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dossier	COM(2023)643 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013, Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 and Regulation 168/2013 as regards certain reporting ...
document	COM(2023)643
date	October 17, 2023

(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) Streamlining reporting obligations and reducing administrative burdens is therefore a priority. Regulations (EU) No 1379/2013, Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council contain a number of reporting requirements in the fields of marketing standards and market surveillance which should be simplified in line with the Commission’s Communication on ‘Long-term competitiveness of the EU: looking beyond 2030”⁶.

(3) This Regulation removes and simplifies reporting requirements which are no longer deemed necessary in the area of the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products and affecting the fishing industry and in the area of type approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles, two- and three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles.

(4) Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 ⁷ of the European Parliament and of the Council provides that rules establishing common marketing standards, in particular those laid down in, inter alia, Council Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 ⁸ shall continue to apply,

(5) Article 13 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2406/96 requires each Member State to supply the other Member States and the Commission with a list of the names and addresses of the experts and trade organizations appointed for grading the fishery products for freshness and size before the entry into force of the Regulation, and to subsequently also inform of any updates to the list.

(6) Since this requirement is outdated and no longer necessary to achieve the objectives of Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013, it should no longer apply.

(7) Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 ⁹ sets out the rules on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles.

(8) Article 74 and 75 of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 require Member States to inform the Commission of the application of the type-approval procedures and individual vehicles approvals respectively, and the Commission to submit reports to the European Parliament and the Council. Since the Commission carried out a study ¹⁰ on the questions subject to these information and reporting obligations in 2022, and the study determined that the type-approval and individual vehicles approvals procedures are satisfactory, it should no longer apply.

(9) Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 ¹¹ sets out the rules on the approval and market surveillance of two- or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles.

(10) Article 78 and 80 of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 require Member States to inform the Commission of the application of the type-approval procedures and individual vehicles approvals respectively, and the Commission to submit reports to the European Parliament and the Council. Since the Commission carried out a study ¹² on the questions subject to these information and reporting obligations in 2022, and the study determined that the type-approval and individual vehicles approvals procedures are satisfactory, it should no longer apply.

(11) Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013, Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly.