The EU Parliament and the Council have reached a political agreement on new rules that will require member states to use intelligent transport systems (ITS) along major roads, to enable vehicles and infrastructure to better communicateCouncil’s press release 8 June 2023) . The EU lawmakers have agreed to revise the 2010 directive on the deployment of intelligent transport systems to align to the technological developments and accelerate the availability and enhance the interoperability of digital data that feed services like connected and automated mobility, on-demand mobility applications, and multimodal transport.
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The agreement builds on the Commission’s proposal from December 2021 and must now be endorsed by the Council and the Parliament. It will then be formally adopted by both institutions. Once this is done, the revision process of the ITS Directive is finalised and Member States will have to implement it into national law.
The Council is reporting that:
- ‘The necessary types of data, including access conditions for tunnels and bridges, speed limits, traffic circulation plans, permanent access restrictions, road closures, roadworks, temporary traffic management measures, as well as the critical services, such as road safety-related traffic information services, to be made available across the Union, are set out in the annexes to the directive.
- The new directive therefore contains an implementation programme covering at least the next 5 years and a precise geographical scope of road network. By way of delegated acts, the Commission may further complement certain aspects of this implementation programme.
- Important to note is that text of the political agreement clarifies and specifies several provisions of the proposal, in particular the provisional treatment of emergency situations, the protection of personal data, the priority areas for the deployment and use of specifications and standards and the principles applying to the development of EU-level technical specifications.’
Companies that are active in the mobility space shall watch out for the final provisions and prepare for potential new compliance rules, e.g. technical standards to be integrated by OEMs or information obligations towards their costumers on possible data sharing. There will be overlaps with existing data privacy rules and upcoming EU regulations like the Data Act and the Data Governance Act which also needs to be taken into account.
Watch this space for a more detailed update once the consolidated text of the revised ITS Directive has been published - which we expect to happen in a couple of weeks.
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