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 ultimate 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 initiatives in the policy area of transport and affecting in particular transport by road and aviation.

The proposal will remove or streamline specific reporting obligations for public authorities as follows:

• The proposal removes the obligation under Regulation (EC) No 80/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council for vendors of computerised reservation systems (CRSs) to submit reports detailing the ownership structure and governance models every four years and upon Commission’s request. This reporting obligation is meant to monitor the application of Article 10 of that Regulation, laying down specific rules for parent carriers, which are in particular meant to prevent these carriers from discriminating against competing CRSs, and prevent CRSs owned by these carriers from discriminating against the parent carriers of other CRSs. The 2020 evaluation of this Regulation suggested that this provision appears to be redundant as airlines do not own CRSs anymore and the submission of the audited report is thus no longer justified. The Commission should nonetheless retain its existing power to request for such reports, in order to be able to effectively enforce Article 10, should an airline take a stake in a CRS in the future. The provision requiring vendors to inform the Commission of the identity of the auditor before confirming its appointment and allowing the Commission to ask for its replacement is also removed.
• The obligation under Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council to publish a safety review at national level is deleted. This obligation is now redundant in view of the annual safety review published by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
• The obligation under Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council for Member States to report to the Commission the list of workshops which may carry out installations, checks and repairs of tachographs and the obligation for the Commission to publish these lists are removed. These lists had the disadvantage of only providing a snapshot of the approved workshops. They are replaced by an obligation for Member States to publish this information on a publicly available website and to update it on a continuous basis and for the Commission to publish the list of these websites.