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Date: 1977-12-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DIRECTIVE (EEC) on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods by road, as part of regional statistics (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                               COM(77)666 final
                                               Brussels , 14 December 1977
                             Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ( EEC )
              on statistical returns in respect of carriage
              of goods by road., as part of regional statistics
               ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
 COM(77 ) 666 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                  EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
For its work on the common transport polxcy and regional policy , the
Commission needs basic information on carriage of goods "by various modes
of transport .
Although major progress has "been made in the collection of statistical
data on goods carriage "by rail and waterways , the information available
at present on road transport is only fragmentary, and experience has
shown that useful results can only "be obtained in this sector by
Community legislation .
The Commission 's activity in this field has been concerned with the
following two aspects of the matter :
a) national carriage of goods by road, which was covered by a proposal
      for a Directive which was submitted to the Council in 1970 ( l ). For
      financial reasons , it could not be adopted ;
b ) as for international carriage of goods by road , the Commission
      submitted a proposal for a Directive which was adopted by the Council
      in 1969 under the number 69/467/EEC ( 2 ).
In most of the Member States , however , the implementation of the latter
Directive has been impeded by the difficulties outlined in the report
on the subject which the Commission presented to the Council ( 3 ). The
report explains that collection of the data required by this Directive
necessarily entails the completion of statistical returns at frontiers .
Since the Benelux countries have abolished customs checks at their
common frontiers - which makes it impossible for them to implement
the Directive – and since it would in ajiy case be contrary to the
Community 's aims to maintain a Directive which implicitly requires
statistical checks to be carried out at frontiers , the Coranission
submitted a proposal for a Directive on carriage of goods by road (4 )
to the Council in 1975 in order to achieve its objective b" other
methods „
 ( 1 ) . COK(-'e ) 90? Fir, Til of 7 September 1??0
       . R/l"7S /70 (TRANS 111 )
 ( 2 ) . O.J. No L 323 of 24 December I909
 O ) - S3C ( 74 ) 2367 Final of 27 June i ? 74
        . R/ I6ÓO/74 ( TRANO 128 )
 (4 ) . COM ( 7-5 ) 3OP      -al of 27 Jur.3
        ♦ R/ i 522/ 75 (TRASS 50 }
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Agreement was not reached in the discussions within the Council , partly
because certain Member States pointed out that national and international
carriage of goods overlapped to such an extent that they should be covered
by a single set of statistical returns#
The Commission therefore withdrew the two proposals for Directives and
decided to submit to the Council the single proposal attached, which
covers both national and international carriage of goods . If adopted
by the Gouncil , this Directive would repeal Directive 69/467/EEC.
The fact that each of the Member States would then be collecting
statistics on carriage of goods by means of utility vehicles registered
in its territory should further enhance the importance attached to the
results by each country, such that Community financial support could be
 confined to the first three years , for the setting-up of the system.
 To help the Member States who will be collecting data by means of sample
 surveys to reduce the cost of such surveys , provision is made for them
 to restrict the field of enquiry to vehicles above a certain tonnage
 limit if they so wish. For the same reason, data on international
 carriage of goods has been restricted to bilateral transport only
 and a breakdown into transport regions has not been stipulated at the
 présent stage .
 Since the experience gained by the Member States will probably point
 to ways of improving the system of data collection and may make it
 necessary to amend certain parts of the Directive , provision has been
  made for the Commission to submit a report to the Council by
  1 January 1983 on the current state of work and any improvements it
  may wish to make to the Directive .
                                000
 ---pagebreak---                    Proposal for a Council Directive (EEC )
      on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods "by road ,
                        as part of regional statistics
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 213 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission *
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee ,
                                                        «
Whereas the measures already taken and          to be taken in the field of the
common transport policy and in other fields, especially that of regional
policy, call for a more extensive knowledge of the scale and development
of the carriage of goods by road by means of vehicles registered in the
Community , and whereas the data must be comparable with those for other
means of transport and must refer to both national and international
transport ;
Whereas the Member States already collect statistical data , at annual or
pluriannual intervals , in respect of goods traffic within their own
territory } whereas , since 19&2 , the original six Member States also
compile statistical data on carriage of goods by road between their
own national territory and the other Member States or non-member
countries , in accordance with the Commission 's Recommendations of
26 July 1961 to the Member States on the establishment of a standard
goods classification for the purposes of transport statistics ( l );
Whereas Council Directive 69/467/HKC of 8 December 19^9 (?) provides
for the compilation of statistical returns , to be made on the basi3
 of regional statistics , in respect of international carriage of goods
by road ; whereas the report on the implementation of this Directive
submitted by the Commission         to the Gouncil on 27 June 1974 indicates
that several Member States can only collect the data requested by means
 of supplementary formalities at frontiers ; whereas these Member States
 should be allowed to dispense with collection of statistical data at
 frontiers , as is implicitly provided for in the said
 Directive ;
 ( l ) O.J.    30 September I96I •
   2 ) O.J. No L 323, '24.12.1969 , p.7 .
 ---pagebreak---                                           - 2 -
Whereas the system set out in Directive 69/467/EEC should therefore be
fundamentally revised ; whereas experience               indicate s that
surveys of all kinds of carriage of goods by road should be systematically
re -grouped and that thesa surveys should be carried out annually;
Whereas the returns compiled on the basis of these surveys should contain
comparable statistical information; whereas the information to be provided
and the procedures to be followed for obtaining and forwarding it should
therefore 1)6 S6~fc oiA*fc in d.6"t8,il y
Whereas , in view of the technical difficulties involved in compiling
 reliable data on international flows of goods traffic between the regions
 of the Community, inter-regional returns should at this stage be confined
 to national carriage of goods ;
 Whereas the statistics on carriage of goods are of interest to all the
 Member States and these data should accordingly be communicated to them;
 Whereas provision should be made for amendment of this Directive after
  a suitable test period and as may prove necessary in the light of
  experience , particularly in respect of the collection of data on the
  main flows of goods between the regions of the Community in the form
  of international traffic, and in respect of the abandonment of any
  statistical returns still compiled at frontiers within the Community,
  HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE I
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                                     Article 1
This Directive shall apply to carriage of goods "by road by means of
vehicles registered in a Member State *
a ) on the territory of that Member State (hereinafter referred to as
   " national transport")
b ) between that Member State and another Member State or a non-member
     country (hereinafter referred to as '"international transport ").
                                     Article 2
1 . For the purpose of this Directive the following terms shall have the
     meanings hereinafter assigned to them :              %
     a) carriage of goods by road : all transport of goods by means of a
         utility vehicle ;
     b) utility vehicles any single vehicle or coupled combination of
         vehicles , such as a lorry with or without trailer , or a tractor
         vehicle with trailer or semi-trailer ;
     c ) registered : the state of having been entered in a register of
         utility vehicles kept by an official body, whether or not such
         registration is accompanied by the issuing of a registration plate .
2 . This Directive shall not apply to carriage of goods by road by means of :
     a) utility vehicles whose weight or dimensions exceed the normal
         permitted limits ;
     b ) agricultural utility vehicles , military vehicles and vehicles used
         by public administrations and public services , with the exception
         of road vehicles used by the railways .
3 . Each Member State may moreover refrain from applying this Directive to
     vehicles whose payload or total permissible laden weight falls
     below a certain limit ." •, This limit i. shall not , however , exceed
     3.5 tonnes payload or 6 tonnes total permissible laden weight .
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                                      Article 3
 1 . Each Member State shall collect the annual statistical data on the
     carriage of goods referred to in Article 1 by means of vehicles registered
     on its territory .
 2 . The annual statistical data shall be broken down under the following headings :
     a ) for national transport , expressed in terms of tonnes and tonne-
         kilometres ,
         . carriage on own account and carriage for hire or reward ;
         . the 10 chapters of the Standard goods classification for transport
            statistics (NST/R ) listed in Annex 1 ;
         * the 23 groups of goods listed in Annex 2j       '
         . the following classes of length of journey * 0 to 49 kilometres , 50
           to 149 kilometres , 150 to 499 kilometres , and 500 kilometres and over ;
         . the loading and unloading regions listed in Annex 3j
     b ) for international transport , expressed in terms of tonnes and tonne-
         kilometres ,
         . carriage on own account and carriage for hire ' or reward ;
         * the 23 groups of goods listed in Annex 2 ;
         . the countries of loading and unloading listed in Annex 4 »
3 . When calculating or estimating tonne-kilometres ,
                               the distance covered by a road vehicle while
     being transported on another means of transport     shall not be taken
     into account .
4.        Member States shall forward the statistical data specified in this
     Article in the form of tables conforming to the models A1 to A4 and
     B1   set out in Annex 5 »
                                      Article 4
When determining the method to be used for collecting statistical data on
international transport , Member States         shall take account of the neea
to simplify the formalities connected with movement of goods within the
Community as much as possible , especially the formalities to be completed
at frontiers between Member States .
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                                    ■   Article "5
 1 . The     statistical data shall be collected for the first time for the year
      1979 .
2 . Each year ,        Member States shall send the Commission the tables' of data
     drawn up in accordance with Article 3f before the end of the year following
     the year of reference ..    f   .
3 . The Commission shall inform the           , Member States of the           „
     results of the survey at the earliest possible date .
                                       Article 6               ,
1 . Member States shall forward to the Commission , on or before the date
     on which the first results are forwarded , a detailed report on the
     methods of data collection used .                       n
                                            «
2 . When determining the method of data collection to be used ,            ,   >
     Member States shall ensure that the method selected provides satis­
     factory results for the total tonnages carried : on the one hand ,
     between the transport regions       in the case of national transport
     arid , on the other hand , between the State concerned and each of the
      other Member States    in the case of international transport          They
     shall also report annually on the nonresponse rate and the degree
      of accuracy of the results in the form of standard deviations or
      confidence intervals . They shall in addition report on the method
     used to calculate the figures for the transport services , expressed
      in tonne-kilometres .
                                        Article 7
Each year , the Commission shall , with the assistance of the Committee for Co­
ordination of Transport Statistics at the Statistical Office of the
European Communities , examine the statistical tables and reports
submitted by the Member States         under    ; . Articles 5 and- 6 , in order
to ensure that the methods employed yield comparable results , and to
 determine the means and the degree of detail appropriate for the
 publication of the information provided by the Member States .
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                                       Article 8
Before 1 January 1983 , the Commission shall report to the Council on
experience acquired to date as a result of the work carried out under this
Directive and shall propose , where appropriate , any amendments necessary
in the light of the experience and results obtained, particularly to
prevent the movement of goods "between Member States being systematically
subject to formalities specifically for the purposes of this Directive .
                                       Article 9
For "fcliQ first "tiipe© years in wh.ich. "fchs statistical study is conducted
      Member States shall receive a financial contribution from the
Community in respect of the work involved .
                                       Article 10
 1.       Member States shall take the necessary measures to comply with
     this Directive not later than 1 January 1979 .
 2 . With effect from the date of entry into force in a Member State of the
     measures provided for in paragraph 1 , Directive 69/467/EEC shall cease
     to apply to that Member State .                         •         "
 3.            Directive 69/467 /EEC is hereby repealed
     with effect from 1 January 1979 *
                                        Article H
 This Directive is addressed to the Member States .
                                                  Done at
                                                          For the Council
                                                           The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                                   Λ "."Π Γ! Χ 1
                         CHAPTERS OF NST/R ( l )
  Chapter No                            Name
      0         Agricultural products and live animals
              I
       1        Foodstuffs and animal fodder
       2         Solid mineral fuel
       3        Petroleum products
                                                                              I
      4         Ores and metal waste
       5        Metal products
       6        Crude and manufactured minerals , building materials
      7         Fertilizers
      8         Chemicals
      9         Machinery , transport equipment , manufactured ar­
                ticles and miscellaneous articles
             i
(0 Published "by the Statistical Office of the European Communities
    (French version – 1968 )
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                              Annex 2
                                                GROUPS OP GOODS
  Groups of T     NST/H ( 1 )     NST/R ( 1 )                            Description
    goods     j     chapter         groupe ..
         ï             0         01                    Cereals '                                                   I
         2                       02,03                 Potatoes , other fresh or frozen fruit and vege­
                                                       tables
         3                       00,06                 Live animals , sugar "beet                                   I
         4                       05                    Wood and cork                                                I
          5                      04,09                 Textiles , textile articles and rcan-*nade fibres ,
                                                       other raw animal and vegetaole material
          6             1         11,12,13 ,           Foodstuffs and animal fodder
                                  14,16,17
          7                       18                    Oil seeds and oleaginous fruit and fats
                                                                                                                      1
           8            2      t 21,22,23               Solid cineral fuels
           Q            3         31,32,33 ,            Crude petroleum and petroleum products
i                                 34
                ■ "           i
                                                        Iron ore , iron and steel waste and blast furnace
         10     I       4     !   41,46
                                                        dust
         11                       45              | Noii–ferrous ores and waste                                        ■t
         12              5        51 , 52,;>3 ,         i'etal products
                                  54,55,56
                         6        64,69                 Cement , lime , manufactured building materials
         14                     ! 61,62,63,65 j Crude and manufactured minerals
                                                                                                                         ;
         15               7        71,72           I Natural and chemical fertilizers                                  j
                                                                                                                         \
          16              8        83              J Coal chemicals , tar
                                                                                                                          i
          17                       81,82,89 ,      J Chemicals other than coal chemicals and tar                  ^       *
          18                       84              i Paper pulp and waste paper                                        j
                                                                                                                          i
          19              9        91,92,93              Transport equipment , machinery, apparatus ,
                                                         engines , whether or not assembled , and parts
                                                         thereof
           20                      94               J Manufactures of metal                                                j
           21                       95              j Glass , glassware , ceramic products
           22                       96,97                Leather , textile , clothing, other manufactured
                                                         articles
           23                       99                   Miscellaneous articles
                                                     i                                   ......  . . i ■ ■ H " – –
   ( 1 ) Published by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (French vers^n - .
 ---pagebreak---                                                      Annex 3
                          LIST OP REGIONS
Federal Republic of Gerroany
     Schleswig-Holstein
     Hamburg
     Nordostteil von Niedersachsen
     Westteil von Niedersachsen
     Südostteil von Niedersachsen
     Bremen (Land)
     Nordteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen
     Ruhrgebiet
     Südwest teil von Nordrhein-Westfalen
     Ostteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen ( Sieger-Sauer land
     und Ostteil von Westfalen)
     Nordteil von Hessen
     Südteil von Hessen
     Nordteil von Rheinland-Pfalz
     Südteil von Rheinland-Pfalz
     Nordbaden
     Siïdbaden
     Württemberg
     Nordbayern (Pranken)
     Ostbayern ( Oberpfalz und Niederbayern)
     Südbayern ( Schwaben und Oberbayern)
     Saarland
     Berlin (West )
France
      Ile de France
     Champagne-Ardenne
     Picardie
     Haute-Normandie
      Centre
     Basse-Normandie
      Bourgogne
     N ord-Pas-de-Calais
      Lorraine
      Alsace
      Franche–Comt ê
      Pays de la Loire
      Bretagne
      Poit ou-Charent e s
      Aquitaine
      Midi-Pyrénées
      Limousin
      Rhône-Alpes
      Auvergne
      Languedoc-Roussillon
      Provence–Alpes-Côte d' Azur
       Corse
 ---pagebreak---       Piemonte
      Valle d' Aosta
      Liguria
      Lombardia
      Trentino–Alto Adige
      Veneto
      Friuli-Venezia-Giulia
      Emi 1 i a-Romagna
      Toscana
      Umbria
      Marche
      Lazio
      Campania
      Abruzzi
      Kolise
      Paglia
       Basilicata
       Calabria
       Sicilia
       Sardegna
ITetherlands
       ïïoord
       West ? ausser Rijnmond und IJmond
       Ri jnmond
       IJmond
       Zuidwest
        Zuid
        Oost
      LUÏÏi
        Rjfion Flamande t ausser Port d' Anvers
        Port d' Anvers
        Région wallonne
        Région bruxelloise
 Luxembourg
        Luxembourg
 Unit e d Kingdom
        itforth
        Yorkshire and Enrobera ide
        East Midlands
        East Anglia
        South East
        South Weat
        West Midlands
        North West
        Wale 3
         Scot land
        Northern Ireland
 Ireland
         Ireland
 Denmark
         Danmark
 ---pagebreak---                  LIST OF COUNTRIES
Federal Republic of Germany
France
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
United Kingdom
Ireland
Dertmark
Switzerland
Austria
Yugoslavia
Greece
Turkey
Spam
Portugal
Norway
Sweden
Fi ni and
German Democratic Republic
 Czechoslovakia
Other European countries
North African countries
Middle East countries
 Other countries
 ---pagebreak---                                                                               Annex 5
Table À1       Internal transport , by basis of carriage and nature of rooGn
                               Own account     Hire or reward         Total
      Nature of goods
                                                                    t    i   tien
                                       tlas
                                                 t    |   tier-     ■    !
       23 groups
         Total
 ---pagebreak---                                                            Ann^x 5
Table A2       Internai intra- and interregional transport
                                                                tonnes
                                       Unloading region
    Loading region                                              Total
                           01      02      03
          01
          02
       Total
 ---pagebreak---                                                                          Annex 5
  Table A3     Internal transport : loading and unloading in regions , according
               to the nature of goods transported
                                                                                 tonnes
                                       23 groups of goods
       Regions
                      1      2       3      4                           23        Total
               1 . Tonnages of goods received from other regi ons
         01
                                                           «
         02                                                  I
                                                                      I
                                                      I                        I
         03                                           I
                                          I
                                                      I                        L
                           I
                           I
                                   I
                                   I
                                   i
                                               j                    l
I
               2. Tonnages dispatched to other regions
                          I
         01                             i
         02
         03                              I
                                                                      !
                                                                      j
                                         I
                                  I
               3. Intraregional transport
         01                             l      I                              I
                                 l             I
                                                                              I
                                               I                      I       I         i
         02
                                                                      !                 I
         03                              I     I                     I
                                                                               Γ        !
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Tabl " A4         Internal transport , by length of journey and nature of poods transported
                                            23 groups of goodd ( t ;                   I
   Lem-ht of journey                                                                        tkm
                              1       2     3       4                     23     Total
                                         ι
                                         I
                                                  ι
 a ) Own account           i
                           i                      i
        0 –  49 km         i                      i                                       i
                                                                        j
       50 - 149 km         i
                                                           I                   I
     150 - 499 km                 i
                                  !
                           i
     500 km and over       i      i
                                  I
                           i                                    *
     Total
                           t
                                                                              i
                           i
 b) For hire or reward
        0 -  49 km                                                                       i
                                                                                         i
                                                                                         i
       50 - 149 km
     1 50 - 499 km
                                                               . j     I
                                                                       I
     500 km and over                                              i
                                                                  I    i
     Total
c) a + b
                                                |
       0 –  49 km                             ■ i
                                                 i
     50 - 149 km                                 i
    150 - 499 km
                                 i               ι
                                                          l
    500 km and over                                       I
    Total
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                             Annex 5
  Table B1           International transport , according to nature of goods transported                                   t
                     and country of origin or destination
  Type of transport ( l ):
                                              23    groups of goods ( tonnec0
                                                 ι
                                                                                                            tkiTî
                              1      2      3         4                       !     23    I  Total
                                                                    ι                     I   _
                     1 . Tonnages recel "ved from :                                                   I
                                                                                                      I
   A. Total 'ïûember
        States
        oi which    1.                                                                               i
                                                                                        i
                                  1                             ;
                                  i
                    2.            I                             !
                                  I                             I           i
                                                                i
                   etc.           i                              i
                                                                i
   B.   Total third                                              I  I
        countries                 I
i                                                           ι
                                        ί
        oi which    1.             i                                                                     (           /
                    2.             I
                                        I
                                        I
                                                  i       I
                                                          I
                                                          I
                                                                                    1
                                                                                                           \ !
                                                          I
                                        i
                   etc.                 i                 i
                                                          i
                                        i
   C. Total ( A. + B. )
                     2. Tonnages dispatched to :
                                  I                                                                                     f
   A.   Total Member            . I
                                  I                             I            I
                                                                                                     I                  i
        States                                                  i                                                       !
                                                         J
                                                              1  I
                                                                            ί   1 ■ 1 - 1
                                                                                                     i
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        o f whi eh  1.
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                    2.                                                                              !                   I
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                   etc.
                                                                                                     L_ !
                                                                                                      !                 t
   B.   Total third
                                                                                                   i  i                i
        countries                                                                                     ;                 e
                                                                                                      I                .
                                                                                                   i
        of which    1.                                                                                ! .          /
                    2.
                   etc.
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 [ G. Total (Ao + B. )
                                                 !                                                 : /           ~     '
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                                  1              i          i
   ( l ) Separate returns to be made for carriage on own account and for hir« or i
 ---pagebreak---      STATISTICAL OFFICE                           Budget item : 264
OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                  Interservice Coordination
                                                  Group on Economic , Monetary
                                                  and Statistical Questions
                                                  Date :
                                 BUDGET
                       SIMPLIFIED FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1 . Title and subject of survey
    STATISTICAL RETURNS IN RESPECT OF CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY ROAD , AS PART
    OF REGIONAL STATISTICS
    European Communities statistics programme 1977 - 1979 » version dated
    28 July 1976 , work number : F2.4 and F2.5
2 . Reasons for conducting the survey
    These statistics are compiled in pursuance of Directive No ...
3 . Advisability and profitability criteria which the survey is meant to
    fulfil : 1 B
    The purpose of the Commission 's aid is to help the Member States in
    the work involved in launching the system . For this reason aid will
    be confined to the first three years following the entry into force
    of the Directive .
4 * Reasons why the survey cannot be conducted by the Commission 's
    departments
    The information can only be collected by the competent statistical
    offices in the Member States .
5 . Official responsible for the survey
    Mr H.G. BAGGENDORFF , Head of SOEC Division F.4 - Transport Statistics .
6 . Anticipated results of the survey
    The aim of this statistical study is to collect statistics on carriage
    of goods by means of utility vehicles registered in the Member States .
7 . Scheduled time for completion of the survey
    The survey will be repeated annually . The data will be forwarded in
    the course of the year following that to which they refer .
8 . Estimated cost of the survey
    The Commission subsidy will be 400 000 EUA . for each of the years 1979 »
    I98O and I98I ( if the Directive cannot enter into force on
    1 January 1979 » this statement will have to be amended accordingly ).
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     The apportionment of this subsidy is calculated as follows :
     approximately 1/3 in equal shares (a) and 2/3 on the "basis of the
     number of motorized utility vehicles registered in the Member State
     concerned (b ) (u.a. )i
            Member State             (a )         0>)       a + (b)
            FR of Germany           13500        51244       64744
            France                  13500        82993       96493
            Italy                   13500        43446        56946
            Netherlands             13500        13647       27147
            Belgium                 13500         8077        21577
            Luxembourg              13500          557       14057
            United Kingdom          13500        67118       80618
             Ireland                13500         2228        15728
            Denmark                 13500         9190        22690
                                   121500      278500     ' 400000
 9 . Ifadpretary heading
     Article 264 of the 1979 ? 19^0 and 1981 Budgets ; "Statistical studies
     and surveys ".
10 . Ccnaul-tation of an Interservice Coordination Groni>
     f roup 4 - Economic , Monetary and Statistical Questions *
11 - Other departments involved
     In the preparation of 'the purveyi EG VII , DG XVI , ACU .
     In the utilization of the survey * DG VII .