Considerations on COM(2023)592 - Amendment of 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

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dossier COM(2023)592 - Amendment of Directives 2009/12/EC, 2009/33/EC and (EU) 2022/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council ...
document COM(2023)592 EN
date April 24, 2024
 
(1)Reporting requirements play a key role in ensuring proper monitoring and correct enforcement of legislation. However, it is important to streamline those requirements, in order to ensure that they fulfil the purpose for which they were intended and to limit the administrative burden.

(2)Directives 2009/12/EC 9 , 2009/33/EC 10 and (EU) 2022/1999 11 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and Council Directive 96/67/EC 12 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’ 13 . 

(3)Article 1(3) of Directive 2009/12/EC requires Member States to publish a list of the airports on their territory to which that Directive applies, on an annual basis. Directive 2009/12/EC applies to commercial airports with traffic of over five million passenger movements and to airports with the highest passenger movement in each Member State. As that information is publicly available and easily accessible to stakeholders from airports, airport associations and Eurostat, and in order to reduce administrative burden, it is appropriate to remove that obligation of publication.

(4)Directive 2009/33/EC sets minimum procurement targets for clean vehicles, expressed as minimum percentages of clean vehicles in the total number of road transport vehicles covered by contracts awarded during two reference periods. The first of those reference periods runs from 2 August 2021 to 31 December 2025, and the second from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2030.

(5)Article 10(2) of Directive 2009/33/EC requires Member States to report on the implementation of that Directive by 18 April 2026, and every three years thereafter. Member States’ reports are to include figures for the number and categories of vehicles procured within the scope of Directive 2009/33/EC. Article 10(4) of Directive 2009/33/EC requires the Commission to submit a report to the European Parliament and Council on the implementation of that Directive by 18 April 2027 and every three years thereafter, based on the reports submitted by the Member States pursuant to Article 10(2).

(6)In order to reduce administrative burdens and rationalise the reporting schedule, it is appropriate to reduce the frequency of Member States’ reporting under Directive 2009/33/EC, and fully align it with the five-year reference periods provided for in that Directive. As the Commission’s reporting to the European Parliament and the Council builds on national reports from Member States, the frequency of that reporting should also be adapted accordingly.

(7)Article 9(1) of Directive (EU) 2022/1999 requires Member States to send the Commission a report on the application of Directive (EU) 2022/1999 for each calendar year. Given the limited benefits of yearly reporting and the availability of other information, and in order to reduce administrative burdens and rationalise the reporting schedule, it is appropriate to reduce the frequency of such reports to every second calendar year.

(8)As regards the content of such reports, Article 9 of Directive (EU) 2022/1999 requires Member States to include, if possible, the determined or estimated volume of dangerous goods transported by road, in tonnes transported or in tonnes/kilometres. Due to the optional nature of this requirement, relevant data are not collected or are not reported consistently by the Member States. Meanwhile, Eurostat provides clear and consistent data regarding the carriage of dangerous goods, which the Commission relies on to draw up the triennial report to the European Parliament and to the Council. As the Commission already has access to these data, it is appropriate to delete the obligation to report the total volume of dangerous goods carried by road in the Member State in order to reduce administrative burdens.

(9)Article 9(2) of Directive (EU) 2022/1999 requires the Commission to send the European Parliament and the Council, for the first time in 1999 and subsequently at least every three years, a report on its application by the Member States. In order to reduce administrative burdens and rationalise the reporting schedule, it is appropriate to require that that report be sent every four years.

(10)Article 1(4) of Directive 96/67/EC requires Member States to inform the Commission annually about the airports falling within its scope, which depends on their levels of annual traffic in passenger movements and tonnes of freight. It also requires the Commission to publish this list of airports. As that information is publicly available and easily accessible to stakeholders from airports, airport associations or from Eurostat, and in order to reduce administrative burden, it is appropriate to remove this obligation of reporting and publication.

(11)Directives 2009/12/EC, 2009/33/EC, (EU) 2022/1999 and 96/67/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.