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Date: 1977-07-29
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation derogating in favour of Denmark from Regulation (EEC) No 1445/72 concerning the nomenclature of goods for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States (NIMEXE) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                              COM(77)369 final
                                              Brussels , 29 July 1977
           Proposal for a Council Regulation derogating in favour of
           Denmark from Regulation ( EEC) No 1445/72 concerning the
           nomenclature of goods for the external trade statistics
           of the Community and statistics of trade between Member
           States ( NIMEXE )
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(77) 369 final
 ---pagebreak---                      REASONS FOR THE PROPOSAL
 1 . Council Regulation (EEC ) No 3065/75 of 24 November 1975 amending Regulation
       ( EEC ) No 1445/72 concerning the nomenclature of goods for the external
      trade - statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member
      States (NIMEXE ) requires the Member States to apply NIMEXE in its entirety
      from 1 January 1978 onwards .
 2 . However , when this Regulation was adopted , the following declaration was
      recorded in the Council 's minutes : " The Member States and the Commission
      agree that , in view of the special problems likely to be brought about in
      Denmark by the full application of NIMEXE as from 1978 , the question whether
      this date should be deferred in the case of Denmark will be examined before
      the end of 1977 ".
3 . In a memorandum dated 21 September 1976 , the Permanent Representation for
      Denmark explained to the Commission the special difficulties still being
      experienced in efforts to introduce NIMEXE instead of Denmark 's own classi­
      fication , on which both external trade statistics and industrial statistics
   . are based . It Stressed that taking premature measures to solve Denmark 's
      nomenclature problems would simply mean that the whole question would pro­
     bably have to be re-opened when the time came "for the Member States to in­
     corporate into their national classifications the integrated classification
     being devised by the - Commission departments and , at some time in the future ,
     to adopt the Customs Co-operation Council 's harmonized system for the desig­
     nation and: coding of goods . It would therefore be reasonable to authorize
     Denmark not to comply with the above-mentioned provisions until
     1 January 1980 at the earliest .
4 . Nevertheless , in the same memorandum , Denmark confirmed its resolve to
     abide by the commitments entered into by Member States under Article 38 ,
     paragraphs 1 and 2 and Article 34 a ) of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1736/75
     of 24 June 1975 on the external trade statistics of the Community and
     statistics of trade between Member States . The supply to the Commission of
     data on Danish external trade would therefore be unaffected by permitting
     that Member State to postpone the complete application of NIMEXE .
5 . Measures should therefore be taken to allow for the continuation of the
     current Danish procedure for designating imported and exported goods
     without endangering the progress already achieved at Community level
     with regard to uniform automatic processing of information on external trade .
 ---pagebreak---  Proposal for a Council Regulation derogating in favour of Denmark from •
     Regulation (EEC ) No 1445/72 concerning the nomenclature of goods for the
 external trade statistics of the Community and statistics pf trade between
 Member States (NIMEXE )
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
 and in particular Article 235 thereof ,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ,
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 1445/72 of 24 April 1972 concerning the
 nomenclature of goods for the external trade statistics of the Community and
 statistics of trade between Member States (NIMEXE ) ( 1 ) has been amended by
 Regulation (EEC ) No 3065/75 of 24 November 1975 ( 2 ) ;    whereas , when the
 latter . Regulation was adopted , the following declaration was recorded in the
Council 's minutes against Article 2(3), as then amended : "The Member States and
 the Commission . agree that , in view of the special problems likely to be
raised         ' in Denmark by the full application bf NIMEXE as from 1978 , the
question whether this date should be deferred in the case of Denmark will be
examined before the end of 1977 " ;
Whereas such examination has shown that special problems will arise if Denmark
is required to use NIMEXE at the data collection stage during the period
1    January 1977 . to    31    December 1979 J
Whereas , in these circumstsince s , it is appropriate to postpone for two years the
application of NIMEXE at the data collection stage ^nd whereas such postpone­
ment does not       jeopardize                    Regulation ( EEC ) No 1445/72
as amended nor Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1736/75 of 24 June 1975
on the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade
between Member States (3 ), and in particular Articles 38(l ) and ( 2) auzd
34(a) thereof, .     -v :
(1 ) OJNoL 161 , 17.7.1972 , p. 'l
(2 ) WNol 307 , 27.11.1975 , p. 1
(3 ) OJ No L 183 , 14.7.1975 , p. 3
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATIONJ
                         Article 1
By way of derogation from Article 2 ( 3 ) of Regulation (EEC ) NO 1445/72 ,
Denmark may continue until 31 December 1979 "to use its national nomen­
clature solely at the data collection stage for the external trade
statistics of the Community and statistics of trade "between Member States .
                         Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into foroe on 1 January 1978 *
ThiB Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States,
                                          Done at Brussels .
                                          Por the Council
                                           The President