Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 (repealed)Show full title

ANNEXES U.K.

Annex A	LIST OF VARIABLES
Annex B	CLASSIFICATION OF AXLE CONFIGURATIONS
Annex C	CLASSIFICATION OF TYPES OF JOURNEY
Annex D	CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS
Annex E	CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES OF DANGEROUS GOODS
Annex F	CLASSIFICATION OF CARGO TYPES
Annex G	CODING OF PLACES OF LOADING AND UNLOADING

ANNEX A U.K. LIST OF VARIABLES

The information to be provided for each vehicle breaks down into:

• vehicle-related data;

• journey-related data;

• goods-related data (in the basic transport operation).

A1  VEHICLE-RELATED VARIABLES U.K.

Pursuant to the definition given in Article 2 of the Regulation, a goods road transport vehicle shall be any single road transport vehicle (lorry) or combination of road vehicles, namely road train (lorry with trailer) or articulated vehicle (road tractor with semi-trailer) designed to carry goods.

The vehicle-related data to be provided are the following:

1.

possibility of using vehicles for combined transport (optional);

2.

axle configuration according to Annex B (optional);

3.

age of the road transport vehicle (lorry or road tractor) in years (from its first registration);

4.

maximum permissible weight, in 100 kg;

5.

load capacity, in 100 kg;

6.

vehicle operator's [F1 NACE Rev. 2] category of activity (four-figure level) (optional)(1);

7.

type of transport (hire or reward/own account);

8.

type of kilometres covered during the survey period;

8.1..

loaded;

8.2..

empty (including road tractor journeys without semi-trailer) (optional);

9.

vehicle weighting, to be used to obtain full results from individual data if the data are collected on the basis of random sampling.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains (Text with EEA relevance).

Successive configurations U.K.

When the road transport vehicle chosen for the survey is a lorry used alone, i.e. without trailer, throughout the survey period, it constitutes in itself the road vehicle for transporting goods.

However, when the road transport vehicle chosen for the survey is a road tractor — in which case it will have a semi-trailer coupled — or when it is a lorry to which a trailer is coupled, the data required under the Regulation concern the road vehicle for the transport of goods taken as a whole. In this case, there may be a change of configuration during the survey period (with a lorry acquiring a trailer or changing trailer during the period, or a road tractor changing its semi-trailer). In such a case, these successive configurations must be recorded, and the data on the vehicle must be supplied for each journey. However, if it is not possible to record these successive configurations, it is agreed that, for the vehicle-related variables, those corresponding to the configuration at the beginning of the first laden journey made during the survey period or to the configuration used most during that period will be recorded.

Change in type of transport U.K.

In the same way, depending on the journey, the transport may be effected on own account of for hire or reward, and the type of transport must be recorded for each journey. However, if it is not possible to record these changes, it is agreed that the ‘type of transport’ recorded will be that corresponding to the main mode of utilisation.

A2 JOURNEY-RELATED VARIABLES U.K.

During the survey period, the goods road transport vehicle makes journeys, either unloaded (there are no goods or empty packaging in the lorry, the trailer or the semi-trailer, which are therefore ‘completely empty’) or loaded (there are either goods or empty packaging in the lorry, the trailer or the semi-trailer, empty packaging being a particular type of goods). The loaded distance of the goods road transport vehicle is the distance between the first place of loading and the last place of unloading (where the goods road transport vehicle is completely emptied). A laden journey can therefore cover several basic transport operations.

The data to be provided for each journey are as follows:

1.

type of journey in accordance with the nomenclature in Annex C;

2.

weight of goods carried during the journey or during each stage of the journey, gross weight in 100 kg;

3.

place of loading (of the goods road transport vehicle, for a laden journey);

• definition: the place of loading is the first place in which goods are loaded on the goods road transport vehicle, which was previously completely empty (or where the road tractor is coupled up to a laden semi-trailer). For an unladen journey, it is the place of unloading of the preceding laden journey (notion of ‘place where unladen journey begins’),

• coding: the place of loading is coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex G;

4.

place of unloading (of the goods road transport vehicle, for a laden journey);

• definition: the place of unloading is the last place in which goods are unloaded from the goods road transport vehicle, which is subsequently completely empty (or where the road tractor is uncoupled from a semi-trailer). For an unladen journey, it is the place of loading of the subsequent laden journey (notion of ‘place where unladen journey ends’),

• coding: the place of unloading is coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex G;

5.

distance travelled: actual distance excluding the distance covered by the goods road transport vehicle while being transported by another means of transport;

6.

tonnes/kilometre effected during the journey;

7.

[F2 countries crossed in transit (not more than 5), coded according to Annex G;]

8.

place of loading, if any, of the road transport vehicle on another means of transport in accordance with the provisions of Annex G (optional);

9.

place of unloading, if any, of the road transport vehicle from another means of transport in accordance with the provisions of Annex G (optional);

10.

situation ‘fully loaded’ (procedure 2) or ‘not fully loaded’ (procedure 1) of the goods road transport vehicle during the journey in question, in terms of maximum volume of space used during the journey (procedure 0 = by convention for unladen journeys) (optional).

Textual Amendments

F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2691/1999 of 17 December 1999 on rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road (Text with EEA relevance).

A3 GOODS-RELATED VARIABLES (in the basic transport operation) U.K.

During a laden journey, several basic transport operations can be carried out, a basic transport operation being defined as the transport of one type of goods (defined by reference to a particular nomenclature level) between its place of loading and its place of unloading.

The data to be provided relating to a basic transport operation during a laden journey are as follows:

1.

type of goods, according to the groups referring to an appropriate classification (see Annex D);

2.

weight of goods: gross weight in 100 kg;

3.

if need be, the classification of the goods as dangerous according to the main categories of Directive 94/55/EC(2) given in Annex E;

4.

type of freight as given in Annex F (optional);

5.

place of loading of the goods, coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex G;

6.

place of unloading of the goods, coded in accordance with the provisions of Annex G;

7.

distance travelled, actual distance excluding the distance covered with the goods road transport vehicle while being transported by another means of transport.

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS CARRIED OUT DURING A ‘COLLECTION OR DISTRIBUTION ROUND’ TYPE OF JOURNEY (journey-type 3) U.K.

For this type of journey, with several loading and/or unloading points, it is practically impossible to ask the transport operators to describe the basic transport operations.

For these journeys, when identified as such, a single, notional, basic transport operation is generally generated on the basis of the information on the journey.

Each Member State will inform the Commission of its definition of this type of journey and explain the simplifying assumptions it is obliged to apply when collecting data on the corresponding transport operations.

Methodological appendix Laden journeys and basic transport operations

Depending on the Member State concerned, information on transport is collected on the basis of:

• either a description of each basic goods transport operation (with additional details on unladen journeys),

• or a description of the journeys made by the vehicle in carrying out these basic goods transport operations.

In the great majority of cases, when a laden journey is made this represents one basic transport operations only with:

• a single type of goods loaded (by reference to the classification of goods in use, in this case the 24 groups derived from the NST classification)(3),

• a single point of loading for the goods,

• a single point of unloading for the goods.

In this case the two methods used are completely equivalent, and the information collected by either method describes both:

• the transportation of the goods (all the basic goods transport operations),

• the journeys made by the vehicles carrying out these operations, with details of vehicle capacities and utilisation of these capacities (laden journey with utilisation coefficient; unladen journey).

Under this Regulation, the transportation of goods and the journeys made by the vehicles must both be described, but it is undesirable to impose on the transport operators an excessive increase in the burden of statistics by asking them to describe in detail the transportation of goods and the vehicle journeys.

Accordingly, the NSOs in the Member States, when coding the questionnaires, must reconstitute the data which are not explicitly required from the transport operators from the data which they collect on the basis of either the ‘basic transport operation’, or the ‘vehicle journey’.

The problem will arise when several basic transport operations are carried out in the course of one laden journey, which may be because:

• there are several points of loading and/or unloading of the goods (but limited in number, otherwise these would be pick-up or distribution rounds, which require special treatment).

  In this case these various loading and/or unloading points are recorded, in order to calculate directly the tonnes/kilometre effected during the journey, and the statistical office can reconstitute the basic transport operations,

• and/or the fact that there are several different types of goods transported during the laden journey, a fact which in general is not recorded in the statistics, since only the type of goods (single or main) is requested.

  In this case the loss of information is accepted and Member States carrying out this type of simplification will make explicit mention of it to the Commission.

ANNEX B U.K. CLASSIFICATION OF AXLE CONFIGURATIONS

Where a combination of vehicles is used, the axle configuration counts the total number of axles, i. e. the axles of the lorry or the road tractor, plus those of the trailer or semi-trailer.

The axle categories considered are as follows:

	Coding
1. Number of axles of single vehicles (lorries):
2	120
3	130
4	140
other	199
2. Number of axles for combinations of vehicles:lorry and trailer
2+1	221
2+2	222
2+3	223
3+2	232
3+3	233
other	299
3. Number of axles for combinations of vehicles:road tractor and semi-trailer
2+1	321
2+2	322
2+3	323
3+2	332
3+3	333
other	399
4. Road tractor alone	499

ANNEX C U.K. CLASSIFICATION OF TYPES OF JOURNEY

1. Laden journey involving one single basic transport operation. U.K.

2. Laden journey involving several transport operations, but not considered as a collection or distribution round. U.K.

3. Laden journey of the collection or distribution round type. U.K.

4. Unladen journeys. U.K.

ANNEX D U.K. CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS

[F3 NST 2007

Division	Description
01	Products of agriculture, hunting, and forestry; fish and other fishing products
02	Coal and lignite; crude petroleum and natural gas
03	Metal ores and other mining and quarrying products; peat; uranium and thorium
04	Food products, beverages and tobacco
05	Textiles and textile products; leather and leather products
06	Wood and products of wood and cork (except furniture); articles of straw and plaiting materials; pulp, paper and paper products; printed matter and recorded media
07	Coke and refined petroleum products
08	Chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibres; rubber and plastic products; nuclear fuel
09	Other non-metallic mineral products
10	Basic metals; fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
11	Machinery and equipment n.e.c.; office machinery and computers; electrical machinery and apparatus n.e.c.; radio, television and communication equipment and apparatus; medical, precision and optical instruments; watches and clocks
12	Transport equipment
13	Furniture; other manufactured goods n.e.c.
14	Secondary raw materials; municipal wastes and other wastes
15	Mail, parcels
16	Equipment and material utilised in the transport of goods
17	Goods moved in the course of household and office removals; baggage transported separately from passengers; motor vehicles being moved for repair; other non-market goods n.e.c.
18	Grouped goods: a mixture of types of goods which are transported together
19	Unidentifiable goods: goods which for any reason cannot be identified and therefore cannot be assigned to groups 01–16.
20	Other goods n.e.c.]

Textual Amendments

F3 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1304/2007 of 7 November 2007 amending Council Directive 95/64/EC, Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, Regulations (EC) No 91/2003 and (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to the establishment of NST 2007 as the unique classification for transported goods in certain transport modes.

ANNEX E U.K.

CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES OF DANGEROUS GOODS ^a

a Each category is either a class or a division of a class of the classification of types of dangerous goods as defined in Directive 94/55/EC, Annex A, part I, marginal 2002 b.
b Annexes A and B to Directive 94/55/EC. The latest amendments to these Annexes appear in OJ L 251, 15. 9. 1997, p. 1.
1	Explosives
2	Gases, compressed, liquified or dissolved under pressure
3	Flammable liquids
4.1	Flammable solids
4.2	Substances liable to spontaneous combustion
4.3	Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
5.1	Oxidising substances
5.2	Organic peroxides
6.1	Toxic substances
6.2	Substances liable to cause infections
7	Radioactive material
8	Corrosives
9	Miscellaneous dangerous substances

ANNEX F U.K.

CLASSIFICATION OF CARGO TYPES ^a

a United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe — Codes for types of cargo, packages and packaging materials, Recommendation 21 adopted by the Working Party on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures, Geneva, March 1986.
0	Liquid bulk goods (no cargo unit)
1	Solid bulk goods (no cargo unit)
2	Large freight containers
3	Other freight containers
4	Palletised goods
5	Pre-slung goods
6	Mobile, self-propelled units
7	Other mobile units
8	(Reserved)
9	Other cargo types

[F2 ANNEX G U.K. CODING OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS

1. Except as provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 concerning the simplified coding of certain variables during a transitional period, the places of loading and unloading will be coded as follows: U.K.

(a)

regional breakdown to Level 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), for the Member States of the European Community;

(b)

lists of administrative regions supplied by the third country concerned, for States which are not members of the European Community but which are contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA), namely Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway;

(c)

for other third countries, the 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes should be used. The most frequently-used codes are given in the table below.

2. For the simplified coding of international transport during the transitional period referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1172/98, as well as for the coding of countries crossed in transit (section 7 of Annex A, part A2), the following country codes are to be used: U.K.

(a)

the 2-alpha part of the NUTS codes, as given in the table below, for the Member States of the European Community;

(b)

for all other countries, the 2-alpha ISO-3166 codes should be used. The most frequently-used codes are given in the table below.

Table of country codes U.K.

(a) EU Member States (corresponding to NUTS 2-alpha country codes) U.K.

Note: countries in official EU order. U.K.

[F4 Country name	Code
Belgium	BE
Bulgaria	BG
Czech Republic	CZ
Denmark	DK
Germany	DE
Estonia	EE
Greece	GR
Spain	ES
France	FR
Ireland	IE
Italy	IT
Cyprus	CY
Latvia	LV
Lithuania	LT
Luxembourg	LU
Hungary	HU
Malta	MT
Netherlands	NL
Austria	AT
Poland	PL
Portugal	PT
Romania	RO
Slovenia	SI
Slovakia	SK
Finland	FI
Sweden	SE
United Kingdom	UK]

Textual Amendments

F4 Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 of 20 November 2006 adapting certain Regulations and Decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement of persons, company law, competition policy, agriculture (including veterinary and phytosanitary legislation), transport policy, taxation, statistics, energy, environment, cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs, customs union, external relations, common foreign and security policy and institutions, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania.

(b) Other countries (ISO-3166 2-alpha codes) U.K.

Note: countries ordered by code.

Country name	Code
Albania	AL
Bosnia-Herzegovina	BA
[ F5 ]
Belarus	BY
Switzerland	CH
[ F6
F6
F6 ]
Croatia	HR
[ F6 ]
Iceland	IS
Liechtenstein	LI
[ F6
F6 ]
Moldova	MD
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)	MK
[ F6 ]
Norway	NO
[ F6 ]
[ F5 ]
Russian Federation	RU
[ F6
F6 ]
Turkey	TR
Ukraine	UA
Yugoslavia	YU

Textual Amendments

F5 Deleted by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 of 20 November 2006 adapting certain Regulations and Decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement of persons, company law, competition policy, agriculture (including veterinary and phytosanitary legislation), transport policy, taxation, statistics, energy, environment, cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs, customs union, external relations, common foreign and security policy and institutions, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania.

F6 Deleted by Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded.

For countries not shown in this list, the ISO-3166 2-alpha codes should be used.]

(1)

Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Communities.

(2)

Council Directive 94/55/EC of 21 November 1994 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by road (OJ L 319, 12. 12. 1994, p. 7). Directive as amended by Commission Directive 96/86/EC (OJ L 335, 24. 12. 1996, p. 43). For the latest amendments to the Annexes, see OJ L 251, 15. 9. 1997, p. 1.

(3)

NST: Uniform nomenclature of goods for transport statistics.