2001/423/EC: Commission Decision of 22 May 2001 on arrangements for publication or dissemination of the statistical data collected pursuant to Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2001) 1456)
Date: 2001-05-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: carriage of goods, carriage of passengers, data collection, dissemination of information, maritime transport, statistics

7.6.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 151/41

COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 May 2001

on arrangements for publication or dissemination of the statistical data collected pursuant to
Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by
sea

(notified under document number C(2001) 1456)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2001/423/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 95/64/EC of 8 December
1995 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and
passengers by sea (1), as last amended by Commission Decision
2000/363/EC (2), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

In accordance with Article 9 of Directive 95/64/EC, the
Commission shall disseminate appropriate statistical data
with a periodicity comparable to that of the results
transmitted.

The dissemination of data must take into account the
provisions on statistical confidentiality as laid down by
Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1588/90 (3) and
by Regulation (EC) No 322/97 (4).

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
Statistical
accordance with
Programme Committee set up by Council Decision 89/
382/EEC, Euratom (5),

opinion

the

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Aim

Article 2

Periodicity

The periodicity of publication or dissemination shall be
comparable to that of the results transmitted. Quarterly data
shall be disseminated or published within five months after
data are received from the Member States. Annual data shall be
disseminated or published within eight months after data are
received from the Member States.

Article 3

Confidentiality

The dissemination or publication of statistical data collected
under Directive 95/64/EC shall conform to the provisions laid
down in Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1588/90 and Regula-
tion (EC) No 322/97.

Article 4

Level of detail of disseminated data

Until the Commission adopts another decision pursuant to the
procedure provided in Article 13 of Directive 95/64/EC, the
in which data may be published or
highest level of detail
disseminated is the level of port to and from maritime coastal
area. The Commission may however publish at more aggregate
level if the quality and/or completeness of the information are
not appropriate in such detail.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Done at Brussels, 22 May 2001.

The aim of the present Decision is to establish the arrange-
ments for the publication or dissemination by the Commission
of data collected under Directive 95/64/EC in the frame of its
general dissemination policy in the field of statistics.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 320, 30.12.1995, p. 25.
(2) OJ L 132, 5.6.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 151, 15.6.1990, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.