"Deceptive" UIRR denunciation as the data I am diffused by Eurostat on the transport goods in the EU



The International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR) illustrates which are the expectations of the operators of the transport arranged road-railroad and the managers of the terminals of transfer regarding the future European politics on the transports and protest for the statistical data on the transport goods in the European Union are diffused by Eurostat, figures that, second the association, are "deceptive".

In topic of policies of the transports, the UIRR expectations are centralized on three priority objectives: the creation of a balanced normative picture for the field of the transports that allows the competition loyal and fair of every modality of transport that realizes transport services on long distance and that it is based on the technical and managerial quality; the increase of the competitiveness of the railroads through the creation of truly only an European railway space is for that it regards the technical aspects that through performance the accelerated of the railway corridors goods, the development of railway infrastructures and ulterior strengthening of the competition in the railway field through the elimination of privileged relations that they continue to prevail in the state railway companies; at last the institution of temporary measures in the period of transition to the aim to support the sustainable modalities of transport (railroad, inland navigation and marine transport short beam).

According to the UIRR, in order to realize it realizes progresses in the attainment of the three objectives is necessary that in the course of legislature 2014-2019 it is put into effect the modification of directive 96/53/CE regarding weights and dimensions of the street vehicles, as - remembers the association - approved of in first reading last April, that the pillars technical and of market of the fourth railway package are adopted and are adopted the review of the European directive on octrois (2003/96/CE) as proposed from the EU commission. Moreover, for the UIRR, they are necessary a review of directive 92/106/CE on the arranged transport in order to return it an effective instrument of mitigation and promotion and a rehash of the Eurovignette directive with the directive eToll; it is necessary also to monitor the state of adopted law enforcement and to debitamente hold in consideration the potential one that the intermodalità and the arranged transport are able to offer for the realization of European politics on the transports.

If on one side the UIRR exhorts the legislators of the European Union to accelerate the job in this direction, from the other evidences a series of critics who can be moved to the last communication statistics on the internal transport of the goods in the EU diffuse 1°th October from the Eurostat, the service of statistics of the EU, relative relationship to the 2012 that - the association emphasizes - very reaches 21 months from the end of period of reference.

The UIRR finds that it is not at all clear, and is also incomprehensible because Eurostat in its analysis, entitled "In the 2012 quota the road haulage in the internal transport goods has remained unchanged around 75%", it has chosen the 2007 as year base of I confront regarding the data of 2012 considered that the statistical service of the EU leads every year a collection of data. "Eurostat - the general manager of the UIRR, Ralf-Charley Schultze stigmatizes - has published its last relationship on the internal transport goods with an analysis and a badly made press release of accompanyment. If for its analysis it had chosen 2009 and 2007 for I do not confront of the data, the title could have been: "The market share of the road haulage is diminished of 2,5 points percentages in five years"".

Moreover the UIRR rimarca that Eurostat defines "internal transport goods" the street transport, the rail shipment and the transport on internal water course, while - emphasizes the association - the coastal marine transport being varying of navigation short a beam is directed concurrent of these a three modality of transport and therefore, in order to supply a precise picture, the relative data would have had to be enclosed in the "internal transport goods".

For UIRR he is oltretutto "deplorable" that, considering that the road haulage is three times larger than all the other modalities of transport, Eurostat "has not made a effort in order to subdivide this enormous slice of the cake, above all - the association explains - because there are two models of various absolute activities in the transport goods on the road: the transport in day, that is the local distribution within a beam of 300 kilometers, and the road haulage on long distance that is carried out on advanced distances to 300 kilometers that they demand that during the travel leading passes the night away from home". UIRR remembers that the Head office MOVES has been able to already make this distinction based on the distance in 2010 in the within of its vademecum on the street transport. Moreover - second the UIRR - only this distinction would have allowed an accurate measurement of the progresses towards the objectives of modal transfer of White Paper on the Transports of the 2011 that the objective has on the road to promote the transfer of the transport on advanced distances to 300 kilometers towards other sustainable modalities of transport.

At last for the UIRR he is "amazing" that Eurostat has employed 21 months in order to produce a relation that would have to be at least published a year before for being useful and effective. Being itself taken all this time - the association reproaches - Eurostat would have had to introduce an analysis very more groundbreaking and very which weighted.