COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 425/2007
of 19 April 2007
implementing Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways (1), and in particular Article 9 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
In accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006, the Commission should lay down the arrangements for implementing that Regulation.
(2)
It is necessary to adapt the definitions provided in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006, by adding some new definitions, and by providing explanations and data reporting guidelines to ensure a harmonized methodological framework for the data collection and the compilation of comparable statistics at Community level.
(3)
It is necessary to adapt the data collection scope and the content of the annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 in order to provide an adequate statistical coverage of this mode of transport and to ensure the compilation of relevant statistics at Community level.
(4)
It is necessary to specify the description of the data files, the format and the medium in which the data are to be transmitted to ensure that such data can be processed rapidly and in a cost-effective way.
(5)
Provisions should be made concerning the dissemination of the statistical results.
(6)
Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(7)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee set up by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (2),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 is amended as follows:
1.
Article 3 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 3
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
(a)
“navigable inland waterway” means a watercourse, not part of the sea, which by natural or man-made features is suitable for navigation, primarily by inland waterway vessels;
(b)
“inland waterway vessel” means a floating craft designed for the carriage of goods or public transport of passengers which navigates predominantly in navigable inland waterways or in waters within, or closely adjacent to sheltered waters or areas where port regulations apply;
(c)
“nationality of the vessel” means the country in which the vessel is registered;
(d)
“inland waterways transport” means any movement of goods and/or passengers using inland waterways vessels which is undertaken wholly or partly in navigable inland waterways;
(e)
“national inland waterways transport” means inland waterways transport between two ports of a national territory irrespective of the nationality of the vessel;
(f)
“international inland waterways transport” means inland waterways transport between two ports located in different national territories;
(g)
“transit inland waterways transport” means inland waterways transport through a national territory between two ports both located in another national territory or national territories provided that in the total journey within the national territory there is no transshipment;
(h)
“inland waterways traffic” means any movement of a vessel on a given navigable inland waterway,’
2.
Annexes A to F to Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 are replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
Article 2
For the purposes of implementing Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006, the additional definitions, explanations and data reporting guidelines set out in Annex II to this Regulation shall apply.
Article 3
For the purposes of Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006, the statistics shall be transmitted or uploaded by electronic means to the single entry point for data at Eurostat according to the description of the data files and transmission medium defined in Annex III to this Regulation.
The transmission format shall conform to appropriate interchange standards specified by Eurostat.
Article 4
For the purposes of Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006, the Commission shall disseminate, on any medium and with any data structure, all data specified in Annex A to F to the same Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 which are not declared confidential by the Member States.
Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 19 April 2007.