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 maritime ports.

· Maritime Coastal area;

· Nationality of registration of vessels;

· Type of cargo classification.

Data refer to the activity of maritime ports connected with carriage of goods by sea-going vessels, on voyages undertaken wholly or partly at sea. Administrative ports are excluded.

Statistical port -a statistical port consists of one or more ports, normally controlled by a single port authority, which is able to record ship, passengers and cargo movements.

Maritime costal area (MCA) - a maritime costal area is defined as a contiguous stretch of coastline, together with islands offshore. Within a country, an MCA is defined either in terms of one or more ranges of ports along its coastline, or in terms of the latitude and longitude of one or more sets of extremities of the coastal area.

Carriage of goods by sea - the movement of goods using seagoing vessels, on voyage which are undertaken wholly or partly by sea.

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

Detailed data are provided for ports handling more than one million tonnes of goods annually. The other ports provide only summary data.

For the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since 2005

Not applicable.

Thousand tonnes

Quarter, annual

· Commission Decision of 28 April 2000 on rules for implementing Council directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea;

· Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea;

· Commission Decision 2010/216 of 14 April 2010 amending directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea;

· Regulation (EU) 1090/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 amending Directive 2009/42/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea;

· Commission delegated decision of 3.2.2012 amending Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea;

· 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.

Data are published according to Commission Decision 2001/423/EC.

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 Maritime 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/7164

Not applicable.

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

Reference Manual on Maritime 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, annual data within 8 months.

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

Geographical comparability is obtained via the application of common concepts and validation rules.

Not applicable.

At national level, inter-dataset checks for each data series are made. Than Eurostat performs mirror statistics of the data of all reporting countries.

At national level, inter-dataset checks for each data series are made. Than Eurostat performs mirror statistics of the data of all reporting countries.

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.