Amending certain road transport and aviation Regulations as regards certain reporting requirements
PURPOSE: to amend Regulations (EC) No 80/2009, (EU) No 996/2010 and (EU) No 165/ 2014 as regards certain reporting requirements in the fields of road transport and aviation.
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation 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 the administrative burden are therefore a priority.
Regulation (EC) No 80/2009 established a Code of Conduct for computerised reservation systems, Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 on the investigation and prevention of accidents and incidents in civil aviation and Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 on tachographs in road transport 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 seeks to bring limited and targeted changed to legislation to streamline reporting requirements. The amendments are based on experience from implementing legislation.
The proposal will remove or streamline specific reporting obligations for public authorities as follows:
- Regulation (EC) No 80/2009 currently provides that every four years or upon request of the Commission, vendors of CRSs must submit an independently audited report to detailing the ownership structure and governance model. Moreover, they must inform the Commission of the identity of the auditor and the Commission may request the auditor to be replaced. Under the amended proposal, vendors will only be required to submit an independently audited report upon request of the Commission;
- Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 currently requires Member States to publish a yearly safety review. The proposal deletes this provision on the grounds that the annual safety review is now published by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA);
- Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 currently requires Member States to forward to the Commission, on an annual basis, the list of approved workshops and cards issued to them and also requires the Commission to publish these lists. The proposal replaces this paragraph with a paragraph requiring Member States to publish on a publicly available website and continuously update the lists of approved workshops and the cards issued to them. It also requires the Commission to publish the list of such national websites on its website.