CELEX: 51975PC0510
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Date: 1975-10-17
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 517/72 of 28 February 1972 on the introduction of common rules for regular and special regular services by coach and bus between Member States (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                      PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL RECULATION
                amending Council Regulation ( ETC ) No 517 /72
                of 28 February 1972 on the introduction of
         common rules for regular and special regular services by
                     coach and bus between Member States
                 ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
   CCK(75 ) 510 final .
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.     On 28 February 1972 , the Council adopted Regulation (EEC ) No . 517/72
on the introduction of common rules for regular and special regular
                                                     1)
services by coach and bus between Member States . '
       Article 20 of this regulation states that , in the case of a regular
or a special regular service operated in the territory of only two Member
States over a route of less than 100 km lying within a zone extending to
a depth on each side of the frontier not exceeding 50 km as the crow
flies , the Ilember States may agree to waive certain requirements of the
Regulation which are listed in that Article .
2.     Following the accession of the new Member States to the European
Communities , the question has arisen as to whether or not sea-journeys
between two Member States should be taken into consideration when
calculating the distances in question . The Treaty of Accession does not
include any provision whatsoever 011 this subject . It would therefore
seeia necessary , in order to avoid any dispute , to introduce an
amendment to settle the case in point .
3.     This proposal is intended to fill the gap . The solution put forward
by the Commission is analogous to the one adopted by the Council in
respect of the frontier carriage of goods by road in its Directive of
19 December 1972 amending the first Directive of 23 July 1962 on the
establishment of certain common rules for international transport
(carriage of goods by road for hire or reward )^(2 ) . As the problem in
question is the very one which arose in connection with the carriage of
goods by road , the Commission feels that the same solution should be
adopted .
(1 )   OJ No . L 57 , 20 March 1972 , p. 19
(2 )   OJ No . L 291 , 28 December 1972 , p. 1^5
 ---pagebreak---                       Proposal for a Council Regulation
amending Council Regulation (EEC) Eo . 517/72 of. 28 February 1972 on the-,
introduction of common rules for regular and special regular services "by-
coach and bus between Member States .
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 75 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 it is necessary to amend Council Regulation (EEC) No . 517/72 ^) of
28 February 1972 on the introduction of common rules for regular and
special regular Bervices by coach and bus between Member States
in order that the Regulation should take account of the regular and
special regular services between certain coastal regions of the
Community which are separated by a seaway and in order to enable Member
States to apply to these services the provisions of Article 20 under which
they may waive certain requirements set out in the Regulation .
(1 )   0J No . L 67 . 20 March 1972 , p. 19
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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION s '
                                  Sole Article "
        The following paragraph 3 is added to Article 20 of the
 Council Regulation (EEC ) No . 517/72 of 28 February 1972 :
"3.     In the case of regular or special regular services between Member
 States whose territories are separated   solely by an area of sea , no
 account shall be taken , with regard to  the distances referred to in
 paragraph 1 , of the distance travelled  on board a means of sea transport
 specially constructed and equipped for   the carriage of commercial vehicles
 and operated as a regular service ."
 Done at Brussels .                                          For the Council
                                                             The President