They shall consist of short-sea routes, ports, associated maritime infrastructure and equipment, and facilities as well as simplified administrative formalities enabling short-sea shipping or sea-river services to operate between at least two ports, including hinterland connections.

15. Emphasises the strategic importance of the Arctic region for the EU, with regard to energy resources and environmental and transport issues; in view of the growing accessibility of resources due to the effects of climate change, underlines the necessity to develop a comprehensive strategy for cooperation in the far north; is therefore convinced that in order to safeguard its long-term interests, the EU should ensure that partners in the region, such as Norway and Iceland, are actively involved in such a strategy; calls for fresh reflection on a pragmatic long-term EU policy with other stakeholders, such as Russia, the United S ...[+++]tates and Canada, on energy and security as well as transport and the environment, in order to avoid potential conflict in this sensitive region;

11. Emphasises the strategic importance of the Arctic region for the EU in terms of energy resources, the environment and transport issues; given the growing accessibility of resources owing to the effects of climate change, underlines the need to develop a comprehensive strategy for cooperation in the High North; is therefore convinced that in order to safeguard its long-term interests the EU should get its partners in the region, such as Norway and Iceland, actively involved in such a strategy; calls for fresh consideration to be given to a pragmatic long-term EU policy involving other stakeholders, such as Russia, the United S ...[+++]tates and Canada, on energy security, transport and the environment, in order to avoid potential conflict in this sensitive region;

Goods transported outside the Community by the purchaser thereof and used for the equipping, fuelling or provisioning of means of transport used for non-business purposes by persons other than natural persons, such as bodies governed by public law and associations, should be excluded from the exemption for export transactions.

Those organisations include: the Confederation of British Industry, the National Farmers' Union, the Road Haulage Association, the Quarrying Association, the Coal Industry and JCB, the heavy equipment manufacturer.

transport infrastructure: permanent facilities for the movement or transhipment of passengers and goods and associated safety and navigational assets - including in vehicles - essential for the management of these facilities; such transhipment shall also include connections between land and maritime transport which, for the purposes of this Regulation, are to be considered an integral part of inland transport,