EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea - Main contents

1. Legislative text

15.4.2010

Official Journal of the European Union

L 94/33

COMMISSION DECISION

of 14 April 2010

amending Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2010/216/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (1), and in particular Article 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)	In the production of European Statistics there should be a balance between the needs of the users and the burden on respondents.

(2)

A technical analysis of the existing data collected under the European legislation on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea and of the dissemination policy has been carried out at European level in order to propose possible technical solutions to simplify, as much as possible, the various activities necessary for the statistical production, while keeping the final output in line with present and foreseeable users’ needs.

(3)

As a result of this analysis, the existing quarterly statistics on passenger transport in the main European ports and the existing quarterly statistics on vessel traffic in the main European ports should be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) and disseminated on an annual basis, while the variable related to the classification dimension ‘nationality of registration of vessels’ in the existing quarterly statistics on passenger transport in the main European ports should be collected by Member States on a voluntary basis.

(4)	The nomenclature on the maritime coastal areas and the nomenclature on the nationality of registration of vessels need to be adapted to technical developments.

(5)	Directive 2009/42/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6)	The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee, set up by Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics (2),

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annexes IV, V and VIII to Directive 2009/42/EC are replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The first reference year for the application of this Decision shall be 2009, covering the 2009 data.

Done at Brussels, 14 April 2010.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel BARROSO

(1)

OJ L 141, 6.6.2009, p. 29.

(2)

OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164.

ANNEX

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ANNEX IV

MARITIME COASTAL AREAS

The nomenclature to be used is the Geonomenclature (the nomenclature of countries and territories for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States) (1) in force in the year to which the data refer.

The code consists of four digits: the ISO alpha 2 standard code for each country from the abovementioned nomenclature, followed by two zeros (e.g. code GR00 for Greece), except for countries which are divided into two or more maritime coastal areas, which are identified by a fourth digit other than zero (from 1 to 7), as below:

Code	Maritime coastal areas
FR01	France: Atlantic and North Sea
FR02	France: Mediterranean
FR03	French overseas departments: French Guiana
FR04	French overseas departments: Martinique and Guadeloupe
FR05	French overseas departments: Réunion
DE01	Germany: North Sea
DE02	Germany: Baltic
DE03	Germany: Inland
GB01	United Kingdom
GB02	Isle of Man
GB03	Channels Islands
ES01	Spain: Atlantic (North)
ES02	Spain: Mediterranean and Atlantic (South), including the Balearic and Canary Islands
SE01	Sweden: Baltic
SE02	Sweden: North Sea
TR01	Turkey: Black Sea
TR02	Turkey: Mediterranean
RU01	Russia: Black Sea
RU03	Russia: Asia
RU04	Russia: Barents and White Seas
RU05	Russia: Baltic, Gulf of Finland only
RU06	Russia: Baltic, excluding Gulf of Finland
RU07	Russia: European inland waterways, including Caspian Sea
MA01	Morocco: Mediterranean
MA02	Morocco: West Africa
EG01	Egypt: Mediterranean
EG02	Egypt: Red Sea
IL01	Israel: Mediterranean
IL02	Israel: Red Sea
SA01	Saudi Arabia: Red Sea
SA02	Saudi Arabia: Gulf
US01	United States of America: Atlantic (North)
US02	United States of America: Atlantic (South)
US03	United States of America: Gulf
US04	United States of America: Pacific (South)
US05	United States of America: Pacific (North)
US06	United States of America: Great Lakes
US07	Puerto Rico
CA01	Canada: Atlantic
CA02	Canada: Great Lakes and Upper Saint Lawrence
CA03	Canada: West Coast
CO01	Colombia: North Coast
CO02	Colombia: West Coast
With the additional codes
ZZ01	Offshore installations not elsewhere specified
ZZ02	Aggregates and not elsewhere specified

ANNEX V

NATIONALITY OF REGISTRATION OF VESSELS

The code consists of four digits: the ISO alpha 2 standard code for each country from the abovementioned nomenclature, followed by two zeros (e.g. code GR00 for Greece), except for countries with more than one register which are identified by a fourth digit other than zero, as below:

FR01	France
FR02	French Antarctic Territory (including the Kerguelen Islands) (register discontinued at the end of April 2007)
FR03	France (RIF) (new register introduced in May 2007)
IT01	Italy — first register
IT02	Italy — international register
GB01	United Kingdom
GB02	Isle of Man
GB03	Channel Islands
GB04	Gibraltar
DK01	Denmark
DK02	Denmark (DIS)
PT01	Portugal
PT02	Portugal (MAR)
ES01	Spain
ES02	Spain (Rebeca)
NO01	Norway
NO02	Norway (NIS)
US01	United States of America
US02	Puerto Rico

ANNEX VIII

STRUCTURE FOR STATISTICAL DATA SETS

The data sets specified in this Annex define the periodicity for the maritime transport statistics required by the Community. Each data set defines a cross classification of a limited set of dimensions at different levels of the nomenclatures, aggregated across all other dimensions, for which statistics of good quality are required.

The conditions for collecting data set B1 shall be decided by the Council on a proposal from the Commission in the light of the results of the pilot study carried out during a 3-year transitional period, as provided for in Article 10 of Directive 95/64/EC and concerning the feasibility and the cost to Member States and to the respondents of collecting those items of information.

SUMMARY AND DETAILED STATISTICS

—	The data sets to be provided for selected ports for goods and passengers are A1, A2, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1 and/or F2.

—	The data sets to be provided for selected ports for goods but not for passengers are A1, A2, A3, B1, C1, E1, F1 and/or F2.

—	The data sets to be provided for selected ports for passengers but not for goods are A3, D1, F1 and/or F2.

—	The data set to be provided for selected ports and for ports which are not selected (for neither goods nor passengers) is A3.

Data set A1	:	Seaborne transport in the main European ports, by port, type of cargo and relation
Periodicity of data transmission	:	quarterly

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	A1
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(1, 2, 3, 4)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Port of loading/unloading	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
	Relation	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
	Type of cargo	One-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo, Annex II
Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

Data set A2	:	Non-unit-load seaborne transport in the main European ports, by port, type of cargo and relation
Periodicity of data transmission	:	quarterly

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	A2
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(1, 2, 3, 4)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Port of loading/unloading	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
	Relation	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
	Type of cargo	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo (non-unit-load only), Annex II (subcategories 1X, 11, 12, 13, 19, 2X, 21, 22, 23, 29, 9X, 91, 92 and 99)
Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

Data set A3	:	Data required for both selected ports and ports for which detailed statistics are not required (see Article 4(3))
Periodicity of data transmission	:	annual

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	A3
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(0)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	All ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes. Number of passengers (excluding cruise passengers). Number of cruise passengers starting and ending a cruise. Number of cruise passengers on cruise passenger excursion: direction: inwards (1) only — (optional).

Data set B1	:	Seaborne transport in the main European ports, by port, type of cargo, goods and relation
Periodicity of data transmission	:	annual

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	B1
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(0)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Port of loading/unloading	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
	Relation	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
	Type of cargo	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo, Annex II
	Commodity	Two-character alphanumeric	Goods nomenclature, Annex III
Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

Data set C1	:	Unit-load seaborne transport in the main European ports, by port, type of cargo, relation and loaded status
Periodicity of data transmission	:	quarterly

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	C1
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(1, 2, 3, 4)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Port of loading/unloading	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
	Relation	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
	Type of cargo	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo (container, ro-ro only) Annex II (subcategories 3X, 31, 32, 33, 34, 5X, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59, 6X, 61, 62, 63 and 69)
Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes (type of cargo: subcategories 3X, 31, 32, 33, 34, 5X, 51, 54, 56, 59, 6X, 61, 62, 63 and 69). Number of units (type of cargo: subcategories 3X, 31, 32, 33, 34, 5X, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59, 6X, 61, 62, 63 and 69). Number of units without cargo (type of cargo: subcategories 3X, 31, 32, 33, 34, 5X, 51, 59, 6X, 61, 63 and 69).

Data set D1	:	Passenger transport in the main European ports, by relation and nationality of registration of vessel
Periodicity of data transmission	:	annual

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	D1
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(1, 2, 3, 4)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Port of loading/unloading	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
	Relation	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
	Nationality of registration of vessel (optional)	Four-character alphanumeric	Nationality of registration of vessels, Annex V
Data: Number of passengers excluding cruise passengers starting and ending a cruise and cruise passengers on excursion.

Data set E1	:	Seaborne transport in the main European ports, by port, type of cargo, relation and nationality of registration of vessels
Periodicity of data transmission	:	annual

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	E1
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(0)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Port of loading/unloading	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
	Relation	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
	Type of cargo	One-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo, Annex II
	Nationality of registration of vessel	Four-character alphanumeric	Nationality of registration of vessels, Annex V
Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

Data set F1	:	European port vessel traffic in the main European ports, by port, type and size of vessels loading or unloading cargo, embarking or disembarking passengers (including cruise passengers on cruise passenger excursion)
Periodicity of data transmission	:	annual

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	F1
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(1, 2, 3, 4)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Type of vessel	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of ship, Annex VI
	Size of vessel DWT	Two-character alphanumeric	Dead weight size classes, Annex VII
Data: Number of vessels. Dead weight of vessels in tonnes.

Data set F2	:	European port vessel traffic in the main European ports, by port, type and size of vessels loading or unloading cargo, embarking or disembarking passengers (including cruise passengers on cruise passenger excursion)
Periodicity of data transmission	:	annual

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	F2
	Reference year	Four-character alphanumeric	(e.g. 1997)
	Reference quarter	One-character alphanumeric	(1, 2, 3, 4)
	Reporting port	Five-character alphanumeric	Selected EEA ports in the port list
	Direction	One-character alphanumeric	Inwards, outwards (1, 2)
	Type of vessel	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of ship, Annex VI
	Size of vessel GT	Two-character alphanumeric	Gross tonnage size classes, Annex VII
Data: Number of vessels. Gross tonnage of vessels.

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(1)

The version currently in force is laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 of 13 December 2006 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19).

(2)

The version currently in force is laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 of 13 December 2006 on the nomenclature of countries and territories for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19).

This summary has been adopted from EUR-Lex.