Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 3050/95 temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of products intended for the construction, maintenance and repair of aircraft
Date: 2002-03-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, aeronautical industry, aircraft, maintenance, spare part, suspension of customs duties

C 151 E/290

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

25.6.2002

Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 3050/95 temporarily suspending
the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of products intended for the
construction, maintenance and repair of aircraft

(2002/C 151 E/21)

COM(2002) 131 final

(Submitted by the Commission on 13 March 2002)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 26 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

with the provisions of the Combined Nomenclature and to
extend the autonomous tariff suspension introduced by
Regulation (EC) No 3050/95 to ground flying trainers for
civil use. The extension will also simplify the adminis-
the economic
tration and control of
operators and the customs authorities,

the end-use for

Whereas:

(1) By Council Regulation (EC) No 3050/95 (1) Common
Customs Tariff duties for a number of products intended
for the construction, maintenance and repair of aircraft
were suspended in full. However, import duties for these
products are only suspended when they are subject to an
in accordance with the provisions of
end-use control
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October
1992 establishing the Community Customs Code (2) (here-
inafter:
‘Customs Code’) and of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions
for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (3),
that is to say, when they are used for civil aircraft only.

the Preliminary Provisions of

(2) Similar tariff suspensions combined with the same end-use
provisions of the Customs Code were introduced in Section
II, B, of
the Combined
Nomenclature in connection with the GATT aircraft
agreement. The end-use for these products was the manu-
facture, repair, maintenance, rebuilding, modification or
conversion, not only of civil aircraft, but also of ground
flying trainers for civil use.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 3050/95, the first sentence
is replaced by the following:

‘The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for the
products listed in the Annex shall be totally suspended,
the
provided that
construction, maintenance and repair of aircraft of an
unladen weight exceeding 2 000 kilograms and of ground
flying trainers for civil use.’

those products

intended for

are

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 April 2002.

(3) In view of the above it is appropriate to amend Regulation
(EC) No 3050/95 in order to align its end-use provision

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

(1) OJ L 320, 31.12.1995, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1. The Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 2700/2000 (OJ L 311, 12.12.2000, p. 17).
(3) OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. The Regulation as last amended by

Regulation (EC) No 993/2001 (OJ L 141, 28.5.2001, p. 1).