Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways and repealing Council Directive 80/1119/EEC
Date: 2006-09-06
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: EU statistics, carriage of goods, inland waterway, statistical method, transport statistics

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REGULATION (EC) No 1365/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 6 September 2006

on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways and repealing Council Directive 80/1119/EEC

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EURO-
PEAN UNION,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251
of the Treaty (1),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Inland waterways are an important part of the Communi-
ty’s transport networks and the promotion of inland
waterways transport is one of the objectives of the com-
mon transport policy, both for reasons of economic effi-
ciency and in order to reduce energy consumption and
the environmental impact of transport, as described in the
Commission White Paper: European transport policy for
2010: time to decide.

The Commission needs statistics concerning the transport
of goods by inland waterways in order to monitor and
develop the common transport policy, as well as the trans-
port elements of policies on the regions and on trans-
European networks.

Statistics on inland waterways transport have been
collected under Council Directive 80/1119/EEC of
17 November 1980 on statistical returns in respect of car-
riage of goods by inland waterways (2), which no longer
corresponds to the present needs in this domain. It is
therefore appropriate to replace that Directive with a new
instrument which extends its scope and improves its
efficiency.

(4)

Consequently, Directive 80/1119/EEC should be repealed.

Community statistics on all modes of transport should be
collected according to common concepts and standards,
with the aim of achieving the fullest practicable compara-
bility between transport modes.

Inland waterways transport does not occur in all Member
States and, therefore, the effect of this Regulation is lim-
ited to those Member States where this mode of transport
exists.

Since the objective of this Regulation, namely the creation
of common statistical standards that permit the produc-
tion of harmonised data, cannot be sufficiently achieved
by the Member States and can therefore be better achieved
at Community level, the Community may adopt measures,
in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out
in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the prin-
ciple of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this
Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order
to achieve that objective.

Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 of 17 February 1997
on Community Statistics (3) provides a reference frame-
work for the provisions laid down by this Regulation.

The measures necessary for the implementation of this
Regulation should be adopted in accordance with Council
Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the
procedures for the exercise of implementing powers con-
ferred on the Commission (4).

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

The Statistical Programme Committee established by
Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (5) has been con-
sulted in accordance with Article 3 of that Decision,

(1) Opinion of the European Parliament of 17 January 2006 (not yet
Journal) and Council Decision of

published in the Official
24 July 2006.

(2) OJ L 339, 15.12.1980, p. 30. Directive as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

(3) OJ L 52, 22.2.1997, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(4) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

(5) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation establishes common rules for the production of
Community statistics concerning inland waterways transport.

Article 2

Scope

1. Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat)
data relating to inland waterways transport on their national
territory.

2. Member States in which the total volume of goods trans-
ported annually by inland waterways as national, international
or transit transport exceeds 1 000 000 tonnes shall supply the
data referred to in Article 4(1).

3.
By way of derogation from paragraph 2, Member States
where there is no international or transit inland waterways trans-
port but where the total volume of goods transported annually
exceeds
by
1 000 000 tonnes shall supply only the data required under
Article 4(2).

inland waterways

transport

national

as

4.

This Regulation shall not apply to:

(a)

the carriage of goods by vessels of less than 50 deadweight
tonnes;

(b) vessels used principally for the carriage of passengers;

(c) vessels used for ferrying purposes;

(d) vessels used solely for non-commercial purposes by port

administrations and public authorities;

(e) vessels used solely for bunkering or storage;

(b)

‘inland waterway vessel’ means a floating craft designed for
the carriage of goods or public transport of passengers by
navigable inland waterways;

(c)

‘nationality of the vessel’ refers to the country in which the
inland waterway vessel is registered.

Article 4

Data collection

Data shall be collected in accordance with the tables set out

1.
in Annexes A to D.

In the case referred to in Article 2(3) data shall be collected

2.
in accordance with the table set out in Annex E.

For the purposes of this Regulation, goods shall be classi-

3.
fied in accordance with Annex F.

Article 5

Transmission of data

1.
The first period of observation shall begin on 1 Janu-
ary 2007. The transmission of data shall take place as soon as
possible and no later than five months after the end of the rel-
evant period of observation.

2.
During the first three years of application of this Regula-
tion, the time allowed for the transmission of data referred to in
paragraph 1 may be extended in accordance with the procedure
referred to in Article 10(2). The maximum time allowed for trans-
mission,
including any extension granted, shall not exceed
eight months.

Extensions of the time allowed for transmission are set out in
Annex G.

Article 6

Dissemination

(f)

vessels not used for the carriage of goods such as fishery ves-
sels, dredgers, floating workshops, houseboats and pleasure
craft.

Community statistics based on the data referred to in Article 4
shall be disseminated with a frequency similar to that laid down
for the transmission of data by the Member States.

Article 3

Definitions

Article 7

Quality of data

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions
shall apply:

(a)

‘navigable inland waterway’ means a stretch of water, not
part of the sea, over which vessels of a carrying capacity of
not less than 50 tonnes can navigate when normally loaded.
This term covers both navigable rivers and lakes and navi-
gable canals;

1.
The Commission (Eurostat) shall develop and publish, in
accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 10(2),
methodological requirements and criteria designed to ensure the
quality of the data produced.

2. Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure
the quality of the data transmitted.

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The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the
3.
data transmitted. Member States shall supply the Commission
(Eurostat) with a report containing such information and data as
it may request
the data
transmitted.

in order to verify the quality of

(d) arrangements for transmitting data to the Commission

(Eurostat) including data interchange standards (Article 5);

(e) arrangements for the dissemination of results by the Com-

mission (Eurostat) (Article 6);

Article 8

Report on implementation

By 15 October 2009 and after consulting the Statistical Pro-
gramme Committee, the Commission shall submit a report to
the European Parliament and the Council on the implementa-
tion of this Regulation. In particular, that report shall:

(a) assess the benefits accruing to the Community, the Member
States and the providers and users of statistical information
of the statistics produced, in relation to their costs;

(b) assess the quality of the statistics produced;

(c)

identify areas for potential improvement and any amend-
ments considered necessary in the light of
the results
obtained.

Article 9

Implementing measures

The measures for implementing this Regulation, including mea-
sures to take account of economic and technical trends, shall be
laid down in accordance with the procedure referred to in
Article 10(2). Such measures shall concern:

(a) adaptation of the threshold for statistical coverage of inland

waterways transport (Article 2);

(b) adaptation of the definitions and adoption of additional defi-

nitions (Article 3);

(f) development and publication of methodological require-

ments and criteria (Article 7).

Article 10

Committee procedure

The Commission shall be assisted by the Statistical
of
established

1.
Programme
Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom.

by Article

Committee

1

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7
of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the pro-
visions of Article 8 thereof.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC
shall be set at three months.

3.

The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

Article 11

Transitional provisions and repeal

1. Member States shall provide statistical results for the year
2006 in accordance with Directive 80/1119/EEC.

Directive 80/1119/EEC is hereby repealed with effect from

2.
1 January 2007.

Article 12

Entry into force

(c) adaptation of the data collection scope and the content of

the annexes (Article 4);

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 Strasbourg, 6 September 2006.

For the European Parliament
The President
J. BORRELL FONTELLES

For the Council
The President
P. LEHTOMÄKI

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ANNEX A

Table A1. Goods transport by type of goods (annual data)

Elements

Coding details

Nomenclature

Unit

Table

Reporting country

Year

2-alpha

2-letter

4-digit

A1

ISO national code

yyyy

Country/region of loading

2-letter or 4-alpha

ISO national code or NUTS II

Country/region of unloading

2-letter or 4-alpha

ISO national code or NUTS II

Type of transport

1-digit

Type of goods

Type of packaging

2-digit

1-digit

Tonnes transported

Tonnes-km

1 = national
2 = international (except transit)
3 = transit

NST 2000

1 = goods in containers
2 = goods not in containers

tonnes

tonnes-km

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ANNEX B

Table B1. Transport by nationality of the vessel and type of vessel (annual data)

Elements

Coding details

Nomenclature

Unit

Table

Reporting country

Year

2-alpha

2-letter

4-digit

B1

ISO national code

yyyy

Country/region of loading

2-letter or 4-alpha

ISO national code or NUTS II

Country/region of unloading

2-letter or 4-alpha

ISO national code or NUTS II

Type of transport

1-digit

Type of vessel

1-digit

1 = national
2 = international (except transit)
3 = transit

1 = self-propelled barge
2 = barge not self-propelled
3 = self-propelled tanker barge
4 = tanker barge not self-

propelled

5 = other goods carrying vessel

Nationality of vessel

2-letter

ISO national code

Tonnes transported

Tonnes-km

tonnes

tonnes-km

Table B2. Vessel traffic (annual data)

Elements

Coding details

Nomenclature

Unit

2-alpha

2-letter

4-digit

B2

ISO national code

yyyy

Table

Reporting country

Year

Number of loaded vessels

Number of empty vessels

Vessel-Km (loaded vessels)

Vessel-Km (empty vessels)

Note: The provision of the data mentioned in this Table B2 is optional.

vessels

vessels

vessel-km

vessel-km

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ANNEX C

Table C1. Container transport by type of goods (annual data)

Elements

Coding details

Nomenclature

Unit

Table

Reporting country

Year

2-alpha

2-letter

4-digit

C1

ISO national code

yyyy

Country/region of loading

2-letter or -alpha

ISO national code or NUTS2

Country/region of unloading

2-letter or 4-alpha

ISO national code or NUTS2

Type of transport

1-digit

Size of containers

1-digit

1-digit

2-digit

Loading status

Type of goods

Tonnes transported (*)

Tonnes-km (*)

TEU

TEU-km

(*) Only for loaded containers.

1 = national
2 = international (except transit)
3 = transit

1 = 20′ freight units
2 = 40′ freight units
3 = freight units > 20′ and < 40′
4 = freight units > 40′

1 = loaded containers
2 = empty containers

NST 2000

tonnes

tonnes-km

TEU

TEU-km

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ANNEX D

Table D1. Transport by nationality of vessels (quarterly data)

Elements

Coding details

Nomenclature

Unit

Table

Reporting country

Year

Quarter

Type of transport

2-alpha

2-letter

4-digit

2-alpha

1-digit

D1

ISO national code

yyyy

Q1, Q2, Q3 or Q4

1 = national
2 = international (except transit)
3 = transit

Nationality of the vessel

2-letter

ISO national code

Tonnes transported

Tonnes-km

tonnes

tonnes-km

Table D2. Container transport by nationality of vessels (quarterly data)

Elements

Coding details

Nomenclature

Unit

2-alpha

2-letter

4-digit

2-alpha

1-digit

2-letter

1-digit

Table

Reporting country

Year

Quarter

Type of transport

Nationality of vessel

Loading status

Tonnes transported (*)

Tonnes-km (*)

TEU

TEU-km

(*) Only for loaded containers

D2

ISO national code

yyyy

Q1, Q2, Q3 or Q4

1 = national
2 = international (except transit)
3 = transit

ISO national code

1 = loaded containers
2 = empty containers

tonnes

tonnes-km

TEU

TEU-km

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ANNEX E

Table E1. Goods transport (annual data)

Elements

Coding details

Nomenclature

Unit

Table

Reporting country

Year

Total tonnes transported

Total tonnes-km

2-alpha

2-letter

4-digit

E1

ISO national code

yyyy

tonnes

tonnes-km

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ANNEX F

Goods nomenclature

NST-2000

NST-2000 groups

Description of goods

Defined by products in CPA
divisions

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

Products of agriculture, hunting, and forestry; fish and other fishing
products

01, 02, 05

Coal and lignite; peat; crude petroleum and natural gas; uranium and
thorium

10, 11, 12

Metal ores and other mining and quarrying products

Food products, beverages and tobacco

13, 14

15, 16

Textiles and textile products; leather and leather products

17, 18, 19

Wood and products of wood and cork (except furniture); articles of
straw and plaiting materials; pulp, paper and paper products; printed
matter and recorded media

20, 21, 22

Coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel

23

Chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibres; rubber and
plastic products

24, 25

Other non-metallic mineral products

26

Basic metals; fabricated metal products, except machinery and equip-
ment

27, 28

Machinery and equipment n.e.c.; office machinery and computers;
electrical machinery and apparatus n.e.c.; radio, television and com-
munication equipment and apparatus; medical, precision and opti-
cal instruments; watches and clocks

29, 30, 31, 32, 33

Transport equipment

Furniture; other manufactured goods n.e.c.

34, 35

36

Secondary raw materials; municipal wastes and other wastes not
specified elsewhere in CPA

37 + municipal wastes (as
input to CPA division 90)
and other wastes not speci-
fied elsewhere in CPA

Mail, parcels

Note: this heading is normally used for goods transported by postal
administrations and specialised courier services in NACE Rev. 1 divi-
sion 64.

Equipment and material utilised in the transport of goods

Note: this heading covers items such as empty containers, palettes,
boxes, crates and roll cages. It also covers vehicles used to contain
goods, where the vehicle is itself carried on another vehicle.

The existence of a code for this type of material does not prejudge
the question of whether such materials are to be counted as ‘goods’;
this will depend on the rules for data collection for each mode of
transport.

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NST-2000 groups

Description of goods

Defined by products in CPA
divisions

17

18

19

20

Goods moved in the course of household and office removals; bag-
gage transported separately from passengers; motor vehicles being
moved for repair; other non-market goods n.e.c.

Grouped goods: a mixture of types of goods which are transported
together

Note: this heading is used whenever it is not considered appropriate
to assign the goods separately to groups 01-16.

Unidentifiable goods: goods which for any reason cannot be identi-
fied and therefore cannot be assigned to groups 01-16

Note: this heading is intended to cover goods where the reporting
unit does not have information on the type of goods being trans-
ported.

Other goods n.e.c.

Note: this heading covers any items which cannot be assigned to any
of the groups 01-19. Since the groups 01-19 are intended to cover
all foreseeable categories of transported goods, the use of group 20
should be considered unusual and may indicate a need for further
checking of the data reported under this heading.

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ANNEX G

Extensions of the time allowed for transmission (Article 5(2))

Member State

Extended transmission period after the
end of the period of observation

Last year for which an extension is granted

Belgium

8 months

2009