CELEX: 31977R0819
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 819/77 of 22 April 1977 on the statistical threshold in the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States

No L 99/6                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               23. 4. 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 819/77
                                                    of 22 April 1977
                on the statistical threshold in the external trade statistics of the Community and
                                     statistics of trade between Member States
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                event of a significant change in the value of one or
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  more currencies in relation to the EUA ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Whereas there is a need to round off the amounts so
 Economic Community,                                           obtained, in the interest of simplification ; whereas,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  for technical and administrative reasons, it is advisable
  1736/75 of 24 June 1975 on the external trade statis­        to allow Member States to keep their national statis­
 tics of the Community and statistics of trade between         tical threshold at the level at which it was fixed under
 Member States ('), and in particular Articles 24 (2) and      Community provisions preceding this Regulation,
 (3) and 41 thereof,                                           even though it may be higher than the rounded-off
                                                               amounts ;
 Whereas these statistics are compiled, in the first
 instance, by the Member States ; whereas the statistical      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 threshold should be expressed in each national                are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee
 currency ;                                                    on External Trade Statistics,
Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC)
 No 3162/76 of 22 December 1976 relating to the
 statistical threshold in the external trade statistics of     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 the Community and statistics of trade between
Member States (2), the conversion into national curren­                                  Article 1
cies of the value of the threshold is based on the rates
used for the conversion of these currencies into EUR,          The statistical threshold, within the meaning of
 i.e. into the units of account employed for the compi­        Article 24 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75,
 lation of these statistics up to 31 December 1976 ;           expressed in national currencies,    shall not exceed
Whereas from 1 January 1977 the external trade statis­             for Germany :                         DM       750
tics of the Community and statistics of trade between              for the United Kingdom :              £        150
Member States are to be compiled by reference to the               for France :                          FF     1 500
 European unit of account (EUA), as defined by                     for Italy :                           Lit  225 000
Commission        Decision   No   3289/75/ ECSC    of   18         for the Netherlands :                 Fl       750
 December 1975 (3) ;                                               for the Belgium-Luxembourg
Whereas the rate of conversion for each currency in                Economic Union :                      Bfrs  12 500
relation to the EUA varies from day to day ; whereas               for Denmark :                         Dkr    1 750
the use of this rate to determine the value of the thre­           for Ireland :                         £        150
shold, fixed at 250 units of account, requires the appli­
cation of a fixed rate of conversion ; whereas this latter
                                                                                         Article 2
rate may be based on the average exchange rates
 during the period November 1975 to October 1976 ;             This Regulation shall apply for the first time to the
 Whereas this Regulation could be amended in the               statistics relating to the data for 1977 and shall to the
 case of statistics for years subsequent to 1977 in the        relevant extent replace Regulation (EEC) No 3162/76.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 22 April 1977.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                         Fransois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                              Vice-President
;') OJ No L 183, 14. 7. 1975, p. 3.
;2) OJ No L 356, 28 . 12. 1976, p. 14.
(3) OJ No L 327, 19. 12. 1975, p. 4.