Commission Regulation (EC) No 957/2006 of  28 June 2006  concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature and amending Regulation (EEC) No 48/90
Date: 2006-06-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, common customs tariff, screen

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 957/2006

of 28 June 2006

concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature and amending
Regulation (EEC) No 48/90

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23
July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the
Common Customs Tariff (1), and in particular Article 9(1)(a)
thereof,

Whereas:

In order to ensure uniform application of the Combined
Nomenclature annexed to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87,
it is necessary to adopt measures concerning the classi-
fication of the goods referred to in the Annex to this
Regulation.

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 has laid down the general
rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomen-
clature. Those rules apply also to any other nomenclature
which is wholly or partly based on it or which adds any
additional subdivision to it and which is established by
specific Community provisions, with a view to the appli-
cation of tariff and other measures relating to trade in
goods.

The classification of ‘dot-matrix displays’ in Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 48/90 of 9 January 1990
concerning the classification of certain goods in the
Combined Nomenclature (3) has led to incorrect classifi-
cations and therefore point 2 of the Annex to that Regu-
lation should be deleted.

(6)

(7)

The Customs Code Committee has not delivered an
opinion within the time-limit set by its chairman as
regards product No 3 in the annexed table.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Customs Code
Committee as regards products Nos 1 and 2 in the
annexed table,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The goods described in column 1 of the table set out in the
Annex shall be classified within the Combined Nomenclature
under the CN codes indicated in column 2 of that table.

Pursuant to those general rules, the goods described in
column 1 of the table set out in the Annex to this
the CN codes
Regulation should be classified under
indicated in column 2, by virtue of the reasons set out
in column 3 of that table.

Article 2

Binding tariff information issued by the customs authorities of
Member States, which is not in accordance with this Regulation,
can continue to be invoked for a period of three months under
Article 12(6) of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92.

is appropriate to provide that binding tariff

It
infor-
mation which has been issued by the customs authorities
of Member States in respect of the classification of goods
in the Combined Nomenclature but which is not
in
for a period of
accordance with this Regulation can,
three months, continue to be invoked by the holder,
under Article 12(6) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing
the
Community Customs Code (2).

Article 3

Point 2 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 48/90 is deleted.

Article 4

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

(EC) No 838/2006 (OJ L 154, 8.6.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 648/2005 of the European Parliament and of the
Council (OJ L 117, 4.5.2005, p. 13).

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

(3) OJ L 8, 11.1.1990, p. 16. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 705/2005 (OJ L 118, 5.5.2005, p. 18.

(1)

(2)

(3)

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 2006.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Classification
(CN code)

(2)

8531 20 95

8548 90 90

Reasons

(3)

Classification is determined by General Rules 1
and 6 for the interpretation of the Combined
Nomenclature and by the wording of CN
codes 8531, 8531 20 and 8531 20 95.

The display has an electronic interface board.
Therefore it cannot be classified as a liquid
crystal device of heading 9013 (see also HS
Explanatory Notes to heading 9013 (1)).

The display does not incorporate electronics to
reproduce video signals. Therefore it cannot be
classified as a video monitor of heading 8528.

it

The display is an indicator panel of heading
is only capable of displaying
8531 as
graphics and alpha-numeric characters
(see
also HS Explanatory Notes to heading 8531
(D)).

Classification is determined by General Rules 1
and 6 for the interpretation of the Combined
Nomenclature, Note 2(c) to Section XVI and
by the wording of CN codes 8548, 8548 90
and 8548 90 90.

The module is a part which is not suitable for
use solely or principally with a particular kind
of machine of Section XVI. Therefore it
is
classified under heading 8548 by virtue of
Note 2(c) to Section XVI.

Description of the goods

(1)

1. A graphic and alpha-numeric display based
on the monochrome passive matrix liquid
crystal display technology.

The display consists of a liquid crystal layer
sandwiched between two sheets or plates of
glass with a number of dots (presented in
64 lines and 240 columns) and an elec-
tronic interface board of C-MOS tech-
nology.

It can be incorporated with other products.

It is unable to display video images.

unit,

inverters

2. A product, known as an ‘LCD module
(touch screen type)’,
in the form of an
active matrix liquid crystal device with a
backlight
printed
circuit boards with control electronics for
pixel addressing only. The liquid crystal
device consists of a liquid crystal
layer
sandwiched between two sheets of glass.
The outer layer of the glass cells is coated
with a thin metallic electrically conductive
and resistive layer.

and

The module is based on thin-film transistor
(TFT) technology. It has overall dimensions
of 34,5 (W) × 35,3 (H) × 16,5 (D) cm and a
diagonal screen measurement of 38,1 cm
(15 inches).

components

The module does not incorporate any other
electronic
a
power supply, a video converter, a scaler,
a tuner, etc.), or interfaces for connection
to other apparatus.

example,

(for

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(1)

3. A product, known as an ‘LCD module’, in
the form of an active matrix liquid crystal
device with a backlight unit, inverters and
printed circuit boards with control elec-
tronics for pixel addressing only.

(2)

8529 90 81

(3)

Classification is determined by General Rules 1
and 6 for the interpretation of the Combined
Nomenclature, Note 2(b) to Section XVI and
by the wording of CN codes 8529, 8529 90
and 8529 90 81.

The module is based on thin-film transistor
(TFT) technology. It has overall dimensions
of 75,9 (W) × 44,9 (H) × 4,9 (D) cm, a
diagonal screen measurement of 81,6 cm
(32 inches)
of
and
1 366 × 768 pixels.

resolution

a

components

The module does not incorporate any other
electronic
a
power supply, a video converter, a scaler,
a tuner, etc.) or interfaces for connection to
other apparatus.

example,

(for

cannot be
because

classified under
The module
a
comprises
it
9013
heading
inverters and printed circuit
backlight unit,
boards with control
for pixel
addressing only (see also HS Explanatory
Notes to heading 9013 (1)).

electronics

The module is not classifiable in heading 8473
as a part of a display unit of an automatic
data-processing machine, because it
is not
suitable for use solely or principally with an
automatic data-processing machine of heading
8471.

The module is not classifiable in heading
8531, because it is not considered to be an
electrical visual signalling apparatus of heading
8531 or a part of such an apparatus in view
of its characteristics (see also HS Explanatory
Notes to heading 8531).

of

its

characteristics

as
Because
dimensions and resolution) the module is clas-
sifiable under heading 8529 because it
is
suitable for use solely or principally with
apparatus of heading 8528.

(such