No C 102/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 15.4.83 
II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation simplifying customs facilities in 
trade within the Community (') 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 
149 of the EEC Treaty on 6 April 1983) 
The Commission amends its proposal as follows: 
1. The text of the first subparagraph of Article 4 (1) 
is replaced by the following: 
'1. Where Community goods are the subject of 
trade between two Member States, the formalities 
connected with such trade shall be completed 
using a single document, based on a declaration on 
a form, a specimen of which is to be established by 
the Council acting by a qualified majority on a 
proposal by the Commission and after consulting 
the European Parliament. This document or 
declaration shall serve, depending on the circum­
stances, as the dispatch document or declaration or 
as the document or declaration of internal 
Community transit or of entry for home use or of 
entry of the goods under any other procedure in 
the Member State of destination.' 
2. The following paragraph 2 is inserted after 
paragraph 1 of Article 4: 
'2. In intra-Community trade, Member States 
may not require an administrative document other 
than the document provided for in paragraph 1, 
except for those required pursuant to specific 
provisions of the Treaty or of Community acts.' 
3. The former paragraph 2 of Article 4 becomes 
paragraph 3. 
4. The text of Article 10 is replaced by the following: 
'1. Simplified procedures, whether or not based 
on the use of computers, may be implemented, 
particularly: 
— in order to allow a consignor or a consignee 
not to have to present the goods in question at 
a customs office, 
-— in order to allow a consignor or a consignee 
not to have to present a declaration at a 
customs office or to allow a consignor or a consignee to draw up an incomplete 
declaration, to be completed subsequently in 
the form of a general periodic declaration, 
— in cases where Community goods are 
addressed by more than one consignor to more 
than one consignee. 
2. The provisions of this Regulation shall not 
preclude: 
— the application of special provisions laid down 
with regard to consignments by letter or parcel 
post, 
— exemption from the requirements to submit a 
written declaration in certain cases, notably as 
regards Community goods contained in 
travellers' personal luggage, for dispatch or 
entry for home use, 
— agreements made or to be made between 
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands or 
between the United Kingdom and Ireland with 
a view to greater simplification of formalities in 
trade between those States, 
— the establishment between Member States, by 
means of bilateral arrangements, of simplified 
procedures applicable to certain trade flows, 
the effect of which is to dispense with the 
production of any administrative document in 
the trade concerned, apart from those required 
pursuant to specific provisions of the Treaty or 
of Community acts, 
— the drawing up of declarations by means of 
publicly or privately owned computers, 
— the possibility of Member States providing that 
particulars given in the declaration may be 
entered by the person concerned in the 
automatic data-processing system for 
declarations.' 
(») OJ No C 203, 6. 8. 1982, p. 5.