LegalizeCommission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2024 of 26 July 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 by establishing the eFTI common data set and eFTI data subsets
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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2020 on electronic freight transport information [^ntr1-L_202402024EN.000101-E0001], and in particular Article 7 thereof,
Whereas:
- (1) Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 should be supplemented to establish the eFTI common data set and the eFTI data subsets.
- (2) Article 3(5) of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 specifies that each eFTI data subset should comprise the structured set of data elements corresponding to the regulatory information required in a specific Union legal act or national law. Article 3(6) of the same Regulation specifies that the eFTI common data set should comprise the comprehensive set of structured data elements that correspond to all the eFTI data subsets, where the data elements common to the different eFTI data subsets are included only once. Furthermore, Article 3(7) specifies that each eFTI data element should have a unique definition and precise technical characteristics, such as format, length and character type.
- (3) The purpose of establishing the eFTI common data set is to simplify data recording and exchange in an electronic format, and thus ensure the availability of consistent information, for the purposes of checking and proving compliance with transport rules. Standardised names, definitions and formats of the data elements common across the different eFTI subsets including, where applicable, harmonised code lists and business rules, will allow economic operators to record data in a clear and standardised format. Furthermore, a harmonised structure for these data elements will enable this data to be exchanged automatically between the operators’ eFTI platforms and the IT systems of the competent authorities.
- (4) The freight transport information to be recorded and exchanged within the eFTI environment is, for the most part, the same information that economic operators need to exchange in the business domain in order to ensure operational flows, as well as to prove their compliance with other regulatory requirements outside the scope of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056. To allow the reuse of eFTI data for such other exchanges, and ensure interoperability with relevant business-to-business and business-to-authorities electronic exchange environments, it is important to align the structure and definition of the data elements comprised in the eFTI common data set and eFTI data subsets with those of the corresponding data elements in the three most relevant Union and international data models: the Union Customs Code data model (EU CDM) [^ntr2-L_202402024EN.000101-E0002], the European Maritime Single Window environment (EMSWe) data model [^ntr3-L_202402024EN.000101-E0003], and the UN/CEFACT Multi Modal Transport Reference Data Model (MMT-RDM) [^ntr4-L_202402024EN.000101-E0004]. This will enable more efficient sharing and reuse of data, reduce the administrative burden for economic operators and improve the quality of the freight information the authorities can access to check compliance with applicable rules.
- (5) Article 83(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council [^ntr5-L_202402024EN.000101-E0005] amends Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056, to set a later date for the adoption of the specifications of the eFTI data subset corresponding to the information requirements related to the movement of waste falling under the scope of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056, as referred to in point (iv) of Article 2(1)(a) of that regulation. Therefore, those specifications should not be adopted by this delegated regulation. To allow alignment with the related specifications to be adopted under the implementing regulations referred to in Article 27(5) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157, those specifications should be adopted at a later stage and no later than the date referred to in that article.
- (6) The Commission has carried out appropriate consultations, including at expert level and with stakeholders [^ntr6-L_202402024EN.000101-E0006],
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Establishment of the eFTI common data set and of the eFTI data subsets
The eFTI common data set and the eFTI data subsets provided for under Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
Entry into force and application
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 26 July 2024.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
[^ntr1-L_202402024EN.000101-E0001]: OJ L 249, 31.7.2020, p. 33.
[^ntr2-L_202402024EN.000101-E0002]: As established under Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1).
[^ntr3-L_202402024EN.000101-E0003]: As established under Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 establishing a European Maritime Single Window environment and repealing Directive 2010/65/EU (OJ L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 64).
[^ntr5-L_202402024EN.000101-E0005]: Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on shipments of waste, amending Regulations (EU) No 1257/2013 and (EU) 2020/1056 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 (OJ L, 2024/1157, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1157/oj).
[^ntr6-L_202402024EN.000101-E0006]: Documents and reports of the relevant meetings can be found on the Register of Commission expert groups and other similar entities (europa.eu). Stakeholder feedback received on the draft act shared on the Commission ‘Have your say’ portal can be found here.
ANNEX
eFTI COMMON DATA SET AND eFTI DATA SUBSETS
SECTION 1
Introductory notes
| A. | As per the definitions provided in points (5), (6) and (7) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056, the eFTI common data set and eFTI data subsets are not just lists of data elements, but ‘set[s] of structured data elements’, where all the data elements corresponding to all of the subsets constitute the common data set, with the data elements common to two or more subsets included only once. Those definitions also indicate that each data element should be described through specific properties such as definition and technical characteristics, including format, length and character type, and that what distinguishes a data element in the common data set is their ‘unique definition’. Several data elements may share therefore one or more properties such as format or character type, but not the definition. | |
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| B. | This Annex describes the eFTI data subsets and the eFTI common data set, established pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056, as follows: 1. The eFTI common data set is described in Section 2. 2. The eFTI data subsets corresponding to information requirements in provisions of EU acts, as referred in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2020/1056, are described in Section 3. 3. The eFTI data subsets corresponding to information requirements in provisions of national law, as listed in the Annex to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2025 [^ntr1-L_202402024EN.000301-E0001] are described in Section 4. 4. The code lists for which the reference is provided in column ‘Code List’ of Table 1 (see Section 2) are detailed in Section 5. Table 30 provides the name of the code list for each code list reference used in eFTI common data set. The table also provides the indication of all the codes that are allowed to be used from that specific code list at the level of the entire eFTI common data set. When specific restrictions to the allowed codes apply to individual data elements, this is indicated first at the level of the common data set in column ‘Allowed Codes’ (see Section 2, Table 1) and, where applicable, further restrictions are indicated at the level of data subsets in column ‘Code(s)’ (See Sections 3 and 4, Tables 2 to 29). 5. The business rules for which the reference is provided in column ‘BR(s)’ of Tables 2 to 29 (see Section 3) are detailed in Section 6. |
SECTION 2
eFTI common data set
| A. | The eFTI common data set is described in Table 1, where: 1. Column with heading ‘H’ represents the structure of the common data set by indicating the hierarchy level of the data objects, either data classes or data elements. This hierarchical structure begins with level 1. Each data object directly subordinated to level 1 is marked with level 2, each data object directly subordinated to level 2 is marked with level 3 and so on and so forth. Each data object is a subordinated component of the last preceding object in the table at higher level. Example: Data element eFTI41 ‘Gross mass’ is marked with hierarchy level 3. It is subordinated to the last preceding data object at higher level, i.e. level 2, which is data class ASBIE1027 ‘eFTI data set consignment’. The subordinated component of data element eFTI41 is data element eFTI42 ‘Measurement unit code’, which is marked with level 4. 2. Column with heading ‘Object Type’ indicates: (a) data classes, when the reference provided is ‘ASBIE’. Data classes are groupings of data elements describing a certain piece of information; (b) data elements, when the reference provided is ‘BBIE’ or ‘SC’. Data elements marked as ‘SC’ are always related to a ‘BBIE’ data element, as they constitute supplementary units of information necessary to fully specify the information provided by the BBIE data element [^ntr2-L_202402024EN.000301-E0002]; (c) the comprehensive hierarchical structure of the eFTI common data set, by means of the graphical lines on the left side of the column. 3. Column with heading ‘ID’ indicates the data element identification number in format ‘eFTIxxx(x)’, which uniquely identifies the data element in the eFTI common data set. The identification number is automatically assigned and indicates neither sequence nor hierarchy of the data element in the eFTI common data set. 4. Column with heading ‘L’ indicates, when provided, the data elements that will be accompanied by a language indicator providing information on the language of the content of the data field. 5. Column with heading ‘Name and Definition’ indicates, in separate rows: (a) the standard, non-technical name of the data element; (b) the short textual description of the data element; (c) when provided, the reference of specific rules (in format ‘BR-xxx’) that need to be applied in relation to the use of a data element when certain conditions are met. The aim of these rules is to ensure that the value to be provided for the respective data element corresponds to the specific conditions established in the corresponding regulatory information requirement. These rules are detailed in Section 6. 6. Column with heading ‘Data Type’ indicates what kind of value the data element can hold. Example: ‘quantity’ indicates that the data element can hold a number expressing the count of non-monetary units. 7. Column with heading ‘Format’ indicates the requirements for the data type and the data length, where: (a) the codes for the data types are as follows: (i) ‘a’ means alphabetic; (ii) ‘n’ means numeric; (iii) ‘an’ means alphanumeric; (b) the number following the code indicates the admissible data length, where: (i) the optional two dots before the length indicator mean that the data has no fixed length, but it can have up to a number of digits, as specified by the length indicator; (ii) a comma in the data length means that the attribute can hold decimals, where the digit before the comma indicates the total length of the attribute and the digit after the comma indicates the maximum number of digits after the decimal point. Examples of field lengths and formats: ‘a1’ means 1 alphabetic character, fixed length; ‘n2’ means 2 numeric characters, fixed length; ‘an3’ means 3 alphanumeric characters, fixed length; ‘a..4’ means up to 4 alphabetic characters; ‘n..5’ means up to 5 numeric characters; ‘an..6’ means up to 6 alphanumeric characters; ‘n..7,2’ means up to 7 numeric characters including maximum 2 decimals, a delimiter being allowed to float. 8. Column with heading ‘Code List’ indicates, when provided, the reference of the code list (in format ‘CL-xxx’) that shall be applied. Example: ‘CL-017’ indicates the code list to be applied for the data element eFTI76 ‘Country code’ which indicates, as its definition specifies ‘The code of the country for this consignee address’. The code lists are described in Section 4. 9. Column with heading ‘Allowed Code(s)’ indicates, (a) when provided, a selection of the codes that are allowed to be used from the applied code list. Example: For data element eFTI46 ‘Measurement unit code’, which is a structural component linked to data element eFTI45 ‘Gross volume’, the codes allowed to be used from UNECE Recommendation 20 (UNECE (UN/EDIFACT) codes 6411) are LTR (litre) and MTQ (cubic metre); (b) when no codes are provided, but a code list is provided in column with heading ‘Code List’, all codes in that code list are allowed. | |
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Table 1
eFTI common data set
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