CELEX: 51975PC0212
Language: en
Date: 1975-05-14
Title: proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION accepting the Customs Cooperation Council's recommendation of 1 January 1975 (SITC/BTN Rev. 2) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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Vol. 1975/0078
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                                                      COM(75 ) 212 final
                                                      Brussels , 14 May 1975
                                    proposai for a
                                   COUNCIL DECISION
                     accepting the Customs Cooperation Council 's
               recommendation of 1 January 1975 ( SITC/BTN Rev. 2 )
                   ( submitted, to the Council "by the Commission)
   COM(75 ) 212 final
 ---pagebreak---                           E;LPL/,NATORY MÉMORANDUM
                     The United Nations and other national and inter­
national bodies publish their external trade statistics in terms of
the Standard International Trade Classification ( SITC ).
                     In order to collect the data necessary for com­
piling these statistics a correlation must be established between
the SITC and the subheadings of the statistical and tariff nomencla­
tures which are in fact the means of obtaining these data .
                     The Common Customs Tariff of the Community , like
many other customs tariffs , is based on the Brussels Nomenclature
( BTN ) , the administration of which is the responsibility of the
Customs Cooperation Council ( CCC ) .
                     The CCC has made a recommendation to its member
countries , as well as to the customs and economic unions which certain
of them have set up , to incorporate in their customs tariffs or in
their statistical nomenclatures subheadings which will allow a corre­
lation between the BTN and the SITC , of which a second revision was
recently produced .
                     This Draft Council Decision is designed to enable
the Member States and the Community , to which the above-mentioned
recommendation was addressed , to notify their acceptance and the date
of implementation to the Secretary General of the CCC .
 ---pagebreak---       Council Decision accepting the Customs Cooperation Council 's
    recommendation of 1 January 1975 designed to enable international
     trade statisti.es collected en the basis of the Brussels Nomen­
     clature to be expressed in terms of the second revision of the
               -Standard International Trade Classification
THiJ 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 the Member States , are Contracting Parties to the Brussels Con­
vention of 15 December 1950 on the nomenclature for the tariff classifi­
cation of goods ( the Brussels Nomenclature ) ; .
Whereas they have also accepted the Customs Cooperation Council 's recom­
mendation of 8 December 19^0 on the equivalence between the Brussels
Nomenclature and the revised Standard International Trade Classification
which was adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Committee in
I960 ; and whereas the statistics on the external trade of the Community
and on the trade between its Member States must therefore conform to the
present or future version of the Brussels Nomenclature in order that
the statistics on the external trade of the Community and on the trade
between Member States may be provided in terras of the two world nomencla
tures mentioned above ;
Whereas a second version of the said Classification was also adopted by
the Statistical Commission of the United Nations Economic and Social
Council at its October 197^ sessions ;
Whereas on 1 January 1975 the Customs Cooperation Council addressed a
Recommendation to States which are Contracting Parties to the Convention
as well as to the customs and economic unions set up by certain of them ,
to incorporate in their Customs tariffs or in their statistical nomen­
clatures the subheadings listed in the annex to the said Recommendation
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 oi* at least to take appropriate steps to enable statistical data to
 be reported to the United Nations agencies concerned on the basis of
 these subheadings ?                      ' -
 HAS DECIDED AS 'FOLLOWS J             T'     * "
                              Sole Article
:The Customs Cooperation Council 's Recommendation of 1 January 1975
 designed to enable international trade statistics collected on the-
 basis of the Brussels Nomenclature to be expressed in terms of the
 second revision of the Standard International Trade Classification
 shall be accepted in the name of the Community with a view to its being
 implemented with effect from 1 January 197 6 *
 The Commission shall inform the Secretary General of the CCC of this
 acceptance ,           '■
 Pone at Brussels ,               .                   For the Council
                  • - - •                            . The President