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.

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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 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 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

Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

| 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 set A2 : Non-unit-load seaborne transport in the main European ports, by port, type of cargo and relation

Periodicity of data transmission : quarterly

Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

| 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 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

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).

| 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 set B1 : Seaborne transport in the main European ports, by port, type of cargo, goods and relation

Periodicity of data transmission : annual

Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

| 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 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

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).

| 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 set D1 : Passenger transport in the main European ports, by relation and nationality of registration of vessel

Periodicity of data transmission : annual

Data: Number of passengers excluding cruise passengers starting and ending a cruise and cruise passengers on excursion.

| 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 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

Data: Gross weight of goods in tonnes.

| 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 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

Data: Number of vessels.

Dead weight of vessels in tonnes.

| 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 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

Data: Number of vessels.

Gross tonnage of vessels.

| 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 |

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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).

[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).

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