Regulation (EU) 2018/643 on rail transport statistics

Further information:

On 30 June 2017 the European Commission proposed to undertake a codification of Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 on rail transport statistics. At the same time, it was also necessary to make a substantive amendment to Article 4(5) of that Regulation. Therefore, the proposal was presented in the form of a recast.

The new Regulation, which supersedes the various acts incorporated in it while fully preserving the content of the acts being codified, was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 18 April 2018.

Background:

In the context of a people’s Europe, 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 also essential if the law is to be clear and transparent.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)353: Proposal for a Regulation on rail transport statistics (recast) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:353:FIN

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