Commission Delegated Decision 2012/186/EU

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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^note, and in particular Article 3(4) 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 Union 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 production of statistics, while keeping the final output in line with present and foreseeable needs of users.

(3)As a result of this analysis, the variable ‘direction’ in the existing quarterly statistics on vessel traffic in the main European ports should be simplified, while the legal status (mandatory vs voluntary) of the corresponding data sets F1 and F2 should be clarified.

(4)In addition, a harmonised legal framework should be established for a voluntary collection of statistics on Ro-Ro containers. Moreover, the type of cargo classification should be extended.

(5)The nomenclature on the maritime coastal areas needs to be adapted to technical developments.

(6)Directive 2009/42/EC should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1 #

Annexes I, II, IV 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 2012, covering the data for 2012.

Annex I

Variables and definitions

1. Statistical variables

(a) Cargo and passenger information

—gross weight of goods in tonnes,

—counterpart for outward passenger: the port of disembarkation (i.e. the port in which the passenger is to be disembarked from the ship in which he/she left the reporting port) using individual ports in the EEA countries shown in the port list, and the maritime coastal areas outside the EEA countries, shown in Annex IV.

—total number of containers (with and without cargo),

—type of cargo, according to the nomenclature shown in Annex II,

—number of containers without cargo,

—description of the goods, using the nomenclature shown in Annex III,

—total number of mobile (Ro-Ro) units with and without cargo,

—reporting port,

—number of mobile (Ro-Ro) units without cargo.

—direction of movement, whether inwards or outwards,

—counterpart for inward cargo: the port of loading (i.e. the port in which the cargo was loaded on to the ship in which it arrived in the reporting port) using individual ports in the European Economic Area (EEA) countries shown in the port list, and the maritime coastal areas outside the EEA countries, shown in Annex IV,

—counterpart for outward cargo: the port of unloading (i.e. the port in which the cargo is to be unloaded from the ship in which it left the reporting port) using individual ports in the EEA countries shown in the port list, and the maritime coastal areas outside the EEA countries, shown in Annex IV,

—number of passengers starting or finishing a voyage, as well as the number of cruise passengers on a cruise passenger excursion,

—counterpart for inward passenger: the port of embarkation (i.e. the port in which the passenger was embarked on to the ship in which he/she arrived in the reporting port) using individual ports in the European Economic Area (EEA) countries shown in the port list, and the maritime coastal areas outside the EEA countries, shown in Annex IV,

For goods carried in containers or Ro-Ro units, the following additional particulars shall be provided:

(b) Information on the vessel

—number of vessels,

—deadweight of vessels or gross tonnage,

—country or territory of registration of vessels, using the nomenclature shown in Annex V,

—type of vessels, using the nomenclature shown in Annex VI,

—size of vessels, using the nomenclature shown in Annex VII.

2. Definitions

(a)“Freight container” means an article of transport equipment:

1.of a permanent nature and, accordingly, strong enough to be suitable for repeated use;

2.specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods by one or more modes of transport, without intermediate reloading;

3.fitted with devices permitting its ease of handling, particularly its transfer from one mode of transport to another;

4.so designed as to be easy to fill and empty;

5.having a length of 20 feet or more.

(b)“Ro-Ro unit” means wheeled equipment for carrying cargo, such as a truck, trailer or semi-trailer, which can be driven or towed on to a vessel. Port or ships’ trailers are included in this definition. Classifications should follow United Nations ECE Recommendation No 21 “Codes for types of cargo, packages and packaging materials”.

(c)“Container cargo” means containers with or without cargo which are lifted on to or off the vessels which carry them by sea.

(d)“Ro-Ro cargo” means goods, whether or not in containers, on Ro-Ro units, and Ro-Ro units which are rolled on and off the vessels which carry them by sea.

(e)“Gross weight of goods” means the tonnage of goods carried, including packaging but excluding the tare weight of containers or Ro-Ro units.

(f)“Deadweight (DWT)” means the difference in tonnes between the displacement of a ship on summer load-line in water with a specific gravity of 1,025 and the total weight of the ship, i.e. the displacement in tonnes of a ship without cargo, fuel, lubricating oil, ballast water, fresh water and drinking water in the tanks, usable supplies as well as passengers, crew and their possessions.

(g)“Gross tonnage” means the measure of the overall size of a ship determined in accordance with the provisions of the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969.

(h)“Cruise passenger” means a sea passenger making a sea journey on a cruise ship. Passengers on day excursions are excluded.

(i)“Cruise ship” means a passenger ship intended to provide passengers with a full tourist experience. All passengers have cabins. Facilities for entertainment aboard are included. Ships operating normal ferry services are excluded, even if some passengers treat the service as a cruise. In addition, cargo-carrying vessels able to carry a very limited number of passengers with their own cabins are also excluded. Ships intended solely for day excursions are also excluded.

(j)“Cruise passenger excursion” means a short visit by a cruise passenger to a tourist attraction associated with a port while retaining a cabin on board.

(k)“Ro-Ro container cargo” means containers with or without cargo loaded on Ro-Ro units which are then rolled on and rolled off the vessels which carry them by sea.

(l)“Shipborne port-to-port trailer” means a trailer intended to carry cargo (including containers) between two ports on Ro-Ro vessels. It is primarily designed to operate either on board of Ro-Ro vessels or in areas on land within the control of the port authority.

(m)“Ro-Ro vessel” means a vessel designed to carry Ro-Ro units.

Annex II

Type of cargo classification
Category^note	Code1 digit	Code2 digits	Description	Tonnage	Number of units
Liquid bulk	1	1X	Liquid bulk goods (no cargo unit)	X
11	Liquefied gas	X
12	Crude oil	X
13	Oil products	X
19	Other liquid bulk goods	X
Dry bulk	2	2X	Dry bulk goods (no cargo unit)	X
21	Ores	X
22	Coal	X
23	Agricultural products (e.g. grain, soya, tapioca)	X
29	Other dry bulk goods	X
Containers	3	3X	Large containers	X^note	X
31	20 ft freight units	X^note	X
32	40 ft freight units	X^note	X
33	Freight units > 20 ft and < 40 ft	X^note	X
34	Freight units > 40 ft	X^note	X
Roll on roll off(self-propelled)	5	5X	Mobile self-propelled units	X	X
51	Road goods vehicles and accompanying trailers	X^note	X
52	Passenger cars, motorcycles and accompanying trailers/caravans		X^note
53	Passenger buses		X^note
54	Trade vehicles (including import/export motor vehicles)	X	X^note
56	Live animals on the hoof	X	X^note
59	Other mobile self-propelled units	X	X
Roll on roll off(non-self-propelled)	6	6X	Mobile non-self-propelled units	X	X
61	Unaccompanied road goods trailers and semi-trailers	X^note	X
62	Unaccompanied caravans and other road, agricultural and industrial vehicles	X	X^note
64	Rail wagons engaged in goods transport	X^note	X
65	Shipborne port-to-port trailers engaged in goods transport	X^note	X
66	Shipborne barges engaged in goods transport	X^note	X
69	Other mobile non-self-propelled units	X	X
Other general cargo(including small containers)	9	9X	Other cargo, not elsewhere specified	X
91	Forestry products	X
92	Iron and steel products	X
99	Other general cargo	X

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 Union and statistics of trade between Member States)^note 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	Channel 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: Persian Gulf
US01	United States of America: Atlantic (North)
US02	United States of America: Atlantic (South)
US03	United States of America: Gulf of Mexico
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
MX01	Mexico: Atlantic
MX02	Mexico: Pacific
ZZ01	Offshore installations not elsewhere specified
ZZ02	Aggregates and not elsewhere specified

VIII

Structure for statistical data sets

The data sets specified in this Annex define the periodicity for the maritime transport statistics required by the Union. 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.

Summary and detailed statistics

—The data sets to be provided for selected ports for goods and passengers are A1, A2, A3, B1, C1, C2, D1, E1, F1 and F2.

—The data sets to be provided for selected ports for goods but not for passengers are A1, A2, A3, B1, C1, C2, E1, F1 and F2.

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

—The data set to be provided for ports which are not selected (for either goods or passengers) is A3.

Legal status of data sets

—Data sets A1, A2, A3, B1, C1, D1, E1 and F2 are mandatory.

—Data sets C2 and F1 are voluntary.

	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
Maritime coastal area	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
Type of cargo	One-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo, Annex II

	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
Maritime coastal area	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)

	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)

	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
Maritime coastal area	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
Type of cargo	One-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo, Annex II
Commodity	Two-character alphanumeric	Goods nomenclature, Annex III

	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
Maritime coastal area	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, 64, 65, 66 and 69)

	Variables	Coding detail	Nomenclature
Dimensions	Data set	Two-character alphanumeric	C2
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 (optional)	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
Maritime coastal area (optional)	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
Type of cargo	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of cargo (Ro-Ro container only) Annex II (subcategories RX, R1, R2, R3, R4)

	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 embarkation/disembarkation	Five-character alphanumeric	EEA-ports in the port list
Maritime coastal area	Four-character alphanumeric	Maritime coastal areas, Annex IV
Nationality of registration of vessel (optional)	Four-character alphanumeric	Nationality of registration of vessels, Annex V

	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
Maritime coastal area	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

	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 (1) only
Type of vessel	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of ship, Annex VI
Size of vessel DWT	Two-character alphanumeric	Deadweight size classes, Annex VII

	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 (1) only
Type of vessel	Two-character alphanumeric	Type of ship, Annex VI
Size of vessel GT	Two-character alphanumeric	Gross tonnage size classes, Annex VII

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Commission Delegated Decision 2012/186/EU

Commission Delegated Decision 2012/186/EU

Article 1 #

Article 2 #

Annex I

Variables and definitions

1. Statistical variables

(a) Cargo and passenger information

(b) Information on the vessel

2. Definitions

Annex II

Annex IV

Maritime coastal areas

VIII

Structure for statistical data sets

Summary and detailed statistics

Legal status of data sets

Defined terms · 13

Key facts

Connections

History · 1 version

Article 1 #

Article 2 #

Annex I

Variables and definitions

1. Statistical variables

(a) Cargo and passenger information

(b) Information on the vessel

2. Definitions

Annex II

Annex IV

Maritime coastal areas

VIII

Structure for statistical data sets

Summary and detailed statistics

Legal status of data sets