Regulation (EU) 2018/974 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways

Summary:

The European Commission proposed on 26 September 2017 to codify the rules on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted a new Regulation on 4 July 2018.

Further information:

The purpose of the proposal is to undertake a codification of Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways. The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it; the proposal fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.

Background:

The Commission attaches great importance to simplifying and clarifying the law of the Union so as to make it clearer and more accessible to citizens, thus giving them new opportunities and the chance to make use of the specific rights it gives them. This aim cannot be achieved so long as numerous provisions that have been amended several times, often quite substantially, remain scattered, so that they must be sought partly in the original instrument and partly in later amending ones. Considerable research work, comparing many different instruments, is thus needed to identify the current rules. For this reason a codification of rules that have frequently been amended is essential if the law is to be clear and transparent.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)484: Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:484:FIN

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)545: Proposal for a Regulation on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways (codification) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:545:FIN

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