CELEX: 51982PC0859
Language: en
Date: 1982-12-23
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) LAYING DOWN CERTAIN MEASURES FOR THE STADARDIZATION AND SIMPLIFICATION OF STATISTICS OF TRADE BETWEEN MEMBER STATES

No C 21/4                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                   26. 1.83
                                                              II
                                                     (Preparatory Acts)
                                               COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down certain measures for the standardization
                             and simplification of statistics of trade between Member States
                           (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 January 1983)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Council Regulation (EEC) No 1445/72 (3), as
COMMUNITIES,                                                       amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3065/75 (4),
                                                                   should no longer apply for the purposes of statistics
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       of trade between Member States;
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 235 thereof,                                               Whereas such standardization and simplification is
                                                                   necessary for attaining one of the objectives of the
                                                                   Community; whereas the Treaty has not provided the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No . . .
                                                                   necessary powers and this Regulation must, therefore,
simplifying customs formalities in trade within the
                                                                   be based on Articles 235 thereof,
Community,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No . . .
introducing a specimen declaration form to be used in                                           Article 1
intra-Community trade,
                                                                   1.     Statistics of trade between Member States shall
                                                                   include all goods:
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                   A. sent from the Member State of consignment:
Having regard to the opinion of the European
Parliament,                                                             (a) in which they are for home use under fiscal
                                                                            legislation;
Whereas, in order to strengthen the domestic market,                    (b) in which they were manufactured but are not
Regulation (EEC) No . . . replaces by a single                              for home use under fiscal legislation;
document the forms now used for consignment,                            (c) in which they are subject to inward processing
internal Community transit, entry of goods for                               arrangements in the unaltered state, as
consumption and application of any other procedure                           compensating products or as intermediate
in the Member State of destination;                                         products under the terms of Council Directive
                                                                             69/73/EEC (s) and in accordance with
Whereas it is essential to define the subject of                            Articles 2 and 3 of Commission Directive
statistics of trade between Member States in such a                          73/95/EEC( 6 );
way that it is clearly distinguishable from the subject
of external trade statistics of the Community;                     B. (a) in free circulation under customs legislation
                                                                             and registered for home use under fiscal
                                                                             legislation in the Member State of destination;
Whereas it is also necessary to lay down the data on
trade between the Member States to be collected and                     (b) for transfer from the Member State of
compiled and the relevant definitions;                                       consignment to the Member State of
                                                                             destination under the definition of inward
Whereas the purpose of introducing a single                                  processing in Directive 69/73/EEC and in
 document includes standardization and simplification                        accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of Directive
 of the statistics of trade between Member States,                           73/95/EEC, either for further processing or
which in turn requires that some of the provisions of                        to be registered for free circulation under
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 ('), as                                 customs legislation.
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2345/77 (2), and
                                                                    (») OJ No L 161, 17. 7. 1972, p. 1.
                                                                    (4) OJ No L 307, 27. 11. 1975, p. 1.
0) OJ No L 183, 14. 7. 1975, p. 3.                                  (*) O J N o L 5 8 , 8. 3. 1969, p. 1.
O OJ No L 329, 22. 12. 1977, p. 3.                                  (4)  OJ No L 120, 7. 5. 1975, p. 17.
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2.     Articles 3 to 9 shall apply to the goods defined       statistical territory of the Member State of
in paragraph 1 under A (a) and (b) and B (a), here-           consignment or by which they reach the statistical
inafter referred to as 'goods'. Goods mentioned in            territory of the Member State of destination.
paragraph 1 under A (c) and B (b) shall be registered
in statistics of trade between Member States, but              2.     The types of transport shall be as follows:
Articles 3 to 9 shall not apply to them.
                                                                                Description                   Code No
                         Article 2
                                                              a) Sea                                             1
In this Regulation, the cases set out in Article 1 (1)        b) Rail                                            2
under A shall come under the heading 'consignment'            c) Road                                            3
and those under B under the heading ' e n t r / .
                                                              d) Air                                             4
                         Article 3                            e) Fixed transport installations                   7
                                                              f) Inland waterway                                 8
The Member State of consignment shall be taken to
mean the Member State from which the goods are
sent under the procedure provided for in Regulation
                                                               3.     If the type of transport stated is listed         in
(EEC) No . . .
                                                              paragraph 2 (b), (c), (d) or (f), it should also          be
                         Article 4                             indicated whether the goods are transported              in
                                                               containers within the meaning of Article 15 (3)          of
The Member State of destination shall be taken to              Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75.
mean the Member State to which the goods are sent
under the procedure provided for in Regulation
(EEC) No . . . .                                                                          Article 7
                         Article 5                             1.     The Community and the Member States shall
                                                              compile the data referred to in Article 5 under (a),
For each heading of the NIMEXE, the following                  (b), (c), (d), (e) and (g).
shall be indicated in the statistical information
                                                               2.     The data referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
medium:
                                                              compiled for all goods which are the subject, in
(a) on entry, the Member State of consignment;                 accordance with Article 1 (1), of statistics of trade
(b) on      consignment,     the    Member      State  of     between Member States, with the exception of those:
     destination;                                              (a) included in the list of exceptions given             in
(c) the net weight of the goods in accordance with                  Annex B to Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75;
     Article 15 (1) (4) of Regulation (EEC) No                 (b) whose value and weight are below the statistical
      1736/75, or, for goods defined in accordance                  threshold defined in Article 24 of that Regu-
     with Article 41 of that Regulation, the net weight             lation;
     with immediate wrappings in accordance with
     Article 15 (2) and (4) of that Regulation;                (c) to which Article 27, 28 (1), 29, 30, 31 or 32 of
                                                                    that Regulation or similar provisions adopted
 (d) for goods defined in accordance with Article 41                pursuant to Article 33 thereof apply.
     of Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75, other units of
     measurement supplementary to, or instead of, the
     net weight or net weight with immediate                                               Article 8
     wrappings, in accordance with Article 16 of that
     Regulation;                                               1.     Articles 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 (1)
                                                               and (2), 42 and 47 of Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75
 (e) the price of the goods or, if this is not known, the
                                                               and Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1445/72 shall
      normal value, both within the meaning of Article
                                                               not apply to statistics of trade between Member
      11 of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC (');
                                                               States.
(f) where applicable, special movements of goods
     under the terms of Article 19 of Regulation               2.     In addition to the data referred to in Article 5,
     (EEC) No 1736/75;                                         Member States may collect and compile further data
                                                               for the purposes of statistics of trade between
(g) the type of transport in accordance with Article 6.        Member States, provided that such data appear on
                                                               the form provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
                         Article 6
                                                               3.     For the application to statistics of trade between
 1.    'Type of transport' shall be taken to mean the
                                                               Member States of the remaining Articles of the Regu-
active type of transport by which the goods leave the
                                                               lations referred to in paragraph 1, 'export' and
                                                               'import' shall be taken to mean 'consignment' and
O O J N o L 145, 13.6. 1977, p. 1.                             'entry' respectively.
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                         Article 9                          2. The rules of the Member States in this matter
                                                            shall continue to apply up to the date of entry into
1. Provisions for the standardization and                   force of the provisions referred to in the first sub-
simplification of:                                          paragraph of paragraph 1.
(a) statistical information;
(b) the statistical information medium, in so far as
    the data to be supplied under the terms of this                                 Article 10
    Regulation are concerned, shall be adopted in
    accordance with the procedure referred to in            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
    Article 41 of Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75.              day following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                            the European Communities.
Provisions for the implementation of this Regulation
shall be adopted in accordance with the same                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
procedure.                                                  directly applicable in all Member States.