CELEX: 51983PC0331(02)
Language: en
Date: 1983-06-07
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANY FOR PIGGYBACK TRANSPORT

No C 179/4                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             6. 7. 83
                                                              ANNEX
                                                  Radiation protection programme
                                                           (1985 to 1989)
             The aim of the programme is to improve the conditions of life with respect to safety of work and
             protection of man and his environment and to assure a safe production of energy from atomic
             fission and, later, fusion. It endeavours, through a cooperative European effort:
             — to screen and assess problems related to radiation protection and to study such problems by
                  scientific means,
             — to improve methods necessary to protect workers and the population by updating the scientific
                  basis for appropriate standards and by further developing techniques to prevent and counteract
                  harmful effects of radiation,
             — to provide methods to cope with the consequences of radiation accidents,
             — to assess radiation risks and set them in perspective to other risks arising in modern society,
             — to provide pertinent and up-to-date information for decision-making.
             The programme will cover research on:
             — radiation dosimetry and its interpretation,
             — behaviour and control of radionuclides in the environment,
             — non-stochastic effects of ionizing radiation,
             — radiation carcinogenesis,
             — genetic effects of ionizing radiation,
             — evaluation of radiation risks and optimization of protection.
             The programme will be carried principally by research contracts and, to a small part, by the
             Commission's Biology Group at the Ispra establishment. The Commission will support the mobility
             of research workers in order to allow contracting laboratories an optimal execution of research
             work.
             Proposal for a Council recommendation concerning the International Company for
                                                       Piggyback Transport
                               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 15 June 1983)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                           Whereas, on the initiative of the railway networks
COMMUNITIES,                                                          and the piggyback companies, the International
                                                                      Company for Piggyback Transport (Interunit) has
Having regard to the Treaty                 establishing    the
                                                                      been set up at European level in order to encourage
European Economic Community,
                                                                      the development of piggyback transport; whereas
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    certain railway networks in the Community and all
                                                                      the existing piggyback companies in the Community
Having regard to the opinion of the European                          are partners in this company;
Parliament,
                                                                      Whereas, pursuant to its statutes, the company will
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                      initially undertake studies and research, and it is
Social Committee,
                                                                      envisaged that it will subsequently undertake
Whereas the many advantages involved in inter-                        management activities such as the purchases of
national piggyback transport include speed and regu-                  equipment and the management of a wagon pool;
larity of service, optimum utilization of existing in-                whereas it is important that the transition to the
frastructure and energy savings;                                      management stage should take place as quickly as
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possible in order to sustain the development of                    that the greatest possible number       of  piggyback
piggyback transport;                                               companies should take part.
Whereas it would be desirable that all the railway                                         Article 2
networks which have piggyback links should parti-
cipate in Interunit, in order to ensure that close                 The railway networks and piggyback companies
cooperation on piggyback transport is established at               participating in Interunit shall endeavour to ensure
European level,                                                    that the tasks of this company are speedily extended
                                                                   from studies and research to management, and in
                                                                   particular the control of equipment and the
HEREBY RECOMMENDS:                                                 establishment of a wagon pool.
                        Article 1                                                          Article 3
It would be desirable for all railway networks which               This recommendation is addressed to the railway
have established piggyback links to associate                      networks and the piggyback companies listed in the
themselves with Interunit. It would also be desirable              Annex hereto.
              BILAG — ANHANG — IIAPAPTHMA — ANNEX — ANNEXE — ALLEGA TO — BIJLAGE
            Jernbanevirksomheder / Eisenbahnen / £i5i)po5po|iiK& SIKTVO / Railways / Reseaux de chcmin de fer
                                              / Reti ferroviarie / Spoorwcgcn
            — Societe nationale des chemins de fer beiges (SNCB) / Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische
                Spoorwegen (NMBS)
                Rue de France 85, B-1070 Bruxelles
                Frankrijkstraat 85, B-1070 Brussel
            — Danske Statsbaner (DSB)
                Selvgade 40, DK-Kabenhavn
            — Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB)
                Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 43, D-6000 Frankfurt (Main)
            — Opvavmuoc, Ii8Tipo5p6utov EAM5oc. AE (OIE)
                086? Kapotaw 1, GR-ASf|va
            — Societe nationale des chemins de fer francais (SNCF)
                Rue Saint-Lazare 88, F-75436 Paris
            — Coras Iompair Eireann (CIE)
                Heuston Station, IRL-Dublin 8
            — Azienda autonoma delle ferrovie dello Stato (FS)
                Piazza della Croce Rossa, I-Roma
            — Societe nationale des chemins de fer Luxembourgeois (CFL)
                Place de la Gare 9, L-Luxembourg
            — Naamloze Vennootschap Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
                Moreelse park 1, NL-3500 HA Utrecht
            — British Railways Board (BRB)
                Euston Square, UK-London NW1 2DZ
            — Northern Ireland Railways Company Ltd (NIR)
                East Bridge Street, UK-Belfast BT1 3PB
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             Huckepack-selskaberne / Gesellschaften fur den Huckepackverkehr / Etaipicc, m)v8ua<ifi£V0)v oSuabv
             0i5i)poSpO|iiKfi)v iietoupopav /Piggyback companies / Societe de ferroutage / Societa di trasporto
             combinato strada/ferrovia / Ondernemingen van rail-/wegvervoer
             — Cemat SpA
                  Via Savoia 19, I-Roma
             — Ferpac
                  Via Vittor Pisani 31, 1-20124 Milano
             — Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kombinierten Guterverkehr mbH
                  Breitenbachstrafie 1, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main
             — Novatrans SA
                  21, rue du Rocher, F-75008 Paris
             — Trailstar NV
                  Boezembocht 31, NL-Rotterdam
             — Transport Route Wagon SA, rue A. Vandenpeereboom 13, B-1080 Bruxelles.
             Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 on the
                      Community quota for the carriage of goods by road between Member States
                                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 15 June 1983)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        carriers from all Member States to have equal access
COMMUNITIES,                                                       to the market;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       Whereas, within the framework of such a system,
European Economic Community, and in particular                     supply should be adjusted to meet demand by means
Article 75 thereof,                                                which are in accordance with the requirements
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 concerning the effective functioning of the markets
                                                                   and the promotion of the interests of the economy as
Having regard to the opinion of the European                       a whole; whereas quota systems should therefore be
Parliament,                                                        discontinued in the final stage; whereas, however, this
                                                                   stage can be reached only after a transitional period;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,                                                  Whereas it is necessary to define the conditions
Whereas the adoption of a common transport policy                  governing access to the market under the final
involves inter alia laying down rules relating to the              system;
freedom to provide road haulage services between
                                                                   Whereas the Community quota should be substan-
Member States; whereas such rules should be drawn
                                                                   tially increased during the transitional period because
up in such a way as to favour the establishment of a
                                                                   of its advantages by comparison with bilateral quotas;
common transport market;
                                                                   whereas the Community quota should be adjusted in
Whereas a system of Community authorizations not                   accordance with objective criteria which ensure the
subject to quotas for the carriage of goods by road                correct matching of the development of the quota to
between Member States promotes the establishment                   that of road transport demand; whereas it is
of such a common transport market by ensuring                      important that this adjustment should be based on
greater freedom to provide international road haulage              statistics the validity of which is acknowledged by all
services throughout the Community and by allowing                  concerned;