The European Parliament adopted by 645 votes to 24 with 3 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways as regards conferring delegated and implementing powers upon the Commission for the adoption of certain measures
Parliament adopted its position at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure and amended the Commission proposal as follows:
Statistical coverage: in order to strengthen the statistical coverage of inland waterways transport, Parliament stated that data collected must deal with both goods and passengers.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the quality criteria to be applied to the data to be transmitted are those referred to in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Delegated powers: Members introduced amendments to streamline the powers delegated to the Commission to safeguard the Parliament’s prerogatives. They suggested limiting the delegation of powers to five years with the possibility of extending the delegation of power for periods of an identical duration.
The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, specify the modalities, structure, periodicity and comparability elements for the quality reports. These implementing acts must be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure.
Three years of the entry into force of this Regulation, and every three years thereafter, the Commission, after consulting the Statistical Programme Committee, shall submit a report on the implementation of the Regulation.