Proposal for a Coucil Regulation amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2000-09-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, common customs tariff, tariff nomenclature, tariff preference, television equipment

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 12.09.2000
COM(2000) 557 final

2000/0229 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

(presented by the Commission)

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Council approved, on behalf of the Community, by its Decision No 97/359/EC
the Agreement on trade in information technology products (ITA) together with a
communication on its implementation.

This agreement lists positively specific products to be covered by the agreement
wherever they are classified in the Harmonised System (Attachment B and part of
Attachment A, Section 2). For Attachment B products, ITA participants have created
in their tariff schedules the necessary lines covering such products and have
accordingly informed other participants.

Under the ITA, a process has been set up whereby participants meet to consider any
divergence among them in classifying information technology products, beginning
with the products specified in Attachment B. As a result of this process, certain
modifications to the EU tariff will be required by creating or deleting certain
subheadings to the HS nomenclature in order to respect the Community’s tariff
commitments under the ITA.

The purpose of this proposal is to cover one specific type of product which is
considered to be covered by the ITA but for which the ITA tariff treatment is
currently not granted.

In the light of the foregoing, it is proposed to amend Annex I to Council Regulation
(EEC) No 2658/87 accordingly.

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2000/0229 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article
133 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff1, as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1264/20002 of 8 June 2000, established a nomenclature of goods, known as
the Combined Nomenclature, and sets out the conventional duty rates of the Common
Customs Tariff.

By its Decision (97/359/EC)3 of 24 March 1997 concerning the elimination of duties
on information technology products, the Council approved the Agreement on trade in
information technology products, known as the “Information Technology Agreement”
(ITA), together with the Communication on its implementation on behalf of the
Community.

According to this agreement, participants shall meet to consider any divergence among
them in classifying information technology products, beginning with the products
specified in Attachment B. As a result of this process, modifications to the
Community’s tariff schedule,
reproduced in Regulation (EC) No 2658/87, are
required.

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OJ L 256, 07.09.1987, p. 1.
OJ L 144, 17.06.2000, p. 6.
OJ L 155, 12.06.1997, p. 1

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.

2.

Annex I of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff is amended as set out in the annex
to this regulation.

The amendments to the CN subheadings provided for in this Regulation shall be
applicable as TARIC subheadings until
insertion into the Combined
Nomenclature in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.

their

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 October 2000.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels,

For the Council
The President

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CN code

Description

1

8528

ANNEX

2

Rate
duty

of

Suppleme
ntary unit

4

5

Reception apparatus
or not
incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video
recording or reproducing apparatus; video monitors and
video projectors:

television, whether

for

- Reception apparatus for television, whether or not

incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video
recording or reproducing apparatus:

8528 12

- - Colour:

8528 12 10
to
8528 12 81

(unchanged)

8528 12 89

- - - - - - Other

14

p/st

- - - - - Without screen:

- - - - - - Video tuners:

8528 12 90

- - - - - - - Electronic assemblies for incorporation into automatic

free

data processing machines

8528 12 914

- - - - - - - Apparatus with a microprocessor-based device

free

p/st

p/st

incorporating a modem for gaining access to the
Internet, and having a function of interactive
information exchange, capable of receiving television
signals (“Set-top boxes with communication function”)

- - - - - - - Other:

8528 12 945

- - - - - - - - Digital (including mixed digital and analogue)

14

p/st

8528 12 95
to
8528 12 98

(unchanged)

4

5

TARIC code: 8528 12 93 10.
TARIC code: 8528 12 93 90.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

1.

TITLE OF OPERATION

Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs
Tariff

2.

BUDGET HEADING(S) INVOLVED

Chapter 12 Article 120

3.

LEGAL BASIS

Article 26 of the Treaty

4.

DESCRIPTION OF OPERATION

Implementing a tariff commitment resulting from the Information Technology
Agreement

5.

FINANCIAL IMPACT

No change as compared with the financial impact stated for the adoption of the
Information Technology Agreement

6.

FRAUD PREVENTION MEASURES

Application of the normal measures under the Community Customs Code.

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