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Part 1 LIST OF VARIABLES A1. vehicle-related variables; A2. journey-related variables; A3. goods-related variables (in the basic transport operation). A1. VEHICLE-RELATED VARIABLES Pursuant to the definition given in Article 2, point (d), a goods road transport vehicle shall be any single road transport vehicle, or combination of road vehicles, namely road train or articulated vehicle designed to carry goods. The vehicle-related variables to be provided are the following: 1. possibility of using vehicles for combined transport (optional); 2. axle configuration according to Annex II (optional); 3. age of the road transport vehicle (lorry or road tractor) in years (from its first registration); 4. maximum permissible weight, in 100 kg; 5. load capacity, in 100 kg; 6. vehicle operator’s NACE Rev. 2 at class level (four-digit level) (optional) (); 7. type of transport (hire or reward/own account); 8. total kilometres covered during the survey period; 8.1. loaded; 8.2. empty (including road tractor journeys without semi-trailer) (optional); 9. vehicle weighting, to be used to obtain full results from individual data if the data are collected on the basis of random sampling.

Successive configurations When the road transport vehicle chosen for the survey is a lorry used alone, namely without a trailer, throughout the survey period, it constitutes in itself the road vehicle for the transport of goods. However, when the road transport vehicle chosen for the survey is a road tractor — in which case it will have a semi-trailer coupled — or when it is a lorry to which a trailer is coupled, the data required under this Regulation concern the road vehicle for the transport of goods taken as a whole. In this case, there may be a change of configuration during the survey period (with a lorry acquiring a trailer or changing trailer during the period, or a road tractor changing its semi-trailer). In such a case, these successive configurations must be recorded, and the data on the vehicle must be supplied for each journey. However, if it is not possible to record these successive configurations, it is agreed that, for the vehicle-related variables, those corresponding to the configuration at the beginning of the first laden journey made during the survey period or to the configuration used most during that period will be recorded. Change in type of transport

In the same way, depending on the journey, the transport may be effected on own account or for hire or reward, and the type of transport must be recorded for each journey. However, if it is not possible to record these changes, it is agreed that the ‘type of transport’ recorded will be that corresponding to the main mode of utilisation. A2. JOURNEY-RELATED VARIABLES During the survey period, the goods road transport vehicle makes journeys, either unloaded (there are no goods or empty packaging in the lorry, the trailer or the semi-trailer, which are therefore ‘completely empty’) or loaded (there are either goods or empty packaging in the lorry, the trailer or the semi-trailer, empty packaging being a particular type of goods). The loaded distance of the goods road transport vehicle is the distance between the first place of loading and the last place of unloading (where the goods road transport vehicle is completely emptied). A laden journey can therefore cover several basic transport operations. The variables to be provided for each journey are as follows: 1. type of journey in accordance with the nomenclature in Annex III;

2. weight of goods carried during the journey or during each stage of the journey, gross weight in 100 kg; 3. place of loading (of the goods road transport vehicle, for a laden journey):

— definition: the place of loading is the first place in which goods are loaded on the goods road transport vehicle, which was previously completely empty (or where the road tractor is coupled up to a laden semi-trailer). For an unladen journey, it is the place of unloading of the preceding laden journey (notion of ‘place where unladen journey begins’),

— coding: the place of loading is coded in accordance with Annex VII; 4. place of unloading (of the goods road transport vehicle, for a laden journey):

— definition: the place of unloading is the last place in which goods are unloaded from the goods road transport vehicle, which is subsequently completely empty (or where the road tractor is uncoupled from a semi-trailer). For an unladen journey, it is the place of loading of the subsequent laden journey (notion of ‘place where unladen journey ends’),

— coding: the place of unloading is coded in accordance with Annex VII;

5. distance travelled: actual distance excluding the distance covered by the goods road transport vehicle while being transported by another means of transport; 6. tonne-kilometre effected during the journey; 7. countries crossed in transit (not more than five), coded according to Annex VII; 8. place of loading, if any, of the road transport vehicle on another means of transport in accordance with Annex VII (optional); 9. place of unloading, if any, of the road transport vehicle from another means of transport in accordance with Annex VII (optional); 10. situation ‘fully loaded’ (procedure 2) or ‘not fully loaded’ (procedure 1) of the goods road transport vehicle during the journey in question, in terms of maximum volume of space used during the journey (procedure 0 = by convention for unladen journeys) (optional). A3. GOODS-RELATED VARIABLES (in the basic transport operation) During a laden journey, several basic transport operations can be carried out, a basic transport operation being defined as the transport of one type of goods (defined by reference to a particular classification level) between its place of loading and its place of unloading.

1. type of goods, according to the division level referring to an appropriate classification (see Annex IV); 2. weight of goods: gross weight in 100 kg; 3. if need be, the classification of the goods as dangerous according to the main categories of Directive 2008/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 on the inland transport of dangerous goods () given in Annex V to this Regulation; 4. type of freight as given in Annex VI (optional); 5. place of loading of the goods, coded in accordance with Annex VII; 6. place of unloading of the goods, coded in accordance with Annex VII; 7. distance travelled, actual distance excluding the distance covered with the goods road transport vehicle while being transported by another means of transport. Transport operations carried out during a ‘collection or distribution round’ type of journey (journey-type 3) For this type of journey, with several loading and/or unloading points, it is practically impossible to ask the transport operators to describe the basic transport operations.

For these journeys, when identified as such, a single, notional, basic transport operation is generally generated on the basis of the information on the journey. Each Member State shall inform the Commission of its definition of this type of journey and explain the simplifying assumptions it is obliged to apply when collecting data on the corresponding transport operations. Part 2 METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX Laden journeys and basic transport operations Depending on the Member State concerned, information on transport is collected on the basis of:

— either a description of each basic goods transport operation (with additional details on unladen journeys),

— or a description of the journeys made by the vehicle in carrying out these basic goods transport operations. In the great majority of cases, when a laden journey is made this represents one basic transport operation only with:

— a single type of goods loaded (by reference to the classification of goods in use, in this case the 20 divisions derived from the NST classification) (),

— a single point of loading for the goods,

— a single point of unloading for the goods.

In this case the two methods used are completely equivalent, and the information collected by either method describes both:

— the transport of the goods (all the basic goods transport operations),

— the journeys made by the vehicles carrying out this transport, with details of vehicle capacities and utilisation of these capacities (laden journey with utilisation coefficient; unladen journey). Under this Regulation, the transport of goods and the journeys made by the vehicles must both be described, but it is undesirable to impose on the transport operators an excessive increase in the burden of statistics by asking them to describe in detail the transport of goods and the vehicle journeys. Accordingly, the NSOs in the Member States, when coding the questionnaires, must reconstitute the data which are not explicitly required from the transport operators from the data which they collect on the basis of either the ‘basic transport operation’, or the ‘vehicle journey’. The problem will arise when several basic transport operations are carried out in the course of one laden journey, which may be because:

— there are several points of loading and/or unloading of the goods (but limited in number, otherwise these would be pick-up or distribution rounds, which require special treatment). In this case, these various loading and/or unloading points are recorded, in order to calculate directly the tonne-kilometre effected during the journey, and the statistical office can reconstitute the basic transport operations, and/or — there are several different types of goods transported during the laden journey, a fact which in general is not recorded in the statistics, since only the type of goods (single or main) is requested. In this case the loss of information is accepted and Member States carrying out this type of simplification will make explicit mention of it to the Commission.