ETRA IMCO Study

News from ETRA the European Twowheel Retailers’ Association concerning the recent Impact Assessment published in February and discussed by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO).

ETRA gives us an excellent and a reasoned overview of the IMCO rejection of its own Impact Assessment Study and more importantly, tells us that the IMCO committee will decide whether and to what extent to take into account the results of the impact assessment.

IMCO Committee rejects the results of its own Impact Assessment Study

Original Source – ETRA the European Twowheel Retailers’ Association

Before the vote of Mr van de Camp report on the type approval review for two-and three wheelers took place in the IMCO Committee on the 5th of December 2011, the Committee had decided to run an impact assessment, to be carried out by London Economics on behalf of the European Parliament.

Main aim of the Impact Assessment was to look into the consequences that the three compromise amendments will determine: new ABS requirement for low performance motorcycles between 51 and 125cc; introduction of OBD and of a new timetable.

The reason for asking for an Impact Assessment on these amendments is that none of them have ever been evaluated in terms of cost/benefits.

The results of the Impact Assessment were published the last week of February and discussed by the IMCO Committee on the 28th February. The Committee rejected the conclusions of the impact assessment study.

The discussions focused mainly on ABS and cost issues but it was clear that according to the study all three measures laid down in the compromised amendments will not be cost effective if implemented.

On the other hand the Impact Assessment has shortcomings as highlighted by many MEPs but those are mainly due to the limited amount of time to draft it and to the unclear mandate given to London Economics.

The Conference of Presidents that followed the discussions, decided to give more time to London Economics to come up with a final and more thorough version of the study that, for instance, would take into consideration also the point of view of the parts suppliers as regards the cost of ABS.

This final report will be published next week (2nd to 6th April).

Only by then the Committee will decide whether and to what extent to take into account the results of the impact assessment.

In the meantime IMCO has given mandate to the Rapporteur, Mr van de Camp, to start negotiations with Council and Commission to reach a First Reading Agreement.

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