What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report

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Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point i: (i) ensure that standardised interfaces in accordance with Annex II and Annex III are made available to other smart inland waterways infrastructure systems for the purpose of managing of river traffic.

Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c: (c) enable, as far as ship reporting is required by national or international regulations, the competent authorities to receive electronic ship reports of all required data from ships. In cross-border transport, this information shall be transmitted in full to the competent authorities of the neighbouring State and any such transmission shall be completed before arrival of the vessels at the border;

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Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 5: 5. Member States shall create, operate, use and maintain a single RIS Platform which provides fairway-, infrastructure-, traffic-, and transport related services and provide the necessary data. The RIS Platform shall be accessible for all RIS users and shall be the main platform for the exchange of RIS related information. It shall contain interfaces for connections with systems of other transport modes and inland ports. Member States shall designate one or more competent authorities responsible for operating RIS Platform.

Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point e: (e) ensure that the network data in the European RIS Platform is kept up to date by supplying all the necessary network data in accordance with Annexes I and III without delay;

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Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 7: 7. For the use of the automatic identification systems (‘AIS’), the Regional Arrangement on the Radio communication Service for Inland Waterways (RAINWAT) concluded in Bucharest on 12 April 2012 in the framework of the radio regulations of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) shall apply.

Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point f: (f) ensure that at least traffic related information is made available through interfaces following the technical specifications laid down in accordance with Annex II, point 7, where applicable, to electronic information exchange environments established by Union law and used in other transport modes;

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point g: deleted / (deleted)

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point h: (h) ensure that standardised interfaces in accordance with Annexes II and III are made available for the port community systems of inland ports, including, among others, up-to-date, availability of berths, and of alternative fuel infrastructure, and in particular those installations required pursuant to Article 10 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1804 of the European Parliament and of the Council27 ;

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point i: (i) ensure that standardised interfaces in accordance with Annexes II and III are made available to other smart inland waterways infrastructure systems for the purpose of managing of river traffic.

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 5: 5. Member States shall create, operate, use and maintain a single RIS Platform which provides fairway-, infrastructure-, traffic-, and transport related services and provide the necessary data. The RIS Platform shall be accessible for all RIS users and shall be the main platform for the exchange of RIS related information. It shall contain interfaces for connections with systems of other transport modes and inland ports. Member States shall designate one or more competent authorities responsible for operating RIS Platform. The RIS platform shall be open to contributions from third countries whose waterways are connected to the European waterway network willing to cooperate and provide their network data, provided that the data is of identical quality and format as that of Member States. Contributing third countries shall be able to use and benefit from the ERDMS and the RIS platform in the same manner as Member States, provided they adhere to the same level of cybersecurity.

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 5 a (new): 5a. ERDMS provides reference data and code lists necessary for the proper functioning of RIS.

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 6: 6. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the operational characteristics, roles and procedures for the RIS platform including its interaction with ERDMS and identifying its operating entity, based on the principles for RIS technical specifications set out in point 7 of Annex II, to ensure their uniform implementation throughout the Union. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 11(2).

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 7: 7. For the use of the automatic identification systems (‘AIS’), the Regional Arrangement on the Radio Communication Service for Inland Waterways (RAINWAT) concluded in Bucharest on 12 April 2012 in the framework of the radio regulations of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) shall apply.

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Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 4 – paragraph 9: 9. The Commission shall take appropriate measures to verify the interoperability, reliability, availability and safety of RIS.

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Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5, Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point h: (h) standardised interfaces for IT platforms of other transport modes;

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Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5, Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point i: (i) standardised interface for port management systems and smart inland waterway infrastructure systems;

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Removed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 8a – paragraph 1: 1. Each Member State shall ensure that an effective procedure is in place, building, where possible, on existing structures, to handle complaints arising from the application of this Directive.

Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5, Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point j: (j) data for navigation, and voyage planning.

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new), Article 6: (5a) Article 6 is replaced by the following: / "Article 6 / For the purpose of RIS, for which exact positioning is required, the use of satellite positioning technologies is recommended, provided by Galileo, including the High Accuracy Service and Open Service Navigation Message Authentication and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). For the purpose of applications and services relying on Earth observation data, the use of Copernicus data, information or services is recommended."

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 8a – paragraph 1: 1. Each Member State shall ensure that an effective, simple and accessible procedure is in place, building, where possible, on existing structures, to handle complaints arising from the application of this Directive.

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 8a – paragraph 8: 8. Member States shall inform the Commission on an annual basis about the number and type of complaints received by the authorities responsible for handling of complaints, the number of corrective actions taken, justifications for the cases, where no corrective action has been taken and the time required to resolve complaints.

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Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8, Article 9 – title: Rules on privacy, security of information and processing of personal data

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Changed:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8, Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new): Data that constitute personal data as defined in Article 4, point (1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council may be processed on the basis of this Directive only insofar as such processing is necessary for the performance of RIS applications, with a view to ensureensuring harmonised, interoperable and accessible RIS on the Union inland waterways and to facilitate standardised interfaces with other modal traffic management services.

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9, Article 10 – paragraph 2: deleted

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Added:Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14, Article 12a – paragraph 1 a (new): The Commission shall, if appropriate, by ... [3 years after the date of entry into force] submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the potential benefits and costs of extending the scope of this Directive to those inland waterways and inland ports of the Member States, which are part of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) but are not covered by Article 2(1).

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Annex I, Annex I – indent 5 a (new): – location and current availability of alternative fuels infrastructure, including shore-side electricity supply;

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Annex II, Annex II – article 6 – point h: (h) collect and report anonymised and aggregate usage data that can be used for the monitoring of the implementation of RIS, including at least the number of RIS users, data availability in RIS platform, connection and the number of exchanges with other systems or platforms.

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Annex II, Annex II – article 6 – point h a (new): (ha) ensure cybersecurity.

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Annex II, Annex II – article 7 – title: 7. Availability of data for other digital systems or platforms

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Annex II, Annex II – article 7 – introductory part: The technical specifications for exchange of data with other digital systems or platforms in accordance with Article 5, shall respect the following principles:

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Annex II, Annex II – article 7 – point b: (b) the facilitation of the electronic data exchange between RIS technologies and the databases and systems in use by other modes of transport, through appropriate data links and interfaces;

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