Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/574 of 15 February 2024 specifying the technical formats for reporting by the Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1454

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species (1), and in particular of Article 24(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The Commission adopted Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1454 (2) specifying the technical formats for reporting by the Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014.

(2) However, the technical formats used, in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1454, in the first round of reporting by Member States proved insufficient to ensure that reports are of good quality, leading to ambiguity and underreporting.

(3) It is therefore necessary to address such insufficiency by facilitating the collection of data for the purpose of deriving key indicators, and by favouring the reference to information that is already publicly available at national level while using the benefits of applying Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) for spatial data and ensuring coherence with related policies, such as Directives 2000/60/EC (4), 2008/56/EC (5) and 2009/147/EC (6) of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 92/43/EEC (7).

(4) Furthermore, Directive 2007/2/EC requires that public authorities in the Member States make spatial data sets available in accordance with the implementing rules on metadata, network services and interoperability of spatial data sets and services set out in Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 (8), including the data specified in section 18 (‘Species Distribution’) of Annex IV to that Regulation.

(5) Given that the most substantial part of this Implementing Regulation, the technical formats for reporting in Annex are comprehensively modified, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1454 should be repealed and replaced.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Invasive Alien Species,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The technical formats for reporting by the Member States pursuant to Article 24(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1454 is repealed.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 February 2024.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 317, 4.11.2014, p. 35, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2014/1143/oj.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1454 of 10 August 2017 specifying the technical formats for reporting by the Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 208, 11.8.2017, p. 15, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/1454/oj).

(3) Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2007/2/oj).

(4) Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2000/60/oj).

(5) Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) (OJ L 164, 25.6.2008, p. 19, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2008/56/oj).

(6) Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ L 20, 26.1.2010, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/147/oj).

(7) Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/1992/43/oj).

(8) Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services (OJ L 323, 8.12.2010, p. 11, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/oj).