COMMISSION DECISION of 13 May 1998 on rules for implementing Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (notified under document number C(1998) 1275) (Text with EEA relevance) (98/385/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 95/64/EC of 8 December 1995 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (1), and in particular Articles 4, 10 and 12 thereof,
Whereas derogations should be granted to the Member States to enable them to adapt their national statistical systems to the requirements of Directive 95/64/EC;
Whereas a list of ports, coded and classified by country and maritime coastal area, must be drawn up by the Commission;
Whereas the content of the Annexes to the said Directive needs to be amended;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee set up by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (2),
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
1. The derogations granted by the Commission to the Member States are defined in Annex I.
2. The derogations apply for 1997, 1998 and 1999, except for certain derogations defined in Annex I, which shall apply for 1997 only.
Article 2
The list of ports, coded and classified by country and maritime coastal area, is given in Annex II.
Article 3
1. Annexes II, III, IV, V, VII and VIII of Directive 95/64/EC shall be amended as follows:
1) Annex II:
Figure 3 referring to footnote 3 is entered in the 'Tonnage` column against code Nos 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34.
2) Annex III:
The sentence below the heading 'Goods nomenclature` is replaced by the following text:
'The goods nomenclature used is that consisting of the 24 groups of goods (first column below) based on the uniform nomenclature of goods for transport statistics (NST/R) until the Commission, having consulted the Member States decides to replace it.`
3) Annex IV:
The first paragraph of the text below the heading 'Maritime coastal areas` is replaced by the following text:
'The nomenclature to be used is the Geonomenclature (the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States, originally drawn up by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 (¹) in force in the year to which the data refer.
(¹) OJ L 183, 14.7.1975, p. 3.`
4) Annex V:
(a) the first paragraph of the text below the heading 'Nationality of registration of vessels` is replaced by the following text:
'The nomenclature to be used is the Geonomenclature (the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States, originally drawn up by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 (¹) in force in the year to which the data refer, with the following exception: codes 017 and 018 are to be used for Belgium and Luxembourg respectively;
(¹) OJ L 183, 14.7.1975, p. 3.`
(b) in the list of codes: codes '0011 France` and '0012 Kerguelen Islands` are deleted; codes '0281 Norway` and '0282 Norway (NIS)` are inserted after code '0112 Spain (Rebeca)`; code '8902 French Antarctic Territory` is replaced by 'French Antarctic Territory (including the Kerguelen Islands)`.
5) Annex VII:
The figures in the 'DWT` columns of the table are repeated in the 'GT` columns; the lower limit for class '01` under 'GT` is '100`.
6) Annex VIII:
(a) below the heading 'summary and detailed statistics`, at the end of each of the first three sentences 'F1` is replaced by 'F1 or F2 or F1 and F2`;
(b) in the table 'Data set F1`, in the 'Coding detail` column the reference 'One-letter alphanumeric` against the variable 'Type of vessel` is replaced by 'Two-letter alphanumeric`; in the 'Nomenclature` column and in the last line of the table, the words 'or gross tonnage` are deleted;
(c) after the table 'Data set F1`, the table 'Data set F2` is added.
2. The new versions of Annexes II, III, IV, V, VII and VIII of Directive 95/64/EC are replaced by Annex III to this Decision, incorporating the amendments listed in paragraph 1 of this Article.
Article 4
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 13 May 1998.