Commission Regulation (EC) No 1304/2007 of 7 November 2007 amending Council Directive 95/64/EC, Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, Regulations (EC) No 91/2003 and (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to the establishment of NST 2007 as the unique classification for transported goods in certain transport modes
Date: 2007-11-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, carriage of goods, mode of transport, statistical method, transport statistics

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1304/2007

of 7 November 2007

amending Council Directive 95/64/EC, Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, Regulations (EC) No
91/2003 and (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to the
establishment of NST 2007 as the unique classification for transported goods in certain transport
modes

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 95/64/EC of 8 December
1995 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and
passengers by sea (1), and in particular Article 12 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25
May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of
goods by road (2), and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,

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

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of
European Parliament and of
the Council of 6 September
2006 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways (4),
and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

According to Directive 95/64/EC, Regulation (EC) No
the
1172/98 and Regulation (EC) No 91/2003,
statistics
standard goods
(NST/R)
is to be used to classify transported goods,
respectively in maritime transport statistics, road freight
transport statistics and rail transport statistics.

classification for

transport

According to Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006, either
NST/R or NST 2000 rev. 2 are to be used in the classi-
fication of
in inland waterways
statistics.

transported goods

In June 2007, a new revision of NST 2000 (NST 2007)
was
Economic
reasons of
Commission for Europe

the United Nations
(UNECE)

adopted

for

by

(1) OJ L 320, 30.12.1995, p. 25. Directive as last amended by
Commission Decision 2005/366/EC (OJ L 123, 17.5.2005, p. 1).
(2) OJ L 163, 6.6.1998, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 14, 21.1.2003, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Commission

Regulation (EC) No 1192/2003 (OJ L 167, 4.7.2003, p. 13).

(4) OJ L 264, 25.9.2006, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 425/2007 (OJ L 103, 20.4.2007,
p. 26).

consistency with the revised NACE (Statistical Classifi-
cation
European
Community).

Economic Activities

the

of

in

(4)

(5)

(6)

In order to provide a comparable statistical coverage of
transported goods in all concerned modes of transport, it
is necessary to adopt NST 2007 as the unique classifi-
cation of transported goods in all concerned modes of
transport; this should apply both to Member States when
collecting national data and to the Commission when
disseminating
information on transported
goods.

statistical

Directive 95/64/EC, Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, Regu-
lation (EC) No 91/2003, and Regulation (EC) No
1365/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with
Statistical
Programme Committee set up by Council Decision
89/382/EEC, Euratom (5),

opinion

the

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Amendment to Directive 95/64/EC

Annex III to Directive 95/64/EC is replaced by the text in the
Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 1172/98

Annex D to Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 is replaced by the text
in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 3

Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 91/2003

Annex J to Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 is replaced by the text
in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 4

Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006

Annex F to Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

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

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Article 5

Level of detail in Community statistics

The first level of the NST 2007 classification (the 20 Divisions) shall be used for the classification of the
type of goods.

Article 6

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

It shall apply from the reference year 2008, covering the 2008 data.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 November 2007.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

NST 2007

Division

Description

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

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

Coal and lignite; crude petroleum and natural gas

Metal ores and other mining and quarrying products; peat; uranium and thorium

Food products, beverages and tobacco

Textiles and textile products; leather and leather products

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

Coke and refined petroleum products

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

Other non-metallic mineral products

Basic metals; fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment

Machinery and equipment n.e.c.; office machinery and computers; electrical
machinery and apparatus n.e.c.; radio, television and communication equipment
instruments; watches and clocks
and apparatus; medical, precision and optical

Transport equipment

Furniture; other manufactured goods n.e.c.

Secondary raw materials; municipal wastes and other wastes

Mail, parcels

Equipment and material utilised in the transport of goods

Goods moved in the course of household and office removals; baggage trans-
ported 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

Unidentifiable goods: goods which for any reason cannot be identified and
therefore cannot be assigned to groups 01–16.

Other goods n.e.c.