Commission Regulation (EC) No 1192/2003 of 3 July 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail transport statistics (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-07-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, data collection, exchange of information, rail transport, statistical method, transport statistics

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1192/2003

of 3 July 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail
transport statistics

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on rail
transport statistics (1), and in particular Article 3(2) and Article
4(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

In accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 91/
2003, the definitions in that Regulation may be adapted
by the Commission.

Additional definitions are necessary for the purposes of
the collection of the data on the basis of common defini-
tions in all Member States to ensure the harmonisation
of the rail transport statistics.

In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 91/
2003, the contents of the Annexes may be adapted by
the Commission.

The specification of Table H1 needs to be modified to
ensure a clear statement of the coverage of the statistics.

Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion delivered by the Statistical
Programme Committee, set up by Council Decision 89/
382/EEC, Euratom (2),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 is amended as follows:

1. Article 3(1) is replaced by the following:

For the purposes of this Regulation the following defi-

‘1.
nitions shall apply:

1. “reporting country” means the Member State transmit-

ting data to Eurostat;

2. “national authorities” means national statistical

insti-
tutes and other bodies responsible in each Member
State for producing Community statistics;

3. “railway” means line of communication made up by rail

exclusively for the use of railway vehicles;

(1) OJ L 14, 21.1.2003, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

4. “railway vehicle” means mobile equipment

running
exclusively on rails, moving either under its own power
(tractive vehicles) or hauled by another vehicle (coaches,
railcar trailers, vans and wagons);

5. “railway undertaking” means any public or private
undertaking which provides services for the transport
of goods and/or passengers by rail. Undertakings whose
only business is to provide services for the transport of
are
passengers by metro,
excluded;

tram and/or

light

rail

6. “transport of goods by rail” means the movement of
goods using railway vehicles between the place of
loading and the place of unloading;

7. “transport of passengers by rail” means the movement
of passengers using railway vehicles between the place
of embarkation and the place of disembarkation. The
transport of passengers by metro, tram and/or light rail
is excluded;

8. “metro”

“subway”,

(also known as

“metropolitan
railway” or “underground”) means an electric railway
for the transport of passengers with the capacity for a
heavy volume of traffic and characterised by exclusive
rights-of-way, multi-car trains, high speed and rapid
acceleration, sophisticated signalling as well as the
absence of level crossings to allow a high frequency of
trains and high platform load. Metros are also charac-
terised by closely spaced stations, normally meaning a
distance of 700 to 1 200 m between the stations.
“High speed” refers to the comparison with trams and
light rail, and means here approximately 30 to 40 km/
h on shorter distances, 40 to 70 km/h on longer
distances;

9. “tram (streetcar)” means a passenger

road vehicle
designed to seat more than nine persons (including the
driver), which is connected to electric conductors or
powered by diesel engine and which is rail-borne;

10. “light rail” means a railway for the transport of passen-
gers that often uses electrically powered rail-borne cars
operating singly or in short trains on fixed duo-rail
lines. There is generally a distance of less than 1 200 m
between stations/stops. In comparison to metros, light
rail is more lightly constructed, is designed for lower
traffic volumes and usually travels at lower speeds. It is
sometimes difficult
to make a precise distinction
between light rail and trams; trams are generally not
separated from road traffic, whereas light rail may be
separated from other systems;

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11. “national transport” means rail transport between two
places (a place of loading/embarkation and a place of
located in the reporting
unloading/disembarkation)
country.
through a second
country;

It may involve transit

12. “international transport” means rail transport between a
place (of loading/embarkation or unloading/disembarka-
tion) in the reporting country and a place (of loading/
in another
embarkation or unloading/disembarkation)
country;

13. “transit” means rail

transport

through the reporting
country between two places (a place of loading/embar-
kation and a place of unloading/disembarkation) outside
the reporting country. Transport operations involving
loading/embarkation or unloading/disembarkation of
goods/passengers at the border of the reporting country
from/onto another mode of transport are not consid-
ered as transit;

14. “rail passenger” means any person, excluding members
of the train crew, who makes a trip by rail. For accident
statistics, passengers trying to embark/disembark onto/
from a moving train are included;

15. “number of passengers” means the number of trips by
rail passengers, where each trip is defined as the move-
ment from the place of embarkation to the place of
disembarkation, with or without transfers from one rail
vehicle to another.
If passengers use the services of
more than one railway undertaking, when possible they
should not be counted more than once;

16. “passenger-km” means the unit of measure representing
the transport of one passenger by rail over a distance of
one kilometre. Only the distance on the national terri-
tory of
the reporting country shall be taken into
account;

17. “weight” means the quantity of goods in tonnes (1 000
kilograms). The weight to be taken into consideration
includes, in addition to the weight of the goods trans-
ported, the weight of packaging and the tare weight of
containers, swap bodies, pallets as well as road vehicles
transported by rail in the course of combined transport
operations.
the goods are transported using the
services of more than one railway undertaking, when
possible the weight of goods should not be counted
more than once;

If

18. “tonne-km” means the unit of measure of goods trans-
port which represents the transport of one tonne
(1 000 kilograms) of goods by rail over a distance of
one kilometre. Only the distance on the national terri-
tory of
the reporting country shall be taken into
account;

19. “train” means one or more railway vehicles hauled by
one or more locomotives or railcars, or one railcar
travelling alone, running under a given number or
specific designation from an initial
fixed point to a
terminal fixed point. A light engine, i.e. a locomotive
travelling on its own, is not considered to be a train;

20. “train-km” means the unit of measure representing the
movement of a train over one kilometre. The distance
used is the distance actually run, if available, otherwise
the standard network distance between the origin and
destination shall be used. Only the distance on the
the reporting country shall be
national
taken into account;

territory of

21. “full trainload” means any consignment comprising one
or more wagonloads transported at the same time by
the same sender at the same station and forwarded with
no change in train composition to the address of the
same consignee at the same destination station;

22. “full wagonload” means any consignment of goods for
which the exclusive use of a wagon is required, whether
the total loading capacity is utilised or not;

23. “TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit)” means a standard
length
unit based on an ISO container of 20 feet
(6,10 m), used as a statistical measure of traffic flows
or capacities. One standard 40' ISO Series 1 container
equals 2 TEUs. Swap bodies under 20 feet correspond
to 0,75 TEU, between 20 feet and 40 feet to 1,5 TEU
and over 40 feet to 2,25 TEU;

24. “significant accident” means any accident involving at
least one rail vehicle in motion, resulting in at least one
killed or seriously injured person, or in significant
damage to stock, track, other installations or environ-
ment, or extensive disruptions to traffic. Accidents in
workshops, warehouses and depots are excluded;

25. “serious injury accident” means any accident involving
at least one rail vehicle in motion, resulting in at least
one killed or seriously injured person. Accidents in
workshops, warehouses and depots are excluded;

26. “person killed” means any person killed immediately or
dying within 30 days as a result of an accident,
excluding suicides;

27. “person seriously injured” means any person injured
who was hospitalised for more than 24 hours as a
result of an accident, excluding attempted suicides;

28. “accident involving the transport of dangerous goods”
to

means any accident or
is subject
reporting in accordance with RID/ADR section 1.8.5.

incident

that

29. “suicide” means an act to deliberately injure oneself
resulting in death, as recorded and classified by the
competent national authority;

30. “attempted suicide” means an act to deliberately injure
oneself resulting in serious injury, but not in death, as
recorded and classified by the competent national
authority.’

2. Annex H is replaced by the text

in the Annex to this

Regulation.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 3 July 2003.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX H

STATISTICS ON ACCIDENTS

List of variables and units of measurement — number of accidents (Tables H1, H2)
— number of persons killed (Table H3)
— number of persons seriously injured (Table H4)

Reference period

Frequency

Year

Every year

List of tables with the breakdown for each
table

Table H1: number of significant accidents and number of serious injury
accidents (optional), by type of accident
Table H2: number of accidents involving the transport of dangerous
goods
Table H3: number of persons killed, by type of accident and by category
of person
Table H4: number of persons seriously injured, by type of accident and
by category of person

Deadline for transmission of data

Five months after end of reference period

First reference period

2004

Note

1. Type of accident is broken down as follows:

— collisions (excluding level crossing accidents)
— derailments
— accidents involving level crossings
— accidents to persons caused by rolling stock in motion
— fires in rolling stock
— others
— total
The type of accident refers to the primary accident.

2. Table H2 has the following breakdown:

— total number of accidents involving at least one railway vehicle
transporting dangerous goods, as defined by the list of goods
covered by Annex K

— number of such accidents in which dangerous goods are released

3. Category of person is broken down as follows:

— passengers
— employees (including contractors)
— others
— total

4. The data in Tables H1 to H4 shall be provided for all railways covered

by this Regulation.

5. During the first five years of application of this Regulation, Member
States may report these statistics according to national definitions, if
data conforming to harmonised definitions (adopted according to the
procedure of Article 11(2)) are not available.’