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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(82)78 final
Brussels ,1March 1982
Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
ontheapplication ofDecision No1/82ofthe EEC-Austria /Switzerland
Joint Committee -Community transit -amending theAgreement between
theEuropean Economic Community andSwitzerland /Austria ontheappli­
cation ofthe rules onCommunity transit
Draft decision /No \1/82
y.\
ofthe EEC-Austria /Switzerland --Joint Committee
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Community transit \
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amending theAgreement between theEuropean Economic Community and
Switzerland /Austria ontheapplication oftherules -onCommunity\" . v-U.-'J* ••*>/
transit ,andamending Appendix IItothe ,Agreement
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(submitted totheCouncil bytheCommission )
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
ApplicationintheCommunityofDecisionno1/82oftheEEC-Switzerland andEEC-
AustriaJointCommittee-Communitytransit-amendingtheAgreementsontransit.
1.CommissionRegulation(EEC)No223/77^onprovisionsfortheimplementation ofthe
Communitytransitprocedureandforcertainsimplifications ofthatprocedure
provides,amongotherthings,forasimplifiedCommunitytransitprocedureforthe
carriageofgoodsbyrailinlargecontainers.Experiencehasshownthat,forthis
proceduretobefullyeffective,particularlyinthecaseofmixedconsignments ,
certaintechnicalmodifications wererequired.TheRegulationwasthereforerecently
amendedaccordingly.
2.ThesechangesintheCommunityrulesmakeitnecessarytoamendtheAgreements
betweentheEECandSwitzerlandandbetweentheEECandAustriaontheapplication
oftherulesonCommunitytransit2.
3.SuchisthepurposeoftheattacheddraftdecisionoftheJointCommittees.Itis
proposedthatthedraftbeadoptedasrepresentingtheCommunity'sagreedposition
withintheEEC-Austria andEEC-Switzerland JointCommittees-Communitytransit.
k.OnceithasbeenadoptedbytheJointCommittees,thisdecisionwillhavetobe
broughtintoeffectintheCommunitybywayofaCouncilRegulation,thedraftof
whichisalsoattached.
1OJL38,09.02.1977,p.20.
2OJL294,29.12.1972,pp.1and87.
1

Proposalfora
COUNCILREGULATION (EEC)
ontheapplicationofDecisionNo1/82oftheEEC-Austria/Switzerland
JointCommittee-Communitytransit-amendingtheAgreementbetween
theEuropeanEconomicCommunityandSwitzerland/Austriaontheappli­
cationoftherulesonCommunitytransit
THECOUNCILOFTHEEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES ,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishingtheEuropeanEconomicCommunity,andin
particularArticle113thereof,
HavingregardtotheproposalfromtheCommission,
WhereasArticle16oftheAgreementbetweentheEuropeanEconomicCommunityand
ΛSwitzerland/Austriaontheapplication oftherulesonCommunitytransitempowers
theJointCommitteesetupunderthatAgreementtoadoptDecisionsmakingcertain
amendmentstotheAgreementandtoitsAppendices;
WhereastheJointCommitteehasdecidedtoamendtheAgreement,inparticularinorder
tomakecertaintechnicaladjustmentstothesimplifiedCommunitytransitprocedurefor
carriageinlargecontainerssoastoenablethisproceduretobefullyeffective,in
particularformixedconsignments ;
WhereastheseamendmentsarethesubjectofdecisionNo1/82oftheJointCommittee;
whereasitisnecessarytotakethemeasuresrequiredtoimplementtheabove-mentioned
Decision,
HASADOPTEDTHISREGULATION :
103L294of29.12.1972,p

Article 1
Decision N°1/82oftheEEC-Austria /Switzerland -Joint Committee -
community transit -amending theAgreement between theEuropean
Economic Community andSwitzerland /Austria ontheapplication of
therulesonCommunitytransitshallapplyintheCommunity.
ThetextoftheDecisionisannexedtothisRegulation.
Article2
ThisRegulationshallenterintoforceonthedayfollowingitspublicationintheOfficial
JournaloftheEuropeanCommunities .
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinalltheMember
States.
»
Doneat FortheCouncil
ThePresident
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DraftdecisionNo1/82
oftheEEC-Switzerland /Austria-JointCommittee
Communitytransit
of
amendingtheAgreementbetweentheEuropeanEconomicCommunityandSwitzerland/
AustriaontheapplicationoftherulesonCommunitytransit,andamendingAppendix
IItotheAgreement
THEJOINTCOMMUTEE ,
HavingregardtotheAgreementbetweentheEuropeanEconomicCommunityandSwitzerland/
AustriaontheapplicationoftherulesonCommunitytransitandinparticularArticle
16(3)(a)and(b)thereof,
WhereastheRegulationonprovisionsfortheimplementation oftheCommunitytransit
procedureandforcertainsimplifications ofthatprocedurehasbeenamendedsothat,
undercertainconditions,alistofallthelargecontainersmakingupasingleconsignment
canbeattachedtotheCommunityTransitTransferNote;
WhereasthesaidRegulationappearsinAppendixIItotheAgreementandwhereasthat
Appendixshouldbeamendedtotakeaccountofthechangesthusmadeintheruleson
Communitytransit;
WhereasArticle501(3)ofAppendixIItotheAgreementshouldbeputinsquare
brackets;
WhereascertainchangestotheAgreementitselfarerenderednecessarybythese
amendmentstoAppendixII;
^WhereasDecisionNo1/81oftheJointCommitteeamendedAppendixIItotheAgreement
inordertoprovideforcertainimprovements intheflat-rateguaranteesystem;whereas
thisDecisionappliesuntil30June1982;
Whereasithasprovednecessarytoextendtheimplementation oftheprovisionsofthesaid
Decisionbeyondthatdate;whereastheperiodduringwhichthatDecisionappliesshould
thereforebeextended*)?

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HASDECIDEDASFOLLOWS:
Article1
Switzerland /Austria
TheAgreementbetweentheEuropeanEconomicCommunityand/ontheapplication
oftherulesonCommunitytransitisherebyamendedasfollows:
1
1.Thefollowingparagraph6shallbeaddedtoArticle8:
"6.Whenthecarriageoperationsreferredtoinparagraph3aofArticle50iofthe
Regulationonprovisionsfortheimplementation oftheCommunitytransit
procedureandforcertainsimplifications ofthatprocedure(AppendixII)beginin
theserialnumberornumbersofthelistorlistsofthelargecontainers
containingthegoodsreferredtoinArticle1(3)oftheRegulationonCommunity
transit(AppendixI)mustbeenteredbytheofficeofdepartureintheboxreserved
forcustomsuseoncopyNo3AoftheCommunityTransitTransferNoteopposite
thesymbolT2".
2.Article13(1)shallbereplacedbythefollowing:
"1.TheprovisionssetoutinsquarebracketsinAppendicesIandIIandlistedbelow
shallnotapply:
AppendixI:Article1(4);Article2(2),secondsubparagraph ;Articles3,4and
10;Article12(1),lastsentence;Article15;Article22(1),last
sentence;Article26(2);Article29;Article30(3);Article32(1),
secondsubparagraphand(3);Article39(1),lastsentence;Article
41;Article44(1)and(2);Article45(2);Article47;Article48(2);
Articles50to53and55to61;
AppendixII:Article1(3),(6),firstsentenceand(9);Article2(11);Article4;
Article7(3);Articles10to14;Article15(2);Article22;Article24
(5),secondsubparagraph ,lastsentence;Articles27to34;Article35

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(a);Article42(2)and(4);Article50(a),Article50i(2)(3)(3a)
secondsubparagraph ,secondsentenceand(5);Article51;Article
54,secondparagraph;Article68(1);Articles68a,68b,68cand74.
However,theprovisionsofArticles4,15,41,44(1)and(2),47and50to53ofAppendix1
andofArticle24(5),secondsubparagraph ,lastsentence,Articles27to34,35(a),42(2)
and(4),50(a),50i(2)(3)(3a)<,secondsubparagraph ,secondsentenceand(5),Articles51,54,
secondparagraph,68(1),68a,68b,68cand74ofAppendixIIshallcontinuetoapplyin
MemberStates."
Article2
AppendixIItotheAgreementshallbeamendedasfollows:
1.Anewdefinition4isaddedtoArticle50b:
"4."Listoflargecontainers",hereinafterreferredtoas"list",meansthedocument
attachedtoaCommunityTransitTransferNote,ofwhichitformsanintegral
part,whichisintendedtocovertheconsignmentofseverallargecontainersfrom
thesamestationofdeparturetothesamestationofdestination,atwhichstations
thecustomsformalitiesarecarriedout.
Thenumberoflistsshallbeshownintheboxusedforthedescriptionofthe
documentsaccompanying theCommunityTransitTransferNote.Moreover,the
serialnumberoftheappropriateCommunityTransitTransferNoteshallbe
enteredinthetopright-handcornerofeachlist."
2.InArticle50ithefollowingnewparagraph3aisinsertedafterparagraph3:
"3aWheninthecaseprovidedforinparagraph3listsoflargecontainersareused,
separatelistsmustbecompletedforcontainerscontaininggoodsreferredtoin
tVI
('

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Article1(2)ofRegulation(EEC)No222/77andforcontainerscontainingonly
goodsreferredtoinArticle1(3)ofthatRegulation.
Theselistsmustbearaserialnumbersothattheycanbeidentified.^Areference
totheserialnumber(s)ofthelist(s)oflargecontainerscontainingthegoods
referredtoinArticle1(2)ofRegulation(EEC)No222/77mustbeenteredbythe
officeofdepartureintheboxreservedforcustomsuseoncopiesNos2,3Aand
TheperiodofapplicationofDecisionNo1/81oftheJointCommitteeishereby3BoftheCommunityTransitTransferNoteoppositethesymbolT1
3.Article501(3)shallbeputinsquarebrackets.
/Article3
extendeduntil30June19842-
Article4
Thisdecisionshallenterintoforceon1July19B2.
DoneatBrussels, FortheJointCommittee
i