This guidance provides an overview of the data requirements laid down in Regulation (EU) 2023/1804 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 September 2023 on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU (hereinafter refered to as the AFIR Regulation).
This guidance is primarily addressed to the relevant market actors, namely operators and owners of recharging points, who, pursuant to Article 20 of the AFIR Regulation, are obliged to make data available.
The AFIR Regulation and the Implementing Regulation
Article 20(2) of the AFIR specifies which types of data must be made available. In addition, the European Commission has adopted an implementing regulation specifying how the data referred to in Article 20(2) must be made available. The implementing regulation thus specifies the static and dynamic data to be made available in greater detail than the AFIR itself.
The implementing regulation distinguishes between two levels of data relating to recharging stations and recharging points, as well as two types of data (static and dynamic data). Under the AFIR, a recharging station is defined as a physical installation that has at least one recharging point. A recharging point can serve only one vehicle at a time. The number of recharging points at a recharging station therefore determines how many vehicles can be recharged at the station.