No C 21/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 26. 1.83 
II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down certain measures for the standardization 
and simplification of statistics of trade between Member States 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 January 1983) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 
European Economic Community, and in particular 
Article 235 thereof, 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ... 
simplifying customs formalities in trade within the 
Community, 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ... 
introducing a specimen declaration form to be used in 
intra-Community trade, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Whereas, in order to strengthen the domestic market, 
Regulation (EEC) No ... replaces by a single 
document the forms now used for consignment, 
internal Community transit, entry of goods for 
consumption and application of any other procedure 
in the Member State of destination; 
Whereas it is essential to define the subject of 
statistics of trade between Member States in such a 
way that it is clearly distinguishable from the subject 
of external trade statistics of the Community; 
Whereas it is also necessary to lay down the data on 
trade between the Member States to be collected and 
compiled and the relevant definitions; 
Whereas the purpose of introducing a single 
document includes standardization and simplification 
of the statistics of trade between Member States, 
which in turn requires that some of the provisions of 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 ('), as 
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2345/77 (2), and Council Regulation (EEC) No 1445/72 (3), as 
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3065/75 (4), 
should no longer apply for the purposes of statistics 
of trade between Member States; 
Whereas such standardization and simplification is 
necessary for attaining one of the objectives of the 
Community; whereas the Treaty has not provided the 
necessary powers and this Regulation must, therefore, 
be based on Articles 235 thereof, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
1. Statistics of trade between Member States shall 
include all goods: 
A. sent from the Member State of consignment: 
(a) in which they are for home use under fiscal 
legislation; 
(b) in which they were manufactured but are not 
for home use under fiscal legislation; 
(c) in which they are subject to inward processing 
arrangements in the unaltered state, as 
compensating products or as intermediate 
products under the terms of Council Directive 
69/73/EEC (s) and in accordance with 
Articles 2 and 3 of Commission Directive 
73/95/EEC(6); 
B. (a) in free circulation under customs legislation 
and registered for home use under fiscal 
legislation in the Member State of destination; 
(b) for transfer from the Member State of 
consignment to the Member State of 
destination under the definition of inward 
processing in Directive 69/73/EEC and in 
accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of Directive 
73/95/EEC, either for further processing or 
to be registered for free circulation under 
customs legislation. 
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O OJ No L 329, 22. 12. 1977, p. 3. (») OJ No L 161, 17. 7. 1972, p. 1. 
(4) OJ No L 307, 27. 11. 1975, p. 1. 
(*) OJNoL58, 8. 3. 1969, p. 1. 
(4) OJ No L 120, 7. 5. 1975, p. 17. 
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2. Articles 3 to 9 shall apply to the goods defined 
in paragraph 1 under A (a) and (b) and B (a), here­
inafter referred to as 'goods'. Goods mentioned in 
paragraph 1 under A (c) and B (b) shall be registered 
in statistics of trade between Member States, but 
Articles 3 to 9 shall not apply to them. 
Article 2 
In this Regulation, the cases set out in Article 1 (1) 
under A shall come under the heading 'consignment' 
and those under B under the heading 'entr/. 
Article 3 
The Member State of consignment shall be taken to 
mean the Member State from which the goods are 
sent under the procedure provided for in Regulation 
(EEC) No ... 
Article 4 
The Member State of destination shall be taken to 
mean the Member State to which the goods are sent 
under the procedure provided for in Regulation 
(EEC) No .... 
Article 5 
For each heading of the NIMEXE, the following 
shall be indicated in the statistical information 
medium: 
(a) on entry, the Member State of consignment; 
(b) on consignment, the Member State of 
destination; 
(c) the net weight of the goods in accordance with 
Article 15 (1) (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 
1736/75, or, for goods defined in accordance 
with Article 41 of that Regulation, the net weight 
with immediate wrappings in accordance with 
Article 15 (2) and (4) of that Regulation; 
(d) for goods defined in accordance with Article 41 
of Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75, other units of 
measurement supplementary to, or instead of, the 
net weight or net weight with immediate 
wrappings, in accordance with Article 16 of that 
Regulation; 
(e) the price of the goods or, if this is not known, the 
normal value, both within the meaning of Article 
11 of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC ('); 
(f) where applicable, special movements of goods 
under the terms of Article 19 of Regulation 
(EEC) No 1736/75; 
(g) the type of transport in accordance with Article 6. 
Article 6 
1. 'Type of transport' shall be taken to mean the 
active type of transport by which the goods leave the 
O OJNoL 145, 13.6. 1977, p. 1. statistical territory of the Member State of 
consignment or by which they reach the statistical 
territory of the Member State of destination. 
2. The types of transport shall be as follows: 
Description 
a) Sea 
b) Rail 
c) Road 
d) Air 
e) Fixed 
f) Inland transport installations 
waterway Code No 
1 
2 
3 
4 
7 
8 
3. If the type of transport stated is listed in 
paragraph 2 (b), (c), (d) or (f), it should also be 
indicated whether the goods are transported in 
containers within the meaning of Article 15 (3) of 
Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75. 
Article 7 
1. The Community and the Member States shall 
compile the data referred to in Article 5 under (a), 
(b), (c), (d), (e) and (g). 
2. The data referred to in paragraph 1 shall be 
compiled for all goods which are the subject, in 
accordance with Article 1 (1), of statistics of trade 
between Member States, with the exception of those: 
(a) included in the list of exceptions given in 
Annex B to Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75; 
(b) whose value and weight are below the statistical 
threshold defined in Article 24 of that Regu­
lation; 
(c) to which Article 27, 28 (1), 29, 30, 31 or 32 of 
that Regulation or similar provisions adopted 
pursuant to Article 33 thereof apply. 
Article 8 
1. Articles 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 (1) 
and (2), 42 and 47 of Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 
and Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1445/72 shall 
not apply to statistics of trade between Member 
States. 
2. In addition to the data referred to in Article 5, 
Member States may collect and compile further data 
for the purposes of statistics of trade between 
Member States, provided that such data appear on 
the form provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 
3. For the application to statistics of trade between 
Member States of the remaining Articles of the Regu­
lations referred to in paragraph 1, 'export' and 
'import' shall be taken to mean 'consignment' and 
'entry' respectively. 
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Article 9 
1. Provisions for the standardization and 
simplification of: 
(a) statistical information; 
(b) the statistical information medium, in so far as 
the data to be supplied under the terms of this 
Regulation are concerned, shall be adopted in 
accordance with the procedure referred to in 
Article 41 of Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75. 
Provisions for the implementation of this Regulation 
shall be adopted in accordance with the same 
procedure. 2. The rules of the Member States in this matter 
shall continue to apply up to the date of entry into 
force of the provisions referred to in the first sub­
paragraph of paragraph 1. 
Article 10 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 
day following its publication in the Official Journal of 
the European Communities. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States.