Carriage of goods by road: statistical returns

1997/0233(CNS)
The Committee approves the Commission's decision to replace the existing directives with a regulation which will be directly applicable in all Member States, and recommends that the objective of the regulation should be to improve the reliability in time and space of the data collected and their comparability with the data for other transport modes; attempts to achieve this objective should be based on a "functional" intermodal approach to goods transport; the data which road haulage firms are asked to provide should be limited to the data which are necessary and apposite for attaining the objective set. �