BAKGRUNN (fra kommisjonsforslaget)

In its Communication on ‘Long-term competitiveness of the EU: looking beyond 2030’, the Commission has emphasised the importance of a regulatory system that ensures that objectives are reached at minimum costs. It has committed therefore to a fresh push to rationalise and simplify reporting requirements, with the aim to reduce such burdens by 25%, without undermining the related policy objectives.

Reporting requirements play a key role in ensuring correct enforcement and proper monitoring of legislation. Their costs are overall largely offset by the benefit they bring, in particular in monitoring and ensuring compliance with key policy measures. 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. In this context, the present proposal aims to simplify requirements in the policy area of transport and affecting in particular transport by road and aviation and will contribute to the headline ambition ‘An economy that works for people’.

The proposal will rationalise reporting obligations through a combination of measures, notably by reducing the frequency of reporting requirements and removing certain elements from the reporting obligations.

The reporting requirements are applicable to public authorities and concern the following:

• The reporting by Member States to the Commission on clean vehicles procured under Directive 2009/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the reporting by the Commission to the European Parliament and Council would take place every five years instead of every three years.
• 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 State to inform the Commission of the list of airports subject to the obligation to apply the rules on groundhandling services under Council Directive 96/67/EC would be deleted, as well as the Commission’s obligation to publish that list.
• The obligation for Member States to publish the list of the airports subject to the rules on airport charges under Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council would be deleted.