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►B COMMISSIONREGULATION(EC)No1917/2000
of7September2000
laying downcertain provisionsfor the implementation ofCouncil Regulation(EC) No 1172/95 as
regardsstatisticsonexternaltrade
(TextwithEEArelevance)
(OJ L 229, 9.9.2000, p. 14)
Amended by:
Official Journal
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►M1Commission Regulation (EC) No 1669/2001 of 20 August 2001 L 224 3 21.8.2001
Corrected by:
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COMMISSIONREGULATION(EC)No1917/2000
of7September2000
laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council
Regulation(EC)No1172/95asregardsstatisticsonexternal trade
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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 of 22 May 1995
on the statistics relating to the trading of goods by the Community and
its Member States with non-member countries(1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 374/98(2), and in particular Article 21 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)For the purpose of compiling external trade statistics, it is
necessary to define the implementing procedures for thecollection of data and for the processing, transmission anddissemination of the results, in order to obtain harmonisedstatistics.
(2)It is essential toclarify the subject o f external trade statistics,especially in order to avoid dual recording or to exclude certain
transactions and to define the intervals at which they are to be
drawn up.
(3)The definition of the data to be returned needs to besupplemented, together with the procedures by which they arereferred to in the statistical information medium.
(4)It is essential to define the specific movements of goods for whichspecial provisions are necessary, Community harmonisationmeasures need tobe intro duced.
(5)It is necessary to fix the timetable for the transmission of the
results to the Commission and the procedures for corrections to
ensure regular and uniform dissemination.
(6)In view of the links that exist between external trade statistics andcustoms procedures, there is a need to bear in mind the provisionsadopted by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October1992 establishing the Community Customs Code(
3), as amended
by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and by
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 layingdown provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation(EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code(
4),
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No1602/2000(5).
(7)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordancewith the opinion of the Committee on External Trade Statistics,2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 2
(1) OJ L 118, 25.5.1995, p. 10.
(2) OJ L 48, 19.2.1998, p. 6.
(3) OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 188, 26.7.2000, p. 1.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
TITLE I
GENERALPROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1
Object andreference period
Article 1
For the purpose of this Regulation, ‘imports’ shall mean the movements
of the goods referred to in Article 6(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1172/95, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Basic Regulation’ and ‘exports’ shall
mean the movements of the goods referred to in Article 6(1)(b) of the
Basic Regulation.
Article 2
Pursuant to Article 6(2) of the Basic Regulation, external trade statistics
shall not cover goods:
— released for free circulation after being subject to inward processing
or processing under customs control,
— contained in the list of exemptions set out in Annex I.
Article 3
1. The statistical threshold referred to in Article 12 of the Basic
Regulation shall be fixed, for each type of goods, so that imports or
exports exceeding EUR 1 000 in value or 1 000 kg in net mass shall becollected for the production of external trade statistics.
2. Application by the Member States of the threshold referred to in
paragraph 1 shall remain optional.
3. The data transmitted periodically by the Member States applying a
statistical threshold shall be adjusted so that the value of trade situated
below the threshold is included in the external trade statistics, at least fortotal products.
In the absence of harmonised provisions adopted by the Commission in
accordance with the procedure set out in Article 21 of the BasicRegulation, each Member State shall use the method of adjustment it
considers most appropriate.
4. Member States applying a statistical threshold shall inform the
Commission of the amount of that threshold and the method ofadjustment used.
Article 4
1. The reference period shall be the calendar month during which the
goods are imported or exported.
2. When the single administrative document is the statistical
information medium, the date of acceptance of the document by thecustoms authorities shall determine the calendar month to which the data
refer.
CHAPTER 2
Definitionsofdata
Article 5
The definitions of data referred to in Article 10(1), (2) and (3), first
indent, of the Basic Regulation and the procedures whereby they aregiven in the data medium are indicated in Articles 6 to14.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 3
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Article 6
1. The ‘customs destination’ shall be identified by the procedure for
which the codes to be indicated are given in Annex 38 to Regulation
(EEC) No2454/93.
2. Without prejudice to the provisions concerning the single
administrative document, the statistical procedure shall be indicated inthe data medium where the customs declaration is not required by theMember States.
3. Each Member State which makes use of the option provided for in
paragraph 2 shall draw up the list of statistical procedures to be given inthe data medium sothat the statistics may be supplied totheCommission in accordance with the codes indicated in paragraph 4.
4. Statistical procedures shall be coded as follows:
(a) imports:
7 — normal
1 — after outward processing
3 — for inward processing, suspension system
5 — for inward processing, drawback system
6 — after economic outward processing for textiles;
(b) exports:
1 — normal
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5 — after inward processing, suspension system
6 — after inward processing, drawback system
7 — for economic outward processing for textiles.
Article 7
1. For the purposes of this Regulation,
(a) ‘country of origin’ means the country where the goods originate in
accordance with Title II, Chapter 2, Section 1, of Regulation (EEC)
No2913/92;
(b) ‘country of consignment’ means the country from which the goods
were initially dispatched to the importing Member State, without
any halt or legal operation not inherent in their transport having
occurred in an intermediate country; if such halts or legal operationshave occurred, the final intermediate country shall be regarded asthe country of consignment;
(c) ‘country of destination’ means the ►
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is known, at the time of ►C1export◄, that the goods are to be
delivered;
(d) ‘Member State of export or import’ means the Member State in
which the export or import formalities are carried out;
(e) ‘Member State ofdestination’ means the Member State to which it is
known, at the time of import, that the goods are to be ultimately
delivered;
(f) ‘Member State of actual export’ means the Member State, other than
the Member State of export, from which the goods were initially
dispatched for the purpose of export, if the exporter is not
established in the Member State of export.
Where the goods were not initially dispatched from another Member
State for the purpose of export or when the exporter is established in
the Member State of export, the Member State of export shall be thesame as the Member State of actual export.
2. Without prejudice to customs regulations, and pursuant to Article
10(1)(b) of the Basic Regulation, the country of origin shall be indicatedin the statistical information medium.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 4
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Nonetheless, the country of consignment must be indicated in the
following instances:
(a) for goods the origin of which is not known;
(b) for the following goods, even if their origin is known:
— goods falling within Chapter 97 of the Combined Nomenclature,
— goods imported after outward processing,— returned goods and other goods of Community origin.
The monthly returns on the transactions referred to in (a) and (b), which
are transmitted to the Commission by the Member States, shall includethe country of consignment if it is non-EU country. Otherwise, the code
QW (or 960) is used.
3. For specific movements of goods referred to in Title II, the partner
countries referred to in the Title should be used, if necessary.
4. The countries defined in paragraph 1 shall be designated and coded
in accordance with Article 9 of the Basic Regulation.
Article 8
Where the quantity of goods to be mentioned on the data medium is
determined:
(a) ‘net mass’ means the actual mass of the good excluding all
packaging; failing any provisions to the contrary adopted pursuant toArticle 10(4) of the Basic Regulation, the net mass shall beexpressed in kilograms for each subheading of the CombinedNomenclature;
(b) ‘supplementary units’ means the units measuring quantity, other
than the units measuring mass expressed in kilograms; they must be
mentioned in accordance with the information set out in the currentversion of the Combined Nomenclature, opposite the subheadingsconcerned, the list of which is published in Part I ‘Preliminaryprovisions’ of the said nomenclature.
Article 9
1. ‘Statistical value’ shall be:
— on export, the value of the goods at the place and time where they
leave the statistical territory of the exporting Member State,
— on import, the value of the goods at the place and time where they
enter the statistical territory of the importing Member State.
2. The value of the goods referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
calculated as follows:
— in the case of sale orpurchase, on the basis of the invoiced amount of
the goods,
— in other cases, on the basis of the amount which would have been
invoiced in the case of sale or purchase.
In cases where it is established, the customs value, defined in
accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, shall be used todetermine the value of the goods.
3. The statistical value must include only ancillary charges, such as
transport and insurance, relating to that part of the journey which:
— in the case of exported goods, takes place in the statistical territory of
the exporting Member State,
— in the case of imported goods, takes place outside the statistical
territory of the importing Member State.
The statistical value shall not therefore include taxes due on export or
import, such as customs duties, value added tax, excise duty, levies,
export refunds or other taxes with similar effect.
4. For goods subject to processing operations, the statistical value
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5. For the goods used as carriers of information such as floppy disks,
computer tapes, films, plans, audio- and videotapes, CD-ROMs, whichare traded in order to provide information, the statistical value shall be
based on the total cost of the goods, i.e. it shall cover not only the
medium but also the information which is carried.
6. The statistical value tobe given in the data medium shall be
indicated in national currency. Member States may authorise theindication of a value expressed in another currency.
The exchange rate tobe used in determining the statistical value shall be
either the exchange rate used in calculating the dutiable value or theofficial exchange rate at the time of export or import.
Without prejudice to customs regulations, in the case of a periodic
declaration Member States may fix a single rate for the period for
conversion into national currency.
Article 10
1. ‘Mode of transport at the external frontier’ means the mode of
transport determined by the active means of transport with which:
— on export, the goods are presumed to leave the statistical territory of
the Community,
— on import, the goods are presumed to have entered the statistical
territory of the Community.
2. ‘Mode of transport inland’ means the mode of transport
determined by the active means of transport with which:
— on export, the goods are presumed to have left the place of departure,
— on import, the goods reach the place of arrival.
This information shall be required only in the cases for which the
customs legislation provides.
3. The modes of transport referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 are as
follows:
A B Title
1 10 Sea transport
12 Railway wagon on a seagoing vessel
16 Powered road vehicle on a seagoing vessel
17 Trailer or semi-trailer on a seagoing vessel18 Inland waterway vessel on a seagoing vessel
2 20 Rail transport
23 Road vehicle on railway wagon
3 30 Road transport
4 40 Air transport
5 50 Postal consignment
7 70 Fixed transport installations
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4. The modes of transport shall be designated in the data medium by
the codes in column A of the list shown in paragraph 3.
Member States may require the modes of transport to be designated in
the data medium by the codes in column B of the said list.
5. Transport in containers within the meaning of Article 670(g) of
Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, except when the mode of transport is
designated by codes 5 (50), 7 (70), 9 (90), must be indicated.
For this purpose, the relevant codes are:
0 — goods not transported in containers;
1 — goods transported in containers.
6. The nationality of the active means of transport at the external
frontier which is known on import or export must also be indicated,except when the mode of transport at the Community frontier is
designated by codes 2 (20 or 23), 5 (50), 7 (70) and 9 (90).
For this purpose, the country codes defined pursuant to Article 9 of the
Basic Regulation shall be used.
7. ‘Active means of transport’ means the means of transport which
provide the motive power. In the case of intermodal transport or if thereare several means of transport, the active means of transport shall be thatwhich provides the motive power for the whole combination.
The nationality of the active means of transport shall be that of the
country of registration, as known at the time of completing theformalities.
Article 11
1. ‘Preference’ means the tariff system whereby preferential customs
duties are applicable which are wholly or partially suspended pursuant toconventions, agreements or specific regulations of the Community.
2. The preference shall be stated in accordance with the procedure
laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.
Article 12
1. ‘Invoiced amount’ means the amount indicated in the invoice or
other documents in its stead.
2. ‘Currency’ means the currency in which the invoiced amount is
indicated.
Article 13
1. For the purposes of this Regulation,
(a) ‘transaction’ means any operation, whether commercial or not,
which leads to a movement of goods covered by statistics on
external trade;
(b) ‘nature of the transaction’ means all those characteristics which
distinguish one transaction from another.
2. The list of transactions is set out in Annex II.
They shall be specified in the data medium by the code numbers in
column A or by a combination of the code numbers in column A andtheir subdivisions in column B, as indicated in the list referred to above.
Article 14
1. ‘Delivery terms’ means the provisions of the sales contract which
lay down the obligations of the seller and the buyer respectively, inaccordance with the Incoterms of the International Chamber ofCommerce.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 7
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2. The delivery terms shall be indicated in the data medium by the
codes and, if necessary, the details to be mentioned in accordance withAnnex III.
TITLE II
SPECIALPROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1
Definitionsandgeneral considerations
Article 15
1. ‘Specific movements of goods’ means movements of goods having
specific features which have some significance for the interpretation ofthe information and stem, as the case may be, from the movement assuch, from the nature of the goods, from the transaction which results in
the movement of the goods or from the exporter or importer of the
goods.
2. Specific movements of goods are as follows:
(a) industrial plants;
(b) vessels and aircraft, as defined in Chapter 3 of this Title;
(c) sea products;
(d) ships' and aircraft's stores and supplies;
(e) staggered consignments;
(f) military goods;
(g) offshore installations;(h) spacecraft and spacecraft launchers;
(i) motor vehicle and aircraft parts;
(j) postal consignments;
(k) petroleum products;
(l) waste products.
3. Subject to contrary provision in this Regulation or in the absence
of provisions laid down in accordance with Article 21 of the BasicRegulation, specific movements shall be mentioned according to therelevant national provisions.
4. The Member States shall adopt the appropriate provisions in order
toimplement this chapter and may use, if necessary, statisticalinformation sources other than those laid down in Article 7 of theBasic Regulation.
CHAPTER 2
Industrialplants
Article 16
1. ‘Complete industrial plant’ means a combination of machines,
apparatus, appliances, equipment, instruments and materials, hereinafterreferred to as ‘component parts’, which fall under various headings of
the Harmonised System nomenclature and which are designed to
function together as a large-scale unit to produce goods or provideservices.
All other goods which are used in constructing a complete industrial
plant may be treated as component parts thereof, provided they are notexcluded from the statistical compilation by virtue of the BasicRegulation.
2. A simplified declaration procedure may be used for recording
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to use such simplified procedure in accordance with the conditions laid
down in this Regulation.
3. The simplified procedure may be applied only to the export of
complete industrial plant, the total statistical value of each of whichexceeds EUR 1,5 million, unless they are complete industrial plants forre-use. In this case, Member States shall inform the Commission of thecriteria used.
The statistical value of an industrial plant is calculated by adding the
statistical values of its component parts and the statistical values of thegoods referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1.
Article 17
1. The subheadings applicable for the purposes of this chapter are
those provided for in Chapter 98 of the Combined Nomenclature, in
respect of the component parts for complete industrial plant covered by
Chapters 63, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 76, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90 and 94, withreference toeach o f these chapters and toeach o f the individualheadings of which they are composed.
2. For the purposes of this chapter, component parts falling within a
given chapter shall be classified under the complete industrial plant
subheading of Chapter 98 for the chapter in question unless thecompetent department listed in that Chapter requires the classification ofthe goods in chapter 98 under the appropriate complete industrial plantsubheadings at the level of the headings of the Harmonised System
nomenclature or to apply the provisions of paragraph 3.
However, the simplified procedure shall not prevent the competent
department from classifying certain component parts under the relevantCombined Nomenclature subheadings within the meaning of point (b) ofArticle 1(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87(
1).
3. Where the competent department referred to in paragraph 2
considers the value of the items of complete industrial plant to be toolow to justify recording them under the subheadings relating to thechapters under which they fall, specific subheadings, as provided for inthe Combined Nomenclature, shall apply.
Article 18
In accordance with the Combined Nomenclature, the code numbers for
complete industrial plant subheadings shall be composed in conformitywith the following rules:
1. the code shall comprise eight digits;
2. the first twodigits shall be 9 and 8 respectively;3. the third digit, which shall serve to identify exports of complete
industrial plant, shall be 8;
4. the fourth digit shall vary from 0 to 9 according to the main economic
activity carried out by the complete industrial plant and in accordance
with the classification given below:
Code Economic activities
0 Energy (including production and distribution of steam
and hot water)
1 Extraction of non-energy-producing minerals (including
preparation of metalliferous ores and peat extraction);manufacture of non-metallic mineral products (including
manufacture of glass and glassware)
2 Iron and steel industry; manufacture of metal articles
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Code Economic activities
3 Mechanical engineering and construction of means of
transport, instrument engineering
4 Chemical industry (including man-made fibres industry);
rubber and plastics industry
5 Food, drink and tobacco industry6 Textile, leather, footwear and clothing industry7 Timber and paper industry (including printing and
publishing); manufacturing industries not classified else-where
8 Transport (excluding services connected with transport,
services of travel agents, freight brokers and other agents
facilitating the transport of passengers or goods, storageand warehousing) and communications
9 Collection, purification and distribution of water; services
connected with transport; economic activities not classi-fied elsewhere;
5. the fifth and sixth digits shall correspond to the number of the chapter
of the Combined Nomenclature to which the complete industrial plant
subheading relates. However, for the purposes of Article 17(3), thesefifth and sixth digits shall be 9;
6. for complete industrial plant subheadings which are situated:
— at Combined Nomenclature chapter level, the seventh and eighth
digits shall be 0,
— at Harmonised System heading level, the seventh and eighth digits
shall correspond to the third and fourth digits of that heading;
7. the competent department referred to in Article 17 (2) shall prescribe
the designation and the code number to be used in the statistical
information medium to identify the component parts of a complete
industrial plant.
Article 19
1. Those responsible for supplying statistical information may not use
the simplified declaration procedure without prior authorisation inaccordance with the detailed rules which each Member State shall laydown within the framework of this chapter.
2. In the case of a complete industrial plant whose component parts
are exported by several Member States, authorisation for the use of thesimplified declaration procedure shall be given by each Member Statefor the exports which concern it. However, such authorisation may beissued only on presentation of documentary evidence that the total
statistical value specified in Article 16(3) is reached or that other criteria
justify the use of the simplified procedure.
3. Where the department referred toin Article 17(2) is no t the
department responsible for compiling the statistics on the external trade
of the exporting Member State, it shall not issue authorisation withoutthe approval of the latter.
CHAPTER 3
Importsandexportsofvesselsandaircraft
Article 20
For the purposes of this chapter:
(a) ‘vessels’ means the vessels used for sea transport, referred to in
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(b) ‘aircraft’ means aeroplanes falling within CN code 8802 for civilian
use, provided they are used by an airline, or for military use;
(c) ‘ownership of a vessel or an aircraft’ means the fact of a physical or
legal person's registration as owner of a vessel or an aircraft;
(d) ‘partner country’' means:
— on import, the third country of construction if the vessel or
aircraft is new; in other cases it shall mean the third country
where the natural or legal person transferring the ownership ofthe vessel or aircraft is established,
— on export, the third country where the natural or legal person to
whom the ownership of the vessel or aircraft is transferred isestablished.
Article 21
1. External trade statistics covering the following shall be transmitted
to the Commission:
(a) the transfer of ownership of a vessel or aircraft from a physical or
legal person established in a third country to a physical or legal
person established in a Member State; this transaction shall be
treated in the same way as an import;
(b) the transfer of ownership of a vessel or aircraft from a physical or
legal person established in a Member State to a physical or legal
person established in a third country; this transaction shall be treatedin the same way as an export; If the vessel or aircraft is new, theexport shall be recorded in the Member State of construction;
(c) the placing of vessels or aircraft under inward processing customs
procedures and their re-export after inward processing to adestination in a third country;
(d) the placing of vessels or aircraft under outward processing customs
procedures and their re-import after outward processing.
2. The results of the operations referred to in paragraph 1(a) and (b)
which the Member States transmit to the Commission shall include the
following data:
— the code corresponding to the subdivision of the Combined
Nomenclature,
— the statistical procedure,
— the partner country,
— the quantity, as number of items and in any other supplementary
units laid down in the Combined Nomenclature, for vessels, and thequantity, in net mass and in supplementary units, for aircraft,
— the statistical value.
Article 22
Member States shall use every available source of information for the
purpose of complying with this chapter.
CHAPTER 4
Ships'andaircraft's storesandsupplies
Article 23
For the purposes of this chapter:
— ‘ships’ and aircraft's stores' means the various products for
consumption by the crew and passengers of vessels or aircraft;
— ‘ships’and aircraft's supplies' means the products for the operation of
the engines, machines and other equipment on vessels or aircraft,such as fuel, oil and lubricants.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 11
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Article 24
1. External trade statistics covering the following shall be transmitted
to the Commission:
(a) any delivery of ships' and aircraft's stores and supplies to vessels or
aircraft for which the natural or legal person responsible for theircommercial use is established in a third country, and which are
stationed in a port or airport of the reporting Member State, provided
that they are Community goods or non-Community goods placedunder inward processing customs arrangements or under arrange-ments for processing under customs control; this operation shall betreated as an export;
(b) any delivery of ships' and aircraft's stores and supplies to national
vessels or aircraft, which are stationed in a port or airport of thereporting Member State, provided that they are non-Communitygoods which have not been released by customs for free circulation,placed under inward processing customs arrangements or under
arrangements for processing under customs control; this operation
shall be treated as an import.
2. The monthly returns on the operations referred to in paragraph
1(a), which are transmitted by the Member States to the Commission,shall include the following data:
(a) the product code, according to the following simplified coding:
— 9930 24 00: goods from Chapters 1 to 24 of the Harmonised
System,
— 9930 27 00: goods from Chapter 27 of the Harmonised System,— 9930 99 00: goods classified elsewhere,
(b) the specific country code QS (or 952);
(c) the statistical procedure;
(d) the quantity in net mass;
(e) the statistical value.
CHAPTER 5
Staggeredconsignments
Article 25
For the purposes of this chapter, ‘staggered consignments’ means
imports or exports of components of complete goods in a disassembledstate over several deliveries for commercial or transport-related reasons.
Article 26
In the monthly returns transmitted to the Commission by the Member
States, data on the imports and exports of staggered consignments shallbe compiled once only, in the month of import or export of the last
partial consignment, indicating the full value of the complete assembled
good and using the classification code for that good.
CHAPTER 6
Military goods
Article 27
1. Statistics relating to the trading of goods with non-member
countries covering exports and imports of goods for military use incompliance with the definition in force in the Member States shall betransmitted to the Commission.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 12
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2. The monthly returns covering the operations referred to in
paragraph 1, which are transmitted to the Commission by the MemberStates, shall include the following data:
(a) the code corresponding to the subdivision of the product classifica-
tion referred to in Article 8 of the Basic Regulation;
(b) the code of the partner country;
(c) the statistical procedure;
(d) the quantity in net mass and, where appropriate, in supplementary
units;
(e) the statistical value.
3. In the Member States unable to apply the provisions of paragraph 2
owing to military secrecy, appropriate measures shall be taken to ensurethat, at a minimum, the statistical value of exports and imports of goodsintended for military used are included in the monthly returnstransmitted to the Commission.
CHAPTER 7
Offshoreinstallations
Article 28
1. For the purposes of this chapter, ‘offshore installations’ means the
equipment and devices installed in the high sea in order to search for andexploit mineral resources.
2. ‘Foreign’ installations, as opposed to ‘national’ installations,
means those installations of which the natural or legal personresponsible for the commercial use is established in a non-membercountry.
Article 29
1. In a given Member State, statistics on trade with non-member
countries covering the following shall be transmitted to the Commission:
(a) the delivery of goods to a national installation directly from a non-
member country or from a foreign installation; this transaction shallbe treated in the same way as an import;
(b) the delivery of goods to a non-member country or to a foreign
installation from a national installation; this transaction shall betreated in the same way as an export;
(c) the delivery of goods to a national installation from a customs'
warehouse located on the statistical territory of a Member State; this
transaction shall be treated in the same way as an import;
(d) the import to the statistical territory of this Member State of goods
from a foreign installation;
(e) the export from the statistical territory of this Member State ofgoods
destined for a foreign installation.
2. The monthly returns covering the operations referred to in
paragraph 1, which are transmitted to the Commission by the MemberStates, shall include the following data:
(a) the code corresponding to the subdivision of the Combined
Nomenclature.
However, without prejudice to the customs regulations, if the goods
are those referred to in Article 23 the Member States shall have the
option of using the simplified codes set out in Article 24(2)(a);
(b) the code of the partner country.
However, without prejudice to the customs regulations, in the case
of goods coming from or destined for installations, the partnercountry shall be the country where the natural or legal personresponsible for the commercial use of the installation in question is2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 13
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established. Where this information is not available, the code QW
(or 960) shall be used;
(c) the statistical procedure;
(d) the quantity in net mass;
(e) the statistical value.
CHAPTER 8
Spacecraft
Article 30
For the purposes of this chapter:
(a) ‘spacecraft’ means craft such as satellites which travel in space
outside the earth's atmosphere;
(b) ‘ownership of a spacecraft’ means the fact of a natural or legal
person's registration as owner of a spacecraft.
Article 31
1. Statistics on trade with non-member countries covering the
following shall be transmitted to the Commission:
(a) the admission of a spacecraft under inward-processing arrangements
and its export under such arrangements to a non-member country;
(b) the admission of a spacecraft under outward-processing arrange-
ments and its import under such arrangements;
(c) the space launch of a spacecraft which was the subject of a transfer
of ownership between a natural or legal person established in a non-member country and a natural or legal person established in aMember State.
This operation shall be recorded as an import in the Member State
where the new owner is established;
(d) the space launch of a spacecraft which was the subject of a transfer
of ownership from a natural or legal person established in a Member
State to a natural or legal person established in a non-member State.
This operation shall be recorded as an export by the Member State
of manufacture of the finished spacecraft;
(e) the transfer of ownership of a spacecraft in orbit from a natural or
legal person established in a non-member country to a natural orlegal person established in a Member State. This operation shall berecorded as an import;
(f) the transfer of ownership of a spacecraft in orbit from a natural or
legal person established in a Member State to a natural or legalperson established in a non-member country. This operation shall berecorded as an export.
2. The monthly returns on the operations referred to in paragraph 1(c)
to(f), which are transmitted tothe Co mmissio n by the Member States,
shall include the following data:
(a) the code corresponding to the subdivision of the product classifica-
tion referred to in Article 8 of the Basic Regulation;
(b) the code of the partner country.
For the operations referred to in paragraph 1(c), the partner country
means the country of manufacture of the finished spacecraft.
For the operations referred to in paragraph 1(d) and (f), the partner
country means the country where the natural or legal person towhom the ownership of the spacecraft is transferred is established.
For the operations referred to in paragraph 1(e), the partner country
means the country where the natural or legal person transferring theownership of the spacecraft is established;
(c) the statistical procedure;2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 14
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(d) the quantity in net mass and in supplementary units;
(e) the statistical value.
For the imports referred to in paragraph 1(c), the statistical value
includes the transport and insurance costs connected with convey-ance tothe launch base and the space jo urney.
TITLE III
FINALPROVISIONS
Article 32
Pursuant to Article 13 of the Basic Regulation, Member States shall
transmit to the Commission without delay, and no later than six weeks
after the end of the reference period, the monthly results of their externaltrade statistics.
Article 33
1. If the data contained in a statistical information medium have to be
corrected, the corrections shall be made to the figures of the referenceperiod.
2. Member States shall transmit the corrected monthly data at least
every three months, together with a file containing the cumulative andcorrected annual data.
Article 34
Member States shall retain the statistical information media referred to
in Articles 7 and 23 of the Basic Regulation, or at least the information
contained therein, for at least two years after the end of the year towhich the media refer.
Article 35
Member States shall transmit to the Commission their national
instructions and any subsequent amendments.
Article 36
Commission Regulation (EC) No 840/96(
1) is repealed effective from 1
January 2001.
References tothe repealed Regulatio n shall be deemed torefer tothis
Regulation.
Article 37
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply from 1 January 2001.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 15
(1)OJ L 114, 8.5.1996, p. 7.
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ANNEX I
Listofexceptionsreferred toinArticle2
Data shall not be compiled for the following goods:
(a) means of payment which are legal tender, and securities;
(b) monetary gold;
(c) emergency aid for disaster areas;
(d) because of the diplomatic or similar nature of their intended use:
1. goods benefiting from diplomatic and consular or similar immunity;
2. gifts to Head of State or to members of a government or parliament;3. items being circulated within the framework of administrative mutual aid;
(e) provided that they are not the subject of a commercial transaction:
1. decorations, honorary distinctions and prizes, commemorative badges and
medals;
2. travel equipment, provisions and other items, including sports equipment,
intended for personal use or consumption which accompany, precede or
follow the traveller;
3. bridal outfits, items involved in moving house, or heirlooms;
4. coffins, funerary urns, ornamental funerary articles and items for the
upkeep of graves and funeral monuments;
5. printed advertising material, instructions for use, price lists and other
advertising items;
6. goods which have become unusable, or which cannot be used for
industrial purposes;
7. ballast;8. postage stamps;
9. pharmaceutical products used at international sporting events;
(f) products used as part of exceptional common measures for the protection of
persons or of the environment;
(g) goods which are the subject of non-commercial traffic between persons
resident in the frontier zones defined by the Member States (frontier traffic);
products obtained by agricultural producers on properties located outside, but
adjacent to, the statistical territory within which they have their principal
undertaking;
(h) provided that the trade is temporary, goods imported and exported for the
repair of means of transport, containers and related transport equipment, but
which are not placed under processing arrangements, and parts replaced
during the repairs;
(i) goods exported to national armed forces stationed outside the statistical
territory as well as imported goods which had been conveyed outside the
statistical territory by the national armed forces, as well as goods acquired or
disposed of on the statistical territory of a Member State by the foreign armed
forces which are stationed there;
(j) goods used as carriers of information such as floppy disks, computer tapes,
films, plans, audio- and videotapes, CD-ROMs which are traded in order to
provide information, where developed to order for a particular client or where
they are not the subject of a commercial transaction, as well as goods which
complement a previous delivery e.g. an update, and for which the consignee
is not invoiced;
(k) satellite launchers:
— on export and import pending their launching into space,
— at the time of launching into space.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 16
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ANNEX II
Listoftransactionsreferred toinArticle 13(2)
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1. Transactions involving actual or intended
transfer of ownership against compensation
(financial or otherwise) (except the transac-
tions listed under 2, 7, 8) (a)(b)(c)1. Outright/purchase/sale (b)
2. Supply for sale on approval or after trial, for
consignment or with the intermediation of a
commission agent
3. Barter trade (compensation in kind)4. Personal purchases by travellers5. Financial leasing (hire-purchase) (
c)
2. Return of goods after registration of the
original transaction under code 1 (d); replace-
ment of goods free of charge (d)1. Return of goods
2. Replacement for returned goods
3. Replacement (e.g. under warranty) for goods
not being returned
3. Transactions (not temporary) involving
transfer of ownership but without compensa-
tion (financial or other)1. Goods delivered under aid programmes oper-
ated or financed partly or wholly by the
European Community
2. Other general government-aid deliveries3. Other aid deliveries (individuals, non-govern-
mental organisations)
4. Others
4. Operations with a view to processing under
contract (
e) or repair (f) (except those recorded
under 7)1. Processing under contract
2. Repair and maintenance against payment3. Repair and maintenance free of charge
5. Operations following processing under
contract (
e) or repair (f) (except those recorded
under 7)1. Processing under contract
2. Repair and maintenance against payment3. Repair and maintenance free of charge
6. Transactions not involving transfer of owner-
ship, e.g. hire, loan, operational leasing (
g) and
other temporary uses(h) except processing
under contract or repair (delivery or return)1. Hire, loan, operational leasing
2. Other goods for temporary uses
7. Operations under joint defence projects or
other joint intergovernmental production
programs (e.g. Airbus)
8. Supply of building materials and equipment
for works that are part of a general construc-
tion or engineering contract (i)
9. Other transactions
(a) This item covers most dispatches and arrivals, i.e. transactions in respect of which:
— ownership is transferred from resident to non-resident, and
— payment or compensation in kind is or will be made.
Note that this also applies to movements between entities belonging to the same enterprise or to the same group of
entreprises and to movements to/from central distribution depots, unless no payment or other compensation ismade (otherwise they are covered by code 3).
(
b) Including spare parts and other replacements made against payment.
(c) Including financial leasing: the lease instalments are calculated in such a way as to cover all or virtually all of the
value of the goods. The risks and rewards of ownership are transferred to the lessee. At the end of the contract the
lessee becomes the legal owner of the goods.
(d) Return and replacement dispatches of goods originally recorded under items 3 to 9 of column A should be
registered under the corresponding items.
(e) Processing operations (whether or not under customs supervision) should be recorded under items 4 and 5 of
column A. Processing activities on processor's own account are not covered by this item. They should be
registered under item 1 of column A.
(f) Repair entails the restoration of goods to their original function. This may involve some rebuilding or
enhancements.
(g) Operational leasing: leasing contracts other than financial leasing (see note (c)).
(h) This item covers goods that are exported/imported with the intention of subsequent re-import/re-export without
any change of ownership taking place.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 17
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(i) The transactions recorded under item 8 of column A involve goods which are not separately invoiced, but for
which a single invoice is made covering the total value of the works. Where this is not the case, the transactions
should be recorded under item 1.2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 18
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ANNEX III
Listofdelivery termsreferred toinArticle 14(2)
First sub-box Meaning Second sub-box
Incoterm Code Incoterm ICC/ECE Geneva Place to be indicated
EXW ex-works location of works
FCA free carrier … agreed place
FAS free alongside ship agreed port of loading
FOB free on board agreed port of loading
CFR cost and freight (C & F) agreed port of destination
CIF cost, insurance and freight agreed port of destination
CPT carriage paid to agreed port of destination
CIP carriage and insurance paid
toagreed port of destination
DAF delivered at frontier agreed Place of Delivery at
Frontier
DES delivered ex-ship agreed port of destination
DEQ delivered ex-quay after customs clearance,
agreed port
DDU delivered duty unpaid agreed place of destination in
importing country
DDP delivered duty paid agreed place of delivery in
importing country
XXX delivered terms other than
the aboveprecise statement of terms
specified in the contract
Third sub-box
1: Place located in the territory of the Member State concerned;
2: Place located in other Member State;3: Other (place located outside the Community).2000R1917 — EN — 01.01.2002 — 001.001 — 19