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COM(75)212final
Brussels,14May1975
proposaifora
COUNCILDECISION
acceptingtheCustomsCooperation Council's
recommendation of1January1975(SITC/BTNRev.2)
(submitted ,totheCouncil "bytheCommission)
COM(75)212final

E;LPL /,NATORY MÉMORANDUM
The United Nations and other national and inter­
national bodies publish their external trade statistics interms of
theStandard International Trade Classification (SITC ).
Inorder tocollect thedata necessary for com­
piling these statistics acorrelation must beestablished between
theSITC and thesubheadings ofthestatistical and tariff nomencla­
tures which are infact themeans ofobtaining these data .
The Common Customs Tariff ofthe Community ,like
many other customs tariffs ,isbased ontheBrussels Nomenclature
(BTN ),theadministration ofwhich istheresponsibility ofthe
Customs Cooperation Council (CCC).
The CCC has made arecommendation toits member
countries ,aswell astothecustoms and economic unions which certain
ofthem have setup,toincorporate intheir customs tariffs orin
their statistical nomenclatures subheadings which will allow acorre­
lation between theBTN and the SITC ,ofwhich asecond revision was
recently produced .
This Draft Council Decision isdesigned toenable
theMember States and the Community ,towhich theabove-mentioned
recommendation wasaddressed ,tonotify their acceptance and the date
ofimplementation tothe Secretary General oftheCCC .

Council Decision accepting theCustoms Cooperation Council 's
recommendation of1January 1975 designed toenable international
trade statisti.es collected enthe basis ofthe Brussels Nomen­
clature tobeexpressed interms ofthesecond revision ofthe
-Standard International Trade Classification
THiJCOUNCIL OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard totheTreaty establishing theEuropean Economic Community
and inparticular Article 113 thereof ;
Having ,regard to .theproposal from theCommission ;
Whereas theMember States ,areContracting Parties totheBrussels Con­
vention of15December 1950 onthe nomenclature for the tariff classifi­
cation ofgoods (theBrussels Nomenclature );.
Whereas they have also accepted theCustoms Cooperation Council 'srecom­
mendation of8December 19^0 ontheequivalence between theBrussels
Nomenclature and the revised Standard International Trade Classification
which wasadopted bytheUnited Nations Economic and Social Committee in
I960 ;andwhereas thestatistics ontheexternal trade oftheCommunity
and onthe trade between its Member States must therefore conform tothe
present orfuture version ofthe Brussels Nomenclature inorder that
thestatistics ontheexternal trade oftheCommunity and onthe trade
between Member States may beprovided interras ofthe twoworld nomencla
tures mentioned above ;
Whereas asecond version ofthesaid Classification was also adopted by
the Statistical Commission ofthe United Nations Economic and Social
Council atitsOctober 197^sessions ;
Whereas on1January 1975 theCustoms Cooperation Council addressed a
Recommendation toStates which areContracting Parties totheConvention
aswell astothecustoms and economic unions setupbycertain ofthem ,
toincorporate intheir Customs tariffs orintheir statistical nomen­
clatures thesubheadings listed intheannex tothesaid Recommendation

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oi*atleasttotakeappropriatestepstoenablestatistical datato
bereportedtotheUnitedNationsagenciesconcernedonthebasisof
thesesubheadings ? '-
HASDECIDEDAS'FOLLOWS J T'*"
SoleArticle
:TheCustomsCooperation Council'sRecommendation of1January1975
designedtoenableinternational tradestatisticscollectedonthe-
basisoftheBrusselsNomenclature tobeexpressedintermsofthe
secondrevisionoftheStandardInternational TradeClassification
shallbeacceptedinthenameoftheCommunitywithaviewtoitsbeing
implemented witheffectfrom1January1976*
TheCommissionshallinformtheSecretaryGeneraloftheCCCofthis
acceptance, '■
PoneatBrussels, . FortheCouncil
•--• .ThePresident