Commission Regulation (EC) No 13/2004 of 8 December 2003 determining the composition of the list of waterways of a maritime character provided for in Article 3(d) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-12-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: inland waterway transport, network of navigable waterways, transport infrastructure, transport regulations

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 13/2004

of 8 December 2003

determining the composition of the list of waterways of a maritime character provided for in
Article 3(d) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 of 4
June 1970 introducing an accounting system for expenditure
on infrastructure in respect of transport by rail, road and inland
waterway (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of
Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 3(d),

Whereas:

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 281/71 of 9 February
1971 determining the composition of the list of water-
ways of a maritime character provided for in Article 3(e)
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 of 4 June
1970 (2) has been substantially amended several times (3).
In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Regu-
lation should be codified.

Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 provides that infrastruc-
ture expenditure accounts are not required for various
categories of infrastructure. This provision applies, inter
alia, to certain waterways of a maritime character, a list
of which is to be drawn up by the Commission.

(1)

(2)

(3)

introducing an accounting system for
desirability of
infrastructure expenditure in respect of such waterways
in the light of the institution of a system of charging for
the use of infrastructure,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The list of waterways of a maritime character provided for in
Article 3(d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 shall be as given
in Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 2

Regulation (EEC) No 281/71 is repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as
references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance
with the correlation table in Annex III.

Article 3

In drawing up this list account must be taken of the
proportion of the traffic on waterways of maritime char-
acter accounted for by inland waterway traffic, or of the

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

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

Done at Brussels, 8 December 2003.

For the Commission

Loyola DE PALACIO

Vice-President

(1) OJ L 130, 15.6.1970, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 33, 10.2.1971, p. 11.
(3) See Annex II.

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ANNEX I

List of waterways of a maritime character

Kingdom of Belgium

— Lower Scheldt

— Ghent-Terneuzen Maritime Canal, downstream from the northern branch of the Ghent Circular Canal

Federal Republic of Germany

— Kiel Canal

— Lower Ems

— Lower Weser

— Lower Elbe

French Republic

— Seine, downstream from Jeanne-d'Arc bridge in Rouen

— Loire, downstream from Nantes (confluence with the Erdre)

— Garonne, downstream from Pierre bridge in Bordeaux, and Gironde

Kingdom of the Netherlands

— North Sea Canal

— Rotterdamse Waterweg and the Nieuwe Maas

— Westerschelde

— Ghent-Terneuzen Canal

Portuguese Republic

— Douro, a jusante da ponte D. Luís, da cidade do Porto

— Tejo, a jusante do Carregado

— Sado, a jusante do esteiro da Marateca

— Guadiana, a jusante do Pomarão

Republic of Finland

— Saimaan kanava/Saima kanal

— Saimaan vesistö/Saimens vattendrag

Kingdom of Sweden

— Trollhätte kanal and Göta älv

— Lake Vänern

— Södertälje kanal

— Lake Mälaren

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

— Weaver Navigation (Northwich to the junction with the Manchester Ship Canal)

— Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

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ANNEX II

Repealed Regulation and its successive amendments that have not been repealed

Regulation (EEC) No 281/71 (OJ L 33, 10.2.1971, p. 11)

— Act of Accession of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

(OJ L 73, 27.3.1972, p. 92)

— Act of Accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic (OJ L 302, 15.11.1985, p. 162)

— Act of Accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden (OJ C 241,

29.8.1994, p. 165)

ANNEX III

CORRELATION TABLE

Regulation (EEC) No 281/71

This Regulation

Sole Article

–

–

Annex

–

–

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Annex I

Annex II

Annex III