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ANNEX 5 
Directives amended by Article 5 (2) and 5 (3) 
(a) Article 7 (4) of Council Directive 80/779/EEC of 15 July 1980 on air quality limit values and guide 
values for sulphur dioxide and suspended particulates ('). 
(b) Article 5 (4) of Council Directive 82/884/EEC of 3 December 1982 on a limit value for lead in the 
air(2). 
(c) Article 7 (3) of Council Directive 85/203/EEC of 7 March 1985 on air quality standards for nitrogen 
dioxide (3). 
(') O] No L 229, 30. 8. 1980. 
(2) OJ No L 378, 31. 12. 1982. 
O OJ No L 87, 27. 3. 1985. 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) concerning the single administrative document 
COM(90) 363 final — SYN 290 
(Submitted by the Commission on 3 August 1990) 
(90/C 214/05) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100a 
thereof, Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87 (J); whereas Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 1900/85 (4) as amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1059/86 (5) stipulated that export and 
import declarations must be made on a document corre­
sponding to the specimen form drawn up in accordance 
with Regulation (EEC) No 679/85; 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
In cooperation with the European Parliament, Whereas Article 8 a of the EEC Treaty provides for the 
progressive establishment, over a period expiring on 31 
December 1992, of the internal market, which comprises 
an area without internal frontiers in which the free 
movement of goods, in particular, is ensured; 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 678/85 of 18 
February 1985 simplifying formalities in trade in goods 
within the Community (*) provides that the formalities 
connected with such trade are to be completed using a 
single administrative document; whereas the specimen 
form of that document was prescribed by Council Regu­
lation (EEC) 679/85 (2), as amended by Commission 
O OJ No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 1. 
(2) OJ No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 7. Whereas the effect of implementing that provision is to 
eliminate all checks and all formalities in respect of 
Community goods moving within the Community and, 
hence, to make the provisions laid down in Regulation 
(EEC) No 678/85, in principle, redundant; whereas, 
however, the single administrative document should still 
be used, where necessary, during the transitional period 
of the accession of Spain and Portugal to the 
Community in connection with trade between the 
Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 and 
Spain or Portugal and between the two last-mentioned 
O OJ No L 107, 22. 4. 1987, p. 1. 
(4) OJ No L 179, 11. 7. 1985, p. 4. 
(') OJ No L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 7. 
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countries in goods still liable to certain customs duties 
and charges having equivalent effect or which remain 
subject to other measures laid down by the Act of 
Accession; 
Whereas trade in non-Community goods as well as 
imports and exports continue to be subject to use of the 
single administrative document; 
Whereas it is important to ensure uniform implemen­
tation of the provisions of this Regulation and, for this 
purpose, to provide for a Community procedure that will 
allow the adoption by appropriate time limits of a 
number of implementing provisions; whereas it is 
necessary for close and effective cooperation between the 
Member States and the Commission to be organized for 
this purpose within an advisory committee; 
Whereas it would appear advisable to take the oppor­
tunity of reforming the legislation concerning the single 
administrative document to consolidate the provisions 
laid down in Regulations (EEC) No 679/85 and (EEC) 
No 1900/85, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
1. Where, in Community legislation, reference is 
made to an export or import declaration or a declaration 
placing goods under another customs procedure, 
including the Community transit procedure, such 
declaration shall be made on a single administrative 
document form corresponding to the specimen drawn up 
in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 7. 
2. The single administrative document form shall, 
where necessary, also be used during the transitional 
period laid down in the Act of Accession of Spain and 
Portugal in connection with trade between the 
Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 and 
Spain or Portugal and between those two last-mentioned 
countries in goods still liable to certain customs duties 
and charges having equivalent effect or which remain 
subject to other measures laid down by the Act of 
Accession. 
Article 2 
Apart from the document referred to in Article 1, 
Member States shall not require any administrative 
documents other than those which are: 
— expressly created by Community acts or provided for 
by such acts, 
— required under the terms of international conventions 
compatible with the Treaty, 
— required from operators to enable them to qualify, at 
their request, for an advantage or a specific facility. Article 3 
1. The declarations must be accompanied, within the 
limits laid down in Article 2, by the documents necessary 
to place the goods in question under the procedure 
requested. 
2. The lodging with a customs office of a declaration 
signed by the declarant or his representative shall 
indicate that the person concerned is declaring the goods 
in question for the procedure applied for and, without 
prejudice to the possible application of penal provisions, 
shall render such person liable, under the provisions in 
force in the Member States, for: 
— the accuracy of the information given in the 
declaration, 
— the authenticity of the documents attached, and 
— the observance of all the obligations inherent in 
placing the goods in question under the procedure 
concerned. 
Article 4 
The findings of the competent authorities of a Member 
State made in the course of the application of this Regu­
lation may be relied on by the competent authorities of 
the other Member States. In such cases, they shall have 
the same probative force as the findings of the competent 
authorities of each of those Member States. 
Article 5 
This Regulation shall not preclude the use of simplified 
procedures, whether or not based on the use of 
computers. Such procedures shall be adopted in 
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 7. 
Article 6 
A Single Administrative Document Committee (here­
inafter referred to as 'the Committee') is hereby set up, 
composed of representatives of the Member States and 
chaired by the representative of the Commission. 
Article 7 
The Committee shall have power to examine any 
question relating to the implementation of this Regu­
lation, submitted to it by its chairman either on his own 
initiative or at the request of a representative of a 
Member State. 
The representative of the Commission shall submit to the 
Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The 
Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft within a 
time limit which the chairman may lay down according 
to the urgency of the matter, if necessary by taking a 
vote. 
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The opinion shall be recorded in the minutes; in 
addition, each Member State shall have the right to ask 
to have its position recorded in the minutes. 
The Commission shall take the utmost account of the 
opinion delivered by the Committee. It shall inform the 
Committee of the manner in which its opinion has been 
taken into account. 
Article 8 
The provisions necessary for applying this Regulation 
and, in particular, those relating to: 
— the form, 
— the codes to be used in the form, 
— the quality of the paper, the size of the form and the 
colour of the copies, 
— the explanatory notes on the use of the form, 
shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid 
down in Article 7. Article 9 
1. Regulations (EEC) No 678/85, (EEC) No 679/85 
and (EEC) No 1900/85 are hereby repealed. 
2. Any reference made to the regulations hereby 
repealed shall be deemed to be a reference to this Regu­
lation. 
Article 10 
Each Member State shall inform the Commission of the 
measures it takes to apply this Regulation. 
The Commission shall communicate this information to 
the other Member States. 
Article 11 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of 
the European Communities. 
It shall apply from 1 January 1993. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States.