Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1079 of 20 July 2020 on the verification and correction of data referred to in Regulation (EU) 2018/956 on the monitoring and reporting of CO2 emissions from and fuel consumption of new heavy-duty vehicles (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1079
• Articles: 6

Article 1 Heavy-duty vehicles of which the quality of the data is to be verified

1.   Following the reporting of the data by manufacturers in accordance with Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/956, the Commission shall verify the quality of the data of a number of heavy-duty vehicles of each manufacturer registered in the reporting period concerned. For the reporting period of the year 2019, the Commission shall only verify the quality of the data of heavy-duty vehicles that have been registered as from 1 January 2020.

2.   The Commission shall select the heavy-duty vehicles referred to in paragraph 1 randomly. The number of selected heavy-duty vehicles shall be between 2 % and 10 % of the number of heavy-duty vehicles of each manufacturer that have been registered in the reporting period concerned.

Article 2 Notification by the Commission and information provided by manufacturers and Member States

1.   The Commission shall notify the manufacturers concerned of the vehicle identification numbers of the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2).

2.   Within one month from receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1, manufacturers shall provide to the Commission for each selected heavy-duty vehicle:

(a)

the original of the manufacturer’s records file, drawn up in accordance with Part I of Annex IV to Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400  ( 3 ) ;

(b)

a copy of the engine type-approval certificate issued in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 595/2009.

3.   Upon request by the Commission, manufacturers, and the Member States where the heavy-duty vehicles referred to in paragraph 1 were first registered, shall provide additional information for the purpose of solving potential setbacks.

Article 3 Verification of the correctness of the cryptographic hash value and data reported by manufacturers

1.   The Commission shall, for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), crosscheck the cryptographic hash values of the original of the manufacturer’s records file provided in accordance with point (a) of Article 2(2) against the imprint of the corresponding cryptographic hash values provided by the Member State concerned in accordance with their obligation under point (k) of Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/956.

In case of any discrepancy in the cryptographic hash values, and where requested by the Commission, manufacturers shall verify the correctness of the data provided to the Commission and inform the Commission of the result of that verification within one month.

2.   The Commission shall, for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), crosscheck the data reported in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2018/956 against the corresponding data in the original of the manufacturer’s records file drawn up in accordance with Part I of Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2017/2400.

3.   The Commission may, for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), crosscheck the engine-related data reported in accordance with entries 75 to 78 of point 2 of Part B of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/956 against the corresponding values in the engine type-approval certificate issued in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 595/2009.

Article 4 Notification of findings

1.   The Commission shall either confirm the accuracy of the data verified pursuant to Article 3, or notify the manufacturers of any discrepancies found between the data reported pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2018/956 and the corresponding data in the manufacturer’s records file and the engine type-approval certificate provided in accordance with Article 2(2).

2.   Within one month of receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1, the manufacturers shall provide the Commission with the corrected data for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2) and an explanation for the discrepancies mentioned in that notification.

3.   Where the Commission finds that the discrepancies are of a systematic nature, the manufacturers shall provide the Commission, within one month of receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1, with the corrected data for all the heavy-duty vehicles reported in the reporting period concerned and an explanation for the discrepancies.

4.   The manufacturers shall transmit the corrected data referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 via the electronic data transfer to the Business Data Repository managed by the European Environment Agency.

Article 5 Correction of data

1.   Where the Commission is satisfied with the explanation and with the corrected data provided by the manufacturers pursuant to Article 4, it shall include the corrected data in the final dataset to be published in the Central Register for data on heavy-duty vehicles and mark it as corrected.

2.   Where the Commission is not satisfied with the explanation or with the corrected data provided by the manufacturers or where the manufacturers do not provide the corrected data within the deadline set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 4, the Commission shall:

(a)

correct the CO 2 emissions expressed in g/tkm for the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2), which are affected by the discrepancies, based on the information provided by the manufacturer pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 2;

(b)

in the case of discrepancies of a systematic nature, correct the CO 2 emissions of all heavy-duty vehicles registered in the reporting period concerned by applying a correction factor.

3.   The correction factor referred to in point (b) of paragraph 2 shall be determined on the basis of the discrepancies observed in the CO 2 emissions expressed in g/tkm of the heavy-duty vehicles selected in accordance with Article 1(2).

4.   The Commission shall include the corrected data in the final dataset to be published in the Central Register for data on heavy-duty vehicles and mark it as corrected.

Article 6 Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .