Rail transport statistics

PURPOSE : to establish common rules for the production o Community rail statistics. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Regulation 91/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail statistics. CONTENT : the objective of this Regulation is to establish common rules for the production of Community rail transport statistics. The Regulation shall cover all railways in each community. Each Member State shall report statistics which relate to rail transport on its national territory. Where a railway undertaking operates in more than one Member State, the national authorities concerned shall require the undertaking to provide data separately for each country in which it operates so as to enable national statistics to be compiled. It should be made clear that Member States may exclude from the scope of this Regulation: - railway undertakings which operate entirely or mainly within industrial and similar installations, including harbours; - railway undertakings which mainly provide local tourists services, such as preserved historical steam railways. As regards data collection, the statistics to be collected are set out in the Annexes to this Regulation. Concerning data sources, Member States shall designate a public or private organisation to participate in collecting the data required under this Regulation. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 09/02/2003.�