Amending certain road transport and aviation Directives as regards certain reporting requirements
PURPOSE: to amend Directives 2009/12/EC, 2009/33/EC and (EU) 2022/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 96/67/EC as regards certain reporting requirements in the fields of road transport and aviation.
PROPOSED ACT: Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council.
ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.
BACKGROUND: reporting requirements play a key role in ensuring proper monitoring and correct enforcement of legislation. Reporting requirements can however also impose disproportionate burdens on stakeholders, particularly affecting SMEs and micro-companies, also given organisational and technological developments that call for original reporting requirements to be adjusted. Their cumulation over time can result in redundant, duplicating or obsolete obligations, inefficient frequency and timing, or inadequate methods of collection.
Streamlining reporting obligations and reducing administrative burdens is therefore a priority.
Directives 2009/12/EC on airport charges, 2009/33/EC on the promotion of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles and (EU) 2022/1999 on uniform procedures for checks on the transport of dangerous goods by road of the European Parliament and of the Council, and Council Directive 96/67/EC on access to the groundhandling market at Community airports contain a number of reporting requirements in the fields of road transport and aviation, which should therefore be simplified.
In line with the Commission’s Communication on ‘Long-term competitiveness of the EU: looking beyond 2030’, this proposal is part of a first package of measures to rationalise reporting requirements. This is a step in a process looking comprehensively at existing reporting requirements, with a view to assess their continued relevance and to make them more efficient.
CONTENT: the proposal concerns limited and targeted changes to four Directives with a view to streamlining the reporting requirements.
The proposal aims to simplify obligations in the transport policy area, in particular road and air transport. It will streamline reporting requirements through a combination of measures, including reducing the frequency of these obligations and removing some of their elements.
The reporting requirements apply to public authorities and concern the following:
- Member States would present to the Commission their report on clean vehicles procured under Directive 2009/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council every five years instead of every three years , and the Commission would present its report to the European Parliament and the Council at the same frequency;
- the obligation for Member States under Directive (EC) 2022/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council to report to the Commission data relating to the transport of dangerous good would be simplified. In addition, they would have to report this data every two years, instead of every year. The Commission would report to the Parliament and Council every four years, instead of three, therefore following up on two sets of reports received from Member States;
- the obligation for Member States to inform the Commission of the list of airports subject to the obligation to apply the rules relating to ground handling services, under Council Directive 96/67/EC, would be removed, as would the obligation on the Commission to publish this list;
- the obligation from Member States to yearly report the list of airports falling under the scope of this Directive to the Commission and for the Commission to publish that list is deleted.