Traduction de «transit commun et de l'union » (Français → Anglais) :

‘Where a product is taken over by the railways in the Member State of export or in another Member State and circulates under the external Community transit procedure or the common transit procedure under a contract of carriage for combined road-rail transport by rail to a destination outside the customs territory of the Community, the customs office competent for or nearest to the rail terminal at which the product is taken over by the railways shall insert one of the entries listed in Annex Ic under “Remarks” in the section headed “Control of use and/or destination” on the back of the original of the T5 control copy’.

‘Where a product circulating under the external Community transit procedure or the common transit procedure is placed in a Member State other than that of export under a procedure as provided for in paragraph 1 for carriage to a station of destination or delivery to a consignee outside the customs territory of the Community, the customs office at which the product has been placed under a procedure as referred to above shall insert one of the entries listed in Annex Ib under “Remarks” in the section headed “Control of use and/or destination” on the back of the original of the T5 control copy’.

20. Continues to be concerned about the security of energy supply and repeated gas crises such as the Russian-Ukrainian crisis of January 2009, which highlighted the EU’s increasing energy dependency on sources of supply and transit channels; also underlines the need to prevent the energy dependency of the EU on third countries weakening the independence of EU foreign policy; recalls the urgent need to address energy challenges by implementing a common European external energy policy; calls in this regard on the Vice-President/High ...[+++] Representative to pursue with determination Parliament's recommendations for the development of a coherent and coordinated policy, in particular by promoting EU cohesion in constructive dialogue with energy suppliers, especially with Russia and transit countries, by supporting EU energy priorities and defending the common interests of the Member States, by developing effective energy diplomacy and more efficient mechanisms for responding to crisis situations and, finally, by promoting the diversification of energy supplies, sustainable energy use and the development of renewable energy sources; stresses that only a common EU approach could prevent any future shortcomings in the oil and gas supplies of the Member States and could increase the energy security of the EU as a whole;

In addition, the only advantage for Russia over using the TIR procedure would be that alcohol and tobacco products excluded from TIR regime are available under the Common Transit procedure, although at the price of stringent conditions or very high guarantees.

The alternatives (passage without formalities, whether or not with post-facto controls exercised in Russia) are either unacceptable or provide no procedural advantage (Russian accession to the Common Transit and SAD Conventions, which is in any case for the moment unrealistic).

23. Russia could, in theory, accede to the EC-EFTA Common Transit Convention.