CELEX: 31969L0467
Language: en
Date: 1969-12-08 00:00:00
Title: Council Directive 69/467/EEC of 8 December 1969 on returns, to be made on the basis of regional statistics, in respect of international carriage of goods by road

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                                                 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
                                                   of 8 December 1969
                  on returns, to be made on the basis of regional statistics, in respect of international
                                                carriage of goods by road
                                                        (69/467/EEC)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                                Article 2
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     1 . Member States shall, in respect of each of the 21
 European Economic Community, and in particular                  groups of goods listed in Annex I, compile returns of
 Article 213 thereof;                                            the tonnage carried as specified in Article 1 , broken
                                                                 down by region of loading and unloading, a region
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;             being one of the 57 transport regions of the
                                                                 Community listed in Annex II or, a third country, as
 Whereas the development of the common market                    the case may be.
 requires a more extensive knowledge of the pattern
 of traffic of the various regions of the Community              The returns shall give separately data concerning
 among themselves and with third countries, and in               carriage on own account and carriage for hire or
 particular of the links between production and                  reward :
 consumption regions;
                                                                 —■ for traffic between Member States         and for
 Whereas transport statistics for each loading and                   consignments from third countries on the basis of
 unloading region covering the whole of the traffic                  arrivals in transport regions of the Community;
 between Member States and with third countries
 cannot be compiled from existing statistical                   — for consignments to third countries on the basis
 information in respect of international carriage of                 of departures from those regions.
 goods by road; whereas responsibility for compiling
 the returns required for this purpose should therefore         2.     Each Member State shall in addition compile
 be placed on Member States ;                                    for the whole of its traffic with each other Member
                                                                 State and each third country global returns of the
Whereas in order to increase comparability              of       tonnage carried within the meaning of Article 1 ;
statistics there should be progressive improvement              these returns shall be broken down by country of
 and approximation of the various methods used by               registration of the vehicles which effected the
Member States to collect data ; whereas, for the same           carriage, and shall distinguish between carriage on
purpose, provision should be made for amendment of              own account and carriage for hire or reward. They
this Directive in due time and as may prove necessary           shall be compiled for traffic between Member States
in the light of experience;                                     and for deliveries from third countries on the basis of
                                                                arrivals, and for consignments to third countries on
                                                                the basis of departures.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE :
                                                                                        Article 3
                        Article 1
                                                                Every year before 1 October, Member States shall
This Directive shall apply to international carriage of         send to the Commission the returns compiled in
goods by road (including carriage between Member                accordance with Article 2.
States and third countries) where the place of loading
or unloading of the goods carried is situated on the            The results of such returns shall be made known by
territory of a Member State.                                    the Commission to the Member States in accordance
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with the procedure followed in respect of other             Transport Statistics at the Statistical Office of the
modes of land transport.                                    European Communities, examine the results of the
                                                            official surveys made by Member States, in order to
                                                            approximate the methods used as far as possible.
                       Article 4
                                                            2. Before 1 June 1974, the Commission shall
The returns shall be drawn up for the first time in         submit to the Council a report on the results
respect of the year 1970.                                   achieved following the implementation of this
                                                            Directive and shall propose any amendments which
                       Article 5                            may prove necessary.
Member States shall receive financial aid from the                                 Article 7
Community for additional tasks which they may
undertake at the request of the Commission. The             This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
appropriations required for this purpose shall be
shown in the budget of the European Communities
under the heading , concerning general studies and
surveys of a Community character.                           Done at Brussels, 8 December 1969 .
                       Article 6                                                               For the Council
                                                                                                The President .
1.    Each year the Commission shall, with the
assistance of the Committee for Co-ordination of                                             J. M. A. H. LUNS
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                                                 ANNEX I
                                         GROUPS OF GOODS
    Group of       Chapter                                          Description on the basis of the
     goods          NST1           NST1 Group                              NST1 terminology
        1            0           00, 02, 04, 05,           Other agricultural products and live animals
                                 06, 09
        2                        01                        Cereals
        3                        03                        Other fresh or frozen vegetables and fresh
                                                           fruits
        4            1           11 , 12, 13 , 14,         Foodstuffs and fodder
                                 16, 17, 18
        5            2           21                        Hard coal
        6                        22                        Brown coal and peat
        7                        23                        Coke
        8            3           31                        Crude petroleum
        9                        32, 33 , 34               Other petroleum products
       10            4           41                        Iron ores
       11                        45                        Non-ferrous ores and wastes
       12                        46                        Scrap metal and blast furnace dust
       13            5           51                        Foundry pig iron and cast iron, ferro-alloys
       14                        522                       Rolled semi-finished iron and steel products,
                                                           blooms, billets, slabs and steel bars, roughly
                                                           shaped for sheets or plates (coils)
    15—16                        532, 535, 537,           Rolled products
                                 542, 545
                                 523 , 533 , 536,          Other rolled products
                                 543,546,
                                 55, 56
       17            6           61 , 62, 63 , 64,         Raw or manufactured minerals and
                                 65,69                     construction materials
       18            7           71 , 72                  Fertilisers
      19             8           81 , 82, 83 , 84,        Chemical products
                                 89
      20             9           91 , 92, 93 , 94,         Machines, vehicles,
                                 95 , 96, 97              manufactured articles
      21                         99                       Special transactions
l Standard Goods Nomenclature for Transport Statistics (Statistical Office of the European Communities, 1968).
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                                              ANNEX U
                          TRANSPORT REGIONS OF THE COMMUNITY
     GERMANY                                            NETHERLANDS
      1 Schleswig-Holstein                             35 Rijnmond
      2 Hamburg                                        36 Ijmond
      3 Nordostteil von Niedersachsen                  37 Zuid-Limburg
      4 Westteil Niedersachsen                         39 Other parts of the Netherlands
     5  Südostteil von Niedersachsen
                                                       FRANCE
      6 Bremen (Land)
                                                       40  Nord
     7  Nordteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen
                                                        41 Picardie
          (Münsterland und Niederrheingebiet)
      8 Ruhrgebiet                                     42  Haute-Normandie, Basse Normandie
     9  Südwestteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen            43  Region parisienne
    10  Ostteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen                44  Lorraine
          (Sieger-, Sauerland und Ostteil von          45 Franche-Comte, Bourgogne
          Westfalen)
                                                       46 Rhone-Alpes
    11  Nordteil von Hessen
    12  Sudteil von Hessen
                                                     1 47  Languedoc, Provence-Cote d'Azur
                                                       48  Midi-Pyrénées
    13  Nordteil von Rheinland-Pfalz
    14  Südteil von Rheinland-Pfalz
                                                       49 Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes
                                                       50 Bretagne, Pays de la Loire
    15  Nordbaden
    16  Südbaden
                                                       51  Centre, Limousin, Auvergne
                                                       52  Champagne
    17 Württemberg
                                                       53  Alsace
    18 Nordbayern (Franken)
    19 Ostbayern (Oberpfalz und                        ITALY
          Niederbayern)
                                                       60  Piemonte, Valle d'Aosta
    20 Südbayern (Schwaben und Oberbayern)
                                                       61  Lombardia
    21  Saarland
                                                       62 Liguria
    22 Berlin (West)
                                                       63 Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto
                                                       64   Friuli — Venezia Giulia
                                                       65 Emilia — Romagna
                                                       66  Toscana
    BELGIUM
                                                       67 Marche, Umbria, Abruzzi, Molise
    30 Belgique/België (except 31)
                                                       68  Lazio
    31  Antwerpen
                                                       69  Campania
                                                       70 Puglia, Basilicata
                                                       71  Calabria
    LUXEMBOURG                                         72  Sicilia
    34 Luxembourg                                      73 Sardegna