Questão jurídica principal
Whether the increased heavy vehicle charge tariff and EURO-3 reclassification for 2009 violated the cost-coverage principle.
Decisão extraída
The tariff increase and the reclassification were lawful within the relevant scope and did not breach the statutory framework.
Fundamentação extraída
The lower court relied on cost-allocation models incompatible with the legislature's asymmetrical treatment of heavy-vehicle external costs. The Supreme Court reaffirmed that all external costs caused by heavy vehicles may be charged to them, and that the comparison is with a hypothetical traffic situation without heavy vehicles; costs caused in the opposite direction are irrelevant.