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Brussels, 14.10.2009

COM(2009) 530 final

2009/0149 (COD)

Proposal for a

REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road

(Codified version)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. In the context of a people’s Europe, the Commission attaches great importance to simplifying and clarifying Community law so as to make it clearer and more accessible to the ordinary citizen, thus giving him new opportunities and the chance to make use of the specific rights it gives him.

This aim cannot be achieved so long as numerous provisions that have been amended several times, often quite substantially, remain scattered, so that they must be sought partly in the original instrument and partly in later amending ones. Considerable research work, comparing many different instruments, is thus needed to identify the current rules.

For this reason a codification of rules that have frequently been amended is also essential if Community law is to be clear and transparent.

2. On 1 April 1987 the Commission therefore decided[1] to instruct its staff that all legislative acts should be codified after no more than ten amendments, stressing that this is a minimum requirement and that departments should endeavour to codify at even shorter intervals the texts for which they are responsible, to ensure that the Community rules are clear and readily understandable.

3. The Conclusions of the Presidency of the Edinburgh European Council (December 1992) confirmed this[2] stressing the importance of codification as it offers certainty as to the law applicable to a given matter at a given time.

Codification must be undertaken in full compliance with the normal Community legislative procedure.

Given that no changes of substance may be made to the instruments affected by codification , the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have agreed, by an interinstitutional agreement dated 20 December 1994, that an accelerated procedure may be used for the fast-track adoption of codification instruments.

4. The purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25 May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road[3]. The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it[4]; this proposal fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.

5. The codification proposal was drawn up on the basis of a preliminary consolidation , in all official languages, of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 and the instruments amending it, carried out by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, by means of a data-processing system . Where the Articles have been given new numbers, the correlation between the old and the new numbers is shown in a table set out in Annex IX to the codified Regulation.

2009/0149 (COD)

Proposal for a

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REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road (codified version)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article Ö 285(1) Õ thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee[5],

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty[6],

Whereas:

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1. Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25 May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road[7] has been substantially amended several times[8]. In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Regulation should be codified.

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2. In order to carry out the tasks entrusted to it in the context of the common transport policy, the Commission must have at its disposal comparable, reliable, synchronised, regular and comprehensive statistical data on the scale and development of the carriage of goods by road by means of vehicles registered in the Community, and on the degree of utilisation of vehicles carrying out this transport.

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3. It is necessary to compile comprehensive regional statistics with regard to both the carriage of goods and vehicle journeys.

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4. It is therefore appropriate to ensure the description of the regional origin and destination of intra-Community transport on the same bases as national transport, and to provide a link between the carriage of goods and vehicle journeys by measuring the degree of utilisation of vehicles carrying out this transport.

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5. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the creation of common statistical standards allowing the production of harmonised information can be tackled efficiently only at Community level, while data will be collected in each Member State under the authority of the bodies and institutions in charge of compiling official statistics.

6. Council Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities[9] provides a 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 confidentiality.

7. Communication of individual data, once rendered anonymous, is necessary in order to estimate the overall accuracy of the results.

8. It is important to ensure that statistical information is adequately disseminated.

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9. Ö The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation should Õ be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission[10].

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10. Ö In particular Õ power should be conferred on the Commission to adapt the data collection characteristics and the contents of the Annexes and to lay down the minimum precision requirements for the statistical returns transmitted by the Member States and the implementing procedures for Ö this Õ Regulation, including measures for adapting it to economic and technical progress. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Ö this Õ Regulation, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC,

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HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Subject-matter and scope

1. Each Member State shall compile Community statistics on the carriage of goods by road by means of goods road transport vehicles which are registered in that Member State, and on the journeys made by such vehicles.

2. This Regulation shall not apply to the carriage of goods by road by means of:

(a) goods road transport vehicles whose authorised weight or dimensions exceed the limits normally permitted in the Member States concerned;

(b) agricultural vehicles, military vehicles and vehicles belonging to central or local public administrations, with the exception of goods road transport vehicles belonging to public undertakings, and in particular railway undertakings.

Each Member State may exclude from the scope of this Regulation goods road transport vehicles whose load capacity or maximum permissible laden weight is lower than a certain limit. This limit may not exceed a load capacity of 3,5 tonnes or maximum permissible weight of 6 tonnes in the case of single motor vehicles.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘carriage of goods by road’: all transport of goods by means of a goods road transport vehicle;

(b) ‘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 the road, vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods;

(c) ‘road vehicle for the transport of goods’: a road vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to carry goods (lorry, trailer, semi-trailer);

(d) ‘goods road transport vehicle’: any single road transport vehicle (lorry), or combination of road vehicles, namely road train (lorry with trailer) or articulated vehicle (road tractor with semi-trailer), designed to carry goods;

(e) ‘lorry’: a rigid road vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to carry goods;

(f) ‘road tractor’: a road transport vehicle designed exclusively or primarily to haul other road vehicles which are not power-driven (mainly semi-trailers);

(g) ‘trailer’: a road vehicle for transporting goods designed to be hauled by a road transport vehicle;

(h) ‘semi-trailer’: a road vehicle for transporting goods with no front axle so designed that part of the vehicle and a substantial part of its loaded weight rest on the road tractor;

(i) ‘articulated vehicle’: a road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer;

(j) ‘road train’: a goods road transport vehicle coupled to a trailer.

This category also includes an articulated vehicle with a further trailer attached;

(k) ‘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;

(l) ‘load capacity’: maximum weight of goods declared permissible by the competent authority of the country of registration of the vehicle.

When the goods road transport vehicle is a train made up of a lorry with trailer, the load capacity of the train is the sum of the load capacities of the lorry and the trailer;

(m) ‘maximum permissible weight’: total weight of the vehicle (or vehicle combination) when stationary and ready for the road and of the weight of the load declared permissible by the competent authority of the country of registration of the vehicle;

(n) ‘Eurostat’: the Commission department responsible for carrying out the tasks incumbent on that institution in the field of production of Community statistics.

Article 3

Data collection

1. Member States shall compile statistical data relating to the following areas:

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(a) vehicle;

(b) journey;

(c) goods.

2. The statistical variables in each area, their definition and the levels within the classification used for their breakdown are set out in Annexes Ö I to VII Õ.

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3. When determining the method to be used for compiling statistical data, Member States shall refrain from carrying out any formalities at frontiers between Member States.

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4. The adaptation of the data collection characteristics and the contents of the Annexes shall be adopted by the Commission. The measure, Ö designed to Õ amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 8(3).

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Article 4

Precision of results

The methods for the collection and processing of data must be designed to ensure that the statistical results transmitted by the Member States meet minimum standards of precision, taking account of the structural characteristics of road transport in the Member States. The precision requirements shall be adopted by the Commission. The measures, Ö designed to Õ amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 8(3).

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Article 5

Transmission of results to Eurostat

1. Member States shall transmit to Eurostat every quarter duly verified individual data corresponding to the variables referred to in Article 3 and listed in Annex I, without indicating the name, address or registration number.

Such transmission shall, where appropriate, include data relating to previous quarters for which the data transmitted were provisional.

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2. The arrangements for transmitting the data referred to in paragraph 1, including, where appropriate, the statistical tables based on those data, shall be laid down in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 8(2).

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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.

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Article 6

Dissemination of results

The provisions on the dissemination of statistical results in respect of the carriage of goods by road, including the structure and content of the results to be disseminated, shall be laid down in accordance with the management procedure referred to in Article 8(2).

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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 methods used in compiling data.

Member States shall also forward to Eurostat details of any substantial changes in the methods used 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.

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Article 8

Ö Committee Procedure Õ

1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Statistical Programme Committee set up by Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 4 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC 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. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and (5)(a) and Article 7 of Decision No 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.

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Article 9

Repeal

Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 is repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex IX.

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Article 10

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of 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,

For the European Parliament For the Council

The President The President

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ANNEXES

Annex I | LIST OF VARIABLES |

Annex II | CLASSIFICATION OF AXLE CONFIGURATIONS |

Annex III | CLASSIFICATION OF TYPES OF JOURNEY |

Annex IV | CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS |

Annex V | CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES OF DANGEROUS GOODS |

Annex VI | CLASSIFICATION OF CARGO TYPES |

Annex VII | CODING OF PLACES OF LOADING AND UNLOADING Ö BY COUNTRY AND REGION Õ |

Ö Annex VIII Õ | Ö REPEALED REGULATION WITH LIST OF ITS SUCCESSIVE AMENDMENTS Õ |

Ö Annex IX Õ | Ö CORRELATION TABLE Õ |

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ANNEX I

LIST OF VARIABLES

The information to be provided for each vehicle breaks down into:

A1. vehicle-related data;

A2. journey-related data;

A3. goods-related data (in the basic transport operation).

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A1 VEHICLE-RELATED VARIABLES

Pursuant to the definition given in Article 2, a goods road transport vehicle shall be any single road transport vehicle (lorry) or combination 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 II (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's è1 NACE Rev. 2 ç category of activity (four-figure level) (optional)[11];

7. type of transport (hire or reward/own account);

8. Ö total Õ kilometres covered during the survey period;

8.1. loaded;

8.2. empty (including road tractor journeys without semi-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.

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Successive configurations

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 is a lorry to which a trailer is coupled, the data required under the Regulation 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 these successive 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.

Change in type of transport

In the same way, depending on the journey, the transport may be effected on own account or 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 corresponding 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 goods or empty packaging in the lorry, the trailer or the semi-trailer, which are therefore ‘completely empty’) or loaded (there are either goods or empty packaging in the lorry, the trailer or the semi-trailer, empty packaging being a particular type of goods). The loaded 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 as follows:

1. type of journey in accordance with the nomenclature in Annex III;

2. weight of goods carried during the journey or during each stage of the journey, gross weight in 100 kg;

3. place of loading (of the goods road transport vehicle, for a laden journey);

- definition : the place of loading is the first place in which goods are loaded on the goods road transport vehicle, which was previously completely empty (or where the road tractor is coupled 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 is coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex VII;

4. place of unloading (of the goods road transport vehicle, for a laden journey):

- definition : the place of unloading is the last place in which goods are unloaded from the goods road transport vehicle, which is subsequently completely empty (or where the road tractor is uncoupled 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 is coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex VII;

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;

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7. countries crossed in transit (not more than 5), coded according to Annex VII;

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8. place of loading, if any, of the road transport vehicle on another means of transport in accordance with the provisions of Annex VII (optional);

9. place of unloading, if any, of the road transport vehicle from another means of transport in accordance with the provisions of Annex VII (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 Ö classification Õ level) between its place of loading and its place of unloading.

The data to be provided relating to a basic transport operation during a laden journey are as follows:

1. type of goods, according to the groups referring to an appropriate classification (see Annex IV);

2. weight of goods: gross weight in 100 kg;

3. if need be, the classification of the goods as dangerous according to the main categories of [Council] Directive [94/55/EC][12] given in Annex V;

4. type of freight as given in Annex VI (optional);

5. place of loading of the goods, coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex VII;

6. place of unloading of the goods, coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex VII;

7. distance travelled, actual distance excluding the distance covered with the goods road transport vehicle while being transported by another means of transport.

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 practically 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 is generally generated on the basis of 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.

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Methodological appendix

Laden journeys and basic transport operations

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 details on 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 operation 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)[13],

- 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 information 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 this Regulation, the transportation of goods and the journeys made 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 transport 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 is not 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 this type of simplification will make explicit mention of it to the Commission.

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ANNEX II

CLASSIFICATION OF AXLE CONFIGURATIONS

Where a combination of vehicles is used, the axle configuration counts the 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 axles for combinations of vehicles: lorry and trailer: |

2+1 | 221 |

2+2 | 222 |

2+3 | 223 |

3+2 | 232 |

3+3 | 233 |

other | 299 |

3. Number of axles for combinations of 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 | 499 |

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ANNEX III

CLASSIFICATION OF TYPES OF JOURNEY

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.

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ANNEX IV

CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS

NST 2007

Division | Description |

01 | Products of agriculture, hunting, and forestry; fish and other fishing products |

02 | Coal and lignite; crude petroleum and natural gas |

03 | Metal ores and other mining and quarrying products; peat; uranium and thorium |

04 | Food products, beverages and tobacco |

05 | Textiles and textile products; leather and leather products |

06 | Wood and products of wood and cork (except furniture); articles of straw and plaiting materials; pulp, paper and paper products; printed matter and recorded media |

07 | Coke and refined petroleum products |

08 | Chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibres; rubber and plastic products; nuclear fuel |

09 | Other non-metallic mineral products |

10 | Basic metals; fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment |

11 | Machinery and equipment n.e.c.; office machinery and computers; electrical machinery and apparatus n.e.c.; radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus; medical, precision and optical instruments; watches and clocks |

12 | Transport equipment |

13 | Furniture; other manufactured goods n.e.c. |

14 | Secondary raw materials; municipal wastes and other wastes |

15 | Mail, parcels |

16 | Equipment and material utilised in the transport of goods |

17 | Goods moved in the course of household and office removals; baggage transported separately from passengers; motor vehicles being moved for repair; other non-market goods n.e.c. |

18 | Grouped goods: a mixture of types of goods which are transported together |

19 | Unidentifiable goods: goods which for any reason cannot be identified and therefore cannot be assigned to groups 1–16. |

20 | Other goods n.e.c. |

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ANNEX V

CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES OF DANGEROUS GOODS *

1 | Explosives |

2 | Gases, compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure |

3 | Flammable liquids |

4.1 | Flammable solids |

4.2 | Substances liable to spontaneous combustion |

4.3 | Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases |

5.1 | Oxidising substances |

5.2 | Organic peroxides |

6.1 | Toxic substances |

6.2 | Substances liable to cause infections |

7 | 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 dangerous goods as defined in Directive [94/55/EC], Annex A. |

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ANNEX VI

CLASSIFICATION OF CARGO TYPES *

0 | Liquid bulk goods (no cargo unit) |

1 | Solid bulk goods (no cargo unit) |

2 | Large freight containers |

3 | Other freight containers |

4 | Palletised goods |

5 | Pre-slung goods |

6 | Mobile, self-propelled units |

7 | Other mobile units |

8 | (Reserved) |

9 | Other cargo types |

_______________________ * United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe — Codes for types of cargo, packages and packaging materials, Recommendation 21 adopted by the Working Party on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures, Geneva, March 1986. |

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ANNEX VII

CODING OF PLACES OF LOADING AND UNLOADING BY COUNTRY AND REGION

1. The places of loading and unloading will be coded as follows:

(a) regional breakdown to Level 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), for the Member States of the Community;

(b) lists of administrative regions supplied by the third country concerned, for States which are not members of the Community but which are contracting parties to 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 Ö in point 2(b) of this Annex Õ.

2. For the coding of countries crossed in transit (section 7 of Annex I, part A2), the following country codes are to be used:

(a) the 2-alpha part of the NUTS codes, as given in the table below, for the Member States of the 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.

Table of country codes

(a) EU Member States (corresponding to NUTS 2-alpha country codes)

Note: countries in official EU order.

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Country name | Code |

Belgium | BE |

Bulgaria | BG |

Czech Republic | CZ |

Denmark | DK |

Germany | DE |

Estonia | EE |

Ö Ireland Õ | Ö IE Õ |

Greece | Ö EL Õ |

Spain | ES |

France | FR |

Italy | IT |

Cyprus | CY |

Latvia | LV |

Lithuania | LT |

Luxembourg | LU |

Hungary | HU |

Malta | MT |

Netherlands | NL |

Austria | AT |

Poland | PL |

Portugal | PT |

Romania | RO |

Slovenia | SI |

Slovakia | SK |

Finland | FI |

Sweden | SE |

United Kingdom | UK |

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(b) Other countries (ISO-3166 2-alpha codes)

Note: countries ordered by code.

Country name | Code |

Albania | AL |

Bosnia-Herzegovina | BA |

Belarus | BY |

Switzerland | CH |

Croatia | HR |

Iceland | IS |

Liechtenstein | LI |

Ö Republic of Õ Moldova | MD |

Ö Montenegro Õ | Ö ME Õ |

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | MK Ö [14] Õ |

Norway | NO |

Russian Federation | RU |

Ö Serbia Õ | Ö RS Õ |

Turkey | TR |

Ukraine | UA |

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ANNEX VIII

Part A

Repealed Regulation with list of its successive amendments

Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 (OJ L 163, 6.6.1998, p. 1) |

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2691/1999 (OJ L 326, 18.12.1999, p. 39) |

Point 10.15 of Annex II to the 2003 Act of Accession (OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 561) |

Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1) | Only Annex II, point 27 |

Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1) | Only point 8.5 of the Annex |

Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1) | Only Article 13 |

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1304/2007 (OJ L 290, 8.11.2007, p. 14) | Only Article 2 |

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 126, 21.5.2009, p. 9) |

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ANNEX IX

Correlation Table

Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 | This Regulation |

Article 1 | Article 1 |

Article 2, first to fourteenth indents | Article 2, points (a) to (n) |

Article 3 | Article 3 |

Article 4 | Article 4 |

Article 5(1), (2) and (3) | Article 5(1), (2) and (3) |

Article 5(4) | ________ |

Article 5(5) | ________ |

Article 6 | Article 6 |

Article 7(1) | Article 7(1) |

Article 7(2) | Article 7(2) |

Article 7(3) | ________ |

Article 8 | ________ |

Article 10 | Article 8 |

Article 11 | ________ |

________ | Article 9 |

Article 12 | Article 10 |

Annexes A to G | Annexes I to VII |

________ | Annex VIII |

________ | Annex IX |

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[1] COM(87) 868 PV.

[2] See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

[3] Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – Codification of the Acquis communautaire, COM(2001) 645 final.

[4] See Annex VIII to this proposal.

[5] OJ C […], […], p. […].

[6] OJ C […], […], p. […].

[7] OJ L 163, 6.6.1998, p. 1.

[8] See Annex VIII.

[9] OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164.

[10] OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

[11] Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Ö Community Õ.

[12] OJ L [319], [12.12.1994], p. [7].

[13] NST: Uniform nomenclature of goods for transport statistics.

[14] Provisional code, which does not prejudge in any way the definitive nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place on this subject at the United Nations.