5.7.79 . Official Journal of the European Communities No L 167/1 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1384/79 of 25 June 1979 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 introducing an accounting system for expenditure on infrastructure in respect of transport by rail, road and inland waterway THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European -Economic Community, and in particular Article 75 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia- ment (), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (2), Whereas, in order to institute under the common transport policy a system of charging for the use of infrastructure, it is necessary to know what expendi- ture is incurred in respect of infrastructure ; Whereas a permanent accounting system offers the most suitable means for knowing what expenditure is incurred 1n respect of infrastructure ; Whereas to this end the Council, by Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 (%), introduced a permanent accounting system for such expenditure; Whereas account should be taken of experience gained and of the development of the common trans- port policy ; whereas the forms of accounts, the list of types of infrastructure and the schedule of returns concerning the usce of infrastructure provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 should be adjusted accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1108/70 is hereby amended as follows : 1. Article 3 shall be replaced by the following : (') OJ No C 296, 11. 12. 1978, p. §7. (3) O] No C 128, 21. 5. 1979, p. 35. () O] No L 130, 15. 6. 1970, p. 4. ‘Article 3 Infrastructure expenditure accounts shall be kept for each of the railway networks listed in Annex 1l (A.1) and for the total of all the other networks listed in Annex Il (A.2), as well as for all roads and inland waterways open to public traffic, with the following exceptions : (a) roads closed to motor traffic, that is, to vehicles with a cylinder capacity equal to or exceeding 50 cm?; (b) roads used exclusively by agricultural or forestry vehicles or which serve only to provide access for agricultural or forestry operations ; (c) inland waterways on which traffic is limited to vessels of less than 250 tonnes deadweight ; (d) waterways of a maritime character, as listed in Regulation (EEC) No 281/71 ("). (") OJ No L 33, 10. 2. 1971, p. 11. . Article § (2) (a) sh‘all be replaced by the following : ‘2. " Separate accounts shall be presented : (a) in respect of railways: (i) for each of the networks listed in Annex I (A1) (11) for the total of all the other networks listed in Annex II (A.2). However, the returns relating to these nctworks shall be sent only once every five years, starting with those for the year 1980.