CELEX: 31969R2198
Language: en
Date: 1969-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2198/69 of the Commission of 30 October 1969 concerning the periods of grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 on the valuation of goods for customs purposes

Official Journal of the European Communities                                461
 6.11.69                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 279/9
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2198/69 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 30 October 1969
               concerning the periods of grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3 ) of Council
                     Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 on the valuation of goods for customs purposes
THE    COMMISSION         OF   THE    EUROPEAN       COM­       Whereas, pursuant to Article 10 (4) of the above
MUNITIES,                                                       Regulation, the goods to which the periods of grace
                                                                referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3 ) apply and the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    length of the period of grace applicable under Article
                                                                 10 (3 ) are to be determined in accordance with the
European Economic Community;
                                                                procedure laid down in Article 17 of that Regulation ;
                                                                whereas, in order to do this, account should be taken
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
803/68 1 of 27 June 1968 on the valuation of goods              of trade practices in the Member States ;
for customs purposes, and in particular Article 10 (4)          Whereas it is important to ensure uniform application
thereof;                                                        of the relevant provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                803/68 and to adopt the necessary provisions to that
Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 ( 1 ) (a) of the above           end;
Regulation, one of the conditions for the acceptance
of the price paid or payable as the value of the goods          Whereas the measures provided for in this RegulatiQn
for customs purposes is that the contract of sale must          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Customs
be executed within the period specified in Article 10           Valuation Committee;
of the said Regulation ; whereas, for the purposes of
Article 9, Article 10 ( 1 ) prescribes that the price paid      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
or payable may be accepted where the date of the
contract precedes the date for valuation for customs                                    Article 1
purposes as laid down in Article 5 by not more than
six months ;                                                    For the purposes of Article 9 of Council Regulation
                                                                (EEC) No 803/68 of 27 June 1968, the periods of
Whereas for goods which are usually sold with a                 grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3 ) of that
delivery period of between six months and twelve                Regulation shall apply to the goods listed in the
months the period may be extended to twelve                     Table annexed to this Regulation in accordance with
months pursuant to Article 10            (2) of the said        the specifications of that Table.
Regulation ; for goods which are usually sold with a
delivery period of more than twelve months, the                                         Article 2
period of grace may be correspondingly increased,
but not beyond twenty-four months, pursuant to                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
Article 10 (3 );                                                1970 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 October 1969.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                          Jean REY
1 OJ No L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 6.
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                                                     ANNEX
            CCT
                                                                                            Period
          Heading                                 Description of goods                   (in months)
            No
     ex 02.04 C III        Turtle meat                                                        12
     ex 03.01 A I (b)      Frozen salmon                                                     12
     ex 03.01 A III        Carp                                                               12
     ex 03.02 A          - Herrings, whole, headless, in pieces or fillets                   15
        04.06              Natural honey                                                     12
     ex 05.15 A            Shrimps and prawns, dried                                          12
     ex 06.01              Flower bulbs                                                      12
        07.01 A I          Seed potatoes                                                     12
     ex 07.01 H            Onions and shallots for planting                                  15
        07.03 B            Capers                                                            12
        07.03 E            Tomatoes                                                          12
        07.04              Dried, dehydrated or evaporated vegetables, whole, cut,
                           sliced, broken of in powder, but not further prepared:
                               Parsnips                                                       15
                               Other                                                          12
        07.05              Dried leguminous, vegetables, shelled, whether or not              12
                           skinned or split
                                                                                        I
    ex 07.06 B             Manioc roots, whether or not cut in chips or sliced                12
    ex 08.01               Dates, coconuts, Brazil nuts, dried, shelled or not,
                           pineapples, avocados, mangoes, guavas and mangosteens              12
                           Bananas                                                             1
        08.01 B
     ex 08.01 E II         Cashew nuts                                                        15
     ex 08.02              Citrus fruit, dried                                                12
        08.03 B            Figs, dried                                                        12
        08.04 B            Grapes, dried                                                      12
     ex 08.05              Nuts other than those falling within heading No 08.01,
                           dried, shelled or not                                              12
        08.05 A II         Almonds, other than bitter                                         15
        08.11              Fruit provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur
                           dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preserv­
                           ative solutions) but unsuitable in that state for immediate
                           consumption                                                       12
        08.12              Fruit, dried, other than that falling within heading Nos
                           08.01 , 08.02, 08.03, 08.04 or 08.05                              12
        09.01 A I      .   Coffee, unroasted                                                  12
    ex 09.04               Pepper of the genus Piper                                         24
    ex 09.04               Pimento of the genus Capsicum or the genus Pimenta                 12
        09.05              Vanilla                                                            12
        09.06              Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers                                12
        09.07              Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems)                             12
        09.08              Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms                                         12
    1 To be fixed later.
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      CCT
                                                                             Period
     heading                        Description of goods                  (in months)
       No
ex 09.09      Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander and juniper            12
   09.10      Thyme, saffron and bay leaves; other spices                      12
   12.03      Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing               12
   12.06      Hop cones and lupulin                                            24
   12.07      Plants and parts (including seeds and fruit) of trees,
              bushes, shrubs or other plants, being goods of a kind
              used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy, or for insecti­
              cidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried,
              whole, cut, crushed, ground or powdered                          12
ex 12.08 C    Apricot kernels                                                  12
   13.03      Vegetable saps and extracts : pectic substances, pectinates
              and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and
              thickeners, derived from vegetable products                      12
   14.01 A II Osier, other                                                     12
   15.04 A I  Fish-liver oil, with a vitamin A content not exceeding
              2500 international units per gramme                              12
ex 15.07      Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or
              purified, other than olive oil                                   12
   15.11 A    Crude glycerol and glycerol lyes                                 12
   16.04 A I  Caviar (sturgeons' eggs)                                         12
ex 16.04 B    Salmon                                                           12
   16.04 D    Sadines                                                         12
   16.04 E    Tunny                                                           12
ex 16.04 G    Pilchards and haddock liver                                      12
ex 16.05      Lobster and crab meat                                            12
ex 18.01      Cocoa beans, whole, raw                                          18
ex 18.01      Cocoa beans, whole or broken, roasted                           12
ex 18.04      Cocoa butter                                                    18
   18.05      Cocoa powder, unsweetened                                        12
ex 20.01 B    Tomato purée                                                    12
   20.02      Vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by
              vinegar or acetic acid                                          12
   20.06      Fruit otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not
              containing added sugar or spirit                                 12
   20.07      Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices,
              whether or not containing added sugar, but unfermented
              and not containing spirit                                       12
ex 23.01 B    Flours and meals of fish                                        18
   23.07 A    Fish or whale solubles                                          18
ex 24.01      Unmanufactured tobacco                                          12
   28.01 B    Chlorine                                                        12
   28.28 G    Tungsten oxides and hydroxides                                  12
   28.28 H I  Vanadic pentoxide                                               12
ex 28.47 F    Ammonium paratungstate                                          12
ex 28.56 D    Tungsten carbide                                                12
   29.05 A II Menthol                                                         12
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           CCT
                                                                                        Period
          heading                            Description of goods                    (in months)
            No
    éx 29.35 A         Furfuraldehyde (furfural, furfurol)                                12
    ex 29.36           Sulphonamides for veterinary purposes                              12
    ex 29.38           Vitamins                                                           12
        33.01          Essential oils (terpeneless or not); concretes and absolutes;
                       resinoids                                                          12
      ■ 35.01 A        Casein                                                             18
    ex 35.02 A II ( a) Ovalbumin, other                                                   12
        35.05 A        Dextrins; soluble or roasted starches                              12
        38.19 K        Non-agglomerated mixtures of metallic carbides                     12
        41.02          Bovine cattle leather (including buffalo leather) and
                       equine leather except leather falling within heading Nos
                       41.06, 41.07 or 41.08                                              12
    ex 44.02           Wood charcoal                                                      12
        44.05 B II     Coniferous wood, of a lengh of 125 cm or less and of
                       a thickness of less than 12-5. mm                                  12
        44.07          Railway or tramway sleepers of wood                                12
        47.01          Pulp derived by mechanical or chemical means from any
                       fibrous vegetable material :
                          A. Mechanical and semi-chemical wood pulp                       12
                          B. I and II. Chemical wood pulp ; sulphate, soda or
                                        sulphite pulp .                                   18
    ex Section XI      Yarns falling within Chapters 50, 51 and 53 to 56, not
                       put up for retail sale :
                          Flax yarn                                                       18
                          Other                                                           12
    ex Section XI      Fashion collection fabrics (being seasonal fabrics) for
                       outer garments, the fashionableness of which is deter­
                       mined by the weave, the printing pattern, the use of
                       yarns of different colours, the finish (tinged, moiré,
                       embossed, etc.) or the arrangement of the materials used;
                       single-shade fabrics, in fashionable shades                        12
    ex 50.09           Far Eastern fabrics of silk                                        18
    ex 53.05           Sheep's or lambs' wool, carded or combed                           12
    ex 55.09           Woven fabrics of cotton, unbleached                                12
    ex 56.07           Woven fabrics of / man-made fibres (discontinous of
                       waste), as they come from the loom                                 12
        57.05 A        Yarn of true hemp, not put up for retail sale                      18
        57.06          Yarn of jute                                                       12
    ex 57.07 B         Yarn of sisal                                                 '    12
        57.10          Woven fabrics of jute                                              12
    ex 58.02 A         Coir matting                                                       12
    ex 59.04           Twine of true hemp or Manila hemp (abaca)
                        (Musa textilis)                                                   12
        62.03 A II     Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods,
                       other than used, of jute                                           12
        81.01          Tungsten (wolfram), unwrought or wrought, and articles
                       thereof                                                            12
        81.04 A II     Bismuth, wrought                                                   12
         81.04 II      Antimony                                                           12