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Date: 1981-05-06 00:00:00
Title: Recommendation for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3237/76 on the advance implementation of the Technical Annexes and the advance use of the specimen TIR carnet of the Customs Convention on the international transport of goods under cover of TIR carnets (TIR Convention) of 14 November 1975, Geneva (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                             Recommendation for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
          amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 3237 / 76 on the advance
          implementation of the Technical Annexes and the advance
          use of the specimen TIR carnet of the Customs Convention
          on the international transport of goods under cover of
          TIR carnets ( TIR 'Convention ) of 14 November 1975 , Geneva
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                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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 C0M(81 ) 211 final
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 1 . In accordance with the resolution whioh the conference on the revision
      of the Customs Convention on the international transport of goods
     under cover of TIR carnets , meeting in Geneva from 3 to 14 November
      1975 » adopted at the conclusion of its work , the European Economic
             \                                                        .
      Community decided on advance implementation of the provisions of the
      Technical Annexes and of the specimen TIR parnet of the TIR Convention
     adopted on 14 . November 1975 *
2. This advance implementation was enacted in Council Regulation EEC No
     3237/76 of 21 December 1976 .
3 . Since the entry into force of the Regulation , a number of amendments to
     the Technical Annexes and to the rules regarding the use of the TIR
     caraet have been adopted applying the amendment procedure provided
     for in the TIR Convention.
                                          ,                                  »
4. It is in the Community 's interests that the provisions which the
     Community already applies within the framework of the TIR Convention
     should be kept in line with developments in transport techniques ,
     commercial praotioes and the need to combat fraud and that the provisions
     should therefore be amended to reflect such developments . .
        - *    1        .                   .
5 . The purpose of the following draft Regulation , proposed for adoption by
     the Council , is to incorporate such amendments into the relevant
     Community rules.
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 ---pagebreak---               Recommendation for ?     Council Regulation ( EEC ) »
                                            amending
                            , Regulation ( EEC ) NO 3237/76
                                   on the advance implementation
                 of the Technical Annexe s and the advance use
             of the specimen TIR carnet of the Customs Convention
                     on the international transport of goods
                   under cover of TIR carnets ( TIR Convention)
                          of 14 November 1975 » Geneva
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                               .
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
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Having regard to the recommendation from the Commission ,
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3237/76                       (l)   into
effect in the Community the advance implementation of the Technical Annexes
and the specimen TIR carnet of the TIR Convention concluded on 14 November
1975 ;
Whereas a number of amendments have recently been made to the Technical
Annexes and to the rules regarding th^ use of the TIR carnet , under the
amending procedure provided for in the Convention ;
Whereas , in the interests of the Community , such amendments should be
incorporated as soon as possible into the Technical Annexes to the TIR
Convention and into the rules regarding the use of the TIR carnet which
the Community is implementing in advance ;
Whereas one main aim of such amendments is to allow the use of loading
lists in support of the TIR carnet , although such loading lists would not have the
effect of replacing the manifest of the TIR carnet but of simply being
annexed to it ;
( l ) OJ No L 368 , 3i.i2.i976 , p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas Regulation ( EEC ) No 3237/76 should therefore "be amended ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:               ;
                                             Article 1
The Annexes to Regulation ( EEC)_No 3237 / 76 are hereby amended as follows : .
 1 . In Annex I , rule 10(c ) of the Rules regarding the use of the TIR carnet is
       replaced by the following:"(c ) Separate sheets of the same model as the manifest
       or commercial documents providing all the information required by the manifest may
       be attached to the vouchers' in such cases > all the vouchers must contain the follow
      particulars :
         ( i ) the number of sheets attached ( box 10).                              • -
       ( ii ) the number and type of packages or articles and the total gross weight of the
                goods listed on the attached sheets ( boxes 11 to 13 )."
2 . In Annex* 2 / Article 3(8 ) is replaced by the following :
      "8 . The spaces "between the rings and the spaces between the eyelets
              shall not exceed 200 mm. The space may however he greater hut
              shall not exceed 300 mm "between rings and eyelets on ei'b. •? side
              of the upright if the construction of the vehicle and the sheet
              is such as to prevent all access to the load compartment . The
              eyelets shall "be reinforced. "
3 . In Annex 6 ( a ) the following Explanatory Note is inserted after the Introduction :
                                                  .                            ' '         t
              "1 Annex I
               1.10. ( c ) Rules regarding the use of the TIR carnet
                           – Loading lists annexed to the goods manifest
                             No . 10 ( c ) of the rules regarding the use of the TIR
                             carnet permits the use of loading lists as . annexed to
                             the TIR carnet even when , there would otherwise he ,
                         -   enough, space in thd manifest to enter all the goods        ,
    ■                        carri'ed . However , this is permissible only if the
                             loading lists contain all the particulars required
                             by the goods manifest in legible and recognizable
                             form and all other provisions of rule 10" ( c ) are
                             oomplied with."
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    (b ) the following new Explanatory Note is inserted after Explanatory Not *
         2„3„6 . ( b ):
         n8»3 c 8 » Paragraph 8 ~ Spaces laetween the rir.gs and between the
                    eye'J. et s
                    Spaces exceeding 200 nun bat net exceeding 300 mm are
                    acceptable over the uprights if the rings are recessed in
                    the side boards and the eyelets are oval and so small
                    that they can just pass over the rings e "
                                    Article 2
The Commission shall inform the Executive Secretary of the Economic
Commission for Europe of the provisions adopted in Article 1 .
                                    Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into fprce on 1 June 1981 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,
                                          For the Council
                                          The President