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Activities of Marlene MIZZI related to 2016/0014(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles (debate) MT
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/0014(COD)

Amendments (41)

Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) This Regulation lays down the substantive technical and administrative type-approval requirements for motor vehicles of categories M and N and their trailers (category O), and for the systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles with a view to ensuring an adequate high level of safety and environmental performance. These categories cover motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers, motor vehicles for the carriage of goods, and their trailers, respectively.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 221 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) This Regulation should strengthen the current type-approval framework, in particular through the introduction of provisions on market surveillance covering the lifetime of the vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units concerned. Market surveillance in the automotive sector should be introduced by specifying the obligations of the economic operators in the supply chain, the responsibilitietasks of the enforcement authorities in the Member States, and the measures to be taken when automotive products are encountered on the market that represent seriousany kind of safety or environmental risks or that do not comply with the type-approval requirements, and by establishing a European Agency for Market Surveillance of Road Transport.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)
(8b) The European Agency for Market Surveillance of Road Transport will deploy independent and harmonised market surveillance activities, including checks of the conformity of production and the in service conformity. It shall coordinate and impose corrective and restrictive measures if tested or inspected vehicles, systems, components or technical units do not comply with the type-approval requirements laid down in this Regulation or any of the regulatory acts listed in Annex IV. Besides market surveillance, the agency shall perform audits on National Type Approval Authorities and keep under review the type approval process.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) Designation and monitoring of technical services by the Member States, in accordance with detailed and strict criteria, should therefore be subject to supervisory controls at Union level by the Agency, including independent audits as a condition for the renewal of their notification after five years. The position of technical services vis-à-vis manufacturers should be strengthened, including their right and duty to carry out unannounced factory inspections and to conduct physical or laboratory tests on products covered by this Regulation, in order to ensure continuous compliance by manufacturers after they have obtained a type-approval for their products.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) In order to increase transparency and mutual trust and to further align and develop the criteria for the assessment, designation, and notification of technical services, as well as extension and renewal procedures, Member States should cooperate with each other and with the CommissionAgency. They should consult each other and the CommissionAgency on questions with general relevance for the implementation of this Regulation and inform each other and the CommissionAgency on their model assessment checklist.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) When, in spite of the measures taken to ensure a coherent application and follow up of the requirements by the Member States, the competence of a technical service is in doubt, the CommissionAgency should have the possibility to investigate individual cases.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) Closer coordination between national authorities through information exchange and coordinated assessments under the direction of a coordinating authoritthe Agency is fundamental for ensuring a consistently high level of safety and health and environmental protection within the internal market. This should also lead to more efficient use of scarce resources at national level. For this purpose a Forum should be established for Member States and the CommissionAgency to exchange information on and to coordinate their activities related to the enforcement of type-approval legislation. The currently informal cooperation between Member States in this respect would benefit from a more formal framework.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) In addition, the CommissionThe Agency should organise and carry out or require to carry out ex-post compliance verification tests and inspections, independent from those carried out by Member States under their national market surveillance obligations. When non- compliance is established by those tests and inspections, or where it is found that a type approval has been granted on the basis of incorrect data the Commission should be entitled to initiate Union-wide remedial actions to restore the conformity of the vehicles concerned and together with the Agency investigate the reasons for the incorrectness of the type approval. Appropriate funding should be ensured in the general budget of the Union to enable the execution of such compliance verification testing and inspections. In view of the budgetary constraints of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014- 2020 the implementation of the legislative proposal will have to be built on existing resources and to be designed in such a manner that they do not generate additional financial resources. The Commission should be entitled to impose administrative fines where non-compliance is established.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 313 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36 a (new)
(36a) Since there is currently no common structured process for the exchange of vehicle component data between vehicle manufacturers and independent operators, it is appropriate to develop principles for such an exchange of data. A future common structured process on the standardised format of the data exchanged should be developed by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) formally, where upon the mandate given to CEN does not predetermine the level of detail this standard will provide. The CEN's work should, in particular, reflect the interests and needs of vehicle manufacturers and independent operators alike and should also investigate solutions such as open data formats described by well-defined meta-data to accommodate existing IT infrastructures.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37 a (new)
(37a) In order to ensure effective competition on the market for vehicle repair and maintenance information services, it is to be emphasised, that the information concerned also covers information which needs to be provided to independent operators other than repairers, and in a format which allows further electronic processing so as to ensure that the independent vehicle repair and maintenance market as a whole can compete with authorised dealers, regardless of whether the vehicle manufacturer gives such information to authorised dealers and repairers directly.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 321 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
(40) Member States should lay down rules on penalties for the infringements of this Regulation and ensure that those rules are implemented. Those penalties should be effective, proportionate and, dissuasive and guarantee that the consumer receives a fair compensation. Member States shall report the imposed penalties to the Commission annually, to monitor the coherence of the implementation of these provisions.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 327 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42
(42) In order to properly implement the compliance verification by the CommissionAgency and to ensure a level playing field for economic operators and national authorities, the Commission should be competent to impose harmonized administrative fines upon the economic operators found to have infringed upon this regulation regardless of where the vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit was originally type- approved.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. This Regulation establishes the requirements for the market surveillance, throughout their lifetime, of vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units that are subject to approval in accordance with this Regulation, as well as of parts and equipment for such vehicles.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 333 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. For the following vehicles and machinery, the manufacturer may apply for type-approval or individual vehicle approval under this Regulation, provided that those vehicles fulfil the substantivall the requirements of this Regulation:
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 338 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
(8a) 'defeat device' means any element of design which senses temperature, vehicle speed, engine speed (RPM), transmission gear, manifold vacuum or any other parameters for the purpose of activating, modulating, delaying or deactivating the operation of any part of the emission control system, that reduces the effectiveness of the emission control system under all ambient or engine operating conditions encountered either during normal vehicle operation or outside the type-approval test procedures;
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 362 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a Establishing an European Agency for Market Surveillance of Road Transport The Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union a regulation establishing a European independent Agency on Market Surveillance of Road Transport ("the Agency") without undue delay but no later than 12 months after this Regulation is published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Until the Agency has been established, the tasks assigned to it will be carried out by the Commission.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 363 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 b (new)
Article 5 b Tasks of the Agency 1. The Agency shall organise and carry out market surveillance and controls of vehicles, systems, components or separate technical units entering the market, in accordance with Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008. 2. The Agency shall organise and carry out tests and inspections of vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units already made available on the market including during production, with a view to verifying that those vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units conform to the type approvals and to applicable legislation as well as to ensure the correctness of the type approvals. The Agency shall inspect at least 20% of all type-approved vehicles placed on the European market each year. When doing so, the Agency shall take account of established principles of risk assessment, including complaints, popularity of vehicle models and their parts, third-party testing results, very high or very low fuel economy models, first application of new engine or technology, reports from periodic technical inspections, sampling programmes using remote sensing and other information. 3. Manufacturers holding type- approvals or the economic operators shall, upon request, supply to the Agency a statistically relevant number of production vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units selected by the Agency that are representative for the vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units available for placing on the market under that type- approval. Those vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units shall be supplied for testing at the time and place and for the period the Agency may require. Those tests and inspections may take place on new vehicles supplied by manufacturers or the economic operator as provided in paragraph 2 below. Those tests and inspections may also take place on registered vehicles. 4. For the purpose of enabling the Agency to carry out the testing referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, national market surveillance authorities within the Member States shall make available to the Agency all data related to the type- approval of the vehicle, systems, components and separate technical units subject to compliance verification testing. For this purpose the Agency shall create a common secure electronic exchange system in which the type approval authorities shall include all data related to the type-approval of the vehicle, systems, components and separate technical units subject to compliance verification testing. Those data shall include at least the information included in the type-approval certificate and its attachments referred to Article 26(1). For vehicles approved in accordance with the step-by-step or multistage type- approval procedure, Member States shall also provide the Agency with the type- approval certificate and its attachments referred to in Article 26(1) for the underlying type-approvals of systems, components and separate technical units. 5. The Agency shall require economic operators to make the documentation and information available as it considers necessary for the purpose of carrying out its activities. For the purpose of obtaining information contained in type approvals, the contact for the Agency shall first be the type approval authority which issued the relevant type approval certificate, however if the Agency need more information they have the right to obtain the information from the economic operators. 6. Vehicle manufacturers shall make public data which are needed for the purpose of compliance verification testing by third parties. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in order to define the data to be made public and the conditions for such publication, subject to the protection of commercial secrets and the preservation of personal data pursuant to Union and national legislation. Those delegated acts shall be adopted in accordance with Article 88. 7. For the fulfilment of its tasks, the Agency may ask the responsible national authorities to enter the premises of economic operators and seize the necessary samples of vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units for the purposes of compliance testing. 8. For type-approved vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units, the Agency shall take due account of certificates of conformity presented by economic operators. 9. The Agency shall cooperate with economic operators or manufacturer regarding actions which could prevent or reduce risks caused by vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units made available by those operators or manufacturer. 10. Where the Agency establishes that the vehicles tested or inspected do not comply with the type-approval requirements laid down in this Regulation or any of the regulatory acts listed in Annex IV or that the type approval has been granted on the basis of incorrect data, it shall require in accordance with Article 54(8) without delay the economic operator concerned to take all appropriate corrective measures to bring the vehicles in compliance with those requirements, or it shall take restrictive measures, either by requiring the economic operator to withdraw the vehicles concerned from the market, or to recall them within a reasonable period of time, depending on the seriousness of the established non- compliance. Where those tests and inspections put into question the correctness of the type approval itself, the Agency shall inform the approval authority or national authorities concerned as well as the Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement. 11. Where the Agency decide to withdraw a vehicle, system, component and separate technical unit from the market in accordance with Article 49(5), they shall inform the economic operator concerned and where applicable the relevant approval authority. 12. The Agency shall take appropriate measures to alert users within the European Union including the relevant type approval authorities within an adequate timeframe of hazards they have identified relating to any vehicle, system, component and separate technical unit so as to prevent or reduce the risk of injury or other damage. 13. The Agency shall develop, in close corporation with the Member States, an EU wide remote sensing network, to monitor the real world emissions of the car fleet and to identify the excessively polluting vehicles in order to focus in- service conformity checks. 14. The Agency shall coordinate the market surveillance authorities of different Member States and ensure that they cooperate with each other and share with each other and with the Agency the results of their market surveillance activities. Where appropriate, the market surveillance authorities may agree on work-sharing and specialisation. 15. The Agency shall publish annual report on its findings following any compliance verification testing it has carried out. The reports shall be accessible to the public. 16. The Agency shall carry out audits of the approval authorities in accordance with Article 71. 17. The Agency shall carry out their duties independently and impartially. They shall observe confidentiality where necessary in order to protect commercial secrets, subject to the obligation of information laid down in Article 9(3) to the fullest extent necessary in order to protect the interests of users in the European Union. 18. The Agency's work should be transparent. Effective control by the European Parliament should be ensured and, to this end, the European Parliament should have the possibility of hearing the Executive Director of the Agency. The Agency should also apply the relevant Community legislation concerning public access to documents.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 367 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall establish or appoint the approval authorities and the market surveillance authorities. Member States shall notify the CommissionAgency of the establishment and appointment of such authorities.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 368 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
That notification shall include the name of those authorities, their address, including their electronic address, and their competences. The Commission shall publish on its website a list and details of the approval authorities and, where applicable, the market surveillance authorities.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 385 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6
6. The Member States shall 6. periodically review and assess the functioning of their type-approval activities. Such reviews and assessments shall be carried out at least every four years and the results thereof shall be communicated to the other Member States and the Commission, the European Parliament and the Agency. The Member State concerned shall make a summaryfull report of the results accessible to the public, in particular the number of type- approval granted or rejected and the identity of the corresponding manufacturers, vehicles models and technical services responsible for overseeing the type approval tests.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Approval authorities shall ensure that the vehicle provided by the manufacturer for the purpose of type- approval testing is fully representative of the vehicle to be produced and placed on the market and which testing does not lead to test results that are systematically divergent from the performance of those vehicles operated under conditions that may reasonably be expected to be encountered in normal operation and use.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 433 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. For verifying emissions of vehicles, market surveillance authorities may make use of remote sensing technology to help identify highly polluting vehicle models for further investigation. In doing so, the authorities shall cooperate and coordinate their activities with authorities responsible for periodic technical inspections pursuant to Directive 2014/45/EU on periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 8
8. The market surveillance authorities of different Member StatMember States that choose to carry out market surveillance activities shall coordinate their market surveillance activities, cooperate with each other and share with each other and with the CommissionAgency the results thereof. Where appropriate, the market surveillance authorities shall agree on work-sharing and specialisation.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 465 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Market surveillance authorities shall publish the results of their control activities either on their own internet platform or on the website of the Agency.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 533 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall establishset up and chair a Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement ('the Forum’)') until the Agency is established The Agency shall take over the Commission's tasks relating to the Forum.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 543 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
This Forum shall be composed of members appointed by the Member States.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 544 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Each year representatives of the Forum shall present to the European Parliament a general report on the Forum's activities. The European Parliament or the Council may also ask at any time for a hearing of representatives of the Forum on any subject related to the Forum's activities.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 550 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Its advisory tasks shall comprise inter alia the promotion of good practices, the exchange of information on enforcement problems, cooperation, development of working methods and tools, development of an electronic information exchange procedure, evaluation of harmonised enforcement projects, penalties and joint inspections.:
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 551 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a (new)
(a) the promotion of good practices, the exchange of information on enforcement, evaluation of harmonised enforcement projects.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 552 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b (new)
(b) the development of a portal for civil society and consumer organisations to report their concerns and complaints about motor vehicle performance characteristic. Such information should also be used by the agency for assessing which vehicles should undergo conformity and verification checks.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 553 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point c (new)
(c) the exchange of information and advice with regard to state-of-the art technologies for the purpose of ensuring that Member States, type approval authorities and technical services are fully up to date on new technology available on the market.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 554 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point d (new)
(d) informing Member States of the conformity and verification checks undertaken by the agency as described in Article 5b.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 555 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point e (new)
(e) All recommendations agreed upon by the Forum shall be made public. They shall be agreed on by a simple majority.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 559 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
In order to carry out the activities referred to in Article 10 paragraph 2, subparagraph 2, the Forum shall at least twice per year invite representatives of technical services, third-party testing organisations, safety and environment NGOs, consumer groups, research groups and industry, for the purpose of their participation in the Forum's work under this Regulation Representatives invited to meetings of the Forum shall include a broad, representative and balanced range of Union and national bodies representing relevant stakeholders. The meetings referred to in paragraph 1 may be complemented by additional joint working groups within the Forum made up of representatives from Member States and representatives from the private sector and civil society. Members or other representatives of the European Parliament shall be invited to any of the meetings covered by this Article, either as participants or observers, as appropriate. The names of the representatives attending, the agenda and the minutes of the meetings referred to in this Article shall be published on the Commission' website, until the Agency is established.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 579 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. The manufacturer shall ensure that the vehicles, systems, components or separate technical units that he has manufactured and that have been placed on the market, or entered into service have been manufactured and approved in accordance with the requirements set out in this Regulation, and that they continue to comply with those requirements regardless of the testing method used.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 583 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. When applying for an EU type approval, the manufacturers shall demonstrate that the design of vehicles, systems components and separate technical units does not incorporate strategies that unnecessarily reduce the performance exhibited during relevant test procedure when the vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units are operated under conditions that may reasonably be expected to be encountered in normal operation and use.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 596 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The manufacturer shall immediately inform the approval authority that has granted the approval in detail of the non- conformity and of any measures taken. The manufacturer shall also immediately inform the Agency.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 654 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 4
4. The EU type-approval for the final stage of completion shall be granted only after the approval authority has verified that the type of vehicle approved at the final stage meets at the time of the approval all applicable technical requirements. Verification shall include a documentary check of all requirements covered by an EU type-approval for an incomplete type of vehicle granted in the course of a multi-stage procedure, even where granted for a different category of vehicle. It shall also include verification that performances of the systems that were granted type approval separately is still in conformity with those type approvals when incorporated to a whole vehicle. The type approval authority that approves the whole vehicle shall be the responsible authority for the type approval.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 684 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The approval authority may refuse to approve a vehicle emissions control defeat device on the basis of the information included in the information folder by consideration of currently best available technology. The approval authority shall refuse to grant EU type-approval where it finds that a defeat devices has been unlawfully incorporated.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 704 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In the case of whole vehicle type- approval, the authorities shall ensure that the vehicles selected for testing will not lead to the results that are systematically divergent from the performance when those vehicles are operated under conditions that may reasonably be expected to be encountered in normal operation and use.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 871 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 56 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Where the approval authority or the Agency finds that the conditions for issuing the authorisation are no longer fulfilled, it shall request the manufacturer to take the necessary measures to ensure that the parts or equipment are brought into conformity. Where necessary, it shall withdraw the authoriszation or in case of the Agency required the approval authority that granted the type-approval to withdraw the authorization.
2016/10/18
Committee: IMCO