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►B COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of17November1980
onstatisticalreturnsinrespectofcarriage ofgoodsbyinlandwaterways
(80/1119/EEC)
(OJ L 339, 15.12.1980, p. 30)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►A1Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal L 302 23 15.11.1985
►A2Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland C241 21 29.8.1994
(adapted by Council Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC) L 1 1 1.1.1995
►A3Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the
Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia,the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of
Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak
Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the EuropeanUnion is foundedL 236 33 23.9.2003
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COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of17November1980
on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods by inland
waterways
(80/1119/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 Social
Committee (2),
Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks entrusted to it under the Treaty,
the Commission must have at its disposal consistent, synchronized andregular statistical data on the scale and development of the carriage ofgoods by inland waterway in the Member States; whereas these data
must be comparable bothas between States and also withth e data for
other modes of transport and must refer to national, international andtransit traffic;
Whereas, since variations during the year in the demand for transport
and in the conditions of navigability have an influence on goods traffic,
certain statistics should be submitted at intervals of less than one year;
Whereas, in order to secure adequate information on the market for the
carriage of goods by inland waterway, suchstatistical data sh oulddistinguishbetween th e main transport links;
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 statistical information;
Whereas the Commission should submit a report in order to enable the
Council to examine the extent to which the objectives of this Directive
can be attained by using the statistical data submitted; whereas itshould therefore envisage the possibility of proposing improvementsto the methods used in compiling these statistics; whereas the Council,acting on a proposal from the Commission, should decide on the intro-duction of statistics on the carriage of goods by sea-going vessels on
inland waterways, and statistics on international traffic between regions
on suchwaterways;
Whereas statistical data are necessary for ascertaining the scale and
development of the carriage of goods; whereas the Community should
therefore, for an initial period, make a financial contribution to
Member States in respect of the work involved,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
1. Member States withone or more inland waterways sh all carry out
statistical surveys of carriage by inland waterway vessels, irrespectiveof the country in which they are registered or licensed:
— of goods carried for hire or reward and goods carried on own
account,1980L1119 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 2
(1) OJ No C 85, 8. 4. 1980, p. 75.
(2) Opinion delivered on 30 September 1980 (not yet published in the Official
Journal).
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— of goods loaded or unloaded in the country, or passing in transit via
its inland waterways.
2. For the purposes of this Directive, the following terms shall have
the meaning hereinafter assigned to them:
(a) inland waterway: a watercourse, canal or lake the natural or man-
made characteristics of which render it suitable for navigation,primarily by inland waterway vessels;
(b) inland waterway vessel: a vessel, whether or not self-propelled,
which is registered or licensed as an inland waterway vessel, whichmay or may not be a shipborne barge, and which by design orconstruction is suitable for navigation in sheltered waters only.
3. This Directive shall not apply to:
— the carriage of goods by vessels of less than 50 deadweight tonnes,
— vessels used principally for the carriage of passengers,— vessels used for ferrying purposes,— vessels used solely for non-commercial purposes by port adminis-
trations and public authorities,
— vessels used solely for bunkering or storage,— vessels not used for the carriage of goods such as fishery vessels,
dredgers, floating workshops, houseboats and pleasure craft.
4. The first statistical surveys shall be carried out as from 1 January
1981.
Article 2
1. The following particulars shall be recorded:
(a) the weight of the goods in tonnes;
(b) the main transport links:
— national traffic, where the goods are both loaded and unloaded
within the same reporting Member State, irrespective of theroute followed by the vessel,
— internationl traffic, where the goods are either loaded or
unloaded, but not both, in the reporting Member State, distin-guishing between the goods loaded and unloaded,
— transit traffic, where the goods pass through the reporting
Member State without being loaded, unloaded or transhipped.
In the case of shipborne barges, the goods shall be considered to be
loaded at the place where the barge is floated or lifted off the
carrier-ship, and unloaded where the barge is hauled or hoisted
aboard the carrier-ship;
(c) the nature of the goods, according to the groups of goods shown in
the left-hand column of Annex I;
(d) the nationality, i.e. the country in which the goods-carrying vessel
is registered or licensed, or failing that, the country in which the
owner of the vessel is domiciled.
(e) the type of vessel according to the following nomenclature:
— self-propelled barge:
— self-propelled tanker,
— other self-propelled barge,
— towed barge:
— towed tanker,
— other towed barge,
— pushed barge (including pushed-towed barge):
— pushed tanker,
— other pushed barge (including shipborne barge),
— other goods-carrying vessel.
The term ‘tanker’ refers to all vessels intended for bulk transport of
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(f) for national traffic, the national regions of loading and unloading in
accordance with the geographical classification given in Annex II;
(g) for international and transit traffic, the countries of loading and
unloading as listed in Annex III;
(h) the distance in kilometres covered on the national waterways.
2. Member States in which the total volume of goods transported
annually by inland waterways as international or transit traffic does
not exceed one million tonnes shall not be obliged to supply the statis-tics required under the terms of this Directive.
Article 3
1. Withth e exception of information subject to statistical secrecy
under national laws, the Member States shall communicate the statis-tical results to the Commission as soon as possible, and not later thanfive months after the end of the reference periods involved.
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 the
Commission in consultation withth e Member States concerned.
Article 4
1. The Member States shall submit to the Commission not later than
31 December 1980 a detailed description of the methods to be used forthe statistical surveys with regard to the processing of the data and thecalculation of tonne-kilometres.
2. The Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, shall
examine the methodological and technical problems raised by the
surveys in order to find solutions which make the statistics as consis-
tent and comparable as possible.
Article 5
1. The Commission shall publish the appropriate results of the statis-
tical surveys.
2. Before 1 January 1983 the Commission shall submit to the
Council a report on the experience acquired in the work carried outpursuant to this Directive, and shall propose any improvements neces-sary.
3. Within two years following the entry into force of this Directive
the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, shall decide on
the introduction of statistics on the carriage of goods by seagoingvessels on inland waterways, and statistics on international trafficbetween regions on suchwaterways.
Article 6
For the first three years in which the statistical surveys provided for in
this Directive are made, a financial contribution towards the expendi-ture incurred by the Member States shall be granted within the limit
of the appropriations set aside for this purpose in the budget of the
European Communities.
Article 7
The Member States shall take the measures necessary to comply with
this Directive not later than 1 January 1981.
Article 8
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ANNEX I
LISTOFGROUPSOFGOODS
Group of
goodsNST/R (1)
ChapterNST/R (1)
groupsDescription
1 0 01 Cereals
2 02, 03 Potatoes, other fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables3 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, 17Foodstuffs and animal fodder
7 18 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruit and fats
8 2 21, 22, 23 Solid mineral fuels
9 3 31 Crude petroleum
10 32, 33, 34 Petroleum products11 4 41, 46 Iron ore, iron and steel waste and blast furnace dust
12 45 Non-ferrous ores and waste
13 5 51, 52, 53,
54, 55, 56Metal products
14 6 64, 69 Cement, lime, manufactured building materials
15 61, 62, 63,
65Crude and manufactured minerals
16 7 71, 72 Natural and chemical fertilizers
17 8 83 Coal chemicals, tar18 81, 82, 89 Chemicals other than coal chemicals and tar19 84 Paper pulp and waste paper20 9 91, 92, 93 Transport equipment, machinery, apparatus, engines,
whether or not assembled, and parts thereof
21 94 Manufactures of metal22 95 Glass, glassware, ceramic products
23 96, 97 Leather, textils, clothing, other manufactured articles
24 99 Miscellaneous articles
(1) Published by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (French version 1968).1980L1119 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 5
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ANNEX II
GEOGRAPHICALCLASSIFICATIONOFREGIONS
Belgium
Vlaams gewest, excluding Antwerpen
Antwerpen
Région wallonneRegion bruxelloise — Brussels gewest
CzechRepublic
Praha
StředníČechy
JihozápadSeverozápad
Severovýchod
JihovýchodStřední Morava
Moravskoslezsko
Federal RepublicofGermany
Schleswig-Holstein
HamburgNordostteil von Niedersachsen
Westteil von Niedersachsen
Südostteil von NiedersachsenBremen (Land)
Nordteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen
RuhrgebietSüdwestteil von Nordrhein-WestfalenOstteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen (Sieger-Sauerland und Ostteil von West-
falen)
Nordteil von HessenSüdteil von Hessen
Nordteil von Rheinland-Pfalz
Südteil von Rheinland-PfalzNordbaden
Südbaden
WürttembergNordbayern (Franken)Ostbayern (Oberpfalz und Niederbayern)
Südbayern (Schwaben und Oberbayern)
SaarlandBerlin (West)
Spain
Andalucía
Aragón
Principado de AsturiasComunidad Autónoma de las Islas Baleares
Canarias
CantabriaCastilla-La ManchaCastilla y León
Cataluña
ExtremaduraGalicia
Comunidad de Madrid
Región de MurciaComunidad Foral de NavarraPaís Vasco
La Rioja
Comunidad ValencianaCeutaMelilla1980L1119 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 6
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▼A1
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France
Ile-de-France
Champagne-Ardennes
Picardie
Haute-NormandieCentre
Basse-Normandie
BourgogneNord-Pas-de-Calais
Lorraine
AlsaceFranche-Comté
Pays de la Loire
BretagnePoitou-CharentesAquitaine
Midi-Pyrénées
LimousinRhône-Alpes
Auvergne
Languedoc-RoussillonProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Italy
Piemonte
Valle d'Aosta
LiguriaLombardia
Trentino-Alto Adige
VenetoFriuli-Venezia Giulia
Emilia-Romagna
ToscanaUmbria
Marche
LazioCampaniaAbruzzo
Molise
PugliaBasilicata
Calabria
SiciliaSardegna
Latvia
Latvija
Lithuania
Lietuva
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Hungary
Közép-Magyarország
Közép-DunántúlNyugat-Dunántúl
Dél-Dunántúl
Észak-MagyarországÉszak-Alföld
Dél-Alföld1980L1119 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 7
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▼B
▼A3
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Netherlands
Noord
West, except Rijnmond and IJmond
RijnmondIJmond
Zuidwest
Zuid
Oost
Austria
Burgenland
Niederösterreich
WienKärnten
Steiermark
OberösterreichSalzburg
Tirol
Vorarlberg
Poland
Dolno śląskie
Kujawsko-pomorskie
Lubelskie
LubuskieŁódzkie
Małopolskie
Mazowieckie
Opolskie
PodkarpackiePodlaskie
Pomorskie
Śląskie
Świętokrzyskie
Warmi ńsko-mazurskie
Wielkopolskie
Zachodniopomorskie
Portugal
Norte
Centro
Lisboa e vale do TejoAlentejo
Algarve
Slovakia
Bratislavský kraj
Západné SlovenskoStredné Slovensko
Východné Slovensko
Finland
pending decision on NUTS classification (NUTS 2 to be used)
Sweden
pending decision on NUTS classification (NUTS 2 to be used)1980L1119 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 8
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▼A3
▼A1
▼A3
▼A2
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UnitedKingdom
North
Yorkshire and Humberside
East Midlands
East Anglia
South-East
South-West
West Midlands
North-West
Wales
Scotland
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ANNEX III
LISTOFCOUNTRIESANDGROUPSOFCOUNTRIES
I. Countries of the European Community
01. Belgium
02. CzechRepublic03. Denmark
04. Germany
05. Estonia06. Greece07. Spain
08. France
09. Ireland10. Italy
11. Cyprus
12. Latvia13. Lithuania14. Luxembourg
15. Hungary
16. Malta17. Netherlands
18. Austria
19. Poland20. Portugal21. Slovenia
22. Slovakia
23. Finland24. Sweden
25. United Kingdom
II.►
A326.◄Switzerland
III.►A2 ◄
IV. State-trading countries
27. CIS
28. Romania
29. Bulgaria
30. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
V.►A331.◄Other European countries
VI.►A332.◄United States of America
VII.►A333.◄Other countries1980L1119 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 10
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▼A3
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ANNEX IV
SPECIMEN TABLES
TABLE1(A)
National,internationalandtransittraffic:quantitiescarried bygroupofgoods
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TABLE1(B)
National,internationalandtransittraffic: tonne-kilometres(1)bygroupofgoods
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TABLE2
Nationalintra-andinter-regionaltraffic: quantitiescarriedbyregionofloadingandunloading
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TABLE3
Nationaltraffic: loadingandunloadingbyregionandbygroupofgoods
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TABLE4(A)
Nationaltraffic:quantitiescarried bygroupofgoodsandbydistanceclass
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TABLE4(B)
Nationaltraffic:tonne-kilometresbygroupofgoodsandbydistanceclass
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TABLE5(A)
International traffic: quantities carried on the national inland waterway(s) by country of loading/
unloadingandbygroupofgoods
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TABLE5(B)
Transittraffic: quantitiescarried onthenationalwaterway(s)bycountryofloadingandunloading
andbygroupofgoods
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TABLE6(A)
Internationaltraffic: tonne-kilometresonthe nationalwaterway(s)bycountryofloading/unloading
andbygroupofgoods
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TABLE6(B)
Transit traffic: tonne-kilometres on the national waterway(s) by country of loading and unloading
andbygroupofgoods
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TABLE7(A)
Internationaltraffic:quantitiescarriedonthenationalwaterway(s)bycountryofloading/unloading
andbynationality
►(1) (2)A2
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TABLE7(B)
Transittraffic: quantitiescarried onthenationalwaterway(s)bycountryofloadingandunloading
andbynationality
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TABLE8(A)
Internationaltraffic: tonne-kilometresonthe nationalwaterway(s)bycountryofloading/unloading
andbynationality
►(1) (2)A2
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TABLE8(B)
Transit traffic: tonne-kilometres on the national waterway(s) by country of loading and unloading
andbynationality
►(1) (2)A2
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TABLE9
Nationalandinternationaltraffic:quantitiescarriedonthenationalwaterway(s)listedbytransport
link
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TABLE10(A)
National,internationalandtransittraffic: quantitiescarriedbynationality
►(1)A2
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TABLE10(B)
National,internationalandtransittraffic: tonne-kilometresbynationality
►(1)A2
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TABLE11
Totalgoodstrafficbytypeofvessel
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