CELEX: 51992PC0230(03)
Language: en
Date: 1992-06-11
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1107/70 on the granting of aids for transport by rail, road and inland waterway

No C 282 / 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                30 . 10 . 92
12 . Article 9 becomes Article 10 and is replaced by the                                      Article 2
     following :
                                                                     1 . Member States shall bring into force the laws,
                                                                     regulations and administrative provisions necessary to
      !'Article 10                                                   comply with this Directive by 1 January 1993 . They shall
                                                                     immediately inform the Commission thereof.
     Where a trailer or semi-trailer belonging to an                 When Member States adopt these provisions, these shall
     undertaking engaged in own-account combined                     contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accom­
     transport is hauled on a final leg by a tractor                 panied by such reference at the time of their official
     belonging to an undertaking engaged in transport                publication. The procedure for such reference shall be
     for hire or reward, the transport operation so                  adopted by Member States .
     effected shall be exempt from presentation of the
     document provided for in Article 4, but another                 2.    Member      States  shall    communicate    to     the
     document shall be provided giving evidence of the               Commission the main provisions of domestic law which
     journey covered by rail or by inland waterway or by             they adopt in the field covered by this Directive .
     sea .';
                                                                                              Article 3
13 . The former Article 10 is deleted .                              This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
                 Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1107/70 on the
                               granting of aids for transport by rail, road and inland waterway
                                                          (92 /C 282 /04)
                                                       COM(92) 230 final
                                         (Submitted by the Commission on 2 July 1992)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             moveable facilities necessary for transshipment or to the
                                                                     running costs of an intra-Community combined
                                                                     transport service in transit across the territory of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                non-member countries ;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 75
thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the evolution of combined transport shows that
                                                                     for the Community as a whole the starting-up phase of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   this technology has not been completed yet, and whereas
                                                                     the aid arrangements should therefore be maintained for
                                                                     a further period ;
Having regard to the opinion of the European
Parliament,
                                                                     Whereas the possibility of granting such aid for the
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                     operating costs of combined transport services crossing
Social Committee ,                                                   the territory of a non-member country is only warranted
                                                                     in the case of Austria, the Republics of the former
                                                                     Yugoslavia, and Switzerland ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1107/70 0, as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1100/ 89 (2),
provides that Member States may promote the devel­                   Whereas the need to achieve economic and social
opment of combined transport by granting aid relating to             cohesion in the Community rapidly entails putting the
investment in infrastructure and in the fixed and                    emphasis on investment in rail and road facilities specific
                                                                     to combined transport, in particular where they present
C) OJ No L 130, 15 . 6. 1970 , p. 1 .                                an alternative to infrastructure work that cannot be
O OJ No L 116 , 28 . 4 . 1989 , p . 24 .                             completed in the short term ;
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"Whereas providing aid for road facilities specific to                       — investment in fixed and moveable facilities
combined transport would be an effective way of                                  necessary for transshipment, or       ;
 encouraging small and medium-sized firms to avail
 themselves of combined transport services ;
                                                                             — investment in transport equipment specifically
                                                                                 designed for combined transport and used
"Whereas aid for equipment specific to combined                                  exclusively in combined transport, or
transport would foster the development of new bimodal
 and transshipment technology ;
                                                                             — other costs incurred in running combined
"Whereas during a limited start-up phase the possibility of                      transport services in transit across Austria,
granting aid should therefore be extended to investment                          Switzerland or the former Republics of
 in facilities specifically designed for combined transport,                     Yugoslavia .
provided that they are used exclusively in combined
transport ;
                                                                             The Commission shall present a progress report
                                                                             on those measures to the Council every two
"Whereas the present aid arrangements should be main­                        years giving details of where the aids went, their
tained until 31 December 1995 and the Council should                         amount and their impact on combined transport.
decide, under the conditions laid down in the Treaty, on                     Member States shall supply the Commission with
the arrangements to be applied subsequently or, if                           the information needed to compile the report. By
 necessary, on the conditions for terminating such aid ;                     31 December 1995 , and on a proposal from the
                                                                             Commission, the Council shall decide on the
"Whereas       Regulation     (EEC)     No   1107/70    should               arrangements to be applied subsequently and, if
therefore be amended,                                                        necessary, on the conditions for terminating
                                                                             them .'
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                              Article 2
                              Article 1
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Point 1 (e) of Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No                     following that of its publication in the Official Journal of
 1107 / 70 is hereby replaced by the following :                    the European Communities.
      '(e) until 31 December 1995, where the aids are
            granted as a temporary measure and designed to          It shall apply from 1 January 1993 .
            facilitate the development of combined transport,
            such aids must relate to :
                                                                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
            — investment in infrastructure, or                      directly applicable in alle Member States .