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Official Journal of the European Union
23.7.2011
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 13 July 2011
adopting guidelines for reporting by the Member States under Directive 2010/40/EU of the
European Parliament and of the Council
(notified under document C(2011) 4947)
(2011/453/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4) Article
17(2)
of
Directive
2010/40/EU
also
requires
guidelines for reporting by the Member States to be
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
adopted.
Union,
(5) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
Having regard to Directive 2010/40/EU of the European
accordance with the opinion of the European ITS
Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on the
Committee established under Article 15(1) of Directive
framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport
2010/40/EU,
Systems in the field of road transport and for interfaces with
other modes of transport ( 1 ) and in particular Article 15(2)
thereof,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Whereas:
Article 1
The guidelines for reporting by the Member States, as set out in
(1) Article
17(1)
of
Directive
2010/40/EU
requires
the the Annex, are hereby adopted.
Member States to submit to the Commission, by
27 August 2011, a report on their national activities
and projects regarding the priority areas.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
(2) Article
17(2)
of
Directive
2010/40/EU
requires
the
Member States to provide the Commission by
27 August 2012 with information on national ITS
actions envisaged over the following 5-year period.
Done at Brussels, 13 July 2011.
(3) Article
17(3)
of
Directive
2010/40/EU
requires
the
For the Commission
Member States to report every 3 years following the
initial report on the progress made in the deployment
Siim KALLAS
of the actions referred to in Article 17(1).
Vice-President
( 1 ) OJ L 207, 6.8.2010, p. 1.

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Journal
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the
European
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ANNEX
GUIDELINES FOR REPORTING BY THE MEMBER STATES UNDER DIRECTIVE 2010/40/EU
1. Initial report
The report referred to in Article 17(1) of Directive 2010/40/EU, hereinafter referred to as ‘the initial report’, should
present the current state of national activities and projects in the priority areas referred to in Article 2 of and in Annex I
to Directive 2010/40/EU.
The initial report should include an introduction giving a general overview of the national activities and projects and the
relevant contact information in the Member State, i.e. name of organisation, type of organisation (ministry/national
authority/contractor/other), name of contact person, e-mail address, telephone number, etc.
The initial report should also include a description of the national activities and projects in each priority area with, as
appropriate and deemed relevant by the Member State, a description of the relevant initiatives, their objective, timescale,
milestones, resources, lead stakeholder(s) and status.
Where possible, figures should be provided in order to measure the progress better and facilitate possible future bench
marking.
2. Information on national ITS actions
The information on national ITS actions envisaged over the following 5-year period, referred to in Article 17(2) of
Directive 2010/40/EU, should consist of a general report on the activities planned in the next 5 years related to
deployment of ITS in the Member State. This report should include at least the relevant information on the following
items:
(a) a description of the national approach and/or strategy on the development and deployment of ITS, including its main
objectives;
(b) a description of the technical and legal framework applicable to the development and deployment of ITS;
(c) a description of the ITS deployment activities;
(d) a description of the national priority areas for actions and related measures, including an indication of how these are
related to the priority areas laid down in Article 2 of Directive 2010/40/EU;
(e) the implementation of current and planned actions covering:
— instruments,
— resources,
— consultation and active stakeholders,
— milestones,
— monitoring.
3. Progress reports
The reports to be provided under Article 17(3) of Directive 2010/40/EU, hereinafter referred as ‘the progress reports’,
should follow the same structure as the initial report and should highlight the progress made since the previous report.

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