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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,Whereas:
(1)The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part (the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’), was concluded by the Union by Council Decision (EU) 2021/689note and entered into force on 1 May 2021.
(2)Annex 31 to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement provides several instances where the Specialised Committee on Road Transport, established under Article 8(1), point (o), of that Agreement (the ‘Specialised Committee on Road Transport’), is to decide on the modalities of exchange of information between the competent authorities of each Party in relation to the transport of goods by road under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
(3)Section 2, Part A of Annex 31 to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement provides for a system of exchange of information on the posting of drivers in road transport, through the Union’s Internal Market Information System (IMI). IMI is managed by the Commission, and the technical modalities of that exchange of information are laid down in Decision No 1/2022 of the Specialised Committee on Road Transportnote. The contribution of the United Kingdom to the development costs of the road transport posting declaration module of IMI was paid in 2022, in accordance with Article 5(2) of Decision No 1/2022 of the Specialised Committee on Road Transport.
(4)Article 14, Section 1, Part A of Annex 31 to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement provides that each Party is to exchange information, inter alia, on serious infringements committed by operators in the other Party. The European Registers of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU), managed by the Commission, is used for that exchange of information and the modalities thereof are subject to a separate Union position laid down in Council Decision (EU) 2025/2417note. The United Kingdom contributed to the development costs of ERRU as a Member State of the Union.
(5)Article 714 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement provides that the participation of the United Kingdom in Union programmes, activities or parts thereof is to be subject to an annual financial contribution.
(6)While the technical modalities of the exchange of information are specific to each information system and are therefore laid down in distinct decisions of the Specialised Committee on Road Transport, it is appropriate, given the limited amounts concerned and the administrative procedures required to process payments, to establish a single annual financial contribution of the United Kingdom for its participation in certain road transport information systems managed by the Commission under the framework of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
(7)Decision No 1/2022 of the Specialised Committee on Road Transport provides for the specific contribution of the United Kingdom to the IMI, it is therefore necessary to amend it.
(8)To ensure the proper functioning of Title I of Heading Three of Part Two of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the Specialised Committee on Road Transport should therefore establish the annual contribution to be paid by the United Kingdom to certain road transport information systems managed by the Union.
(9)It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf in the Specialised Committee on Road Transport, as the envisaged act will be binding on the Union.
(10)The position of the Union within the Specialised Committee on Road Transport should therefore be based on the draft Decision of that Committee attached to this Decision,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
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The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the Specialised Committee on Road Transport, established by Article 8(1), point (o), of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part (the ‘Specialised Committee on Road Transport’), as regards the amount and modalities of the United Kingdom’s financial contribution to certain road transport information systems managed by the Union and the amendment to Decision No 1/2022 of the Specialised Committee on Road Transport, is set out in the draft Decision of the Specialised Committee on Road Transport attached to this Decision.
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