Commission Regulation (EC) No 1835/2002 of 15 October 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 1901/2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States
Date: 2002-10-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: statistics, trading operation

16.10.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 278/9

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1835/2002

of 15 October 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 1901/2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between
Member States

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 of 7
November 1991 on the statistics relating to the trading of
goods between Member States (1), as last amended by European
Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1624/2000 (2), and
in particular Article 30 thereof,

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 Tariff (3), as last amended by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 969/2002 (4),
authorises
Member States to use subheadings to meet national
requirements, when these requirements cannot be met at
Community level.

by Regulation

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1901/2000 (5), as
(EC) No 2150/2001 (6),
amended
authorises those Member States so wishing to collect
more detailed information than that resulting from the
application of the Combined Nomenclature, provided
that the party responsible for providing the information
is allowed to elect to supply it in accordance with either
the Combined Nomenclature or the additional subdivi-
sions.

It may be necessary for some Member States to collect
more detailed information than that resulting from the
application of
the Combined Nomenclature on a
compulsory basis, and thus to obtain more comprehen-
sive statistical information on sectors of national interest.

(4)

The introduction of this degree of flexibility is aimed at
meeting specific national requirements, without having

to reflect them systematically in the Combined Nomen-
clature. This measure will enable an overall reduction in
the burden on intra-Community operators by concen-
trating the obligation to provide statistical information at
national level and exempting operators in other Member
States.

Member States should have the choice of whether to
implement this type of data collection and, if need be, to
determine the implementing provisions.

Regulation (EC) No 1901/2000 must
amended.

therefore be

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Statis-
tics Relating to the Trading of Goods between Member
States,

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The first paragraph of Article 47 of Regulation (EC) No 1901/
2000 is replaced by the following text:

‘Those Member States wishing to have more detailed infor-
mation than that resulting from the application of Article
21 of the basis Regulation may, by way of derogation from
that Article, organise the collection of that information.’

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 October 2002.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 316, 16.11.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 187, 26.7.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 149, 6.7.2002, p. 20.
(5) OJ L 228, 8.9.2000, p. 28.
(6) OJ L 288, 1.11.2001, p. 30.