Commission Regulation (EC) No 336/2002 of 22 February 2002 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: 2002-02-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: carriage of goods, inland waterway fleet, inland waterway shipping, inland waterway transport, transport regulations

23.2.2002

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 336/2002

of 22 February 2002

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,

various sectors of the inland waterways transport market
the ‘old-for-new’ ratios should again be reduced.

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:

It is therefore necessary to adjust 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 997/2001, though without undoing the achieve-
ments of the structural improvement carried out since
1990. To take into consideration a slight general
increase in demand in the inland waterway transport
sector while maintaining the balance between the three
sectors, and taking account of their specific features, the
ratios should be halved to 0,30:1 for dry cargo carriers,
0,45:1 for tanker vessels, and 0,125:1 for pusher craft.

(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.

(7)

The Group of Experts on Community Fleets Capacity
and Promotion Policy set up by Article 6 of Regulation
(EC) No 805/1999 has been consulted about the meas-
ures laid down in this Regulation,

Article 4 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 805/
1999 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 997/
2001 (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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1532/
amending Regulation (EC) No 805/1999
2000 (4)
reduced the ‘old-for-new’ ratios as from the 20th day
following their publication, i.e. as from 3 August 2000.
They were again reduced by Article 1 of Regulation (EC)
No 997/2001, as from the 20th day following their
i.e. as from 18 June 2001.
publication,

Article 1

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

1.

in Article 4(1), the ratio ‘0,60:1’

is replaced by ‘0,30:1’;

2.

in Article 4(2), the ratio ‘0,90:1’

is replaced by ‘0,45:1’;

3.

in Article 4(3), the ratio ‘0,25:1’ is replaced by ‘0,125:1’.

(5)

In view of the obligation to reduce the ratios to zero no
later than 29 April 2003 and the economic trend in the

Article 2

(1) OJ L 90, 2.4.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 64.
(3) OJ L 139, 23.5.2001, p. 11.
(4) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 74.

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th day
following that of its publication in the 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 February 2002.

For the Commission

Loyola DE PALACIO

Vice-President