CELEX: 51981PC0716
Language: en
Date: 1982-01-14
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ON THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF ROAD HAULIERS PARTICIPATING IN THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS TO AND FROM CERTAIN NON-MEMBER COUNTRIES

No C 36/8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              12.2.82
                   ORIGINAL PROPOSAL                                                  NEW PROPOSAL
                                                               7.    If a majority of the members of the Advisory
                                                               Committee opposes the draft Decision under Article 3
                                                               (1), the Commission shall not adopt a decision until a
                                                               period of 20 days has elapsed from the date on which
                                                               the Advisory Committee was consulted.
                                                               8.    If, within the period laid down in the preceding
                                                               paragraph, A Member State raises in the Council an
                                                               objective which in its opinion should be considered as
                                                               having priority, within the meaning of Article 1 (3),
                                                               the Council shall meet within 30 days of the date of
                                                               the request made by the Member State concerned. In
                                                               that case the Commission shall take no decision until
                                                               after the Council meeting, and shall take account of
                                                               the policy guidelines which emerged in the course of
                                                               the Council's deliberations.
             Proposal for a Council Decision on the collection of information concerning the activities
             of road hauliers participating in the carriage of goods to and from certain non-member
                                                      countries
                          (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 15 January 1982)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas this is in the interest of shippers' ability to
COMMUNITIES,                                                  choose and the freedom of international trade;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                  Whereas, however, the existence of distortions of
European Economic Community, and in particular                competitive conditions between hauliers based in the
Article 213 thereof,.                                         Community and those of State-trading countries
                                                              creates disadvantages for the former;
Having regard to the draft Decision submitted by the
Commission,                                                   Whereas in particular State-trading countries apply in
                                                              road haulage trade practices such as prices which do
Having regard to the opinion of the           European        not reflect costs as established in accordance with
Parliament,                                                   normal market rules, control of terms of trade, and
                                                              the imposition of administrative and other barriers;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,                                             Whereas the means of overcoming these difficulties
                                                              should be examined;
Whereas the Communities' economic and trading
interests require an international road haulage               Whereas it is appropriate to establish the exchange of
situation in which efficient Community hauliers can           information      enabling the institutions of the
compete under normal commercial conditions with               Community to be informed of developments in road
road hauliers of non-member countries;                        transport relations with State-trading countries,
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:                                                    up a report to the Council on the development of the
                                                                              road transport relations of Member States with the
                           Article 1                                          non-member countries specified in Annex II in
                                                                              respect of the previous year. The first report shall be
Each Member State shall take the necessary measures                           made before 1 June 1984 and subsequent reports shall
to collect, as from 1 January 1983, the information                           be made before the same date year.
specified in Annex I with respect to the transport of
goods by road between the Member States and the
countries specified in Annex II.
                                                                                                           Article 4
                           Article 2
                                                                              The information provided for in this Decision shall be
1.    The information specified in items 1 and 2 of                           covered by the principle of professional secrecy.
Annex I, which shall be collected annually, shall be
forwarded by the Member States to the Commission
as soon as possible and in any case not later than
three months after the end of the period concerned.                                                        Article 5
2.    The information specified in items 3 to 6 of                            The Member States shall, as soon as possible and not
Annex I, which shall be collected quarterly, shall be                         later than 31 December 1982, after consulting the
forwarded by the Member States as soon as possible                            Commission, adopt the laws and administrative
and in any case not later than three months after the                         provisions necessary to implement this Decision.
end of the period concerned.
                           Article 3                                                                       Article 6
The Commission shall, each year on the basis of
information received from the Member States, draw                             This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
                                                                  ANNEX I
                                                        Information to be collected
             1. Number of bilateral time and journey authorizations allotted by each state in each bilateral
                 relation.
             2. Number of transit authorizations allotted by each state in each bilateral relation.
             3. Number of bilateral time and journey authorizations actually used by third country hauliers and
                 Member State hauliers in each bilateral relation.
             4. Number of transit authorizations actually used by third country hauliers and Member State
                 hauliers in each bilateral relation.
             5. Tonnes transported to and from each State in each bilateral relation in all and by nationality of
                 haulier as well as for each NST/R group (').
             6. Rates and conditions charged for the carriage of certain types of goods on major routes.
             (') Standard goods classification for transport statistics, revised edition, valid from 1 January 1967, SOEC, 1968
                 edition.
 ---pagebreak--- No C 36/10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  12.2.82
                                                         ANNEX II
                                                   List of third countries
                                     Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics
                                     Poland
                                     German Democratic Republic
                                     Czechoslovakia
                                     Hungary
                                     Bulgaria
                                     Romania.
             Proposal for a Council Directive amending for the fifth time Directive 76/768/EEC on
                  the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cosmetic products
                           (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 19 January 1982)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas /vphenylenediamine should           be  included
COMMUNITIES,                                                      within the scope of the Directive,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 100 thereof,
                                                                                          Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                  Council Directive 76/768/EEC is hereby amended as
Having regard to the opinion of the             European          follows:
Parliament,
                                                                   1. The following are added to the list in Annex II:
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                      363: o-phenylenediamine       (1,2-diaminobenzene)
Social Committee,
                                                                      and its salts,
Whereas Council Directive 76/768/EEC ('), as last                     364: 2,4-methylphenylenediamine       (l-methyl-2,4-
amended by Directive 79/661/EEC (2), has to be                        diaminobenzene).
adapted to technical progress;
                                                                  2. In Annex III, Part 1, column b, the text of
Whereas, for reasons of protection of public health,                  reference No 9 is replaced by:
the use of certain substances as hair dyes should be
prohibited;                                                           'm- and />-phenylenediamines, their N-substituted
                                                                      derivatives and their salts; N-substituted derivates
                                                                      of o-phenylenediamines (1)'.
0) OJ No L 262, 27. 9. 1976, p. 169.                               3. In Annex III, Part 1, column b, the text of
(2) OJ No L 192, 31. 7. 1979, p. 35.                                  reference No 10 is replaced by: