PURPOSE: recasting of Council Regulation (EC) 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road.
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
LEGAL BASE: Article 338(1) of the treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment was undertaken.
CONTENT: the codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25 May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road2 was initiated by the Commission. The new Regulation was to have superseded the various acts incorporated in it; their content was to have been fully preserved and hence it would have done no more than brought them together with only such formal amendments as would have been required by the codification exercise itself.
In the meantime, the Lisbon Treaty came into force. Under Article 290 of the TFEU, the legislator may delegate to the Commission the power to adopt non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of a legislative act.
Such a delegation of power may be suitable for certain provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98. The Commission considers it is therefore appropriate to transform the codification of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 into a recast in order to incorporate the necessary amendments.
BUDGETARY IMPLICATION: the proposal has no implication for the Community budget.