Council Regulation (EC) No 301/2007 of 19 March 2007 amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2007-03-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, common customs tariff, customs regulations, screen, suspension of customs duties, tariff nomenclature

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 301/2007

of 19 March 2007

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 26 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In the Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to
Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1)
the CN codes for
monitors are 8528 51 00, 8528 59 10 and 8528 59 90.

I

to Regulation

amending Annex

Council Regulation (EC) No 493/2005 of 16 March
2005
(EEC)
No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature
and on the Common Customs Tariff (2)
suspended
totally, for a limited period, the autonomous Common
Customs Tariff duties for monitors using liquid crystal
display technology, with a diagonal measurement of the
screen of 48,5 cm or less and a screen aspect ratio of 4:3
or 5:4 and classifiable under CN code 8528 21 90.

26 June 2004 of the Customs Cooperation Council and
the adaptation of the Combined Nomenclature to the
from 1 January 2007
Harmonised System 2007,
products classifiable under CN code 8528 21 90 will be
classified under CN code 8528 59 90 of the Combined
Nomenclature.

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

As the suspension introduced by this Regulation is a
prolongation of a suspension introduced by Regulation
(EC) No 493/2005 that expired on 31 December 2006
and since it is not in the interest of the Community that
there be any interruption of the tariff treatment of the
monitors covered by this suspension,
this Regulation
should enter into force immediately and apply from
1 January 2007,

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Annex 1 to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 the text in column
3 for CN code 8528 59 90 in Chapter 85, Section XVI of Part
Two, Schedule of Customs Duties shall be replaced by the
following:

(3)

This suspension measure expired on 31 December 2006.

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(4)

On consumer benefit grounds, to ensure rational devel-
opment of production and an expansion of consumption
within the Community and to promote trade between
Member States and third countries, it is in the interest
of the Community to extend the current autonomous
duty suspension for certain types of monitors classified
under CN code 8528 59 90 for another two years from
1 January 2007.

___________
(*) Customs

duty

2008,

autonomously

until 31
December
diagonal
measurement of the screen of 48,5 cm or less and with
an
(TARIC code
4:3
aspect
8528 59 90 30).’

for monitors with

suspended,

ratio

5:4

or

of

a

(5)

As a result of
the amendments to the nomenclature
appended as an Annex to the International Convention
on the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding
to the Recommendation of
System accepted pursuant

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

(EC) No 129/2007 (OJ L 56, 23.2.2007, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 82, 31.3.2005, p. 1.

It shall apply from 1 January 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 March 2007.

For the Council
The President

Horst SEEHOFER