CELEX: 51987PC0548
Language: en
Date: 1987-11-20
Title: DRAFT COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 78/546/EEC ON STATISTICAL RETURNS IN RESPECT OF CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY ROAD, AS PART OF REGIONAL STATISTICS

No C 4/4                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                    8.1.88
               Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 78/546/EEC on statistical returns in
                                respect of carriage of goods by road, as part of regional statistics
                                                        COM(87) 548 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 26 November 1987)
                                                            (88/C4/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             documentation required in Community trade; whereas
                                                                     the existing practice of compiling statistical data at
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                frontiers within the Community should be dispensed
Economic Community, and in particular Article 213                    with, except where this is provided for specifically by
thereof,                                                             Community rules;
Having regard to the draft Directive presented by the                Whereas it is appropriate to apply the provisions of
Commission,                                                          Article 9 of Directive 78/546/EEC to the new system for
                                                                     compiling statistical data,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                                                 Article 1
Social Committee,
                                                                     Directive 78/546/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
Whereas      Council Directive 78/546/EEC ('), as last
amended     by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal,             1. The following is added to Article 1:
must be     amended to take account of changes in the
common     transport policy;                                              '(c) between two other Member States, between
                                                                               another Member State and a non-Member State
                                                                               or between two non-Member States (hereinafter
Whereas Directive 78/546/EEC provides only for
                                                                               referred to as "cross-trade");
annual data supplies up to 12 months after the end of the
reference year; whereas these data must be comparable
                                                                           (d) in the territory of another Member State (here-
with data for other means of transport which are
                                                                               inafter referred to as "cabotage").'
compiled every month or every quarter; whereas
quarterly data are therefore needed;
                                                                       2. Article 3 (1) is replaced by the following:
Whereas Directive 78/546/EEC provides only for the                        '1.    Each Member State shall compile statistical
compilation of statistical data for national and inter-                   data on carriage as referred to in Article 1 by
national traffic; whereas it is evident that cross-trade and              vehicles registered in its territory. The transport
cabotage are forms of traffic which will develop in the                   parameters shall be determined by the tractor
future; whereas it is therefore appropriate to compile                    vehicle. If in a coupled combination of vehicles, the
statistical returns on this traffic;                                      tractor vehicle and the trailer unit are registered in
                                                                          different countries, the complete vehicle shall be
Whereas Directive 78/546/EEC does not enumerate                           deemed to be registered in the country where the
some eastern European countries individually in the list                  tractor vehicle is registered.'
of third countries, but simply groups them together
under 'other European countries'; whereas it has become                3. The introductory phrase of Article 3 (2) is replaced
clear that these countries should be listed individually so               by the following:
that comparisons can be made with other means of
transport, and so that the flow of goods to and from                      'The statistical data shall be broken down under the
these countries can be monitored more effectively;                        following headings:'
Whereas the list of data which can be required by the                  4. Article 3 (2) (b) is replaced by the following:
Member States on the movement of goods within the
Community will be strictly limited as of 1 January 1988;                  '(b) for international transport, cross-trade and
whereas this measure is part of a policy which has been                        cabotage, expressed in terms of tonnes and
adopted by the Council and the Commission and is                               tonne-kilometres:
designed to reduce as far as possible the administrative
                                                                               — carriage on own account and carriage for
                                                                                   hire or reward,
O OJ No L 168, 26. 6. 1978, p. 29.                                             — the 24 groups of goods listed in Annex I,
 ---pagebreak--- ^n^                                               COfficial journal of the European Communities                                    ^oC^B5
           — the countries of loading and unloading listed                        the tonnage carried in national transports inters
                 in Annex NL except forcabotage^ which is                         national transports crosstrade and cabotage. They
                 limited to the Member StatesB                                    shallprovidetheCommissionwithinformationeach
                                                                                  year on the non^response rate and^ in the form of
 5. A r t i c l e ^ ^ i s replaced by the following^                              standard deviations or confidence.intervals^ on the
                                                                                  degree of accuracy of the results. They shall in
     ^.      Member         States shall forward               to    the
                                                                                  addition report to it on the method used in calcuu
     commission the statistical data specified in this
                                                                                  lating the figures relating to the transport services
     Articleinaccordance w i t h t h e m o d e l s o f thetables
                                                                                  provided^ expressed in tonneddlometresB
     set out in Annex IVB
                                                                              11. Article^is replaced by the following^
 D. Article^is replaced by the following^
                                                                                  PheCommissionshallpublish appropriatestatistical
     ^ h e n determining the method to be used for
                                                                                  resultsB
     compiling statistical data on internationaltransport^
     crossDtrade and cabotages the Member States shall                        1^. Article^is deleted.
     refrainfromcarryingoutallformalities atfrontiers
     between Member StatesB                                                   13. The following second subparagraph is added to
                                                                                  Article ^ ^Phis system shall also apply during the
 B^. The following indent is added to A r t i c l e ^ p l ^                       first three years of the amended system for
     ^Idowever^ the data for the C tables shall be                                compiling statistics^ from 1 ^ 5
     compiled for the first time for l ^ B
                                                                              1^. Thefollowing words are inserted after 5Pinland^ in
 ^. A r t i c l e ^ ^ i s replaced by the following^                              the list of third countries in Annex NT
     5^,     Member States shall s e n d t h e C o m m i s s i o n t h e          aUSSR
     A ^ B a n d ^ B C ^ D t a b l e s s e t out in Annex PV before               Roland
     the end of the year following the reference year^                            Hungary
     they shall send the commission the C P C ^ C 3 and                           Romania
     ^ tables set out in Annex PV no later than five
     months after the end of the reference periodB                                BulgariaB
                                                                              15. The tables i n t h e Annex to this Directive are added
 ^. A r t i c l e ^ ^ i s replaced by the following^
                                                                                  to Annex PV.
     ^3.     The commission shall communicate to
     Member States^ at the earliest possible date^ the
     results of the surveys together with any other appro^
     priate information it may haveB                                          Member States shall take the measures necessary to
                                                                              comply with this Directive not later t h a n l ] a n u a r y l ^ ^ .
10. A r t i c l e D ^ i s replaced by the following^                          They shall forthwith inform the commission thereof.
     5^.       ^hendeterminingthemethodtobeusedfor
     compiling their data^ Member States shall take the
     stepsnecessary to obtain sufficientresultsregarding                      This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
 ---pagebreak--- No C 4/6                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 8.1.88
                                                               ANNEX
         ROAD
                                                             TABLE CI
                                                              (quarterly)
                            National and international traffic, according to country and type of carriage
                                                                                                             (tonnes)
                              Country                          Own account             Hire or reward     Total
         A. National
             International ('):
         B. Received from:
             01
             02
         C. Dispatched to:
             01
             02
         Totals:
              EUR (B + C)
              State-trading countries (B + C)
              Third countries (B + C)
              B
              C
              A + B + C
              B + C
         (') Annex III.
         ROAD
                                                              TABLE C2
                                                              (quarterly)
                            National and international traffic, according to country and type of carriage
                                                                                                                (tkm)
                              Country                           Own account            Hire or reward     Total
         A. National
             International ( l ):
         B. Received from:
             01
             12
             EUR
         C. Dispatched to:
             01
             12
             EUR
         Total A + B + C
         Total B + C
         (') Member States.
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       ROAD
                                                               TABLE C3
                                                               (quarterly)
                               Cabotage and cross-trade, according to country and type of carriage
                                                                                                      (tonnes)
                           Country of
                                                                Own account         Hire or reward Total
               Loading                  Unloading
       A. Cabotage:
          01                                01
          02                                02
          12                                12
          Total
       B. Cross-trade:
                                            02
                                            03
                                            04
                                            05
          01
                                        Total 01
                                            01
                                            03
                                            04
                                            05
          02                            Total 02
                                            01
                                            02
                                            03
                                            04
          Total                             05
                                           Total
       C. Total A + B
       Totals, part B (insert the countries of loading/unloading in the columns):
           EUR
           State-trading countries
           Third countries
           Total
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          ROAD
                                                         TABLE C4
                                                         (quarterly)
                             Cabotage and cross-trade, according to country and type of carriage
                                                                                                       (tkm)
                           Country
                                                          Own account             Hire or reward Total
                 Loading .          Unloading
          A. Cabotage:
             01                        01
             02                        02
             12                        12
             Total
          B. Cross-trade
             (limited to
             Member
             States):
                                       02
                                       03
                                       04
                                       05
             01
                                        12
                                    Total 01
                                       01
                                       03
                                       04
                                       05
             02
                                        12
                                    Total 02
             Total                     01
                                       02
                                       03
                                       04
                                       05
                                        12
                                     Total
          C. Total A + B
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       ROAD
                             TABLE C5/C6 (C5: O W N A C C O U N T ; C6: HIRE OR REWARD)
                                                               (annually)
                               Cabotage and cross-trade, according to country and group of goods
                                                                                                         (tonnes)
                           Country of                                             Group of goods (')
                Loading                Unloading              01          02                         24 Total
       A. Cabotage:
            01                              01
            02                              02
            12                              12
            Total
       B. Cross-trade:
            01                              02
                                            03
                                            04
                                            05
                                        Total 01
            02                              01
                                            03
                                            04
                                            05
                                        Total 02
            Total                           01
                                            02
                                            03
                                            04
                                            05
                                          Total
       C. Total A + B
       Totals, part B (insert the countries of loading/unloading in the columns):
             EUR
             State-trading countries
             Third countries
             Total
        (') Annex I.