Transport of goods by inland waterway: freedom to provide services

OBJECTIVE: to establish freedom to provide transport services between Member States. CONTENT: 1. Scope of the regulation: the regulation applies to the transport of passengers or goods by inland waterway between and through Member States. 2. Eligibility criteria: in order to effect the transport operations referred to in the regulation, owners of vessels must: * be established in a Member State in accordance with the laws of that state; * be entitled to provide international passenger or goods transport services by inland waterway in that state; * use vessels for the transport operations in question which are registered in a Member State or, if there is no register, which are covered by a certificate of membership of the fleet of a Member State. 3. Special provisions govern the rights of third country carriers under the revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine (Mannheim Convention), the Convention on Navigation on the Danube (Belgrade Convention) and the international obligations of the European Community. Source: European Commission - Info92 - 10/95�