L'acquis CEMT/Principal Acts of the ECMT 1953-2003

This publication describes the main Acts of the Council of Ministers since the creation of the Conference in 1953 up until 1st January 2003. It pares down the Acts of the Council of Ministers to the essential and defines what constitutes the ECMT Acquis fifty years after the Conference's inception. One hundred and twenty documents (Resolutions, Declarations, Recommendations, Conclusions, etc.) have been reviewed by the Working Groups to select the key texts to be included in this document, an exercise which is the prerequisite to any review of the actual implementation of the main decisions of the Council of Ministers.

An introductory text is published as a booklet. 

Introduction

The texts below are those which are included on the CD-ROM which accompanies the publication.

• Founding Text
• International Agreements
• General Transport Policy
• Market Integration
• Trade Facilitation
• Road Freight Transport
• Multilateral Quota
• Road Passenger Transport
• Rail Transport
• Inland Waterways
• Intermodal Transport and Logistics
• Urban Transport
• Infrastructure
• Payment for the Use of Infrastructure
• Transport and the Environment
• Access and Inclusion
• Road Safety
• Crime in Transport, Terrorism and Security in Transport
• New Technologies

• PROTOCOL concerning the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) signed in Brussels on 17th October 1953
  Final Act. Protocol. Rules of Procedures, ECMT Publication
    

• CONSTITUENT ACTS of EUROFIMA  --   European Company for the Financing of Railway Rolling Stock - signed in Berne on 20th October 1955
  Paris, ECMT Publication, 1955
     

• AGREEMENT on the International Carriage of Passengers by Road by means of occasional Coach and Bus Services (ASOR) - signed in Dublin on 26th May 1982
  Official Journal of the European Communities. Legislation. L 230, 5 August 1982.
  Contracting Parties: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.
  

• JOINT STATEMENT of ECMT Ministers of Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1997 (44th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 95/1 on Access to the European Transport Markets
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1995 (42nd Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 99/1 on the Integration of European Inland Transport Markets
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1999 (46th Annual Report)
    

• Other documents:

• Recommendation on the Framework for Bilateral Agreements in Road Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1997 (44th Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 50 on the Removal of Obstacles to International Goods Transport
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1984 (31st Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 94/5 on Removal of Obstacles at Border Crossings for International Road Goods Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1994 (41st Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 99/2 on the Removal of Obstacles at Border Crossings for International Goods Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1999 (46th Annual Report)
    

• Other documents:

• Resolution No. 2002/3 on Simplification of Procedures for Issuing Visas for Professional Drivers
  Annual Report 2002
      

• Removal of Obstacles at Border Crossings: Policy Note and Recommendations 
  2004 
     

• CONSOLIDATED RESOLUTION No. 2000/1 on the Rules to be applied for International Freight Transport by Road
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 2000 (47th Annual Report)
    

• Other documents:

• Recommendation on the Framework for Bilateral Agreements in Road Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1997 (44th Annual Report)
  
• Declaration on the Transport of Livestock
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1996 (43rd Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 22 concerning the Problems of Establishing a Multilateral Quota and the Harmonization of Competitive Conditions in International Transport of Goods by Road
  CEMT/CM(70)16
  17th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1970
  

• REPORT of the Committee of Deputies on the Establishment of a Multilateral Quota and the Harmonization of Competitive Conditions in International Transport of Goods by Road
  CEMT/CM(70)5
  17th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1970
  

• SUPPLEMENTING RESOLUTION No. 22 concerning the Problems of Establishing a Multilateral Quota and the Harmonization of Competitive Conditions in International Transport of Goods by Road
  CEMT/CM(70)21 revised
  17th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1970
  

• SUPPLEMENTING REPORT by the Committee of Deputies on Certain Problems relating to the Establishment of a Multilateral Quota for International Transport of Goods by Road
  CEMT/CM(70)21
  17th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1970
  

• RESOLUTION No. 26 concerning the Actual Coming into Force of a Multilateral Quota for International Transport of Goods by Road
  20th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1973
    

• RESOLUTION No. 55 concerning the Establishment of a System of Short-Term Licences valid for 30 Days under the Multilateral Quota for the International Transport of Goods by Road
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1985 (32nd Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 92/1 on the ECMT Multilateral Quota of Licences for the International Transport of Goods by Road for Hire or Reward
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1992 (39th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 95/4 on the Introduction of the Greener and Safe Lorry in the Context of the Multilateral Quota System
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1995 (42nd Annual Report)
    

• AGREEMENT on the Evolution of the Quota
  Document CEMT/CM(2001)7/Final, 2001
    

• GUIDE for Government Officials and Carriers on the Use of the ECMT Multilateral Quota
  ECMT-IRU Publication, Bilingual French/English, Revised January 2009
  

• RESOLUTION No. 95/2 on International Passenger Transport by Buses and Coaches
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1995 (42nd Annual Report)
    

• CONSOLIDATED RESOLUTION No. 23 on Short-Term Measures to Improve International Rail Service
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1985 (32nd Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 2002/1 on the Development of European Railways
  Annual Report 2002
    

• Other documents:

• Resolution No. 10 concerning the Financial Situation of the Railways
  Resolutions, V, 1957
  

• Resolution No. 16 concerning the Development of the Concept of Public Service in the Railways
  15th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1968
  

• RESOLUTION No. 10 on Inland Waterways and Inland Waterway Shipping
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1983 (30th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 11 on Transport by Inland Waterways
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1989 (36th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 92/2 on New Classification of Inland Waterways
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1992 (39th Annual Report)
  

• REPORT on Possible Actions to Strengthen the Role of Inland Waterways
  Document CEMT/CM(2002)4, 2002
    

• RESOLUTION No. 67 on Dimensions of Loading Units
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1989 (36th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 91/9 on the Dimensions of Loading Units (Containers and Swap Bodies)
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1991 (38th Annual Report)
  

• CONSOLIDATED RESOLUTION No. 2002/2 on Combined Transport
  Annual Report 2002
    

• KEY MESSAGES for Governments - Implementing Sustainable Urban Transport Policies
  Document CEMT/CM(2001)12/Final, 2001
    
  ECMT Publication, 2002
  

• Other documents:

• Resolution No. 15 on Urban Transport Problems
  Resolutions, XV, 1965
    

• Resolution No. 21 concerning Measures to be Taken for Improving Urban Transport
  16th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1969
    

• Resolution No. 26 concerning Measures to be Taken for Better Co-ordination of Urban Transport
  18th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1971
    

• Resolution No. 40 on Subsidisation of Urban Public Transport
  Resolutions of the Council of Ministers and Reports approved in 1979, Vol. II, (26th Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 93/2 on the Infrastructure in a Pan-European Context
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1993 (40th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 97/1 on Transport and Infrastructure Development
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1997 (44th Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 49 on the Allocation of Infrastructure Costs
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1983 (30th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 98/1 on the Policy Approach to Internalising the External Costs of Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1998 (45th Annual Report)
    

• RECOMMENDATIONS on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Transport Infrastructure Financing
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1999 (46th Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 2000/3 on Charges and Taxes in Transport, particularly in International Road Haulage
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 2000 (47th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 47 on Transport and the Environment
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1983 (30th Annual Report)
    

• RESOLUTION No. 66 on on Transport and the Environment
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1989 (36th Annual Report)
  

• DECISION on Sustainable Development
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 2000 (47th Annual Report)
    

• Other documents:

• Resolution No. 14 concerning Measures to Reduce Town Traffic Noise
  Resolutions, XIII, 1963
  

• Resolution No. 25 concerning Vehicle Noise Levels
  19th Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1972
  

• Resolution No. 61 on Dangerous Goods Databases
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1987 (34th Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 64 on the More Rapid Introduction of Lead-free Petrol into Europe
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1988 (35th Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 91/5 on the Power and Speed of Vehicles
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1991 (38th Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 93/3 on Reducing Transport's Contribution to Global Warming
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1993 (40th Annual Report)
  

• Joint Declaration of the ECMT and the Vehicle Manufacturing Industry on Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Passenger Vehicles in ECMT Countries, signed in Vienna on 8 June 1995
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1996 (42nd Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 99/6 on Phasing out Lead in Petrol
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1999 (46th Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 97/4 on Reciprocal Recognition of Parking Badges for Persons with Mobility Handicaps
  Ministers of Transport of the ECMT 1997
  
• CHARTER on Access to Transport Services and Infrastructure
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1999 (46th Annual Report)
    

• A GUIDE to Good Practice - Improving Transport for People with Mobility Handicaps ECMT Publication, 1999
  

• CONSOLIDATED RESOLUTION No. 2001/3 on Accessible Transport
  Annual Report 2001
    

• Principal ACTIONS of ECMT in the field of Road Safety
  ECMT Publication, 1994
  

• ECMT KEY RECOMMENDATIONS on Road Safety
  Annual Report 2002
    

• RECOMMENDATIONS on Safety on Rural Roads in Europe
  Document CEMT/CM(2002)11/FINAL, 2002
    

• Other documents:

• Resolution No. 33 concerning the Problem of Young Children carried in Front Seats of Motor Vehicles
  22nd Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of Ministers, 1975
  

• Resolution No. 39 on the Road Safety of Children and Young People
  Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1979, Vol. II (26th Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 46 on Measures to Reduce the Accident Risks of Young Drivers
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1985 (32nd Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 50 on Road Safety of Children
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1987 (34th Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 91/3 on the Improvement of Road Safety for the Elderly
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1991 (38th Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 97/2 on Crime and Fraud in International Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1997 (44th Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 99/3 on Crime in Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1999 (46th Annual Report)
    

• CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS on Combating Crime in Transport
  Document CEMT/CM(2001)18/FINAL, 2001
  

• DECLARATION on Combating Terrorism in the field of Transport
  Annual Report 2002
    

• Other documents:

• Resolution No. 58 on Aviation Security
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1986 (33rd Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 62 on International Standards in Information Exchange
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1987 (34th Annual Report)
  

• RESOLUTION No. 91/7 on Remote Automatic Debiting Systems for the Collection of Road Tolls
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1991 (38th Annual Report)
  

• CONSOLIDATED RESOLUTION No. 94/7 on the Use of New Information Technology in the field of Transport
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1994 (41st Annual Report)
  

• STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE concerning the Ergonomics and Safety on in-Vehicle Information Systems
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1994 (41st Annual Report)
  

• Other documents:

• Resolution No. 49 on Road Vehicle Communications
  Activity of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1987 (34th Annual Report)
  

• Resolution No. 91/4 on Standards for Traffic Messages Broadcast using the Radio Data System Traffic Message Channel
  Activities of the Conference. Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of Transport and Reports approved in 1991 (38th Annual Report)