CELEX: 51988PC0117
Language: en
Date: 1988-03-30
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION MODIFYING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1107/70 ON THE GRANTING OF AIDS FOR TRANSPORT BY RAIL, ROAD AND INLAND WATERWAYS

N o C 113/10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   29. 4. 88
              Proposal for a Regulation (EEC) modifying Regulation (EEC) No 1107/70 on the granting of
                                     aid for transport by rail, road and inland waterways
                                                      COM(88) 117 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 18 April 1988)
                                                        (88/C 113/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           of this technique is not yet over, consequently the aid
                                                                   system has to be maintained for another period which
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              should be sufficiently long to enable the Member States
Economic Community, and in particular Article 75                   with a less developed infrastructure for combined
thereof,                                                           transport to catch up with the more advanced regions;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 Whereas, in certain cases, a subsidy for the cost of using
                                                                   combined transport should be envisaged;
Having regard      to   the   opinion    of  the   European
Parliament,                                                        Whereas a new market organization for inland transport
                                                                   including combined transport will be introduced;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,                                                  Whereas in the light of this situation the system of aid
                                                                   should be reconsidered in 1991 on the basis of the
Whereas the various systems and technologies for                   experiences gained until that time,
combined transport bring benefits for the Community in
general, inter alia, by reducing congestion on certain
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
roads, conserving energy and allowing better use to be
made of railway capacity;
                                                                                               Article 1
Whereas the investment required for the development of             Subparagraph (e) of Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EEC)
combined transport should accordingly be encouraged;               No 1107/70 is hereby replaced by the following text:
Whereas Article 77 states that aid, including operating                 '(e) until 31 December 1992, where the aid is
aid, shall be compatible with the treaty if they meet the                    granted as a temporary measure and designed to
needs of coordination of transport or if they represent                      facilitate the development of combined transport,
reimbursement for the discharge of certain obligations                       such aid has to relate either to investment in
inherent in the concept of a public service;                                 infrastructure and the fixed and moveable
                                                                             facilities necessary for transhipment, or to the
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1107/70 ( l ) as                         costs of operating the combined transport on
modified in 1982 by Regulation (EEC) No 1658/82 (2),                         routes or parts of routes where the road infra-
provides that Member States may promote the devel-                           structures are overused, highly polluted or
opment of combined transport by the granting of aid                          present particular problems.
related to investment in infrastructure and/or the fixed
and moveable facilities necessary for transhipment;                     Before 30 June 1991 the Commission shall make a
whereas this system is of a temporary nature and is                     progress report to the Council on the application of
restricted to an initial operating phase which is suf-                  this provision. In the light of that report and in view
ficiently long to enable such transport to qualify for                  of the temporary nature of the system provided for in
better conditions in the market;                                        this Regulation, the Council shall decide, on a
                                                                        proposal from the Commission, on the regime to be
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1107/70 stipulates that                     applied subsequently and, if necessary, on the
the Council shall decide, in the light of a progress report             measures to be adopted for terminating it.'
concerning the experiences with this system of aid until
the end of 1986, on the system of aid for combined                                             Article 2
transport to be applied subsequently;                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1989.
Whereas the evolution of combined transport shows that              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
for the Community as a whole the initial operating phase            directly applicable in all Member States.
 (') OJ No L 130, 15. 6. 1970, p. 1.
 (2) OJ No L 184, 29. 6. 1982, p. 1.