Commission Regulation (EC) No 812/1999 of 19 April 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1102/89 laying down certain measures for implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1101/89 on structural improvements in inland waterway transport
Date: 1999-04-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: industrial restructuring, inland waterway fleet, inland waterway shipping, tanker

20. 4. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 103/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 812/1999

of 19 April 1999

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1102/89 laying down certain measures for imple-
menting Council Regulation (EEC) No 1101/89 on structural improvements in
inland waterway transport

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1101/89
of 27 April 1989 on structural improvements in inland
waterway transport (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 742/98 (2), and in particular Articles 6
and 10(3) thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
1102/89 of 27 April 1989 laying down certain measures
for implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1101/89
on structural
improvements in inland waterway trans-
port (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2433/
97 (4), the Commission establishes the practical arrange-
ments for implementing these scrapping schemes;

Whereas the objective of reducing overcapacity in the
tanker fleet has been attained with the financial resources
available; whereas there is no longer any justification for
maintaining the annual contribution by the trade for
tanker vessels in 1999; whereas, consequently, the contri-
bution for tanker vessles is abolished for 1999 and may be
refunded;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3690/92 (5)
added Article 6(6)(a) and (b)
introducing a permanent
scrapping scheme based on a quarterly list of applications
for scrapping premiums;

Whereas to enable the surplus funds from the structural
improvement schemes to be placed in the reserve fund set
up by Council Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 of 29 March
1999 on a Community fleet capacity policy to promote
inland waterway transport (6), submission of new applica-

tions for scrapping premiums under Article 6(6)(a) and (b)
must remain suspended until Regulation (EEC) No 1101/
89 expires; whereas the quarterly mechanism for applying
for premiums from the Scrapping Funds, as provided for
in Article 6(6)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1102/89,
as amended, therefore remains suspended until the above-
mentioned Regulation expires;

Whereas the Member States and the Group of Experts on
Structural Improvements in Inland Waterway Transport
set up under Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 1102/89
have been consulted on the proposed amendments,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 1102/89 is hereby amended as
follows:

1. the following paragraph 4 is added to Article 3:

‘4.
For 1999 the rates of the annual contributions
for tanker vessels referred to in paragraph 1 shall be set
at zero and the 1999 annual contributions for tanker
vessels shall be refunded by the Scrapping Funds for
these vessels.';

2. for 1999, paragraph 6 of Article 6 shall be deleted.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 19 April 1999.

For the Commission

Neil KINNOCK

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 116, 28.4.1989, p. 25.
(2) OJ L 103, 3.4.1998, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 116, 28.4.1989, p. 30.
(4) OJ L 337, 9.12.1997, p. 10.
(5) OJ L 374, 22.12.1992, p. 22.
(6) OJ L 90, 2.4.1999, p. 1.