The Committee on Transport and Tourism adopted the
report by Brian SIMPSON (S&D, UK) on the proposal for a
regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on
statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road
(recast).
It recommended that the European Parliaments
position at first reading, under the ordinary legislative
procedure, should be to amend the Commission proposal. The main
amendments are as follows:
Delegated acts: the
committee considered that the delegation of powers as proposed by
the Commission is too broad and should be limited. Accordingly, it
stipulated that the Commission should be empowered to adopt
delegated acts concerning laying down the data collection
characteristics and adopting amendments to the contents
of Annexes I to VII, except any modifications to the optional
nature of the required information, where necessary to take account
of economic, social or technical developments. Furthermore In
exercising its power pursuant to this provision, the
Commission shall ensure that any delegated
acts adopted do not impose significant additional
administrative burdens on the Member States and on the
respondents.
In addition, Members stressed that:
it is of particular importance that the Commission
carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory
work, including at expert level before adopting delegated acts
regarding data collection characteristics and the contents of the
Annexes and laying down the minimum precision requirements for the
statistical returns transmitted by the Member States;
when preparing and drawing up delegated acts, the
Commission should ensure a simultaneous, timely and appropriate
transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and
Council;
new wording is inserted on the time-limits of the
delegation and exercise of the delegation, which aim to reflect a
new standard wording on delegated acts.
Implementing acts:
several amendments aim to adjust provisions on implementing acts to
Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the
Council laying down the rules and general principles concerning
mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission's
exercise of implementing powers.
Publication of results:
a new clause states that the data shall be published no later than
12 months after the year and quarter that those data refer
to.
Annex: lastly, the
committee made two amendments to the Annex regarding vehicle
related variables.