Commission Regulation (EC) No 997/2001 of 22 May 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 805/1999 laying down certain measures for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 on a Community-fleet capacity policy to promote inland waterway transport
Date: 2001-05-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid for restructuring, carriage of goods, chartering, inland waterway fleet, inland waterway shipping

23.5.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 139/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 997/2001

of 22 May 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 805/1999 laying down certain measures for implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 on a Community-fleet capacity policy to promote inland waterway
transport

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 of 29
March 1999 on a Community-fleet capacity policy to promote
inland waterway transport (1), and in particular Article 9(3)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 requires the
Commission to lay down detailed rules for
imple-
menting the Community-fleet capacity policy as defined
by that Regulation.

Article 4 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 805/
1999 (2), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1532/
2000 (3), adopted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 718/
1999, set ratios for the ‘old-for-new’ rule to apply from
29 April 1999.

Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 requires
the ‘old-for-new’ ratio to be constantly reduced to bring
it as quickly as possible and in regular stages to zero no
later than 29 April 2003. A new ‘old-for-new’ ratio
should therefore be set for the year 2000.

Economic developments in the various sectors of the
inland waterways transport market make it expedient to
reduce the various ‘old-for-new’ ratios mentioned in
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 and set by
though
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 805/1999,

without undoing the achievements of
the structural
improvement carried out since 1990. The ratio for dry
cargo carriers should be reduced to 0,80:1, as the sector
is continuing to grow;
the ratio for tanker vessels
requires a smaller adjustment, to 1,15:1, as the situation
in this sector remains worrying and the market is not
growing; a larger adjustment is required for the pusher
craft ratio, to 0,50:1, as overcapacity is not great in this
sector.

(5)

The measures laid down in this Regulation have been
the subject of an opinion from the Group of Experts on
Community Fleets Capacity and Promotion Policy set up
by Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 805/1999,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 805/1999 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 4(1), the ratio ‘1:1’

is replaced by ‘0,80:1’.

2. In Article 4(2), the ratio ‘1,30:1’

is replaced by ‘1,15:1’.

3. In Article 4(3), the ratio ‘0,75:1’

is replaced by ‘0,50:1’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th 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, 22 May 2001.

For the Commission

Loyola DE PALACIO

Vice-President

(1) OJ L 90, 2.4.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 64.
(3) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 74.