Council Regulation (EC) No 2559/2000 of 16 November 2000 amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2000-11-16
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: common customs tariff, statistical nomenclature, tariff nomenclature, television

22.11.2000

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2559/2000

of 16 November 2000

amending Annex I to 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 (1) established a
goods nomenclature, hereinafter
the
‘Combined Nomenclature’, and set out the conventional
duty rates of the Common Customs Tariff.

referred to as

By
its Decision 97/359/EC of 24 March 1997
concerning the elimination of duties on information
technology products (2), the Council approved, on behalf
of the Community, the Agreement on trade in informa-
tion technology products
together with the
Communication on its implementation.

(ITA),

According to that Agreement, participants are to meet
to consider any divergence among them in classifying
information technology products, beginning with the
products
the Annex
thereto. This procedure brings to the fore changes to be
made to the Community's tariff schedule, reproduced in

specified in Attachment B of

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87. Once they are agreed to
by the participants to the Agreement, the said changes
must be implemented as quickly as possible,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
In Part Two of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87,
CN code 8528 shall be amended as shown in the Annex to this
Regulation.

The

amendments

2.
to the Combined Nomenclature
subheadings provided for in this Regulation shall be applicable
they are inserted into the
as TARIC subheadings until
Combined Nomenclature in accordance with Article 12 of
Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of
the European
Communities.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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, 16 November 2000.

For the Council

The President

R. SCHWARTZENBERG

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1264/2000 (OJ L 144, 17.6.2000, p. 6).

(2) OJ L 155, 12.6.1997, p. 1.

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CN code

1

8528

ANNEX

Description

2

Rates of duties %

Supplementary
unit

3

4

Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incor-
porating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video
recording or reproducing apparatus; video monitors and
video projectors:

– 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 auto-

matic data processing machines

8528 12 91 (4)

– – – – – – – Apparatus with a microprocessor-based device
incorporating a modem for gaining access to the
Internet, and having a function of
interactive
information exchange, capable of receiving televi-
sion signals (‘Set-top boxes with communication
function’)

– – – – – – – Other:

free

free

p/st

p/st

8528 12 94 (5)

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

14

p/st

8528 12 95
to
8528 12 98

(4) TARIC code: 8528 12 93 10.
(5) TARIC code: 8528 12 93 90.

(unchanged)