COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Brussels, 14.02.2001
COM(2000) 798 final/2
2001/0048 (COD)
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Proposalfora
REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
on railtransport statistics
(presented bythe Commission)
2EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
OVERALL JUSTIFICATIONAND OBJECTIVE
1. Thepromotionofrailtransportisanimportant partofthe CommonTransport Policy,
onthe grounds both of economic efficiency and of reducing the energy consumption
and the environmental impacts of transport. This overall objective has been pursued
in a series of Community measures, notably Council Directive 91/440/EEC on the
development of the Community's railways1, and in Commission strategy documents
such as the white paper on A strategy for revitalising the Community's railways2.I n
1998, the Commission proposed a further package of measures to reinforce Directive
91/4403. These measures are currently before the European Parliament and the
Council4.
In addition, rail transport has also been promoted by major investments in railway
infrastructure under the transport part of the Trans-European Networks and the
StructuralandCohesionfunds.
2. Community statistics on rail transport are needed to monitor developments in the rail
industry, in order both to assess the effects of the Community actions mentioned in
Paragraph1 and also to supportthe preparationoffuture actions.
In particular, statistics on rail transport will be an important input for a European
system for the observation of the rail market as provided for in the Directive of the
EuropeanParliament and ofthe Councilamending Council Directive 91/440/EEC on
thedevelopmentoftheCommunity'srailways4.
3. The improvement of rail safety is an another increasingly important element of
Community policies on rail transport. The provision of harmonised safety data is a
fundamental precondition for monitoring the development of rail safety, for
comparisonof safetyperformance between modes of transport and for benchmarking
between Member States and between railway undertakings. The lack of comparable
statistical information in this area has been a widely recognised shortcoming of rail
statistics, whichwillbe remedied bythis Regulation.
4. Statistics on rail transport are collected under Council Directive 80/11775,b u tt h i s
legalact has some shortcomings:
– it covers only freight transport, whereas Community actions on rail transport
also require dataonpassenger transport and onsafety;
– it includes a list of railway administrations for which data are to be compiled.
With the restructuring of the rail industry into infrastructure managers and
operators (railway undertakings), and the entry into the market of new
operators,certainofthese formerrailwayadministrations no longerexist, while
1OJ L237, 24.8.1991p. 25.
2COM(96)421final, 30.7.1996.
3COM(98)480final, 22.7.1998.
4SeeCOM(2000)575final, 15.9.2000.
5OJ L350, 23.12.1980, p. 23.
3others have changed their functions and now share the market with operators
which are not onthe list;
– the statistics to be compiled do not correspond to the present needs in this
domain;
– significant qualityproblems have been identified in these statistics;
– there is no provision for adaptationofthe Directive via a committee procedure.
The regional dimension of Communityactions to promote rail transport also justifies
a more detailed regional breakdown than is available under Directive 80/1117, so
thatfreight andpassenger flowscaninfuturebedescribedona regionto region basis
acrossthe EU.
These shortcomings have, takentogether, made it necessaryto propose a replacement
for Directive 80/1177.
5. In addition to the statistics specified in Directive 80/1177, some other statistics on
railtransport are supplied by Member States to Eurostat on a voluntary basis. When
considering how to replace Directive 80/1177, one option was to collect all rail
transport statistics on a voluntary basis. This option was rejected on the grounds that
in a commercial rail market, all operators needed to have clear legally-binding
obligations which would apply to all operators without the risk of commercial
disadvantageto anyoneoperatorsupplyingdataonavoluntarybasis.
6. A new legal act in this domain also provides the opportunity to introduce a
committee procedure, and to clarifythe role ofnationalauthorities in compiling these
s ta ti s ti c san dtr a n s m i tti n gth emtoE u r os ta t .
LEGALBASEANDFORM OFTHEPROPOSEDACT
7. The proposed legal base for the Regulation on rail transport statistics is Article 285
oftheTreaty, onCommunitystatistics. The proposalis included inthe Commission's
Work Programme for 20006.
8. The new legal act takes the form of a Regulation rather than a Directive, since it is
intended to be directly applicable in Member States without transposition into
national law. This does not affect the freedom of national authorities to compile the
specified statistics using methods which take account of the different conditions
existing in Member States. The use of a Regulation is in line with other statistical
legalacts which have beenadopted since 1997.
KEYFEATURESOFTHE REGULATION
9. The Regulation sets out to define a set of common rules for rail transport statistics
together with a set of annexes specifying a set of statistical tables. The rules cover
definitions, provisions for data collection, transmission and dissemination, and a
6COM(2000)155 final, Annex, ProgrammeN° 2000/233.
4committee procedure for the adoption of implementing measures and for later
adaptation of the Regulation. They also include provisions for maintaining the
quality of the statistics, for evaluation and for reporting to the European Parliament
and the Council. Furthermore, the Regulation includes provisions relating to the
coverageofrailtransportbytheRegulation.
10.Definitions are set out in Article 2. Additional technical definitions needed to ensure
a reasonable level of harmonisation will be adopted via the committee procedure
(Article 11), while recognising that it is not practicable to impose legally binding
definitions of all terms used in statistical data collection. In the area of accident
statistics (AnnexH), it was evident that differing nationalpractice makes it necessary
to allow reporting according to current national definitions for a period of five years,
althoughconformityto commondefinitions is the long-termobjective.
11. For data collection , Article 5 ofthe Regulationaims at a highly flexible approach, in
order to minimize the costs for national authorities and operators, and to take
advantage of existing data collection activities. Although national authorities remain
responsible for coordination and quality control, other designated organizations may
participate in data collection. For example, it is expected that some Member States
will choose to collect rail transport statistics through the infrastructure manager
(which will in any case collect some of these data for its own purposes). It is also
possible that some Member States will choose to designate professional
organisations for this purpose. It is also made clear that different types of data
sources maybe freelycombined to achieve the specified statisticalresults.
12. As in other statistical legal acts, the technical arrangements for transmission of
statisticsto Eurostat (Article6)aretobeadoptedlaterviathe committee procedure.
This is desirable in order for the code lists and file formats to be discussed with
Member States andtested before definitive versions are adopted.
13. On dissemination (Article 7), the Regulation provides for the dissemination of all
data collected under Annexes A-H, subject to safeguards for data for which railway
undertakings explicitly request special treatment on grounds of confidentiality. The
level of detail in the proposed tables has been deliberately limited in order to
facilitate disseminationwithout revealing commerciallysensitive information.
The information reported according to Annex I cannot be disseminated unless
specific provisions tothis effect are adoptedlater via the committee procedure.
14.The provisions on qualityand onreports(Articles 8 and 9) are designed to
emphasize, first, the importance of non-binding methodological recommendations to
complement the legal act in supporting the improvement of statistical quality as the
Regulation is implemented, and second, the evaluation of quality, costs and benefits
for these statistics.
15. The committee procedure (Articles 10-11) will ensure that the provisions of the
Regulation can be adjusted in the light of experience as it is implemented. In
particular, Eurostat will propose harmonised technical definitions, rules for the
application of simplified reporting, and technical standards for data transmissiononce these have been fully tested. The Commission proposes a regulatory procedure
5as the most appropriate type of procedure in this case, in conformity with Council
Decision1999/468/EC7.
16. The coverage of the Regulation is the subject of a number of provisions. Article 2
states the overall objective of complete coverage of railways in the European Union,
witheachMemberStatereporting onrailtransport onits nationalterritory. Where an
operator is active in more than one Member State - a situation which will become
increasingly common - the national authorities will request the operator to provide
data separately for each country in which it operates, in order to compile the national
data.
In the interests of cost-efficiency, Member States may also exclude from their
reporting certain categories of minor railways and also the smallest operators up to a
cumulative threshold of 2% of the market. If necessary, this threshold can be
adjusted via the committee procedure. Although the exclusion of the smallest
operators does result in a small bias in the statistics, the resulting situation will still
be a considerable improvement on presently available data, which often omit data on
quite large operators.
Inorderto reduce costs forsmaller operators,there are also provisions for simplified
reporting (Article 4, Annexes B and D). The rules for the application of simplified
reporting are to be adoptedvia the committee procedure.
In this context, Annex I provides the list of railway undertakings covered by each of
the Annexes, in order to ensure that the statistical tables can be correctly interpreted
byusers.
17. The Regulation provides for a completely new set of Community statistics on rail
passenger transport. Specific data requirements for passenger transport are laid out
in Annexes C and D; these have been designed to take account ofthe methodological
constraints on collection of railpassenger data. Additional statistics on rail passenger
transport, for example distinguishing high-speed services or separating urban
services from inter-city services, are envisaged for the future but are not included at
present since Eurostat considers it necessary to develop the methodology for such
statistics throughvoluntaryreporting.
DATATOBE COLLECTED
18. The data to be collected are specified in Annexes A-H (Article 4). The main annual
tables for freight and passenger transport are in Annexes A-D, while key
quarterly indicators are specified in Annex E. Intermodal freight transport
statisticsarenow included inAnnexesAandB.
19. Annexes F and G are intended to provide data on regional patterns of rail transport,
including region to region flows at NUTS 2 level and flows on the rail network.
The network flow data are similar in nature to those currently collected for road
transport through the 5-yearly E-road censuses coordinated by UNECE; Eurostat
intends to recommend an appropriate methodology for collecting such data for rail
7OJ L184, 17.7.1999p. 23.
6networks, based on experience gained during a study in 1997-1998 and work in
progress at UNECE. Annex G therefore provides the necessary legal base for this
work, but without a fullydetailed specificationofthe datato be provided.
COSTS ANDBENEFITSOF THE REGULATION
20. Implementation of the Regulation will impose some additional costs on the national
authorities responsible for transport statistics and on railway undertakings.
21. In some Member States, the national authorities are already responsible for
compiling Community statistics on rail transport, including both data supplied under
Council Directive 80/11777 and also data supplied to Eurostat on a voluntary basis.
Forthese countries, the additional costs for Annexes A-F will be small since the total
volume of data to be compiled will increase only slightly, mainly to cover new
operators whichhave not previously been included inthe statistics.
In other Member States, the data specified in Council Directive 80/1177 have been
transmitted directlyto Eurostat bythe main railway undertaking which succeeded the
formerrailwayadministration. Forthese countries, nationalauthorities willunder the
Regulation assume additional responsibilities for coordination and for data quality,
although the collection of data may be delegated according to the provisions of
Article 5. Such involvement by the national authorities is essential in order to
guarantee the coverage and quality of rail transport statistics when a number of
commercial operators are active in the national rail transport market; therefore, for
these countries, some additionalcosts for nationalauthorities are unavoidable.
22 Rail operators will have to extract data from their internal information systems and
generate summary reports for transmission to the national authority responsible for
compiling railstatistics and transmitting themto Eurostat. In practice, most operators
are already producing such reports for their own management and shareholders, and
are already supplying such data to professional organizations such as the
InternationalUnion ofRailways (UIC). Therefore the additional costs for enterprises
should besmall.
23. The provisions for simplified reporting by smaller operators will also help to reduce
thecostsofimplementationbothforoperatorsandfornationalauthorities.
24. Compilationofthe data specified in Annexes Fand G will involve some further costs
for allMember States and operators, butthese data are not to be collected every year,
so that the average cost per year remains reasonable in relation to the value of the
information.
25. In addition to the main justification for this Regulation referred to in Paragraphs 1-5,
the Communitystatistics to be collected under this Regulation will also be of benefit
to a range of users in Member States, including the rail operators. Benefits that have
been identified in the course ofdiscussions with interested parties include:
– informationontherailtransport market;
– information which can be used by operators to benchmark their operations
against the industryaverage;
7– information which can be used in seeking finance for major projects.
Independently validated statistical data is useful to banks since it gives
objective informationontheviabilityofprojects.
82001/0048 (COD)
Proposalfora
REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
on railtransport statistics
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OFTHE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article
285thereof,
Having regard tothe proposalfromthe Commission8,
Having regard tothe opinionofthe Economic and SocialCommittee9,
Having regard tothe opinionofthe Committeeofthe Regions10,
Acting inaccordance withthe procedure laid down in Article 251 ofthe Treaty11,
Whereas:
(1) Railways are an important part ofthe Community's transport networks.
(2) The Commission needs statistics on the transport of goods and passengers by rail in
order to monitor and develop the common transport policy, as well as the transport
elementsofpoliciesontheregionsandontrans-Europeannetworks.
(3) Statistics on rail safety are required by the Commission in order to prepare and
monitor Communityactions inthe field oftransport safety.
(4) Community statistics on rail transport are also required for a European system for the
observation of the rail market as provided for in Directive xx/xxx/EEC of the
European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 91/440/EEC on
thedevelopmentoftheCommunity'srailways12.
(5) Community statistics on all modes of transport should be collected according to
common concepts and standards, with the aim of achieving the fullest practicable
comparabilitybetweentransport modes.
(6) The restructuring ofthe railindustryunder Council Directive 91/440/EEC13,a sw e l la s
changes in the type of information required by the Commission and by other users of
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9Community statistics on rail transport, renders obsolete the provisions of Council
Directive 80/1177/EEC14in relation to the collection of statistics from specified
administrationsofmainrailnetworks.
(7) The coexistence of publicly and privately owned railway undertakings operating in a
commercial rail transport market requires an explicit specification of the statistical
information which should be provided by all railway undertakings and disseminated
byEurostat.
(8) In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity laid down in Article 5 of the Treaty,
the creation ofcommon statisticalstandards that permit the production of harmonized
data is an action which can only be undertaken efficiently at Community level;
whereas such standards shall be implemented in each Member State under the
authorityofthebodiesand institutions inchargeofproducingofficialstatistics.
(9) Council Regulation(EC) No 322/97 of 17 February1997 on Community statistics15
provides a reference framework for the provisions laid downbythis Regulation.
(10) Since the measures necessary for the implementation of this Regulation are measures
ofgeneral scope within the meaning of Article 2 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC of
28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers
conferred on the Commission16, they should be adopted by use of the regulatory
procedureprovided for in Article 5 ofthat Decision.
(11) The Statistical Programme Committee established by
Decision89/382 (EEC/Euratom)17has been consulted in accordance with Article 3 of
the aforesaid Decision.
HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Objective
The objective of this Regulation is to establish common rules for the production of
Communitystatisticsrelatingtorailtransport.
Article 2
Scope
This Regulation shall cover all railways in the European Union. Each Member State shall
report statistics whichrelate to transport on its nationalterritory. Member States mayexclude
fromthescopeofthisRegulation
14OJ L350, 23.12.1980, p. 23.
15OJ L52, 22.2.1997, p. 1.
16OJ L184, 17.7.1999, P. 23.
17OJ L181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.
10– railway undertakings which operate entirely or mainly within industrial and similar
installations, including harbours,
– railway undertakings which mainly provide local tourist services, such as preserved
historical steamrailways,
– other railway undertakings which collectively account for less than 2% of the total
railfreight or railpassenger transport in the reporting country, measured in tonne-km
and passenger-km respectively. This threshold may be adapted in accordance with
the procedure laid down inArticle 11, paragraph2.
Article 3
Definitions
1. Forthe purposes ofthis Regulationthe following definitions shallapply:– 'reportingcountry':theMemberStatetransmittingdatatoEurostat.
– 'national authorities': national statistical institutes and other bodies responsible in
eachMember Statefor producing Communitystatistics.
– 'railway undertaking': any public or private undertaking which provides services for
thetransport ofgoods and/orpassengers byrail.
2. The definitions referred to in paragraph 1 may be adapted, and additional definitions
needed to ensure harmonisation of statistics may be adopted, in accordance with the
procedurelaid down in Article 11, paragraph2.
Article 4
Data collection
1. The statistics to be collected are set out in the Annexes to this Regulation. Theyshall
cover the following types ofdata:
– annualstatistics ongoodstransport -detailed reporting (AnnexA)
– annualstatistics ongoodstransport -simplified reporting (AnnexB)
– annualstatisticsonpassengertransport-detailedreporting(AnnexC)
– annual statistics onpassenger transport - simplified reporting (AnnexD)
– quarterlystatistics ongoods and passenger transport (AnnexE)
– regionalstatistics ongoods and passenger transport (AnnexF)
– statisticsontraffic flowsontherailnetwork(AnnexG)
– statisticsonaccidents(AnnexH)
112. Annexes B and D set out simplified reporting requirements, which may be used by
Member States as alternatives to the normal detailed reporting set out in Annexes. A
and C respectively. The rules to be applied by Member States in determining which
undertakings may be covered by simplified reporting shall be adopted in accordance
withthe procedurelaid down in Article 11, paragraph2.
3. For eachtype ofdata, the corresponding annexspecifies:
– thelist ofvariablesandthecorrespondingunitsofmeasurement
– the reference periodsand frequency
– the list oftables withthe breakdown for eachtable
– the deadlines for transmissionofdata
– the first reference period for whichdata areto be transmitted
– where necessary, additional notes
4. Member States shall also provide a list of the railway undertakings for which
statistics are provided, as specified in AnnexI.
5. For the purposes of the present Regulation, goods shall be classified in accordance
with Annex J. Dangerous goods shall additionally be classified in accordance with
Annex K.
6. The contents of the annexes may be adapted, in accordance with the procedure laid
downin Article 11, paragraph2.
Article 5
Data sources
1. Member States may designate any public or private organization to participate in
collecting the data required under this Regulation.
2. The necessarydata maybe obtained using anycombinationofthe following sources:
– compulsorysurveys
– administrative data, including data collected byregulatoryauthorities
– statisticalestimationprocedures
– data supplied to professionalorganizations inthe rail industry
– ad hoc studies
3. The national authorities shall take measures for the coordination of the data sources
usedandtoensurethequalityofthestatisticstransmittedtoEurostat.
12Article 6
Transmission ofstatistics to Eurostat
1. Member Statesshalltransmit to Eurostat the statisticsreferred to inArticle 4.2. The arrangements for transmission of the statistics referred to in Article 4 shall be
laid down inaccordance withthe procedure specified in Article 11, paragraph2.
Article 7
Dissemination
1. The data specified in Annexes A-H to this Regulation shall be disseminated by
Eurostat. However, on a request bya railwayundertaking to the national authorities,
data which enable the undertaking to be identified indirectly and which are not
available to the public at national level, shall not be disseminated or shall be re-
arranged so that their dissemination is not prejudicial to the maintenance of statistical
confidentiality. Such requests, with the necessary supporting information, shall be
notifiedtoEurostatbythe nationalauthorities.
2. The information reported under Annex I shall not be disseminated except to the
extent that specific provisions for such dissemination are laid down in accordance
withthe procedurespecified in Article 11, paragraph2.
Article 8
Quality ofstatistics
1. In order to assist Member States in maintaining the quality of statistics in this
domain, Eurostat shall develop and publish methodological recommendations. These
recommendations shall take account of the best practices of national authorities, of
railwayundertakings and ofprofessionalorganisations for the railway industry.
2. The quality of the statistical data shall be evaluated by Eurostat. To this end, on
request by Eurostat, Member States shall supply information on the methods used in
producing the statistics.
Article 9
Report
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 under
this Regulation. This report shall include the results of the quality evaluation referred to in
Article 8. It shall also evaluate the benefits of the availability of statistics in this domain, the
costsofobtaining suchstatistics and the burdenonenterprises.
13Article 10
Implementing procedures
The following implementing measures shall be taken in accordance with the procedure
specified in Article 11, paragraph2:
– adaptationofthethreshold for statisticalcoverageofrailtransport (Article2)
– adaptationofthedefinitionsandadoptionofadditionaldefinitions(Article3),
– adaptation ofthe contents ofthe annexes (Article 4),
– adoptionofrules forthe applicationofsimplified reporting (Article 4),
– arrangementsfortransmittingdatatoEurostat (Article6),
– the disseminationofthe informationreported under AnnexI (Article 7).
Article 11
Procedure
1. The Commissionshallbe assisted bythe StatisticalProgramme Committee instituted
byArticle 1 ofCouncilDecision89/382/EEC,Euratom18.
2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, the regulatory procedure laid down in
Article 5 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC19shall apply, in compliance with Article
7 paragraph3 and Article 8 thereof.
3. The period provided for in Article 5 paragraph 6 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC
shall be three months.
Article 12
Directive 80/1177/EEC
1. Member States shall provide results for the year 2001 in accordance with
Directive 80/1177/EEC.
2. Directive 80/1177/EEC is herebyrepealed witheffect from1 January2002.
18OJ L181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.
19OJ L184, 17.7.1999p. 23.
14Article 13
E n t r yi n t of o r ce
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in
theOfficial Journal of theEuropean Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entiretyand directlyapplicable in allMember States.
Done at Brussels,
For the European Parliament For the Council
The President The President
15ANNEX A
ANNUAL STATISTICS ON GOODS TRANSPORT - DETAILED REPORTING
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementgoodstransportedin:
- tonnes
- tonne-km
number of intermodaltransport units carried in:
-n um b e r
-TEU(for containersand swap bodies)
Reference period year
Frequency every year
Listoftableswiththe breakdown for
eachtableTable A1: goodstransported, bytype oftransport
Table A2: goodstransported, bytype ofgoods(Annex
J)
Table A3: goodstransported (for internationaland
transittraffic) bycountryofloadingandcountryof
unloading
Table A4: goodstransported, bycategoryofdangerous
goods (AnnexK)
Table A5: goodstransported, bytype ofconsignment
Table A6: goodstransported in intermodaltransport
units, bytype oftransport and bytype oftransport unit
Table A7: number of loaded intermodaltransport units
carried, bytype oftransport and bytype oftransport
unit
Table A8: number ofemptyintermodaltransport units
carried, bytype oftransport and bytype oftransport
unit
Deadline fortransmissionofdata5 months after end ofreference period
First reference
period2002
16Notes 1. Type oftransport is broken down as follows:
-n a ti on a l
- international-incoming
- international-outgoing
-tra n si t
2. Type ofconsignment is brokendownas follows:
-f ul ltr a i nl oa d s
-fullwagonloads
-oth e r
3. Type oftransport unit is brokendownas follows:
-containersandswapbodies
- semi-trailers(unaccompanied)
- roadvehicles (accompanied)
4.ForTableA3,EurostatandtheMemberStatesmay
makearrangementsto facilitateconsolidationofdata
originating fromundertakings inother Member States,
inorderto ensure the coherence ofthese data.
5. ForTable A4, Member States shallindicate which
categories oftraffic, if any, are not covered bythe data.
17ANNEX B
ANNUAL STATISTICS ON GOODS TRANSPORT - SIMPLIFIED REPORTING
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementgoodstransportedin
- tonnes
- tonne-km
Reference period Year
Frequency every year
Listoftableswiththe breakdown for
eachtableTable B1: goodstransported, bytype oftransport
Table B2: goodstransportedin intermodaltransport
units, bytype oftransport
Deadline fortransmissionofdata5 months after end ofreference period
First reference
period2002
Notes 1. Type oftransport is broken down as follows:
-n a ti on a l
- international-incoming
- international-outgoing
-tra n si t
18ANNEX C
ANNUAL STATISTICS ON PASSENGER TRANSPORT - DETAILED REPORTING
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementpassengers transported in:
-n um b e rofp a s s e n g e r s
- passenger-km
Reference period Year
Frequency every year
Listoftableswiththe breakdown for
eachtableTable C1: passengers transported, bytype oftransport
(provisionaldata, number ofpassengers only)
Table C2: internationalpassengers transported, by
countryofembarkationandbycountryof
disembarkation(provisionaldata, number ofpassengers
only).
Table C3: passengers transported, bytype oftransport
(finalconsolidated data)
Table C4: internationalpassengers transported, by
countryofembarkationandbycountryof
disembarkation(finalconsolidated data, number of
passengers only).
Deadline fortransmissionofdata8 months after end ofreference period (Tables C1, C2)
14 months after end ofreference period (Tables C3, C4)
First reference
period2003
Notes 1. Type oftransport is broken down as follows:
-n a ti on a l
- international
2. For Tables C1 and C2, Member States may report
provisionaldata based onticket sales inthe reporting
countryonly. For Tables C3 and C4, Member States
shall report finalconsolidated data including
information from ticket sales outside the reporting
country. This information maybe obtained either
directlyfromthe nationalauthorities ofother countries
orthroughinternationalcompensationarrangements for
tickets.
19ANNEX D
ANNUAL STATISTICS ON PASSENGER TRANSPORT - SIMPLIFIED
REPORTING
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementpassengers transported in:
-n um b e rofp a s s e n g e r s
- passenger-km
Reference period Year
Frequency every year
Listoftableswiththe breakdown for
eachtableTable D1: passengers transported
Deadline for
transmissionofdata8 months after end ofreference period
First reference
period2003
Notes 1. For Table D1, Member States mayreport databased
onticket sales inthereportingcountryonly, as forTable
C1.
20ANNEX E
QUARTERLY STATISTICS ON GOODS ANDPASSENGER TRANSPORT
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementgoodstransportedin:
- tonnes
- tonne-km
passengers transported in:
-n um b e rofp a s s e n g e r s
- passenger-km
Reference period Quarter
Frequency everyquarter
Listoftableswiththe breakdown for
eachtableTable E1: goodstransported
Table E2: passengers transported
Deadline for
transmissionofdata3 months after end ofreference period
First reference
periodFirst quarterof2002
Notes 1. Tables E1 and E2 may be reported onthe basis of
provisionaldata, including estimates. For Table E2,
Member States mayreport data based onticket sales in
thereportingcountryonly.
2. These statistics shallbe supplied forthe undertakings
covered byAnnexes Aand C.
21ANNEX F
REGIONAL STATISTICS ON GOODS AND PASSENGER TRANSPORT
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementgoodstransportedin:
- tonnes
passengers transported in:
-n um b e rofp a s s e n g e r s
Reference period one year
Frequency every 5 years
Listoftableswiththe breakdown for
eachtableTable F1: nationalgoodstransport byregionofloading
and regionofunloading (NUTS 2)
TableF2: internationalgoodstransport byregionof
loading and unloading (NUTS 2)
Table F3: nationalpassenger transport byregionof
embarkationandregionofdisembarkation(NUTS2)
Table F4: internationalpassenger transport byregionof
embarkationandregionofdisembarkation(NUTS2)
Deadline fortransmissionofdata12 months after end ofreference period
First reference
period2003
Notes 1. Wheretheplaceofloadingorunloading(Tables F1,
F2) or embarkationor disembarkation(Tables F3, F4) is
outside the EuropeanEconomic Area, Member States
shallreport onlythe country.
2. Inorderto assist Member States inthe preparationof
these tables, Eurostat shallprovide Member States with
a list ofUIC stationcodes and the corresponding NUTS
codes.
3. ForTables F3 and F4, Member States mayreport data
basedonticket sales.
4. These statistics shallbe supplied forthe undertakings
covered byAnnexes Aand C.
22ANNEX G
STATISTICS ON TRAFFIC FLOWS ON THE RAIL NETWORK
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementgoodstransport:
-n um b e roftr a i n s
passenger transport:
-n um b e roftr a i n s
Reference period one year
Frequency every five years
Listoftableswiththe breakdown for
eachtableTable G1: goodstransport, bynetworksegment
Table G2: passenger transport, bynetwork segment
Deadline for
transmissionofdata18 months after end ofreference period
First reference
period2005
Notes 1.MemberStatesshalldefineaset ofnetworksegments
to include at least the railTEN ontheir national
territory.TheyshallcommunicatetoEurostat:
- the geographicalcoordinates and other data needed to
identifyand mapeachnetworksegment aswellasthe
links betweensegments;
-informationonthecharacteristics(includingthe
capacity) ofthe trains using each networksegment.
2. Eachnetwork segment which is part ofthe railTrans-
EuropeanNetwork(TEN)shallbe identifiedbymeans
ofanadditionalattribute inthe data record, inorderto
enable traffic on the rail TEN to be quantified.
23ANNEX H
STATISTICS ON ACCIDENTS
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurement- number ofaccidents (Tables H1, H2)
-n um b e rofp e r s on ski l l e d( T a b l eH 3 )
-numberofpersonsseriouslyinjured(TableH4)
Reference period Year
Frequency every year
Listoftableswith
the breakdown for
eachtableTable H1: number ofaccidents, bytype ofaccident
Table H2: number ofaccidents involving the transport
ofdangerous goods
Table H3: number ofpersons killed, bytype ofaccident
and bycategoryofperson
Table H4: number ofpersons seriouslyinjured, bytype
ofaccident and bycategoryofperson
Deadline fortransmissionofdata5 months after end ofreference period
First reference
period2002
Note 1. Type ofaccident is brokendownas follows:
- collisions(excluding level-crossingaccidents)
- derailments
- accidents involving level-crossings
- accidents to persons caused byrolling stock in motion
-oth e rs
-tota l
2. Table H2 has the following breakdown:
- totalnumber ofaccidents involving at least one
railwayvehicle transporting dangerous goods, as
defined bythe list ofgoods covered byAnnexK
- number ofsuchaccidents inwhichdangerous goods
are released
3. Categoryofperson is brokendownas follows:
- passengers
- employees (including contractors)
-oth e rs
-tota l
244. The data inTables H1-H4 shallbe provided for all
railways covered bythis Regulation.
5. During the first five years ofapplicationofthis
Regulation,MemberStatesmayreportthesestatistics
according to nationaldefinitions, ifdata conforming to
harmonised definitions (adoptedaccording tothe
procedureofArticle 11 paragraph2) are not available.
25ANNEX I
LIST OF RAILWAY UNDERTAKINGS
List ofvariablesand
units of
measurementsee below
Reference period one year
Frequency every year
Listoftableswith
the breakdown for
eachtablesee below
Deadline for
transmissionofdata5 months after end ofreference period
First reference
period2002
Note The information listed below (Table I1) shall be
supplied for eachrailwayundertaking for whichdata are
provided according to Annexes A-H.
This information shall be used
– to check which undertakings are covered by the
tables in Annexes A-H
– to validate the coverage ofAnnexes A and C in
relationto totalrailtransport activity
TableI1
Identificationofdatasource
I1.1 Reporting country
I1.2 Reference year
I1.3 Name ofundertaking
I1.4 Countryinwhichundertaking is based
Type of activities
I1.2.1 Freight transport: international yes/no
26I1.2.2 Freight transport:national yes/no
I1.2.3 Passengertransport:international yes/no
I1.2.4 Passenger transport: national yes/no
I1.2.5 Passenger transport: metro or light rail yes/no
Leveloftransport activity
I1.3.1 Totalfreight transport (tonnes)
I1.3.2 Totalfreight transport (tonne-km)
I1.3.3 Totalpassenger transport (passengers)
I1.3.4 Totalpassenger transport (passenger-
km)
Dataincluded inAnnexesA-H
Annex A yes/no
Annex B yes/no
Annex C yes/no
Annex D yes/no
Annex E yes/no
Annex F yes/no
Annex G yes/no
Annex H yes/no
27ANNEX J
CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS
The following groupsofgoods shall be used untilsuchtime as a new classification is laid
downaccording to the procedurespecified in Article 11, paragraph2.
Groups
of
goodsNST/R
chapterNST/R
groupsDescription
1 01 Cereals
2 02, 03 Potatoes,other freshor frozen fruits and vegetables
3 00, 06 Live animals, sugar beet
4 05 Woodandcork
50
04, 09 Textiles, textile articles and man-made fibres, other
raw animaland vegetable materials
6 11, 12,
13, 14,
16, 17Foodstuffand animalfodder
71
18 Oilseeds and oleaginous fruits and fats
8 2 21, 22,
23Solid mineral fuels
9 31 Crude petroleum
103
32, 33,
34Petroleumproducts
11 41, 46 Ironore, ironand steelwaste and blast furnace dust
124
45 Non-ferrousores and waste
13 5 51, 52,
53, 54,
55, 56Metalproducts
14 64, 69 Cement, lime, manufactured building materials
156
61, 62,
63, 65Crude and manufactured minerals
16 7 71, 72 Naturaland chemicalfertilizers
2817 83 Coalchemicals, tar
18 81, 82,
89Chemicalsother thancoalchemicalsandtar
198
84 Paper pulp and waste paper
20 91, 92,
93Transport equipment, machinery, apparatus, engines,
whether or not assembled, and parts thereof
21 94 Manufacturesofmetal
22 95 Glass, glassware, ceramic products
23 96, 97 Leather, textile, clothing, other manufactured articles
249
99 Miscellaneous articles
29ANNEX K
CLASSIFICATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS
1E x p l o s i v e s
2 Gases, compressed, liquified or dissolved under pressure
3 Flammable liquids
4.1 Flammable solids
4.2 Substances liable to spontaneous combustion
4.3 Substances which, incontact withwater, 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
8C o r r o s i v e s
9 Miscellaneous dangerous substances
Note: these categories are those defined in the regulations concerning the international
carriage of dangerous goods by rail, usually known as the RID, as adopted under Council
Directive 96/49/EC of 23 July 1996 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States
withregardto thetransport ofdangerous goods byrailand subsequent amendments20.
20OJ L 235, 17.9.1996 p. 25. The latest amendments appear in Commission Directive 96/87/EC of
13 December 1996 adapting to technical progress Council Directive 96/49/EC on the approximation ofthe laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail, OJ L 335,24.12.1996 p. 45.
30FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1. T ITLE OFOPERATION
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail
transportstatistics
2. B UDGET HEADING (S)INVOLVED
SectionIII (Commission), Part B
Article B5-600 and B5-600A
3. L EGALBASIS
Article 285 ofthe Treaty.
4. D ESCRIPTION OF OPERATION
4.1 Generalobjective
The aim of the proposed Regulation is to establish common rules for the production
of Community statistics relating to rail transport. These statistics are needed in order
to monitor the effects of Community policies on rail transport (including intermodal
transport) andto supportthe continuing development ofpolicy inthis domain.
The Regulationwillreplace anexisting Directive (Council Directive 80/1177/EEC of
4 December 1980 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by rail, as
part of regional statistics), which provides data only on freight transport and can no
longer be fully implemented since it specifies as data providers certain railway
administrations whichno longer exist.
The Regulation defines a set of statistical tables on the transport of goods and
passengers by rail, as well as on rail accidents, together with the most important
definitionsneededto ensurethe comparabilityofthe statistics. It setsout rules onthe
coverage ofrailundertakings bythese statistics and on the role ofnationalauthorities
and other organizations in collecting and transmitting data. It also provides for the
future adoption of rules on data transmission formats, as well as for the future
adaptationofthe Regulation, for example by changes to the definitions and to the list
oftables.
4.2 Period covered and arrangements for renewal
The first reference period for the collectionofstatistics under this Regulation will be
the year 2002. The Regulation will remain in force until repealed. Its provisions can
be adapted via a committee procedure.
315. C LASSIFICATIONOF EXPENDITURE ORREVENUE
5.1 Compulsory/Non-compulsory expenditure
Non-compulsoryexpenditure.
5.2 Differentiated/Non-differentiated appropriations
Differentiated appropriations.
5.3 Type ofrevenue involved
The sale of statistics via publications and databases will partly cover the production
costsincurred byEurostat.
6. T YPE OF EXPENDITURE OR REVENUE
It is envisaged that the work of national authorities in collecting and transmitting the
data will be financed by the Member States with no Community financial
contribution.
Work by Eurostat to develop and document the Community methodology and to
process, analyze and disseminate data will be covered in full. Where necessary, this
work will be carried out by means of study contracts and contracts for the provision
ofservices. Meetings ofexperts mayalso be financed in full.
7. F INANCIALIMPACT
7.1 Method of calculating total cost of operation (relation between individual and
totalcosts)
Cost of work by national authorities: these costs are not estimated here since no
financialcontribution is envisaged.
Cost of work by Eurostat: based on experience with the existing Council Directive
80/1177.
7.2 Itemised breakdown ofcost
Commitment appropriationsEUR million(at current prices)
Breakdown 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Total
2001-2005Subsequent
years (peryear)
Preparatoryactions(development of methodologyand data transmissionformats)0.08 0.04 0.04 - - 0.16 -
Processingandanalysis of
data- 0.04 0.04 0.08 0.08 0.24 0.08
Total 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.4 0.08
327.3 Operational expenditure for studies, experts etc. included in Part B of the
budget
Commitment appropriationsEUR million(at current prices)
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Total
2001-
2005Subsequent
years (per
year)
– S t u d i e s -------
– Meetingsofexperts 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.01
– Information and
publications0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.1 0.02
Total 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.15 0.03
7.4 Schedule ofcommitment and payment appropriations
EUR million
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Total
2001-2005Subsequent
years (peryear)
Commitmentappropriations 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.55 0.11
Payment appropriations
200120022003
2004
2005and subs. yrs0.08
0.03 0.08
0.03 0.08
0.03 0.08
0.03 0.080.08
0.110.11
0.11
0.11 0.11
Total 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.11 0.52 0.11
8. F RAUDPREVENTIONMEASURES
New rules and procedures have been adopted or are in the course of adoption for the
principal budgetary processes: calls for tender, grants, commitments, contracts and
payments. The manuals of procedures are made available to all those intervening in
financial acts with a view to clarifying responsabilities, simplifying workflows, and
indicating key control points. The manuals are subject to regular review and
updating.
339. E LEMENTSOFCOST -EFFECTIVENESSANALYSIS
9.1 Specific and quantified objectives;target population
– Specific objectives: links withgeneralobjectiveThe specific objectives ofthis operationare:
(1) to provide users with Community statistics on the transport of goods and
passengers by rail, and statistics on railaccidents, comprising:
– detailed annual statistics on rail freight transport, including intermodal
transport;
– detailed annualstatistics onrailpassenger transport;
– quarterlysummarystatistics for freight and passenger transport;
– statistics on flows of freight and passengers betweenregions;
– statistics on freight and passenger traffic on the rail Trans-European
Network(TEN);
– statisticsonrailaccidents.
(2) to ensure that these statistics are collected and disseminated according to
harmonised concepts and definitions.
– Target population: distinguish for any individual objectives; indicate the end-
beneficiaries of the Community's financial contribution and the intermediaries
involved.
The beneficiaries of this operation are users of rail transport statistics: Community
institutions; governments of Member States; regulatory agencies and infrastructure
authorities for railways in the Member States; railway undertakings; professional
associations; enterprises and private individuals using rail passenger and goods
transport services; enterprises supplying goods and services to the rail transport
industry;researchers and the media.
No Communityfinancialcontribution is envisaged.
9.2 Groundsforthe operation
– Need for Community financial aid, with particular regard for the principle of
subsidiarity
No Communityfinancialcontribution is envisaged.
349.3 Monitoring and evaluation ofthe operation
Statisticaldata collected under this Regulation will be subject to a quality evaluation,
which will include a review of the methodology used to produce the statistics in
Member States(Article 8 ofthe Regulation).
There will also be a report to the Parliament and Council after 3 years which will
include the results of the quality evaluation and also a analysis of the benefits of
these statistics inrelationto their cost and tothe burdenonenterprises (Article 9).
10. A DMINISTRATIVEEXPENDITURE (SECTIONIII, PARTAOFTHEBUDGET )
The needs for human and administrative resources will be covered within the
allocationgranted tothe managing DG (Eurostat).
Actual mobilization of the necessary administrative resources will depend on the
Commission’s annualdecision on the allocation of resources, taking into account the
number ofstaffand additionalamounts authorized bythe budgetaryauthority.
10.1 Effect on thenumberofposts
Type ofpost Stafftobe assignedtomanaging
theoperationSource Duration
Permanent
postsTemporary
postsExisting
resources inthe DG ordepartmentconcernedAdditional
resources
Officials ortemporarystaffA
BC0.5
0.50.2
0.30.3
0.2indefinite
Other resources
Total 1 0.5 0.5
3510.2 Overallfinancialimpact of human resources
EUR
Amounts Methodofcalculation
Officials 108.000 €/year Averagecost ofA/B official = 108000 €/ y e a r( b a s e do nT i t l e sA -
1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5, A-6, A-7)
Temporarystaff
Other resources (indicatebudget heading)
Total 108.000 €/year
10.3 Increase in otheradministrative expenditure as a result ofthe operation
No increase in other administrative expenditure is foreseen. Expenditure on working
groups and missions, etc will continue at the same level as required to support
Council Directive 80/1177, which will be replaced by the new Regulation. The
existing level of expenditure per year is approximately 9000 €/year for working
groupmeetings and 3000 €/year for missions.
36IMPACT ASSESSMENT FORM
THE IMPACT OF THE PROPOSAL ON BUSINESS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO SMALL ANDMEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES( SMEs)
TITLE OF PROPOSAL
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail
transportstatistics
DOCUMENTREFERENCENUMBER
COM(2000)nnnT
HE PROPOSAL
1. Taking account of the principle of subsidiarity, why is Community legislation
necessaryinthis area and what are its main aims?
Community legislation on statistics is needed to set common statistical standards for
data, witha highdegree ofcomparability between data collected in different Member
States. Such comparability is requested by all users, not only at Community level,
but also within Member States and in the enterprises concerned. In addition, setting
out explicit obligations for the provision of data by all enterprises gives enterprises
the assurance that theywill not be placed at a competitive disadvantage by supplying
data, whichcan be an issue whendata are supplied ona purelyvoluntarybasis.
The aim of the proposed Regulation is to establish common rules for the production
of Community statistics relating to rail transport. The Regulation defines a set of
statistical tables on the transport of goods and passengers by rail, as well as on rail
accidents, together with the most important definitions needed to ensure the
comparability of the statistics. It sets out rules on the coverage of rail undertakings
by these statistics and on the role of national authorities and other organizations in
collecting and transmitting data. It also provides for the future adoption of rules on
data transmission formats, as well as for the future adaptation of the Regulation, for
example bychanges tothe definitions and tothe list oftables.
THE IMPACT ON BUSINESS
2. Who will be affected bythe proposal?
– whichsectorsofbusiness
Railwayundertakings (railoperating companies).
– which sizes of business (what is the concentration of small and medium-sized
firms)
37In the past, rail transport services were provided mainly by a single railway
administration in each Member State, which also provided statistics both to the
national authorities and to Eurostat. With the progressive deregulation and
restructuring of railways over recent years, most Member States now have an
infrastructure authority and a number of operating companies which vary in size
from very large (the successors of the former railway administrations) to very small.
In most cases there is a dominant main operator (sometimes a separate operator for
freight and passenger transport) with 80% of more of the market (by volume).
However, the new smaller operators are already important and their market share is
expectedto grow;oneofthe purposesofthis Regulation is to monitorthis growth.
The Regulation imposes broadly similar data requirements on all railway
undertakings, but allows Member States the option of simplified reporting for those
undertakings which account (in aggregate) for less than 10% of the total market, by
volume. In addition, Member States may exclude from statistical reporting the
smallest operators (accounting in aggregate for less than 2% of the total market) as
wellas certainspecialcategories ofoperators suchas tourist railways.
– are there particular geographical areas of the Community where these businesses
are found
No.
3. What will business have to do to comply with the proposal?
Rail operators will have to extract data from their internal information systems and
generate summary reports for transmission to the national authority responsible for
compiling railstatistics and transmitting themto Eurostat. In practice, most operators
are already producing such reports for their own management and shareholders, and
are already supplying such data to professional organizations such as the
InternationalUnion ofRailways (UIC). Therefore the additional costs for enterprises
should besmall.
4. What economic effects is the proposallikelyto have?
–o n e m p l o y m e n t
None.
– oninvestment and the creationofnew businesses
None.
– onthecompetitivenessofbusinesses
The statistics which will become available via this Regulation will assist rail
operators who wish to benchmark their operations against the industry average. This
Regulation may therefore help to promote the competitiveness of businesses in this
sector.
5. Doesthe proposalcontain measures to take account ofthe specific situation ofsmall
and medium-sized firms(reduced or different requirementsetc)?
38Yes, there are provisions for simplified reporting for smaller operators, see point 2
above.
CONSULTATION
6. List the organisations which have been consulted about the proposaland outline their
main views.
Community of European Railways (CER): indicated that technical consultation on
thisproposalwould bedelegatedtotheInternationalUnionofRailways(UIC).
UIC: this is the main professional organisation dealing with technical rail issues,
including statistics. Eurostat works closely with UIC on all projects involving rail
statistics, and UIC participates regularly in the Eurostat Working Group on rail
transport statistics, which meets annually. On this proposal, UIC has been consulted
as follows:
– UIC was an active participant in four meetings of the the Eurostat Working
Group on rail transport statistics, at which the proposal was discussed
(November 1997, January1999, January2000, April2000). At these meetings,
UIC supportedthe principles underlying the Regulationand made proposals for
improvement of the draft text, certain of which have been incorporated into the
finaldraft.
– Eurostat presented the main features of the Regulation at a UIC seminar on
"Statistics and Confidentiality" in September 1999. It appeared that the
participants in this seminar (representing rail operators) broadly shared the
view of Eurostat (supported byUIC) that limited disclosure of operational data
brings collective benefits to all operators, without damaging the commercial
interestsofoperators.
– In September 1999, Eurostat also presented an early draft proposal to the
SteeringCommitteeofUIC'sStatisticalGroup.The membersofthe Committee
did not oppose the principles of the Regulation, but they made a number of
critical comments and proposals for improvement, many of which have been
reflected in later changes in the text. Following this meeting, UIC circulated
the draft proposal to its member companies with a request for comments;
additional comments mainly of a detailed nature were subsequently made to
Eurostat either via UIC or directly in the Eurostat Working Group on rail
transport statistics in January2000 (see below).
Certain large rail operators and infrastructure managers (SNCB-B, DB Cargo-D,
SNCF-F, FS Italia-I, RHK-FIN, VR-FIN, SJ-S) have participated in the regular
meetings of the Eurostat Working Group on rail transport statistics. They have
supported the principles of the Regulation but at the meeting in January 2000 they
expressed concerns notably about the technical difficulties of providing the detailed
passenger data, about the excessive detail for some types of data (intermodal data,
regional data) and about the definitions proposed for some variables. The new
version presented to the Working Group in April 2000 includes a number of changes
toovercome these objections.