1) OBJECTIVE
To supply the Community with statistical data on the carriage of goods and passengers by sea that was harmonised and coordinated with other forms of transport so as to help develop and monitor a policy of free and fair competition in the field of the provision of transport services.
2) SUBSTANCE
1. Obligation for the Member States to collect Community statistics on the carriage of goods and passengers calling at ports in their territories.
2. Definition of certain terms contained in the regulation and determination of the scope of the regulation.
3. Rules governing the selection of ports in which statistics would be collected.
4. Collection of data:
* obligation to provide for methods for collecting data that would ensure a high level of accuracy with regard to the statistics.
* rules on accuracy laid down by the Commission.
5. Processing of results: obligation to provide for methods for processing the statistics gathered in order to obtain comparable statistics guaranteeing a high level of accuracy with regard to the data.
6. Transmission of results: rules governing the transmission of statistical data sets to the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
7. Reports. After collecting data for three years, obligation for the Commission to submit to the Council a report on the experience acquired in the work carried out pursuant to this directive.
8. Dissemination of data: obligation for the Commission to disseminate appropriate statistical data with a periodicity comparable to that of the results transmitted.
9. Transitional period concerning the collection of statistical data on goods.
10. Financial contribution: contribution from the Community during the first three years in which the statistical returns provided for in this directive were made.
11. Rules of implementation: obligation for the Commission to establish these rules, after consultation of the Statistical Programme Committee set up by Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom and in accordance with a procedure laid down in these regulations.
Source: European Commission - Info92 - 10/95
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