10.4.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 107/39 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 361/2014 of 9 April 2014 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 as regards docu- ments for the international carriage of passengers by coach and bus and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 2121/98 (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 (!), and in particular Article 5(3) and (5), Article 6(4), Article 7(2), Article 12(5) and Article 28(3) thereof, Whereas: (1) Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 provides that regular services and certain special regular services are to be subject to authorisation; (2)  Article 12(1) of that Regulation states that the occasional services defined in Article 2(4) are to be carried out under cover of a control document; (3)  Article 5(5) of that Regulation lays down that the own-account transport operations defined in Article 2(5) are to be subject to a system of certificates; (4)  Rules governing the use of the control documents referred to in Article 12 of that Regulation and the means of communicating to the Member States concerned the names of the carriers performing the occasional services and the connection points on route need to be established; (5) It is necessary to standardise, for reasons of simplicity, the journey form for international occasional services and for cabotage operations in the form of occasional services; (6)  The journey form used as a control document in the framework of cabotage operations in the form of special regular services should be filled out in the form of a monthly statement; (7) Tt is necessary to standardise the forms for the communication by the Member States to the Commission of the statistical information related to the number of authorisations for regular services as well as cabotage operations; (8)  For reasons of transparency and simplicity, all the model documents adopted in 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 () should be adapted to Regu- lation (EC) No 1073/2009 applicable to international coach and bus services; (9)  Regulation (EC) No 2121/98 should therefore be repealed; (10) Member States need time to have the new documents printed and distributed. Therefore in the meantime carriers should be able to continue to use the documents provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2121/98, which should specify that they take account of the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009; (11) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Road Transport. () OJL 300, 14.11.2009, p. 88. () OJL 268,3.10.1998, p. 10.