COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3009/95
of 22 December 1995
amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter called the 'combined nomenclature`, to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the Community;
Whereas the combined nomenclature is, by virtue of Council Decision 87/369/EEC of 7 April 1987 concerning the conclusion of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System and of the Protocol of Amendment thereto (), based on the nomenclature appended as an annex to that Convention, also known as the 'harmonized system`;
Whereas Annex I to that Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2448/95 of 10 October 1995 () with entry into force on 1 January 1996 to take account of:
- changes in the harmonized system nomenclature pursuant to the recommendation of 6 July 1993 of the Customs Cooperation Council and the conse-quences thereof in regard to the Common Customs Tariff,
- changes in requirements relating to statistics and commercial policy, in particular by virtue of Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986-1994) () and Council Regulation (EC) No 3231/94 of 22 December 1994 concerning certain measures resulting from the conclusion of negotiations under Article XXIV:6 and other measures necessary for simplification purposes (),
- the need to align or clarify texts, in particular to take account of the Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden;
Whereas certain amendments to the Common Customs Tariff need to be incorporated into Annex I, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2448/95, in accordance with the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No .../95 of 22 December 1995 laying down the rates of duty to be applied by the Community resulting from negotiations under GATT Article XXIV:6 following the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden ();
Whereas, due to the introduction of Annex 8 as a temporary measure, amendments to the subheadings and their related codes refered to in the schedule of customs duties will not be required by 1 January 1996;
Whereas it is appropriate for the Commission to adopt by means of a regulation to apply from 1 January 1996, a complete version of the combined nomenclature together with the corresponding autonomous and conventional rates of duty of the Common Customs Tariff, as it results from Decision 94/800/EC, Regulation (EC) No 3231/94 and Regulation (EC) No .../95 as well as other measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission ();
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section of the Customs Code Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 is hereby replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1996.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 December 1995.