REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission under Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of 18 January 2012 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road
Date: 2016-09-12
Institutions: European Commission, Eurostat
Subjects: EU statistics, carriage of goods, data collection, delegated legislation, disclosure of information, dissemination of EU information, large vehicle, road transport, transfer of competence, transport statistics

EUROPEAN 
COMMISSION 

Brussels, 12.9.2016  
COM(2016) 562 final 

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
THE COUNCIL 

on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission under 
Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of 18 January 2012 on statistical returns in respect of the 
carriage of goods by road 

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REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
THE COUNCIL 

on the exercise of the power to adopt delegated acts conferred on the Commission under 
Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of 18 January 2012 on statistical returns in respect of the 
carriage of goods by road 

1. 

BACKGROUND 

Article 3(4) of Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 18 January 2012 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods 
by road, confers on the Commission the power to adopt delegated acts in accordance 
with Article 8 concerning the updating of  Part 1 of Annex I, solely in order to take 
account  of  economic  and  technical  developments,  except  for  any  modifications  to 
the  optional  nature  of  the  required  information.  Furthermore,  the  same  Article 
empowers the Commission to adopt, where necessary, delegated acts in accordance 
with Article 8, concerning the adaptation of Annexes II to VII. Under Article 8(2) of 
the  Regulation,  the  power  to  adopt  delegated  acts  is  conferred  for  a  period  of  five 
years from 23 February 2012. This power is to be tacitly extended for periods of five 
years unless the European Parliament or the Council objects. 

In exercising this power, the Commission shall ensure that the delegated acts do not 
impose a significant additional administrative burden on the Member States and on 
the respondents. 

The  Commission  shall  draw  up  a  report  on  the  delegation  of  power  not  later  than 
nine months before the end of the five-year period. 

This report fulfils this obligation. 

2. 

COMMISSION  EXERCISE  OF  DELEGATED  POWERS  UNDER  REGULATION  (EU) 
NO 70/2012 

The Commission has not yet exercised the power to adopt delegated acts conferred 
on  it  by  Regulation  (EU)  No  70/2012,  as  neither  economic  and  technical 
developments  in  the  field  of  road  freight  transport  nor  conclusions  of  the 
Commission's Working Groups on road freight statistics with Member States raised 
the need to use these delegated powers. 

3. 

CONCLUSIONS 

The Commission has not yet exercised the power to adopt delegated acts conferred 
on it by Regulation (EU) No 70/2012. 

The  Commission  works  continuously  to  improve  the  quality  and  timeliness  of  the 
data collection and to adapt the information collected and disseminated to the new 
users'  needs  and  to  take  account  of  economic  and  technical  developments  of  the 
domain. 

All these aspects are discussed in the groups of national experts which are held every 
two  years  and  approved  by  the  Coordinating  Group  for  Statistics  on  Transport 
(CGST). 

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In  addition,  the  European  Statistical  System  will  continue  to  develop  and  produce 
statistics  needed:  (i)  to  assess  progress  in  meeting  quantitative  targets  set  in  the 
Transport  White  Paper  on  volume  and  performance  of  all  transport  modes  and  (ii) 
for  the  European  Commission  transport  modelling  activities  and  launching  of  new 
policy initiatives such as the decarbonisation of transport. 

Every time when technical changes of the annexes are decided and agreed with the 
group of experts, the delegated powers conferred to the Commission by Regulation 
70/2012 will be used to efficiently and timely manage those changes. 

As a conclusion, the Commission is of the view that it should continue to have the 
delegated powers conferred by Article 3 (4) of the Regulation (EU) No 70/2012, as 
in the future it might be necessary to exercise these delegated powers. 

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