The undersigned associations representing transport operators and users of freight transport services welcome the European Commission proposal aimed at establishing a common European framework for calculating GHG emissions of transport operations in the freight and passenger transport sector, the so-called CountEmissions EU initiative. We believe that much can be achieved to support the transport and logistics sector to reduce its emissions but only with the correct market-based and supportive instruments. As such, this Commission initiative would enable transport operators to accurately calculate, monitor and compare their emissions giving transport users an estimate of the carbon footprint for their different transport and delivery options, facilitating behavioural change. (....)