Commission Directive 2004/110/EC of 9 December 2004 adapting for the sixth time to technical progress Council Directive 96/49/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by railText with EEA relevance
Date: 2004-12-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: application of EU law, approximation of laws, exchange of information, international transport, rail transport, transport of dangerous goods

L 365/24

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

10.12.2004

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2004/110/EC

of 9 December 2004

adapting for the sixth time to technical progress Council Directive 96/49/EC on the approximation
of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 96/49/EC of 23 July 1996
on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with
regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail (1), and in
particular Article 8 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The Annex to Directive 96/49/EC refers to the Regu-
lation
of
the
concerning
(RID), as applicable from 1
dangerous goods by rail
July 2003.

international

carriage

The RID is updated every two years. Consequently, the
next amended version shall be applicable as from 1
January 2005, with a transitional period up to 30 June
2005.

It is therefore necessary to amend the Annex to Directive
96/49/EC.

The measures provided for
in this Directive are in
conformity with the opinion of the Committee on the
transport of dangerous goods referred to in Article 9 of
Directive 96/49/EC,

party and the States or the railways will be replaced by the
term Member State.

The text of the amendments of the 2005 version of the RID
will be published as soon as it is available in all official
languages of the Community.’

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 1 July 2005 at the latest. They shall forthwith
communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions
and a correlation table between those provisions and this
Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

The Annex to Directive 96/49/EC is replaced by the following:

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 December 2004.

concerning

‘Regulation
of
dangerous goods by rail
to
Appendix B to the Convention concerning international
carriage by rail
(COTIF), as applicable with effect from 1
January 2005, it being understood that the terms contracting

the
(RID) appearing in Annex I

international

carriage

For the Commission

Jacques BARROT
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 235, 17.9.1996, p. 25. Directive as last amended by Commission

Directive 2004/89/EC (OJ L 293, 16.9.2004, p. 14).