CODING OF PLACES OF LOADING AND UNLOADING BY COUNTRY AND REGION
1. The places of loading and unloading will be coded as follows:
regional breakdown to Level 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), for the Member States;
lists of administrative regions supplied by the third country concerned, for States which are not Members but which are contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA), namely Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway;
the 2-alpha ISO 3166 codes, for other third countries. The most frequently-used codes are given in the table in point 2(b) of this Annex.
2. For the coding of countries crossed in transit (Section 7 of Annex I, Part A2), the following country codes are to be used:
the 2-alpha part of the NUTS codes, as given in the table below, for the Member States;
the 2-alpha ISO 3166 codes, for all other countries. The most frequently-used codes are given in the table below.
TABLE OF COUNTRY CODES
(a) Member States (corresponding to NUTS 2-alpha country codes)
Country name | Code |
Belgium | BE |
Bulgaria | BG |
Czech Republic | CZ |
Denmark | DK |
Germany | DE |
Estonia | EE |
Ireland | IE |
Greece | EL |
Spain | ES |
France | FR |
▼M1 | |
Croatia | HR |
▼B | |
Italy | IT |
Cyprus | CY |
Latvia | LV |
Lithuania | LT |
Luxembourg | LU |
Hungary | HU |
Malta | MT |
Netherlands | NL |
Austria | AT |
Poland | PL |
Portugal | PT |
Romania | RO |
Slovenia | SI |
Slovakia | SK |
Finland | FI |
Sweden | SE |
United Kingdom | UK |
Note: countries in official European Union order. | |
(b) Other countries (ISO 3166 2-alpha codes)
Country name | Code |
Albania | AL |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | BA |
Belarus | BY |
Switzerland | CH |
▼M1 ————— | |
▼B | |
Iceland | IS |
Liechtenstein | LI |
Moldova | MD |
Montenegro | ME |
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the | MK (1) |
Norway | NO |
Serbia | RS |
Russia | RU |
Turkey | TR |
Ukraine | UA |
(1) Provisional code, which does not prejudge in any way the definitive nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place on this subject at the United Nations. Note: countries ordered by code. | |