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Regulation (EEC) No 2598/70 of the Commission of 18 December 1970 specifying the items to be included under the various headings in the forms of accounts shown in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 of 4 June 1970

Official Journal L 278 , 23/12/1970 P. 0001 - 0005

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REGULATION (EEC) No 2598/70 OF THE COMMISSION of 18 December 1970 specifying the items to be included under the various headings in the forms of accounts shown in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 of 4 June 1970

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 (1) of 4 June 1970 introducing an accounting system for expenditure on infrastructure in respect of transport by rail, road and inland waterway, and in particular Article 9 (1) thereof;

Having regard to the opinions expressed by members of the Committee of Government experts;

Whereas the Commission is responsible for co-ordinating all work arising out of that Regulation ; whereas the Commission is in particular responsible for determining what items are to be included under the various headings in the forms of accounts shown in Annex I to that Regulation ; whereas the introduction of a standard and permanent accounting system for expenditure on infrastructure must become effective on 1 January 1971 ; whereas the appropriate provisions must be adopted in good time to ensure that from the beginning the forms of accounts are uniformly applied as between the various Member States and different modes of transport;

Whereas the steps to be taken must include both that of defining the scope of the term "infrastructure", by specifying for each mode of transport the installations, buildings and equipment covered by that term, and that of specifying the kind of expenditure to be entered under the various headings in the forms of accounts;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Sole Article

The items to be included under the various headings in the forms of accounts shown in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 of 4 June 1970 shall be determined in accordance with Annexes I and II to this Regulation, of which they shall form an integral part.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 December 1970.

For the Commission

The President

Franco M. MALFATTI

(1)OJ No L 130, 15.7.1970, p. 4.

ANNEX I

Definition and scope of the term "Transport Infrastructure"

For the purposes of Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 of 4 June 1970, "transport infrastructure" means all routes and fixed installations of the three modes of transport being routes and installations necessary for the circulation and safety of traffic.

• A. 

  RAIL

Railway infrastructure consists of the following items, provided they form part of the permanent way, including sidings, but excluding lines situated within railway repair workshops, depots or locomotive sheds, and private branch lines or sidings: - Ground area;

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  Track and track bed, in particular embankments, cuttings, drainage channels and trenches, masonry trenches, culverts, lining walls, planting for protecting side slopes etc. ; passenger and goods platforms ; four-foot way and walkways ; enclosure walls, hedges, fencing ; fireprotection strips ; apparatus for heating points ; crossings, etc. ; snow protection screens;

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  Engineering structures : bridges, culverts and other overpasses,...

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