PURPOSE: to codify Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the
European Parliament and of the Council on statistics of goods
transport by inland waterways.
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament
and of the Council.
ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European
Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative
procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.
BACKGROUND: Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 has been
substantially amended several times. On 1 April 1987, the
Commission decided to instruct its staff that all acts should be
codified after no more than ten amendments, stressing that this is
a minimum requirement. The Conclusions of the Presidency of the
Edinburgh European Council (December 1992) confirmed this,
stressing the importance of codification.
The European Parliament, the Council and the
Commission agreed, by an interinstitutional agreement of 20
December 1994, that an accelerated procedure may be used for the
fast-track adoption of codification instruments.
CONTENT: in the interests of clarity and rationality,
the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of
Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 6 September 2006 on statistics of goods transport by
inland waterways and repealing Council Directive
80/1119/EEC.
The proposed new Regulation shall supersede the
various acts incorporated in it; it proposal fully preserves
the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than
bring them together with only such formal amendments as are
required by the codification exercise itself.
The main elements of the proposed codified text are as
follows:
Subject matter: the
proposal establishes common rules for the production of European
statistics concerning inland waterways transport. It shall
enable the Commission to have statistics concerning the transport
of goods by inland waterways in order to monitor and develop the
common transport policy, as well as the transport elements of
policies on the regions and on trans-European networks.
Scope: Member States in
which the total volume of goods transported annually by inland
waterways as national, international or transit transport
exceeds 1 000 000 tonnes shall supply the data in accordance
with the tables in Annexes I to IV to the Regulation.
The effect of this Regulation is limited to those
Member States where inland waterway transport exists.
Pilot studies: the
Commission shall ensure that pilot studies are carried out on the
availability of statistical data on passenger transport by inland
waterways, including cross-border transport services. The Union
shall contribute to the cost of implementing these pilot
studies.
Implementation: the
Commission may adopt:
- implementing acts on
data transmission procedures and developing and publishing criteria
and methodological requirements to ensure the quality of the data
produced;
- delegated acts to amend
the Regulation on increasing the threshold of 1 million tonnes of
statistical coverage of inland waterway transport, to adapt the
definitions and to adapt the Annexes in order to take account of
economic and technical changes affecting definitions adopted at
international level.