Amended 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: 2001-02-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, Hungary, Union transit, carriage of goods, combined transport, road transport

29.5.2001

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Amended proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the
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 (1)

(2001/C 154 E/26)

COM(2001) 57 final (cid:151) 1999/0264(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty on 12 February 2001)

(1) OJ C 89 E, 28.3.2000, p. 33.

INITIAL PROPOSAL

AMENDED PROPOSAL

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

Unchanged

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

Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

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,

Whereas:

(1) By Council Decision . . .

the European Community has
concluded Agreements with the Republic of Bulgaria and
the Republic of Hungary establishing certain conditions for
the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of
Combined Transport.

(2) These Agreements foresee that the Community will receive
road transit authorisations from Bulgaria and Hungary
respectively.

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

(4) For practical and management reasons,

those authoris-
ations should be made available to the Member States by
the Commission.

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INITIAL PROPOSAL

AMENDED PROPOSAL

(5) To that end, an allocation method should be established;
whereas, thereafter, the Member States should share out the
amounts
in
accordance with objective criteria.

allocated to them among undertakings

(6) In order to ensure the optimal use of authorisations, all
should be returned to the

unallocated authorisations
Commission for redistribution.

(7) The allocation of authorisations should be based on criteria
flows
take full account of existing land transport

that
between Greece and the other Member States,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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.
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.

The authorisations for each year shall be allocated before

3.
15 November of the preceding year.

The authorisations for each year shall be allocated before

3.
15 October of the preceding year.

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

Unchanged

Article 3

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

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INITIAL PROPOSAL

Article 4

AMENDED PROPOSAL

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

allocate

these

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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.

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