Conclusions Working Group Rail Transport Statistics 9 – 10 November 2011 Ruxandra Roman Enescu

Conclusions (1) Point 4 (Data availability and mirror checks) It has to be a single interpretation of the legal act and its definitions and methodology Countries have to ensure that data providers have the right understanding on how to report Where mirror checks show important differences (% in correlation with the absolute values), - Eurostat encourages the MS to discuss bilaterally - If problems linked with the interpretation of the definitions and/or methodology are detected, countries are kindly requested to inform Eurostat - In such cases, Eurostat will take the lead to solve these issues in collaboration with the MS (eg. Task Force)

Conclusions (2) Point 5 – Intermodal Conclusions Eurostat will compile all comments received a.s.a.p The document will be send to all participants for quick comments/approval The updated version will be included in the report for the CGST in December 2011

Conclusions (3) Point 7.1 – Changes in the legislation 91/2003 Deleting simplify reporting (annex B and D) Deleting Annex I New Annexes X

Conclusions (4) Member States should report for: - all undertakings having a total volume of freight transport being more than 200 million tonne-km or more than 500 000 tonnes. - all undertakings having a total volume of passenger transport being more than 100 million passenger-km.

Conclusions (5) New Article 4 Data collection The statistics to be collected are set out in the Annexes to this Regulation. They shall cover the following types of data: (a) annual statistics on goods transport — detailed reporting (Annex A); (b) annual statistics on passenger transport — detailed reporting (Annex C); (c) quarterly statistics on goods and passenger transport (Annex E); (d) regional statistics on goods and passenger transport (Annex F); statistics on traffic flows on the rail network (Annex G); 2. Member States may use an optional reporting as alternatives to the normal detailed reporting set out in Annexes A and C. In particular, for undertakings having a total volume of freight transport being less than 200 million tonne-km and less than 500 000 tonnes the reporting should be optional. For undertakings having a total volume of passenger transport being less than 100 million passenger-km the reporting should be optional.

Level of transport activity ANNEX X 1 Level of transport activity List of variables and units of measurement Total number of railway undertakings Goods transported in: — total tonnes — total tonne-km Goods train movements in: — total train-km Reference period Year Frequency Every year Deadline for transmission of data Five months after end of reference period First reference period 20XX Notes Only for undertakings with total volume of freight transport less than 200 million tonne-km and less than 500 000 tonnes and not reporting under Annex A (detailed reporting) 9-10 November 2011 Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics Agenda point 7.1 7

Level of transport activity ANNEX X2 Level of transport activity List of variables and units of measurement Total number of railway undertakings Passengers transported in: — total number of passengers — total passenger-km Passenger train movements in: — total train-km Reference period Year Frequency Every year Deadline for transmission of data Eight months after end of reference period First reference period 20XX Notes Only for undertakings with total volume of passenger transport less than 100 million passenger-km and not reporting under Annex C (detailed reporting) 9-10 November 2011 Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics Agenda point 7.1 8

Conclusions (5) Point 7.1 – Changes in the legislation Annex C deleting C1 and C2 tables New deadline: 8 months instead of 14 months Deleting Annex H Include the “rail freight waybill”, into the Regulation

Conclusions (6) Point 7.2 – Developments The WG agreed to extend the mandate for the Task Force to evaluate the possibility to obtain data for: Distance classes, High speed trains, GHG emissions, Transit data in passenger transport Composition of the TF – NL, the UK, DE, Fr (to be contacted Other MS willing to participate, pls. contact Franz Point 9 – revision of error margins The WG adopted the revised error margins Eurostat will update the Guidelines with the new error margins Revised approach for the values <10 (similar with the approach adopted for annex H)

Transport unit – contact information Processes Road freight - Monika.Wrzesinska@ec.europa.eu Rail – Franz.Justen@ec.europa.eu Inland Waterways - Franz.Justen@ec.europa.eu Maritime – Vidar.Lund@ec.europa.eu Aviation – Hubertus.Cloodt@ec.europa.eu Common questionnaire - Hans.Strelow@ec.europa.eu Regional statistics – Jose.Lange@ec.europa.eu

Transport unit – contact information Projects TRIS – Nico.Hilbert@ec.europa.eu Intermodal – Giuliano.Amerini@ec.europa.eu Modal split indicators - Hubertus.Cloodt@ec.europa.eu Transport safety – Hans.Strelow@ec.europa.eu Emissions by Transport sector - Monika.Wrzesinska@ec.europa.eu and Hubertus.Cloodt@ec.europa.eu Secretariat: Chantal.Sosson@ec.europa.eu Head of Unit: Ruxandra.Roman-Enescu@ec.europa.eu