Regulation (EC) No 685/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 concerning the distribution of authorisations among Member States received through the Agreements establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of combined transport between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria and between the European Community and the Republic of Hungary

Regulation (EC) No 685/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 4 April 2001
concerning the distribution of authorisations among Member States received through the Agreements establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of combined transport between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria and between the European Community and the Republic of Hungary
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 71 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal of the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions,
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty(3),
Whereas:
(1) By Council Decisions 2001/265/EC(4) and 2001/266/EC(5) of 19 March 2001, the European Community has concluded Agreements with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of Hungary establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of combined transport.
(2) These Agreements provide that the Community will receive road transit authorisations from Bulgaria and Hungary respectively.
(3) It is necessary to establish rules governing the distribution and management of the authorisations which are made available to the Community.
(4) For practical and management reasons, those authorisations should be made available to the Member States by the Commission.
(5) To that end, an allocation method should be established. Thereafter, the Member States should share out the authorisations allocated to them among undertakings in accordance with objective criteria.
(6) In order to ensure the optimal use of authorisations, all unallocated authorisations should be returned to the Commission for redistribution.
(7) The allocation of authorisations should be based on criteria that take full account of existing land transport flows between Greece and the other Member States,