Directive (EU) 2024/2749

What it is

to make targeted amendments to certain Directives regarding emergency procedures for the conformity assessment, adoption of common specifications and market surveillance due to a Single Market emergency. PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: recent crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have demonstrated some vulnerability of the Single Market and its supply chains in case of unforeseen disruptions and, at the same time, how much the European economy and all its stakeholders rely on a well-functioning Single Market. In the future, in addition to geopolitical instability, climate change and resulting natural disasters, biodiversity loss, and global economic instability may lead to other, new emergency situations. For this reason, the functioning of the Single Market needs to be guaranteed in times of emergency . The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection adopted the report by Andreas SCHWAB (EPP, DE) on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 2000/14/EC, 2006/42/EC, 2010/35/EU, 2013/29/EU, 2014/28/EU, 2014/29/EU, 2014/30/EU, 2014/31/EU, 2014/32/EU, 2014/33/EU, 2014/34/EU, 2014/35/EU, 2014/53/EU and 2014/68/EU as regards emergency procedures for conformity assessment, the adoption of common specifications and market surveillance on grounds of a single market emergency. The proposal aims to address two distinct but interrelated problems: obstacles to the free movement of goods, services and persons in times of crisis, and shortages of crisis-relevant goods and services. It is part of a package of texts establishing the single market instrument for emergencies, which Members propose to rename the Internal Market Emergency and Resilience Act (IMERA regulation). The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows. The proposal aims to amend the harmonised rules established by a number of EU sectoral frameworks. These frameworks do not provide for the possibility for Member States to adopt crisis response measures by way of derogation from the harmonised rules. The Commission proposes to amend 13 sectoral directives. The EU sectoral frameworks that are considered in the context of the proposal are those that form part of the ‘harmonised products’. These sectoral frameworks establish harmonised rules for the design, manufacture, conformity assessment and placing on the market of the products concerned. The proposal provides for the possibility for competent national authorities to exceptionally and temporarily authorise the placing on the market of products that have not been subject to the usual conformity assessment procedures required by the Union. Members specified that the authorisation granted for products on an exceptional and temporary basis should remain valid for six months after the deactivation or…

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