In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009, the Commission presented its first report on the implementation by Member States of certain provisions concerning the access to the occupation of road transport operator in the Member States from 4 December 2011 to 31 December 2012.
The main findings of the report are as follows:
Data submission: despite the obligation to report contained in this Regulation at the point in time when this report was drafted six Member States, namely Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal, did not submit their national reports. Some Member States had a serious delay in providing their data by the deadline of 30 September 2013. In a number of reports certain necessary information was not provided, thus making it problematic to carry out a comprehensive analysis.
Due to a large amount of missing data, the Commission report does not provide for a full analysis of implementation of provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009. For the purpose of consistency of national submissions and in order to assist the national competent authorities with fulfilling their reporting obligation in the future, a standard reporting form should be established by the Commission in cooperation with Member States.
The analysis of data on pursuit of the occupation of road transport operator enabled the following conclusions to be made.
Good repute, financial standing and professional competence: this part consists of a presentation of national requirements, organization of checks, level of compliance and difficulties encountered, on the basis of information submitted by Member States. Due to the fragmentary nature of the reports by Member States, this overview is not comprehensive in scope.
Data on national systems for awarding access to the occupation was presented by Austria, France, Italy, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Two Member States, namely Austria and Slovakia imposed national requirements that need to be satisfied in parallel with conditions set out in Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009.
Six Member States, namely Cyprus, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta and Slovenia indicated that there was a high compliance rate of road transport undertakings operating in the sector.
Authorisations: it stems from data provided that most Member States do not report on authorisation in the sense of Chapter III of Regulation 1071/2009. Due to a lack of information about national systems in regard to authorisations, quantitative data submitted by Member States do not give a clear picture on numbers of undertakings pursuing the occupation of road transport operator.
Several Member States submitted a global number of authorised operators on 31 December 2012, which constitutes a point of reference for data on numbers of authorisations granted, suspended or withdrawn. The Czech Republic has almost 95 600 authorised operators, Italy about 81 000, the United Kingdom more than 53 500, Sweden around 18 000, the Netherlands almost 11 700, Ireland 5 800, Lithuania 4 500 and Slovakia 2 800. Hungary notified of slightly more than 45 000 valid licences.
On the basis of this data, it appears that the vast majority of authorised undertakings are road hauliers.
For the next reporting period, 2013-2014, all Member States are called upon to: