Commission Regulation (EC) No 2691/1999 of 17 December 1999 on rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-12-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, carriage of goods, intra-EU transport, road transport, transport statistics

18. 12. 1999

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2691/1999

of 17 December 1999

on rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of
the carriage of goods by road

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25
May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of
goods by road (1), and in particular, Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

In accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
1172/98,
the
arrangements
the transmission of data by the
Member States.

the Commission should determine

for

It is necessary to specify the country codes for inter-
national transport during the transitional period foreseen
in Article 5 of the said Regulation.

The use of the two different systems of country codes
specified in Annexes A and G of Regulation (EC) No
1172/98 is not compatible with the efficient transmis-
sion of data by the Member States.

It is desirable to establish a new list of country codes
following the system used for the NUTS region codes.

(5)

(6)

The contents of Annexes A and G of Regulation (EC) No
1172/98 needs to be adapted accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion delivered by the Statistical
Programme Committee, set up by Decision 89/382/EEC,
Euratom (2),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 shall be amended as follows:

1. In Annex A, part A2, the text of section 7 shall be replaced

by the following:

‘7. Countries crossed in transit (not more than 5), coded

according to Annex G.’

2. Annex G shall be replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of 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, 17 December 1999.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 163, 6.6.1998, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX G

CODING OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS

1. Except as provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 concerning the simplified coding of certain

variables during a transitional period, 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 European Community;

(b) lists of administrative regions supplied by the third country concerned, for States which are not members of the
European 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 below.

2. For the simplified coding of international transport during the transitional period referred to in Article 5 of Regulation
(EC) No 1172/98, as well as for the coding of countries crossed in transit (section 7 of Annex A, 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 European

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.

Country name

Code

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

BE

DK

DE

GR

ES

FR

IE

IT

LU

NL

AT

PT

FI

SE

UK

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

Note: countries ordered by code.

Country name

Code

Albania

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Belarus

Switzerland

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Croatia

Hungary

Iceland

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Latvia

Moldova

Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (FYROM)

Malta

Norway

Poland

Romania

Russian Federation

Slovenia

Slovakia

Turkey

Ukraine

Yugoslavia

AL

BA

BG

BY

CH

CY

CZ

EE

HR

HU

IS

LI

LT

LV

MD

MK

MT

NO

PL

RO

RU

SI

SK

TR

UA

YU

For countries not shown in this list, the ISO-3166 2-alpha codes should be used.’