L 268/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 3.10.98 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2121/98 of 2 October 1998 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulations (EEC) No 684/92 and (EC) No 12/98 as regards documents for the carriage of passengers by coach and bus (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 684/92 of 16 March 1992 on common rules for the international carriage of passengers by coach and bus ('), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 11/98 (%), and in particular point 3.4 of Article 2 and Articles 5(4), 6(2), 11(5) and 13(3) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 12/98 of 11 December 1997 laying down the conditions under which non-resident carriers may operate national road passenger transport services within a Member State (*), and in partic- ular Articles 6(2) and (3) and 7(1) thereof, After consulting the committee established by Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 12/98, 1. Whereas Article 4(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 684/ 92 provides that regular services and certain special regular services are to be subject to authorisation; 2. Whereas Article 11(1) of that Regulation states that occasional services are to be carried out under cover of a journey form; 3. Whereas Article 13(1) of that Regulation provides that own-account transport operations are to be subject to a system of certificates; 4. Whereas rules should also be laid down governing the use of the journey form referred to in Article 11 of that Regulation and the means of commun- icating to the Member States concerned the names of the carriers carrying out those services and of the connection points en route; 5.  Whereas the Commission adopted Regulation (EEC) No 1839/92 of 1 July 1992 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regu- lation (EEC) No 684/92 as regards documents for 0 . 1.1998, p. 1. 1 10. 11. (" O (5) O ) O the international carriage of passengers (*), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden; whereas that Regulation has been amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2944/93 (%) in order to standardise, for reasons of simplicity, the control documents for shuttle services with accommodation and for occasional services; Whereas Regulation (EC) No 11/98 abolished the concept of shuttle services and simplified the defi- nition of occasional services by abolishing the concept of residual occasional services; Whereas it is necessary to standardise, for reasons of simplicity, the journey form for international occasional services and for occasional services in the form of cabotage provided for in Regulation (EC) No 12/98; Whereas the journey form used as a control docu- ment in the framework of special regular services in the form of cabotage must be completed in the form of a monthly statement; Whereas, for reasons of transparency and simplicity, all the model documents laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 1839/92 should be adapted to the new regulatory framework applicable to inter- national coach and bus services and that Regulation should be replaced by the present Regulation; Whereas Member States need time to have the new documents printed and distributed; Whereas carriers should in the meantime be able to continue to use the documents provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1839/92 and Council Regula- tion (EEC) No 2454/92 (°), suitably amended where necessary to take account of Regulations (EEC) No 684/92 and (EC) No 12/98, 187, 7. 7. 1992, p. 5. J L J L 266, 27. 10. 1993, p. 2. J L 251, 29. 8. 1992, p. 1.