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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 8 December 1969
on returns, to be made on the basis of regional statistics, in respect of international carriage of goods by road
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Article 2
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 1 . Member States shall, in respect of each of the 21 European Economic Community, and in particular groups of goods listed in Annex I, compile returns of Article 213 thereof; the tonnage carried as specified in Article 1 , broken down by region of loading and unloading, a region Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; being one of the 57 transport regions of the Community listed in Annex II or, a third country, as Whereas the development of the common market the case may be. requires a more extensive knowledge of the pattern of traffic of the various regions of the Community The returns shall give separately data concerning among themselves and with third countries, and in carriage on own account and carriage for hire or particular of the links between production and reward : consumption regions; —■ for traffic between Member States and for Whereas transport statistics for each loading and consignments from third countries on the basis of unloading region covering the whole of the traffic arrivals in transport regions of the Community; between Member States and with third countries — for consignments to third countries on the basis cannot be compiled from existing statistical of departures from those regions. information in respect of international carriage of goods by road; whereas responsibility for compiling the returns required for this purpose should therefore 2. Each Member State shall in addition compile for the whole of its traffic with each other Member be placed on Member States ; State and each third country global returns of the Whereas in order to increase comparability of tonnage carried within the meaning of Article 1 ; these returns shall be broken down by country of statistics there should be progressive improvement and approximation of the various methods used by registration of the vehicles which effected the Member States to collect data ; whereas, for the same carriage, and shall distinguish between carriage on purpose, provision should be made for amendment of own account and carriage for hire or reward. They this Directive in due time and as may prove necessary shall be compiled for traffic between Member States and for deliveries from third countries on the basis of in the light of experience ; arrivals, and for consignments to third countries on the basis of departures . HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE : Article 3 Article 1 Every year before 1 October, Member States shall This Directive shall apply to international carriage of send to the Commission the returns compiled in accordance with Article 2. goods by road (including carriage between Member States and third countries) where the place of loading or unloading of the goods carried is situated on the The results of such returns shall be made known by territory of a Member State. the Commission to the Member States in accordance
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with the procedure followed in respect of other Transport Statistics at the Statistical Office of the modes of land transport. European Communities, examine the results of the official surveys made by Member States, in order to approximate the methods used as far as possible. Article 4 2. Before 1 June 1974, the Commission shall The returns shall be drawn up for the first time in submit to the Council a report on the results respect of the year 1970. achieved following the implementation of this Directive and shall propose any amendments which may prove necessary . Article 5
Member States shall receive financial aid from the Article 7 Community for additional tasks which they may undertake at the request of the Commission. The This Directive is addressed to the Member States . appropriations required for this purpose shall be shown in the budget of the European Communities under the heading , concerning general studies and surveys of a Community character. Done at Brussels, 8 December 1969 .
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The President . 1 . Each year the Commission shall, with the assistance of the Committee for Co-ordination of J. M. A. H. LUNS
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ANNEX I
GROUPS OF GOODS
Group of Chapter Description on the basis of the goods NST1 NST1 Group NST1 terminology
1 0 00, 02, 04, 05, Other agricultural products and live animals 06, 09
2 01 Cereals
3 03 Other fresh or frozen vegetables and fresh fruits
4 1 11 , 12, 13 , 14, Foodstuffs and fodder 16, 17, 18
5 2 21 Hard coal
6 22 Brown coal and peat
7 23 Coke
8 3 31 Crude petroleum
9 32, 33 , 34 Other petroleum products
10 4 41 Iron ores
11 45 Non-ferrous ores and wastes
12 46 Scrap metal and blast furnace dust
13 5 51 Foundry pig iron and cast iron, ferro-alloys
14 522 Rolled semi-finished iron and steel products, blooms, billets, slabs and steel bars, roughly shaped for sheets or plates (coils)
15—16 532, 535, 537, Rolled products 542, 545 523 , 533 , 536, Other rolled products 543,546, 55 , 56
17 6 61 , 62, 63 , 64, Raw or manufactured minerals and 65,69 construction materials
18 7 71 , 72 Fertilisers
19 8 81 , 82, 83 , 84, Chemical products 89
20 9 91 , 92, 93 , 94, Machines, vehicles, 95 , 96, 97 manufactured articles
21 99 Special transactions
l Standard Goods Nomenclature for Transport Statistics (Statistical Office of the European Communities , 1968).
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ANNEX U
TRANSPORT REGIONS OF THE COMMUNITY
GERMANY NETHERLANDS 1 Schleswig-Holstein 35 Rijnmond
2 Hamburg 36 Ijmond 3 Nordostteil von Niedersachsen 37 Zuid-Limburg 4 Westteil Niedersachsen 39 Other parts of the Netherlands 5 Südostteil von Niedersachsen FRANCE 6 Bremen (Land) 40 Nord 7 Nordteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen 41 Picardie (Münsterland und Niederrheingebiet) 42 Haute-Normandie, Basse Normandie 8 Ruhrgebiet 9 Südwestteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen 43 Region parisienne 44 Lorraine 10 Ostteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen (Sieger-, Sauerland und Ostteil von 45 Franche-Comte, Bourgogne Westfalen) 46 Rhone-Alpes 11 Nordteil von Hessen 1 47 Languedoc, Provence-Cote d'Azur 12 Sudteil von Hessen 48 Midi-Pyrénées 13 Nordteil von Rheinland-Pfalz 49 Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes 14 Südteil von Rheinland-Pfalz 50 Bretagne, Pays de la Loire 15 Nordbaden 51 Centre, Limousin, Auvergne 16 Südbaden 52 Champagne 17 Württemberg 53 Alsace 18 Nordbayern (Franken) 19 Ostbayern (Oberpfalz und ITALY Niederbayern) 60 Piemonte, Valle d'Aosta 20 Südbayern (Schwaben und Oberbayern) 61 Lombardia 21 Saarland 62 Liguria 22 Berlin (West) 63 Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto 64 Friuli — Venezia Giulia 65 Emilia — Romagna 66 Toscana BELGIUM 67 Marche, Umbria, Abruzzi, Molise 30 Belgique/België (except 31) 68 Lazio 31 Antwerpen 69 Campania 70 Puglia, Basilicata 71 Calabria LUXEMBOURG 72 Sicilia 34 Luxembourg 73 Sardegna