Corrigendum to 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: 2001-05-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: carriage of goods, chartering, inland waterway fleet, inland waterway shipping, inland waterway transport, transport regulations

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Official Journal of the European Communities

29.5.2001

CORRIGENDA

Corrigendum to 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

This text cancels and replaces the text published in Official Journal L 139 of 23 May 2001, page 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,

(6)

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:

market make it expedient to reduce the ‘old-for-new’
ratios again.

It is therefore necessary to reduce the various ‘old-for-
new’ ratios mentioned in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
718/1999 and set by Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
805/1999, as amended by Article 1 of Regulation (EC)
No 1532/2000, though without undoing the achieve-
ments of the structural improvement carried out since
1990. The ratio for dry cargo carriers should be reduced
to 0,60:1, as the sector is continuing to grow; the ratio
to
for tanker vessels requires a smaller adjustment,
0,90:1, 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 0,25:1, as over-
capacity is not great in this sector.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

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.

(7)

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,

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

for

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.

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1532/2000 amending
Regulation (EC) No 805/1999 reduced the ‘old-for-new’
ratios as from the 20th day following their publication,
i.e as from 3 August 2000.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

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

1. In Article 4(1), the ratio ‘0,80:1’

is replaced by ‘0,60:1’.

2. In Article 4(2), the ratio ‘1,15:1’

is replaced by ‘0,90:1’.

3. In Article 4(3), the ratio ‘0,50:1’

is replaced by ‘0,25:1’.

The legal obligation to reduce the ratios to zero no later
than 29 April 2003 and the economic development in
the various sectors of the inland waterways transport

Article 2

(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.

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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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