National Statistical Institute

„Short-term statistics and transport statistics“ Department

Joana Iltchevska

Chief expert

2, P.Volov Str. Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

jiltchevska@nsi.bg

+359 2 9857 604

Data refer to goods handled in inland waterway ports.

· Unique Classification for transported goods NST 2007;

· Dangerous goods classification (ADN).

Data refer to the activity of inland waterway ports connected with carriage of goods by destination. Administrative ports are excluded.

Inland waterways transport - any movement of goods using inland waterways vessel, which is undertaken wholly or partly in navigable inland waterways.

National inland waterways transport - inland waterway transport between two ports of a national territory irrespective of the nationality of the vessel.

International inland waterways transport ? inland waterway transport between two ports located in different national territories.

Data are collected from Executive Agency “Maritime administration“ at the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications at port level.

The survey is exhaustive.

For the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since 2005

Not applicable.

Thousand tonnes

Quarter, annual

· Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways and repealing Council Directive 80/1119/EC;

· Commission regulation (EC) No 425/2007 of 19 April 2007 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1365/2006 of the EP and of the Council on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways;

· Commission regulation (EC) No 1304/2007 amending Council Directive 95/64/EC, Council Regulation (EC) 1172/89, Regulations (EC) 91/2003 and (EC) 1365/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to the establishment of NST 2007 as the unique classification for transported goods in certain transport modes;

· Order No 919 on collecting statistical information for the activity of port operators and owners of ports and port equipment in Republic of Bulgaria.

Not applicable.

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

The collected data are not confidential.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the National statistical program and the Release calendar - six months after the reference period.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data are published on the internet site of NSI and can be accessed from all users of statistical information.

annual

Not applicable.

Statistical Yearbook

Data on Inland waterway transport are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Transport and Communications - Other annual data - Transport: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7161

Not applicable.

Data on inland waterway transport from all reporting countries are published on the internet site of Eurostat.

Reference Manual on Inland Waterway Transport Statistics

Not available.

The necessary quality checks are performed for each quarterly and annual data series. Reports are produces by Eurostat for all received data after second level of validation and then sent to the countries.

Not applicable.

Main users are state institutions, different organizations and specialized in the sector enterprises.

Not applicable.

Full completeness with the Bulgarian and European legislation.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Quarterly data are transmitted to Eurostat 5 months after the reference period.

All the data are transmitted according to the set deadline in the Regulations.

Geographical comparability is obtained via mirror checks performed by Eurostat.

There might be break in time series for some variables in 2007 because of the change in the Goods nomenclature.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Cost and Burden are defined from Executive Agency “Maritime administration“ at the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications.

Data revision is made when it is necessary.

Quarterly data are in general provisional. When the complete set of annual data emerges when it is necessary a revision of the quarterly data is made.

Data source is Executive Agency “Maritime administration“ at the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications.

Quarterly, annual

The survey is exhaustive.

Validation checks of the used code list and quality checks for each data series and between the series are made.

Treatment of the primary data is made by Executive Agency “Maritime administration“ at the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications.

Not applicable.