CELEX: 31976R3162
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-22
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3162/76 of 22 December 1976 relating to the statistical threshold in the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States

No L 356/ 14                         Official Journal of the European Communities                          28 . 12. 76
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3162/76
                                                   of 22 December 1976
              relating to the statistical threshold in the external trade statistics of the Commu
                               nity and statistics of trade between Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                                   Article 1
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1736/75 of 24 June 1975 on the external trade statis­          The statistical threshold, within the meaning of
tics of the Community and statistics of trade between           Article 24 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75,
Member States ('), and in particular Articles 24 (2) and        expressed in national currencies, shall not exceed :
(3) and 41 thereof,
Whereas since these statistics are compiled in the first        — for Germany : DM 800,
 instance by the Member States, the statistical                 — for France : FF 1 500,
threshold should be expressed in each national                  — for Italy : Lit 250 000,
                                                                — for the Netherlands : F1 850 ,
currency ;
                                                                — for the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union : Bfrs
Whereas, to ensure uniformity in these statistics, the              12 500 ,
conversion into national currencies of the value of the         — for the United Kingdom : £ 150,
threshold, fixed at 250 units of account, is based on           — for Ireland : £ 150,
the rates used for the conversion of these currencies           — for Denmark : Dkr 1 900 .
into EUR, i.e. into the units of account employed for
 the presentation of the external trade statistics of the
Community and statistics of trade between Member
States ; whereas the amounts thus obtained should be                                   Article 2
rounded off for the purpose of simplification ;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee             following its publication in the Official Journal of
on External Trade Statistics,                                   the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 22 December 1976 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                             Guido BRUNNER
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 183 , 14. 7. 1975, p. 3 .