4.7.2003 Official Journal of the European Union L167/13 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1192/2003 of 3 July 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on rail transport statistics (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on rail transport statistics ('), and in particular Article 3(2) and Article 4(5) thereof, Whereas: 1 In accordance with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 91/ 2003, the definitions in that Regulation may be adapted by the Commission. Additional definitions are necessary for the purposes of the collection of the data on the basis of common defini- tions in all Member States to ensure the harmonisation of the rail transport statistics. In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 91/ 2003, the contents of the Annexes may be adapted by the Commission. The specification of Table H1 needs to be modified to ensure a clear statement of the coverage of the statistics. Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 should therefore be amended accordingly. The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion delivered by the Statistical Programme Committee, set up by Council Decision 89/ 382/EEC, Euratom (3, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 is amended as follows: 1. () ) Article 3(1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. For the purposes of this Regulation the following defi- nitions shall apply: 1. “reporting country” means the Member State transmit- ting data to Eurostat; 2. “national authorities” means national statistical insti- tutes and other bodies responsible in each Member State for producing Community statistics; 3. “railway” means line of communication made up by rail exclusively for the use of railway vehicles; J L 14, 21.1.2003, p. 1. 0O OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47. 4. “railway vehicle” means mobile equipment running exclusively on rails, moving either under its own power (tractive vehicles) or hauled by another vehicle (coaches, railcar trailers, vans and wagons); 5. “railway undertaking” means any public or private undertaking which provides services for the transport of goods and/or passengers by rail. Undertakings whose only business is to provide services for the transport of passengers by metro, tram andfor light rail are excluded; 6. “transport of goods by rail” means the movement of goods using railway vehicles between the place of loading and the place of unloading; 7. “transport of passengers by rail” means the movement of passengers using railway vehicles between the place of embarkation and the place of disembarkation. The transport of passengers by metro, tram and/or light rail is excluded; 8. “metro” (also known as “subway”, “metropolitan railway” or “underground”) means an electric railway for the transport of passengers with the capacity for a heavy volume of traffic and characterised by exclusive rights-of-way, multi-car trains, high speed and rapid acceleration, sophisticated signalling as well as the absence of level crossings to allow a high frequency of trains and high platform load. Metros are also charac- terised by closely spaced stations, normally meaning a distance of 700 to 1200 m between the stations. “High speed” refers to the comparison with trams and light rail, and means here approximately 30 to 40 km/ h on shorter distances, 40 to 70 km/h on longer distances; 9. “tram (streetcar)’” means a passenger road vehicle designed to seat more than nine persons (including the driver), which is connected to electric conductors or powered by diesel engine and which is rail-borne; 10. “light rail” means a railway for the transport of passen- gers that often uses electrically powered rail-borne cars operating singly or in short trains on fixed duo-rail lines. There is generally a distance of less than 1 200 m between stations/stops. In comparison to metros, light rail is more lightly constructed, is designed for lower traffic volumes and usually travels at lower speeds. It is sometimes difficult to make a precise distinction between light rail and trams; trams are generally not separated from road traffic, whereas light rail may be separated from other systems;