CELEX: 51983PC0490
Language: en
Date: 1983-09-08
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION ON THE NATIONAL RAILWAY UNDERTAKINGS ON TECHNICAL MATTERS CONCERNING OPERATION AND INTERNATIONAL BARRIERS TO THE CROSSING OF FRONTIERS AFFECTING THE INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE OF GOODS

No C 254/6                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                   22.9. 83
                                                          II
                                                   (Preparatory Acts)
                                             COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council recommendation to the national railway undertakings on technical
              matters concerning operation and internal barriers to the crossing of frontiers affecting
                                          the international carriage of goods
                         (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 12 September 1983)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         in order better to perceive potential needs and to
COMMUNITIES,                                                        encourage the provision of services in line with
                                                                    these needs;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                  2. to apply still more extensively the provisions of the
Article 75 thereof,                                                 International Convention concerning the Carriage
                                                                    of Goods by Rail (CIM) permitting the
                                                                    concentration of the routing of consignments;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                3. to intensify multilateral action capable of resulting
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                   in the equipment, as a matter of priority, of
liament,                                                            carefully-selected international routes;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                4. to deploy all possible means of exploration, infor-
Social Committee,                                                   mation and encouragement with a view to
                                                                    directing traffic towards the best routes, and thus
                                                                    concentrate flows to a greater extent and permit
Whereas the international carriage of goods is a                    the operation of a greater number of inter-network
growing sector of railway activities;                                trains;
Whereas it is necessary to continue to improve                  5. to improve the planning of freight transport so as
technical conditions concerning operation with a view                to be able to develop the concept of a guaranteed
to reducing costs and increasing the quality of the                  delivery time already applied by certain railway
service provided;                                                    networks; by increasing the number of bilateral
                                                                     agreements between neighbouring countries;
Whereas it is important to remove internal barriers to
 the crossing of frontiers, taking into account the             6. to deploy commercial and technical means in order
 other measures to be taken with regard to external                  to enlarge the range of train unit services (whole
 barriers and in respect of which the Commission has                 trainloads, block trains and mini-trains);
 already submitted a proposal for a Decision;
                                                                7. to encourage customers to programme these train
                                                                      units as extensively as possible.
 Whereas the Basel pilot project (Transinfo) could
 provide a valuable insight into the genuine causes of
 delays in routing and help to determine appropriate             II. With regard to internal barriers encountered at
 ways of improving matters,                                           frontiers
  HEREBY RECOMMENDS:                                             1. to increase the number of bilateral and multilateral
                                                                      agreements relating to the streamlining of the
                                                                      technical inspection of wagons;
  I. With regard to technical matters concerning
     operation                                                   2. to bring their attention to the most stringent
                                                                      application of the rules which make it possible not
  1. to continue and step up the activities of the multi-             to repeat the inspection of transit trains at frontier
     lateral, mixed (commercial and operations) groups                stations;
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3. to do all that they can to ensure that transit                   III. With regard to further action
   transport of wagons is not delayed for reasons
                                                                    to submit to the Commission before the end of 1985 a
   connected with documents;
                                                                    report on:
4. to make use, to this end, of all the possibilities               — the results of the Basel pilot project (Transinfo)
   afforded by their telegraphic or computerized                         and the studies to be carried out and the means to
   information services in order to speed up                             be deployed in order to obtain systematic infor-
   administrative inspections and formalities so that                    mation in the short term concerning delays in the
   wagons can be released quickly;                                       forwarding of international consignments,
                                                                    — progress      in the areas covered            by this
5. to increase the number of multilateral agreements                     recommendation,
   so as to avoid the drawing-up of a new train                    — progress with other matters concerning technical
   record at frontier crossing points;                                   operations, in particular the revival of the wagon
                                                                         pool and an increase in train speed.
6. to continue their efforts of collaboration to
   simplify customs procedures applicable to transport             This recommendation is addressed to the railway
   using, be it only in part, the railway (in particular            companies of the Member States, which are listed in
   the combined rail/road traffic).                                 the Annex hereto.
                     BILAG /ANHANGIHAPAPTHMAI             ANNEXI ANNEXE            IALLEGATOIBIJLAGE
             Jernbanevirksomheder / Eisenbahnen / Ei£f|poSpo|iiic6 SUctva / Railway companies /Entreprises de
                                         Chemin de fer / Reti ferroviarie / Spoorwegen
             — 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)
                 Solvgade 40, DK-Kebenhavn                                          >
             — Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB)
                 Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 43, D-6000 Frankfurt (Main)
             — Opyaviouo^ ZtSTipoSpoucav EUd5o£ A.E. (OZE)
                 o66c KapoXou 1, GR-AW|vai
             — 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 BTl 3PB