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of 4 December 1980
on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods by rail, as part of regional statistics
(80/1177/EEC)
(OJ L 350, 23.12.1980, p. 23)
Amended by:
OfficialJournal
No page date
►A1 Act of Accession of Spain and PortugalL 302 23 15.11.1985
►A2 Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland C 241 21 29.8.1994
(adapted by CouncilDecision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC) L 1 1 1.1.1995
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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
of 4 December 1980
on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods by rail, as part
of regional statistics
(80/1177/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community, and in particular Article 213 thereof,
Having regard to the draft Directive submitted by the Commission,Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (
1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and SocialCommittee (2),
Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks entrusted to it under the Treaty,
the Commission must have at its disposalconsistent, synchronized andregular statistical data on the scale and development of the carriage ofgoods by railin the Member States; whereas these data must becomparable both as between States and also with the data for othermodes of transport and must refer to national, international and transittraffic;
Whereas, in view of the economic and environmentaladvantages of
combined transport, the statistical data should distinguish separatelysuch transport;
Whereas, in order to secure adequate information on the railfreight
traffic market, such statisticaldata shoul d distinguish between the maintraffic relations;
Whereas the statistics already available in the different Member States
on goods carriage should be further harmonized at Community level;
Whereas, in order to facilitate the implementation of the proposed
provisions, certain time limits should be laid down for providing thenecessary statisticalinformation;
Whereas the Commission should submit a report in order to enable the
Councilto examine the extent to which the objectives of this Directivecan be attained by using the statisticaldata submitted; whereas it shoul dtherefore envisage the possibility of proposing improvements to themethods used in compiling these statistics; whereas the Council, actingon a proposalfrom the Commission, shoul d decide on the introductionof statistics on internationaltraffic between regions and separate statis-tics on full train loads;
Whereas statisticaldata are necessary for ascertaining the scal e and
development of the carriage of goods; whereas the Community shouldtherefore, for an initialperiod, make a financialcontribution to MemberStates in respect of the work involved,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
1. Member States shall compile statistics on the carriage of goods on
the main railway networks in their territory open to public traffic.
2. For the purpose of this Directive, the following terms shall have
the meanings hereinafter assigned to them:
(1) OJ No C 85, 8. 4. 1980, p. 75.
(2) OJ No C 300, 18. 11. 1980, p. 3.
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(a) main railway networks; all the railway lines and installations oper-
ated by the following administrations:
SNCB/NMBS: Société nationale des Chemins de fer belges/Natio-
nale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen, Belgium;
DSB: Danske Statsbaner, Denmark;DB: Deutsche Bundesbahn, FederalRepubl ic of Germany;ΟΣΕ:Οργανισµός Σιδηροδρόµων της Ελλάδος , Greece;
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RENFE: Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, Spain;
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SNCF: Société nationale des Chemins de fer français, France;CIE: Córas Iompair Éireann, Ireland;FS: Azienda Autonoma delle Ferrovie dello Stato, Italy;CFL: Société nationale des Chemins de fer luxembourgeois, Luxem-
bourg;
NS: Naamloze Vennootschap Nederlandsche Spoorwegen, Nether-
lands;
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ÖBB: Österreichische Bundesbahnen, Austria;
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CP: Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses, Portugal;
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VR: Valtionrautatiet/Statsjärnvägarna, Finland;SJ: Statens järnvägar, Sweden;
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BR: British Railways Board, United Kingdom;NIR: Northern Ireland Railway Company, United Kingdom.
(b) Carriage of goods by rail; the movement of goods using railway
vehicles between the place of loading and the place of unloading.
3. This Directive shall also apply to the carriage of goods in railway
vehicles which cover part of the journey by ferry.
4. This Directive shall not apply to the carriage of goods by rail:
— as service traffic for non-commercialpurposes;— as passenger-accompanied luggage or cars;— as mailon behal f of postaladministrations.
5. The first statistics shall be compiled from 1 January 1982.
Article 2
1. The following particulars shall be recorded in respect of the
carriage of goods on the main railway networks:
(a) the weight of the goods in tonnes;
(b) the main traffic links, i.e.:
— national traffic, where the goods are both loaded and unloaded
within the same reporting Member State, irrespective of theroute followed by the railway vehicle;
— internationaltraffic, where the goods are either l oaded or
unloaded, but not both, in the reporting Member State, distin-guishing between goods loaded and goods unloaded;
— transit traffic, where the goods pass through the reporting
Member State without being loaded, unloaded or transhipped;
(c) the type of consignment:
— full wagon or full train load: consignment of goods, including
bulk consignment of smalls, for which the exclusive use of awagon or train is charged, whether or not the load capacity isfully used;
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— smalls: other consignments of goods, including express and
other parcels;
(d) in respect of full wagon or full train loads:
— the nature of the goods according to the groups shown in the left
hand column of Annex I;
— for nationaltraffic, the nationalregions of l oading and
unloading in accordance with the geographical classificationgiven in Annex II;
— for internationaland transit traffic, the countries of l oading and
unloading, as listed in Annex III;
(e) the distance, in kilometres, covered on the main national railway
networks.
2. The following additional particulars shall be established (on the
basis of estimates where appropriate) in respect of combined transporton the main railway networks:
(a) large containers, 6,1 m (20 feet) or more in external length:
— the gross weight of the container and of the goods carried;— the number of containers empty and loaded;
(b) road/rail carriage: lorries, trailers, semi-trailers (with or without
tractor unit) and swop bodies:
— the gross weight of goods transported, including the weight of
the road vehicles;
— the number of railway wagons loaded.
Article 3
1. With the exception of information subject to statisticalsecrecy
under national laws, the Member States shall communicate the statist-ical results to the Commission as soon as possible, and not later thanfour months after the end of the reference period involved. However, inthe case of tables 1b, 5b, 6b and 7 in Annex IV the time limit shall beextended to eight months.
2. The results shall be submitted using tables modelled on the speci-
mens set out in Annex IV.
3. Results which are processed by computer may be submitted in a
machine-readable form of a type and format to be determined by theCommission in consultation with the Member States concerned.
Article 4
1. The Member States shall submit to the Commission, before 31
December 1981, a detailed description of the methods to be used forcompiling the statistics with regard to the processing of data and thecalculation of the figures for tonne-kilometres.
2. The Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, shall
examine the methodological and technical problems involved in thecompiling of the statistics in order to find solutions which make the dataas consistent and comparable as possible.
Article 5
1. The Commission shall publish the appropriate statistical results.2. Before 1 January 1985, the Commission shall submit to the
Councila report on the experience acquired in the work carried outpursuant to this Directive, and shall propose any improvements neces-sary.
3. Within two years of the entry into force of this Directive, the
Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, shall decide on theintroduction of statistics in respect of internationaltraffic betweenregions and separate statistics on full train loads.
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Article 6
For the first three years in which the statisticalreturns provided for in
this Directive are made, a financialcontribution towards the expenditureincurred by the Member States shall be granted to them within the limitof the appropriations set aside for this purpose under the budget of theEuropean Communities.
Article 7
The Member States shall take the measures necessary to comply with
this Directive not later than 1 January 1982.
Article 8
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
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ANNEX I
LIST OF GROUPS OF GOODS
Groups of
goodsNST/R (1)
ChapterNST/R (1)
groupsDescription
1 0 01 Cereals
2 02, 03 Potatoes, other fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables
3 00, 06 Live animals, sugar beet
4 05 Wood and cork
5 04, 09 Textiles, textile articles and man-made fibres, other raw
animal and vegetable materials
6 1 11, 12, 13
14, 16, 17Footstuffs and animalfodder
7 18 Oilseeds and ol eaginous fruits and fats
8 2 21, 22, 23 Solid mineral fuels
9 3 31 Crude petroleum
10 32, 33, 34 Petroleum products
11 4 41, 46 Iron ore, iron and steelwaste and bl ast furnace dust
12 45 Non-ferrous ores and waste
13 5 51, 52, 5354, 55, 56 Metalproducts
14 6 64, 69 Cement, lime, manufactured building materials
15 61, 62, 6365 Crude and manufactured minerals
16 7 71, 72 Naturaland chemicalfertil izers
17 8 83 Coalchemical s, tar
18 81, 82, 89 Chemicals other than coal chemicals and tar
19 84 Paper pulp and waste paper
20 9 91, 92, 93 Transport equipment, machinery, appartus, engines,
whether or not assembled, and parts thereof
21 94 Manufactures of metal
22 95 Glass, glassware, ceramic products
23 96, 97 Leather, textile, clothing, other manufactured articles
24 99 Miscellaneous articles
(1) Published by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (French version 1968).
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GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF REGIONS
Belgium
Vlaams gewest, excluding Antwerpen
AntwerpenRégion wallonneBrussels gewest/Région bruxelloise
Denmark
Danmark
Federal Republic of Germany
Schleswig-Holstein
HamburgNordostteilvon NiedersachsenWestteilvon NiedersachsenSüdostteilvon NiedersachsenBremen (Land)Nordteilvon Nordrhein-Westfal enRuhrgebietSüdwestteilvon Nordrhein-Westfal enOstteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen (Sieger-Sauerland und Ostteil von West-falen)Nordteilvon HessenSüdteilvon HessenNordteil von Rheinland-PfalzSüdteil von Rheinland-PfalzNordbadenSüdbadenWürttembergNordbayern (Franken)Ostbayern (Oberpfalz und Niederbayern)Südbayern (Schwaben und Oberbayern)SaarlandBerlin (West)
Greece
Βόρεια Ελλάς (Μακεδονία -Θράκη -Ήπειρος )
Κεντρική Ελλάς (Στερεά Ελλάς -Θεσσαλία )
Νότια Ελλάς (Πελοπόννησος )
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Spain
Andalucía
AragónPrincipado de AsturiasComunidad Autónoma de las Islas BalearesCanariasCantabriaCastilla-La ManchaCastilla y LeónCataluñaExtremaduraGaliciaComunidad de MadridRegión de MurciaComunidad Foralde NavarraPaís VascoLa RiojaComunidad ValencianaCeutaMelilla
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France
Île-de-France
Champagne-ArdennesPicardieHaute-Normandie
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Centre
Basse-NormandieBourgogneNord-Pas-de-CalaisLorraineAlsaceFranche-ComtéPays de la LoireBretagnePoitou-CharentesAquitaineMidi-PyrénéesLimousinRhône-AlpesAuvergneLanguedoc-RoussillonProvence-Alpes-Côte d’AzurCorse
Ireland
Ireland
Italy
Piemonte
Valle d’AostaLiguriaLombardiaTrentino-Alto AdigeVenetoFriuli-Venezia GiuliaEmilia-RomagnaToscanaUmbriaMarcheLazioCampaniaAbruzziMolisePugliaBasilicataCalabriaSiciliaSardegna
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Noord
West, except Rijnmond und IJmondRijnmondIJmondZuidwestZuidOost
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Austria
Burgenland
NiederösterreichWienKärntenSteiermarkOberösterreichSalzburgTirolVorarlberg
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Portugal
Norte
CentroLisboa e Vale do TejoAlentejoAlgarve
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Finland
pending decision on NUTS classification (NUTS 2 to be used)
Sweden
pending decision on NUTS classification (NUTS 2 to be used)
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United Kingdom
North
Yorkshire and HumbersideEast MidlandsEast AngliaSouth EastSouth WestWest MidlandsNorth WestWalesScotlandNorthern Ireland
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ANNEX III
LIST OF COUNTRIES AND GROUPS OF COUNTRIES
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I.European Communities
01. Belgium
02. Denmark03. Germany04. Greece05. Spain06. France07. Ireland08. Italy09. Luxembourg10. Netherlands11. Austria12. Portugal13. Finland14. Sweden15. United Kingdom
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19. Norway
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20. USSR21. German Democratic Republic22. Poland23. Czechoslovakia24. Hungary25. Romania26. Bulgaria27. Near and Middle Eastern countries28. Other countries ◄
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ANNEX IV
SPECIMEN TABLES

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