making accessible, on request, information available concerning new combined transport actions including technology research projects (co)-financed by that Contracting Party, by means of an executive summary, setting out the contents, results and the impact of the action or technology project;

Railway undertakinks engaged in international combined transport of goods and international groupings shall conclude the necessary administrative, technical and financial agreements with the managers of the railway infrastructure used with a view to regulating traffic control and safety issues concerning the international transport services referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.

Whereas the Commission's White Paper on the development of a common transport policy calls for optimum use to be made of existing capacities and for the integration of all networks relating to the various modes of transport into a trans-European network for the road, rail, inland waterway, sea and air transport of passengers and goods and for combined transport;

The Community financial assistance under paragraph 2 determined by the Commission on the basis of the tonne-kilometres shifted from road to short sea shipping, rail, inland waterways or a combination of modes of transport in which road journeys are as short as possible shall initially be set at EUR 1 for each shift of 500 tonne-kilometres of road freight.

This Regulation lays down the rules for the distribution between the Member States of authorisations available to the Community by virtue of Article 6(2) of the Agreements between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria and between the European Community and the Republic of Hungary establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of combined transport (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreements").

The title shall be replaced by the following: "Regulation (EC) No 685/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 concerning the distribution among Member States of authorisations received pursuant to the Agreements establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of combined transport between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria, between the European Community and the Republic of Hungary and between the European Community and Romania."

This Regulation lays down the rules for the distribution among Member States of authorisations available to the Community by virtue of Article 6(2) of the Agreements concluded between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria, between the European Community and the Republic of Hungary and between the European Community and Romania establishing certain conditions for the carriage of goods by road and the promotion of combined transport (hereinafter referred to as the 'Agreements')."

A gas oil, having a flash-point equal to or above 55 °C for undergoing a process of vacuum distillation in order to raise the flash-point so as to ensure that, resulting from its transportation, after its entry into free circulation, in tanks which may be contaminated or following the addition of kerosene to increase its fluidity, the flash-point of the finished product does not fall below 55 °C which is the minimum generally required for marketing the product as a gas oil, shall be classified in the combined nomenclature, as follows:

Whereas by virtue of Article 13 of Protocol No 9 on road, rail and combined transport in Austria as annexed to the 1994 Act of Accession, Regulation (EEC) No 3118/93 shall only apply from 1 January 1997 to: (a) hauliers with a Community authorization issued by the competent authorities in Austria for the operation of national road haulage services in other Member States, and (b) hauliers with a Community authorization issued by the competent authorities in another Member State for the operation of national road haulage services in Austria;

Whereas to ensure uniform application of the combined nomenclature it is appropriate to adopt provisions concerning the classification of a gas oil having a flash-point equal to, or above 55 °C which is intended to be subjected to a process of vacuum distillation with a view to increasing the flash-point in order to ensure that the flash-point of the finished product, resulting from transportation, after its entry into free circulation, in tanks which may be contaminated or following the addition of kerosene to increase its fluidity, does not fall below 55 °C which is the minimum generally required for marketing the product as a gas oil;

Reservation on containers 'For all containers, whether or not approved for carrying goods under customs seal, Community legislation authorizes temporary admission without formalities from the time of entry into Community customs territory, provided that the containers bear durably applied markings in an appropriate, clearly visible position identifying the owner or operator and giving the marks and identification numbers used by the owner or operator, the tare weight of the container (except in the case of swap bodies used in combined road-rail transport) and the country of registration of the container (except in the case of air transport).

In the case of combined transport or if there are several means of transport, the active means of transport is the one which propels the whole combination.

'intermodal transport operations' is defined as the right to arrange door-to-door transport services of international cargo and to this effect directly contract with providers of other modes of transport;

Other Transport Services (Provision of Combined Transport Service)

facilitate Community transit through Bulgaria by road, rail, inland waterway and combined transport,

for improving and developing international transport services including combined transport, notably in order to achieve complementarity taking into account the regional context, and

the development of a road network and the modernization, on major routes of common interest and trans-European links, of road, inland waterway, railway, combined transport port and airport infrastructure,

With regard to international maritime transport, including intermodal operations involving a sea-leg, nationals of the Member States or of Georgia established outside the Community or Georgia respectively, and shipping companies established outside the Community or Georgia and controlled by nationals of a Member State or Georgian nationals respectively, shall also be beneficiaries of the provisions of this Chapter and Chapter III if their vessels are registered in that Member State or in Georgia respectively in accordance with their respective legislation.