CELEX: 31972R2720
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2720/72 of the Council of 19 December 1972 amending Article 52 of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 on Community transit

26                               Official Journal of the European Communities
No L 291/26                      Official Journal of the European Communities                         28.12.72
                      REGULATION (EEC) No 2720/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                              of 19 December 1972
              amending Article 52 of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 on Community transit
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                       Community transit operation; whereas they
TIES,                                                      do not enable the Member State of destination
                                                           to compile its transit statistics from its own
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the               documentation;
European Economic Community,                  and    in
particular Article 235 thereof;                            Whereas it should accordingly be stipulated
                                                           that, where required, the necessary data for
Having regard to the proposal from the                     compilation of transit statistics shall be sent by
Commission;                                                the Member State of departure to the Member
                                                           States involved in the Community transit
Having regard to the Opinion of the European               operation and that a copy of document T 1 or
Parliament;
                                                           T 2 shall be sent by the office of destination
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic               to the service of the Member State of destination
and Social Committee;                                      responsible for external trade statistics;
Whereas Article 50 of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 542/691 of 18 March 1969 on Community                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
transit specifies that, where the Community
transit procedure is applied, transit and export
                                                                                 Article 1
statistics shall be based on it;
Whereas Article 51 of that Regulation specifies            The following shall be substituted for Article 52
that the T 1 and T 2 documents shall constitute            of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69:
the source of statistical information in respect               'Until the Council, on a proposal from the
of the movement of goods carried under the                     Commission, has laid down provisions on
Community transit procedure;                                   the standardisation of transit statistics:
Whereas Article 52 of that Regulation makes                    (a) the office of departure shall, without
provision for a copy of the T 1 or T 2 document                    delay, send a copy of that copy of the T 1
to be sent to the service of the Member State
of departure responsible for external trade                        or T 2 document returned to it by the
                                                                   office of destination to the service of the
statistics ;
                                                                   Member State of departure responsible
Whereas until a Community method for making                        for external trade statistics; the latter
statistical returns on transit is finalised, the                   copy shall contain all the necessary data
most rational and efficient system should be                       for the statistical recording of the
selected without thereby introducing new                           Community transit operation in all the
formalities in the movement of goods; whereas                      Member States involved therein;
in the meantime the Member State of departure                  (b) the office of destination shall, without
and the Member State of destination should be
allowed to compile their transit statistics from                   delay, send a copy of that copy of the
                                                                   T 1 or T 2 document that it retains to
their own documentation;                                           the service of the Member State of desti­
Whereas the abovementioned Articles do not                         nation responsible for external trade
make adequate provision for statistical returns                    statistics; the latter copy shall contain
on transit in all Member States involved in the                    all the necessary data for the statistical
                                                                   recording ' of the Community transit
                                                                   operation in all the Member States
   OJ No L 77, 29.3.1969, p. 1 .                                   involved therein;
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(c) the service in the Member State of                   exception of the Member State of
    departure responsible for external trade             destination.'
    statistics shall without delay forward
    the data in the copy of the T 1 or T 2
    document sent to it as provided for in
    (a) above :o the services responsible for                          Article 2
    external trade statistics in the other
    Member States involved in the Com­             This Regulation shall enter into force on
    munity     transit operation,   with   the     1 January 1973 .
        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
        Member States .
        Done at Brussels, 19 December 1972.
                                                                 For the Council
                                                                   The President
                                                                 T. WESTERTERP