Decision (ΕU) 2024/2829 amending Directive 2007/2/EC as regards certain reporting requirements for infrastructures for spatial information

Summary:

Decision (EU) 2024/2829 - adopted by the co-legislators on 23 October 2024 - introducing amendments to Directive 2007/2/EC as regards certain reporting requirements for infrastructures for spatial information. This is a text with EEA relevance.

Further information:

In its Communication on Long-term competitiveness in the EU (2023), the European Commission stressed the importance of a regulatory system that ensures that objectives are reached at minimum costs. It therefore committed to a fresh push to rationalise and simplify reporting requirements to reduce the burden without undermining related policy aims.

Reporting requirements are essential in ensuring correct enforcement and proper monitoring of legislation. Their costs are largely offset by the benefit they bring. However, they can also impose disproportionate burdens on stakeholders, particularly affecting SMEs and micro-companies. Organisational and technological developments also call for original requirements to be adjusted.

This Directive seeks to rationalise reporting obligations in the area of public services and professional services. It amends Directive 2007/2/EC to reduce the frequency of reporting requirements. This Directive set out general rules for establishing an infrastructure for spatial information (also known as INSPIRE).

A draft text was adopted by the European Commission on 23 October 2023. The plenary of the European Parliament endorsed the text on 14 March 2024. The Council of the European Union adopted the text for a proposed Directive on 14 October. The Act was signed by the co-legislators on 23 October 2024 and published in the Official Journal on 6 November 2024.

Official

EUR-LEX: COM(2023)584: Proposal for a Decision amending Directive 2007/2/EC as regards certain reporting requirements for infrastructures for spatial information https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=COM:2023:584:FIN

Publications Office of the EU: EU Law Tracker: Proposal for a Decision amending Directive 2007/2/EC as regards certain reporting requirements for infrastructures for spatial information https://law-tracker.europa.eu/procedure/2023_356?lang=en

European Parliament: Legislative Observatory: Procedure File for Proposal on Infrastructure for spatial information in the European Community (INSPIRE): certain reporting requirements (2023/0356(COD)) https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?lang=en&reference=2023/0356(COD)

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