Commission Regulation (EC) No 411/2003 of 5 March 2003 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: 2003-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: carriage of goods, inland waterway fleet, inland waterway shipping, inland waterway transport, transport regulations

L 62/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

6.3.2003

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 411/2003

of 5 March 2003

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 (1) on a Community-fleet policy to promote inland
waterway transport, and in particular Article 7 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The Commission sets, pursuant to Regulation (EC) No
718/1999 and after consulting the Member States and
the organisations which represent
inland waterway
transport at Community level, the ratios of the ‘old-for-
new’ rule for dry cargo vessels, tanker vessels and pusher
craft.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 805/1999 of 16 April
1999 (2) laying down certain measures for implementing
Council Regulation (EC) No 718/1999 set the ratios for
the ‘old-for-new’ rule to apply from 29 April 1999.

These ratios have to be reduced constantly in order to
bring them, as quickly as possible and in regular stages,
to zero no later than 29 April 2003 pursuant to Article
4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 718/1999.

The ‘old-for-new’ ratios were reduced in 2000, 2001 and
2002 by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1532/2000 (3),
Commission Regulation (EC) No 997/2001 (4) and
Commission Regulation (EC) No 336/2002 (5).

(5)

(6)

(7)

The ratios of the ‘old-for-new’ rule must now be set at
zero for dry cargo vessels, tanker vessels and pusher
craft, with effect from 29 April 2003,
in accordance
with the second sentence of Article 4(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 718/1999.

It is therefore necessary to amend Regulation (EC) No
805/1999 accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation have been
the subject of consultation within 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 hereby amended as follows:

1.

in Article 4(1), the ratio ‘0,30:1’ is replaced by ‘0:1’;

2.

in Article 4(2), the ratio ‘0,45:1’ is replaced by ‘0:1’;

3.

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

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 April 2003.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 5 March 2003.

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.
(4) OJ L 142, 29.5.2001, p. 18.
(5) OJ L 53, 23.2.2002, p. 11.