Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the distribution of authorizations among Member States received through the Agreements between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria and between the European Community and the Republic of Hungary establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of Combined Transport
Date: 1999-12-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, Hungary, carriage of goods, free movement of goods, transit

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for a Regulation of

the Council concerning the
the European Parliament and of
Proposal
distribution of authorisations among Member States received through the Agreements between
the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria and between the European Community
and the Republic of Hungary establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and
the promotion of Combined Transport

(2000/C 89 E/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(1999) 667 final (cid:151) 1999/0264(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 10 December 1999)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

(6) Whereas, in order to ensure the optimal use of authoris-
ations, all unallocated authorizations should be returned to
the Commission for redistribution;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 71 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,

(7) Whereas the allocation of authorisations should be based
on criteria that take full account of existing land transport
flows between Greece and the other Member States;

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions,

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

(1) Whereas by Council Decision . . . the European Community
has concluded Agreements with the Republic of Bulgaria
certain
of Hungary
and
conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the
promotion of Combined Transport;

the Republic

establishing

Article 1

for

the distribution
This Regulation lays down the rules
between the Member States of authorisations available to the
Community by virtue of Article 6(2) of
the Agreements
between the European Community and the Republic of
Bulgaria and between the European Community and the
Republic of Hungary establishing certain conditions for the
carriage of goods by road and the promotion of Combined
Transport (hereinafter referred to as (cid:145)the Agreements(cid:146)).

Article 2

The Commission

1.
accordance with paragraphs 2 to 4.

shall

allocate

authorisations

in

(2) Whereas these Agreements foresee that

the Community
will receive road transit authorisations from Bulgaria and
Hungary respectively;

(3) Whereas it is necessary to establish rules governing the
distribution and management of the authorisations which
are made available to the Community;

2.
The authorisations shall be allocated between Member
States in accordance with the Annex. In the light of experience,
especially the evolution of traffic flows, the Commission will,
where appropriate and at the earliest 3 years after the entry
into force of this Regulation, make a proposal to the Council to
decide on a modification of the allocation of the authorisations
between Member States.

(4) Whereas for practical and management reasons, those auth-
orisations should be made available to the Member States
by the Commission;

The authorisations for each year shall be allocated before

3.
15 November of the preceding year.

(5) Whereas,

to that end, an allocation method should be
established; whereas, thereafter, the Member States should
share out the amounts allocated to them among under-
takings in accordance with objective criteria;

implementation of either of

The number of authorisations allocated for the first year
shall be
the Agreement has entered into force

4.
of
adjusted pro rata if
after 1 January of that year.

the Agreements

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Article 3

Member States shall distribute authorisations amongst under-
takings established in their territory according to objective and
non-discriminatory criteria.

Article 4

Before 15 September of each year, the competent authorities of
the Member States shall return to the Commission those auth-
orisations which, on the basis of available data and estimates,
are likely not to be used before the end of that year. The

Commission shall allocate these returned authorisations taking
account of the distribution key in the Annex and the request of
Member States for additional authorisations.

Article 5

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

Journal

of

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

ANNEX

Member State

Authorisations for use in

Bulgaria

Hungary

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

103

110

134

103

110

133

11 468

10 974

100

102

100

102

100

150

119

100

102

107

103

100

102

100

102

100

147

118

100

102

106

103

Total

13 000

12 500