New EU Commission publication
A first general assessment regarding a revision of the Recreational Craft Directive 2013/53/EU has been published.Dear Readers and Colleagues,
Just before the weekend, the European Commission published the first of several reports regarding a future revision of the Recreational Craft Directive (RCD). The review now published has been prepared in compliance with Article 51 of the Directive and deals only with the general application of the RCD. The impatient reader is kindly referred to chapter 5 in particular. The report is the evaluation of a questionnaire sent to the Member States last year.
Independent of this review, there is another, but more technical, assessment of the RCD, but this is very specific on exhaust- and greenhouse gas, evaporative emissions and design categories.
The issues mentioned in the reports may or may not necessarily lead to a revision of the RCD in part or in whole. However, they do give a good outlook on "how the rabbit is running".
You can find the report here.