cyclists riding at night or day outside built by poor visibility will also wear the vest…

The measure was pushed back a few months, but it was expected that from 1 January 2016, traders no longer had the right to give disposable plastic bags to their customers. Only reusable bags or paper bags, fabric etc … can be used from April. Merchants have time to prepare.

In one year the ban will be extended:

To plastic bags for single use for the packaging of goods at point of sale other than carrier bags except for compostable bags made of home composting and bio-based materials, that is to say based plant material, Non-biodegradable plastic packaging and non-compostable in home composting, for sending the media and advertising (blister packaging).

In 2020 the ban will extend to plastic disposable tableware (Art73 of the Law on energy transition).

Every year 80,000 consumer disputes oppose customers to merchants, artisans, insurers, banks or administration…

These conflicts, which can escalate, clog the courts, police, and gendarmerie. In an attempt to provide a rapid and concrete response to the complainants, on 1 January 2016 is set up the widespread mediation service.

The disgruntled consumer can alert the relevant services through IT. The mediator then has 90 days to find a solution:

People are free to accept or refuse the proposed solution.

Participation in mediation does not exclude the possibility of an appeal before a court.

The proposed solution may be different from the decision to be made by a judge.

The professional must provide the consumer with the coordinated or mediators which it belongs. This information should be legible on its website or on the order form.

The interest loan is one of the levers that would boost home ownership for households with limited incomes.

The ceilings have been revised upwards. From the 1st January 2016 singles contenders can earn on average 1,000 Euros and 2,000 Euros more for couples with 2 children who wear reflective tape on clothing.

Reform of the map of regions of France enters into force officially on 1 January 2016.

The name and capital of each region will be determined by decree on 1 October 2016.

Many retirees’ migrant workers live in precarious conditions in France due to lack of resource. These seniors do not have the means to return to their country of origin.

From 1 January 2016, the government will help these people to return to their country of origin by supporting them in the family and social reintegration. Financial assistance is to retire at which the recipient could claim (less than 6600 Euros per year).

The last change is much more nebulous. A code was created to clarify the relationship between the public (Editor’s note: in the broad sense) and administration. It comes into force on 1 January 2016. For the editors, too often the texts were not specific enough or too left room for interpretation.

Road safety rule of riding bicycle in winter

DENMARK: Sunday, October 25, we change to winter time, and that means true to form, the garden and the clock must be set back and that we all face an hour earlier in the morning.

It also means that you almost certainly going to cycle to work while it’s still dark. Therefore, it is high time to find out whether the lights on your bike are ready for the winter season.

And many will probably learn that their lights cannot stand the heat and will trigger fines, says special consultant in the Road Safety Council, Penile Ehlers.

If for example, you have a couple of small elastic-lights, many bought in the supermarket for 40 kroner lying, you may well throw them out and buy some other, she says.

The small inexpensive flashlights were banned three years ago, when they are not on good enough, and the battery life is too low, says Penile Ehlers.

If you have the wrong light on the bike, it costs a fine of 700 crowns, if you are stopped.

The new stricter requirements for bicycle lights dictate, among other things, that a lamp should have a battery life of at least five hours. The lights also light so strongly that you can see them on the entire 300 meters apart, and in fact, it is sometimes not enough.

Therefore, it may be a good idea with additional reflectors on your clothing or reflective vest, estimates Penile Ehlers.

At Polar Cycles in Aalborg can feel that the season has been slippage in sales of bicycle lights.

We have a good time in the sale of the fixed bike lights. They are the ones where the rear light where the red rear reflector usually sit. If one uses about 300 kroner on the bicycle lights, one is a good start over the winter, says René Hildegard, bicycle mechanic at the Alborg reproduction bike shop, Rita Focus.

The lights do require batteries, but they are equipped with power-saving LED bulbs, which means that they should keep the winter. And a safety vest is also necessary for riding

It’s tempting to get fitted with magnetic lights that run on power from the bicycle wheel, but it will René Hildegard certainly not recommend.

I do not quite understand why the lights are still approved. Coming trilling, and a car comes out, looks motorist nothing, he says.

There are good dynamo lights, but the bicycle repairer estimate that they cost so much that they simply are not worth the money.

If you want to bike lights that do not use the battery, you can get lights that can be charged via the USB connector. Generally recommend René Hildegard, however, that to use bike lights that are either recharged with a standard power adapter or battery.

Lamps must come light straight forward or straight back.

Headlights and rear lights must be clearly visible at least 300 feet away and will also be visible from the side.

Headlights and tail lights should sit so the lights respectively straight forward and straight back – they must therefore not hang and light into the ground.

Headlights and taillights must continue like flash.

Powerful headlamps designed to illuminate the road in front of the rider must be mounted so that the light obliquely downward and does not dazzle oncoming.

Approved bicycle lights typically costs 300 kroner for a set. Ask your local bicycle retailer what he or she can recommend.

People in Burgos asking for more measures on road safety

Burgos, November 22 (EFE) .- A few hundred people gathered today in the N-1, at kilometer, up to Santa Olalla de Bureau (Burgos), where on November 13 killed two people in a pileup, calling for the release of the toll of the AP-1 parallel with the street.

Neighboring localities of the route of the national road today have joined other refugees in their private cars and three buses, one from Burgos capital and two of Briviesca (Burgos).

Participants in the protest, organized by the National Platform 1 were dressed in dark clothes and reflective garment, in mourning, many of them carried crosses, while a PA repeated the sound of traffic accidents and bells playing “dead”.

After cutting the road for five minutes, which were authorized by the Prefectures, the spokesman of the organizing platform, Rafael Solaguren has insisted on claiming that the security of the national road and improve the toll free highway, especially for trucks.

He recalled that most of the trucks using the road, despite the partial rebate toll that began a few months ago.

In his opinion, the density of trucks, which “has always been very high”, is increasing as the economic situation improves, so the risks for circulating on the section of National 1 in Burgos have increased and Miranda de Ebro, the only one of this route is not split.

He insisted that without reflective clothing, the last two fatal accidents on this stretch of road with trucks have been involved.

It has also raised the need to improve the security of the country, some of them simple to perform and inexpensive.

He assured that in this segment remains at the same level crossings where vehicles have to stop on the road to turn left, in addition to lack of signage speed limit on some “obvious risk points”.

Solaguren said that the platform will convene concentrations whenever any accident fatalities occur on this road. EFE

Child education on road safety

The Metropolitan School “Vassal April” launched an initiative to educate children on road safety.

By the end of the year “Recess with the traffic police” will be held with children up to 4th grade of all schools in Sofia and in the second period – and students to 7th grade.

All students took a few minutes in the school yard, where they were greeted by the director of the Chief of the Metropolitan Traffic Police Began Matched, Deputy Mayor Lyubomir Rostov Transport and Deputy Mayor for Education Mary Painting.

Began Matched announced that the capital’s traffic police reason to be in school as children. “Your life is the most important and that you learn to follow the rules now, while small, is extremely important,” he said.

According to this enables, when they get older people can be confident that their party will have some disciplined drivers and pedestrians.

The head of the capital’s traffic police in reflective uniform said that the organization was established and by the end of the year, teams of traffic police will visit all schools and absolutely will hold open lessons on road safety during classes.

In his first open lesson in class 4D Matched remind children how to cross on the way to school – just a walkway and a raised hand.

“This ensures that drivers will see you and stop. Will protect you yourself will keep you and motorists. ”

Deputy Mayor for Transport Rostov pointed out that this initiative is the main merit of the Traffic Police Sofia. He added that this is part of the general policy of Sofia municipality related to traffic safety of children.

In his words, 33 cabinets are designed for road safety education. There are 25 interactive sites in schools and kindergartens. Over 300,000 levies have been used by European programs and are bought over 600 bicycles to schools in the “Maddest” and “Poduyane.”

Rostov said that separate from more than 200 hiking trails in Sofia are further illuminated lights in the areas of schools and kindergartens.

Maria Painters did express hope that today’s children wear reflective clothing will spend a very interesting hour road safety. According to her, except police, special guests in these hours will be from riders and capital motoklubove.

Painters urged children to take great care and everything today learn to pass it on to their parents. “It is important for children to show that they know and can move properly on the roads and walkways, she said.

After a brief explanation the students returned to classrooms in anticipation of open classes.