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of25May1998
onstatisticalreturnsinrespect ofthecarriage ofgoodsbyroad
(OJ L 163, 6.6.1998, p. 1)
Amended by:
Official Journal
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►M1Commission Regulation (EC) No 2691/1999 of 17 December 1999 L 326 39 18.12.1999
►M2Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the
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COUNCILREGULATION(EC)No1172/98
of25May1998
onstatisticalreturnsinrespect ofthecarriage ofgoodsbyroad
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and
in particular Article 213 thereof,
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),
(1)Whereas, in order to carry out the tasks entrusted to it in thecontext of the common transport policy, the Commission must
have at its disposal comparable, reliable, synchronised, regular
and comprehensive statistical data on the scale and developmentof the carriage of goodsby road by meansof vehiclesregis teredin the Community, and on the degree of utilisation of vehiclescarrying out thistrans port;
(2)WhereasCouncil Directive 78/546/EEC of 12 June 1978 onstatistical returns in respect of carriage of goods by road, aspart of regional statistics (
4) makesno provis ion for returnson
types of transport which were not authorised at the time when
thisDirective wasadopted; whereasthe returnsfor which provi-sion is made supply different information for national andinternational transport and whereas it provides no informationon the degree of utilisation of vehicles carrying out this trans-port;
(3)Whereas it is necessary to compile comprehensive regionalstatistics with regard to both the carriage of goods and vehiclejourneys;
(4)Whereas it is therefore appropriate to amend the system laiddown by Directive 78/546/EEC in order to ensure the descriptionof the regional origin and destination of intra-Community trans-port on the same bases as national transport, and to provide a
link between the carriage of goodsand vehicle journeysby
measuring the degree of utilisation of vehicles carrying out thistransport;
(5)Whereas, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, thecreation of common statistical standards allowing the productionof harmonised information can be tackled efficiently only atCommunity level, while data will be collected in each MemberState under the authority of the bodiesand ins titutionsin charge
of compiling official statistics;
(6)WhereasCouncil Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February
1997 on Community statistics (5) providesa reference framework
for the provisions laid down by this Regulation, in particular
those concerning access to the sources of administrative data,
the cost-effectiveness of available resources and statistical confi-dentiality;
(7)Whereascommunication of individual data, once rendered anon-ymous, is necessary in order to estimate the overall accuracy ofthe results;1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 2
(1) OJ C 341, 11. 11. 1997, p. 9.
(2) OJ C 104, 6. 4. 1998.
(3) OJ C 95, 30. 3. 1998, p. 33.
(4) OJ L 168, 26. 6. 1978, p. 29. Directive aslas t amended by the 1994 Act of
Accession.
(5) OJ L 52, 22. 2. 1997, p. 1.
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(8)Whereas it is important to ensure that statistical information is
adequately disseminated;
(9)Whereas, during the start-up period, the Community will need to
provide the Member Stateswith a financial contribution for theexecution of the necessary work;
(10)Whereasit isappropriate to provide for a s implified procedurefor implementing thisRegulation and adapting it to economicand technical progress;
(11)Whereas the Statistical Programme Committee established byDecision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (
1) hasbeen cons ulted in accor-
dance with Article 3 thereof; whereasit hass tated that it isin
favour of thisRegulation,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Subjectandscope
1. Each Member State shall compile Community statistics on the
carriage of goodsby road by meansof goodsroad trans port vehicleswhich are registered in that Member State, and on the journeys madeby such vehicles.
2. ThisRegulation s hall not apply to the carriage of goodsby road
by meansof:
(a) goods road transport vehicles whose authorised weight or dimen-
sions exceed the limits normally permitted in the Member States
concerned;
(b) agricultural vehicles , military vehiclesand vehiclesbelonging to
central or local public administrations, with the exception of goodsroad transport vehicles belonging to public undertakings, and inparticular railway undertakings.
Each Member State may exclude from the scope of this Regulation
goods road transport vehicles whose load capacity or maximum permis-sible laden weight is lower than a certain limit. This limit may notexceed a load capacity of 3,5 tonnes or maximum permissible weightof 6 tonnes in the case of single motor vehicles.
Article 2
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall
apply:
— ‘carriage of goodsby road’: all trans port of goodsby meansof a
goodsroad trans port vehicle,
— ‘road transport vehicle’: a road vehicle fitted with an engine
whence it derives its sole means of propulsion, which is normally
used for carrying persons or goods by road, or for drawing, on theroad, vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods,
— ‘road vehicle for the transport of goods’: a road vehicle designed
exclusively or primarily to carry goods (lorry, trailer, semi-trailer),
— ‘goods road transport vehicle’: any single road transport vehicle
(lorry), or combination of road vehicles, namely road train (lorrywith trailer) or articulated vehicle (road tractor with semi-trailer),designed to carry goods,
— ‘lorry’: a rigid road vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to
carry goods,
— ‘road tractor’: a road transport vehicle designed exclusively or
primarily to haul other road vehicleswhich are not power-driven(mainly semi-trailers),1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 3
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— ‘trailer’: a road vehicle for transporting goods designed to be hauled
by a road transport vehicle,
— ‘semi-trailer’: a road vehicle for transporting goods with no front
axle so designed that part of the vehicle and a substantial part ofitsloaded weight res t on the road tractor,
— ‘articulated vehicle’: a road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer,— ‘road train’: a goodsroad trans port vehicle coupled to a trailer.
Thiscategory als o includesan articulated vehicle with a further
trailer attached,
— ‘registered’: the state of having been entered in a register of road
transport vehicles, kept by an official body in a Member State,whether or not the registration is accompanied by the issue of a
registration plate.
In the case of carriage by means of a combination of road transport
vehicles, namely road train (lorry with trailer) or articulated vehicle(road tractor with semi-trailer), in which the goods road vehicle(lorry or road tractor) and the trailer or semi-trailer are registered
in different countries, the complete vehicle shall be deemed to be
registered in the country where the goods road vehicle is registered,
— ‘load capacity’: maximum weight of goods declared permissible by
the competent authority of the country of registration of the vehicle.
When the goodsroad trans port vehicle isa train made up of a lorry
with trailer, the load capacity of the train isthe s um of the loadcapacitiesof the lorry and the trailer,
— ‘maximum permissible weight’: total weight of the vehicle (or
vehicle combination) when stationary and ready for the road andof the weight of the load declared permissible by the competent
authority of the country of registration of the vehicle,
— ‘Eurostat’: the Commission department responsible for carrying out
the tasks incumbent on that institution in the field of production ofCommunity statistics.
Article 3
Datacollection
1. Member States shall compile statistical data relating to the
following areas:
(a) vehicle-related data;
(b) journey-related data;
(c) goods-related data.
2. The statistical variables in each area, their definition and the
levels within the classification used for their breakdown are provided
for in the Annexes.
3. When determining the method to be used for compiling statistical
data, Member Statess hall refrain from carrying out any formalitiesat
frontiersbetween Member States .
4. The data collection characteristics and the contents of the
Annexess hall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid downin Article 10.
Article 4
Precision ofresults
Methods for the collection and processing of data shall be developed to
ensure that the statistical results transmitted by the Member States meetminimum standards of precision, taking account of the structural char-acteristics of road transport in the Member States. These standards shallbe laid down in accordance with the procedure specified in Article 10.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 4
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Article 5
TransmissionofresultstoEurostat
1. Member States shall transmit to Eurostat every quarter duly veri-
fied individual data corresponding to the variables referred to in Article3 and listed in Annex A, without indicating the name, address or regis-tration number.
Such transmission shall, where appropriate, include data relating to
previous quarters for which the data transmitted were provisional.
2. The arrangementsfor trans mitting the data referred to in para-
graph 1, including, if any, the statistical tables based on those data,shall be laid down in accordance with the procedure specified inArticle 10.
3. The transmission shall take place within five months of the end of
each quarterly period of observation.
The first transmission shall cover the first quarter of 1999.4. During a transitional period from 1 January 1999 until a date laid
down in accordance with paragraph 5, a Member State may use simpli-fied coding for the variables listed in Annex A, part A2, sections 3, 4,8 and 9, and in part A3, sections 5 and 6.
Such simplified coding shall consist of:
— for national transport: coding in accordance with Annex G,
— for international transport: a code for each country.
5. The date of expiry of the transitional period provided for in para-
graph 4 shall be fixed, in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 10, ass oon asthe technical conditionsexis t to enable an effec-
tive system of regional coding to be used for both national andinternational transport in accordance with Annex G, sections 1 and 2.
Article 6
Disseminationofresults
The provisions on the dissemination of the statistical results in respect
of the carriage of goodsby road, including the s tructure and content ofthe results to be disseminated, shall be laid down in accordance withthe procedure specified in Article 10.
Article 7
Reports
1. Member States shall forward to Eurostat, on or before the date on
which the first quarterly information is forwarded, a report on the
methodsus ed in compiling data.
Member States shall also forward to Eurostat details of any substantial
changesin the methodsus ed to collect the data.
2. Member States shall provide Eurostat with information each year
on sample sizes, non-response rates and, in the form of standard error
or confidence intervals, the reliability of the main results.
3. After data have been collected over three years, the Commission
shall send a report to the European Parliament and to the Council on
experience acquired in the work carried out pursuant to this Regulation.
Article 8
Financialcontribution
1. During the first three years of implementation of the statistical
returnsprovided for by thisRegulation, the Member Statess hallreceive a contribution in the form of financial assistance from theCommunity towardsthe expenditure incurred in carrying out the workinvolved.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 5
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2. The amount of the appropriationsallocated to thismeas ure each
year shall be fixed as part of the annual budgetary procedure.
3. The budgetary authority shall determine the appropriations avail-
able for each year.
4. In the report provided for in Article 7(3), the Commission shall
enumerate the use of Community funds allocated to this measure.
On the basis of the report provided for in Article 7(3), the Commission
shall assess whether other financial contributions are necessary for anadditional period of three years.
Article 9
Implementingprocedures
The proceduresfor implementing thisRegulation, including meas ures
for its adaptation to economic and technical progress shall be laiddown, insofar as this does not involve a disproportionate increase in
cost for the Member States and/or the burden on the respondents, in
accordance with the procedure specified in Article 10. Such proceduresshall concern in particular:
— adaptation of the data collection characteristics and of the contents
of the Annexes,
— precision requirements,— the arrangements for transmitting the data to Eurostat, including, if
any, the statistical tables based on those data,
— dissemination of the results,— setting of the expiry date of the transitional period provided for in
Article 5(5) for transmission of the variables listed in Article 5(4).
Article 10
1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Statistical Programme
Committee (hereinafter referred to as‘the Committee’).
2. Where reference ismade to thisArticle, Articles4 and 7 of Deci-
sion 1999/468/EC (
1) shall apply, having regard to the provisions of
Article 8 thereof.
The period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be
set at three months.
3. The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.
Article 11
Directive 78/546/EEC
1. Member States shall provide results for the years 1997 and 1998
in accordance with Directive 78/546/EEC.
2. Directive 78/546/EEC ishereby repealed with effect from 1
January 1999.
Article 12
Entryintoforce
ThisRegulation s hall enter into force on the 20th day following that of
itspublication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
ThisRegulation s hall be binding in itsentirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 6
(1) Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures
for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (OJ
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ANNEXES
Annex A LIST OF VARIABLES
Annex B CLASSIFICATION OF AXLE CONFIGURA-
TIONS
Annex C CLASSIFICATION OF TYPES OF JOURNEY
Annex D CLASSIFICATION OF GOODSAnnex E CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES OF
DANGEROUS GOODS
Annex F CLASSIFICATION OF CARGO TYPESAnnex G CODING OF PLACES OF LOADING AND
UNLOADING1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 7
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ANNEX A
LISTOFVARIABLES
The information to be provided for each vehicle breaksdown into:
A1. vehicle-related data;
A2. journey-related data;
A3. goods-related data (in the basic transport operation).
A1 VEHICLE-RELATED VARIABLES
Pursuant to the definition given in Article 2 of the Regulation, a goods road
transport vehicle shall be any single road transport vehicle (lorry) or combi-
nation of road vehicles, namely road train (lorry with trailer) or articulated
vehicle (road tractor with semi-trailer) designed to carry goods.
The vehicle-related data to be provided are the following:
1. possibility of using vehicles for combined transport (optional);
2. axle configuration according to Annex B (optional);
3. age of the road transport vehicle (lorry or road tractor) in years (from
its first registration);
4. maximum permissible weight, in 100 kg;
5. load capacity, in 100 kg;
6. vehicle operator'sNACE Rev. 1 category of activity (four-figure level)
(optional) (1);
7. type of transport (hire or reward/own account);
8. type of kilometrescovered during the s urvey period;8.1. loaded;8.2. empty (including road tractor journeyswithout s emi-trailer) (optional);9. vehicle weighting, to be used to obtain full results from individual data
if the data are collected on the basis of random sampling.
Successiveconfigurations
When the road transport vehicle chosen for the survey is a lorry used alone,
i.e. without trailer, throughout the survey period, it constitutes in itself the
road vehicle for transporting goods.
However, when the road transport vehicle chosen for the survey is a road
tractor — in which case it will have a semi-trailer coupled — or when it
isa lorry to which a trailer iscoupled, the data required under the Regula-
tion concern the road vehicle for the transport of goods taken as a whole. In
this case, there may be a change of configuration during the survey period
(with a lorry acquiring a trailer or changing trailer during the period, or a
road tractor changing its semi-trailer). In such a case, these successive
configurations must be recorded, and the data on the vehicle must be
supplied for each journey. However, if it is not possible to record thesesuccessive configurations, it is agreed that, for the vehicle-related variables,
those corresponding to the configuration at the beginning of the first laden
journey made during the survey period or to the configuration used most
during that period will be recorded.
Changeintypeoftransport
In the same way, depending on the journey, the transport may be effected
on own account of for hire or reward, and the type of transport must be
recorded for each journey. However, if it is not possible to record these
changes, it is agreed that the ‘type of transport’ recorded will be that corre-
sponding to the main mode of utilisation.
A2 JOURNEY-RELATED VARIABLES
During the survey period, the goods road transport vehicle makes journeys,
either unloaded (there are no goodsor empty packaging in the lorry, the
trailer or the semi-trailer, which are therefore ‘completely empty’) or loaded
(there are either goodsor empty packaging in the lorry, the trailer or the
semi-trailer, empty packaging being a particular type of goods). The loaded1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 8
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distance of the goods road transport vehicle is the distance between the first
place of loading and the last place of unloading (where the goods road
transport vehicle is completely emptied). A laden journey can therefore
cover several basic transport operations.
The data to be provided for each journey are asfollows :
1. type of journey in accordance with the nomenclature in Annex C;
2. weight of goodscarried during the journey or during each s tage of the
journey, gross weight in 100 kg;
3. place of loading (of the goodsroad trans port vehicle, for a laden
journey);
—definition : the place of loading isthe firs t place in which goodsare
loaded on the goods road transport vehicle, which was previously
completely empty (or where the road tractor iscoupled up to a
laden semi-trailer). For an unladen journey, it is the place of
unloading of the preceding laden journey (notion of ‘place where
unladen journey begins’),
—coding: the place of loading iscoded in accordance with the provi-
sions of Annex G;
4. place of unloading (of the goodsroad trans port vehicle, for a laden
journey);
—definition : the place of unloading isthe las t place in which goods
are unloaded from the goods road transport vehicle, which is subse-
quently completely empty (or where the road tractor isuncoupled
from a semi-trailer). For an unladen journey, it is the place of
loading of the subsequent laden journey (notion of ‘place where
unladen journey ends’),
—coding: the place of unloading iscoded in accordance with the
provisions of Annex G;
5. distance travelled: actual distance excluding the distance covered by the
goods road transport vehicle while being transported by another means
of transport;
6. tonnes/kilometre effected during the journey;
7. countries crossed in transit (not more than 5), coded according to
Annex G;
8. place of loading, if any, of the road transport vehicle on another means
of transport in accordance with the provisions of Annex G (optional);
9. place of unloading, if any, of the road transport vehicle from another
means of transport in accordance with the provisions of Annex G
(optional);
10. situation ‘fully loaded’ (procedure 2) or ‘not fully loaded’ (procedure 1)
of the goods road transport vehicle during the journey in question, in
terms of maximum volume of space used during the journey (procedure
0 = by convention for unladen journeys) (optional).
A3 GOODS-RELATED VARIABLES (in the basic transport operation)
During a laden journey, several basic transport operations can be carried
out, a basic transport operation being defined as the transport of one type
of goods(defined by reference to a particular nomenclature level) between
itsplace of loading and itsplace of unloading.
The data to be provided relating to a basic transport operation during a
laden journey are asfollows :
1. type of goods, according to the groups referring to an appropriate classi-
fication (see Annex D);
2. weight of goods: gross weight in 100 kg;3. if need be, the classification of the goods as dangerous according to the
main categoriesof Directive 94/55/EC (
1) given in Annex E;
4. type of freight asgiven in Annex F (optional);1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 9
(1) Council Directive 94/55/EC of 21 November 1994 on the approximation of the lawsof
the Member Stateswith regard to the trans port of dangerousgoodsby road (OJ L 319,12. 12. 1994, p. 7). Directive as amended by Commission Directive 96/86/EC (OJ L335, 24. 12. 1996, p. 43). For the latest amendments to the Annexes, see OJ L 251,
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5. place of loading of the goods, coded in accordance with the provisions of
Annex G;
6. place of unloading of the goods, coded in accordance with the provisions
of Annex G;
7. distance travelled, actual distance excluding the distance covered with
the goods road transport vehicle while being transported by another
meansof trans port.
TRANSPORT OPERATIONS CARRIED OUT DURING A ‘COLLECTION
OR DISTRIBUTION ROUND’ TYPE OF JOURNEY (journey-type 3)
For this type of journey, with several loading and/or unloading points, it is prac-
tically impossible to ask the transport operators to describe the basic transport
operations.
For these journeys, when identified as such, a single, notional, basic transport
operation isgenerally generated on the bas isof the information on the journey.
Each Member State will inform the Commission of its definition of this type of
journey and explain the simplifying assumptions it is obliged to apply when
collecting data on the corresponding transport operations.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 10
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Methodological appendix
Ladenjourneysandbasictransportoperations
Depending on the Member State concerned, information on transport is collected
on the basis of:
— either a description of each basic goods transport operation (with additional
detailson unladen journeys ),
— or a description of the journeys made by the vehicle in carrying out these
basic goods transport operations.
In the great majority of cases, when a laden journey is made this represents one
basic transport operations only with:
— a single type of goods loaded (by reference to the classification of goods in
use, in this case the 24 groups derived from the NST classification) (1),
— a single point of loading for the goods,— a single point of unloading for the goods.
In this case the two methods used are completely equivalent, and the informa-
tion collected by either method describes both:
— the transportation of the goods (all the basic goods transport operations),
— the journeys made by the vehicles carrying out these operations, with details
of vehicle capacities and utilisation of these capacities (laden journey with
utilisation coefficient; unladen journey).
Under thisRegulation, the trans portation of goodsand the journeysmade by the
vehicles must both be described, but it is undesirable to impose on the transport
operators an excessive increase in the burden of statistics by asking them to
describe in detail the transportation of goods and the vehicle journeys.
Accordingly, the NSOs in the Member States, when coding the questionnaires,
must reconstitute the data which are not explicitly required from the transport
operators from the data which they collect on the basis of either the ‘basic trans-
port operation’, or the ‘vehicle journey’.
The problem will arise when several basic transport operations are carried out in
the course of one laden journey, which may be because:
— there are several points of loading and/or unloading of the goods (but limited
in number, otherwise these would be pick-up or distribution rounds, which
require special treatment).
In this case these various loading and/or unloading points are recorded, in
order to calculate directly the tonnes/kilometre effected during the journey,
and the statistical office can reconstitute the basic transport operations,
— and/or the fact that there are several different types of goods transported
during the laden journey, a fact which in general isnot recorded in the
statistics, since only the type of goods (single or main) is requested.
In this case the loss of information is accepted and Member States carrying
out thistype of s implification will make explicit mention of it to the
Commission.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 11
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ANNEX B
CLASSIFICATIONOFAXLECONFIGURATIONS
Where a combination of vehiclesisus ed, the axle configuration countsthe total
number of axles, i. e. the axles of the lorry or the road tractor, plus those of the
trailer or semi-trailer.
The axle categories considered are as follows:
Coding
1. Number of axles of single vehicles (lorries):
2 120
3 130
4 140
other 199
2. Number of axlesfor combinationsof vehicles :lorry and
trailer
2+1 221
2+2 2222+3 223
3+2 232
3+3 233
other 299
3. Number of axlesfor combinationsof vehicles :road tractor
and semi-trailer
2+1 321
2+2 322
2+3 323
3+2 332
3+3 333
other 399
4. Road tractor alone 4991998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 12
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ANNEX C
CLASSIFICATIONOFTYPESOFJOURNEY
1. Laden journey involving one single basic transport operation.
2. Laden journey involving several transport operations, but not considered as a
collection or distribution round.
3. Laden journey of the collection or distribution round type.
4. Unladen journeys.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 13
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ANNEX D
CLASSIFICATIONOFGOODS
The classification of goods shall be according to the NST until such time as its
substitution is laid down by the Commission, in consultation with the Member
States.
GROUPS OF GOODS
Groupsof
goodsNST (1)cha-
pterNST (1)gro-
upsDescription
1 0 01 Cereals
2 02, 03 Potatoes, other fresh or frozen vegeta-
bles, fresh fruits
3 00, 06 Live animals, sugar beet4 05 Wood and cork5 04, 09 Textilesand was te, other raw animal
and vegetable materials
6 1 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16,
17Foodstuffs and animal fodder
7 18 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits and
fats
8 2 21, 22, 23 Solid mineral fuels9 3 31 Crude petroleum
10 32, 33, 34 Petroleum products
11 4 41, 46 Iron ore, iron and steel waste and
blast furnace dust
12 45 Non-ferrousoresand was te
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 fertilisers
17 8 83 Coal, chemicals, tar18 81, 82, 89 Chemicalsother than coal, chemicals
and tar
19 84 Paper pulp and waste paper20 9 91, 92, 93 Vehiclesand trans port equipment,
machinery, apparatus, engines,
whether or not assembled, and parts
thereof
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Groupsof
goodsNST (1)cha-
pterNST (1)gro-
upsDescription
22 95 Glass, glassware, ceramic products
23 96, 97 Leather, textiles, clothing, other
manufactured articles
24 99 Miscellaneous articles
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ANNEX E
CLASSIFICATIONOFCATEGORIESOFDANGEROUSGOODS (*)
1 Explosives
2 Gases, compressed, liquified or dissolved under pressure
3 Flammable liquids
4.1 Flammable solids4.2 Substances liable to spontaneous combustion
4.3 Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
5.1 Oxidising substances5.2 Organic peroxides
6.1 Toxic substances
6.2 Substances liable to cause infections7 Radioactive material
8 Corrosives
9 Miscellaneous dangerous substances
(*) Each category is either a class or a division of a class of the classification of types of
dangerousgoodsasdefined in Directive 94/55/EC, Annex A, part I, marginal 2002 (1).
(1) Annexes A and B to Directive 94/55/EC. The latest amendments to these Annexes
appear in OJ L 251, 15. 9. 1997, p. 1.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 16
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ANNEX F
CLASSIFICATIONOFCARGOTYPES (*)
0 Liquid bulk goods(no cargo unit)
1 Solid bulk goods(no cargo unit)
2 Large freight containers
3 Other freight containers4 Palletised goods
5 Pre-slung goods
6 Mobile, self-propelled units7 Other mobile units
8 (Reserved)
9 Other cargo types
(*) United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe — Codes for types of cargo,
packagesand packaging materials , Recommendation 21 adopted by the Working Party
on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures, Geneva, March 1986.1998R1172 — EN — 20.11.2003 — 002.001 — 17
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ANNEX G
CODINGOFCOUNTRIESANDREGIONS
1. Except asprovided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98
concerning the simplified coding of certain variables during a transitional
period, the placesof loading and unloading will be coded asfollows :
(a) regional breakdown to Level 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units
for Statistics (NUTS), for the Member States of the European Commu-
nity;
(b) lists of administrative regions supplied by the third country concerned,
for Stateswhich are not membersof the European Community but which
are contracting partiesto the Agreement on the European Economic Area
(EEA), namely Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway;
(c) for other third countries, the 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes should be used. The
most frequently-used codes are given in the table below.
2. For the simplified coding of international transport during the transitional
period referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, aswell as
for the coding of countries crossed in transit (section 7 of Annex A, part
A2), the following country codesare to be us ed:
(a) the 2-alpha part of the NUTS codes, as given in the table below, for the
Member Statesof the European Community;
(b) for all other countries, the 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes should be used. The
most frequently-used codes are given in the table below.
Tableofcountrycodes
(a)EU Member States (corresponding to NUTS 2-alpha country codes)
Note: countriesin official EU order.
Country name Code
Belgium BE
Denmark DK
Germany DE
Greece GR
Spain ES
France FRIreland IE
Italy IT
Luxembourg LU
NetherlandsNL
Austria AT
Portugal PT
Finland FI
Sweden SE
United Kingdom UK
(b)Other countries (ISO-3166 2-alpha codes)
Note: countriesordered by code.
Country name Code
Albania AL
Bosnia-Herzegovina BA
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Country name Code
BelarusBY
Switzerland CH
CyprusCY
Czech Republic CZ
Estonia EE
Croatia HR
Hungary HU
Iceland IS
Liechtenstein LI
Lithuania LT
Latvia LV
Moldova MD
Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (FYROM)MK
Malta MT
Norway NO
Poland PL
Romania RO
Russian Federation RU
Slovenia SISlovakia SK
Turkey TR
Ukraine UA
Yugoslavia YU
For countries not shown in this list, the ISO-3166 2-alpha codes should be
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