Amended proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on a Community fleet capacity policy to promote inland waterway transport
Date: 1998-12-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU waters, fishing fleet, inland waterway shipping, inland waterway transport, ratio

20.1.1999

EN

Official  Journal  of  the  European  Communities

C  15/15

Amended  proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  (EC)  on  a  Community  fleet  capacity  policy  to
promote  inland  waterway  transport(cid:216)(˛)

(1999/C  15/06)

(Text  with  EEA  relevance)

COM(1998)  792  final  -  98/0281(SYN)

(Submitted  by  the  Commission  pursuant  to  Article  189a(2)  of  the  EC(cid:220)Treaty  on  14  December
1998)

(˛)(cid:217)OJ  C  320,  17.10.1998,  p.  4.

ORIGINAL  PROPOSAL

AMENDED  PROPOSAL

Article  4

2.(cid:218)(cid:217)The  ratio  may  be  set  at  different  levels  for  different
sectors  of  the  market,  i.e.  dry  cargo  carriers,  tanker
vessels  and  pusher  craft;  the  ratio  must  gradually  be
reduced  to  zero  within  not  more  than  five  years  of  28
April  1999.  Once  the  ratio  has  been  set  at  zero,  the
arrangements  shall  become  a  standby  mechanism  and
in  the  event  of  a  serious
may  be  reactivated  only 
disturbance  of  the  market,  as  provided  for  by  Article  7  of
Directive  96/75/EC.

2.(cid:218)(cid:217)The  ratio  may  be  set  at  different  levels  for  different
sectors  of  the  market,  i.e.  dry  cargo  carriers,  tanker
vessels  and  pusher  craft;  the  ratio  must  gradually  be
reduced  to  zero  within  not  more  than  five  years  of  28
April  1999.  Once  the  ratio  has  been  set  at  zero,  the
arrangements  shall  become  a  standby  mechanism  and
in  the  event  of  a  serious
may  be  reactivated  only 
disturbance  of  the  market,  as  provided  for  in  Article  6  of
the  present  Regulation.

Article  4

3.(cid:218)(cid:217)The  owner  of  the  vessel  shall  have  the  choice
between  paying  the  special  contribution  or  scrapping  old
tonnage  either  at  the  time  that  the  firm  order  for
construction  of  the  new  vessel  is  placed  or  at  the  time
that  the  application  for  import  is  lodged,  provided  the
vessel  is  brought  into  service  within  eighteen  months
thereafter,  or  at  the  time  that  the  new  or  imported  vessel
is  brought  into  service.  This  choice  must  be  stated  at  the
time  of  ordering  or  applying  to  import  the  vessel.  The
vessel  offered  for  scrapping  as  compensatory  tonnage
must  have  been  scrapped  before  the  new  vessel 
is
brought  into  service.  Owners  of  vessels  to  be  brought
into  service  who  have  a  higher  tonnage  than  necessary
scrapped  shall  receive  no  financial  compensation  for  this
surplus.  Vessels  definitively  withdrawn  from  the  market
for  use  for  purposes  other  than  the  carriage  of  goods
such  as  vessels  for  humanitarian  purposes,  museum  ships,
vessels  for  developing  countries  outside  Europe  or  vessels
placed  at  the  disposal  of  non(cid:220)profitmaking  bodies  may
be  counted  as  compensatory  tonnage,  i.e.  treated  as  if
the
they  had  been 
Commission.

the  decision  of 

scrapped,  at 

is  brought 

3.(cid:218)(cid:217)The  owner  of  the  vessel  shall  have  the  choice
between  paying  the  special  contribution  or  scrapping  old
tonnage  either  at  the  time  that  the  firm  order  for
construction  of  the  new  vessel  is  placed  or  at  the  time
that  the  application  for  import  is  lodged,  provided  the
vessel 
into  service  within  twelve  months
thereafter,  or  at  the  time  that  the  new  or  imported  vessel
is  brought  into  service.  This  choice  must  be  stated  at  the
time  of  ordering  or  applying  to  import  the  vessel.  The
vessel  offered  for  scrapping  as  compensatory  tonnage
must  have  been  scrapped  before  the  new  vessel 
is
brought  into  service.  Owners  of  vessels  to  be  brought
into  service  who  have  a  higher  tonnage  than  necessary
scrapped  shall  receive  no  financial  compensation  for  this
surplus.  Vessels  definitively  withdrawn  from  the  market
for  use  for  purposes  other  than  the  carriage  of  goods
such  as  vessels  for  humanitarian  purposes,  museum  ships,
vessels  for  developing  countries  outside  Europe  or  vessels
placed  at  the  disposal  of  non(cid:220)profitmaking  bodies  may
be  counted  as  compensatory  tonnage,  i.e.  treated  as  if
the
they  had  been 
Commission.

the  decision  of 

scrapped,  at