Council Regulation (EC) No 179/2009 of 5 March 2009 amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2009-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: audiovisual equipment, common customs tariff, suspension of customs duties, tariff nomenclature

7.3.2009

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Official Journal of the European Union

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory)

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REGULATIONS

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 179/2009

of 5 March 2009

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,

(6)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 26 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

As the suspensions provided for in this Regulation are an
extension of the suspension introduced by Regulation
(EC) No 301/2007 that expired on 31 December 2008
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 the suspension,
this Regulation
should apply from 1 January 2009,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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 (1) suspended totally, for
a period of
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 59 90.

two years,

That suspension measure expired on 31 December 2008.

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 two years starting from 1 January
2009 and to increase the diagonal measurement of the
screen to 55,9 cm (22 inches) and to add the additional
aspect ratios of 1:1 and 16:10.

For the same reasons,
it is also in the interest of the
Community to provide for a suspension for two years
starting from 1 January 2009 for black and white or
diagonal
other monochrome monitors with
measurement of
the screen not exceeding 77,5 cm
(30,5 inches) and with the same aspect ratios as for
colour monitors.

a

(5)

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (2)
therefore be amended accordingly.

should

(1) OJ L 81, 22.3.2007, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.

Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 is hereby amended as follows:

Article 1

1.

in Part Two, Section XVI, Chapter 85, of Annex I, the text in
column 3 for CN code 8528 59 10 shall be replaced by the
following:

‘14 (*)

___________
(*) Customs

duty

suspended,

until
autonomously
31 December 2010, for black and white or other mono­
chrome monitors, using liquid crystal display technology,
equipped with either digital visual
interface (DVI) or a
video graphics array (VGA) connector or both with a
the screen not exceeding
diagonal measurement of
77,50 cm (i.e. 30,5 inches), with an aspect ratio of 1:1,
4:3, 5:4 or 16:10, with a pixel resolution exceeding 1,92
mega pixels, and with a dot pitch not exceeding 0,3 mm.
(TARIC code 8528 59 10 10)’;

2.

in Part Two, Section XVI, Chapter 85, of Annex I, the text in
column 3 for CN code 8528 59 90 shall be replaced by the
following:

‘14 (*)

___________
(*) Customs

duty

suspended,

until
autonomously
31 December 2010, for colour monitors, using liquid
crystal display technology, with a diagonal measurement
of the screen not exceeding 55,9 cm (i.e. 22 inches), with
an aspect ratio of 1:1, 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10. (TARIC code
8528 59 90 40)’.

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

Article 2

It shall apply from 1 January 2009.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 March 2009.

For the Council
The President
M. ŘÍMAN