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4. The European Economic and Social Committee adopted its opinion on 9 December 2021, the European Committee of the Regions adopted its opinion on 26 January 2022. 5. The Council agreed on a general approach on 2 June 2022. 6. The European Parliament designated the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) as the committee responsible and Mr Ismail ERTUG (DE, S&D) was appointed as its rapporteur. The European Parliament adopted its position in plenary on 19 October 2022. 7. At a first informal trilogue on 27 October 2022, the co-legislators held an exchange of views on their respective positions and
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4. The European Economic and Social Committee adopted its opinion on 9 December 2021, the European Committee of the Regions adopted its opinion on 26 January 2022.
5. The Council agreed on a general approach on 2 June 2022.
6. The European Parliament designated the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) as the committee responsible and Mr Ismail ERTUG (DE, S&D) was appointed as its rapporteur. The European Parliament adopted its position in plenary on 19 October 2022.
7. At a first informal trilogue on 27 October 2022, the co-legislators held an exchange of views on their respective positions and agreed to grant a broad mandate to the technical level. During the second informal trilogue on 13 December, significant progress was achieved. In particular, a preliminary agreement was found on Article 1 (subject matter), Article 8 (liquefied methane for road transport), Article 10 (shore-side electricity for inland waterway ports), Article 14a (content, structure and format of the national policy frameworks and national progress reports), Article 16 (progress tracking), Article 17 (user information) and Article 19 (common technical specifications)
8. Between 11 and 25 January 2023 there were 3 technical meetings organised to prepare for the third trilogue planned on 7 February. The Presidency presented in the Intermodal Transport Working Party compromise proposals and drafting suggestions that were prepared in the technical meetings with the Parliament. Negotiations continued as regards the outstanding issues in Articles 9, 11 and 12 and the reporting cluster (Articles 13-15). Significant progress has been made on the data provisions in Article 18. The intention is to confirm as much as possible. Still, and especially in Article 18, there remains some aspects to be further
9. Negotiations have started on Article 3 (electric recharging for light-duty vehicles), Article 4 (electric recharging for heavy-duty vehicles) and Article 6 (hydrogen refuelling for road transport). In the technical meetings the positions of the Council and the Parliament have been clarified as regards the charging capacity. The Presidency has insisted on the reasonable traffic thresholds and demonstrated this with figures to substantiate the fact that on those stretches, there is very little traffic work (in terms of vehicles km) and that the derogations should not jeopardise the availability of charging stations.
10. As regards Article 5 and Article 7, dealing with payments and the infrastructure for recharging and refuelling respectively, Council and Parliament have agreed to first look at Article 5 as this is the more specific article because recharging is more relevant for citizens. Once an agreement will be found on Article 5, the same approach will be adapted to Article 7.
11. There was also a discussion on the proposal from the Parliament in Article 12a to include railway infrastructure in the scope of AFIR.
12. Delegations have been informed about a preliminary agreement on Article 20 (exercise of the delegation), Article 21 (committee procedure) and Article 23 (repeal). This will need to be confirmed in the third trilogue.
13. Article 24 (entry into force and date of application) was also discussed. This Article will be left for the fourth trilogue.
14. The proposed mandate for the third informal trilogue is addressing all the outstanding articles as mentioned under points 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the present report. The only aspect that has not been discussed in detail is the proposal from the Parliament to include Article 21a (compensatory regulatory reduction). Article 21a is considered as not necessary in the context of a sector-specific regulation like AFIR. It is better to ensure better regulation during the negotiations than to ask the Commission to reconsider afterwards what could be further improved as regards regulatory reduction.
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