The Observatory offers a quick summary of each CVO brochure

2006 Brochures

Les Cahiers technologiques de l'OVE - The technologic brochures of the CVO

- Evolution du péages et des services associés - Toll Collect, experiences and Evolutions (N°3)Published in December 2006
Through interviews, this brochure reviews Toll Collect evolution and associated services. It presents European directives and the various initiatives within Europe processing as this subject.

- La Voiture Communicante - On-board telematics (N°2)Published in September 2006
Discover the new edition of the brochure with more complet information about the on-board telematic market, with the arrival of the nomad GPS, the cell phone role, the protection of the vehicle.

- Galileo : quel impact pour le monde de l'automobile ? - Galileo: what impact on the automotive world? (N°1) Published in August
Through this brochure, you'll discover the Galileo project, system of geolocalisation by satellite, launched by the European Union and the European Space Agency. The interviews of the different actors of this innovative project, allowing to understand the political and technological issues but also the impact on transports.

The Brochures

- Social and fiscal memorandum of corporate vehicle (N°16)Published in November 2006

CVO presents the second edition of the brochure “mémento fiscal et social”, written in collaboration with the C’M’S’ Francis Lefebvre Office. Inside, you will find the tax and social regulations regarding the corporate vehicle. It is a practical and concise guide of the main social and fiscal topics concerning the corporate vehicle: VAT, Tax on Corporate Vehicles (TVTS), amortization, tax sticker, registration card, benefits in kind...
This guide is edited according to the French fiscal and social law.

- Le Baromètre 2006 - The 2006 Barometer  (N°15)
Published in July
For the fourth barometer edition, discover the new country that joined us: Poland! The 2006 Barometer is more complete and more representative of the main european tendancies in terms of corporate vehicles.


- Véhicules utilitaires et équipements de sécurité : Pour un véhicule plus sûr ! -  Commercial vehicles and safety equipment: for a safer vehicle! (N°14)Published in March

This brochure presents a tracking study made in 2003 and updated in 2006. It is a practical and detailed classification, which presents truck light commercial vehicles and commercial vehicles, for the makes that are sold the most, delivered with safety equipment or in option. These equipments are classified in three categories related to safety or comfort criterion.
 
 
- Le Livre Vert de l'OVE - CVO's Green Book (N°13)

Published in January

The brochure analyses the rate of CO2 discharge of the twenty most sales models in France for the first semester 2005 and that represent 60% of car registrations.
The Observatory established a ranking per model and per category, for those who want to get new particular vehicles and who want to optimise their choice according to their CO2 emission rate. 

2005 Brochures

- Automobile, environnement et développement durable - Vehicles, environment and sustainable development (N°12) 

Published in December

The guide presents different faces of issues and answers for companies. Thanks to concrete examples of car manufacturers, cities or companies, implied or concerned with this process, this brochure gives tracks to follow and to exploit, to make vehicle a sustainable development synonym.

- Management du risque routier, faites votre autodiagnostic - Make your own diagnostic. (N°11)

Published in September

The Corporate Vehicle Observatory has published a new edition to give to managers the four levels of action needed to assess the corporate risks of accidents of for its employees on mission:

Organising travel, managing communications, monitoring the fleet and, finally, management of skills.

A self-diagnostic is proposed, and then interpreted, so as to regulate and  reduce the exposure of employees on mission to hazards on the road.

- Le Baromètre 2005 - The 2005 Barometer  (N°10)

Published in July

The third publication of the Barometer takes on a European dimension as it includes 4 new countries: Germany, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland.

This survey provides a complete view of all the majors trends in the European market of corporate vehicles as well as the future perspectives. 

- Achat, Crédit-bail, Location Longue Durée ? - How to financially optimise corporate vehicle operations (N°9)

Published in May

Presented are each mode of vehicle acquisition and the financial, accounting, tax and organisational consequences. The more pertinent choice for the company depends on many factors: the balance sheet situation of the company, its profitability, sector of activity, number of vehicles needed, use of the latter as well as a large number of other considerations.

The Observatory proposes an objective presentation of the different modes made available (purchase, loan, leasing with option to buy, operational leasing...)

2004 Brochures

- Véhicules de fonction : avantages en nature, quoi de neuf ? -  Company cars: benefits in kind (N°8)

Published in November

The order of 10 December 2002 has deeply modified the rules for calculatin benefits in kind in companies. Financial Directors, Fleet Managers, employees must from now on take the new modes of calculation into account: real costs or package.

The Corporate Vehicle Observatory offers a description of the new legislation in force as well as the new modes of calculation,  with practical and concrete examples and testimonials.

- Essais automobiles : 22 essais pour bien choisir son véhicule d'entreprise - Automotive Tests: 22 tests on choosing one's corporate vehicle (N°7)

Published in October  - Available in an electronic format only

This collection of automotive tests, conducted by specialised journalists, will help to make your choice of corporate vehicles equipment easier!

- Tout ce que vous vouliez savoir sur le risque routier au travail - All you ever wanted to know about road hazards while at work (N°6)

Published in September

At present, nearly two thirds of fatal industrial accidents take place on the road accidents. The Corporate Vehicle Observatory offers an overall view of the new legislation in force, with the progressive installation of ever more effective automotic controls as well as the legal risks involved in the law against road violence, while providing advice and giving examples on the practices to be adopted by companies.

- Le mémento fiscal et social du véhicule d'entreprise - Fiscal and Social Memorandum of Corporate Vehicle (N°5)

Published in July

Tax and social regulations regarding the corporate vehicle are rather complex and difficult to understand. This is why the Corporate Vehicle Observatory offers a practical and concise guide of the main social and fiscal topics concerning the corporate vehicle: VAT, Tax on Corporate Vehicles (TVTS), amortization, tax sticker, registration card, benefits in kind...

- Le Baromètre 2004 - The 2004 Barometer (N°4)

Published in May

The second edition of the Barometer of CVO/TNS Sofres analyses, each year, the spirit of decision-makers as well as the major changes in the mobility market.

2003 Brochures

- Véhicules utilitaires et équipements de sécurité - Commercial vehicles and safety equipment (N°3)

Published in December

Prefaced by Rémi Heitz, Interministerial Representative of Road Risks, this brochure is devoted to safety of lightweight commercial vehicles. A survey, conducted over 2500 vehicles of the main car manufacturers present on the French market, indicates the equipment that directly concerns driver safety: ABS, airbags for the driver and passenger, air conditionning and power steering.

-  CD Audio hors-série des publications de l'OVE sur les normes IAS - Audio CD, an additional publication of the Corporate Vehicle Observatory on the International Accounting Standards (IAS).

This CD includes transcriptions of the exchanges at the round table held in November 2003 on the theme of the impact of the International Accounting Standards (IAS). Europe has adopted the new International Accounting Standards, to go into application 1st 2005, for the results of the listed companies and thus their subsidiaries. A comparative one-year study will be necessary, which implies implementation of these standards on 1st January 2004.

- Le Baromètre 2003 de l'Observatoire du Véhicule d'Entreprise - The 2003 Corporate Vehicle Observatory Barometer (N°2)

Published in October

This edition gives an analysis of the most significant elements of the Barometer, the market trends as well as the different statistics on the automotive market at the end of June 2003.

- La voiture communicante  - The communicating car (N°1)

Published in July

The issues covers the communicating car while assessing the different on-board systems that may possibly modify the relations between the driver and his vehicle and enable the company to follow and manage its fleet in real time.