Uniform application of the combined nomenclature (CN) (Classification of goods)
Date: 2003-08-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, common customs tariff, electronic component, recording equipment, ticket

C 186/14

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Official Journal of the European Union

6.8.2003

UNIFORM APPLICATION OF THE COMBINED NOMENCLATURE (CN)

(Classification of goods)

(2003/C 186/07)

Explanatory Notes adopted under Article 10(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July
1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff˛ (1), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2176/2002 (2).

The ‘Explanatory Notes to the combined nomenclature of the European Communities’ (3) shall be amended
as follows:

On page 206 the following text is inserted:

‘4911 99 00

Other

This subheading does not include printed matter, such as travel tickets and boarding
incorporate one or more magnetic stripes (subheading 8523 30 00 or
passes,
8524 60 00).’

that

On page 311 the following text is inserted:

‘8479 89 77

Die attach apparatus and tape automated bonders for the assembly of semicon-
ductor devices

This subheading includes machines for the exact positioning, mounting and fixing of
semiconductor devices in the form of chips on a carrier substrate (die attach apparatus
and tape automated bonders).

This subheading does not include:

(a) wire bonders (subheading 8479 89 98);

(b) pick and place machines (subheading 8479 89 98).’

On page 312 the following text is inserted:

8479 89 98

Other

‘3.
Printed circuit board assembly machines for mounting active, passive or connecting components on
printed circuits (pick and place machines). These components are automatically fed to the machine on
tapes (belts). The machines position the components exactly at the intended locations and mount them on
the printed circuit. After the components have been mounted, they are fixed to the printed circuit by e.g.
soldering, contact bonding. Apart from the assembly of semiconductor devices (see Explanatory Note to
subheading 8479 89 77), these machines are also able to pick and place other components on substrates.’

On page 320 the following text is inserted:

‘8523 30 00

Cards incorporating a magnetic stripe

This subheading also includes printed matter, such as travel tickets and boarding passes,
that incorporate one or more magnetic stripes containing no recorded information.’

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 331, 7.12.2002, p. 3.
(3) OJ C 256, 23.10.2002, p. 1.

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On page 320 the following text is inserted:

‘8524 60 00

Cards incorporating a magnetic strip

This subheading also includes printed matter, such as travel tickets and boarding passes,
that incorporate one or more magnetic stripes containing recorded information.’

On page 320 the following text is to be included:

8525

Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or
television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording
or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other
video camera recorders; digital cameras

‘This heading includes thermal-imaging cameras with infrared imagers which capture heat-radiation and
convert it into images that represent the temperatures of individual surfaces or objects in different shades
of grey or in different colours but which cannot measure temperatures or represent the measured values in
figures.’

Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2003/C 186/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 19.3.2003

Date of adoption of the decision: 22.4.2003

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 044/03 (ex CP 172/01)

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 12/03

Title: Support for cinema production in North Rhine-West-
phalia: Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Title: Extension of the Invest scheme — Risk capital fund N
543/2000

Objective: Cinema

Legal basis: Richtlinien der Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
für die Förderung der Filmkulturwirtschaft
im Bundesland
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Budget: EUR 33 718 900 for 2003

Aid intensity or amount: Variable; in any event, below 50 %

Duration: Until end of 2004

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids

Objective: The scheme is extended to areas referred to in
DOCUP Objectives 2 and 5.

The other details remain unchanged, namely:

— lending: aid intensity of between 4 % and 18 % gge in
assisted areas, depending on the presence or otherwise of
guarantees and on whether the aid may be combined with
other forms of aid; aid intensity of between 6 % and 14,8 %
outside assisted areas, depending on the presence or
otherwise of guarantees and on the size of the enterprise
(small or medium-sized),

— acquisition of holdings: aid intensity of 28 % gge in assisted
areas and of 7,5 % and 15 % outside assisted areas,
depending on whether the enterprise is small or medium-
sized.

Legal basis: DOCUP Obj. 2 des Provinces de Liège, Luxem-
bourg, Namur