Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/209 of 12 February 2016 on a standardisation request to the European standardisation organisations as regards Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in urban areas in support of Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in the field of road transport and for interfaces with other modes of transport (notified under document C(2016) 808) (Text with EEA relevance)

The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (Cenelec) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), hereafter referred as the ESOs (European standardisation organisations), are requested to draft new European standards and European standardisation deliverables in support of the implementation of Article 8 of Directive 2010/40/EU for multimodal information, traffic management and urban logistics in the urban ITS domain. The requested European standards and European standardisation deliverables are listed in Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Annex II and shall meet the requirements set out in Annex I.

The ESOs shall prepare the joint work programme indicating all requested deliverables, responsible technical bodies and a timetable for the execution of the work in line with the deadlines set out in Annex II. The ESOs shall submit the work programme to the Commission by 31 July 2016 and shall provide access to an overall project plan to the Commission. The ESOs may decide how many European standards and European standardisation deliverables are needed in order to execute the request referred to in Article 1.

The ESOs shall follow in its work programme the possible priorities expressed by the Commission for the execution of the request referred to in Article 1. The ESOs shall inform the Commission on any amendments to the work programme. New subjects for European standards or European standardisation deliverables may be added to the work programme where Annex I includes requirements for such subjects and these subjects relate to the priority areas and priority actions mentioned in Articles 2 and 3 and Annex I to Directive 2010/40/EU, and where the Commission has been consulted and agrees to that addition, after having informed the Committee established by Article 22 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012.

The ESOs shall report annually to the Commission on the execution of the request referred to in Article 1. These organisations shall submit to the Commission the first joint annual report by 30 March 2017. The ESOs shall provide the Commission with the joint final report by 30 June 2019. The final report shall include measurement criteria to measure achievements with respect to standardisation in the areas of multimodal information, traffic management and urban logistics, and the level of stakeholder engagement during the standardisation work requested by Article 1.

If the request referred to in Article 1 is not accepted by any of the ESOs within 1 month following its receipt, that request may not constitute a basis for the drafting of European standards and European standardisation deliverables.

The requested European standards and European standardisation deliverables shall be developed to be consistent and compliant with the requirements of the Delegated Acts adopted by the Commission under Directive 2010/40/EU, in particular the specifications for the provision of EU-wide real-time traffic information services adopted on 18 December 2014 , and the specifications for the provision of EU-wide multimodal travel information services .

This Decision is addressed to the European Committee for Standardisation, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation and European Telecommunications Standards Institute.