(1)

Reporting requirements play a key role in ensuring proper monitoring and correct enforcement of legislation. However, it is important to streamline those requirements, in order to ensure that they fulfil the purpose for which they were intended and to limit the administrative burden.

(2)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/92 (2) requires Member States to report on data on the volume and mass of passively fished waste each calendar year.

(3)

In certain Member States, schemes have been set up to provide alternative financing of the costs of collecting and managing fishing gear waste or passively fished waste ashore. It is sufficient to report data on passively fished waste once in two years in order to monitor if such schemes are effective and in order to monitor how fishing vessels contribute to reducing waste contamination of the marine environment in the long-term. That requirement should therefore be simplified, in line with the Commission’s Communication on ‘Long-term competitiveness of the EU: looking beyond 2030’ (3). Member States should, in future, be required to provide a report for periods of two calendar years instead.

(4)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/92 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Safe Seas and Prevention of Pollution from Ships,