Commission Regulation (EU) No 202/2010 of 10 March 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 6/2003 concerning the dissemination of statistics on the carriage of goods by road (Text with EEA relevance)

11.3.2010 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 61/24
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 202/2010
of 10 March 2010
amending Regulation (EC) No 6/2003 concerning the dissemination of statistics on the carriage of goods by road
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25 May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road (1), and in particular Article 6 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) It is appropriate to exploit as fully as possible the statistical data on the carriage of goods by road, referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, while respecting the confidentiality of the individual data records.
(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 833/2007 (2) ending the transitional period provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 makes available detailed origin-destination data on national and also international road freight flows from 2008 onwards.
(3) It is necessary to make national and international origin-destination data available to Member States in order to complete the statistical coverage of road transport at national level.
(4) Researchers and the scientific community in general should have access for scientific purposes to the data transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) under Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, according to the principle laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) on European statistics.
(5) Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/2003 (4) should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) The measures provided for this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,