Commission Regulation (EC) No 179/2005 of 2 February 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 with regard to the transmission of data to the Commission
Date: 2005-02-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, disclosure of information, economic aggregate, economic statistics, foreign trade, intra-EU trade

L 30/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

3.2.2005

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 179/2005

of 2 February 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 with regard to the transmission of data to the
Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 of
22 May 1995 on the statistics relating to the trading of
goods by the Community and its Member States with non-
member countries (1), and in particular Articles 11 and 13
thereof,

statistics relating to the trading of goods with third
countries,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 is replaced by the
following:

Whereas:

‘Article 32

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

the

European
Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of
Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on
Community statistics relating to the trading of goods
between Member States and repealing Council Regulation
(EEC) No 3330/91 (2), which applies from 1 January
the
2005,
systematic production of Community statistics relating
to the trading of goods between Member States.

common framework

establishes

for

a

In order to align it with the transmission period for
the trans-
aggregated data on intra-Community trade,
mission period for
should be
reduced from 6 weeks to 40 days.

trade data

external

As stated regularly by the Council, the monitoring of the
Economic and Monetary Union requires fast delivery of
trade statistics.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 of 7
September 2000 laying down certain provisions for the
implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95
as regards statistics on external trade (3) should therefore
be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee on the

1. Member States shall compile:

(a) aggregated results defined,

for each flow, as the total
value of the trade with non-member countries and the
breakdown by products according to Sections of
the
Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3;

(b) detailed results referred to in Article 10(1) of the basic

Regulation.

2. Member States shall transmit data to the Commission
without delay, as follows:

(a)

in accordance with paragraph 1(a), no later than 40 days
after the end of the reference period;

(b) in accordance with paragraph 1(b) no later than 42 days

after the end of the reference period.’

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 March 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 February 2005.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 118, 25.5.1995, p. 10. Regulation as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the
Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 102, 7.4.2004, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 229, 9.9.2000, p. 14. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1669/2001 (OJ L 224, 21.8.2001, p. 3).