Statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road Nikolaos Roubanis Transport Statistics Unit – E6

Structure Data collection on road freight Legal provisions on access to road freight data Outline of the project: ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’

Data collection on road freight Legal basis: Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road Scope: Each MS (EU and EEA) shall compile statistics on the carriage of goods by means of goods road transport vehicles which are registered in that MS Malta is exempted until the umber of road vehicles licensed to engage in the international carriage of goods does not exceed 400

Data collection on road freight Frequency: quarterly, 5 months after the end of the reference period Data collection in MS is based on surveys (Eurostat receives micro data) Dataset A1: Vehicle related variables Axle configuration Age Maximum permissible weight Load capacity Vehicle operator’s NACE (optional) Type of transport (hired or reward/own account Total km covered (loaded and empty) Vehicle weighting

Data collection on road freight Data set A2: Journey-related variables Type of journey (laden, unladen) Weight of goods Place of loading/unloading Distance travelled Countries crossed in transit Data set A3: Goods-related variables Type of goods

Data collection on road freight What we know for each country for the trucks registered in that country? Place of loading NUTS 3 Place of unloading Distance and Tonne km Countries of transit Type and Weight of goods

Legal provisions on access to road freight data Regulation (EC) No 202/2010 concerning the dissemination of statistics on the carriage of goods by road “Researchers and the scientific community in general should have access for scientific purposes to the data transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) under Regulation (EC) No 1172/98*, according to the principle laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 3 ) on European statistics.”

The project ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’ Objectives Develop an anonymisation method in collaboration with Member States Produce the anonymised dataset Produce a user manual to accompany data (method, quality, etc.) Provide the means to Eurostat to anonymise updated microdata

The project ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’ Task 1 Inventory of national methods Proposal of the best suited EU method Presentation to the Road Freight Working Party for feedback (10 October 2012) Documentation of final method to be presented to the Coordination Group for statistics on Transport (3-4 December 2012)

The project ‘Anonymisation of microdata on carriage of goods by road’ Task 2 Produce the anonymised dataset Draft the reference manuals Project duration Starting date: May 2012 Duration:10 months

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