The project will improve the monitoring of suspected air cargo actors by crisis management missions, international and non-EU countries’ national authorities and EU countries, the prohibition of suspected SALW shipments by air and the secure exchange of information between EU countries on air cargo actors.

The project will improve the monitoring of suspected air cargo actors by crisis management missions, international and non-EU countries’ national authorities and EU countries, the prohibition of suspected SALW shipments by air and the secure exchange of information between EU countries on air cargo actors.

This regulation also provides an exemption for groups of small and medium-sized undertakings, where the individual capacity of each firm belonging to a grouping may not exceed 1 000 tonnes for road transport or 50 000 tonnes for inland waterway transport (the total carrying capacity of any grouping must not exceed 10 000 tonnes for road transport and 500 000 tonnes for inland waterway transport).

This regulation also provides an exemption for groups of small and medium-sized undertakings, where the individual capacity of each firm belonging to a grouping may not exceed 1 000 tonnes for road transport or 50 000 tonnes for inland waterway transport (the total carrying capacity of any grouping must not exceed 10 000 tonnes for road transport and 500 000 tonnes for inland waterway transport).

The individual capacity of each undertaking belonging to a grouping shall not exceed 1 000 metric tons in the case of road transport or 50 000 metric tons in the case of transport by inland waterway.

Whereas, in order that an improvement may be fostered in the sometimes too dispersed structure of the industry in the road and inland waterway sectors, there should also be exempted from the prohibition on restrictive agreements those agreements, decisions and concerted practices providing for the creation and operation of groupings of undertakings in these two transport sectors whose object is the carrying on of transport operations, including the joint financing or acquisition of transport equipment for the joint operation of services ; whereas such overall exemption can be granted only on condition that the total carrying capacity of a grouping does ...[+++]not exceed a fixed maximum, and that the individual capacity of undertakings belonging to the grouping 1OJ No 205, 11.12.1964, p. 3505/64.