CELEX: 31972R2826
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2826/72 of the Council of 28 December 1972 extending the period of validity of and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1174/68 on the introduction of a system of bracket tariffs for the carriage of goods by road between Member States

Official Journal of the European Communities                              39
No L 298/12                      Official Journal of the European Communities                        31.12.72
                      REGULATION (EEC) No 2826/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                              of 28 December 1972
           extending the period of validity of and amending Council Regulation (EEC)
           No 1174/68 on the introduction of a system of bracket tariffs for the carriage of
                                     goods by road between Member States
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                       Whereas it has appeared advisable to clarify
TIES,                                                      certain provisions of the said Regulation and
                                                           to correct certain disparities noted between the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the               texts of that Regulation in the various Com­
European Economic Community, and in partic­                munity languages;
ular Article 75 thereof;
                                                           Whereas time limits should be laid down for
Having regard t:o the proposal from the Com­               fixing the tariffs which directly concern the
mission;                                                   new Member States;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European
Parliament;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic                                    Article 1
and Social Committee;
Whereas the regulation of transport rates and              Regulation (EEC) No 1174/68 shall be amended
conditions is ar important aspect of the com­              as follows.
mon transport policy provided for under the
Treaty;
                                                                                Article 2
Whereas the implementation of Council Regu­
lation (EEC) ND 1174/68 of 30 July 19681 on
the introductior. of a system of bracket tariffs           Article 17 shall be replaced by the following
for the carriage of goods by road between                  text :
Member States as amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 293/7*0,2 will allow experience to be                 'This Regulation shall remain in force until
acquired for ths purpose of laying down the                    31 December 1974. In the event of the
system to be applied as from the end of its                    Council not having decided before that date
period of validity; whereas to that end, the                   on the tariff system to be applied thereafter,
said Regulation stipulated that the system which               it may be extended for a period of one year.'
it set up would apply until 31 December 1971
and would remain in force for a further period
of one year in the event of the Council not
having decided before that date on the system                                   Article 3
to be applied thereafter;
Whereas, as a result of the delayed introduction           1.     In the second subparagraph of Article 3 (1)
of the tariffs adopted under Regulation (EEC)              the words 'including the general expenses of the
No 1174/68 , the period of application of that             business' shall be replaced by the words
Regulation has not been sufficient to provide              'including, where appropriate, the general
all the required experience; whereas it is                 expenses of the business'.
consequently necessary to extend that Regu­                2.     The words 'must be not less than 500 metric
lation for an appropriate period;
                                                           tons in three months' at the end of subpara­
                                                           graph (b) (ii) of Article 5 (1), shall be replaced
1  OJ No L 194, 6 8.1968, p. 1 .                           by the words 'must be not less than 500 metric
2  OJ No L 40, 20,2.1970, p. 1.                            tons within a three-month period'.
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3.      Article 16 (b) shall be replaced by the              '(c) het vervoer van de in de bijlagen I en II
following:                                                        bij de eerste richtlijn van de Raad
                                                                  inzake de vaststelling van bepaalde
    c (b) to the carriage of goods over a distance                gemeenschappelijke regels voor het in­
          which    in   total    does   not   exceed
                                                                  ternationale vervoer (goederenvervoer
          fifty km; if      the road      vehicle is              over de weg tegen vergoeding) opge­
          transported by sea for part of the                      somde goederen ( 1)'.
          distance, the sea crossing shall not be
          taken into consideration when calcu­
          lating such distance'.
                                                                              Article 5
                      Article 4                          For tariffs which directly concern the new
                                                         Member States, the time limits laid down in
1.      In the English text of the Regulation            Article 15 shall take effect as from the date of
referred to in Article 1 , the word 'communicate'        the accession of the said States .
in the first subparagraph of Article 5 (2) shall
be replaced by the word 'forward', and the word
'communicating' in the second subparagraph                                    Article 6
shall be replaced by the word 'forwarding'.
2.      The Dutch text of Article 16 (c) shall be        This Regulation shall enter into force on
replaced by the following:                               1 January 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
              Member States .
              Done at Brussels , 28 December 1972.
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                          The President
                                                                       R. G. H. KRUISINGA