CELEX: 51977PC0072
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Recommendation for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the acceptance of the Customs Cooperation Council Recommendation of 18 June 1976 to amend the Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                           COM(77)72 final
                                           Brussels , 16 March 1977
                               Recommendation for a
                                 COUNCIL DECISION
             concerning the acceptance of the Customs Cooperation
             Council Recommendation of 18 June 1976 to amend the
             Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs
                                     Tariffs
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
   C0r.<77 > 72 final
 ---pagebreak---                           E>'P> A r ! A~f RY F!Ef,OPA'"D !JM
Subject : Draft Proposal for a Council Decision accepting the Customs
            Cooperation Council Recommendation dated 18 June 1976 to amend
            the Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs ■
            Tariffs .
            Since 1950 / 1951 or 1963 , according to the particular Member
State , the nine Member States have been Contracting Parties to the Con­
vention on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs
Tariffs ( December 1950 ). This Nomenclature , known as the ^ Customs
Cooperation Council Nomenclature", is the basis on which the Common
Customs Tariff was founded . The Customs Cooperation Council is
responsible for the management of its Nomenclature ; representatives of
the Member States participate in tha work of that body after first
having coorJinated their position in the Committee on Common Customs
Tariff Nomenclature , as is laid down in Article 5 of Council Regulation
97 / 69 of 16 January 1969 . ( 1 ).
            In order to take account , in particular , of continuing
technical progress and the consequent changes in international trade ,
the Customs Cooperation Council may recommend amendments to the Nomen­
clature to its Contracting Parties ( now numbering 37 ). Recommendations
of this nature have already been made in 1960/ 61 and 1971 . They came
into force , respectively , on 1 January 1965 and 1 January 1972 .
            On 18 June 1976 , the Customs Cooperation Council again recommended
a number of amendments ( 230 ) to the Nomenclature .         In accordance with
the provisions of the Convention , the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
notified the Contracting Parties of the Recommendation on 20 December 1976 ,
with effect from 31 December 1976 .
            Article XVI of the Convention provides that the amendments com­
prising the Recommendation will be deemed to have been adopted if no
Contracting Party offers an objection within six months of the effective
date , that is to say , by 30 June 1977 at the latest . If there are no
objections , the amendments concerned will enter into force on
1 January 197G , the date on which customs tariffs must be brought into
line with the amended Nomenclature .
( 1 ) 0J No L 14 of 21 January 1969 .
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            Should there be objections to one or more amendments / even
by only one Contracting Party / the amendnent or amendments in question
will be deemed to have been rejected by all Contracting Parties . /Wter
1 July 1977 / the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will notify the
amendments adopted or deemed to have been adopted to all Contracting
Parties . .
            The Recommendation having being examined in depth within the
Committee on Common Customs Tariff Nomenclature and the Joint Pcinel of
Government Experts on the Common Customs Tariff in close collaboration
with qualified representatives of the Member States , the Commission
considers that this Recommendation can be accepted .
 ---pagebreak---                         Rccomnendation for a
                           COUNCIL DECISION
    concerning tho acceptance of the Customs Cooperation Council
       Recommendation cf 15 June 1976 tc emend the Nomenclature
          for the Classification of ^oods in Curtoms T ar iff s
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
and in particular Article 113 thereof , "
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission .,
Whereas the nine Member States are Contracting Parties to the Brussels
Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of
Goods in Customs Tariffs ; whereas the Common Customs Tariff is based on
that Nomenclature ;
Whereas the Customs Cooperation Council may recommend amendments to the
Convention , and therefore to the Nomenclature which forms part thereof ,
to its Contracting Parties ; whereas on 18 june 1976 the said Council
issued a Recommendation to amend the Nomenclature ;
Whereas under this Convention the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
communicates the text of every draft recommended amendment to all
Contracting Parties and to the governments of all other signatory or
acceding States and said text is deemed to have been adopted if it
encounters no objection from any Contracting Party within
six months from the date of communication ; whereas , if no objection is
encountered , the amendment enters into force six months after expiry of
that period and the customs tariffs of all Contracting Parties must be
aligned on the amended Nomenclature by the end of the latter period ;
Whereas the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs communicated the text of
the Recommendation of 18 June 1976 to the Contracting Parties concerned
on 20 December 1976 , to take effect from 31 December 1976 ; whereas ,
consequently , the Recommendation will be deemed to have been adopted on
1 July 1977 if it has meanwhile encountered no objection in whole or in
part ;
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas there is no objection to be made to any part of the above-
mentioned Recommendation .
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                 Article 1
The Recommendation of 18 June 1976 of the Customs Cooperation Council to
amend   , the Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs
Tariffs is accepted in the name of the Community with a view to its
application as from 1 January 1978 .
The Commission shall inform the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
by 30 June 1977 at the latest of this acceptance .
Done at            ■ • • m on *■                   For'the Council
                                                   The President