National Institute of Statistics Romania

Transport, Post and Telecommunication Statistics Unit - Structural Business Statistics Directorate - Economic Statistics Directorate General

16 Libertatii Bvd., Bucharest 5, Romania

Mandatory data collection at EU level is based on legal act, the Regulation EU 2018/643 and covers goods and passengers.
Data is collected as following:

• Annex I (annual data) –goods transport ,
• Annex II (annual data)–passenger transport,
• Annex III – (quarterly data) goods and passengers,
• Annex IV and V( data every five years) regional statistics on goods and passengers and rail network and
• Annex VIII (annual data) goods and passengers transport for small undertakings.

Goods transported by rail are classified according to the 20 divisions of goods following the 'Standard Goods Classification for Transport Statistics 2007’ with effect from reference year 2008.

The codes of regions used in the region-to-region statistics are indicated in Regulation (EC) 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

Railway undertakings providing transport of passengers and/or goods.

The main concepts used in rail domain are:

Rail passenger means any person, excluding members of the train crew, who makes a trip by rail. For accident statistics, passengers trying to embark/disembark onto/from a moving train are included.
Passenger-km means the unit of measure representing the transport of one passenger by rail over a distance of one kilometer. Only the distance on the national territory of the reporting country shall be taken into account.
Weight means the quantity of goods in tonnestones (1 000 kilograms). The weight to be taken into consideration includes, in addition to the weight of the goods transported, the weight of packaging and the tare weight of containers, swap bodies, pallets as well as road vehicles transported by rail in the course of combined transport operations. If the goods are transported using the services of more than one railway undertaking, when possible the weight of goods shall not be counted more than once.
Tonne-km means the unit of measure of goods transport which represents the transport of one tonne (1 000 kilograms) of goods by rail over a distance of one kilometer. Only the distance on the national territory of the reporting country shall be taken into account.
Train means one or more railway vehicles hauled by one or more locomotives or railcars, or one railcar travelling alone, running under a given number or specific designation from an initial fixed point to a terminal fixed point. A light engine, that is to say, a locomotive travelling on its own, is not considered to be a train.
Train-km means the unit of measure representing the movement of a train over one kilometre. The distance used is the distance actually run, if available, otherwise the standard network distance between the origin and destination shall be used. Only the distance on the national territory of the reporting country shall be taken into account.

Statistical unit for rail transport statistics is the railway undertaking.

Data on passenger and freight transport are collected from the railway undertakings operating at national territory within thresholds mentioned in the rail regulation.
Data on traffic are collected from infrastructure managers and railway undertakings.

Operational railway network on national territory.

Data on passengers and goods are covered from 2004 onwards.

Not applicable.

The volume and performance of rail freight traffic are measured in tonnes and tonne-kilometres. Passenger transport by rail is measured in the number of passengers and in passenger-kilometres. Information on the number of train kilometres is also available.
Traffic flows on the rail network are measured in number of trains - passenger, freight and others (optional)

The tables consist mostly of annual data. There are some tables providing quarterly and quinquennial (every five years) data.

According to the Rail regulation (EU) 2018/643 data is collected as following: Annual data
– Annex I –goods transport collected for a reference period of one year with a deadline for data transmission as 5 months after the reference periodreference period,
– Annex II –passenger transport, yearly data with eight months deadline after the end of reference period
– Annex III – quarterly data for goods and passengers with a deadline of three months after the end of the reference period,
– Annex IV and V data every five years on regional statistics on goods and passengers and rail network with deadline of 12 respectively 18 months after the end of reference period and
– Annex VIII goods and passengers transport for small undertakings with 5 respectively 8 months deadline after the end of reference period.

National level:

Law 226/2009 on the organisation and functioning of official statistics in Romania updated with subsequent amendments: http://www.insse.ro/cms/en/cadru-legal

Order of the President of the National Institute of Statistics of Romania setting the methodology for the production of goods and passengers rail transport statistics.

European level: REGULATION (EU) N° 2018/643 

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National level: Law 226/2009 on the organisation and functioning of official statistics in Romania updated with subsequent amendments: http://www.insse.ro/cms/en/cadru-legal

European level: Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics / Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

Only aggregated data are disseminated in NIS publications and in on-line databases.

Data is disseminated in quarterly publications on paper and .pdf/.xls on NIS website.

Annual data is disseminated in TEMPO online NIS database.

The Catalogue of statistical publications and services is available on NIS website.

The statistical data is accesible to all users at the same time on NIS website.

Data on passengers and goods is transmitted to Eurostat according to the legislation and is disseminated quarterly/yearly, at ninety days after the end of the reference period.

Annual data is disseminated in TEMPO online database at five months after the end of the reference year.

Not applicable.

'Transport of passengers and goods, by mode of transport':

https://insse.ro/cms/en/publicatii-statistice-in-format-electronic /Transport.

'Romanian Statistical Yearbook'; 'Monthly Statistical Bulletin'; other NIS publications.

Annual data is disseminated in TEMPO online NIS database:

http://statistici.insse.ro:8077/tempo-online/#/pages/tables/insse-table / Transports.

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Order of President of the National Institute of Statistics for setting railway transport statistics methodology.

Annual Quality Report.

Romania uses the methods and definitions recommended in the legislation and Eurostat methodology in order to produce quality data.

In accordance with ESS Handbook for Quality Reports" (2014).

The statistics produced are in accordance with the legislation in force and the methodology recommended by Eurostat. At national level, statistical data is used by Romanian public authorities, i.e. Ministries, Agencies, researchers, other users.

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The statistics produced are compliant with the legislation in force and Eurostat's Reference manual on Rail transport statistics.

Overall accuracy of data is good, main checks are carried out before the transmission to Eurostat. Similar checks and validations are performed before data processing.

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Data is compiled and submitted to Eurostat in accordance with legal provisions.

At national level, data is disseminated at ninety days after the end of the reference quarter.

Data is disseminated without delays.

Not applicable.

Since 2004 reference year up to now.

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An assessment of costs and burden has not been performed.

NIS revision policy: https://insse.ro/cms/en/content/revision-policy

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Raw statistical data is collected through quarterly exhaustive statistical surveys carried out by NIS.

The data collection is performed every quarter.

Data on goods is collected from railway undertakings using the reporting in eSOP - NIS Web Portal for online data collection / Excel questionnaire.

Data on passenger transport filled-in the Word questionnaires are transmitted via email.

The quarterly data are processed and validated, in order to compile rail transport statistics.

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