ALICE Responds to European Commission Consultation on eFTI Regulation

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

ALICE has submitted its official response to the European Commission’s consultation on the Draft Implementing Regulation laying down functional requirements for electronic Freight Transport Information (eFTI) platforms, a key milestone under Regulation (EU) 2020/1056.

As a holistic platform with members from all type of stakeholders across the freight transport and logistics sector, ALICE supports the digitalisation and harmonisation of freight transport and logistics information and documentation across Europe. The implementation of eFTI has the potential to reduce administrative burden, enhance data exchange, enable and improve efficiency across multimodal transport chains. However, ALICE also highlights critical challenges and implementation risks that should be addressed to ensure the regulation adoption delivers practical, scalable results making it irresistible for business stakeholders that build business and social value upon adoption.

Key points in ALICE’s response

Usability and interoperability: ALICE urges the Commission to ensure that eFTI platforms are designed with the operational realities of logistics in mind. This includes supporting RESTful APIs, mobile interfaces, and real-time interaction for drivers and SMEs.
Technical flexibility: The mandatory use of eDelivery Access Points is seen as outdated and incompatible with how digital logistics systems currently operate. ALICE recommends allowing more flexible, widely adopted communication protocols.
Data privacy and proportionality: While transparency is important, ALICE calls for clear safeguards against excessive logging and data retention. The regulation must fully comply with GDPR principles, including data minimisation and clear access rights.
Support for SMEs and phased deployment: To avoid disadvantaging small and medium-sized players, the response proposes incentives, phased compliance, and simplified options for minimum platform compliance.
Cross-border and international operations: ALICE underlines the importance of enabling participation from non-EU partners, including trusted operators in the UK and beyond, to avoid fragmentation and ensure continuity in global supply chains.

ALICE is committed to supporting the successful implementation of eFTI and continues to engage actively with EU institutions, Member States, and industry stakeholders. We remain available to contribute technical and operational expertise through dedicated working groups and public-private dialogue.

Why ALICE responded to this consultation?

ALICE gathered input across its members to ensure that:

Real-world logistics experience is reflected in EU legislation, especially from operators and system providers.
A single, unified voice amplifies ALICE’s members influence with the European Commission, rather than relying on fragmented individual feedback.
Challenges are identified early, and concrete proposals are provided to support smoother and more inclusive eFTI implementation.
Diverse approaches across stakeholders’ groups are identified. ALICE broad membership base including all types of stakeholders within logistics enable raising awareness and building consensus across a divers and fragmented sector.

The Resposne to the Consultation has been submitted to the European Commission’s eFTI team and is expected to contribute meaningfully to the finalisation of the Implementing Regulation. This collective input strengthens the voice of the logistics sector in shaping digital freight rules that are effective, realistic, and innovation friendly. ALICE remains committed to providing expertise and coordination in ongoing EU-level dialogue on digital transport policies.

We extend our sincere thanks to all ALICE members who contributed to this joint response through consultations and working sessions within ALICE Thematic Group on Systems and Technologies for Interconnected Logistics and ALICE Policy Monitoring Group.

Related eFTI projects and initiatives

This consultation is just one part of the broader and evolving eFTI landscape:

European Research and Innovation projects such as MULTIRELOAD, SEAMLESS, DELPHI, DISCO, REMUNET, SARIL and IKIGAI are investigating and developing innovative solutions linked to digitalization and eFTI linked to Multimodal transportation, synchromodality, physical internet, logistics nodes, urban mobility and logistics and traffic management.
eFTI4EU and eFTI4Life and eFTI4All projects funded under the Connecting Europe Facility aim to deliver practical implementation, pilot projects, and standardisation efforts across Member States.
The upcoming Horizon Europe call (HORIZON‑CL5‑2026‑01‑D6‑08 Accelerating freight transport and logistics digital innovation) linked to ALICE recommendations for Horizon Europe 2025-2026 Work Programmes aims to accelerate digitalization leveraging capabilities in place through e-FTI and enlarging the scope with new Business to Administration and Business to Business use cases, innovation pathways for value creation, and expanded eFTI adoption.

Together, these actions will shape the future of digital freight and logistics information exchange and ensure that regulation and innovation go hand in hand – in support of a more competitive, efficient, secure, resilient and sustainable European transport system.

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