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Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1291/77 of 14 June 1977 on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters on the amendment of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit and on the implementation of Decision No 1/77 of the Joint Committee set up under that Agreement

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                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1291/77
                                                      of 14 June 1977
               on the conclusion of the Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters on the amendment
               of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation
               on the application of the rules on Community transit and on the implementation of Decision
                              No 1/77 of the Joint Committee set up under that Agreement
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on
                                                                  the application of the rules on Community transit is
                                                                  hereby approved on behalf of the Community.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                 The text of the Agreement is set out in Annex 1 .
thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the Agreement in the form of an exchange of               The President of the Council is hereby authorized to de­
letters on the amendment of the Agreement between the             signate the person empowered to sign the Agreement in
 European Economic Community and the Swiss Confed­                order to bind the Community.
eration on the application of the rules on Community
transit (*) signed on 23 November 1972 should be con­
cluded; whereas the proposed amendment is the subject
of recommendation 1 /77 of the Joint Committee set up
under that Agreement;
                                                                                           Article 3
Whereas it should be stipulated that Decision No 1/77
                                                                  Decision No 1/77 of the Joint Committee set up under
                                                                  the Agreement between the European Economic Com­
of the Joint Committee takes effect at the same time as           munity and the Swiss Confederation on the application
the Agreement to be concluded,                                    of the rules on Community transit shall take effect in
                                                                  the Community at the same time as the Agreement re­
                                                                  ferred to in Article 1 .
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                  The text of the Decision is set out in Annex 2.
                         Article 1
 The Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters on
                                                                                           Article 4
 the amendment of the Agreement between the European
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day follow­
                                                                  ing its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
 H OJ No L 294, 29. 12. 1972, p. 1 .                              pean Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
           Done at Luxembourg, 14 June 1977 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                     T. BENN
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                                                     ANNEX 1
                                                  AGREEMENT
          in the form of an exchange of letters on the amendment of the Agreement between the
          European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules
                                               on Community transit
                                                                Brussels,
          Your Excellency,
          The Joint Committee set up under the Agreement between the European Economic Com­
          munity and the Swiss Confederation oji the application of the rules on Community transit
          signed on 23 November 1972 has proposed certain amendments to that Agreement in its
          recommendation 1 /77 of 7 March 1977. The proposed amendments are annexed hereto.
          I have the honour to inform you that the Community is in agreement with these amend­
          ments and I would propose that they enter into force on 1 July 197.7. 1 should be grateful if
          you would confirm the agreement of your Government to these amendments and to the date
          for their entry into force.
          Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                         of the European Communities
                                                                Brussels,
           Sir,
          I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today worded as follows:
                'The Joint Committee set up under the Agreement between the European Economic
                Community arid the Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community
                transit signed on 23 November 1972 has proposed certain amendments to that Agree­
                ment in its recommendation 1 /77 of 7 March 1977. The proposed amendments are an­
                nexed hereto.
                I have the honour to inform you that the Community is in agreement with these
                amendments and I would propose that they enter into force on 1 July 1977. 1 should be
                grateful if you would confirm the agreement of the Swiss Confederation to these
                amendments and to the date for their entry into force.'
           I have the honour to confirm the agreement of my Government to the contents of your letter
           and to the date proposed for the entry into force of the amendments.
          Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
                                                                        For the Government of
                                                                        the Swiss Confederation
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                                                          ANNEX
                Amendment to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss
                        Confederation on the implementation of the Community transit regulations
1 . Article 1 ( 1 ):                                               4. Article 8 is replaced by the following:
                                                                       ' 1. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2,
    The words 'Appendices 1 to IX' are replaced by the                 goods whose carriage begins in Switzerland shall be
    words 'Appendices I and II'.
                                                                       considered as moving under the external Commun­
                                                                       ity transit procedure when the provisions of Tide
                                                                       IV, Section I of the Regulation on the provisions
2. The second sentence of the second subparagraph of                   for the implementation of the Community transit
     Article 2 (2) is replaced by the following:                       procedure and for certain simplifications of that
                                                                       procedure (Appendix II) are applied.
    'However, in the case of Articles 1 and 7 of the
    Regulation on Community transit (Appendix I) and                   2 . Subject to the provisions of Article 6 of this
    the first subparagraph of Article 41 of the Regula­                Agreement, the Swiss office of departure shall, in
    tion on provisions for the implementation of the                   respect of goods referred to in Article 1 (3 ) of the
    Community transit procedure and for certain sim­                   Regulation on Community transit (Appendix I), in­
    plifications of that procedure (Appendix II) the                   dicate on sheet 3 of the International Consignment
    word "Community" relates exclusively to the Euro­                  Note that the goods to which it relates are being
    pean Economic Community'.                                          forwarded under the procedure for internal Com­
                                                                       munity transit. Accordingly the office of departure
                                                                       shall enter the symbol "T 2" in box 25 which shall
3 . Article 6 is amended as follows :                                  also be stamped. For goods carried under cover of
                                                                       an International Express Parcels Consignment
                                                                       Note, the symbol "T 2" and the stamp shall be en­
     (a) The second sentence of paragraph 2 is replaced                tered on sheet 4.
         by the following:
                                                                      A reference to the serial numbers of the loading
          'Subject to the provisions of Article 69 (b) and            lists relating to goods referred to in Article 1 (3 ) of
          (c) of the Regulation on provisions for the im­             the Regulation on Community transit (Appendix I)
         plementation of the Community transit proce­                 shall be inserted in box 25 of the International
         dure and for certain simplifications of that pro­            Consignment Note or on the International Express
         cedure (Appendix II) and those of paragraph 4,               Parcels Consignment Note in respect of transac­
         they are also empowered to issue T 2 L docu­                 tions of a kind referred to in Article 9 (2 ) of the
         ments for goods consigned to Switzerland.'                   Regulation on the provisions for the implemen­
                                                                      tation of the Community transit procedure and for
                                                                      certain simplifications of that procedure (Appendix
     (b) Paragraphs 3 and 4 are replaced by the follow^               II­
         ing:
                                                                      3 . Symbol "T 1 " need not be shoWn on either of
         '3. Without prejudice to the provisions of Ar­               the documents mentioned above in respect of goods
         ticle 41 of the Regulation on provisions for the             referred to in Article 1 (2) of the Regulation on
         implementation of the Community transit pro­                 Community transit (Appendix I).
         cedure arid for certain simplifications of that
         procedure (Appendix II), a Community transit              * 4. The provisions of Article 41 of the Regulation
         operation may be terminated at an office other               on provisions for the implementation of the Com­
         than that specified in the T 1 or T 2 document               munity transit procedure and for certain simplifica­
         provided that both offices belong to the same                tions of that procedure (Appendix II) shall not
         Contracting Party. That office shall then be­                apply when the carriage begins in Switzerland or
         come the office of destination.                              when goods enter the Community via Switzerland.'
         4 . Customs offices may not issue T 2 L docu­            5 . Article 9 (2) is replaced by the following:
         ments for goods carried under the procedure for              '2. However, the additional copy referred to
         the international transport of goods under                   above shall not be required when the goods are
         cover - of TIR carnets unless goods to be un­                carried under the conditions laid down in Title IV,
         loaded in the territory of one of the Contracting            Section I of the Regulation on provisions for the
         Parties are carried together with goods to be                implementation of the Community transit proce­
         unloaded in the territory of a non-contracting               dure and for certain simplifications of that proce­
         Party to the Agreement.'                                     dure (Appendix II).'
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 6. Article 11 ( 1 ) is replaced by the following:                              (a), 51, 54 second paragraph, 68 ( 1 ) and 74 of
                                                                               Appendix II shall continue to apply in Member
     ' 1 . In relations between the Community and the                          States.'
     Swiss Confederation, any carriage of goods which
     begins in the Community under the Community                           (b) Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
     transit procedure which must be covered by a
     guarantee which is also valid for the Swiss Confed­                       '3 . A unit of account, for the purposes of
     eration subject to the exemptions provided for in                         applying Articles 22 to 25 of the Regulation on
     Articles 42 ( 1 ), 43 ( 1 ) and 46 (2) of the Regulation                  provisions for the implementation of the Com­
     on Community transit (Appendix I) and in Article                          munity transit procedure and for certain simp­
     26 of the Regulation on provisions for the im­                            lifications of that procedure (Appendix II),
     plementation of the Community transit procedure                           means the value of 0-88867088 gram of fine
     and for certain simplifications of that procedure                         gold.'
      (Appendix II).'
                                                                       9. Article 16 (2) and (3 ) is replaced by the following:
 7. Article 12 ( 1 ) and (3 ):                                             '2. In particular it shall recommend:
      The words 'Appendix X' are replaced by the words                     (a) amendments to this Agreement other than those
      'Appendix III'.                                                          referred to in paragraph 3 (b) below;
                                                                           (b) any other measure required for its application.
 8 . Article 13 is amended as follows:
      (a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:                        3 . It shall adopt by Decision:
           ' 1 . The provisions set out in square brackets in              (a) amendments to the Appendices to this Agree­
           Appendices I and II and listed below shall not                      ment made necessary by amendments to the
           apply:                                                              rules on Community transit;
                                                                           (b) amendments to the Agreement made necessary
            Appendix I: Article 1 (4); Article 2 (2), second                   by amendments to the Appendices to this
                           subparagraph ; Articles 3 , 4, 8 ,                  Agreement;
                            10; Article 12 ( 1 ) last sentence;            (c) amendments to this Agreement having a direct
                           Article 15 ; Article 22 ( 1 ) last sen­             relationship with the accession to the European
                           tence; Article 26 (2); Article 29 ;                 Communities of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ire­
                           Article 30 (3 ); Article 32 ( 1 ) sec­              land, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain
                           ond subparagraph and (2); Article                   and Northern Ireland.
                           39 ( 1 ) last sentence; Article 41 ;
                           Article 44 ( 1 ) and (2); Article 45            The Contracting Parties shall implement such Deci­
                           (2); Article 47; Article 48 (2); Ar­            sions in accordance with their own rules.'
                           ticles 50 to 53 and 55 to 61 ;
           Appendix II: Article 1 (3 ), 1 (6) first sentence          10. Article 17 is replaced by the following:
                            and 1 ( 9); Article 2 ( 11 ); Article          'The following shall form an integral part of this
                           4 ; Article 7 (3 ); Articles 10 to 14 ;         Agreement:
                           Article 15 (2); Article 22 ; Articles
                           27 to 34 ; Article 35 (a); Article              — Appendices I to III, excluding the provisions in
                           42 (2) and (4); Article 50 (a); Ar­                 square brackets referred to in Article 13 ( 1 );
                           ticle 51 ; Article 54 second para­
                            graph ; Articles 68 ( 1 ) and 74.              — the exchanges of letters in Annexes I to III.'
           However, the provisions of Articles 4, 15 , 41 ,           11 . The Protocol on the application of Article 6 ( 1 ) of
           44 ( 1 ) and (2 ), 47, 50 to 53 of Appendix I and                the Agreement and Annex III to the Agreement are
            of Articles 27 to 34, 35 (a), 42 (2) and (4), 50                revoked. Annex IV becomes Annex III.
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                                                          ANNEX 2
                                                             /
                                                            /
                                                    DECISION No 1 /77
                                 OF THE EEC-SWITZERLAND JOINT COMMITTEE
                                                  — Community transit —
              on the amendment of Appendices I to X to the Agreement between the European Economic
                            Community and the Swiss Confederation on Community transit
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE,                                             HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                                            Article 1
 Having regard to the Agreement between the European
 Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on
 the implementation of Community transit regulations              1 . Appendices I to IX to the Agreement between the
 and in particular Article 16 (3 ) (a) thereof,                   European Economic Community and the Swiss Confed­
                                                                  eration on the implementation of the Community
                                                                  transit regulations shall be replaced by Appendices I and
                                                                  II to Annex I to this Decision .
 Whereas the various legal acts adopted by the Council
arid the Commission of. the European Communities                  The specimen in Annex II to this Decision shall be sub­
have been consolidated in order to simplify reference to          stituted for specimen IV in Appendix X. Appendix X
the regulations on Community transit as they are                  thus amended shall become Appendix III.
applied within the Community;
                                                                  2 . Guarantee certificates issued before 1 July 1977
                                                                  remain valid until 30 June 1978 .
Whereas for both legal and practical reasons the same
                                                                  3 . Decisions No 2/73 and No 3 /73 of 4 December
provisions as operate within the Community should
                                                                  1973 and Decisions No 2/74 and No 3 /74 of 6.
also operate under the said Agreement; whereas the
Agreement and the Appendices thereto must be adapted              November 1974 are hereby repealed.
for this purpose;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the amendments to the Agreement itself are the            This Decision shall enter into force at the same time as
subject of recommendation 1 /77 which the Joint Com­              the amendments to the Agreement in recommendation
mittee has addressed to the Contracting Parties;                  1 /77 of 7 March 1977 .
Whereas the amendments to Appendices I to X laid                  Done at Brussels, 7 March 1977.
down in this Decision are directly connected with the
amendments to the Agreement proposed in the said
recommendation ; whereas it therefore seems advisable                                          For the Joint Committee
for the amendments to the Appendices to take effect at                                                The Chairman
the same time as the amendments to the Agreement it­
self,                                                                                                   K. PINGEL
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                                                             ANNEX I
                                                            Appendix I
                                                Regulation on Community transit
                                            (EEC) No 222/77 of 13 December 1976
                              TITLE I                                [4. For the purposes of the provisions of the Treaty
                                                                      establishing the European Economic Community
                         General provisions                           which relate to the free movement of goods, and
                                                                      subject to the provisions of Articles 2 (2), 7 (3), 8 (b),
                                                                      47, 48 (2) and 49 (2) of this Regulation, goods
                              Article 1                               properly imported into the territory of a Member
                                                                      State across an internal frontier shall be deemed to
                                                                      be Community goods unless an external Community
     1 . The Community transit procedure shall apply to                transit document is produced in respect- thereof.]
    movement of the goods referred to in paragraphs 2
 . and 3 between two points situated in the Community.
    It includes a procedure for external Community
. transit and a procedure for internal Community
    transit.                                                                                 Article 2
  <
    2. The procedure for external Community transit
    shall apply to movement of the following goods :                  1 . By way of derogation from Article 1, the Com­
                                                                     munity transit procedure shall not apply to move­
     ( a) goods which do not satisfy the conditions laid             ments of goods under a temporary importation or
          down in Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty                     temporary admission procedure.
          establishing the European Economic Community ;
    ( b ) goods which , though satisfying the conditions laid
          down in Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty                    2. The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
          establishing the European Economic Community,              European Economic Community which relate to the
          have ' been subject to customs export formalities          free movement of goods shall apply only to move­
          for the grant of refunds for export to third               ments of goods under an international procedure of
          countries pursuant to the common agricultural              temporary importation or temporary admission if an
          policy ;                                                   internal Community transit document is produced
                                                                     which has been issued to establish . the Community
    (c) goods coming under the Treaty establishing the               status of these goods.
          European Coal and Steel Community which under
          the terms of that Treaty are not in free circulation
          in the Community .                                        [However, under conditions to be determined under
                                                                     the procedure prescribed in Article 57, such goods
                                                                     may be regarded as Community goods without the
    3 . The procedure for internal Community transit                 production of such a document!] .
    shall apply to movement of the following goods, if
    they are subject to customs, tax, economic or
    statistical measures or any other measures relating
    to trade :
  ( a ) goods which satisfy the conditions laid down in                                     [Article 3
         Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty establishing the
         European Economic Community (hereinafter
         referred to as 'Community goods'), except the                1 . By way of derogation from Article 1 , each
         goods referred to in paragraph 2 (b); '                     Member State may apply a national procedure instead
                                                                     of the external or internal Community transit pro­
    (b) goods coming under the Treaty establishing the               cedure in respect of goods referred to in Article 1 (2)
          European Coal and Steel Community which                    and (3 ) during carriage within its territory, or from
          under the terms of that Treaty are in free                 one of its ports to another if carriage is effected by
          circulation within the Community.                          sea .
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  2. A Memlber State exercising this option shall                State, when the customs authorities apply a special
  ensure that Community measures applicable to the               control procedure, shall be considered to be under
  goods are implemented.                                         the procedure of international transit by rail on
                                                                 condition that carriage is effected under cover of a
                                                                 single transport document.
  3 . For purposes of paragraph 1 , the territory of the
  Benelux Economic Union shall be considered to be
  the territory of one Member State.]                            2. In the case of Rhine traffic, carriage of goods may
                                                                 be effected provisionally under the procedure of the
                                                                 Rhine Manifest, even if that carriage of goods began
                                                                 and is to end within the Community.
                         [Article 4
                                                                3 . The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
  1 . If the subsequent carriage of goods, dealt with           European Economic Community which relate to free
 under a national procedure in accordance with                  movement of goods shall apply to the movement of
 Article 2 ( 1 ) or 3 entails the crossing of an internal       goods under one of the procedures referred to in
 frontier, such goods are to be placed under the Com­           paragraphs 1 and 2 on condition that they are
  munity transit procedure before crossing that frontier.       accompanied not only by the document required
                                                                under the procedure used but also by an internal
 2. However, under conditions to          be determined         Community transit document issued to establish the
 under the procedure prescribed by        Article 57, the       Community status of the goods.
 provisions of paragraph 1 need not       apply to goods
 which are the subject of temporary       importation or        The internal Community transit document shall bear
 temporary admission.]                                          at the top the reference 'TIR' or 'TIF' or 'Rhine
                                                                Manifest', followed by the date of issue and the
                                                                number of the document required under the pro­
                          Article 5                             cedure used.
 This Regulation shall be without prejudice to agree­
 ments made between Member States concerning                                             [Article 8
 frontier traffic.
                                                                In the absence of an agreement between the Com­
                                                                munity and ia third country whereby goods moving
                         Article 6                              between two points in the Community may be carried
                                                                across that country under the Community transit
                                                                procedure :
 Provided that the implementation of the Community
 measures applicable to the goods is ensured, Member            ( a) the Community transit procedure shall apply to
 States may, within the Community transit procedure,                 goods carried across that third country only if
introduce simplified procedures for certain types of                 the carriage across that country is effected under
 traffic by means of bilateral agreements.                           cover of a single transport document drawn up
                                                                     in a Member State and the operation of that
Such agreements shall be communicated to the Com­                    procedure is suspended in the territory of the
mission and to the other Member States .                             third country;
                                                                (b) Article 7 ( 1 ) and (3 ) shall apply to goods carried
                         Article 7                                   through the territory of the third country, even
                                                                     if carriage of the goods began and is to end within
                                                                     the Community.]
1 . In derogation from Article 1 , the Community
transit procedure shall not apply to carriage of goods
under the procedures of international transport of
                                                                                          Article 9
goods under cover of TIR carnets (TIR Convention ),
international transit by rail- (TIF Convention ) or the
Rhine Manifest (Article 9 of the revised Convention            Where, in the cases provided for in this Regulation,
for the navigation of the Rhine) on condition that             the provisions of the Treaty establishing the
carriage of goods began or is to end outside the               European Economic Community which relate to free
Community.                                                     movement of goods are only applied on presentation
                                                               of an internal Community transit document issued to
For the purposes of the first subparagraph, carriage           establish the Community status of the goods, the
of goods by rail within the territory of a Member              party concerned may, for any valid reason, obtain
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that document subsequently from the competent                   (f) ' office of guarantee' means the customs office
authorities of the Member State of departure.                        where a comprehensive guarantee is lodged ;
                                                                (g) 'internal frontier' means a frontier common to
                         [Article 10                                 two Member States .
Prohibitions and restrictions on importation, expor­                 Goods loaded in a. seaport of a Member State and
tation and transit issued by the Member States shall                 unloaded in a seaport of another Member State
apply to the extent that they are compatible with the                shall be deemed to have crossed <an internal
three Treaties establishing the European Com­                        frontier provided that the seacrossing is ' covered
munities.]                                                           by a single transport document.
                                                                     Goods coming from a third country by sea and
                          Article 11                                 transhipped in a seaport of a Member State with
                                                                     a view to unloading in a seaport of another
                                                                     Member State shall be deemed not to have
For the purposes of this Regulation :                                crossed an internal frontier.
(a) 'principal' means :
     the person who, in person or through an
                                                                                         TITLE II
     authorized representative, requests permission, in
     a declaration in accordance with the required
     customs formalities, to carry out a Community                      Procedure for external Community transit
     transit operation and thereby makes himself
     responsible to the competent authorities for the
     execution of the operation in accordance with the                                  Article 12
     rules ;
(b) 'means of transport' means, in particular :                  1 . Any goods that are to be carried under the pro­
                                                                cedure for external Community transit shall be
     — any road vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer,                 covered, in accordance with the conditions laid down
                                                                in this Regulation, by a T 1 declaration . ATI
     — any railway car or wagon,                                declaration is a declaration on form T 1 , ac­
                                                                companied, where appropriate, by one or more forms
     — any boat or ship,                                        T 1 bis. [The design of forms T 1 and T 1 bis shall
                                                                be determined in accordance with the provisions of
     — any aircraft,                                            Article 57.]
     — any container within the meaning of the
          Customs Convention on containers ;                    2. The forms T 1 and T 1 bis shall be printed and
                                                                completed in one of the official languages of the
(c) 'office of departure' means the customs office              Community specified by the competent authorities of
     where the Community transit operation begins ;             the Member State of departure. Where necessary, the
                                                                competent authorities of a Member State concerned
                                                                in the Community transit operation may require a
( d) 'office of transit' means :                                translation into the official language or one of the
     — the customs office at the point of entry into            official languages of that Member State.
                                                                                                   4
          a Member State other than the Member State
          of departure,                                         3 . The T 1 declaration shall be signed by the person
                                                                who requests permission to effect an external Com­
     — also the customs office at the point of exit             munity transit operation or by his authorized
          from the Community when the consignment               representative ; and at least three copies of it shall
          is leaving the customs territory of the Com­          be produced at the office of departure.
          munity in the course of a Community transit
          operation via a frontier ibetween a Member
          State and a third country;                            4. The supplementary documents appended to the
                                                                T 1 declaration shall form an integral part thereof.
(e) 'office of destination' means the customs office
     where the goods must be produced to complete               5 . The T 1 declaration shall be accompanied by the
     the Community transit operation ;                          transport document.
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 The office of departure may dispense with production                                     Article 16
 of this document during the customs formalities.
 However, the transport document must be produced                 1 . The same means of transport may be used for
 whenever required by the customs authorities in the             the loading of goods at more than one office of
 course of carriage.                                             departure and for unloading at more than one office
                                                                 of destination .
 6. Where the Community transit procedure in the
 Member State of departure follows another customs               2. Each T 1 declaration shall include only the goods
 procedure, reference shall be made on the T 1                   loaded or to be loaded on a single means of transport
 declaration to that procedure or to the corresponding           for carriage from one office of departure to one
 customs documents .                                             office of destination .
                                                                 For the purposes of the preceding subparagraph the
                          Article 13                             following shall ibe regarded as constituting a single
                                                                 means of transport, on condition that the goods
                                                                 carried are to be dispatched together :
 The principal shall be responsible for :
                                                                 ( a ) a road vehicle (accompanied by its trailer(s) or
 ( a ) the production of the goods intact at the office                semi-trailer(s);
       of destination within the prescribed time limit
       and with due observance of the measures adopted           (b) a line of coupled railway carriages or wagons ;
       by the competent authorities to ensure identifi­
                                                                 (c) iboats constituting a single chain ;
       cation ;
 ( b ) the observance of the provisions relating to the
                                                                 (d ) containers loaded on a means of transport within
                                                                       the meaning of this Article.
       Community transit procedure and to transit in
       each of the Member States in the territory of
       which carriage of the goods is effected .
                                                                                         Article 17
                         Article 14                              1 . The office of departure shall register the T 1
                                                                declaration, prescribe the period within which the
                                                                goods must be produced at the office of destination,
 1 . Each Member State may, subject to conditions               and take such measures for identification as it
which it may prescribe, provide for the use of the              considers necessary.
T 1 document for national procedures.
                                                                2. Having entered the necessary particulars on the
2. The supplementary details included on the T i                T 1 declaration, the office of departure shall retain *
document for that purpose iby a person other than              its copy and return the other to the principal or his
the principal shall be the responsibility of the former,        representative.
in accordance with the national provisions laid down
by law, regulation or administrative action.
                                                                                         Article 18
                        [Article IS
                                                                1 . As a general rule, 'identification of the goods shall
                                                               be ensured by sealing.
1 . Where the goods, 'before they can be dealt with
under the external Community transit procedure, are            2. The following shall be sealed :
required to be the subject of an export or re-export
declaration , that declaration and the Community                ( a) the space containing the goods, when the means
transit declaration shall be combined on a form T 1 ,                 of transport has already been approved under
accompanied, where appropriate, by one or more                        other customs regulations or recognized by the
forms T 1 bis .
                                                                      office of departure as suitable for sealing;
2. Each Member State shall determine, for the                  (b) each individual package, in. other cases.
application of its national rules, which details, other
than those prescribed on form T 1 , should be                  3 . Means of transport may be recognized as suitable
included in the export or re-export declaration in             for sealing on condition that :
the spaces provided for that purpose, as well as the
number of copies to be produced.]                              (a) seals can be simply and effectively affixed to them ;
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 (b) they are so constructed that no goods can be                                         Article 22
     removed or introduced without leaving visible
     traces of tampering or without breaking, the seals;         1 . The carrier shall give each office of transit a
                                                                 transit advice note. [The design of the transit advice
(c) they contain no concealed spaces where goods                 note shall be determined in accordance with the pro­
     may be hidden ;                                             visions of Article 57.]
(d) the spaces reserved for the load are readily ac­             2. The offices of transit shall not inspect the goods
     cessible for customs inspection.                            unless some irregularity is suspected which could
                                                                 result in abuse.
4. The office of departure may dispense with sealing             3 . If, in accordance with the provisions of Article
if, having regard to other possible measures for iden­           19 (2), goods are carried via an office of transit other
tification, the description of the goods in the T 1              than that mentioned in the T 1 document, that office
declaration or in the supplementary documents makes              shall without delay send the transit advice note to
them readily identifiable.                                       the office mentioned in that document.
                         Article 19                                                       Article 23
                                                                 Where goods are loaded or unloaded at any inter­
1 . The copies of the T 1 document delivered to the              mediate office, copies of the T 1 document issued
principal or to his representative by the office • of            by the office(s ) of departure must be produced .
departure must accompany the goods .
2 . Goods shall be carried via the offices of transit                                    Article 24
mentioned in the T 1 document. If circumstances
justify it, other offices of transit may be used.                1 . The goods described on a T 1 document may,
                                                                 without renewal of the declaration, be transferred to
                                                                 another means of transport under the supervision of
3 . For supervision purposes, each Member State may              the customs authorities of the Member State in whose
prescribe transit routes within its territory.                   territory the transfer is made. In such a case, the
                                                                 customs .authorities shall record the relevant details
                                                                 on the T 1 document.
4. Each Member State shall provide the Commission
with a list of the customs offices authorized to deal
with Community transit operations, stating at what               2 . The customs authorities may, subject to such
hours they are open .                                            conditions as they shall determine, authorize such
                                                                 transfer without supervision. In such a case, the
                                                                 carrier shall record the relevant details on the T 1
The Commision shall communicate this information                 document and inform the next customs office at
to the other Member States .
                                                                 which the goods must - be presented, so that the
                                                                 transfer " is  officially   certified by  the  customs
                                                                 authorities .
                         Article 20
                                                                                         Article 25
Copies of the T 1 document shall be produced in
each Member State as required (by the customs                    1 . If seals are broken in the course of carriage
authorities, who may satisfy themselves that the                 without the carrier so intending, he shall, as soon
seals are unbroken. The goods shall not be inspected             as possible, request that a certified report be drawn
unless some irregularity is suspected which could                up in the Member State in which the means of
result in abuse.
                                                                 transport is located, by the customs authority if there
                                                                 is one nearby or, if not, by any other competent
                                                                 authority. The authority concerned shall, if possible,
                                                                 affix new seals .
                         Article 21
                                                                 2. In the event of an accident necessitating transfer
The consignment as well as the copies of the T 1                 to another means of transport the provisions of
document shall be produced at each office of transit.            Article 24 shall apply.
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 If there is no customs authority neatfby, any other            for designating, in each of the Member States through
 approved authority may act in its place under the              which the goods will be carried in the course of
 conditions laid down in Article 24 ( 1 ).                      Community transit, a natural or legal third person
                                                                who also will stand as guarantor for the principal .
 3 . In the event of imminent danger necessitating              Such guarantor must be established in the Member
 immediate unloading of the whole or part of the load,          State in question and must undertake, jointly and
 the carrier may take action on his own initiative. He          severally with the principal, to pay the duties and
 shall record such action on the T 1 document. The
                                                                other taxes chargeable in that State.
 provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply in such case.
                                                                2. The application of paragraph 1 shall be subject
 4. If, as a result of accidents or other incidents             to a qualified majority decision of the Council acting
 arising in the course of carriage, the carrier is not in       on a proposal from the Commission, as a result of
 a position to observe the time limit referred to in            an examination of the conditions under which the
 Article 17, he shall inform the competent authority            Member States have been able to exercise their right
 referred to in paragraph 1 as soon as possible. That           of recovery in accordance with Article 36.
 authority shall then record the relevant details on the
 T 1 document.
                                                                                       [Article 29
                         Article 26                             1 . The guarantee referred to in Article 27 (3 ) shall
                                                                be in the form of one of the specimen guarantees
 1 . The office of destination shall record on the
                                                                shown as Specimen I or II annexed to this Regulation,
                                                                as appropriate.
 copies of the T 1 document the details of controls
 and shall without delay send a copy to the office of           2. Where the provisions laid down by national law,
 departure and retain the other copy.                           regulation or administrative action, . or common
                                                                practice so require, each Member State may allow
[2. The Community transit operation may be con­                 the guarantee to be in a different form, on condition
 cluded at an office other than that mentioned in the           that it has the same legal effects as the documents
 T 1 document. That other office shall then become              shown as specimens.]
 the office of destination.]
                                                                                        Article 30
                         Article 27
                                                                1 . A comprehensive guarantee shall be ilodged in an
 1 . In order to ensure collection of the duties and
                                                                office of guarantee.
 other taxes which each Member State is authorized
                                                                2. The office of guarantee shall determine the
 to charge in respect of goods passing through its              amount of the guarantee, accept the guarantor's
 territory in the course of Community transit, the              undertaking and issue an authorization allowing the
 principal shall furnish a guarantee, except as other­          principal to carry out, within the limits of the
 wise provided in this Regulation .                             guarantee, any Community transit operation irres­
                                                                pective of the office of departure.
 2. The guarantee may be comprehensive, covering
 a number of Community transit operations, or indi­            [3 . Each person who has obtained authorization
 vidual, covering a single Community transit                    shall, subject to the conditions laid down by the
 operation .                                                    competent authorities of the Member States, be
                                                                issued with one or more copies of a guarantee certi­
 3 . Subject to the provisions of Article 33 (2), the           ficate. The design of the guarantee certificate shall
 guarantee shall consist of the joint and several               be determined in accordance with the provisions of
 guarantee of a natural or legal third person establish­
                                                                Article 57.]
 ed dn the Member State in which the guarantee is               4. Reference to this certificate shall be made in each
 provided who is approved as guarantor by that                  T 1 declaration .
 Member State.
                                                                                        Article 31
                         Article 28
                                                                1 . The    office   of   guarantee  may    revoke     the
 1 . The person standing as guarantor under the con­            authorization if the conditions under which it was
 ditions referred to in Article 27 shall be responsible         issued no longer exist.
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 2. Each Member State shall notify the Member                    ( a) goods which have been destroyed as a result of
  States concerned of any revocation of authorizations .              force majeure or unavoidable accident duly
                                                                      proven ; or
                          Article 32
                                                                 (b ) officially recognized shortages arising from the
                                                                       nature of the goods.
 1 . Each Member State may accept that the natural
 or legal third person standing as guarantor under                                        Article 35
 the conditions laid down in Articles 27 and 28
 guarantees, by a single guarantee and for .a flat-rate          The guarantor shall be released from his obligations
 amount of 5 000 uhits of account in respect of each             towards the Member States through which goods
 declaration, payment of duties and other charges                were carried in the course of a Community transit
 which may become chargeable in the course of a                  operation when the T 1 document hias been dis­
 Community transit operation carried out under his               charged at the office of departure.
 responsibility, whoever the principal may be. If
 carriage of the goods presents increased risks, having
 regard in particular to the amount of duties and                When the guarantor has not been notified by the
 other charges to which they are liable in one or more           office of departure of the non-discharge of the T 1
 Member States, the flat-rate amount shall be fixed at           document, he shall be released from his obligations
 a higher level .                                                on the expiration of a period of 12 months from the
                                                                 date of registration of the T 1 declaration.
[The guarantee referred to in the first subparagraph
 shall conform to Specimen III in the Annex.
                                                                                          Article 36
 2. The following shall be determined under the
 procedure laid down in Article 57 :                             1 . When it is found that, in the course of a
                                                                 Community transit operation, an offence or irregu­
 ( a ) the carriage of goods likely to give rise to an           larity has been oommitted in a particular Member
       increase in the -flat-rate amount, and the con­           State, the recovery of duties or other charges which
       ditions under which such an increase shall apply ;        may be chargeable shall be effected by that Member
                                                                 State in accordance with its provisions laid down by
 ( b ) the conditions under which the guarantee referred         law, regulation or administrative , action, without
       to in paragraph 1 shadl apply to any particular           prejudice to the institution of criminal proceedings.
       Community transit operation .]
                                                                 2. If the place of the offence or irregularity cannot
                                                                 be determined, it shall be deemed to have been
                         Article 33                              committed :
                                                                 ( a) when, in the course of a Community transit
 1 . An individual guarantee furnished for a single                   operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
 Community transit operation shall be lodged at the                   at an office of transit situated at an internal
 office of departure.                                                 frontier : in the Member State which the means
                                                                      of transport or the goods have just left;
 2. The guarantee may be a cash deposit. In such a
                                                                 (b) when, in the course of a Community transit
 case, . the amount shall be fixed by the competent
                                                                      operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
 authorities of the Member States, and the guarantee
 must be renewed at each office of transit within the                 at an office of transit within the meaning of the
                                                                      second indent of Article 11 (d): in the Member
 meaning of the first indent of Article 11 (d).
                                                                      State to which that office belongs ;
                                                                 (c) when, in the course of a Community transit
                         Article 34                                   operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
                                                                      in the territory of a Member State elsewhere than
                                                                      at an office of transit : dn the Member State in
 Without prejudice to national provisions prescribing                 which it is detected ;
 other cases of exemption, the principal shall be ex­
 empted by the competent authorities of the Member               (d) when the consignment has not been produced at
 States from payment of duties and other charges in                   the office of destination : in the last Member
 the case of:                                                         State which the means of transport or the goods
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     are shown by the transit advice note to have                                     Article 40
     entered ;
                                                              No guarantee need be given for the part of a transit
 (e) when the offence or irregularity is detected after       operation between the office of departure and the
     the Community transit operation has been con­            first office of transit unless the law of the Member
     cluded : in the Member State in which it is
     detected .
                                                              State in the territory of which the office of departure
                                                              is situated so requires.
                       Article 37
                                                                                     [Article 41
 1 . The T 1 documents issued in accordance with              1 . Goods in respect of which export formalities are
 the rules, and the identification measures taken by          carried out at a frontier customs office of the export­
 the customs authorities of one Member State, shall           ing Member State need not be dealt with under the
 have the siame legal effects in other Member States          Community transit procedure at that office unless
 as the T 1 documents issued in accordance with the -         they are subject to Community measures entailing
 rules and the identification measures taken by the           control of their use or destination .
 customs authorities of each of those Member States.
                                                              In such a case, the only facts which need be given in
 2. The findings of the competent authorities of a            the T 2 declaration are those required for export
 Member State made when inspections are carried out           purposes by the provisions laid down 'by law, regu­
                                                              lation or administrative action in the Member State
 under the Community transit procedure shall have
 the same force in other Member States as findings            of departure.
 of the competent authorities of each of those
 Member States .                                              The customs office of export shall endorse a copy of
                                                             the T 2 document and return it to the exporter or
                                                             his representative, with the unused copies if he so
                       Article 38
                                                             requests. The endorsed copy should be delivered to
                                                             the office of entry in the neighbouring Member
                                                             State. An internal Community transit operation may
 Where necessary, the customs authorities of the             begin at that office of entry, which shall then become
 Member States shall communicate to one another               the office of departure.
 all findings, documents, reports, records of
proceedings and information relating to transport            2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall likewise
 operations carried out under the Community transit           apply to goods crossing an internal frontier within
 procedure and to irregularities and offences in con­        the meaning of the second subparagraph of Article
 nection with that procedure.                                 11 (g)J
                       TITLE III                                                      TITLE IV
       Procedure for internal Community transit                     Special provisions applying to certain modes
                                                                                     of transport
                       Article 39
                                                                                      Article 42
 1 . Any goods that are to be carried under the
procedure for internal Community transit shall be            1 . The railway authorities of the Member States
covered by a T 2 declaration. A T 2 declaration is a         shall be exempt from the requirement to furnish
declaration on form T 2 completed, where appro­              a guarantee .
priate, by one or more forms T 2 bis. [The design of
forms T 2 and T 2 bis shall be determined in                 2. The provisions of Articles 19 (2) and (3 ), 21 and
 accordance with the provisions of Article 57.]              22 shall not apply to the carriage of goods iby rail.
2. Save as otherwise provided in Articles 40 and 41 ,        3 . For the purposes of 'applying Article 36 (2) (d),
the provisions of Tide II shall apply mutatis mutan­         the records kept by the railway authorities shall be
dis to the procedure for internal Community transit.         substituted for transit advice: notes .
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                          Article 43                                                         Article 46
   1 . No guarantee need be furnished for the carriage             1 . The Community transit procedure shall not be
  of goods on the Rhine and the Rhine waterways.                   compulsory for the carriage of goods by pipeline.
                                                                  2. In cases where Community transit procedure is
  2. Each Member State may dispense with the                      used for the carriage of goods by pipeline no
  furnishing of    a guarantee in respect of the carriage          guarantee need be furnished.
  of goods on      other waterways situated in its terri­
  tory. It shall  forward details of the measures taken
  to that effect  to the Commission, which shall inform                                     [Article 47
  the other Member States .
                                                                  The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
                                                                  European Economic Community which relate to the
                          Article 44                              free movement of goods shall not apply to goods
                                                                  which, pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, 45
                                                                   ( 1 ) or 46 ( 1 ), do not circulate under the procedure
 [1 . In derogation from Article 4, goods, the transport          for internal Community transit, unless an internal
  of which involves crossing an internal frontier within          Community transit document issued to establish the
  the meaning of the second subparagraph of Article               Community status of such goods is produced.]
  11 (g), need not be placed under the Community
  transit procedure before crossing the said frontier.
                                                                                              TITLE V
  2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply :
  — when goods are subject to Community measures                      Special provisions applying to postal consignments
       entailing control of their use or destination, or
                                                                                             Article 48
  — when the transport operation is to end in a
       Member State other than the one in which the
       port of unloading is situated, save when transport         1 . In derogation from the provisions of Article 1,
       beyond that port is to be effected, in pursuance           the Community transit procedure shall not apply to
       of Article 7 (2), under the Rhine Manifest                 postal consignments (including postal packages).
       procedure.]
                                                                 [2. The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
                                                                  European Economic Community which relate to the
  3 . When goods have been placed under the Com­
  munity transit procedure before crossing the internal
                                                                  free movement of goods shall apply only to goods
                                                                  contained in consignments sent from a post office
 frontier, the effect of that procedure shall be
                                                                  situated within the Community when no yellow label
  suspended during the crossing of the high seas.                 of the type prescribed in accordance with the
                                                                  provisions of Article 57 is affixed to the packages or
 4. No guarantee need be furnished for the carriage               the accompanying documents. The competent
  of goods by sea.                                                authorities of the Member State of dispatch shall be
                                                                  responsible for affixing such a label or causing it to
                                                                  be affixed to the packages and to the accompanying
                                                                  documents unless the goods satisfy the conditions
                          Article 45                              laid down in Articles 9 and 10 of that Treaty.]
 1 . The Community transit procedure shall not be
 compulsory for the carriage of goods 'by air unless                                         TITLE VI
 they are subject to Community measures entailing
 control of their use or destination .
                                                                         Special provisions applying to goods carried by
                                                                             travellers or contained in their luggage
[2. In cases where Community transit procedure is
 used for carriage wholly or partly by air, no
                                                                                            Article 49
 guarantee need foe furnished to cover the air portion
 of the journey of goods carried by airlines appearing
 on a list to be established under the procedure                  1 . The Community transit procedure shall not be
 prescribed in Article 57.]                                       compulsory for the carriage of goods accompanying
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 travellers or contained in their luggage, if the goods             ( a) the office of departure shall, without delay, send
 concerned are not intended for commercial use.                           a copy of that copy of the T 1 or T 2 document
                                                                          returned to it by the office of destination to the
2. The provisions of the Treaty establishing the                          department in the Member State of. departure
 European Economic Community which relate to the i                        responsible for external trade statistics ; this copy
 free movement of goods shall apply to goods which,                       shall contain all the necessary particulars for the
 pursuant to paragraph 1 , are not carried under the                      statistical recording of the Community transit
 Community transit procedure :                                           ■operation in all the Member . States involved
                                                                          therein ;
 ( a) if they are declared as Community goods and
       there is no ' doubt as to the accuracy of that               (fc) the office of destination shall, without delay, send
       declaration, and if their total value does not                     a copy of that copy of the T 1 or T 2 document
       exceed 300 units of account per traveller ;                        that it retains to the department in the Member
                                                                          State of destination responsible for external trade
 ( b ) in other cases, if an internal Community transit                   statistics ; this copy shall contain all the necessary
       document issued to establish the Community                        particulars for the statistical recording of the
       status of the goods is produced.                                   Community transit operation in all the Member
                                                                          States involved therein ;
                                                                    (c) the department in the Member State of departure
                            TITLE VII                                     responsible for external trade statistics shall,
                                                                         without delay, forward the particulars in the copy ,
                Provisions relating to statistics                         of the T 1 or T 2 document sent to it in accord­
                                                                         ance with the provisions of ( a) above to the
                                                                         departments responsible for external trade
                           [Article 50                                    statistics in all the other Member States involved
                                                                         in the Community transit operation except for the
Where the Community transit procedure is applied,                         Member State of destination.]
 transit and export statistics shall be based on it.]
                                                                                               [Article 53
                           [Article 51
                                                                   The competent customs office shall send without
1 . The T 1 and T 2 documents shall constitute the                 delay to the department in the exporting or re­
source of statistical information in respect of the                exporting Member State responsible for external
movement of gopds carried under the Community                      trade statistics, the copy of the export: or re-export
transit procedure.                                                  document intended for that department.]
2. Where the procedures referred to in Article 7 ( 1 )
and (2) are applied, the documents prescribed for                                               Article 54
those procedures shall be the source of information
for transit statistics .
                                                                   The principal or his authorized representative shall,
                                                                   at the request of the national departments
In the case referred to in the second subparagraph                 responsible for external trade statistics, provide any
of Article 7 ( 1 ) each Member State shall be                      information relating; to the T 1 or T 2 document
responsible for taking the necessary measures to                   necessary for the compilation of such statistics .
secure statistical information .
3 . If a single movement of goods gives rise
successively to the establishment of a national transit                                       [TITLE VIII
document and to a T 1 or T 2 document, only the
latter documents        shall   constitute  the   source   of                [Provisions relating to the Committee on
statistical information.]                                                                  Community Transit
                          [Article 52
                                                                                               [Article 55
Until the Council, on a proposal from the Com­
mission, has laid down provisions on the                           1 . A Committee on Community Transit (hereinafter
standardization of transit statistics :                            referred to as 'the Committee') is hereby set up,
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 consisting of representatives of the Member States                 (b ) If the provisions envisaged are not in accord­
 with a representative of the Commission as chairman.                    ance with the opinion of the Committee, or
                                                                         if no opinion is delivered, the Commission
                                                                         shall without delay submit to the Council
2. The Committee shall adopt its own rules of                            a proposal with regard to the provisions to
procedure.]                                                              be adopted. The Council shall act by a
                                                                         qualified majority.
                        [Article 56                                 (c) If, within three months of the proposal being
                                                                         submitted to it, the Council has not acted,
                                                                         the proposed provisions shall be adopted by
The Committee may examine any question relating                          the Commission.]
to the application of this Regulation submitted to it
by its chairman either on his own initiative or at
the request of the representative of a Member State.]                                    [TITLE IX
                                                                                     [Final provisions
                        [Article 57
                                                                                         [Article 58
1 . The procedure laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3               In derogation from this Regulation, Belgium,
shall be followed for the adoption of the provisions            Luxembourg and the Netherlands may apply to the
necessary :
                                                                Community transit documents the agreements
                                                                concluded or to be concluded 'between them with
(a) for the application of Articles 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 32, 34,      a view to reducing or abolishing frontier formalities
     35, 41 , 45 and 59 ;                                       at the Belgo-Luxembourg and Belgo-Netherlands
                                                                frontiers.]
(b) for the adaptation of the Community transit
     procedure so that certain Community measures
     entailing control of the use or destination of the                                 [Article 59
     goods may be applied ;                                     1 . The Annexes to this Regulation shall form an
                                                                integral part thereof.
(c) for the simplification of formalities under the
     Community transit procedure, in particular in              2. The specimens shown in the Annexes may be
     internal Community transit, or for their                   adapted, in accordance with the procedure laid down
     adaptation to requirements arising from the                in Article 57, to requirements arising from the
     particular nature of certain goods.                        particular nature of certain goods or to technical
                                                                requirements.]
This procedure shall      also be followed in designing
the forms referred to     in Articles 12, 22, 30, 39 and                                [Article 60
48 . Forms the design     of which differs from that of
the specimens which        were annexed to Regulation           Each Member State shall inform the Commission of
(EEC) No 542/69 may be used where - such are                    the provisions which it adopts for the implementation
suggested by requirements arising from the special              of this Regulation.
nature of certain goods, or by technical requirements.
                                                                The Commission shall communicate this information
                                                                to the other Member States.]
2. The representative of the Commission shall
submit to the Committee a draft of the provisions
to be adopted. The Committee shall deliver an                                           [Article 61
opinion on the draft within a time limit set by the
chairman having regard to the urgency of the matter.            1 . Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 is hereby repealed.
Decisions shall be taken by a majority of 41 votes,
the votes of the Member States being weighted as                2. In all Community instruments other than this
provided in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The                  Regulation in which reference is made to Regulation
chairman shall not vote.                                        (EEC) No 542/69, to Articles thereof or to
                                                                implementing Regulations adopted under the
                                                                procedure laid down in Article 58 (2) and (3), such
3 . ( a) The Commis'sion shall adopt the provisions             references shall be treated as references to this
         envisaged if they are in accordance with the           Regulation or to implementing Regulations made
         opinion of the Committee.                              thereunder.]
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                                                           ANNEX I
                                                         Appendix II
                 Regulation on provisions for the implementation of the Community transit procedure and
                                         for certain simplifications of that procedure
                                        — (EEC) No 223/77 of 22 December 1976 —
                                                            TITLE I
                      PROVISIONS RELATING TO FORMS AND THEIR USE IN COMMUNITY
                                                   TRANSIT PROCEDURE
                          SECTION I                                5 . The form to be completed as the receipt, to
                                                                   certify that the Community transit document and/or
                                                                   Control Copy T No 5 and the relevant consignment
                            FORMS                                  have been produced at the office of destination, shall
                                                                   conform to the specimen in Annex VIII and shall
                                                                   be issued and used in accordance with the provisions
                                                                    of Article 15 .
                           Article 1
   1 . The forms on which Community transit
   declarations are made shall correspond, except as               6. [The guarantee certificate for which provision is
   regards spaces reserved for national use, to the                made under Article 30 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC)
   specimens shown in Annexes I to IV. These                       No 222/77 shall conform to the specimen in Annex
   declarations shall be used in accordance with the               IX.] The certificate shall be issued and used in
  provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 and of                  accordance with the provisions of Articles 18 to 21 .
   Articles 3 and 4 of this Regulation.
  2. Loading lists based on the specimen in Annex V                7. The flat-rate guarantee voucher shall conform to
  may ibe used, subject to the conditions of Articles 5            the specimen in Annex X. The entries on the back
  to 9, as the descriptive part of Community transit               of this form may however be shown on the front
• declarations. The use thereof is without prejudice               above the particulars of the individual or firm
  to formalities relating to exportation, re-exportation,          issuing the voucher, the following entries remaining
  importation and re-importation and to the forms                  unchanged. The flat-rate guarantee voucher shall be
   used 'for such formalities .                                    issued and used in accordance with the provisions
                                                                   of Articles 22 to 25 .
[3 . The form to be completed as the special Com­
  munity transit document (hereinafter referred to as              8 . The form on which the internal Community
  ' Control Copy T No 5 ') as proof that goods have                transit document T 2 L is completed to establish the
  been used for a specific purpose and/or have arrived             Community nature of goods not moving under Com­
  at a prescribed destination shall conform to the                 munity transit " procedure shall conform to the
  specimen in Annex VI and shall be issued and used                specimen in Annex XI. The document shall be issued
  in accordance with the provisions of Articles 10 to 13 .]        and used in accordance with the provisions of Title V.
 4. The form to be completed as the transit advice
  note for the purpose of Article 22 of Regulation                [9. The yellow label for which provision is made in
  ( EEC) No 222/77 shall conform to the specimen in                Article 48 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 shall
 Annex VII .                                                       be as shown in the specimen in Annex XII.]
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                         Article 2                              6. The forms shall be printed and completed in one
                                                                of the official languages of the Community.
 1 . The paper used for Community transit declaration
 forms, loading lists, transit advice notes and receipts        In the case of Community transit declaration forms,
 shall be dressed for writing purposes and weigh at             loading lists and the internal Community transit
 least 40 g/m2. The paper used for Community                    document T 2 L, the competent authorities of the
 declarations and loading lists should be sufficiently          Member State of departure shall designate the
 opaque for the information on one side not to affect           language to be used and the competent authorities
 the legibility of the information on the other side.           of another Member State in whdch such documents
 Its strength should be such that in normal use it              are presented may, as necessary, require a translation
 does not easily tear or crease.                                into the language, or one of the official languages, of
                                                                that Member State.
                                                                The language to be used for the guarantee certificate
2. The paper used for the flat-rate guarantee voucher           shall 'be designated by the competent authorities of
 and the internal Community transit form T 2 L shall            the Member State responsible for the guarantee
be free of mechanical pulp, dressed for writing                 office.
purposes and weigh at least 55 g/m2. The paper shall
have a printed guilloche pattern background so as
to reveal any falsification by mechanical or chemical
means. The background pattern shall be :                        7. The Community transit declaration tonms and
                                                                the flat-rate guarantee vouchers shall show the name
— red, for the flat-rate guarantee voucher,                     and address of the printer or a marik enabling the
                                                                printer to be identified. The flat-rate guarantee
— green, for the internal Community transit form                vouchers shall be serially numbered as a means of
     T 2 L.                                                     identification .
                                                                8 . Member States shall be responsible for the
3 . The paper used for the guarantee certificate form          printing of the guarantee certificate forms. Each
shall be free of mechanical pulp and weigh' not less            certificate must be numbered for purposes of
                                                                identification .
than 100 g/m2. It shall have a guiilloche pattern
background, printed in green on both sides, so as
to reveal any falsification by mechanical or chemical
means .                                                        9. Member States shall also be responsible for the
                                                               printing of the internal Community transit document
                                                                T 2 L. Such forms may also be printed by printers
                                                               appointed by the Member, State in which they are
                                                               established, in which case each form shall make
4. The paper referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3              reference to the appointment. Each form shall show
shall be white, except for the external Community              the name and address of the printer, or a mark
transit forms, which shall be pale blue, and loading           enabling the printer to be identified, and be numbered
lists, for which the colour of the paper may be left           serially.
to the choice of the user.
                                                                10. The guarantee certificate forms and the flat-rate
5 . The sizes of the forms shall be :                          guarantee vouchers shall be completed on a
                                                               typewriter.
( a) 210 X 297      mm      for    Community       transit
     declarations, loading lists and for the internal
     Community transit document T 2 L, a tolerance             All other forms may be completed either in
     in the length of - 5 or + 8 mm being allowed ;             typescript or legibly in manuscript; in the latter case
                                                               they shall be completed in ink and in print.
(b) 210 X 148 mm for the transit advice note and
     the guarantee certificate ;
                                                               No erasures or alterations may be made. Amendments
(c) 148 X 105 mm for the receipt and flat-rate                 shall be made by striking out the incorrect particulars
     guarantee voucher.                                        and, where appropriate, adding those required. Any
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 such amendments must be initialled by the person                                       Loading lists
 making the amendment and authenticated by the
  customs authorities .
                                                                                          Article 5
[ll . The provisions of paragraphs (2), (4), (5 ) (a),            1 . When a Community transit declaration is
 (6), first two subparagraphs, (9 ) and ( 10), last two           completed for a load comprising more than two lots
 subparagraphs, shall apply also to Control Copy T                of goods, particulars of the goods may be furnished
 No 5 . However the guilloche patterned 'background               on one or more loading lists instead of being given
 shall be blue for the front and 'back of the original            in boxes 30, 31 , 35 , 36 and 37 of form T 1 ,
  of Control Copy T No 5.]                                        accompanied by one or more forms T 1 bis or of
                                                                  form T 2 accompanied by one or more forms T 2 bis.
                        SECTION II
                                                                  When loading lists are used, the boxes in question
                                                                  on form T 1 or T 2 shall be barred and the forms
                                                                  may not be accompanied by form T 1 bis or T 2 bis.
                      USE OF FORMS
                                                                  2. The loading list as referred to in Article 1 (2)
                 Declarations T 1 and T 2                         means any commercial document which complies
                                                                  with ithe conditions of Article 2 ( 1 ), (5 ), ( a), (6), first
                                                                  two subparagraphs, and ( 10), last two subparagraphs,
                           Article 3                              and of Articles 6 and 7 .
 1 . Forms for Community transit declarations shall               3 . The loading ilist shall be produced in the same
 be produced in sets so arranged that several copies              number of copies as the form T 1 or T 2 to which
 may be obtained by a single typed or written                     it relates and shall be signed by the person signing
 operation.                                                       the form T 1 or T 2.
 2. Each set of forms shall include at least the                 4. When the declaration is registered, the loading
 following oopies, in numerical order:      .                     list must be marked with the same registration
                                                                  number as the form T 1 or T 2 to which it relates .
 (a) copy for office of departure,            bearing the         This number must be marked either by means of a
     number 1 ;             k                                     stamp bearing the name of the issuing office or by
 (b) copy for office of destination, bearing the                  hand. In the latter case it must ibe accompanied by
     number 2 ;                                                   the office stamp.
 (c) copy to be' returned to office of departure, bearing         The signature of the customs officer at the office of
     the number 3 ;                                               registration shall be optional.
 (d) copy    for   statistical    purposes,   bearing   the
     number 4.
                                                                  5 . When several ilists accompany the same form T 1
                                                                  or T 2, each must bear a serial number allotted by
 3 . Copies bearing numbers 3 and 4 shall have                    the principal ; the number of accompanying lists must
                                                                  be shown in box 4 of form T 1 or T 2.
 respectively a red and a dark blue border. The width
 of those borders shall be about 4 mm.
                                                                 6. A declaration on a form T 1 or T 2 accompanied
                                                                  by one or more loading lists complying with the'
                                                                  conditions of Articles 6 to 9 shall, as appropriate,
                          [Article 4                              be a T 1 or T 2 declaration .
 When, in accordance with Articles 15 and 39 of
 Regulation (EEC) No 222/77, the export or re­
 export declaration and the Community transit                                             Article 6
 declaration are combined in a single form, the set of
 forms referred to in Article 3 shall be delivered at the
 same time as the copy or copies required by the                  The loading list shall include :
 Member State of departure for purposes of export
 or re-export. 1                                                  (a) the heading 'Loading list';
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 (b) a box, 70 X 55 mm, divided into a top part 70 X             (5 ) (a) and ( 10), last two subparagraphs, and of
       15 mm, intended for reference to the document             Article 6, are designed and completed in such a way
       T 1 or T 2 to which the loading list refers and           that they can be used without difficulty by the
       a lower part 70 X 40 mm for the references                customs and statistical authorities in question .
       referred to in Article 5 (4);
 (c) columns, in the following order and headed as               2. For each item such loading lists must always
       shown :                                                   include the number, kind and marks and numbers of
                                                                 packages, the description of goods, gross weight in
       — Serial No,                                              kilograms and the country of consignment.
       — 30. Number, kind, marks and numbers of
                packages,
       — 31 . Description of goods,                                                      Article 9
       — 35 . Country of consignment,
                                                                 1 . When the provisions of Articles 36 to 53 operate,
       — 36. Gross weight (in kg),                               the provisions of Artidles 5 (2), 6, 7 and 8 shall apply
       — Reserved for customs .                                  to loading lists which accompany the International
                                                                 Consignment Note and the number of such lists shall
                                                                 be shown in box 32 of such consignment note.
 The width of the columns may be adapted as necess­
 ary, except that the width of the columm headed                 Each such loading list must include the wagon
 'Reserved for customs' shall ibe not less than 30 mm .          number to which the International Consignment
 Spaces not reserved for a particular purpose under              Note refers or, where appropriate, the number of the
  ( a) to (c) above may also be used.                            container in which the goods are carried.
                                                                 2. For operations beginning within the Community
                            Article 7                            comprising at the same time goods referred to in
                                                                 Article 1 (2) and (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 222/
                                                                 77, separate loading lists shall be used and the serial
 1 . Only the front of the form may be used as a                 numbers of the loading lists relating to the goods
 loading list.                                                   referred to in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation inserted
                                                                 in box 25 of the International Consignment Note.
 2. Each item shown on the loading list must be
 preceded by a serial number.
                                                                                 [Control Copy T No 5
[3 . Each item must be followed, when appropriate,
 by any special reference required by Community
 Regulations, in particular in regard to the common
 agricultural policy.]
                                                                                        [Article 10
                                                                 Proof that the conditions prescribed by a Community
 4. A horizontal 'line must be drawn after the last              measure as to the use and/or destination of goods
 entry and the remaining unused spaces barred so                 imported into, exported from, or moving within the
 that any subsequent addition is impossible .                    Community have been complied with, shall be
                                                                 furnished by the production of Control Copy T
                                                                 No 5 .1
                            Article 8
                                                                                        [Article 11
  1 . The customs authorities of each Member State
 may allow firms established in their country whose
 records are based on a system of electronic or                  1 . Control Copy T No 5 shall be made out by the
 mechanical data processing to use loading lists as              person concerned in one original and at least one
 referred to in Article 1 (2) which, although not                copy, each of which must bear the original signature
 complying with all the conditions of Article 2 ( 1 ),           of the person concerned .
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2. Control Copy T No 5 shall, as regards the                  Community measure, each Member State shall have
description of goods and any additional information,          the right to require that proof be furnished in accord­
show all the particulars required by the provisions           ance with a national procedure provided that the
relating to the Community measure imposing the                goods do not leave its territory before they have
contf&l.l                                                     been either used as, or have reached the destination,
                                                              prescribed.]
                      [Article 12
1 . When the Community transit procedure is used                                       Receipt
the Control Copy T No 5 shall be issued by the
office of departure. The appropriate customs office                                   Article 15
of the Member State of destination shall carry out,
or cause to be carried out under its responsibility,
the control as to the use and/or destination provided         1 . Any person who delivers a Community transit
for or prescribed.                                            document, together with the consignment to which
                                                              that document relates, to the office of destination
2. The office of departure shall keep a copy of the            may, on request, obtain a receipt.
Control Copy T No 5.
                                                             [2. A receipt shall also be issued on request to any
3 . The original of the Control Copy T No 5 shall             person who delivers a Control Copy T No 5 and the
accompany the goods under the same conditions as              consignment to which that document relates to the
the other copies of the Community transit document            appropriate customs office in the Member State of
referred to in Article 19 of Regulation (EEC)                 destination referred to in Article 12 ( 1 ).
No 222/77.
                                                              The receipt may not replace the Control Copy T
4. Without prejudice to the application of the pro­
                                                              No 5]
visions of Article 26 of Regulation (EEC) No 222/
77, the original of the Control Copy T No 5 shall,            3 . The receipt shall first be completed by the person
after appropriate endorsement by the competent                concerned and may contain other particulars relating
customs office in the Member State of destination             to the consignment, except in tihe space reserved for
referred to in paragraph 1 , be sent forthwith to the         customs, but the customs certification shall be valid
office of departure.]                                         only in respect of the particulars contained in that
                                                              space .
                      [Article 13
If goods subjeot to control as to use and/or destina­                           Return of documents
tion are not placed under a Community transit
procedure, a Control Copy T No 5 shall be prepared
                                                                                      Article 16
in respect of such* goods in addition to the document
relating to the procedure used. The control copy
shall be issued and used subject to the conditions            Each Member State shall have the right to designate
laid down in Article 12.]                                     one or more central offices to which documents shall
                                                              be returned by the competent customs office in the
                                                              Member State of destination . Member States shall,
                      [Article 14                             after appointing such offices for that purpose, inform
                                                              the Commission and specify the category of
In derogation from Article 10 and unless otherwise            documents to be returned thereto. The Commission
stipulated in the provisions relating to the relevant         shall in turn notify the other Member States.
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                                                        TITLE II
                                    PROVISIONS RELATING TO GUARANTEES
      NOTIFICATION TO THE GUARANTOR OF                          extended by the guarantee office for one further
    NON-DISCHARGE OF COMMUNITY TRANSIT                          period not exceeding two years.
                      DOCUMENTS
                        Article 17                                                      Article 21
The office of departure shall inform the guarantor
                                                                If the guarantee is cancelled the principal shall be
when a Community transit document has not been                  responsible for returning to the guarantee office
discharged within nine months from the date of issue            witlhout delay all the guarantee certificates issued
thereof.
                                                                to him .
              COMPREHENSIVE GUARANTEE
                                                                               FLAT-RATE GUARANTEE
                 Certificate of guarantee
                                                                                       [Article 22
                        Article 18
                                                                1 . When a natural or legal person proposes to stand
1 . The principal shall, on issue of the certificate of         surety under the conditions referred to in Artioles 27
guarantee or at any time during the validity thereof,           and 28 of, and on the terms laid down in Article 32
nominate on his own responsibility on the reverse of            ( 1 ) of, Regulation (EEC) No 222/77, the guarantee
the certificate, the person, or persons, authorized to          shall be given in the form as shown in Specimen III
sign Community transit declarations on his behalf.              annexed to that Regulation.
The particulars shall include the surname and
forename of eadh authorized person followed tby the
signature of that person. Each nomination of an                 2. Where national law, administrative practice or
authorized person must be acknowledged by the                   accepted usage so requires, each Member State may
signature of the principal . The principal shall be             require the use of a different form of guarantee
entitled at his discretion to cross through the                 provided it has the same legal effect as the guarantee
unused boxes .                                                  referred to in paragraph 1 .1
2. The principal may at any time delete the name
                                                                                        Article 23
of an authorized person from the reverse of tlhe
certificate .
                                                                1 . Tlhe acceptance of the guarantee referred to in
                        Article 19                              Artidle 22 by the customs office where it is given
                                                                (hereinafter referred to as 'the guarantee office')
                                                                shall be the guarantor's authority to issue, under the
Any person shown on the reverse of a guarantee                  terms of the guarantee, a flat-rate guarantee voucher
certificate presented at an office of departure shall be        or vouchers to persons who intend to act as principal
considered the authorized agent of the principal .              in a Community transit operation from an office of
                                                                departure of their choice.
                        Article 20
                                                                The cancellation of a guarantee shall be notified
The period of validity of a guarantee certificate may           forthwith to the other Memiber States by the Member
not exceed two years. However, this period may be               State in which the relevant guarantee office is located.
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 2. The guarantor shall be liable up to an amount                In that case, the flat-rate amount shall be increased
 of 5 000 units of account in respect of each flat-rate          to the multiple of 5 000 units of account necessary
 guarantee voucher. '                                            to guarantee the quantity of goods to be dispatched.
 3 . Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 24,          4. The principal shall, in the cases referred to in
 the principal may carry out one Community transit               paragraphs 2 and 3 , deliver to the office of departure
 operation under each flat-rate guarantee voucher.               flat-rate guarantee vouchers corresponding to the
 The voucher shall be delivered to the office of                 required multiple of 5 000 units of account.
 departure, wihere it shall be retained .
                                                                                          Article 25
                        Article 24
 1 . Except in the cases referred to in paragraphs 2             1 . When the Community transit declaration includes
 and 3 , the office of departure may not require a               other goods besides those shown in the list referred
 guarantee in excess of the flat-rate amount of 5 000            to in Article 24 (3 ), the flat-rate guarantee provisions
 units of account for each Community transit declara­            shall be applied as if the two categories of goods
tion, irrespective of the amount of the duties and               were covered by separate declarations .
 other charges to which the goods covered by a
 particular declaration may be (liable.                         2. In derogation from the provisions of paragraph 1 ,
                                                                account shall not be taken of the presence of goods
2. When , because of circumstances peculiar to it,              of either category if the quantity or value thereof is
 a transport operation involves increased risks and the          relatively insignificant.
 office of departure therefore considers that tihe
guarantee of 5 000 units of account is clearly insuf­
ficient, it may exceptionally require a guarantee of                               TRANSPORT BY AIR
greater amount in multiples of 5 000 units of
 account .
                                                                                         Article 26
3 . Transport of goods listed in Annex XIII shall
give rise to an increase in the amount of the flat­             The airline companies referred to in Article 45 (2)
rate guarantee when the quantity of goods                       of Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 to which the
transported exceeds the quantity corresponding to the           exemption from guarantee applies are listed in
 flat-rate amount of 5 000 units of account.                    Annex XIV.
                                                       [TITLE III
                    [USE OF COMMUNITY TRANSIT DOCUMENTS FOR IMPLEMENTING
                           MEASURES ON THE EXPORTATION OF CERTAIN GOODS
                       [Article 27                              to any special provisions whidh that measure may
                                                                comprise.
1 . This title sets out the conditions applicable to
movements of goods within the Community when                    3 . The provisions of this title shall not apply when
exportation thereof from the Community is                       the transport of goods within the Community is
prohibited or is subject to restrictions, duties or             confined to the territory of one Member State.]
other charges.
2. These provisions sha'lfl, however, apply only in so                                  [Article 28
far as the measure introducing the prohibition,
restriction , duty or other charge has provided for             When goods referred to in Article 27 ( 1 ) are placed
them to apply, and they shall be without prejudice              under the Community transit procedure, the principal
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shall complete the space 'Description of goods' on            due have been paid or that, in the circumstances
the Community transit document with one of the                obtaining, the goods may leave the Community
following statements :                                        territory without further formalities.]
— 'Export      from    the    Community     subject  to                             [Article 31
    restrictions',
— ' Sortie de la Communauté soumise a des restric­            1 . When the measures referred to in Article 27 (2)
    tions',                                                   provide for the giving of a guarantee, such guarantee
                                                              shall be provided in cases when according to the
— 'Uscita della Communità assoggettata a restri­              information contained in the customs document,
    zioni',                                                   goods as referred to in Article 27 ( 1 ) moving between
— 'Ausgang aus der Gemeinschaft Beschränkun­                  two points within the Community are, during their
                                                              transport, to leave the territory of the Community
    gen unterworfen',
                                                              otherwise than by air.
— 'Verlaten van de Gemeenschap aan beperkingen
    onderworpen',                                             2. The guarantee shall be given either at the customs
                                                              office at which the formalities required on departure
— ' Udførsel fra Fællesskabet undergivet restrik­             of the goods have been completed or to any other
    tioner';                                                  body designated for that purpose by the Member
                                                              State in which that customs office is located and on
— 'Export from the Community subject to dutv ',               the terms laid down by the competent authorities
                                                              of that Member State .     In  the case    of measures
— 'Sortie de la Communauté soumise à imposition ',
                                                              imposing a duty or other charge, the guarantee need
— 'Uscita della Communita assoggettata a tassa­               not be provided where the goods are carried under
    zione',                                                   the Community transit procedure and a guarantee
                                                              otherwise than in cash has been given or there is
— 'Ausgang aus der Gemeinschaft              Abgabener­       provision for exemption from the giving of
    hebung unterworfen',                                      a guarantee by reason of the identity of the
— 'Verlaten van de Gemeenschap aan belasting­                 principal.]
    heffing onderworpen ',
— 'Udførsel fra Fællesskabet betinget af afgiftsbeta­                               [Article 32
    ling'.]
                                                              1 . The provisions of Article 29 shall apply equally
                       [Article 29                            to goods referred to . in Article 27 ( 1 ) which in the
                                                              course of transportation between two points within
                                                              the Community cross the territory , of Austria or
1 . When the goods referred to in Article 27 ( 1 ) are        Switzerland and are re-consigned from one of those
not placed under the Community transit procedure,             territories .
the customs office at which departure formalities are
carried out shall require completion of Control Copy          In derogation from the provisions of Article 12 (3 ),
T No 5 provided for in Article 10. Box 104 of the
                                                              the original of the Control Copy T No 5 shall
Control Copy T No 5 shall be completed with one of            accompany the goods to the competent customs
the statements, as appropriate, set out in Article 28 .       office of the Member State of destination .
2. The provisions of Articles 11 to 14 shall apply.           The office of departure shall specify the period within
                                                              which the goods must be re-imported into the
3 . The customs office referred to in paragraph 1             Community.
shall insert in the customs document under cover of
which the goods are to be carried one or other of             2. If a measure as referred to in Article 27 (2)
the statements, as appropriate, set out in Article 28.]       provides for the giving of security, then notwith­
                                                              standing the provisions of Article 31 such security
                                                              shall be furnished for all transactions covered by
                       [Article 30
                                                              paragraph 1 of this Article.]
The provisions of Articles 28 and 29 shall not apply
when, on declaration of the goods for exportation                                   [Article 33
from the Community, proof is given to the customs
office at which export formalities are carried out that       The office of destination shall take the necessary
an administrative measure freeing the goods from              steps to implement the measures as referred to in
restriction has been taken, that any duties or Charges        Article 27 (2) in respect of goods which are not
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  entered for home use immediately following their                 are not re-imported into the Community within the
  arrival at that office.]                                         prescribed period, they shall be treated as having
                                                                   been irregularly exported to a third country from
                           [Article 34                             the Member State whence they were consigned urtless
  When goods referred to in Article 27 ( 1 ) move . as             it can be established that they were lost through
  described in Article 31 , whether or not by air, and            force majeure or accidental circumstances.]
                                                          TITLE IV
                                                 SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES
                            Article 35                                                    Article 38
  The provisions of this title shall be without prejudice         The railway authorities of each Member State shall
  to :                                                            make available to the customs authorities of their
                                                                  country for purposes of control the records held at
[(a) application of the provisions of Articles 10 to 14;           their accounting offices.
        and]
  (b) obligations in respect of the formalities relating
       to exportation, re-exportation, importation or re­                                 Article 39
        importation .
                                                                   1 . The railway authorities which accept the goods
                                                                  for carriage accompanied by an International
                           SECTION I                              Consignment Note or International Express Parcels
                                                                  Consignment Note shall be the principal as regards
      COMMUNITY TRANSIT PROCEDURE FOR THE                         the transit procedure concerned .
              CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY RAIL
                                                                  2. The railway authorities of the Member State
                             General                              through whose territory the goods enter the Com­
                                                                  munity shall be the principal as regards the transit
                                                                  procedure in respect of goods accepted for carriage
                            Article 36                            by the railway authorities of a thiyd country.
Formalities under the Community transit procedure
shall be simplified in accordance with the provisions                                     Article 40
of this section for carriage of goods by railway
authorities under cover of ian International Consign­
ment Note ( CIM) or International Express Parcels                 The railway authorities shall ensure that consign­
 Consignment Note (T I Ex)                                        ments carried under the Community transit procedure
                                                                  are identified by labels marked 'Douane/Zoll/
                                                                  Dogana/Customs/Told'. The labels shall be stuck to
                           Article 37                             the International Consignment Note or to the
                                                                  International! Express Parcels Consignment Note and
The International Consignment Note or the Inter­                  to the relevant railway wagon in the case of a full
national Express Parcels Consignment Note shall be                load or, in other cases, to the package or packages.
 treated as equivalent to :
 ( a) a T 1 declaration or document as the case may be                                    Article 41
       for goods referred to in Article 1 (2) of Regulation
       (EEC) No 222/77;
                                                                  When the contract of carriage is modified so that :
 ( b) a T 2 declaration or document as the case may be
       for goods referred to in Article 1 (3 ) of the             — a carriage operation which was to end outside the
       abovementioned Regulation.                                      Community ends within the Community,
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 — a carriage operation which was to end within the             the customs office responsible for that station shall
      Community ends outside the Community,                     act as the office of destination .
 the railway authorities shall not carry out the
 modified contract except with the prior agreement of                                  Article 43
 the office of departure.
 When the contract of carriage ds modified so that              As a generall rule and having regard to identification
 the carriage operation is ended within the Member              measures applied by the railway authorities, the
 State of departure, the modified contract shall be             office of departure shall not seal the means of
 carried out subject to conditions to ibe determined            transport or the packages.
 by the customs authorities of that Member State.
 In all other cases, the railway authorities may carry                                 Article 44
 out the modified contract; they shall forthwith
 inform the office of departure of the modification             1 . The railway authorities of the Member State
 made.
                                                                responsible for the office of destination shall forward
                                                                to the latter sheets 2 and 3 of the International
                                                                Consignment Note.
       Movement or goods between Member States
                                                                2. The office of destination shall without delay
                         Article 42
                                                                return sheet 2 to the railway authorities after
                                                                stamping it and shall retain sheet 3 .
 1 . The International Consignment Note shall be
 produced at the office of departure in respect of a
 carriage operation which starts and is to end within                 Carriage of goods to or from third countries
 the Community.
                                                                                        Article 45
[2. With respect to goods referred to in Article 1 (2)
 of Regulation (EEC) No 222/77, the office of
 departure shall indicate on sheet 3 of the Inter­              1 . The provisions of Articles 42 and 43 shall apply
 national Consignment Note that the goods to which              to a carriage operation which starts within the Com­
 that document refers are carried under the external            munity and is to end outside the Community.
 Community transit procedure.
                                                                2. The customs office for the frontier station through
 The symbol T 1 shall accordingly be clearly shown              which the goods in transit leave the territory of the
 in box 25.]                                                    Community shall act as office of destination.
 3 . All copies of the International Consignment Note           3 . No formalities need be carried out at the office of
 shall :be returned to the party concerned.                     destination.
[4. Each Member State may provide that goods
 referred to in Article 1 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC )                                     Article 46
 No 222/77 may, under conditions which it shall lay
 down, be placed under the internal Community
 transit procedure without production at the office of          1 . The customs office for the frontier station through
 departure of the International Consignment Note in             which the goods enter the Community shall act as
  respect of the goods.                                         office of departure for a carriage operation which
                                                                starts outside the Community and is to end within
 Production thereof may not, however, be waived in              the Community.
 respect of International Consignment Notes drawn
 up for goods in respect of which the provisions of             No formalities need be carried out at the office of
 Title III have to be applied.]                                 departure.
 5 . The customs office for the station of destination          2. The customs office for the station of destination
 shall act as the office of destination. If, however, the       shall act as office of destination. If, however, the
 goods are entered for home use or placed under some            goods are entered for home use or placed under
 other customs procedure at an intermediate station,            another customs procedure at an intermediate station,
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  the customs office for that station shall act as the                                 [Statistical provisions
   office of destination .
  The formalities prescribed by Article 44 shall be                                          [Article 51
  carried out at the office of destination.
                                                                      1 . The railway authorities' shall for the purpose of
                                                                     compiling transit statistics supply the department
                                                                     responsible for external trade statistics in the Member
                            Article 47                               State of departure with the necessary information
                                                                     regarding each operation under the Community
   1 . The customs offices which are to act as office of             transit procedure for which they have acted as
  departure and office of destination for a carriage                  principals by virtue of the provisions of Article 39.
  operation which starts and is to end outside the
  Community shall be as laid down in Articles 46 ( 1 )
  and 45 (2) respectively.                                           2. Until a Community procedure is introduced for
                                                                     the purpose of applying paragraph 1 and of transmit­
                                                                     ting information to the departments responsible for
  2. No formalities need be carried out at the offices               external trade statistics in Member States, other than
  of departure or destination .                                      the Member State of departure, whose territory is
                                                                     crossed during any Community transit operation,
                                                                     each Member State shall determine the method
                                                                     whereby the national railway authorities are to
                            Article 48                               supply the necessary information to the responsible
                                                                     national department.
  Goods which are carried under the provisions of
  Article 46 ( 1 ) or 47 ( 1 ) shall be considered as moving
  under the external Community transit procedure                     3 . The railway authorities may not, for the purpose
  unless movement certificate DD3 or an internal Com­                of applying paragraphs 1 and 2, require the consignor
 munity transit document T 2 L completed to establish                to supply any further information in addition to the
 the Community nature of the goods concerned, is                     information shown in the International Consignment
 submitted in respect thereof.                                       Note or International Express Parcels Consignment
                                                                     Note, except for the name of the countries of con­
                                                                     signment and destination of the goods carried.]
            Provisions relating to express packages
                                                                                         Other provisions
                            Article 49
                                                                                             Article 52 .
 Subject to the provisions of Article 50, the provisions
 of Articles 42 to 48 shall also apply to carriage under
 cover of an International Express Parcels Consign­                  The provisions of Titles II and III of Regulation
 ment Note.                                                          (EEC) No 222/77 rendered negatory by this section,
                                                                     in particular Articles 12 (3 ) to ( 6 ), 17, 23 , 26 ( 1 ) and
                                                                     41 thereof, shall not apply.
                            Article 50
                                                                                             Article 53
 With respect to carriage operations effected under
 cover of an International Express Parcels Consign­
 ment Note :                                                         The provisions of this section shall not preclude the '
                                                                     use of the procedure provided for in Regulation
[(a) the symbol required under Article 42 (2) shall                  (EEC) No 222/77, in which case Articles 38 and 40
       be entered on sheet 4 of the International Express            shall nevertheless apply.
       Parcels Consignment Note;]
 (>b) sheets 2 and 4 of the International Express Parcels            In addition, sheet 2 of the International Consignment
       Consignment Note shall, in application of                     Note or of the International Express Parcels Consign­
       Article 44, be forwarded to the office of desti­              ment Note shall be produced at one of the customs
       nation which shall return, without delay, sheet 2             offices for the different stations involved in the Com­
       to the railway authorities after stamping it and              munity transit operation. That office shall stamp the
       shall retain sheet 4.                                         rail document after ascertaining that carriage of the
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 goods is covered by one or more Community transit                                           Article 57
 documents.
                                                                  The authorization issued by the customs authorities
                                                                   shall specify in particular :
                          SECTION II
                                                                   ( a) the customs office or offices which are authorized
                                                                          offices of departure for consignments ;
 SIMPLIFICATION OF FORMALITIES TO BE CARRIED
           OUT AT OFFICES OF DEPARTURE AND                         ( b ) the period within which, and the procedure by
                        DESTINATION                                      which, the authorized consignor is to inform the
                                                                         office of departure of the consignments to be sent,
                           Article 54                                    in order that the office may carry out any necess­
                                                                          ary controls before the departure of the goods ;
 Each Member State may simplify the formalities                    (c ) the period within which goods must be produced
 relating to Community transit procedures to be                          at the office of destination ; and
 carried out at offices of departure and destination
 within its territory in accordance with the following             ( d) the identification measures to be taken. To this
 provisions.                                                             end the customs authorities may prescribe that
                                                                         the means of transport or the package or packages
[The provisions of this section shall not, however,                      shall bear special seals, accepted by the customs
 apply to goods to which the provisions of Title III                     authorities and affixed by the authorized
  are applicable.]                                                       consignor.
             Formalities at the office of departure                                          Article 58
                           Article 55                             1 . The authorization shall stipulate that the 'Office
                                                                  of departure' box on the front of declaration form
                                                                  T 1 or T 2 :
 The customs authorities of each Member State may
 authorize any person who Mfils the conditions laid
 down in Article 56 and who intends to carry out                  ( a) be stamped in advance with the stamp of the
 Community transit operations (hereinafter referred to                   office of departure and be signed by an official
 as 'the authorized consignor') not to produce at the                    of that office ; or
 office of departure either the goods concerned or
 a T 1 or T 2 declaration in respect thereof.                     (b ) be stamped by the approved consignor with a
                                                                         special metal stamp approved by the customs
                                                                         authorities and conforming to . the specimen
                           Article 56                                    shown in Annex XV. The imprint of the stamp
                                                                         may be pre-printed on the forms where the
  1 . The authorization provided for in Article 55 shall                 printing is entrusted to a printing works approved
  be granted only to persons :                                           for that purpose.
  ( a) who frequently consign goods ;                              The authorized consignor shall complete that box by
                                                                   indicating the date of consignment of the goods and
 (b) whose records enable the customs authorities to               must give the declaration a number in accordance with
                                                                   the rules to that effect in the authorization .
       verify their operations ; and
 (c) who, when a guarantee is required under Com­
       munity transit procedure, provide a comprehen­
       sive guarantee.                                            2. Customs authorities may prescribe the use of
                                                                  forms bearing a distinctive mark as a means of
 2. Customs authorities may withhold authorization                identification .
 from persons unable to offer the safeguards they
 consider necessary.
                                                                                             Article 59
 3 . The authorities may withdraw the authorization,
 in particular when an authorized consignor no longer
 fulfils the conditions of paragraph 1 or is no longer            1 . The authorized consignor shall, not later than on
 able to offer the safeguards referred to in para­               consignment of the goods, enter on the back of
 graph 2.                                                         copies 1 and 2 of the duly completed declaration T 1
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 or T 2, in the space marked 'Examination by office              nation of goods transported under a Community
 of departure', particulars of the period within which           transit procedure when goods are intended for a
 the goods must be produced at the office of                     person who fulfils the conditions laid down in
 destination and of the identification measures applied          Article (?3 (hereinafter referred (to as 'the authorized
 and the words 'simplified procedure'.                          consignee') previously authorized by the customs
                                                                 authorities of the Member State responsible for the
 2. After consignment, copy 1 shall be sent without              office of destination .
 deJay to the office of departure. The customs auth­
 orities may provide, in the authorization, that copy 1
 be sent to the office of departure as soon as the              2. In such a case, the principal shall have fulfilled
 declaration T 1 or T 2 is completed. The other copies          his obligations under the provisions of Article 13 ( a)
 shall accompany the goods in accordance with the               of Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 when the copies of
 provisions of Regulation ( EEC) No 222/77.                     document T 1 or T 2 which accompanied the con­
                                                                signment, together with the goods intact, have been
                                                                delivered within the prescribed period to the author­
 3 . When the customs authorities of the Mem'ber
                                                                ized consignee at his premises or at the places speci­
 State of departure carry out an examination at the             fied in the authorization, the identification measures
 departure of a consignment, they shall record the              having been duly observed.
 fact in the space marked 'Examination by office of
 departure' on the back of declaration T 1 or T 2.
                                                                3 . The authorized consignee shall at the request of
                                                                the carrier issue a receipt in respect of each consign­
                        Article 60                              ment delivered under the conditions of paragraph 2
                                                                stating that the document and the goods have been
                                                                delivered .
Declaration T 1 or T 2, endorsed as specified in
 Article 59 ( 1 ), shall be treated as equivalent to
 document T 1 or T 2, and the authorized consignor
 who signed the declaration shall be the principal.                                       Article 63
                                                                1 . The authorization referred to in Article 62 shall
                        Article 61                              be granted only to persons :
                                                                (a) who frequently receive consignments subject to
 1 . The authorized consignor shall :                                 customs control ; and
 (a) comply with the provisions of this section and of          ( b) whose records enable the customs authorities to
     the conditions of the authorization ; and                        verify (the operations .
(b) take all necessary measures to ensure the safe­
     keeping of the special stamp or of the forms              2. The customs authorities may withhold author­
     bearing the imprint of the stamp of the office of         ization from persons unable to offer the safeguards
     departure or the imprint of the special stamp.            they consider necessary.
2. In the event of the misuse by any person of forms           3 . The authorization may he withdrawn, in particu­
stamped in advance wkh the stamp of the responsible            lar when an authorized consignee no longer fulfils
customs office or with the special stamp, the                  the conditions of paragraph 1 or is no longer able to
authorized consignor shall be liable, without preju­           offer "the safeguards referred to in paragraph 2.
dice to any criminal proceedings, for the payment of
duties and other charges payable in a particular
Member State in respect of goods carried under cover           4. The authorized consignee must comply with all
of such forms unless he can satisfy the customs                the conditions provided for in this section and in the
authorities by whom he was authorized that he took             authorization .
the measures required of him under paragraph 1 (b).
                                                                                          Article 64
         Formalities at the office of destination
                                                               1 . The authorization issued by             the   customs
                        Article 62                             authorities shall specify in particular:
                                                               ( a) the customs office or offices which are author­
1 . The customs authorities of each Member State                     ized offices of destination for consignments which
may dispense with production at the office of desti­                 the authorized consignee receives ; and
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(b) the period within which, and the procedures by              they consider necessary. The said consignors and
     which, the authorized consignee is to inform the           consignees must provide all the necessary information
     office of destination of the arrival of the goods,         and facilities for this purpose.
     so that that office may carry out any necessary
     controls before arrival of the goods.
2. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 67,                                    Article 67
customs authorities shall specify in the authorization
whether any action by the office of destination is              The customs authorities of the Member State of
required before the authorized consigned may dispose            departure     or   destination    may exclude     certain
of arrived goods.                                               categories of goods from the facilities provided for in
                                                                Articles 55 and 62 .
                        Article 65
1 . The authorized consignee shaill in respect of con­                                   Article 68
signments arriving at his premises or at the places
specified in the authorization :                               [1 . When production of the Community transit
( a) immediately inform the office of destination               declaration at the office of departure is not required
     according to the procedure 'laid down in the               in respect of goods referred to in Article 1 (2) of
     authorization of <any excess quantities, shortages,        Regulation (EEC) No 222/77, which are to be
     substitutions or other irregularities such as broken       dispatched under cover of an Internatiorial Consign­
     seals ; and                                                ment Note or an International Express Parcel Con­
                                                                signment Note, an accordance with the provisions of
( b) send without delay to the office of destination the        Articles 36 to 53 , the customs authorities shaill take
     copies of document T 1 or T 2 which ac­                    the necessary measures to ensure that sheet 3 of the
     companied the consignment, indicating the date             International Consignment Note or sheet 4 of the
     of arrival and the state of any seals affixed.             International Express Parcels Consignment Note
                                                                bears the symbol 'T l'.l
2 . The office of destination shall annotate appropri­
ately such copies of document T 1 or T 2.
                                                                2. When goods carried under the simplified
                                                                procedure in Articles 36 to 53 are intended for an
                     Other provisions                           authorized consignee, the customs authorities may
                                                                provide that, in derogation from Articles 62 (2) and
                                                                65 ( 1 ) (b), sheets 2 and 3 of the International
                        Article 66                              Consignment Note or sheets 2 and 4 of the Inter­
                                                                national Express Parcels Consignment Note are to be
Customs authorities may carry out upon authorized               dellivered direct by the railway authorities to the
consignors and authorized consignees a<ny controls              office of destination .
                                                        TITLE V
                       PROVISIONS RELATING TO INTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                    DOCUMENT T2L
                        SECTION I                               ( a) which are intended for export outside the Com­
                                                                     munity ; or
          ISSUE AND USE OF THE DOCUMENT
                                                                (b) in respect of which customs export formalities
                                                                     have been carried out wiith a view to the granting
                        Article 69
                                                                     of refunds on exportation to third countries
                                                                     under the common agricultural policy; or
Document T 2 L shall be issued for goods falling                ( c) in packagings which do not fall within any of
within Article 1 (3 ) ( a) and ('b) of Regulation (EEC)              the categories specified in Artidle 1 (3 ) ( a) and
No 222/77, except for goods :                                        (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 222/77.
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                         Article 70                            2. When the goods have been transported by sea,
                                                                air or pipeline the document T 2 L shal'l be produced
                                                                at the customs office at which the goods are ptlaced
 Document T 2 L may only be used for the ipurpose               under a customs procedure.
 of certifying the Community nature of the goods to
 which it refers if such goods are transported directly
 from one Member State to another.
                                                                                       Article 73
 The following shall be regarded as directly                   Member States shall render one another mutual
 transported from one Member State to another :                assistance in checking the authenticity of T 2 L
                                                               documents and the accuracy of the information
 ( a) goods transported without passing through the            which they contain.
      territory of a non-member country ;
 (b ) goods transported through the territory of one                                  [Article 74
      or more non-<mem'ber countries provided that
      carriage through such countries lis covered by
      a single transport document made out in a                1 . Document T 2 L shall »be made out in triplicate
      Member State .                                           in respect of goods eligible for a refund on expor­
                                                              tation to third countries under the common agricul­
                                                               tural policy which are routed to the Member State of
                                                               destination, otherwise than by air, in such a way
                         Article 71                            that part of the journey is outside the customs
                                                               territory of the Community. The originail and one
 1 . Document T 2 L shal'l, save as provided in Articles       copy shall be returned to the person concerned and
 74 and 78, be made out in a single copy.                      the second copy shall be retained by the issuing
                                                               office.
2. Document T 2 L shall be . authenticated (by the             For the purposes of the preceding subparagraph,
customs authorities of the Mem'ber State of departure         goods loaded in a seaport of a Member State for
on application by the person concerned. It shall be           unloading in a seaport of another Member State shall
returned to him as soon 'as the customs formalities           be deemed not to have left the customs territory of
connected with the dispatch of the goods to the               the Community provided that .the sea ' crossing is
Member State of destination have been completed.               covered by a single transport document.
3 . When document T 2 L is issued retroactively
                                                              2. The original and the copy shall be produced in
there shall be entered upon it in red one of the              the Member State of destination at the office of
fallowing phrases :                                           destination referred to in Article 72, which shall
                                                              return the copy to the issuing office for verification
— .'Issued retroactively',                                    purposes. The result thereof shall be notified only
                                                              if an irregularity is established.]
— 'Delivre a posteriori',
— ' Udstedt efterfølgende',
                                                                                      SECTION II
— 'Nachträglich ausgestellt', .
                                                                      SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE FOR THE ISSUE
— 'Rilasciato a posteriori ',                                                    OF THE DOCUMENT
— 'Achteraf afgegeven'.                                                                Article 75
                         Article 72
                                                              1 . Customs authorities of a Member State may
                                                              authorize a person approved for the purposes of the
                                                              provisions of Articles 55 to 61 who intends to export
1 . Document T 2 L shall be produced at the customs           goods under cover of a document T 2 L to use that
office in the Member State of destination where the           document without complying with the provisions
goods are to be entered to a customs procedure other          of Article 71 (2). Any person so approved is herein­
than that under which they were carried.                      after referred to as an 'authorized consignor'.
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2. The authorization referred to in paragraph 1 may               customs office, the date of completion of the
be granted only in respect of exportation to be                   document and such particulars of export documen­
carried out by air or sea and when the use of the                 tation as are required by the Member State of expor­
internal Community transit procedure is not com­                  tation.
pulsory.
                                                                  3 . Form T 2 L, properly completed so as to include
                                                                  the additional particulars prescribed in paragraph 2
The customs authorities referred to in paragraph 1                and signed by the authorized consignor, shall be
may, however, extend the authorization to :                       treated as equivalent to the internal Community
— exportation by pipeline,                                        transit document used for certifying the Community
                                                                  nature of goods.
— exportations of postal consignments (including
      postal packages) for which a document T 2 L is                                          Article 78
      required.
                                                                   The authorized consignor shall make a copy of each
                                                                   document T 2 L issued under the provisions of this
                           Article 76                              section. The customs authorities shall specify the
                                                                   conditions under which the copy document shall be
                                                                   produced for purposes of control and retained for
 1 . The authorization issued by              the   customs        not less than two years.
 authorities shall specify, in particular :
                                                          >k
 (a) the customs office assigned to pre-authenticate                                          Article 79
      documents T 2 L as prescribed in Article 77 ( 1 )
      (a), and                                                     Customs authorities may carry out upon authorized
 (b) the manner in which the authorized consignor                  consignors any controls they consider necessary. The
      shall   establish   that   forms  T2L      have  been        said consignors must furnish all the necessary
      properly used.                                               information and facilities for this purpose.
                                                                                              Article 80
 2. The customs authorities shall specify the period
 within     which     and   the    manner   in   which   the
                                                                   1 . The authorized consignor shall :
 authorized consignor shall notify the responsible
 customs office so that siuch office may carry out any             (a) comply with the provisions of this section and
 necessary controls before departure of the goods.                     of the authorization ; and
                                                                   (b) take all necessary measures to ensure the safe­
                                                                       keeping of the special stamp or of the forms
                           Article 77                                  bearing the imprint of the stamp of the
                                                                       authenticating offices, as referred to in Article 76
                                                                        ( 1 ) (a), or of the special stamp.
  1 . The authorization shall stipulate that the space
 reserved for the customs certificate on the front of
 form T 2 L :                                                      2. In the event of the misuse by any person of forms
                                                                   T 2 L bearing the imprint of the stamp of the customs
  (a) be stamped in advance with the stamp of the                  office referred to in Article 76 ( 1 ) (a) or of the special
       customs office referred to in Article 76 ( 1 ) (a)          stamp, then, without prejudice to any criminal
       and be signed by an official of that office; or             proceedings, and unless he can satisfy the customs
                                                                   authorities by whom he was authorized that he took
  (b) be stamped by the authorized consignor with                  the measures required of him under paragraph 1 (b),
       a special metal stamp approved by the customs               the authorized consignor shall be liable for the
       authorities and conforming to the specimen                  amount payable in respect of duties and other char­
       shown in Annex XV. The imprint of the stamp                 ges which are unpaid in any Member State in
       may be pre-printed on the forms if the printing             consequence of such misuse.
       is entrusted to a printing works approved for
       that purpose.
                                                                                               Article 81
  2. The authorized consignor shall, not later than                The customs authorities of the exporting Member
  on consignment of the goods, complete the form and               State may exclude certain categories of goods and
  sign it. In addition he shall enter in the space reserved        types of traffic from the facilities provided for in this
  for the customs certificate the name of the responsible          section.
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                                            TITLE VI
                                      FINAL PROVISIONS
                                            Article 82
             The Annexes to this Regulation shall form an integral part thereof.
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                             ANNEX I
              EXTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                       DECLARATION T 1
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   I
         1 <4
            1
                         EXTERNAL COMMUNITY
                                   TRANSIT
                                                             1 Guarantee
                                                                                    E.C. E.F. E.G. C.E.
                                                                                                                                                       Statistical No
                          Declaration
      COPY FOR THE OFFICE OF DEPARTURE                  |           Please see notice before completing this form               Office of departure
2 Appended documents                                                                                                            Document issued on
                                                                                                                                under No
3 Previous customs procedure              4 Number
                                             of forms
                                             TI bis                            (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                                Stamp                                                 Signature
                                                                              (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 DECLARATION:
      represented by
     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit
                                                                                                                                  11 Consignee
     at the office of designation at
     At
                (Place of signature)                  (Date)
                                                               Signature
                                                                        (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                            25 Country of destination
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages              31 Description of goods
                                                            35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                          37 Price
                                                                                               1
                                                                          (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages              31 Description of goods
                                                            35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                          37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
45 Offices of
 transit intended
  (and countries)
46 Offices of
    transit used
  (and countries)
                                       Place                     Mode of          CHR            Identity of vehicle          C       Nationality/Flag           51 Previous country
          50                                                     transport
                                                                                                                                                                     of consigment
Entry into the
Community
                                                      1                  1                                                                                                           1
Loading/
Transhipment
                                                                         1
Transhipment
                                                      1                  1
Transhipment/
Unloading                                                                                                                                                         52 First country
                                                      1                  1                                                                                            of destination
Exit from the
Community
                                                      1                  1
 ---pagebreak---                         EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
Results of examination:                     Seals affixed:
                                            Time limit (date):
                                            Remarks:
                                 At                              on
                                          (Place of signature) '    (Date) Stamp and signature
 ---pagebreak--- 1 I     1\                 EXTERNAL COMMUNITY
   I       1                       TRANSIT                                              E«C«              EJF•          E.G.        C«E«
                                                               1 Guarantee
                                                                                                                                                           Statistical No
                           Declaration
    C O P Y FOR T H E OFFICE O F D E S T I N A T I O N   2            Please see notice before completing this form                 Office of departure
2 Appended documents                                                                                                                Document issued on
                                                                                                                                    under No
3 Previous customs procedure              4  Number
                                             of forms
                                             T l bis                               (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                                    Stamp                                                  Signature
                                                                                  (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 D E C L A R A T I O N :
     represented by
     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit .
                                                                                                                                      11 Consignee
     at the office of designation at
     A1 _
     At                                   nn
                                          on
                (Place of signature)                    (Date)
                                                                 Signature    ...
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                              25 Country of destination
                                                                                                    1
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                31 Description of goods
                                                              35 Country of consignment                           36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                                                    1
                                                                    (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                 31 Description of goods
                                                              35 Country of consignment                           36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                    (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
45 Offices of
 transit intended
  (and countries)
46 Offices of
    transit used
  (and countries)
                                       Place                       Mode of             CHR            Identity of vehicle         C       Nationality/Flag
         50                                                        transport                                                                                          51  Previous country
                                                                                                                                                                          of consigment
Entry into the
Community                                              1
                                                                            1
Loading/
Transhipment
                                                                            1
Transhipment
                                                                            1
Transhipment/
Unloading                                                                                                                                                              52 First country
                                                                            1                                                                                              of destination
Exit from the
Community
                                                                            1
 ---pagebreak---                                                                     EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
        Results of examination:                                                                   Seals affixed:
                                                                                                  Time limit (date):
                                                                                                  Remarks:
                                                                                   At
                                                                                                (Place of signature)      (Date)              Stamp and signature
                                                  60 TRANSHIPMENTS AND OTHER INCIDENTS DURING CARRIAGE
                                    DETAILS AND MEASURES TAKEN(i)                                                    DATE STAMP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITY
') The name and address of any new carrier should in particular be stated.
                                                                      CONTROL BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
       Date of arrival:
       Examination of seals:
       Remarks:
                                                                                  At
                                                                                               (Place of signature)      (Date)               Stamp and signature
                                                                         (Space reserved for office of destination)
                                                                          (Space reserved for general purposes)
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    1
         1\
            1
                          EXTERNAL COMMUNITY
                                    TRANSIT                                         E.C* E.F. E.G. C.E.
                                                              1 Guarantee
                                                                                                                                                      Statistical No
                           Declaration
                    COPY FOR RETURN                     3            Please see notice before completing this form             Office of departure
2 Appended documents                                                                                                           Document issued on
                                                                                                                               under No
3 Previous customs procedure              4 Number
                                             of forms
                                             Tl bis                            (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                               Stamp                                                Signature
                                                                                                                   i
                                                                              (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 DECLARATION;
      represented by
     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit
                                                                                                                                 11 Consignee
      at the office of designation at
      At            :                     on
                 (Place of signature)                  (Date)
                                                                Signature
                                                                          (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                             25 Country of destination
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages               31 Description of goods
                                                             35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                                            .1
                                                                       (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages               31 Description of goods
                                                             35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                       (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
45 Offices of
 transit intendeid
  (and countries)
46 Offices of
    transit used
  (and countries)
          50                           Place                      Mode of         CHR           Identity of vehicle          C       Nationality/Flag
                                                                  transport                                                                                     51 Previous country
                                                                                                                                                                    of consigment
Entry into the
Community
                                                      1                    I
Loading/
Transhipment
                                                      1                    1
Transhipment
                                                      1
Transhipment/
Unloading                                             1                                                                                                          52 First country
                                                                           1                                                                                         of destination
Exit from the
Community                                             I                    1
 ---pagebreak---                                                          CONTROL BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
Date of arrival:
Examination of seals:
Remarks:
                                                                    At                                on
                                                                                 (Place of signature)    (Date) Stamp and signature
                                                           (Space reserved for office of destination)
Registered under No   •, Returned to office of departure
                                                             (Space reserved for other purposes)
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    1
         1 <f
            1
                          EXTERNAL COMMUNITY
                                     TRANSIT
                                                              1 Guarantee
                                                                                     E.C E«F. E.G. C£.
                                                                                                                                                       Statistical No
                           Declaration
                    STATISTICAL COPY                     4           Please see notice before completing this form              Office of departure
 2 Appended documents                                                                                                           Document issued on
                                                                                                                                under No
3 Previous customs procedure               4 Number
                                              of forms
                                              Tl bis                            (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                                Stamp                                                Signature
                                                                               (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 DECLARATION:
      represented by
      hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit
                                                                                                                                  11 Consignee
      at the office of designation at         >
                 (Place of signature)                  (Date)
                                                                Signature
                                                                          (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                             25 Country of destination
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages               31 Description of goods
                                                             35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages               31 Description of goods
                                                             35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
45 Offices of
 transit intended
  (and countries)
46 Offices of
    transit used
  (and countries)
          50                            Place                     Mode of          CHR           Identity of vehicle          C       Nationality/Flag
                                                                  transport                                                                                      51 Previous country
                                                                                                                                                                     of consigment
Entry into the
Community .                                                                |
Loading/
Transhipment
                                                       1
                                                                           |
Transhipment
                                                       1
Transhipment/
Unloading                                                                                                                                                         52 First country
                                                       1                   1                                                                                          of destination
Exit from the
                                                                                                                                               •    |
Community
                                                       1                   1
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                              ANNEX U
                EXTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
          FORM T 1 BIS ANNEXED TO DECLARATION T 1
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                                                        E.C. EJ. E.G. CE.
              BIS
                                                    OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
        EXTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                    Continuation sheet to document T1 issued on
                                                    under No
   COPY FOR THE OFFICE OF DEPARTURE            |
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
                                                 35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight               37 Price
                                                             (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
                                                 35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight               37  Price
                                                             (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
                                                 35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight               37  Price
                                                             (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
                                                 35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight               37  Price
                                                             (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
                                                 35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight              37   Price
                                                             JSpace reserved for national statistical purposes)
               (Place of signature)  •               (Date)                                                       (Signature of declarant)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                                                         E.C. EJP. E.G. C«E*
  n bis
                                                     OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
        EXTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                     Continuation sheet to document T1 issued on
                                                     under No
   COPY FOR THE OFFICE OF DESTINATION           2
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages    31 Description of goods
                                                  35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight              37 Price
                                                              (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages    31 Description of goods
                                                  35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight              37  Price
                                                              (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages    31 Description of goods
                                                  35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight              37  Price
                                                               (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages    31 Description of goods
                                                  35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight              37   Price
                                                               (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages    31 Description of goods
                                                  35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight              37   Price
                                                                (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
 At                                          on
                (Place of signature)                  (Date)                                                       (Signature of declarant)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                                                           E.C. EJ. E.G. CX.
              BIS
                                                       OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
        EXTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                       Continuation sheet to document T1 issued on
                                                       under No
             COPY FOR RETURN                     3
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
                                                                                                      36 Gross weight              37   Price
                                                   35 Country of consignment
                                                                (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
                                                                                                      36 Gross weight              37   Price
                                                   35 Country of consignment
                                                                 (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages      31 Description of goods
                                                    35 Country of consignment                          36 Gross weight             37   Price
                                                                 (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)'
 30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
                                                    35 Country of consignment                          36 Gross weight              37  Price
                                                                  (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
 30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     3 ! Description of goods
                                                                                                       36 Gross weight              37   Price
                                                     35 Country of consignment
                                                                   (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
   1             (Place of signature)       ' °°         (Date)                                                        (Signature of declarant)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                                                           E.C. E.F. E.G. CJL
T1 BIS
                                                       OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
       EXTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                       Continuation sheet to document TI issued o»
                                                       under No
             STATISTICAL COPY                   4
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages      31 Description of goods
                                                    35 Country ofconsignment                       j 36 Grossweight                  37 Price
                                                                (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages      31 Description of goods
                                                    35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                 37 Price
                                                                (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages    . 31 Description of goods
                                                    35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                 37 Price
                                                                 (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages      31 Description of goods
                                                    35 Country of consignment                         36 Gross weight                37 Price
                                                                          -           ι
                                                                 (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages      31 Description of goods
                                                    35 Country of consignment                         36 Gross weight                37 Prfeé
                                                                  (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
 At                                          on               -
                (Place of signature)                    (Date)                                                        (Signature' of dfecfafaivt))
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                           ANNEX UI
             INTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                       DECLARATION T 2
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak--- 1 |
   •
        1
             M
                          INTERNAL COMMUNITY
                                   TRANSIT                                          E.C. EJ1. E.G. C«£*
                                                            1 Guarantee
                                                                                                                                                       Statistical No
                          Declaration
      COPY FOR THE OFFICE OF DEPARTURE                 J            Please see notice before completing this form               Office of departure
2 Appended documents                                                                                                            Document issued on
                                                                                                                                under No
3 Previous customs procedure              4 Number
                                             of forms
                                             T2 bis                            (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                                Stamp                                                 Signature
                                                                              (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 DECLARATION:
     represented by
     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit
                                                                                                                                  11 Consignee
     at the office of designation at                                                                 '
                (Place of signature)                  (Date)
                                                               •Signature
                                                                         (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                            25 Country of destination
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages              31 Description of goods'
32                                                          35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                          37 Price
                                                                                               1
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages              31 Description of goods
32                                                          35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                          37 Price
                                                                          (Spate reserved for national statistical purposes)
 45 Offices of
 transit intended
  (and countries)
 46 Offices of
    transit used
  (and countries)
                                       Place                     Mode of          CHR            Identity of vehicle          C       Nationality/Flag            51 Previous country
          50                                                     transport
                                                                                                                                                                      of consigment
Entry into the
Community                                                                 1
Loading/
Transhipment                                                              1
Transhipment
                                                      1                   1
Transhipment/
 Unloading                                                                                                                                                         52 First country
                                                                        •1                                                                                            of destination
 Exit frc.n: »he
Community
                                                      1
                                                                          |
 ---pagebreak---                         EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
Results of examination:                     Seals affixed:
                                            Time limit (date):
                                            Remarks:
                                 At                            . on
                                          (Place of signature)      (Date) Stamp and signature
 ---pagebreak---   1 •
      1
           1
                #
                             INTERNAL COMMUNITY
                                      TRANSIT
                                                               1 Guarantee.
                                                                                     E.C. EJ• E.G. C«E«
                                                                                                                                                       Statistical No
                             Declaration
       COPY FOR THE OFFICE OF DESTINATION                2            Please see notice before completing this form             Office of departure
  2 Appended documents                                                                                                          Document issued on
                                                                                                                                under No
  3 Previous customs procedure              4 Number
                                               of forms
                                               T2te                             (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                                Stamp                                                 Signature
                                                                               (Space reserved for export declaration)
  10 DECLARATION:
       hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit
                                                                                                                                  11 Consignee
        at the office of designation at
                   (Place of signature)                 (Date)
                                                                 Signature     ...
                                                                          (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                              25 Country of destination
• 30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages              31 Description of goods
 32                                                           35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
 30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages               31 Description of goods
 32                                                           35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
  45 Offices of
   transit intended
    (and countries)
  46 Offices of
      transit used
    (and countries)
            50                           Place                     Mode of         CHR           Identity of vehicle          C       Nationality/Flag            51 Previous country
                                                                   transport
                                                                                                                                                                      of consigment
 Entry into the
 Community
                                                        1                  I                                                                                                          1
  Loading/
  Transhipment
                                                        1                  1
 Transhipment
                                                        1                  1
  Transhipment/
  Unloading
                                                                           1                                                                                       52 First country
                                                                                                                                                                      of destination
  Exit from the
  Community                                                                 1
 ---pagebreak---                                                                      EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
        Results of examination:                                                                    Seals affixed:
                                                                                                   Time limit (date):
                                                                                                   Remarks:
                                                                                    At                                on
                                                                                                 (Place of signature)         (Date)               Stamp and signature
                                                   60 TRANSHIPMENTS AND OTHER INCIDENTS DURING CARRIAGE
                                    DETAILS AND MEASURES TAKEN ')                                                        DATE STAMP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITY
(M The name and address of any new carrier should in particular be stated.
                                                                      CONTROL BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
       Date of arrival:
       Examination of seals:
       Remarks:
                                                                                   At .
                                                                                                (Place of signature)         (Date)               Stamp and signature
                                                                          (Space reserved for office of destination)
                                                                           (Space reserved for general purposes)
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    1
         1
              W
                           INTERNAL COMMUNITY
                                    TRANSIT
                                                             1 Guarantee
                                                                                    E.C. E.F. E.G. CJL.
                                                                                                                                                    Statistical No
                           Declaration
                                                                     Please see notice before completing this form            Office of departure
                   COPY FOR RETURN                      3
2 Appended documents                                                                                                          Document issued on
                                                                                                                              under No
3 Previous customs procedure               4 Number
                                              of forms
                                              Tlbis                            (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                              Stamp                                                Signature
                                                                              (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 DECLARATION:
      represented by
      hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit
                                                                                                                                11 Consignee
      at the offire of Hpsignafinn at
                 (Place of signature)                  (Date)
                                                                Signature
                                                                          (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                             25 Country of destination
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages               31 Description of goods
32                                                           35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                       37 Price
                                                                                               1
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                31 Description of goods
32                                                           35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                       37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
 45 Offices of
  transit intended
   (and countries)
 46 Offices of
     transit used
^anc^countries^
                                        Place                     Mode of          CHR           Identity of vehicle                Nationality/Flag           51 Previous country
           50                                                     transport
                                                                                                                                                                   of consigment
Entry into the
Community
Loading/
Transhipment
Transhipment
 Transhipment/
 Unloading                                                                                                                                                      52 First country
                                                                                                                                                                    of destination
 Exit from the
 Community
 ---pagebreak---                                                         CONTROL BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
Date of arrival :
Examination of seals:
Remarks:
                                                                   At                                 on
                                                                                 (Place of signature)    (Date) Stamp and signature
                                                          (Space reserved for office of destination)
Registered under No   ; Returned to office of departure
                                                            (Space reserved for other purposes)
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   1
        1
             W
                         INTERNAL COMMUNITY
                                   TRANSIT                                           E.C. £*F« E.G. CJE.
                                                              1 Guarantee
                                                                                                                                                      Statistical No
                          Declaration
                  STATISTICAL COPY                    |   ^         Please see notice before completing this form               Office of departure
2 Appended documents                                                                                                            Document issued on
                                                                                                                                under No
3 Previous customs procedure              4 Number
                                             of forms
                                             Tlbis                              (Space reserved for national use)
                                                                                                                                Stamp                                                 Signature
                                                                               (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 DECLARATION:
     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit
                                                                                                                                  11 Consignee
     at the office of designation at
                (Place of signature)                    (Date)
                                                                Signature
                                                                          (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
                                                              25 Country of destination
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                31 Description of goods
32                                                            35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                31 Description of goods
32                                                            35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                         37 Price
                                                                           (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
 45 Offices of
 transit intended
  (and countries)
 46 Offices of
    transit used
  (and countries)
          50                           Place                      Mode of          CHR           Identity of vehicle          C       Nationality/Flag           51 Previous country
                                                                  transport
                                                                                                                                                                     of consigment
Entry into the
Community                                               1
                                                                           1                                                                                                         1
 Loading/
Transhipment
                                                        1                  1
Transhipment
                                                        1
 Transhipment/
 Unloading                                                                                                                                                        52 First country
                                                        1                   1                                                                                         of destination
 Exit from the
 Community                                              |                   I
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                              ANNEX IV
                 INTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
          FORM T 2 BIS ANNEXED TO DECLARATION T 2
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak--- T2 BIS                                              OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
                                                                       E.C. EtF. E.G. CJE.
        INTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                    Continuation sheet to document T'J issued on
                                                    under No
   COPY FOR THE OFFICE OF DEPARTURE            J
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36. Gross weight                  37 Price
    1
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
                                                                             /
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                                                  1
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                                                  1
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                                                  1
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36    Gross weight               37 Price
                                                              (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
At                                          on
               (Place of signature)                 (Date)                                                          (Signature of declarant)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak--- T2 BIS                                              OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
                                                                       E.C. EJF. E.G. C«E<
        INTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                    Continuation sheet to document T 2 issued on.
                                                    under No
   COPY FOR THE OFFICE OF DESTINATION          2
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                      36 Gross weight                 .37 Price
                                                                                  1
                      '                                       (Space reservedfor national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                      36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                      36 Gross weight                  37 Price'
                                                                                  f
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                      36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                                                 i
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                     36    Gross weight                37 Price
                                                              (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
At                                          on
               (Place of signature)                  (Date)                                                       (Signature' of declarant)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak--- T2 BIS                                              OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
                                                                       E.C. EJF. E.G. CJE.
        INTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                    Continuation sheet to document T2 issued on
                                                    under No
              COPY FOR RETURN                  3
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                   37 Price
                                                                                                                    i
                                                                            '     1
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                    37 Price
                                                                                  1
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                    37 Price
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                   37 Price
                                                                       i          1
                                                             (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages   31 Description of goods
32                                               35 Country of consignment                       36    Gross weight                37 Price
                                                                                  1
                                                              (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
At                                          on
               (Place of signature)                  (Date)                                                           (Signature of declarant)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak--- T2 BIS                                                OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
                                                                         E«C* E.F. E.G. C*E.
        INTERNAL COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                      Continuation sheet to document T2 issued on
                                                      under No
             STATISTICAL COPY                    4
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
32                                                 35 Country of consignment                        36 Gross weight                 37 Price
                                                                                    1
                                                               (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
32                                                 35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                                                    1
                                                               (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
32                                                 35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                               (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
32                                                 35 Country of consignment                       36 Gross weight                  37 Price
                                                                                    1
                                                               (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages     31 Description of goods
32                                                 35 Country of consignment                       36    Gross weight               37 Price
                                                                (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
At                                          on _
               (Place of signature)                    (Date)                                                         (Signature of declarant)
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                                                               ANNEX V
                                                            LOADING LIST
                                                                                     36. Gross
 Serial No ■ 30. Number, kind , marks and   31 . Description of     35 . Country of      weight      Reserved for customs
                 numbers of packages             goods                   consignment     (in kg)
                                                                                                 (Signature)
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                                                          ANNEX VII
                                            E.C. EJ. E.G. CJE.
                                                  COMMUNITY TRANSIT
       TRANSIT ADVICE NOTE                                                                GRENZÜBERGANGSSCHEIN
    GRÆNSEOVERGANGSATTEST                                                                        AVIS DE PASSAGE
        AVVISO DI PASSAGGIO                                                           KENNISGEVING VAN DOORGANG
  Identification of means of transport
                             TRANSIT DOCUMENT                                       OFFICE OF TRANSIT INTENDED
    Type (T 1 or T 2) and number                  Office of departure                       (AND COUNTRY):
                    . '
                                                          '
                                                                             i                                           1
                                                                                            FOR OFFICIAL USE
                                                                               Date of transit :                         |
                                                                                                   Signature
                                                                                                   Official              B
                                                                                                    stamp                I
                                                                           I                                             I
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                                                       ANNEX VIII
                                              E.C. E.F. E.G. C.E.
                                               COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                  RECEIPT                                     RICEVUTA
                                 RÉCÉPISSÉ                             ONTVANGSTBEWIJS
                    EINGANGSBESCHEINIGUNG                                 ANKOMSTBEVIS
          The customs office at
          hereby certifies that document T 1 , T 2 (*)
                                    Control Copy T No 5
          registered on                                              under No
          by the office at
          has been lodged and that no irregularity has been observed to date concerning the consignment
          to which this document refers.
                                                    At                     on                    19 .
                           Official
                                                             (Place)                 (Date)
                            Stamp
                                                                         (Signature)
          P) Delete as necessary.
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                                                                 ANNEX X
                                                                                                                                  Crecto)
             COMMUNITY                                 E.C. E.F. E.G. C.E.                                         A 000 000
                 TRANSIT
                                               FLAT-RATE GUARANTEE VOUCHER
             Issued by
                                                     (Name and address of individual or firm)
             (Undertaking of the guarantor accepted on
             by the office of guarantee of                                                                                     )•
             This voucher is valid for an amount of up to 5 000 units of account for one Community transit
             operation beginning not later than
             and in respect of which the principal is
                                                     (Name and address of individual or firm)
                         (Signature of principal (*))                                    (Signature and stamp of guarantor)
             (M Signature optional.
                                                                                                                                  (verso)
                                               To be completed by office of departure
             Community transit operation effected under document T 1/T 2
             registered on                                                  under No                                      by the
              office at
                              (Official stamp)                                                      (Signature)
 ---pagebreak---  T2L    ^        -1—1                  INTERNAL
                                                                                E.C. EJF. E.G. C«E*
                                                                                                                                  A oooooo
 COMMUNITY TRANSIT DOCUMENT
         FOR ESTABLISHING THE
 COMMUNITY NATURE OF GOODS
                                                                                      See notes overleaf
10 Declaration:
   represented by
   declares that the goods described below are Community goods.
   At .
                (Place of signature)              (Date)    Signature.
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                 31 Description of goods
32                                                                                                       36 Gross weight
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                 31 Description of goods
32                                                                                                       36 Gross weight
                                                                                CUSTOMS CERTIFICATE
                                                                                 Satisfied declaration correct
Export document: type                                                                             No.                    Date
Customs office at
Remarks
                                                                                                                         Date             19..
                                                         Official
                                                         stamp
                                                                                                                              (Signature)
 ---pagebreak---                                         REQUEST FOR VERIFICATION OF THIS T 2 L DOCUMENT
The undersigned customs officer requests that the authenticity of this document and the accuracy of the information contained therein
be verified.
                                                                      At                                     on                       19
                                                                                 (Place of signature)                 ( Date)
                                                        Official
                                                         stamp
                                                                                                          (Signature)
                                                           RESULT OF VERIFICATION
The verification carried out by the undersigned customs officer has shown that this document:
1 . was duly issued by the customs office named and that the information contained therein is correct (! );
2. does not satisfy the requirements as to conditions of authenticity and regularity (see remarks annexed hereto) (1 ).
                                                                      At                                     on                       19
                                                                                 (Place of signature)                   (Date)
                                                        Official
                                                         stamp
 (') Delete as necessary .                                                                                (Signature)
I. Rules for completion of the T 2 L document                                           date of issue and the number of the document
                                                                                        relating to procedure the used.
     A. A single T 2 L document shall be made out only for
          goods dispatched by one means of transport for carriage                 10. Enter the surname and forenames or name of firm,
          from one office of departure to one office of destination.                    and address of the person concerned and , if appli­
                                                                                        cable, of the representative.
     B. The T 2 L document may be used for the purpose of
          establishing the Community nature of goods to which it
                                                                                        Where the form is signed by a person duly authorized,
                                                                                        his name shall be shown in block letters.
          refers only where such goods are transported directly from
          one Member State to another.
                                                                                  30. In respect of goods which are not packed, indicate
          The following shall be regarded as directly transported                       the number of articles, or if appropriate enter as
          from one Member State to another:                                             loose goods.
          (a) goods transported without passing through the terri­
              tory of a non-member country ;                                      31 . The goods shall be described by their usual com­
                                                                                        mercial name, or in accordance with the tariff
          (b) goods transported through the territory of one or                         nomenclature.
              more non-member countries provided that carriage
              through such countries is covered by a single transport
              document made out in a Member State.                                36. This refers to the weight as shown in the commercial
                                                                                        documents relating to the consignment. The weight
                                                                                        is to be specified in kilograms. Gross weight means
     C. The form shall be completed legibly and indelibly, prefer­                      the total weight of the goods and all packing material .
          ably typed, without erasures or superimposed corrections.                     All outside and inside containers, packings, wrappings
          Any alterations shall be made by crossing out the in­                         and supports are regarded as packing; this excludes
         correct information and by adding the required infor­                          transport equipment, in particular containers, and
         mation as appropriate.                                                         sheets, tackle, covers and other transport accessories.
          Any such alteration shall be authenticated by the person
          making it and countersigned by the customs authorities.        II. Production of T 2 L documents at customs
     D. Only the following items are to be completed:                        The T 2 L document shall be produced at the customs office
                                                                             where the goods are to be entered to a customs procedure
           1 . When the goods are transported under the TIR or               other than that under which they arrived.
               TIF Conventions, or the Rhine Manifest procedures,
               or are covered by an ECS or ATA carnet, the indi­             If the goods have been transported by sea, air or pipeline, the
               cation 'TIR', 'TIF, 'Rhine Manifest', 'ECS' or 'ATA'          T 2 L document shall be produced at the customs office at
               should be entered as the case may be, followed by the         which the goods are placed under a customs procedure.
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                                              ANNEX XIII
        LIST OF GOODS WHICH WHEN TRANSPORTED GIVE RISE TO AN INCREASE IN THE
                                    FLAT-RATE GUARANTEE
                  1                                 2                           3
                                                                       Quantity corresponding
           CCT heading No                Description of goods              to the standard
                                                                        amount of 5 000 u.a .
           09.01 A 1          Coffee not roasted                            5 000 kg
           09.01 A 11         Coffee roasted                                3 500 kg
        ex 21.02 A            Coffee extract and essence                    1 200 kg
           09.02              Tea                                           3 500 kg
        ex 21.02 B            Tea extract and essence                       1 200 kg
           22.05 A
                              Alcoholic beverages other than
           22.06                                                               20 hi
                              non-sparkling wines
        ex 22.09
        ex 22.08       Ι
                              Ethylic alcohol not denatured                     10 hi
        ex 22.09       J
           24.02 A            Cigarettes                                 125.000 pieces
        ex 24.02 B            Cigarillos                                 125 000 pieces
        ex 24.02 B            Cigars                                      50 000 pieces
           24.02 C            Smoking tobacco                               1 000 kg
        ex 27.10              Petrol, gas-oil                                 400 hi
        ex 33.06 B            Perfumes and toilet water                        10 hi
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                                                      ANNEX XIV
                           LIST OF AIRLINE COMPANIES EXEMPT FROM COMMUNITY
                                                TRANSIT GUARANTEE
             Aer Lingus Teoranta (Irish Air Lines), Dublin
             Aero-Dienst GmbH, Nürnberg
             Aeroflot-Soviet Airlines , Moskwa
             Aerolineas Argentinas, Buenos Aires
             Aerolinee Itavia, SpA, Roma
             Aer Turas, Dublin
             African Safari Airways, Nairobi
             Air Afrique, Abidjan
             Air Algérie (Compagnie nationale de transports aériens Air Algérie), Alger
             Air Anglia Ltd, Norwich
             Air Canada, Montréal
             Air Ceylon Ltd, Colombo
             Air Flight Luftfahrtunternehmen GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf
             Air France, Pans
             Air Freight Limited, Lydd
             Air India, Bombay
             Air Inter, Paris
             Airlift International Inc, Miami
             Air Madagascar (Société nationale malgache de transports aériens), Tananarive
             Air-Mali , Bamako
             Air Sénégal (Société nationale de transports aériens), Dakar
             Air Viking, Reykjavik
             Air Zaïre, Kinshasa
             Alaska Airlines Inc, Seattle
             Alia (The Royal Jordanian Airline), Amman
             Alitalia (Linee Aeree Italiane), Roma
             APSA , Lima
             Arco, Bermuda
             Ariana Afghan Airlines, Kabul
             ATI, Napoli
             Aurigny Air Services Ltd, Alderney
             Austrian Airlines, Wien
             Austrian Airtransport, österreichische Flugbetriebs-GmbH, Wien
             Avianca (Aerovías Nacionales de Colombia, S.A.), Bogotá
             Balair Ltd., Basel
             Balkan-Bulgarian Airlines, Sofia
             BASCO Brothers Air Services Co., Aden
             Bavaria Flug GmbH Schwabe & Co. KG, München
             Britannia Airways Ltd, Luton
             British Air Ferries Ltd , Southend-on-Sea
             British Airways, London
             British Caledonian Airways Limited, Gatwick Airport (London)
             British Island Airways Ltd, Gatwick Airport (London)
             British Midland Airways Ltd, Castle Donington
             British United Airways Ltd, Gatwick Airport (London)
             Cameroon Airlines, Douala
             Canadian Pacific-Air, Vancouver
 ---pagebreak--- 20. 6. 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities           No L 151/ 83
          Civil Air Charter Verwaltungs-GmbH & Co. KG, Bedarfsluftfahrtunternehmen, Essen
          Condor Flugdienst GmbH, Neu-Isenburg
          Contactair Flugdienst GmbH & Co., Stuttgart
          CP Air (Canadian Pacific-Air), Vancouver
          CSA (Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie), Praha
          Cyprus Airways Ltd, Nicosia
          Dan-Air Skyways Ltd, London
          Deutsche Lufthansa AG , Köln
          East African Airways Corporation, Nairobi
          El Al Israel Airlines Ltd, Tel Aviv
          Elivie (Societal Italiana Esercizio Elicotteri S.p.A.), Napoli
          Ethiopian Airlines S.C. , Addis Abeba
          Fairflight (Charters) Ltd, Biggin Hill Airport (London)
          Finnair, Helsinki
          Garuda Indonesian Airways, Djakarta
          Germanair Bedarfsluftfahrtgesellschaft mbH, Frankfurt (Main)
          Ghana Airways Corporation, Accra
          Hapag-Lloyd Flug GmbH, Bremen
          Iberia (Lineas Aéreas de España S.A.), Madrid
          Icelandair (Flugfelag Islands H.F.), Reykjavik
          International Air Bahama (Air Bahama International), Nassau
          International Carribean Airways, Barbados
          Intra Airways Ltd, Jersey
          Iranair, Teheran
          Iraqi Airways, Bagdad
          JAL (Japan Air Lines Co. Ltd), Tokio
          JAT (Jugoslovenski Aerotransport), Beograd
          KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), Amsterdam
          Kuwait Airways Corporation, Kuwait
          Laker Airways (Services) Ltd, Gatwick Airport (London)
          Libyan Arab Airlines, Tripoli
          Loftleidir H.F. (Icelandic Airlines), Reykjavik
          Loganair Ltd, Glasgow
          LOT-Polish Airlines, Warszawa
          LTU-Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH & Co. KG, Dusseldorf
          Luxair-Luxembourg Airlines, Luxembourg
          Malév (Hungarian Airlines), Budapest
          Martinair, Amsterdam
          MEA (Middle East Airlines Airliban S.A.L.), Beyrouth
          Monarch Airlines Limited, Luton
          National Airlines Inc, Miami
          Nigeria Airways , Lagos
           NLM-Dutch Airlines, Amsterdam
           (Fred) Olsen, Oslo
           Olympic Airways, Athenai
           Ontario World Air, Toronto
          Pacific Western Airlines, Vancouver
           Pakistan International Airlines Corporation, Karachi
           Pan American World Airways Inc, New York
           Peters' Aviation , Norwich
          Qantas Airways Ltd, Sydney
           Rousseau Aviation , Dinard
           Royal Air Maroc, Casablanca
           Sabena (Belgian World Airlines), Bruxelles
           SAM (Società Aerea Mediterranea), Roma
           SAS (Scandinavian Airlines), Stockholm
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            SATA, SA de transport aérien , Genève
            Saturn , Oakland
            Saudia (Saudi Arabian Airlines), Jeddah
            Seabord World Airlines Inc, New York
            Sierra Leone Airways, Freetown
            Singapore Airlines Ltd, Singapore
            South African Airways, Johannesburg
            Southern Air Transport, Miami
            Spantax SA , Madrid
            Strathallan, Perth
            Sudan Airways, Khartoum
            Swissair (Swiss Air .Transport Company Ltd), Zurich
            Syrian Arab Airlines , Damascus
            TAP — The Intercontinental Airline of Portugal, Lisboa
            Tarom (Rumanian Air Transport), Bucuresti
            THY — Turkish Airlines, Istanbul
            Tradewinds, Gatwick Airport (London)
            Transavia (Holland B.V. ), Amsterdam
            Trans-Mediterranean Airways S.A.L. , Beyrouth
            Transmeridian, Stansted Airport (London)
            Trans-Union S.A. , Paris
            Tunis Air, Tunis
            TWA (Trans World Airlines Inc.), New York
            United Arab Airlines, Heliopolis
            UTA (Union de transports aériens), Paris
            VARIG-Brazilian Airlines, Rio de Janeiro
            VIASA (Venezolana Internacional de Aviación S.A.), Caracas
            WDL Flugdienst GmbH, Mülheim/Ruhr
            Zambia Airways Corporation, Lusaka
 ---pagebreak--- 20. 6. 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 151/85
                             ANNEX XV
                           SPECIAL STAMP
                1 . Member State's coat of arms
                2. Customs office
                3 . Number of document
                4 . Date
                5 . Authorized consignor
                6. Authorization
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                                                                   ANNEX II
                                                                                                                           Appendix III — Specimen IV                           CERTIFICATE OF GUARANTEE
                                                 COMMUNITY TRANSIT                                                                                                                                                     (recto)
            cancellation
                                                   1 . Valid until                                     1 Day ' Month ' Year '             2 . No
                                                                                                       IIII
                                                   3. Principal
                                                      (Surname and forename, or name
                  on                                  of company, and complete
                                                      address and country)
         the guarantee office
                                                   4. Guarantor
                                                      (Surname and forename, or name
                                                      of company, and complete
                                                      address and country)
                                                  5. Guarantee office.
            to                                       (Complete address and country)                                                                                                                             »
        delay                                     6. Guarantee cover                             (in figures) :                          ( in words) :
                                                     (in national currency)
     This certificate must be returned without
                                                  7. The guarantee office certifies that the above-named principal is authorized to carry out Community transit operations in the following
                                                     countries (except where deleted) :
                                                     BELGIUM                     DENMARK                     GERMANY                           FRANCE              IRELAND               ITALY
                                                     LUXEMBOURG                  NETHERLANDS                 UNITED KINGDOM                    SWITZERLAND
                                                                                                                                               At .                                          on
                                                  8. Validity extended until
     of the
                                                                                                                                                         (Place of signature)                          (Date)
                                                     1 Day ' Month ' Year '
                    .guarantee
                                                     IIII inrliisivp
                                                       At                                 , on
                                                                (Place of signature)                              (Date)
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                                                                              (Signature and st amp)                                                                 (Signature and stamp)
                                                 9. Persons authorized to sign Community transit declarations on behalf of the principal                                                                            (verso)
  ,surname forename
                                                  10. Surname, forename and              f 11 . Signature of principal ( ')              10. Surname, forename and                1 1, Signature- of principal ( 1 )
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                                                      of authorized person                                                                    of authorized person
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