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Date: 1982-07-23
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the application of Decision No 2/82 of the EEC-Switzerland/Austria Joint Committee - Community transit - amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation/the Republic of Austria on the application of the rules on Community transit#Draft DECISION NO 2/82 OF THE EEC-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE - Community transit - amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit#Draft DECISION NO 2/82 OF THE EEC-AUSTRIA JOINT COMMITTEE - Community transit - amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Austrian Republic on the application of the rules on Community transit (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                COM(82 ) 477 final
                                                Brussels , 23 July 1982
                                 Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
 on the application of Decision No 2 / 82 of the EEC-Switzer land / Austria Joint
 Committee - Community transit - amending the Agreement between the European
 Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation / the Republic of Austria on the
 application of the rules on Community transit
                                     Draft
          DECISION NO 2 / 82 OF THE EEC-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE
                             - Community transit -
 amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss
 Confederation on the     application of the rules on Community transit
                                     Draft
             DECISION NO 2 / 82 OF THE EEC-AUSTRIA JOINT COMMITTEE
                             - Community transit -          ^
 amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Austrian
 Republic on the application of the rules on Community- transit !
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 C0M(82 ) 477 final
 ---pagebreak---                                 Explanatory memorandum
Application in the Community of Decisions No 2/82 of the EEC-Switzerland and
EEC-Austria Joint Committees - Community transit - amending the Agreements on
tranBit .
1 . Council Regulation (EEC ) No 222/77 on Community transit ( l ) and Commission
     Regulation (EEC ) No 223/77 on provisions for the implementation of the
     Community transit procedure and for certain simplifications of that procedure
     ( 2 ) have recently been amended in order to make a number of technical changes
     to this procedure .
2 . These changes in the Community rules make it necessary to amend the Agreements
     between the EEC and Switzerland and between the EEC and Austria on the application
     of the rules on Community transit ( 3 ).
3 . Such is the purpose of the attached draft decisions of the Joint Committees . It
     is proposed that the draft be adopted as representing the Community 's agreed
     position within the EEC-Austria and EEC-Switzerland Joint Committees -
     Community transit .
4 . Once they have been adopted by the Joint Committees , these decisions will have
     to be brought into effect in the Community by way of a Council Regulation , the
     draft of which is also attached .
( 1 ) OJ L 38 , 09.02.1977 , P. 1 .
( 2 ) OJ L 38 , 09.02.1977 , P. 20.
( 3 ) OJ L 294 , 29.12.1972 , pp . 1 and 87 .
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               Proposai for a Councii Regulation (EEC )
                     on the application of Decision No 2/82 of
                    the EEC-Switzerland/Austria Joint Committee
                                – Community transit -
           amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community
                 and the Swiss Confederation/the Republic of Austria
               on the application of the rules on Community transit
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community , and
in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas Article 16 of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and
the Swiss Confederation/the Republic of Austria on the application of the rules
on Community transit ( l ), empowers the Joint Committee set up under that Agreement
to adopt decisions making certain amendments to the Agreement and to its Appendices ;
Whereas the Joint Committee has decided to make certain technical amendments to
the Agreement made necessary following changes in the legislation on Community
transit j
Whereas these auaendBemts arc the subject of Decision No 2/82 of the Joint Committee ;
whereas it is necessary to take the measures required to implement the above-
mentioned Decision ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
( l ) OJ No L 294, 29.12.1972 , p. 87 (for Austria)
                                p. 2 ( for Switzerland )
 ---pagebreak---                                 Article 1
Decision No 2/82 of the EEC-Switzerland/Austria Joint Committee - Community
transit – amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and
the Swiss Confederation/the Republic of Austria on the application of rules on
Community transit shall apply in the Community .
The text of the Decision is attached to this Regulation.
                                Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
Done at Brussels ,                               For the Council
                                                   The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                                   /
                                            Draft
                 DECISION NO 2 / 82 OF THE EEC - SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE
                                    - Community transit -
                                    of
 amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and       the Swiss
 Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ,
 Having regard to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the
 Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit , and in
 particular Article 16(3 ) ( a) and (b ) thereof,
 Whereas the regulation on Community transit has needed certain technical
 amendments in particular for the purpose of deleting references to the TIP
 document , the time limit for producing the goods , the conditions governing
 the release of the guarantor from his obligations , and the exemption from
 guarantee for air traffic }
 Whereas moreover the regulation on provisions for the implementation of the
 Community transit procedure and for certain simplifications of that procedure
 has also needed certain technical amendments , in particular the deletion of the
 list of airline companies exempted from providing a guarantee , and concerning
 the measures made necessary by the abolition of the DD3 movement certificate
 and the stamping of international consignment notes which accompany consignments
 dispatched under cover of T documents ;
  Whereas the sai d regulations are set out in Appendices I and II to the Agreement
 and whereas these Appendices should , therefore , be amended ;
  Whereas these amendments make it necessary to amend the Agreement itself in
  certain respects ;
^Whereas Decision No 2/78 of the Joint Committee added to the Agreement an Appendix
  IIA relating to the introduction , on am experimental basis , of a Community transit
  declaration form for use in an automatic or electronic data-processing system ;
  whereas this Appendix IIA was amended by Decision No 2 /79 ; whereas the said
  Decisions apply until 31 December 1982 ;
  Whereas it has been found necessary to provide for use of the said form beyond that
  date ; whereas the term of validity of the aforementioned Decisions should, therefor
  be extended ?!
  HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
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                                               - 2 -
                                        Article 1
The Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation
on the application of the rules on Community transit is hereby amended as follows :
1 . The following paragraph shall be added to Article 8 :
    7»    For the carriage of goods as referred tt> in Article 53(1 ) and in the first
          subparagraph of Article 53(2 ) of the Regulation on provisions for the
          implementation of the Community transit procedure and for certain simplifications
          of that procedure ( Appendix II ) and ending in Switzerland, sheet No 2 of the
          International Consignment Mote or of the International Express Parcels
          Consignment Note shall be produced at the Customs office responsible for
          the last station involved in the Community transit operation . That customs
          office shall stamp the sheet after ascertaining that carriage of the goods
          is covered by the Community transit document or documents referred to ."
2 . Article 13(1 ) shall be replaced by the following :
    " 1 . The provisions set out in- square brackets in Appendices I and II and
          listed below shall not apply :
          Appendix I : Article 1(4 ) and ( 5 ); Article 2(2 ), second subparagraph ;
                         Articles 3 , 4 and 10 ; Article 12(1 ), last sentence ;
                         Article 22(1 ), last sentence ; Article 26(2 ); Article 29 ;
                         Article 30(3 ); Article 32(1 ), second subparagraph , and ( 3 );
                         Article 39(1 ), last sentence ; Article 41 ; Article 44(1 ) and
                         ( 2 ); Article 47 ; Article 48(2 ); Articles 50 to 53 and 55 to 61 ;
          Appendix II : Article 1(3), ( 6), first sentence , and ( 9 ); Article 2(11 );
                        Artide 4 ; Artide 7(3); Articles 10 to 14 ; Artide 15(2 );
                        Article 22 ; Article 24(5 ), second subparagraph , last sentence ;
                        Articles 27 to 34 ; Article 35(a ); Article 42(2 ) and ( 4 );
                        Artide 50(a ); Artide 50i ( 2 ) , ( 3), ( 3a ) second subpa ragraph ,
                        second sentence and ( 5 );
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                                           - 3 -
                    Artide 51 ; Artide 53(2 ) second subparagraph ; Artide 54 ,
                    second paragraph ; Artide 68(1 ); Artide 68a to 68d ; Artide
                    74 .
However , the provisions of Articles 4 , 41 , 44(1 ) and ( 2 ), 47 and 50 to 53 of
Appendix I and of Article 24(5 ), second subparagraph , last sentence , 27 to 34 ,
35(a ), 42(2 ) and ( 4 ), 50(a ), 50i(2 ), ( 3 ), ( 3a ) second subparagraph , second
sentence , and ( 5 ), 51 , 53(2 ) second subparagraph , 54 , second paragraph , 68(1 ),
68a to 68d , and 74 of Appendix II shall continue to apply in the Member Stated' .
 ---pagebreak---                                                   - 4 -
                                             Article 2
Appendix I to the Agreement is hereby amended as follows :
1 . Article 1 ( 3 ) ( b ) shall be replaced by the following :
    "( b ) goods coming under the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel
            Community which under the terms of that Treaty are in free circulation
            within the Community , hereinafter referred to as " Community goods ";".
2 . The following paragraph shall be added to Article 1 :
      a5 .
        »
            The provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
            relating to the free movement of goods shall apply to those goods which ,
            in accordance with point ( b ) of Article 1(2 )     are carried under the
            transit procedure for external Community transit and are not exported to a
            third country provided that an internal Community transit document , delivered
            as evidence of the Community status of the goods after the cancellation of
            the customs export formalities relating to the Community measures which
            made exportation of these goods to a third country necessary, is produced ?}"
3 . Article 7(1 ) shall be replaced by the following :
    " 1 . By way of derogation from Article 1 , the Community transit procedure shall
           not apply to the carriage of goods under cover of TIR carnets ( TIR Convention )
           or the Rhine Manifest ( Article 9 of the revised Convention for the navigation
           of the Rhine ) on condition that the carriage of goods began or is to end
           outside the Community ."
4 . The second subparagraph of Article 7(3 ) shall be replaced by the following :
    " The internal Community transit document shall bear a reference to the procedure
      used and the corresponding document ."
5 . Article 15 shall be deleted .
 ---pagebreak--- The following paragraph shall be added to Article 26 :
" 3 . Where the goods are produced at the office of destination after expiry of
      the time limit prescribed by the office of departure and where this failure
      to comply with the time limit is due to circumstances which are explained to
      the satisfaction of the office of destination and which are beyond the control
      of the carrier or the principal , the latter shall be deemed to have complied
      with the time limit prescribed ."
The second paragraph of Article 35 shall be replaced by the following :
" When the guarantor has not been notified by the competent customs authorities
  of the Member State of departure of the non-discharge of the T1 document , he
  shall likewise be released from his obligations upon expiry of a period of 12
  months from the date of registration of the T1 declaration ."
The following paragraph shall be added to Article 35 :
" Where , within the period provided for in the second paragraph , the guarantor
  has been notified by the competent customs authorities of the non-discharge of
  the T1 document , he must , in additionbe informed that he is or may be liable to
  pay the amounts for which he is liable in respect of the Community transit operat
  in question . This notification must reach the guarantor not later than three
  years after the date of registration of the T1 declaration . Where no such
  notification has been made before the expiry of the aforementioned period , the
  guarantor shall likewise be released from his obligations ."
Article 42(2 ) shall be replaced by the following :
" 2 . The provisions of Articles 19(2 ) and ( 3 ), 21 , 22 and 41 shall not apply to the
      carriage of goods by rail ."
Article 44(2 ) shall be replaced by the following :
"2 . Paragraph 1 shall not apply :
      - when the goods are subject to Community measures entailing control of
        their use or destination, or
      - when the carriage of goods by sea , under a single contract of carriage ,
        is to be followed , beyond the port of unloading , by carriage by land or
        inland waterway under a transit procedure except when carriage beyond that
        port is to be effected , in pursuance of Article 7(2 ), under the Rhine
        Manifest procedure ??"
 ---pagebreak---  11 . Article 45(2 ) shall "be replaced "by the following!
        2 . In cases where a Community transit procedure is used for carriage
            effected wholly or partly by air , no guarantee need be furnished to
            cover the air portion of the journey of goods carried by undertakings
            authorized to undertake such carriage by scheduled or non–scheduled
            services in Member States ."
12. The second subparagraph of Article 5l(2 ) shall be deleted .
13. Article 57 ( l )(a) shall be replaced by the following!
       "(a ) for the implementation of this Regulation , with the exception of
             Articles 1 , 5 , 6 , 21 , 22 , 26 to 31 , 33 , 36 , 37 and 40 ;".
14 . The last subparagraph of Article 57(l ) shall be deleted .
                                         Article 3
Appendix II to the Agreement is hereby amended as follows !
  1 . (a ) The title which precedes Article 26 is deleted ,
      (b ) Article 26 is repealed .
  2. Article 48 shall be replaced by the following !
      "Article 48
      Goods which are carried under the provisions of Articles 46(1 ) or 47 ( 1 ) shall
      be considered as moving under the external Community transit procedure unless
      an internal Community transit document T2L , completed so as to establish the
      Community nature of the goods concerned , is submitted in respect thereof."
 3 . Article 5O0 shall be replaced by the following !
      "Article 50o
      Goods which are carried under the provisions of Articles 50m(l ) or 50n(l )
      shall be considered as moving under the external Community transit procedure
      unless an internal Community transit document T2L f completed so as to establish
      the Community nature of the goods concerned , is submitted in respect thereof ."
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4 . Article 53(2 ) shall be replaced by "the following :
    " 2 . In this case , a reference to the Community transit document or documents
          used shall be clearly entered in box 32 or box 20 respectively at the
          time when the International Consignment Note or the International Express
          Parcels Consignment Note is filled in. This reference shall specify the
          type , office of issue , date and registration number of each document used .
         /in addition, copy No 2 of the International Consignment Note or of the
          International Express Parcels Consignment Note shall be stamped by the
          railway authority responsible for the last railway station involved in
          the Community transit operation. The authority shall stamp the document
          after ascertaining that carriage of the goods is covered by the Community
          transit document or documents referred to."_7
5 . The following text shall be inserted after Article 68c :
                           "PROVISIONS RELATING TO RAILWAY WAGONS
          / Article 68d
    Without prejudice to the provisions applicable to the temporary importation of
    railway wagons , the provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Economic
    Community regarding the free movement of goods shall apply to all goods wagons
    belonging to a railway company of a Member State of the Community :
    (a) provided that the code number and ownership mark (distinguishing letters )
          displayed on them establish their Community nature beyond all doubt ; or
    (b ) in other cases , if an internal Community transit document is produced."/
 ---pagebreak--- Annex XIv shall "be deleted .
                              / Article 4
Decisions No 2/ 78 and No 2/ 79 of "the Joint Committee, first extended "by Decision
Wo l /80 of the Joint Committee are hereby extended until 31 December 1984. 7
                                Article 5
This decision shall enter into force on 1 January 19°3 .
Done at Brussels ,                        For the Joint Committee
                                              The Chairman
 ---pagebreak---                                             Draft
                  DECISION NO 2 /82 OF THE EEC -AUSTRIA JOINT COMMITTEE
                                    - Community transit -
                                    of
 amending the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Austrian
 Republic         on the application of the rules on Community transit
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ,
 Having regard to the Agreement between the European Econor/nc Community and the
 Austrian Republic      on the application of the rules on Community transit , and in
 particular Article 16(3 ) ( a ) and (b ) thereof ,
 Whereas the regulation on Community transit has needed certain technical
 amendments in particular for the purpose of deleting references to the TIP
 document , the time limit for producing the goods , the conditions governing
 the release of the guarantor from hie obligations , and the exemption from
 guarantee for air traffic ;
 Whereas moreover the regulation on provisions for the implementation of the
 Community transit procedure and for certain simplifications of that procedure
 has also needed certain technical amendments , in particular the deletion of the
 list of airline companies exempted from providing a guarantee , and concerning
 the measures made necessary by the abolition of the DD3 movement certificate
 and the stamping of international consignment notes which accompany consignments
 dispatched under cover of T documents ;
 Whereas the sai d regulations are set out in Appendices I and II to the Agreement
 and whereas these Appendices should , therefore , be amended ;
 Whereas these amendments make it necessary to amend the Agreement itself in
 certain respects ;
^Whereas Decision No 2/78 of the Joint Committee added to the Agreement an Appendix
  1 1 A relating to the introduction , on an experimental basis , of a Community transit
 declaration form for use in an automatic or electronic data-processing system ;
 whereas this Appendix 1 1 A was amended by Decision No 2 /79; whereas thp said
  Decisions apply until 31 Decenber 1982 ;
 Whereas it has been found necessary to provide for use of the said form beyond that
 date ; whereas the term of validity of the aforementioned Decisions should, therefore ,
 be extenaedT)
 HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
 ---pagebreak---                                           Article 1
The Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Austrian Republic
on the application of the rules on Community transit is hereby amended as follows :
Article 13(1 ) shall be replaced by the following :
" 1 . The provisions set out in square brackets in Appendices I and II and listed
      below shall not apply :
      Appendix I : Article 1(4 ) and ( 5 ); Article 2(2 ), second subparagraph ;
                     Articles 3 , 4 and 10 ; Article 12(1 ), last sentence ; Article 22(1 ),
                     last sentence ; Article 26(2 ); Article 29 ; Article 30(3 ); Article
                     32(1 ), second subparagraph , and ( 3 ); Article 39(1 ), last sentence ;
                     Article 41 ; Article 44(1 ) and ( 2 ); Article 47 ; Article 48-2 );
                     Articles 50 to 53 and 55 to 61 ;
      Appendix II : Article 1(3 ), ( 6 ), first sentence , and ( 9 ); Article 2(11 );
                     Artide 4 ; Artide 7(3 ); Articles 10 to 14 ; Artide 15(2 ); Artide
                     22 ; Artide 24(5 ), second subpa ragraph , last sentence ; Articles 27
                     to 34 ; Artide 35(a ); Artide 42(2 ) and ( 4 ); Artide 50(a ); Artide
                     50i(2 ), ( 3 ), ( 3a ), second subparagraph , second sentence and ( 5 );
                     Artide 51 ; Artide 54 , second paragraph ; Artide 68(1 ); Artide
                     68a to 68d ; Artide 74 .
  However , the provisions of Articles 4 , 41 , 44(1 ) and ( 2 ), 47 , and 50 to 53 of
  Appendix I and of Article 24(5 ), second subparagraph , last sentence , 27 to 34 ,
 35(a ), 42(2 ) and ( 4 ), 50(a ), 50i(2 ), ( 3 ), ( 3a ), second subparagraph , second sentence ,
 and ( 5 ), 51 , 54 , second paragraph , 68(1 ), 68a to 68d, and 74 of Appendix II shall
 continue to apply in the Member States ".
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                                                                        )>
                                                                          I
                                             Article 2
Appendix I to the Agreement 13 hereby amended as follows :
1 . Article 1 ( 3 ) ( b ) shall be replaced by the following :
    "( b ) goods coming under the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel
           Community which under the terms of that Treaty are in free circulation
           within the Community , hereinafter referred to as " Community goods ";".
2 . The following paragraph shall be added to Article 1 :
    "£T. The provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
           relating to the free movement of goods shall apply to those goods which ,
           in accordance with point ( b ) of Article 1(2 ),    are carried under the
           transit procedure for external Community transit and are not exported to a
           third country provided that an internal Community transit document , delivered
           as evidence of the Community status of the goods after the cancellation of
           the customs export formalities relating to the Community measures which
           made exportation of these goods to a third country necessary, is produced !^"
3 . Article 7(1 ) shall be replaced by the following :
    " 1 . By way of derogation from Article 1 , the Community transit procedure shall
          not apply to the carriage of goods under cover of TJR carnets ( TIR Convention )
          or the Rhine Manifest ( Article 9 of the revised Convention for the navigation
          of the Rhine ) on condition that the carriage of goods began or is to end
          outside the Community ."
A. The second subparagraph of Article 7(3 ) shall be replaced by the following :
    " The internal Community transit document shall bear a reference to the procedure
      used and the corresponding document ."
5 . Article 15 shall be deleted .
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                                            - 4 -
 6 . The following paragraph shall be added to Article 26 :
     " 3 . Where the goods are produced at the office of destination after expiry of
            the time limit prescribed by the office of departure and where this failure
           to comply with the time limit is due to circumstances which are explained to
           the satisfaction of the office of destination and wdiich are beyond the control
           of the carrier or the principal , the latter shall be deemed to have complied
           with the time limit prescribed ."
 7 . The second paragraph of Article 35 shall be replaced by the following :
     " When the guarantor has not been notified by the competent customs authorities
       of the Member State of departure of the non-discharge of the T1 document , he
       shall likewise be released from his obligations upon expiry of a period of 12
       months from the date of registration of the T1 declaration ."
 8 . The following paragraph shall be added to Article 35 :
     " Where , within the period provided for in the second paragraph , the guarantor
       has been notified by the competent customs authorities of the non-discharge of
       the T1 document , he must , in additionbe informed that         is or may be liable to
       pay the amounts for which he is liable in respect of the Community transit operation
       in question . This notification must reach the guarantor not later than three
       years after the date of registration of the T1 declaration . Where no such
       notification has been made before the expiry of tne aforementioned period , the
       guarantor shall likewise be released from his obligations ."
 9 . Article 42(2 ) shall be replaced by the following :
     " 2 . The provisions of Articles 19(2 ) and ( 3 ), 21 , 22 arid 41 shall pot apply to the
           carriage of goods by rail ."
10 . Article 44(2 ) shall be replaced by the following :
     "2 . Paragraph 1 shall not apply :
           - when the goods are subject to Community measures entailing control of
              their use or destination , or
           - when the carriage    of goods by sea , under a single contract of carriage ,
              is to be followed , beyond the port of unloading , by carriage by land or
              inland waterway under a transit procedure except when carriage beyond that
              port is to be effected , in pursuance of Article i'(2 ), under the Rhine
              Manifest procedure!7 "
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11 . Article 4^(2 ) "hall be replaced by the following!
      " 2 . In c*s*>s where a Community transit procedure is used for carriage
            effectod wholly or partly by air , no guarantee need be furnished to
            cover the air portion of the journey of goods carried by undertakings
            authorized to undertake such carriage by scheduled or non-scheduled
            services in Member States ."
12 . The second subparagraph of Article 5l(2 ) shall be deleted .
13 . Article 57 ( l)(a ) shall be replaced by the following:
      "( a ) for the implementation of this Regulation , with the exception of
             Articles 1 , 5 , 6 , 21 , 22 , 26 to 31 , 33 , 36 , 37 and 40; ".
14 . The last subparagraph of Article 57 ( 1 ) shall be deleted .
                                         Article 3
Appendix II to the Agreement is hereby amended as follows !
 1 . ( a ) The title which precedes Article 26 is deleted ,
      (b ) Artiole 26 is repealed .
 2. Article 48 shall be replaced by the followingi
     " Article 48
     Goods which are carried under the provisions of Articles 46(1 ) or 47 ( 1 ) shall
     be considered as moving under the external Community transit procedure unless
     an internal Community transit document T2L , completed so as to establish the
     Community nature of the goods concerned , is submitted in respect thereof."
 3 . Article 5O0 shall be replaced by the followingi
     " Article SOo
     Goods which are carried -under the provisions of Articles 50m(l ) or 5^n(l )
     shall be considered as moving under the external Community transit procedure
     unless an internal Community transit document T2L f completed so as to establish
     the Community nature of the goods concerned , is submitted in respect thereof."
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                                           - 6 -
4. Article 53(2 ) shall be replaced by the following !
    w 2 . In this case , a reference to the Community transit document or documents
          UBed shall be clearly entered in box 32 or box 20 respectively at the
          time when the International Consignment Note or the International Express
          Parcels Consignment Note is filled in . This reference Bhall specify the
          type , office of issue , date and registration number of each document jiBed .
          In addition , copy No 2 of the International Consignment Note qr of the
          International Express Parcels Consignment Note shall be stamped by the
          railway authority responsible for the last railway station involved in
          the Community transit operation . The authority shalLl stamp th* document
          after ascertaining that carriage of the goods is covered by tl*e Community
          transit document or documents referred to ."
5 . The following text shall be inserted after Article 68c »
                           "PROVISIONS RELATING TO RAILWAY WAGONS
          / Article 68d
    Without prejudice to the provisions applicable to the temporary importation of
    railway wagons , the provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Economic
    Community regarding the free movement of goods shall apply to all goods wagons
    belonging to a railway company of a Member State of the Community i
    (a ) provided that the code number and ownership mark (distinguishing letters )
          displayed on them establish their Community nature beyond all doubt ; or
    (b) in other cases , if an internal Community transit document is produced,^
                     )                                  /
 ---pagebreak---  Annex XIV shall be deleted .
                              / Article 4
 Decisions No 2/78 and No 2/79 of the Joint Committee, first extended, by Decision
ffe l/80 of the Joint Committee are hereby extended until 31 December 1984. 7
                                Article 5
This decision shall enter into foroe on 1 January 1983 «
 Done at Brussels .                       For the Joint Ccnimittee
                                              The Chairman.