I move:
THAT the Schedule to the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952 (No. 24 of 1952) which specifies the excise duties in respect of mechanically propelled vehicles used on public roads be amended in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution—
(a) to provide that articulated vehicles currently charged at the nonagricultural tractor rate of €333 annually are to be charged at the goods rate of—
(i) €92 annually, in the case where such vehicles are electrically propelled and do not exceed a weight unladen as specified in that Schedule,
(ii) between €333 and €5,195 annually, in the case where such vehicles are not electrically propelled and have a weight unladen as specified in that Schedule,
and
(b) as respects licences taken out under section 1 of that Act for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2016, to provide that articulated vehicles referred to in paragraph (a) of this Resolution are to be charged at the rate of—
(i) €92 annually, in the case where such vehicles are electrically propelled and do not exceed a weight unladen as specified in that Schedule,
(ii) between €333 and €900 annually, in the case where such vehicles are not electrically propelled and have a weight unladen as specified in that Schedule.”