Fitness Check of environmental monitoring and reporting

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1 Fitness Check of environmental monitoring and reporting European Commission Directorate General for Environment Unit D.4 Governance, Information & Reporting Unit F.1 Resource Efficiency & Economic Analysis

2 We have a clear mandate Better Regulation Communication: "Better Regulation for Better Results" (COM(2015)215) o o Launch a broad review of reporting requirements to see how burdens can be alleviated. This review will have a particularly strong focus on areas where stakeholders have recently indicated their concerns, such as agriculture, energy, environment and financial services. Cooperate with Member States on the best ways to ensure compliance with EU law at national level (the 'Make It Work' initiative). The objective is to identify commonly used instruments and procedures across directives to see where duplication, varying definitions and terms can be reduced while maintaining the level of protection in the legislation and improving the efficiency of its application. Commission Work Programme 2016 : "No time for business as usual" (COM(2015) 692) o o Staff Working Document which sets out the strategy and the ambition level of the Fitness Check of monitoring and reporting obligations in environment policy and documents some early actions in this field, among other things the state of play of the Standardised Reporting Directive and related questionnaires, including a possible proposal for its repeal. Fitness Check to identify opportunities to simplify and alleviate reporting obligations stemming from EU environmental law with a view to develop a more modern, efficient and effective system for regulatory monitoring. Commission Roadmap feedback invited o See link: roadmaps/index_en.htm

3 The objective Objective - more modern, efficient and effective regulatory monitoring building on the past successes : Better monitoring on the ground (leading to better implementation and compliance) Less costs and hassle (only reporting what is needed) Better use of information Increased transparency and accountability (i.e. transparent and public available information); Facilitating Better Regulation in environment policy (i.e. having the evidence base for evaluation and IAs). Comparing Member State approaches ie identifying best practice

4 and this will lead ultimately to? The Fitness Check of environmental monitoring and reporting in the wide context. Better Environment Stronger Democracy closer to the citizens More Investments, Sustainable Growth and Jobs Effective Digital Single Market Better Regulation

5 The scope Monitoring and Reporting of all environment legislation falling under DG ENV remit (some 55 pieces of legislation with approx. 170 reporting obligations) Coherence to other policies and DGs (Inter-Service Group, Focus Group) Link to other REFITs Energy/Climate Fitness Check EPRTR REFIT Many others Contributes to Environment Implementation Review Will address EEA regulation / EIONET dataflows Assessment criteria: Efficiency, effectiveness, EU added value, relevance and coherence Collaboration with other initiative (e.g. Make It Work)

6 Three areas of work Efficiency gains through automisation harmonisation centralisation Area 2: the process Area 1: the timing Lower frequency of reporting Better synchronisation Area 3: the content Less data requested Ensure key performance Indicators Less text more automised data

7 The data flow process

8 Fitness Check milestones 2015: 19/20 November: First Stakeholder Workshop (with Make It Work) 2016: Public consultation Commission Staff Working Document Possible repeal of Standardised Reporting Directive (91/692/EEC) 2017: Adoption of INSPIRE, EPRTR REFIT reports 8 Fitness Check: Presentation of the results including suggestions for further actions

9 Conclusions Fitness Check has just started, now it is time to engage! In addition to the public consultation, we will have targeted stakeholder engagement today is one important one! We welcome your input and ideas either through the nationally coordinated processes (only few MS so far), or directly. The actions to be developed as a result of the Fitness Check will have (significant) impacts on the way we do reporting.

10 Next steps Two Stakeholder Workshops (27 April in Brussels and September INSPIRE Conference in Barcelona September) Collaboration with "Make It Work" will continue We still welcome your evidence or position papers. More work on coherence will be needed as different reporting initiatives (e.g. energy FC, EPRTR) become more concrete

11 Questions? Contacts: Steve White (Unit ENV. F1) Joachim D'Eugenio (Unit ENV D.4) Thank you for your attention More information: /legal/reporting/index_en.htm