Council Regulation (EC) No 486/2006 of  20 March 2006  concerning the implementation of the Agreement on Duty-Free Treatment of Multi-Chip Integrated Circuits (MCPs) by amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2006-03-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, common customs tariff, electronic component, tariff agreement, tariff exemption, tariff nomenclature

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 486/2006

of 20 March 2006

concerning the implementation of the Agreement on Duty-Free Treatment of Multi-Chip Integrated
Circuits (MCPs) by 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
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

has received instruments of acceptance from four Parties.
Pursuant to Article 7(a) of the Agreement, these four
Parties have agreed that the Agreement shall enter into
force on 1 April 2006.

(5)

The Agreement should therefore be implemented by
amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87,

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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 2005/964/EC (2),
the Council has
concluded, on behalf of the European Community, the
Agreement on Duty-Free Treatment of Multi-Chip Inte-
(hereinafter referred to as ‘the
grated Circuits (MCPs)
Agreement’).

The Agreement reduces to zero the rate of all customs
duties and other duties and charges applied to MCPs.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Annex I, Part One, Section II ‘Special Provisions’ of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2658/87, a letter G ‘Duty-Free Treatment of
Multi-Chip Integrated Circuits (MCPs)’ as contained in the
Annex to this regulation is added.

Article 2

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

The Secretary-General of the Council of the European
Union as the depository designated by the Agreement

It shall apply from 1 April 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 March 2006.

For the Council
The President

U. PLASSNIK

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1989/2004 (OJ L 344, 20.11.2004, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 349, 31.12.2005, p. 24.

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ANNEX

‘G. Duty-Free Treatment of Multi-Chip Integrated Circuits (MCPs)

1. Relief from customs duty is provided for multi-chip integrated circuits (MCPs) consisting of two or more intercon-
nected monolithic integrated circuits combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, whether or not on one or more
insulating substrates, with or without lead frames, but with no other active or passive circuit elements.

2. Goods eligible to this relief of customs duty are covered by the following headings: 8418, 8422, 8450, 8466, 8473,
8517, 8518, 8522, 8523, 8525, 8528, 8529, 8530, 8531, 8535, 8536, 8537, 8538, 8543, 8548, 8708, 9009,
9026, 9031, 9504.

3. Upon presentation to the Member State's customs authorities of the customs declaration for release into free circu-
lation of MCPs, the declarant shall indicate in box 44 of the Single Administrative Document (“SAD”) the reference
number C500.’