The Commission supports the outcome of the
inter-institutional negotiations, considering that the Council's
position reflects the political agreement reached between the
European Parliament and the Council at the informal trilogue on 13
November 2019.
The Commission supports in particular:
- the use of delegated rather than implementing acts to
include retreaded tyres within the scope of the Regulation, once a
suitable test method is available;
- the inclusion of information on mileage and abrasion
within the scope of the Regulation through delegated acts, rather
than through the ordinary legislative procedure, once a suitable
test method is available;
- the Council's proposal to evaluate the Regulation by 1
June 2025 at the latest and to bring the Regulation into force on 1
May 2021;
- the Council's position that the full label must appear
in visual advertisements, and that it should be possible to show
the label through a nested display for online advertisements and
sales;
- the proposal to align the text with that of Regulation
(EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and product conformity, as
regards the right of market surveillance authorities to recover
costs from the supplier;
- the proposal to (i) align the label appearance of
tyres with the recently published energy labels, which are widely
recognised by consumers; (ii) add pictograms on the label to
indicate whether a tyre is a ‘severe snow’ tyre, an
‘ice’ tyre, or both.
However, the Commission regrets certain aspects of the
Council's political agreement at first reading, namely:
- the conditions for authorisation for the inclusion of
abrasion and mileage in the scope: the Commission regrets that the
Council considered it necessary to make the empowerment conditional
upon a thorough impact assessment and proper consultation, which
are in any event necessary steps under the Commission’s Better
Regulation process;
- the lack of empowerment to rescale the labelling
classes: the Commission regrets that the Council decided not to
rescale the current class limits and that it did not empower the
Commission to update and rescale the classes through delegated
acts.
While the Commission welcomes that the Council agreed
to ‘clean up’ the classes for wet grip and rolling
resistance, i.e. by deleting the classes left empty through the
application of the General Safety Regulation (EU) 2019/2144, it
considers it would have been more logical to also ‘clean
up’ the noise classes in the same way.