CELEX: 21972A1123(01)
Language: en
Date: 1972-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the application of the rules on Community transit

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                                                         AGREEMENT
               between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on the
                                       application of the rules on Community transit
               THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
               of the one part, and
               THE SWISS CONFEDERATION,
               of the other part,
               DESIRING to simplify the customs formalities to be completed in respect of goods traffic at
               the time of crossing frontiers and to this end to establish mutual cooperation in customs matters ;
               CONSIDERING that, for this purpose, use should be made of the rules on Community transit
               and conditions should be laid down for applying those rules to the carriage of goods where both
               Contracting Parties are concerned,
               HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :
                        CHAPTER 1                                     (a) the 'Community' means the European Economic
                                                                          Community,
                     General provisions
                                                                     (b ) a 'Member State' means a Member State of the
                                                                          Community.
                         Article 1
                                                                     2.     Subject to the provisions of Article 1 , the Swiss
                                                                     Confederation shall, in the application of the rules on
1.     The rules on Community transit as set out in                  Community transit, have the same rights and
Appendices I to IX (*) shall apply, subject to the                   obligations as the Member States
provisions of this Agreement, to the movement of
goods between two points situated in the Community                   Any reference to the Community or to the Member
via the territory of the Swiss Confederation, whether                States, shall apply equally to the Swiss
the goods are :                                                      Confederation. However, in the case of Articles 1 and
                                                                     7 of the Regulation on Community transit (Appendix
— consigned direct, with or without transhipment in                  I) and the first paragraph of Article 6 of the
     Switzerland, or                                                 Regulation on simplification of the Community
— reconsigned from Switzerland, where appropriate                    transit procedure for goods carried by rail (Appendix
     after storage in a customs warehouse.                           VIII), the word 'Community' relates exclusively to
                                                                     the European Economic Community.
2. These rules may also apply to any other
carriage of goods through both the territory of the                                          Article 3
Community and the territory of Switzerland.
                                                                     No addition, removal or substitution may be made in
                                                                     the case of goods forwarded under cover of a
                         Article 2                                   Community transit document, in particular when
                                                                     consignments are split up, transhipped or bulked.
                                                                     Goods brought into Switzerland under the conditions
1 . For the purpose of applying Chapters I, II and
III of this Agreement :                                              laid down in Article 1 (1 ) which may be reconsigned
                                                                     under cover of a T2 or T2L document, shall remain
                                                                     at all times under the control of the Swiss customs
                                                                     authorities to ensure that there is no change in their
( ) These Appendices are not included in this document.              identity or state.
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                          Article 4                             2. Where goods are reconsigned to the Community
                                                                after having been under a customs procedure in
1.     The customs authorities of the Member States             Switzerland, other than the transit or warehousing
and of the Swiss Confederation shall assist one                 procedure, no T2 or T2L document shall be issued.
another under the conditions laid down in Article 38
of the Regulation on Community transit (Appendix                This provision shall not, however, apply to goods
I), including cases where goods forwarded under the             which are admitted temporarily into Switzerland to
provisions of Article 1 ( 1 ) of this Agreement, between        be shown at an exhibition, fair or similar public
two points situated in the Community are                        display and which have received no treatment other
accompanied by a T2L document. In so far as                     than that needed for their conservation or for
necessary, they shall communicate to one another all            splitting up consignments.
findings relating to goods for which administrative
assistance is to be provided and which have been
stored in a customs warehouse, either in a Member
State or in Switzerland .                                                              CHAPTER II
2.      Where     irregularities  or   infringements   are
                                                                             Procedure for implementation
 suspected, in connection with goods which are
 brought in to a Member State under cover of a Tl ,
 T2 or T2L document and which are represented as
having been forwarded through Switzerland or as                                         Article 6
 having been warehoused in Switzerland, the Swiss
 customs authority shall, at the request of that                1.     The competent Swiss customs offices are
 Member State, communicate all information as to the            empowered to assume the functions of offices of
 conditions in which such goods were forwarded.                 departure, offices of transit, offices of destination and
                                                                 offices of guarantee. Subject to the provisions of
 3 . Where, in application of paragraphs 1 and 2,                Article 5 of this Agreement and those of paragraph 4
 criminal proceedings prove necessary these shall, in a         below, the issue by a Swiss office of departure of T2
 Member State or in Switzerland, be carried out in               and T2L documents shall be subject to the
 accordance with the provisions of national law on               presentation of T2 and T2L documents drawn up in
 prosecutions for customs offences .                             a Member State. The documents issued must refer to
                                                                 the corresponding T2 and T2L documents and
                                                                 include all special endorsements appearing therein.
                           Article 5
 1 . Where goods are carried through Swiss territory             2. The competent customs offices of the Member
                                                                 States are empowered to issue Tl or T2 documents
 between two points situated in the Community and
 are reconsigned from Switzerland after storage in a
                                                                 valid for a Swiss office of destination. Subject to the
 customs warehouse, T2 and T2L documents may be                  second and third indents of Article 5 ( 1 ) of the
 issued only on the following conditions :                       Regulation on the internal Community transit
                                                                 document for certifying the Community nature of the
 — the goods must not have been stored in a private              goods (Appendix V) and those of paragraph 4 below,
      warehouse within the meaning of the Swiss                  they are also empowered to issue T2L documents for
      Federal customs law ;                                      goods consigned to Switzerland.
 — they shall not have been warehoused over a
      period exceeding five years ; however, as regards          3 . Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 6
      goods falling within Chapters 1 to 24 of the               of the Regulation on simplification of the
      Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in            Community transit procedure for goods carried by
      Customs Tariffs (Brussels Convention of 15                 rail (Appendix VIII), a Community transit operation
      December 1950), that period shall be limited to            may be terminated at an office other than the
      six months ;                                               specified in the Tl or T2 document provided that
                                                                 these two offices belong to the same Contracting
 — the goods must have been stored in special spaces             Party. That office shall then become the office of
      and shall have received no treatment other than            destination.
      that needed for preservation in the original State,
      or for splitting up consignments without replacing
      the packaging;                                             4. From the date on which recourse is no longer
                                                                  authorized to the provisions of the first subparagraph
  — any treatment must have taken place under                     of Article 7 (2) of the Regulation on Community
      customs supervision.                                        transit (Appendix I), customs offices will no longer
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issue T2L documents for goods transported under the           data necessary for the preparation of their transit
procedure for international carriage of goods by              statistics, an additional copy identical to copy No 4
road .                                                        of the T1 and T2 documents shall be supplied for
                                                              statistical purposes :
                                                              (a) to the Swiss office of transit, in the case of goods
                       Article 7                                   consigned direct through Swiss territory from a
                                                                   point situated in the Community to another
In the case of postal consignments (including postal               point situated in the Community ;
packages) which are sent from a post office in a
Member State to Switzerland or from a Swiss post              (b) to the first office of transit in the Community, in
office to a Member State, the competent customs                    the case of goods which are the subject of a
offices are empowered to issue T2L documents,                      Community transit operation commencing in
                                                                   Switzerland .
subject to the provisions of Articles 5 and 6 of this
Agreement.
                                                              2. However, the additional copy mentioned above
                                                              shall not be required when the goods are carried
                                                              under the conditions laid down in the Regulation on
                        Article 8
                                                              simplification of the Community transit procedure
                                                              for goods carried by rail (Appendix VIII).
 1 . In applying the provisions of the Regulation on
simplification of the Community transit procedure
 for goods carried by rail (Appendix VIII), and subject                               Article 10
to the provisions of paragraph 2, where the carriage
 of goods begins in Switzerland such goods shall be
 considered as moving under the procedure for                 The price of the goods (heading No 37 of forms T1
 external Community transit.                                  and T2) shall be given, as necessary, only on copy
                                                              No 1 , which shall be retained by the office of
                                                              departure.
 2.    For goods referred in Article 1 (3 ) of the
 Regulation on Community transit (Appendix I),
 which are subject to the provisions of Article 6 of this                             Article 11
 Agreement, the Swiss office of departure shall
 indicate on copy No 3 of the international
                                                               1 . In dealings between the Community and the
 consignment note that the goods to which it relates
                                                              Swiss Confederation, any carriage of goods which
 are being forwarded under the procedure for internal         commences in the Community under the Community
 Community transit. To this end it shall enter in the
 'Description of goods' space, the symbol 'T2' and its
                                                              transit procedure must be covered by a guarantee
                                                               which is valid also for the Swiss Confederation,
 stamp . For goods carried under cover of an                   subject to the exemptions provided in Articles 42 (1 ),
 international express parcel dispatch note, the symbol        43 ( 1 ) and 46 (2) of the Regulation on Community
 'T2' and the stamp shall be entered on the copy               transit (Appendix I), also those provided in the
 known as the 'waybill'.                                       Regulation establishing the list of airline companies
                                                               exempt from providing the guarantee required within
 3 . In the case of goods mentioned in Article 1 (2)           the framework of the Community transit system
 of the Regulation on Community transit (Appendix              (Appendix VII).
 I), a symbol 'Tl ' need not be made on either of the
 documents mentioned above .                                   2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply
                                                               mutatis mutandis to any carriage of goods under the
                                                               Community transit procedure commencing in
 4. The provisions of Article 6 of the Regulation on           Switzerland.
 simplification of the Community transit procedure
 for goods carried by rail (Appendix VIII) shall not
 apply when the carriage commences in Switzerland or                                  Article 12
 when goods enter the Community via Switzerland.
                                                               1.    The guarantees must conform with specimens I
                                                               to III in Appendix X.
                        Article 9
                                                               2. Where the provisions laid down by law,
  1 . Until a procedure has been agreed for the                regulation or administrative action, or common
 exchange of statistical information to ensure that the        practice so require, each Member State or the Swiss
  Swiss Confederation and the Member States have the            Confederation may allow the guarantee to be in a
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different form, on condition that it has the same legal                                   CHAPTER III
effect as the specimens mentioned above.
                                                                                    Miscellaneous provisions
3.     Each person who has obtained provisional
authorization shall be issued with one or more copies                                       Article 14
of a guarantee certificate in the form shown in
Model IV in Appendix X, subject to the conditions                 The provisions of this Agreement shall not preclude
laid down by the competent authorities of the                     prohibitions or restrictions on imports, exports or
Member States or of the Swiss Confederation .                     goods in transit enacted by the Swiss Confederation,
                                                                  the Community or the Member States and justified
                                                                  on grounds of public morality, public policy or
4. A guarantee drawn up with the office of                        public security ; the protection of health and life of
guarantee of one of the Contracting Parties may not               humans, animals or plants ; the protection of national
be used for carriage performed exclusively in the                 treasures possessing artistic, historic or archaeological
territory of the other Contracting Party.                         value ; or the protection of industrial and commercial
                                                                  property.
                         Article 13                                                         Article 15
The provisions set out in square brackets in                      1 . A Joint Committee is hereby set up ; it shall
Appendices I, II, III, VIII and IX and listed below               consist of representatives of the Community and of
shall not apply :                                                 the Swiss Confederation .
Appendix I:       Article 1 (4); second subparagraph              The Chairmanship of the Joint Committee shall be
                   of Article 2 (2); Articles 3 , 4, 8 , 10,    v held alternately by each of the Contracting Parties, in
                   15 ; Article 26 (2); Article 29, Ar­           accordance with its rules of procedure.
                   ticle 30 (3 ); Article 32 (2); Article 41 ,
                   Article 45 (2); Article 47; Article 48         2.      The Joint Committee shall act by mutual
                   (2); Articles 52, 53 , 55 to 62 ;              agreement.
Appendix II :      Articles 3 and 4 ;                             3.     The Joint Committee shall meet once a year and
                                                                  additionally whenever necessary.
Appendix III :    Article 1 ;
                                                                  4. The Joint Committee shall adopt its own rules
Appendix VIII : Article 7 (2) and (4 ); Article 15 (a);           of procedure.
                   Article 16 ; Article 18 ( a);
                                                                                            Article 16
Appendix IX :      Article 15 ( 1 ) and Article 16 (a).
                                                                  1.      The     Joint   Committee    shall   ensure   the
However, the provisions of Articles 4, 15, 41, 47, 52             application of this Agreement. To that end it shall
and 53 of Appendix I, and those of Appendices VIII                make recommendations, and in the cases provided for
and IX mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall                 in paragraph 3 it shall take decisions .
 continue to apply in the Member States.
                                                                  2.      In particular it shall recommend :
                                                                  ( a) amendments to this Agreement ;
2. Where reference is made in the Appendices to
this Agreement to the provisions of the Treaty                    ( b ) any other measure required for its application.
establishing the European Economic Community or
the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel               3.      It shall adopt by decision :
Community, such reference shall relate only to the
customs status of the goods within the Community.                 ( a ) amendments to the Appendices to this Agreement
                                                                        made necessary by amendments to the rules on
                                                                        Community transit;
3.     For purposes of applying the Regulation on the
procedure for operating the flat-rate guarantee                   ( b ) amendments to this Agreement having a direct
system provided for in Article 32 of Regulation                         relationship with the Accession to the European
(EEC ) No 542/69 on Community transit (Appendix                         Communities of the Kingdom of Denmark,
III), a 'unit of account' means the value of                            Ireland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
0-88867088 grammes of fine gold.                                        Northern Ireland .
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Such decisions shall be         implemented by the                                  Article 19
Contracting Parties in accordance with their national
rules .
                                                             This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day
                                                             of the second month following the day on which the
                      Article 17                              Contracting   Parties  notify    each other   of    the
                                                             completion of the procedures necessary to that end.
The following shall form an integral part of this
Agreement:
— Appendices I to X, excluding the provisions in                                    Article 20
    square brackets referred to in Article 13 ( 1 );
— the Protocol on the application of Article 6 ( 1 ) of       The Contracting Parties shall keep each other
    the Agreement;                                           informed of the provisions which they adopt for the
                                                              implementation of this Agreement.
— the Exchanges of Letters in Annexes I to IV.
                                                                                    Article 21
                     CHAPTER IV
                                                             This Agreement may be denounced by either
                   Final provisions                          Contracting Party, subject to six months' notice.
                      Article 18
                                                                                    Article 22
This Agreement shall also apply to the Principality of
Liechtenstein for as long as that Principality remains       This Agreement is drawn up in two copies in the
bound to the Swiss Confederation by a Customs                Dutch, French, German and Italian languages, all
Union Treaty.                                                four texts being equally authentic.
             In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Agreeement.
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            Done at Brussels
            For the Council of the European Communities
            For the Swiss Confederation
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                                                      APPENDIX 1
                                          Regulation on Community Transit
                                     — (EEC) No 542/69 of 18 March 1969 (l) —
                          TITLE I                             goods, and subject to the provisions of Articles 2 (2 ),
                                                               7 (3 ), 8 (b), 47, 48 (2) and 49 (2) of this Regulation,
                                                               goods properly imported into the territory of a
                    General provisions                         Member State across an internal frontier shall be
                                                               deemed to be Community goods unless an external
                                                               Community transit document is produced in respect
                         Article 1                            of them.]
1.     The Community transit procedure instituted by
this Regulation shall apply to movement of the goods                                    Article 2
referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 between two points
situated in the Community. It includes a procedure             1 . In derogation from Article 1 , the Community
for external Community transit and a procedure for             transit procedure shall not apply to movements of
internal Community transit.                                    goods under a temporary importation or temporary
                                                               admission procedure.
2. The procedure for external Community transit
shall apply to movement of the following goods :              2. The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
                                                               European Economic Community which relate to the
(a) Goods which do not satisfy the conditions laid             free movement of goods shall only apply to
      down in Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty                  movements of goods under an international
      establishing the European Economic Community ;           procedure of temporary importation or temporary
                                                               admission if an internal Community transit document
(b) Goods coming under the Treaty establishing the             is produced proving the Community nature of these
      European Coal and Steel Community which                  goods.
      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 58 , such goods
3 . The procedure for internal Community transit               may be regarded as Community goods without the
shall apply to movement of the following goods, if             production of any such document.]
they are subject to customs, tax, economic or
statistical measures or any other measures relating to
trade :
                                                                                        [Article 3
 ( a) Goods which satisfy the conditions laid down in
      Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty establishing the         1.     In derogation from Article 1 , each Member
      European Economic Community (hereinafter                 State may provide for the application of a national
      called ' Community goods');                              procedure instead of the external or internal
                                                               Community transit procedure in respect of goods
 ( b) Goods coming under the Treaty establishing the           referred to in Article 1 (2) and (3 ) during carriage
      European Coal and Steel Community which                  within its territory, or from one of its ports to
      under the terms of that Treaty are in free                another if carriage is effected by sea.
      circulation within the Community.
                                                               2. A Member State exercising this option shall see
 [4. For purposes of application of the provisions             to it that implementation of the Community
of the Treaty establishing the European Economic               measures applicable to the goods is ensured .
Community which relate to the free movement of
                                                               3.     For purposes of paragraph 1 , the territory of the
                                                               Benelux Economic Union shall be considered to be
 I1) Amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1079/71 of 25 May
     1971 .                                                    the territory of one Member State.]
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                        [Article 4                             procedure of international carriage of goods by road,
                                                               even if that carriage of goods began and is to end
 1 . If the subsequent carriage of goods dealt with            within the Community.
under a national procedure in accordance with
Article 2 ( 1 ) or Article 3 entails the crossing of an        In Rhine traffic, carriage of goods may be effected
internal frontier, such goods are to be placed under           provisionally under the procedure of the Rhine
the Community transit procedure before crossing that           Manifest, even if that carriage of goods began and is
frontier.                                                      to end within the Community.
2. However, under conditions to be determined
under the procedure prescribed by Article 58, the              3.     The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to goods             European Economic Community which relate to free
dealt with        under  a  procedure     of   temporary       movement of goods shall apply to the movement of
importation or temporary admission.]                           goods under one of the procedures referred to in
                                                               paragraphs 1 and 2 including that of the Rhine
                                                               Manifest, on condition that they are accompanied not
                        Article 5
                                                               only by the document required under the procedure
                                                               used, but also by an internal Community transit
                                                               document issued to prove the Community nature of
This Regulation shall be without prejudice to                  the goods .
agreements made between Member States concerning
frontier traffic .
                                                               The internal Community transit document shall bear
                                                               at the top the reference 'TIR' of 'TIF' or 'Rhine
                        Article 6                              Manifest', followed by the date of issue and the
                                                               number of the document required under the
Member States may, under the Community transit                 procedure used.
procedure, introduce simplified procedures for certain
types of traffic by means of bilateral agreements
between each other on condition that implementation                                      [Article 8
of the Community measures applicable to the goods
is ensured.                                                    In the absence of an agreement between the
                                                               Community and a third country whereby goods
Such agreements shall be communicated to the                   moving between two points in the Community may
Commission and to the other Member States .
                                                               be carried across that country under the Community
                                                               transit procedure :
                        Article 7
                                                               ( a) The Community transit procedure shall only
                                                                    apply if the carriage of goods across that third
1.     In derogation from Article 1 , the Community                 country is effected under cover of a single
transit procedure shall not apply to carriage of goods              transport document drawn up in a Member
under the procedures of international carriage of                   State, operation of that procedure being
goods by road (TIR Convention), international                       suspended in the territory of the third country ;
transit by rail (TIF Convention) or the Rhine
Manifest (Article 9 of the Revised Convention for the          (b ) Article 7 ( 1 ) and (3 ) shall apply to goods carried
Navigation of the Rhine) on condition that that                     through the territory of the third country, even if
carriage of goods began or is to end outside the                    carriage of the goods began and is to end within
Community.                                                          the Community.]
For the purposes of the first subparagraph, carriage
of goods by rail within the territory of a Member
State, when the customs authorities apply a separate                                     Article 9
control procedure, shall be considered to be under
the procedure of international transit by rail on              Where, in the cases     provided for in this Regulation,
condition that carriage is effected under cover of a           the provisions of         the Treaty establishing the
single transport document.                                     European Economic       Community which relate to free
                                                               movement of goods       are only applied on presentation
2. Until the date on which the flat-rate guarantee             of an internal Community transit document issued to
system provided for in Article 32 has been introduced          prove the Community nature of the goods, the party
in all Member States and at least until the end of a           concerned may, for any valid reason, obtain that
period of four years commencing on 1 January 1970,             document subsequently from the competent
carriage of goods may be effected under the                    authorities of the Member State of departure.
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                         [Article 10                                                         TITLE II
Prohibitions      and    restrictions   on     importation,              Procedure for external Community transit
exportation and transit issued by the Member States
shall apply where they are compatible with the three
                                                                                          Article 12
Treaties establishing the European Communities .]
                                                                 1 . Any goods that are to be carried under the
                         Article 11
                                                                 procedure for external Community transit shall be
                                                                 covered, in accordance with the conditions laid down
                                                                 in this Regulation, by a T1 declaration. A T1
For the purposes of this Regulation :                            declaration is a declaration on form T1 (see specimen
                                                                 in Annex A), accompanied, where appropriate, by
( a) 'principal' means the person who, in person or              one or more forms T1 bis (see specimen at Annex
                                                                 B) (*).
       through an authorized representative, requests
       permission, in a declaration in accordance with
       the required customs formalities, to carry out a         2. The forms T1 and T1 bis shall be printed and
       Community transit operation and thereby makes             completed in one of the official languages of the
       himself responsible to the competent authorities          Community specified by the competent authorities of
       for the execution of the operation in accordance          the Member State of departure. Where necessary, the
       with the rules ;                                          competent authorities of a Member State concerned
                                                                 in the Community transit operation may require a
                                                                 translation into the official language or one of the
(b ) 'means of transport' means, in particular:                  official languages of that Member State.
       — any road vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer,
                                                                3 . The T1 declaration shall be signed by the
       — any railway car or wagon,                               person who requests permission to effect an external
                                                                 Community transit operation or by his authorized
       — any boat or ship,                                       representative; and at least three copies of it shall be
                                                                produced at the office of departure.
       — any aircraft,
       — any container within the meaning of the                 4. The supplementary documents appended to the
           Customs Convention on Containers of 18                T1 declaration shall form an integral part thereof.
     !     May 1956;
                                                                 5. The T1 declaration shall be accompanied by the
( c) 'office of departure' means the customs office              transport document. The office of departure may
       where the Community transit operation begins ;            decide not to require production of this document
                                                                  during the customs formalities. However, the
(d) 'office of transit' means :                                  transport document must be produced whenever
                                                                 required by the customs authorities in the course of
       — the customs office at the point of entry into a         carriage.
           Member State other than the Member State
          of departure ;                                         6. Where the Community transit procedure in the
                                                                  Member State of departure follows another customs
       — also when the consignment is leaving           the      procedure, reference shall be made on the T1
           customs territory of the Community in        the      declaration to that procedure or to the corresponding
           course of a Community transit operation,     the      customs documents .
           customs office at the point of exit from     the
           Community ;
                                                                                          Article 13
(e) 'office of destination' means the customs office
       where the goods must be produced to conclude              The principal shall be responsible for :
       the Community transit operation ;
                                                                 (a ) the representation of the goods intact at the office
                                                                       of destination within the prescribed time limit
(f) 'office of guarantee' means the customs office
       where a comprehensive guarantee is lodged ;
                                                                 (*) The specimens of the forms are those laid down by
(g) 'internal frontier' means a frontier common to                    the Regulation on declaration forms for Community
       two Member States .                                            transit (Appendix II).
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     and with      due   observance  of the     measures        ( a) a road vehicle accompanied by its trailer(s) or
      adopted by the competent authorities to ensure                 semi-trailer(s);
     identification ;                                          (b ) a line of coupled railway carriages or wagons ;
 (b) the observance of the provisions relating to the          ( c) boats constituting a single chain ;
     Community transit procedure and to transit in             (d) containers loaded on a means of transport within
     each of the Member States in the territory of                   the meaning of this Article.
     which carriage of the goods is effected.
                                                                                        Article 17
                        Article 14
                                                               1 . The office of departure shall register the Tl
1.     Each Member State may prescribe the use,                declaration, prescribe the period within which the
 under conditions to be determined by it, of the T1            goods must be produced at the office of destination,
document for national procedures.                              and take such measures for identification as it
                                                               considers necessary.
2. The supplementary details included on the T1
document to that end by a person other than the                2. Having entered the necessary particulars on the
principal shall be the responsibility of the former, in        Tl declaration, the office of departure shall retain
accordance with the national prov isions laid down by          one copy and return the others to the principal or his
law, regulation or administrative action.                      representative.
                                                                                        Article 18
                        [Article IS
                                                               1.      As a general rule, identification of the goods
 1.    Where the goods, before they can be dealt with         shall be ensured by sealing.
under the external Community transit procedure are
required to form the subject of an export or                  2 . The following shall be sealed :
re-export declaration, that declaration and the                ( a) the space containing the goods, when the means
Community transit declatation shall be combined on                   of transport has already been approved under
a form Tl , accompanied, where appropriate, by one                   other customs regulations or recognized by the
or more forms Tl bis .
                                                                     office of departure as suitable for sealing;
 However, national export or re-export forms may be            ( b ) each individual package, in other cases.
used concurrently with form Tl and Tl bis up to and
including 31 December 1970.                                    3 . Means of transport may be recognized as
                                                              suitable for sealing on condition that :
2.     Each Member State shall determine, for the              ( a) seals can be simply and effectively affixed to
application of its national rules, which details, other              them ;
than those prescribed on form Tl , should be
                                                               (b ) they are so constructed that no goods can be
included in the export or re-export declaration in the               removed or introduced without leaving visible
spaces provided for that purpose, as well as the                     traces of tampering or without breaking the
number of copies to be produced.]                                    seals ;
                                                              ( c) they contain no concealed spaces where goods
                       Article 1 6                                   may be hidden ;
                                                               (d ) the spaces reserved for the load are readily
1 . The same means of transport may be used for                      accessible for customs inspection .
the loading of goods at more than one office of
departure and for unloading at more than one office           4. The office of departure may dispense with
of destination .                                               sealing if, having regard to other possible measures
                                                               for identification, the description of the goods in the
2. Each Tl declaration shall include only the                 Tl declaration or in the supplementary documents
goods loaded or to be loaded on a single means of             makes them readily identifiable.
transport for carriage from one office of departure to
one office of destination.
                                                                                       Article 19
For purposes of the preceding subparagraph the
following shall be regarded as constituting a single          1.       The copies of the Tl document delivered to the
means of transport, on condition that the goods               principal or to his representative by the office of
carried are to be dispatched together :                       departure must accompany the goods.
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2.    Goods shall be carried via the offices of transit                              Article 24
mentioned in the T1 document. If circumstances
justify it, other offices of transit may be used.
                                                               1 . The goods described on a T1 document may,
3.    For supervision purposes, each Member State              without renewal of the declaration, be transferred to
may prescribe transit routes within its territory.             another means of transport under the supervision of
                                                               the customs authorities of the Member State in whose
                                                               territory the transfer is made. In such a case, the
4.    Each      Member      State    shall   provide   the     customs authorities shall record the relevant details
Commission with         a list of the customs offices          on the T1 document.
authorized to deal with Community transit
operations, stating at what hours they are open.
The Commission shall communicate this information              2. The customs authorities may, subject to such
to the other Member States .                                   conditions as they shall determine, authorize such
                                                               transfer without supervision. In such a case, the
                                                               carrier shall record the relevant details on the T1
                         Article 20                            document and inform the next customs office at
                                                               which the goods must be produced, so that the
Copies of the T1 document shall be produced in each            transfer is officially certified by the customs
                                                               authorities .
Member State as required by the customs authorities,
who may satisfy themselves that the seals are
unbroken . The goods shall not be inspected unless
some irregularity is suspected which could result in                                  Article 25
abuse .
                         Article 21                            1 . If the seals are broken in the course of carriage
                                                               without the carrier so intending, he shall, as soon as
                                                               possible, request that a certified report be drawn up
The consignment as well as the copies of the T1                in the Member State in which the means of transport
document shall be produced at each office of transit.          is located, by the customs authority if there is one in
                                                               the neighbourhood or, if not, by any other competent
                                                               authority. The authority concerned shall, if possible,
                         Article 22                            affix new seals .
 1 . The carrier shall give each office of transit a
transit advice note conforming to the model shown in           2. In the event of an accident necessitating transfer
Annex E ( 1 ).                                                 to another means of transport the provisions of
                                                               Article 24 shall apply.
2.     The offices of transit shall not inspect the goods
unless some irregularity is suspected which could              If there is no customs authority in the
result in abuse .
                                                               neighbourhood, any other approved authority may
                                                               act in its place under the conditions laid down in
3 . If, in accordance with the provisions of Article           Article 24 ( 1 ).
 19 (2), goods are carried via an office of transit other
than that mentioned in the T1 document, that office
shall without delay send the transit advice note to the        3.     In the event of imminent danger necessitating
office mentioned in that document.                             immediate unloading of the whole or part of the
                                                               load, the carrier may take action on his own
                                                               initiative. He shall record such action on the T1
                         Article 23                            document. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply
                                                               in such a case.
Where goods are loaded or unloaded at any
intermediate office, copies of the T1 document issued
by the office(s) of departure must be produced .               4.     If as a result of accidents or other incidents
                                                               arising in the course of carriage, the carrier is not in a
                                                               position to observe the time limit referred to in
                                                               Article 17, he shall inform the competent authority
(*) The specimen of the form is that laid down by the          referred to in paragraph 1 as soon as possible. That
    Regulation on the forms for transit advice notes pro­
    vided for under the Community transit system (Appendix     authority shall then record the relevant details on the
    VI).                                                       T1 document
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                        Article 26                                                     [Article 29
 1.   The office of destination shall record on the            1.    Subject to the provisions of Article 32 (2) (a),
 copies of the T1 document the details of controls and         the guarantee referred to in Article 27 (3 ) shall be in
 shall without delay send a copy to the office of              the form of one of the specimen guarantees shown as
 departure and retain the other copy.                          Model I or Model II in Annex F to this Regulation,
                                                               as appropriate.
 [2 .   The Community transit operation may be                 2. Where the provisions laid down by law,
concluded at an office other than that mentioned in            regulation or administrative action, or common
the T1 document. That other office shall then                 practice so require, each Member State may allow the
become the office of destination.]                             guarantee to be in a different form, on condition that
                                                               it has the same legal effects as the documents shown
                                                               as specimens .]
                        Article 27
                                                                                       Article 30
 1.    In order to ensure collection of the duties and
other taxes which one of the Member States is                  1 . A comprehensive guarantee shall be lodged in
 authorized to charge in respect of goods passing              an office of guarantee.
through its territory in the course of Community
transit, the principal shall furnish a guarantee, except      2. The office of guarantee shall determine the
 as otherwise provided in this Regulation.                     amount of the guarantee, accept the guarantor's
                                                              undertaking and issue a provisional authorization
                                                               allowing the principal to carry out, within the limits
2. The guarantee may be comprehensive, covering                of the guarantee, any Community transit operation
 a number of Community transit operations, or                  irrespective of the office of departure.
individual, covering a single Community transit
 operation.                                                    [3 . Each person who has obtained provisional
                                                               authorization shall be issued with one or more copies
                                                               of a guarantee certificate in the form shown in Annex
 3 . Subject to the provisions of Article 33 (2), the          G, subject to the conditions laid down by the
 guarantee shall consist of the joint and several              competent authorities of the Member States.]
 guarantee of a natural or legal third person
 established in the Member State in which the                  4.    Reference to this certificate shall be made in
guarantee is provided who is approved as guarantor             each T1 declaration.
 by that Member State.
                                                                                       Article 31
                       Article 28                             1.     The office of guarantee may revoke, the
                                                               provisional authorization if the conditions under
1.    The person standing as guarantor under the               which it was issued no longer exist.
conditions    referred  to   in   Article  27   shall be
responsible for designating, in each of the Member            2. * Each Member State shall notify the Member
States through which the goods will be carried in the         States concerned of any revocation of provisional
                                                               authorizations .
course of Community transit, a natural or legal third
person who also will stand as guarantor for the                                        Article 32
principal.
Such guarantor must be established in the Member               1 . Each Member State may accept that the natural
State in question and must undertake, jointly and             or legal third person standing as guarantor under the
severally with the principal, to pay the duties and           conditions    laid   down     in  Articles 27   and   28
 other taxes chargeable in that State.                        guarantees, by a single guarantee and for a flat-rate
                                                              amount of five thousand units of account in respect
                                                              of each declaration, payment of duties and other
2. The application of paragraph 1 shall be subject            charges which may become chargeable in the course
to a qualified majority decision of the Council acting        of a Community transit operation carried out under
on a proposal from the Commission, as a result of an          his responsibility, whoever the principal may be. If
examination of the conditions under which the                 carriage of the goods presents increased risks, having
Member States have been able to exercise their right          regard in particular to the amount of duties and
of recovery in accordance with Article 36. The                other charges to which they are liable in one or more
Commission shall submit a report on this subject by            Member States, the flat-rate amount shall be fixed at
31 March 1971 at the latest.                                   a higher level.
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   [2. The following shall be determined under the               which may be chargeable shall be effected by that
  procedure laid down in Article 58 :                            Member State in accordance with its provisions laid
                                                                down by law, regulation or administrative action,
  ( a) the model form for the guarantee referred to in          without prejudice to the institution of criminal
        paragraph 1 ;                                            proceedings.
  ( b) the carriage of goods likely to give rise to an
        increase in the flat-rate      amount,   and the        2.     If the place of the offence or irregularity cannot
        conditions under which such an increase shall
                                                                be determined, it shall be deemed to have been
        apply;                                                   committed :
  (c) the conditions under which it will be established
        that the guarantee referred to in paragraph 1           ( a) where, in the course of a Community transit
        shall apply to any particular Community transit              operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
        operation.]                                                  at an office of transit situated at an internal
                                                                     frontier : in the Member State which the means of
                         Article 35                                  transport or the goods have just left;
                                                                (b) where, in the course of a Community transit
  1 . An individual furnished for a single Community                 operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
  transit operation shall be lodged at the office of                 at an office of transit within the meaning of the
  departure.                                                         second indent of Article 11 (d): in the Member
                                                                     State to which that office belongs ;
 2.      It may be a cash deposit. In such a case, the
 amount shall be fixed by the competent authorities of          (c) where, in the course of a Community transit
 the Member States, and the guarantee must be                        operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
 renewed at each office of transit within the meaning                in the territory of a Member State elsewhere than
                                                                     at an office of transit : in the Member State in
 of the first indent of Article 11 (d).
                                                                     which it is detected ;
                         Article 34                             (d ) where the consignment has not been produced at
                                                                     the office of destination : in the last Member State
 Without prejudice to national provisions prescribing                which the means of transport or the goods are
 other cases of exemption, the principal shall be                    shown by the transit advice notes to have
 exempted by the competent authorities of the                        entered ;
 Member States from payment of duties and other                 (e) where the offence or irregularity is detected after
 charges in the case of:                                             the Community transit operation has been
 ( a) goods which have been destroyed as a result of                 concluded : in the Member State in which it is
       force majeure or unavoidable accident duly                    detected .
       proven ; or
(b) officially recognized shortages arising from the                                    Article 37
       nature of the goods.
                                                                1.    The T1 documents issued in accordance with
                         Article 35                            the rules, and the identification measures taken by
                                                                the customs authorities of one Member State, shall
The guarantor shall be released from his obligations            have the same legal effects in other Member States as
towards the Member States through which goods                   the T1 documents issued in accordance with the rules
were carried in the course of a Community transit               and the identification measures taken by the customs
operation       when   the   T1   document     has   been       authorities of each of those Member States .
discharged at the office of departure.
Where the guarantor has not been notified by the               2. The findings of the competent authorities of a
office of departure of the non-discharge of the T1             Member State made when inspections are carried out
document, he shall be released from his obligations            under the Community transit procedure shall have
on expiry of a period of twelve months from the date           the same probative force in other Member States as
of registration of the T1 declaration.                         findings of the competent authorities of each of those
                                                               Member States.
                         Article 36
                                                                                        Article 38
1 . When it is found that, in the           course of a
Community transit operation, an              offence or        Where necessary, the customs authorities of the
irregularity has been committed in          a particular       Member States shall communicate to one another all
Member State, the recovery of duties or     other charges      findings documents, reports, records of proceedings
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 and information relating to transport operations              representative, with the unused copies if he so
carried out under the Community transit procedure              requests. The stamped copy should be sent to the
and to irregularities and offences in connection with          office of entry in the neighbouring Member State. An
that procedure.                                                internal Community transit operation may begin at
                                                               that office of entry, which shall then become the
                                                               office of departure.
                          TITLE III
                                                               2.    Up to and including 31 December 1970 the
       Procedure for internal Community transit                forms T2 and T2 bis need not be used in the Member
                                                               State of departure if it is intended to clear the goods
                                                               for home use at the office of entry of the
                         Article 39                            neighbouring Member State. In such a case, a copy of
                                                               the national export document stamped by the
                                                               customs office of export shall be substituted for the
1.     Goods    that  are    to  be  carried  under  the       stamped copy prescribed in the third subparagraph of
procedure for internal Community transit shall be              paragraph 1 .]
covered by a T2 declaration. A T2 declaration is a
declaration on form T2 (see specimen in Annex C)
completed, where appropriate, by one or more forms                                     TITLE IV
T2 bis (see specimen in Annex D ) (x).
                                                                    Special provisions applying to certain modes of
2. Save as otherwise provided in Articles 40 and                                       transport
41 , the provisions of Title II shall apply mutatis
 mutandis to the procedure for internal Community
transit.                                                                               Article 42
                                                               1 . The railway authorities of Member States shall
                        Article 40
                                                               be exempt from the requirement to furnish a
                                                               guarantee.
No guarantee need be given for the part of a transit
operation between the office of departure and the              2.    The provisions of Article 19 (2) and (3 ) and of
first office of transit unless the law of the Member
                                                               Articles 21 and 22 shall not apply to the carriage of
State in the territory of which the office of departure        goods by rail.
is situated so requires.
                                                               3 . For purposes of application of Article 36 (2) (d),
                                                               the records kept by the railway authorities shall be
                       [Article 41                             substituted for transit advice notes .
1.     Goods in respect of which export formalities are
carried out at a frontier customs office of the                                        Article 43
exporting Member State need not be dealt with under
the Community transit procedure at that office unless
they are subject to Community measures entailing               1 . No guarantee need be furnished for the carriage
control of their use or destination.                           of goods on the Rhine and the Rhine waterways.
In such a case, the only facts which need be given in          2. Each Member State may dispense with the
the T2 declaration are those required for export               furnishing of a guarantee in respect of the carriage of
purposes by the provisions laid down by law,                   goods on other waterways situated in its territory. It
                                                               shall forward details of the measures taken to that
regulation or administrative action in the Member
State of departure.                                            effect to the Commission, which shall inform the
                                                               other Member States .
The customs office of export shall stamp the T2
document and return it to the exporter or his
                                                                                       Article 44
(*) The specimen of the forms are these laid down by the
                                                               1 . The procedure for external Community transit
    Regulation on declaration forms for Community transit      shall not be obligatory for the carriage of goods by
    (Appendix II).                                             sea .
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  The procedure for internal Community transit shall                                      TITLE V
  not be compulsory for such carriage unless the goods
  are subject to Community measures entailing control
  of their use or destination .                                    Special provisions applying to postal consignments
                                                                                        Article 48
 2. In cases where Community transit procedure is
  used for the carriage of goods wholly or partly by
  sea, no guarantee need be furnished to cover the sea          1 . In derogation from the provisions of Article 1,
  voyage .                                                      the Community transit procedure shall not apply to
                                                                postal consignments (including postal packages).
                          Article 45
                                                                [2.     The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
                                                                European Economic Community which concern the
  1.    The procedure for external Community transit            free movement of goods shall only apply to goods
  shall not be compulsory for the carriage of goods by          contained in consignments sent from a post office
  air.                                                          situated within the Community when no yellow label
                                                                of the type shown in Annex H is affixed to the
  The procedure for internal Community transit shall            packages and the accompanying documents. The
 not be compulsory for such carriage unless the goods           competent authorities of the Member State of
  are subject to Community measures entailing control           dispatch shall be responsible for affixing such a label
 of their use or destination .                                  or causing it to be affixed to packages and to the
                                                                accompanying documents unless the goods satisfy the
                                                                conditions laid down in Articles 9 and 10 of that
                                                                Treaty.]
  [2. In cases where Community transit procedure is
 used for carriage wholly or partly by air, no
 guarantee need be furnished to cover the air portion                                    TITLE VI
 of the journey of goods carried by airlines appearing
 on a list to be established under the procedure
 prescribed in Article 58 .]                                        Special provisions applying to goods carried by
                                                                         travellers or contained in their luggage
                                                                                        Article 49
                          Article 46
                                                               1 . The Community transit procedure shall not be
 1 . The Community transit procedure shall not be              compulsory for the carriage of goods accompanying
 compulsory for the carriage of goods by pipeline.             travellers or contained in their luggage, if the goods
                                                               concerned are not intended for commercial use.
2. In cases where Community transit procedure is
 used for the carriage of goods by pipeline no                 2. The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
guarantee need be furnished.                                   European Economic Community which concern the
                                                               free movement of goods shall apply to goods which,
                                                               pursuant to paragraph 1 , are not carried under the
                                                               Community transit procedure :
                        [.Article 47
                                                               ( a) if they are declared as Community goods and
                                                                    there is no doubt as to the accuracy of that
The provisions of the Treaty establishing the                        declaration, and
European Economic Community concerning the free
movement of goods shall not apply to goods which,                   if their total value does not exceed three hundred
pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 44                    units of account per traveller;
( 1 ), the second subparagraph of Article 45 ( 1 ) or
Article 46 ( 1 ), do not circulate under the procedure
for internal Community transit, unless an internal             (b ) in other cases, if an internal Community transit
Community transit document is produced proving                      document is produced proving the Community
the Community nature of such goods.]                                nature of the goods .
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                          TITLE VII                               ( a) to each office of transit with the exception of the
                                                                         first and that referred to in the second indent of
               Provisions relating to statistics                        Article 11 (d ); and
                          Article 50                              ( b) to the office of destination.
 Where the Community transit procedure is applied,                2.      The office of transit shall, in accordance with
 transit and export statistics shall be based on it.              the provisions to be adopted under the procedure laid
                                                                  down in Article 58 , immediately send that copy to the
                         Article 51                              service responsible for external trade statistics in the
                                                                  Member State which the means of transport has just
 1.     The T1 and T2 documents shall constitute the              left.
source of statistical information in respect of the
 movement of goods carried under the Community                   3 . The office of destination shall immediately send
 transit procedure.                                              to the service responsible for external trade statistics
                                                                 in the Member State of destination the copy intended
2 . Where the systems referred to in Article 7 ( 1 )             for that service.]
and (2 ) are applied, the documents prescribed for
 those systems shall constitute the source of
information for transit statistics .                                                         [TITLE VIII
In the case referred to in the second subparagraph of
Article 7(1 ), each Member State shall be responsible              Provisions relating to the Committee on Community
 for taking the necessary measures to secure statistical                                       Transit]
 information .
3 . If a single movement of goods gives rise                                                 [Article 56
 successively to the establishment of a national transit
 document and to a T1 or T2 document, only the
 latter documents      shall constitute the      source of       1.       A      Committee        on    Community     Transit
 statistical information . '                                     (hereinafter called the 'Committee') is hereby set up,
                                                                consisting of representatives of the Member States
                                                                 with a representative of the Commission as
                        [Article 52                              Chairman .
The office of departure shall, without delay, send a
copy of that copy of the T1 or T2 documents                     2.        The Committee shall adopt its own rules of
returned to it by the office of destination to the              procedure .]
service of the Member State of departure responsible
for external trade statistics, after discharge of                                            [Article 57
document T1 or T2 .]
                                                                The Committee may examine any question relating to
                        [Article 53                             the application of this Regulation submitted to it by
                                                                its Chairman either on his own initiative or at the
The competent customs office shall send without                 request of the representative of a Member State.]
delay to the service in the exporting or re-exporting
Member State responsible for external trade statistics,
the copy of the export or re-export document
intended for that service.]                                                                  [Article 58
                        Article 54                              1.       The procedure laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3
                                                                shall be followed for the adoption of the provisions
The principal or his authorized representative shall,           necessary :
at the request of the national services responsible for
external trade statistics, provide any information               ( a) for the application of Articles 2, 4, 7, 8 , 9, 32, 34,
relating to the T1 or T2 document necessary for the                     35 , 41 , 45 , 55 and 60 ;
compilation of such statistics .                                ( b ) for the institution of the Community transit
                                                                        procedure so that certain Community measures
                        [Article 55                                     entailing control of the use or destination of the
                                                                        goods may be applied ;
1.     Up to and including 31 December 1970 an
additional copy of the T1 and T2 document shall be              ( c) for the simplification of formalities under the
sent :                                                                  Community transit procedure, in particular in
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       internal Community transit, or for their                 Community        transit   documents     the    agreements
       adaptation to requirements arising from the              concluded or to be concluded between them with a
       particular nature of certain goods ;                     view to reducing or abolishing frontier formalities at
                                                                the     Belgo-Luxembourg         and   Belgo-Netherlands
 (d) for the extension of the periods at the end of             frontiers .]
       which Article 7 (2), Article 15 ( 1 ), Article 41 (2)
       and Article 55 shall no longer apply, which                                       [Article 60
       periods must not be extended to more than
       double those prescribed by those Articles.
                                                                 1.    The Annexes to this Regulation shall form an
                                                                 integral part thereof.
2.      The representative of the Commission shall
submit to the Committee a draft of the provisions to            2. The specimens shown in the Annexes may be
be adopted . The Committee shall deliver an opinion             adapted, in accordance with the procedure laid down
on the draft within a time limit set by the Chairman            in Article 58, to requirements arising from the
having regard to the urgency of the matter. Decisions           particular nature of certain goods or to technical
shall be taken by a majority of twelve votes, the votes         requirements.]
of the Member States being weighted as provided in
Article 148 (2 ) of the Treaty. The Chairman shall not                                   [Article 61
vote .
                                                                Each Member State shall inform the Commission of
3 . ( a) The Commission shall adopt the provisions              the provisions which it adopts for the implementation
          envisaged if they are in accordance with the          of this Regulation .
          opinion of the Committee.                             The Commission shall communicate this information
                                                                to the other Member States.]
    (b ) If the provisions envisaged are not in
          accordance with the Opinion of the
          Committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the                                  [Article 62
          Commission shall without delay submit to the
          Council a proposal with regard to the                 1.    This Regulation shall enter into force on the
          provisions to be adopted. The Council shall
          act by a qualified majority.                          third day following its publication in the Official
                                                                Journal of the European Communities, with the
    (c) If, within, three months of the proposal being          exception of Article 1 (4), the first subparagraph of
          submitted to it, the Council has not acted, the       Article 2 (2), Article 7 (3 ) and Articles. 50 to 55 which
          proposed provisions shall be adopted by the           shall enter into force on 1 January 1970.
          Commission.]
                                                                2. The procedures for external and internal
                                                                Community transit shall apply to transit declarations
                           [TITLE IX                            registered at the offices of departure as from 1
                                                                January 1970.
                      Final provisions]                         However, goods the transport of which in the
                                                                Community began before 1 January 1970 may be
                          [Article 59                           carried, up to and including 10 January 1970, in
                                                                accordance with a procedure other than that for
                                                                external or internal Community transit. In such cases,
In derogation from this Regulation, Belgium,                    the provisions of Article 1 (4) shall not apply to the
Luxembourg and the Netherlands may apply to the                 goods.]
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                                                       APPENDIX II
                                  Regulation on declaration forms for Community transit
                                       — (EEC) No 1617/69 of 31 July 1969 (x) —
                           Article 1                             (d ) Copy for statistical purposes, bearing the num­
                                                                      ber 4.
  1.      The forms     on which Community transit
 declarations are       made shall correspond to the             3 . The copies bearing the numbers 3 and 4 shall
 specimens shown       in the Annex to this Regulation,         have respectively a red and a dark blue border. The
 except as regards      the spaces reserved for national         width of those borders shall be about 4 mm .
 use .
 2. The paper used shall be dressed for writing                 4.     Each form shall bear the name and address of
 purposes and weigh between 40 and 65 g/m2. It                   the printer or some means of identifying him.
 should be sufficiently opaque for the information on
 one side not to affect the legibility of the information
 on the other side. Its strength should be such that, in
 normal use, it does not easily tear or crease. It shall                                [.Article 3
 be pale blue for forms T1 and T1 bis and white for
 forms T2 and T2 bis .                                          Where, in the cases referred to in Article 55 of
                                                                Regulation (EEC) No 542/69, the set of forms does
3.       The size of the forms shall be 210 X 297 mm, a         not contain sufficient copies for statistical purposes,
 tolerance in the length of — 5 mm and + 8 mm                   additional copies may be used. Such copies shall
being allowed . The line spacing shall be 4-24 mm               correspond exactly to specimen copy No 4.]
 ( 1 / 16 inch). The layout of the forms shall be strictly
observed .
                          Article 2                                                     [Article 4
1.       The forms for Community transit declarations           Where, in accordance with Articles 15 and 39 of
shall be produced in sets so arranged that the several          Regulation (EEC) No 542/69, the export or re-export
copies may be obtained by a single typing or writing            declaration and the Community transit declaration
operation .                                                     are combined in a single form, the set of forms
                                                                referred to in Article 2 shall be submitted at the same
2.       Each set of forms shall include at least the           time as the copy or copies required by the Member
following copies, in numerical order :                          State of departure for purposes of export or
                                                                re-export.]
( a) Copy for office of departure, bearing the num­
        ber 1 ;
( b) Copy for office of destination, bearing the                                        Article 5
        number 2 ;
( c) Copy to be returned to office of departure,                A new heading '32' shall be added to forms T2 and
        bearing the number 3 ;                                  T2A, its content shall be determined later.
O Amended by Regulation (EEC) No 595/71 of 22 March
      1971 .
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                                                                                                             EG
                                                                                                             Kb ■     ■
                                                                                                                              E    F
                                                                                                                              ■■■■ ■
   I I                         TRANSIT                                                                                                          Statistical No
                     Declaration
               COPY FOR THE OFFICE                                                                                     Office of departure
                   OF DEPARTURE                     | ■    Pleas* see Notice before completing this form
i Appended documents                                                                                                   Document issued on
                                                                                                                       under No
 I Previous customs procedure            4 Number
                                             of forms                  (Space reserved for national use)
                                            T 1 bis
                                                                                                                       Stamp                                               Signature
                                                                      (Space reserved for export declaration)
10 DECLARATION :
    represented by                         I
     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit at the
     office of destination at
     At                           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
                                                              |l (Space reserved for national statistical purposes)
30 Number, kind, marks and number of packages                   Description of goods
                                                            36 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)
                                                                 Mode of
           60                        Place                                      CHR      Identity of vehicle        C         Nationality/ Flag          51 Previous country
                                                                transport                                                                                   of consignment
 Entry into the
 Community
 Loading/
 Transhipment
 Transhipment
 Transhipment/
 Unloading
                                                                                                                                                         62 First country
                                                                                                                                                            of destination
 Exit from the
 Community
 ---pagebreak---                          EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
Results of examination :                     Seals affixed :
                                             rime limit (date) :
                                             Remarks :
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     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit at the
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                                                                                         Time limit (date ) :
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                                                                         At                                   on
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                                                 60 TRANSHIPMENTS AND OTHER INCIDENTS DURING CARRIAGE
                                  DETAILS AND MEASURES TAKEN ( 1)                                                j STAMP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITY
    (') The name and address of any new carrier should in particular be stated .
                                                             EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DESTINATIOf
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                 COPY FOR RETURN                   I3     Please see Notice before completing this form
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               STATISTICAL COPY                  I 4I  Please see Notice before completing this form
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  T2                           TRANSI!r                                                                                                       Statistical No
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                   OF DEPARTURE                    h       Please see Notice before completing this form
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     hereby undertakes to produce the goods described betow intact and within the prescribed time limit at the
                                                                                                                             11 Consignee
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                   OF DESTINATION                   I ^   Please see Notice before completing this form
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                                                                                        ( Place )                 ( date)             Stamp and signature
                                                 60 TRANSHIPMENTS AND OTHER INCIDENTS DURING CARRIAGE
                                  DETAILS AND MEASURES TAKEN ( 1 )                                                STAMP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITY
    (') The name and address of any new carrier should in particular be stated .
                                                             EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
Date of arrival :
Examination of seals :
Remarks :
                                                                          At                                   on
                                                                                        ( Place)                  (date)              Stamp and signature
                                                                 ( Space reserved for office of destination )
                                                                   ( Space reserved for general purposes)
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               COPY FOR RETURN                   j3      Please see Notice before completing this form
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    represented by
    hereby undertakes to produce the goods described below intact and within the prescribed time limit at the
                                                                                                                           11 Consignee
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   I fa                        TRANSIT                                                                                                      Statistical No
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                STATISTICAL COPY                      4   Please see Notice before completing this form
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           ( Place of signature)            ( date)
                                              Signature
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             OF DEPARTURE                    0        under No
30 Number kind, marks and numbers of packages      31 Description of goods
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 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak--- 31 . 12 . 73                       Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 365 /277
                                                    APPENDIX 111
              Regulation on the procedure for operating the flat-rate guarantee system provided for in
                          Article 32 of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 on Community transit
                                   — (EEC) No 2311/69 of 19 November 1969 0 —
                        [Article 1                           shown on the front above the particulars of the
                                                             issuing agency ; the other entries that follow shall
                                                             remain unchanged.
1.     When a natural or legal person proposes to
stand surety upon the conditions referred to in              White paper shall be used, free of mechanical pulp,
Articles 27 and 28 and on the terms laid down in
Article 32 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 on            dressed for writing purposes and weighing between
Community transit, the contract of guarantee shall be        55 and 65 g/m2. It shall have a printed guilloche
in the form of the model appearing in Annex I.               pattern background in red such as to reveal any
                                                             falsification by mechanical or chemical means.
                                                             The size of the form shall be 105 X 148 mm .
2. Where national law, regulation, administrative
practice or accepted usage so requires, each Member
State may impose the use of a different form of
guarantee provided it has the same legal effect.]
                                                             4. Without prejudice to Article 3 , the principal
                                                             may effect one Community transit operation under
                                                             each flat-rate guarantee voucher. The voucher shall
                                                             be delivered to the office of departure and shall be
                         Article 2                           retained by it.
1 . The acceptance of the guarantee referred to in
Article 1 by the customs office where it is drawn up                                  Article 3
('the office of guarantee') shall be the guarantor's
authority to issue, under the terms of the guarantee,
flat-rate guarantee vouchers to persons intending to         1 . Save in the cases referred to in paragraphs 2 and
act as principal in a Community transit operation            3 the office of departure shall not require a guarantee
from an office of departure of their choice. The             in excess of the flat-rate amount of 5 000 units of
termination of a contract of guarantee shall be              account per Community transit declaration whatever
notified forthwith to the other Member States by the         the amount of the duties and other charges which
Member State in which the office of guarantee is             may attach to the goods comprised in a particular
located .                                                    declaration .
2. The guarantor shall be liable up to an amount             2. Where, because of circumstances peculiar to the
of 5 000 units of account in respect of each flat-rate       carriage of the goods, carriage thereof involves in­
guarantee voucher.                                           creased risks and the office of departure therefore
                                                             considers that the guarantee of 5 000 units of account
                                                             is clearly insufficient, it may exceptionally require a
3.     Each flat-rate guarantee voucher shall conform        guarantee of greater amount in multiples of 5 000
to the model contained in Annex II and shall be in           units of account.
one of the official languages of the Community. The
entries on the back of this form may, however, be
                                                             3.     Transport of goods shown in the list appearing
                                                             in Annex III shall give rise to an increase in the
(*) Amended by Regulations (EEC) No 2570/69 of 22 De­        amount of the flat-rate guarantee where the quantity
     cember 1969 and (EEC) No 1031/70 of 1 June 1970.        of goods transported exceeds the quantity
 ---pagebreak--- No L 365 /278                      Official Journal of the European Communities                           31 . 12 . 73
corresponding to the flat-rate amount of 5 000 units                                  Article 4
of account.
                                                              1.    Where the Community transit declaration
In that case, the flat-rate amount shall be increased to      includes other goods besides those shown in the list
the multiple of 5 000 units of account necessary to           referred to in Article 3 (3 ), the provisions of this
guarantee the quantity of goods to be dispatched.             Regulation shall be applied as if the two classes of
                                                              goods were comprised in separate declarations.
4. In the cases referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3             2.    By way of derogation from the provisions of
the principal shall deliver to the office of departure        paragraph 1 , account shall not be taken of the
flat-rate guarantee vouchers corresponding to the             presence of goods of either class if the quantity or
required multiple of 5 000 units of account.                  value thereof is relatively unimportant.
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                                                                  ANNEX 11
                                                                                                                               (FRONT)
            COMMUNITY                                    C.E.         E.C.          E.G.                               A 000 000
                 TRANSIT
                                               FLAT-RATE GUARANTEE VOUCHER
            Issued by
                                                    ( Name and address of individual or firm)
                                                                                              ,n,.    %.
             (Undertaking of the guarantor accepted on                               ^
            by the office of guarantee of                                           «..U.                                       )
            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
            ( ) Signature optional.
            Name and address of printer
                                                                                                                                  (BACK)
                                              To be completed by the office of departure
            Community transit operation effected under T1/T2 document registered
            on                                                                       under No
            by the office at
                                  Stamp                                                               Signature
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                                                ANNEX III
                     1                                2                            3
                                                                               Quantity
                                                                            corresponding
              CCT heading No                Description of goods           to the standard
                                                                               amount
                                                                             of 5000 u.a.
                 09.01 A I     Coffee not roasted                            5 000 kg
                 09.01 A II    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   '
                 22.06
                               Alcoholic beverages other than
                               non-sparkling wines                               20 hi
              ex 22.09
              ex 22.08     i
                               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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                                                           APPENDIX IV
             Regulation on the notification to interested parties of information relating to the progress
                               of Community transit operations with which they are concerned
                                        — (EEC) No 2312/69 of 19 November 1969 —
                            Article 1                                     use the document may contain other particulars
                                                                          relating to the consignment.
1 . Any person delivering to the office of
destination a Community transit document together                         3 . The customs visa shall be valid only in respect
with the consignment to which that document relates                       of the particulars contained in the part reserved for
shall upon request be issued with a receipt. The                          Customs use .
receipt, of which the specimen form is set out in the
Annex to this Regulation, shall first be completed by                                               Article 2
the person concerned .
                                                                          Where a Community transit document has not been
2 . The size of the form on which the receipt is                          discharged at the office of departure, that office shall
drawn up shall be 105 X 148 mm . The receipt shall                        within nine months from the date of issue of that
be completed in one of the official languages of the                      document inform accordingly the person who stood
Community. Besides the space reserved for customs                         guarantor.
                                                              ANNEX
                                                            C.E.         E.G.
                                          COMMUNITY TRANSIT RECEIPT
                           RECEPISSE                                                                  RICEVUTA
             EINGANGSBESCHEINIGUNG                                                               ONTVANGSTBEWIJS
             The customs office at
             hereby certifies that document Tl , T2 (')
                                      control copy T1/T2 (*)'     .«■:
             registered on                            ^                                    under No
             by the office at              »
             has been lodged and            no irregularity has been observed to date concerning the consignment
             to which this document refers y"'!"
                                                    At                                      on                19..
                    Official                                     (Place)                               (date)
                    Stamp
                                                                                 Signature
             (*) Delete as necessary.
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                                                      APPENDIX V
                 Regulation on the internal Community transit document for certifying the Community
                                                    nature of goods
                                    — (EEC) No 2313/69 of 19 November 1969 (M —
                          Article 1                             designated by the competent authorities of the
                                                                Member State of departure. The competent
 The internal Community transit document to be used             authorities of the Member State in which the
 for certifying the Community nature of goods which             document is produced may, where necessary* require
 are not carried under the Community transit system,            it to be translated into the official language or one of
 shall be made out in a single copy on a T2L form.              the official languages of that Member State.
T2L forms shall be issued as from 1 January 1970.
                                                                                           Article 4
                          Article 2                             The T2L document may be used for the purpose of
                                                                certifying the Community nature of the goods to
                                                                which it refers only if such goods are transported
 1.       T2L forms shall conform to the specimen in the        directly from one Member State to another.
Annex to this Regulation.
                                                                The       following    shall   be  regarded    as   directly
2.       The paper used shall be white, free of                 transported from one Member State to another :
mechanical pulp, dressed for writing purposes and
weigh between 55 and 65 g/ m2. It shall have a                  ( a) goods transported without passing through the
printed guilloche pattern background in green such                     territory of a non-member country ;
as to reveal any falsification by mechanical or
chemical means .                                                ( b ) goods transported through the territory of one or
                                                                       more non-member countries provided that
                                                                       carriage through such countries is covered by a
3.       The size of the form shall be 210 X 297 mm, a                 single transport document made out in a
tolerance in the length of — 5 mm and + 8 mm                           Member State .
being allowed . The line spacing shall be 4-24 mm
 ( 1 / 16 inch). The layout of the forms shall be strictly
observed .                                                                                 Article 5
                                                                1 . The T2L document shall be issued for goods
4. Member States shall be responsible for having                falling within Article 1 (3 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation
the forms printed . The forms may also be printed by            ( EEC) No 542/69 . It shall not be issued for goods :
printers appointed by the Member State in which
they are established, in which case, each T2L form              — which are intended for export outside the
shall make reference to the appointment. Each form                    Community ; or
shall bear the name and address of the printer or a
mark enabling the printer to be identified. It shall            — in respect of which the customs formalities for
also bear an individual serial number.                                exportation have been carried out with a view to
                                                                      granting refunds upon exportation to third
                                                                      countries within the framework of the common
                          Article 3
                                                                      agricultural policy ; or           ,
                                                                — in packagings which do not fall within any of the
T2L forms shall be printed and completed in one of                    categories specified in Article 1 (3 ) (a) and (b ) of
the official languages of the Community to be                         Regulation (EEC) No 542/ 69 .
(*) Amended by Regulation (EEC) No 595/71 , of 22 March         2. The T2L document shall be stamped by the
       1971 .                                                   customs authorities of the Member State of departure
 ---pagebreak--- 31 . 12 . 73                       Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 365 / 283
on application . by the person concerned. It shall be                                 Article 7
delivered to him as soon as the customs formalities
connected with the forwarding of the goods to the             Member States shall render one another mutual
Member State of destination have been completed.              assistance in checking the authenticity of T2L
                                                              documents and the correctness of the information
3 . When the T2L document is issued retroactively             which they contain.
it shall be endorsed with one of the following phrases
in red :
                                                                                      Article 8
     'Delivre a posteriori'
     'Nachtraglich ausgestellt'                               1 . In the case of goods which may benefit from a .
     'Rilasciato a posteriori'                                refund upon exportation to third countries granted
                                                              within the framework of the common agricultural
     'Achteraf afgegeven'.                                    policy and which are routed to the Member State of
                                                              destination, otherwise than by air, in such a way that
                                                              part of the journey is effected outside the customs
                         Article 6                            territory of the Community, the T2L document shall
                                                              be made out in triplicate. The original and one copy
1.     The T2L document shall be produced at the              shall be delivered to the person concerned and the
customs office where the goods are to be entered to a         second copy shall be retained by the issuing office.
customs procedure other than that under which they
arrived .                                                     2.    In the Member State of destination, the person
                                                              concerned shall produce at the office referred to in
2 . Where the goods have been transported by sea,             Article 6 the original and the copy delivered to him .
air or pipeline the T2L document shall be produced            That office shall send the copy to the issuing office
at the customs office at which the goods are placed           for verification purposes and shall be notified of the
under a customs procedure.                                    result only if some irregularity is revealed .
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                                                                           ANNEX
T2L                                                                       C.E.                   ( E. C. )                       E.G.
                                                            1                                                                                                   A     000000
                   INTERNAL
  COMMUNITY TRANSIT DOCUMENT
              FOR CERTIFYING THE
   COMMUNITY NATURE OF GOODS                                                     See Notes overleaf
10 DECLARATION :
   represented by
   declares that the goods described below are Community goods
                                                                                                                                                   f'     J,,
   At                            on
          ( Place of signature)                  (date)                                                                                     ,„
                                                    Stonature                                                                             I«f
                                                                                                                      ,F           ' hi
                                                                                                        ■Ji I ! ! i !   .% ^                  -«ii
                                                                                                         % , il >                , III1 '
                                                                                      J11' 1'"" ''(il                       ill'
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers of packages                31 Description of goods                                  Jill»1
                                                                                                      -
                                                                                                        f
                                                            I
                                                                ■ -: ;                       '1"
                                                                        ■
32                                                                                                       36 Gross weight
                                                                           :. pá
                                         . ! 1'         ·'«
                                                            ^           /'
30 Number, kind, marks and numbers ^ packages                 M 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 T2L DOCUMENT
The undersigned customs officer requests that the authenticity of this document and the accuracy of the information contained
herein be verified .
                                                                  At                                                 on                19 .
                                                                                         ( Place)                            ( 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 ( 1 );
          2. does not satisfy the requirements as to conditions of authenticity and regularity (see remarks annexed hereto) ( 1 ).
                                                                  At                                          on                      19
                                                                                      ( Place)                          (date)
                                                  Official
                                                  Stamp
(') Delete as necessary.                                                                              ( Signature)
 I. Rules for completion of the T2L document                                       cation      TIR ',    TIF', ' Rhine Manifest', ' ECS ' or
                                                                                   'ATA' should be entered as the case may be,
    A. A single T2L document shall be made out only for                            followed by the date of issue and the number of
       goods dispatched by one means of transport for car­                         the document relating to the system used .
       riage from one office of departure to one office of                    10 . Enter the surname and forenames or name of
       destination .
                                                                                   firm , and address of the person concerned and , if
                                                                                   applicable, of the representative .
    B. The T2L document may be used for the purpose of
       establishing the Community nature of goods to which                         Where the form is signed by a person duly autho­
       it refers only where such goods are transported directly                    rized , his name shall be shown in block letters.
       from one Member State to another.
                                                                              30 . In respect of goods which are not packed , indi­
       The following shall be regarded as directly transported                     cate the number of articles, or if appropriate enter
       from one Member State to another :
                                                                                   as loose goods .
       ( a ) godds transported without passing through the
              territory 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 car­
              riage through such countries is covered by a                    36 . This refers to the weight as shown in the com­
              single transport document made out in a Member                       mercial documents relating to the consignment .
              State .                                                              The weight is to be specified in kilogrammes .
                                                                                   Gross weight means the total weight of the goods
                                                                                   and all packing material . All outside and inside
    C. The form shall be completed legibly and indelibly,
                                                                                   containers, packings, wrappings and supports are
       preferably typed , without erasures or superimposed
       corrections .
                                                                                   regarded as packing ; this excludes transport
                                                                                   equipment, in particular containers, and sheets,
       Any alterations shall be made by crossing out the in­                       tackle, covers and other transport accessories.
       correct information and by adding the required infor­
       mation as appropriate .
                                                                     II . Production of T2L documents at customs
       Any such alteration shall be authenticated by the per­
       son making it and countersigned by the customs                     The T2L documents shall be produced at the customs
       authorities .
                                                                          office where the goods are to be entered to a customs
                                                                          procedure other than that under which they arrived .
    D. Only the following items are to be completed :
                                                                          If the goods have been transported by sea , air or pipe­
         1 . When the goods are transported under the TIR or              line, the T2L document shall be produced at the customs
              TIF Conventions, or the Rhine Manifest systems,             office at which the goods are placed under a customs
              or are covered by an ECS or ATA Carnet, the indi­           procedure .
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                                                                 APPENDIX VI
                         Regulation on the forms for transit advice notes provided for under the Community
                                                                 transit system
                                               — (EEC) No 2314/69 of 19 November 1969 —
                                                                   Sole Article
                          1 . The forms used as transit notes under the Community transit system shall conform to
                         the specimen set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
                         2. White paper shall be used with a mechanical pulp content of not more than 10 % ;
                         it shall be dressed for writing purposes and weigh between 55 and 65 g/m2.
                         3 . The size of the forms shall be 148 X 210 mm. They shall be in one of the official
                         languages of the Community.
                                                                    ANNEX
                                                    C.E.           (E.C.)        E.G.
                                                         COMMUNITY TRANSIT
              (Transit advice note)                                                                 AVVISO DI PASSAGGIO
             AVIS DE PASSAGE                                                                 KENNISGEVING VAN DOORGANG
        GRENZÜBERGANGSSCHEIN
  Identification of vehicle
                                    TRANSIT   DOCUMENT                                     OFFICE OF TRANSIT INTENDED
                                                                                                    ( AND COUNTRY):
        Type (T1 or T2) and number                         Office of departure
                                                                                        SPACE RESERVED FOR CUSTOMS USE
                                                                                       Date of transit :
                                                                                                         (Signature)
                                                                                                           Official
                                                                                                           Stamp
Name und address of printer.
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                                                         APPENDIX Vll
            Regulation establishing the list of airline companies exempt from providing the guarantee
                            required within the framework of the Community transit system
                                     — (EEC) No 2588/69 of 22 December 1969 (l) —
                                                          Sole Article
            Where a Community transit procedure is used for a transport operation effected wholly
            or partly by air the airline companies listed in the Annex to this Regulation shall not be
            required to provide a guarantee covering the transport by air.
            i1) Amended by Regulations (EEC) No 2631 /70 of 23 December 1970 and (EEC) No 1571 /71
                 of 22 July 1971 .
                                                                ANNEX
                                 List of airline companies exempt from providing a guarantee
              1.  Aer Lingus Teoranta ( Irish Air Lines ), Dublin
             2.  Aeroflot, Moskva
             3.  Aerolíneas Argentinas , Buenos Aires
             4.  Aerolinee Itavia , Roma
             5. Air Afrique, Abidjan
             6. Air Algérie ( Compagnie generate de transports aériens), Alger
             7. Air Bahama ( International ), Nassau
             8 . Air Canada , Montreal
             9 . Air Congo , Kinshasa
            10 . Air France , Paris
            11 . Air India , Bombay
            12 . Air Inter , Paris
            13 . Air Madagascar (Societe nationale malgache de transports aériens), Tananarive
            14. Air Senegal ( Compagnie sénégalaise de transports aériens), Dakar
            15 . Alitalia ( Linee Aeree Italiane), Roma
            16 . ATI , Napoli
            17. Austrian Airlines , Wien
            18 . Avianca ( Aerovías Nacionales de Colombia SA), Bogota
            19 . ' Balkan ' Bulgarian Airlines , Sofia
            20 . ' Basco ' Brothers Air Services Co ., Aden
            21 . Bavaria Fluggesellschaft Schwabe & Co ., München
            22. BEA (British European Airways Corporation), Ruislip
            23 . BKS Air Transport Ltd , London
            24. BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), Heathrow Airport, London
            25. British United Airways , Gatwick Airport, London
            26. Canadian Pacific Airways , Vancouver
            27. Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie ( CSA ), Praha
            28 . Condor Flugdienst GmbH , Frankfurt/ Main
            29 . Dan-Air Services Ltd , London
            30. Deutsche Lufthansa AG , Köln
            31 . East African Airways Corporation , Nairobi
            32 . El Al Israel Airlines Ltd , Tel Aviv
            33 . Elivie ( Societa Italiana Esercizio Elicotteri SpA), Napoli
            34. Finnair , Helsinki
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            35.  Garuda Indonesian Airways, Djakarta
            36.  General Air Nord GmbH, Hamburg
            37.  Germanair Bedarfsluftfahrtgesellschaft mbH, Frankfurt/Main
            38.  Iberia (Líneas Aéreas de Espana), Madrid
            39.  Interregional-Fluggesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf
            40.  Iran National Airlines Corporation, Teheran
            41 . Japan Air Lines Co. Ltd, Tokio
            42.  JAT (Jugoslovenski Aerotransport), Beograd
            43.  KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij ), Den Haag
            44.  Kuwait Airways Corporation, Kuwait
            45.  Luftleidir HF, Reykjavik
            46.  LOT (Polski Linie Lotnicze), Warszawa
            47.  Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH, Düsseldorf
            48 . Luftverkehrsunternehmen Atlantis AG, Frankfurt/Main-Niederrad
            49.  Luxair (Luxembourg Airlines), Luxembourg
            50.  Malev (Magyar Légiközlekedési Vállalat), Budapest
            51 . Martinair Holland NV ( MAC), Amsterdam
            52.  MEA (Middle East Airlines Airliban SAL), Beirut
            53 . Olympic Airways, Athenai
            54.  Pakistan International Airlines Corporation, Karachi
            55.  Panair Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH & Co., München
            56.  Pan American World Airways Inc., New York
            57.  Quantas Airways Ltd, Sydney
            58 . Rousseau Aviation , Dinard
            59.  Royal Air Maroc, Casablanca
            60.  SAA (South African Airways), Johannesburg
            61 . Sabena — Belgian World Airlines, Bruxelles — Brussel
            62.  SAM (Societa Aerea Mediterranea), Roma
            63 . SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System), Stockholm
            64.  Seabord World Airlines Inc., New York
            65 . Swissair (Swiss Air Transport Company Ltd), Zurich
            66.  TAP (Transportes Aereos Portugueses SARL), Lisboa
            67. Tarom (Rumanian Air Transport), Bucuresti
            68 . TF — Transport Flug GmbH Sc Co., Frankfurt/Main
            69. Transavia (Holland NV), Amsterdam
            70. Trans-Mediterranean Airways, Beirut
            71 . —
            72. Tunis Air, Tunis
            73 . Turk Hava Yollari Anonim Ortakligi, Istanbul
            74. TWA (Trans World Airlines Inc.), New York
            75. United Arab Airlines, Heliopolis
            76. UTA (Union de Transports Aériens), Paris
            77. VARIG (Empresa Viacão Aerea Riograndense), Rio de Janeiro
            78. VlASA (Venezolana Internacional de Aviación SA), Caracas
            79. NLM (Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij ), Amsterdam
            80. Trans-Union, Paris
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                                                       APPENDIX VIII
               Regulation on simplification of the Community transit procedure for goods carried by rail
                                       — (EEC) No 304/71 of 11 February 1971 —
                          TITLE I                                                      Article 5
                    General Provisions                         The railway authorities shall ensure that
                                                                consignments carried under the Community transit
                         Article 1                             procedure are identified by labels marked
                                                                'Douane/Zoll/Dogana'. Such labels shall be attached
 Formalities under the Community transit procedure              to the Consignment Note or Express Parcels
 shall be simplified in accordance with the following          Consignment Note and to the railway wagon, where
provisions for carriage of goods effected by railway            a full load is concerned, or to the package or
authorities     under    cover    of   an     International    packages in other cases .
Consignment Note ( CIM) or International Express
 Parcels Consignment Note (TI Ex)
                                                                                      Article 6
                         Article 2
                                                               Where the contract of carriage is modified with the
                                                               result that :
The     International    Consignment      Note     or   the
International Express Parcels Consignment Note shall           — a carriage operation which was to end outside the
be treated :                                                       Community ends within the Community ;
 ( a) with respect to goods referred to in Article 1 (2)       — a carriage operation which was to end within the
      of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69, as a Tl                       Community ends outside the Community;
      declaration or document as the case may be ;
                                                               the railway authorities shall not perform the modified
(b ) with respect to goods referred to in Article 1 (3 )       contract except with the prior agreement of the office
      of the abovementioned Regulation, as a T2                of departure ;
      declaration or document as the case may be .
                                                               Where the contract of carriage is modified with the
                                                               result that the carriage operation is ended within the
                                                               Member State of departure, performance of the
                         Article 3
                                                               modified contract shall be subject to conditions to be
                                                               determined by the customs authorities of that
The railway authorities of each Member State shall             Member State .
make available to the customs authorities of their
country the records held at their accounting offices in        In all other cases, the railway authorities may
order to facilitate effective customs control .                perform the modified contract; they shall forthwith
                                                               inform the . office of departure of the modification
                                                               made .
                         Article 4
 1.    The railway authorities which accept the goods
for carriage accompanied by an International                                           TITLE II
Consignment Note or International Express Parcels
Consignment Note shall be the principal as regards                  Movement of goods between Member States
the transit procedure concerned.
2.     The railway authorities of the Member State                                    Article 7
through whose territory goods enter the Community
shall be the principal as regards the transit procedure        1 . If a carriage operation starts and is to end
concerning goods accepted for carriage by the                  within the Community, the Consignment Note shall
railway authorities of a third country.                        be submitted to the office of departure.
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[2. With respect to goods referred to in Article               2.    The customs office for the frontier station
1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 , the office of            through which the goods in transit leave the territory
departure shall indicate, on copy No 3 of the                 of the Community shall act as office of destination .
Consignment Note, that the goods to which that
document refers      are carried under the external            3.    There are formalities to be carried out at the
Community transit procedure.                                   office of destination .
To this end, it shall clearly mark the symbol T1 in
the space 'description of goods'.]                                                     Article 11
3 . All copies of the Consignment Note shall be                1 . Where a carriage operation starts outside the
returned to the party concerned.                               Community and is to end within the Community, the
                                                              customs office for the frontier station through which
[4. With respect to goods referred to in Article              the goods enter the Community shall act as office of
1 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69, each Member             departure. No formalities need be carried out at the
State may provide that the goods may, under                   office of departure.
conditions which it shall determine, be placed under
Internal Community transit procedure without it               2.     The customs office for the station of destination
being necessary to submit the Consignment Note                shall act as office of destination. However, if the
covering the goods concerned to the office of                 goods are entered for home use or placed under some
departure.]                                                   other customs procedure at an intermediate station
                                                              the competent office for that station shall act as office
5.    The customs office for the station of destination       of destination.
shall act as office of destination . However, if the
goods are entered for home use or placed under some           The formalities prescribed by Article 9 shall be
other customs procedure at an intermediate station,           carried out at the office of destination .
the competent office for that station shall act as office
of destination .
                                                                                       Article 12
                        Article 8                             1.     Where a carriage operation starts and is to end
                                                              outside the Community, the customs offices which
As a general rule, and account being taken of                  are to act as office of departure and office of
identification measures applied by the railway                destination shall be as laid down in Article 11.(1 ) and
authorities, the office of departure shall not seal the       Article 10 (2) respectively.
means of transport or the packages.                           2.     No formalities need be carried out at the offices
                                                              of departure or destination.
                        Article 9
                                                                                       Article 13
1.    The railway authorities of the Member State in
which the competent office of destination is situated         Goods being the subject of a carriage operation to
shall forward to the latter copies Nos 2 and 3 of the         which Article 11 ( 1 ) or Article 12 ( 1 ) applies shall be
Consignment Note.                                              considered as moving under the external Community
                                                              transit procedure unless movement certificate DD3 or
2.    The office of destination shall return, without          an internal Community transit document, drawn up
delay, to the railway authorities copy No 2 after             for " the purpose of establishing the Community
stamping it and shall retain copy No 3 .                      nature of the goods concerned, is submitted in respect
                                                              of them .
                        TITLE III
                                                                                       TITLE IV
      Carriage of goods to or from third countries
                                                                       Provision relating to express packages
                       Article 10
                                                                                       Article 14
1.    If a carriage operation starts within the
Community and is to end outside the Community,                Subject to Article 15 , the provisions of Titles II and
Articles 7 and 8 shall apply.                                 III of this Regulation shall also apply to carriage
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under cover of the International Express Parcels                consignor to supply in addition to the information
Consignment Note.                                               shown in the International Consignment Note or
                                                                International Express Parcels Consignment Note,
                                                                further information apart from the name of the
                         Article 15                             countries of consignment and destination of the
                                                                goods carried.]
With respect to carriage operations effected under
cover of the International Express Parcels
Consignment Note :                                                                       TITLE VI
[( a) the endorsement required under Article 7 (2)
       shall be entered in the copy known as the                                      Final provisions
       waybill ;]
                                                                                         Article 17
   (b) the copy known as the waybill and a copy of
       the International Express Parcels Consignment            The provisions of Titles II and III of Regulation
       Note showing if appropriate the endorsement              (EEC ) No 542/69 which have no further purpose for
       referred to in ( a) above shall, in application of       the application of this Regulation, in particular
       Article 9, be forwarded to the office of                 Articles 12 (3 ) to (6), 17, 23 , 26 ( 1 ), and 41 thereof,
       destination which shall return, without delay, to        shall not apply.
       the railway authorities the copy known as the
       waybill after having stamped that copy and the
       copy retained by that office.
                                                                                         Article 18
                                                                The provisions of this Regulation shall :
                         [TITLE V                               [( a) not prejudice the application of Regulation
                                                                         (EEC) No 2315/69 on the use of Community
              Provisions relating to statistics]                        transit documents for the purpose of applying
                                                                        Community measures for verifying the use
                         [Article 16                                    and/or destination of goods ;]
                                                                  ( b ) in no way affect obligations relating to
 1 . For the purpose of compiling transit statistics,                   formalities concerning export, re-export, import
the railway authorities shall supply the competent                      or re-import.
departement for external trade statistics in the
Member State of departure with the necessary
information regarding each operation under the
Community transit procedure in which, pursuant to                                        Article 19
Article 4, they have acted as principals.
                                                                This Regulation shall not preclude the use of the
2.      Until a Community procedure is introduced for           procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
the purpose of applying paragraph 1 and of                      542/69 .
transmitting information to the competent
department for external trade statistics in Member              In such case, Articles 3 and 5 shall nevertheless apply.
States, other than the Member State of departure, the
territory of which is crossed during any given                  Furthermore, copy No 2 of the Consignment Note or
operation under the Community transit procedure                 the copy known as the waybill of the International
each Member State shall determine the method                    Express Parcels Consignment Note shall be submitted
whereby the national railway authorities are to                 at one of the customs offices for the different stations
supply the necessary information to the competent               involved in the operation under the Community
national government department.                                 transit procedure. That office shall apply its stamp
                                                                after ascertaining that carriage of the goods is
3 . The railway authorities shall not, for the                  covered by one or more Community transit
purpose of applying paragraphs 1 and 2, require the             documents.
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                                                      APPENDIX IX
               Regulation on simplification of the formalities to be carried out at offices of departure
               and destination in respect of goods transported under the Community transit procedure
                                         — (EEC) No 1226/71 of 11 June 1971 —
                         Article 1                                                         Article 4
Each Member State may simplify the formalities                 The authorization to be issued by the customs
relating to Community transit procedure to be                  authorities shall specify in particular :
carried out at the offices of departure and of
destination within its territory, in accordance with           ( a ) the customs office or offices which are authorized
the following provisions.                                             offices of departure for the consignments ;
                                                               (b) the period within which, and the procedure by
                                                                      which, the authorized consignor is to inform the
                          TITLE I
                                                                      office of departure of the consignments to be sent
                                                                      in order that the office may, where required,
                                                                      examine the goods before their departure ;
           Formalities at the office of departure
                                                               (c) the period within which the goods must be
                                                                      produced at the office of destination ;
                         Article 2
                                                                ( d) the identification measures to be taken. The
The customs authorities of each Member State may                      customs authorities may prescribe that the means
authorize any person who fulfils the conditions laid                  of transport or the packages shall bear special
down in Article 3 and who intends to carry out                        seals, accepted by the customs authorities and
Community transit operations (hereinafter called                      affixed by the authorized consignor.
'authorized consignor') not to produce at the office
of departure either the goods concerned or a T1 or
T2 declaration in respect of them.
                                                                                           Article 5
                         Article 3                              1.      The authorization shall stipulate that the 'Office
                                                                      of Departure' space on the front of declaration
                                                                      form T1 or T2 :
1 . The authorization provided for in Article 2 shall
only be granted to persons :
                                                                ( a) be stamped in advance with the stamp of the
( a) who frequently send consignments ;                               office of departure and bear the signature of an
                                                                      official of that office ; or
(b) whose records enable the customs authorities to
      verify the operations ;                                   ( b ) be stamped by the approved consignor with a
      and                                                             special metal stamp approved by the customs
                                                                      authorities and conforming to the model shown
 (c) who, when a guarantee is required under                          in the Annex. The imprint of that stamp may be
      Community transit procedure, have provided a                    printed in advance on the forms, where the
      comprehensive guarantee.                                        printing is entrusted to a printing works
                                                                       approved for that purpose.
2. The customs authorities may withhold
authorization from persons not providing the
guarantee they consider necessary.                               The authorized consignor must fill in that space by
                                                                indicating the consignment date of the goods and
3.     They may withdraw the authorization, in                  must give the declaration a number in accordance
particular when the authorized persons no longer                with the rules to that effect in the authorization .
fulfil the conditions stated in paragraph 1 or no
longer provide the guarantee referred to in para­              2.       The customs authorities may prescribe the use
graph 2 .                                                        of forms bearing a distinctive individual sign.
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                        Article 6                               authorities by whom he was authorized thftf he took
                                                                the measures required of him in paragraph 1 (b).
1 . Not later than at the time of consignment of the
goods, the authorized consignor shall complete
declaration T1 or T2, duly filled in, by entering on
the back of copies 1 and 2, in the space marked                                           TITLE II
' Examination by Office of Departure', the period
within which the goods must be produced at the                            Formalities at the office of destination
office of destination, the identification measures
applied and the words 'simplified procedure'.
                                                                                         Article 9
2.     After consignment, copy No 1 shall be sent               1.     The customs authorities of each Member State
without delay to the office of departure. The customs           may dispense with production at the office of
authorities may provide, in the authorization, that             destination of goods transported under a Community
copy No 1 be sent to the office of departure as soon            transit procedure where the goods are intended for a
as the declaration T1 or T2 is completed. The other             person who fulfils the conditions laid down in Article
copies shall accompany the goods in accordance with              10 (hereinafter called ' authorized consignee')
the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 .                  previously authorized by the customs authorities of
                                                                the Member State in which the office of destination is
                                                                situated .
3.     When the customs authorities of the Member
State of departure carry out an examination at the              2.     In such a case, the principal shall have fulfilled
departure of a consignment, they shall record the fact          his obligations under the provisions of Article 13 (a)
in the space marked 'Examination by Office of                   of Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 from the moment
Departure' on the back of form T1 or T2.                       when, within the prescribed period, copies of the
                                                                Community transit document, together with the
                                                                intact goods, have been handed over to the
                                                                authorized consignee at his business premises or at
                        Article 7                               the places specified in the authorization, the
                                                                identification measures having been duly observed.
Declaration T1 or T2, completed by the information
specified in Article 6 ( 1 ), shall be the equivalent of       3 . In respect of each consignment handed over to
document T1 or T2, and the authorized consignor                 him as provided in paragraph 2, the authorized
who signed the declaration shall be the principal .             consignee shall issue, at the request of the carrier, a
                                                                receipt stating that the documents and the goods
                                                                have been handed over to him .
                        Article 8
                                                                                        Article 10
1.     The authorized consignor shall :
                                                                 1.    Only those persons may be authorized :
( a) comply with the provisions of this Regulation and
     of the authorization mentioned in Article 4 ;              ( a) who frequently receive consignments subject to
                                                                      customs control ; and
( b) take all necessary measures to ensure the
     safekeeping of the special stamp or of the forms           ( b ) whose records enable the customs authorities to
     bearing the stamp of the office of departure or                  verify the operations .
     the imprint of the special stamp .
                                                                2.     The customs authorities may withold
2.     In the event of any person misusing the forms            authorization from persons not providing the
stamped in advance with the stamp of the office of              guarantee they consider necessary.
departure or with the special stamp approved by the
customs authorities, the authorized consignor shall be         3.      They may withdraw the authorization, in
liable, without prejudice to criminal proceedings, for         particular when the authorized persons no longer
the payment of duties and other charges due in a                fulfil the conditions stated in paragraph 1 or no
Member State in respect of the goods carried under              longer provide the guarantee referred to in para­
cover of those forms, unless he proves to the customs           graph 2.
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4. The authorized consignee must comply with the                 measures which they consider necessary. The said
provisions of this Regulation and of the authorization           consignors and consignees must submit to such
referred to in Article 11 .                                      measures .
                           Article 11
                                                                                         Article 14
1.      The authorization granted by the customs
                                                                 The customs authorities of the Member State of
authorities shall specify in particular :
                                                                 departure or destination may exclude certain
  ( a) the customs office or offices which are authorized        categories of goods from the facilities provided for in
       offices of destination for consignments which the         Articles 2 and 9 respectively.
       authorized consignee receives ;
(b) the period within which, and the procedure by
       which, the authorized consignee is to inform the                                  Article 15
       office of destination of the arrival of the goods in
       order that the office may, where required,
       examine the goods on arrival.                             [ 1 . Where dispensation from production of the
                                                                 Community transit declaration at the office of
2. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article                departure is applicable to goods referred to in Article
14, the customs authorities shall specify in the                 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC ) No 542/69 which are to be
authorization whether the authorized consignee may               dispatched under cover of an international
dispose of the goods which have arrived without                  consignment note or an international express parcel
action by the office of destination.                             dispatch note, in accordance with the provisions of
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 304/71 on the simplification of
                                                                 Community transit procedure for goods carried by
                           Article 12                            rail, the customs authorities shall take the necessary
                                                                 measures to ensure that copy No 3 of the
                                                                 xonsignment note or the copy of the international
1 . In respect of consignments arriving at his                   express parcel dispatch note headed 'waybill' bears
business premises or at the places specified in the              the indication 'Tl '.]
authorization, the authorized consignee must:
 ( a) immediately inform the office of destination,              2. Where the goods carried under the simplified
       following the procedure laid down in the                  procedure provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
       authorization, of any excess quantities, shortages,       304/71 are intended for an authorized consignee, the
       substitutions or other irregularities such as             customs authorities may provide that, in derogation
       broken seals ;                                            from Article 9 (2) and Article 12 ( 1 ) (b ), copies Nos 2
                                                                 and 3 of the consignment note or the copy of the
 (b) send without delay to the office of destination the         international express parcel dispatch note headed
       copies of document Tl or T2 which                         'waybill' and a copy a sheet of that note are to be
       accompanied the consignment, indicating the               delivered direct by the railway authorities to the
       date of arrival and the state of any seals affixed.       office of destination .
2.       The   office   of  destination   shall  make   the
required entries in the copies of document Tl or T2
 which are sent to it.
                                                                                         Article 16
                                                                 This Regulation shall be without prejudice to
                           TITLE III
                                                                  ( a) application of Regulation (EEC) No 2315/69 on
                       Final provisions                                the use of Community transit documents for the
                                                                       purpose of applying Community measures for
                           Article 13                                  verifying the use and/ or destination of goods ;
The customs authorities may apply to authorized                  ( b ) obligations concerning formalities relating to
consignors and authorized consignees any control                       export, re-export, import or re-import.
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                                  ANNEX
              1 . Member State's coat of arms
              2. Customs office
              3 . Number of document
              4 . Date
              5 . Authorized consignor
              6 . Authorization
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                                                                  APPENDIX X
                                                                     MODEL I
                                                               E.C. C.E. E.G. E.F.
                                                                     Guarantee
                               ( Comprehensive guarantee covering several Community transit operations )
               I. Undertaking by the guarantor
                   1 . The undersigned                                                                                     (*)
                       resident at                                                                                         (2)
                       hereby jointly and severally guarantees, at the office of guarantee of
                       up to a maximum of                                                         in favour of the Kingdom of
                       Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the
                       Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Swiss Confedera­
                       tion (3), the amounts or which the principal
                       (4), may be or become liable to the abovementioned States by reason of infringements or
                       irregularities committed in the course of a Community transit operation carried out by that
                       person, including duties, taxes, agricultural levies and other charges — with the exception
                       of pecuniary penalties — as regards principal or further liabilities, expenses and incidentals.
                  2. The undersigned undertakes to pay forthwith, upon the first application in writing by the
                       competent authorities of the States referred to in paragraph 1 the sums requested up to the
                       limit of the maximum amount aforesaid .
                       This amount may not be reduced by the sums already paid in pursuance of this under­
                       taking unless recourse is had to the undersigned in respect of a Community transit
                       operation which began before the thirtieth day following that of the receipt by the under­
                       signed of previous application or applications.
                  3 . This undertaking shall be valid from the day of its acceptance by the office of guarantee.
                       This guarantee may be cancelled at any time by the undersigned, or by the State in the
                       territory of which the office of guarantee is situated.
                       The cancellation shall take effect on the sixteenth day after notification thereof to the other
                       party .
                       The undersigned shall remain responsible for payment of the sums which become payable
                       in respect of Community transit operations covered by this undertaking which began be­
                       fore the date on which the cancellation took effect, even if the demand for payment is
                       made after that date .
             (1)  Surname and forenames, or name of firm .
             ( 2) Full address .
              (3) Delete the name of any State or States of which the territory will not be used.
             (4)  Surname and forenames, or name of firm, and full address of the principal.
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                4. For the purpose of this undertaking the undersigned gives his address for service (*) as
                                                                                                     (s) and in each of the other
                    States referred to in paragraph 1 as care of
                                   State                           Surname and forenames, or name of firm , and full address
                    1
                    2
                    3
                    4
                    5
                    6                         .'
                    The undersigned acknowledges that all correspondence and notices and any formalities
                    or procedure relating to this undertaking addressed to or effected in writing at one of his
                    addresses for service shall be accepted and duly delivered to him.
                    The undersigned acknowledges the jurisdiction of the courts of the places where he has an
                    address for service.
                    The undersigned undertakes to maintain his address for service or, if he has to alter one
                    or more of those addresses, to inform the office of guarantee in advance.
                                                                          Done at                         on
                                                                                                   Signature (3)
           II. Acceptance by the office of guarantee
                Office of guarantee
                Guarantor's undertaking accepted on the
                                                                                              Stamp and signature
           (x) If, in the law of the State, there is no provision for address for service the guarantor shall appoint, in each of the
               States referred to in paragraph 1 , an agent authorized to receive any communications addressed to him. The courts
               of the places in which the addresses for service of the guarantor or of his agents are situated shall have jurisdiction in
               disputes concerning this guarantee. The acknowledgment in the second subparagraph and the undertaking in the fourth
               subparagraph of paragraph 4 must be made to correspond .
           (2) Full address.
           (s) The signature must be preceded by the following in the signatory's own handwriting : Guarantee for the amount of
                                        ' with the amount written out in full .
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                                                                     MODEL II
                                                               E.C. C.E. E.G. E.F.
                                                COMMUNITY TRANSIT GUARANTEE
                                      (Guarantee covering a single Community transit operation)
              I. Undertaking by the guarantor
                 1 . The undersigned                                                                                                    (*)
                      resident at                                                                                                       (2)
                      hereby jointly and severally guarantees, at the office of departure of
                      in favour of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French
                      Republic, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
                      Netherlands and the Swiss Confederation (3), the amounts for which the principal
                                         (4), may be or become liable to the abovementioned States by reason of
                     infringements or irregularities committed in the course of a Community transit operation
                      carried out by that person from the office of departure of
                      to the office of destination of
                     in respect of the goods designated hereinafter, including duties, taxes, agricultural levies and
                      other charges — with the exception of pecuniary penalties — as regards principal or
                     further liabilities, expenses and incidentals.
                 2 . The undersigned undertakes to pay forthwith the sums requested upon the first appli­
                     cation in writing by the competent authorities of the States referred to in paragraph 1 .
                 3 . This undertaking shall be valid from the day of its acceptance by the office of departure.
                 4. For the purposes of this undertaking, the undersigned gives his address for services ( ) as
                                                                                                                                        (2)
                     and, in each of the other States referred to in paragraph 1 , as care of
                                   State                             Surname and forenames or name of firm and full address
                     1
                     2
                     3
                    4
                     5
                     6
            (*) Surname and forenames , or name of firm.
            (2) Full address .
            (3) Delete the name of any State or States of which the territory is not to be used.
            (4) Surname and forenames, or name of firm , and full address of the principal.
            (6) If, in the law of the State, there is no provision for address for service, the guarantor shall appoint, in each of the
                States referred to in paragraph 1 , an agent authorized to receive any communications addressed to him. The courts
                of the places in which the addresses for service of the guarantor or of his agents are situated shall have jurisdiction in
                disputes concerning this guarantee. The acknowledgement in the second subparagraph and the undertaking in the
                fourth subparagraph of paragraph 4 must be made to correspond.
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                   The undersigned acknowledges that all correspondence and notices and any formalities
                   or procedures relating to this undertaking addressed to or effected in writing at one of
                   his addresses for service shall be accepted as duly delivered to him.
                   The undersigned acknowledges the jurisdiction of the courts of the places where he has
                   an address for service .
                   The undersigned undertakes to maintain his addresses for service, or, if he has to alter
                   one or more of those addresses, to inform the office of guarantee in advance.
                                                                      Done at                              on
                                                                                             Signature (x)
           II. Acceptance by the office of guarantee
                Office of guarantee
                Guarantor's undertaking accepted on the
                                                                                         Stamp and signature
           ( 1) The signature must be preceded by the following in the signatory's own handwriting ' Guarantee for the amount of
                           ' the full amount being entered in words.
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                                                              MODEL III
                                                          C.E.   (E.C. ) E.G.
                                            COMMUNITY TRANSIT GUARANTEE
                                                     (Flat-rate guarantee system)
             I. Undertaking by the guarantor
                1 . The undersigned                                                                              0
                    resident at                                                                                  (2)
                    hereby jointly and severally guarantees, at the office of guarantee of
                    in favour of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French
                    Republic, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
                    Netherlands and the Swiss Confederation any amounts for which a principal may become
                    liable to the abovementioned States by reason of infringements or irregularities committed
                    in the course of a Community transit operation including duties, taxes, agricultural levies
                    and other charges — with the exception of pecuniary penalties — as regards principal or
                    further liabilities, expenses and incidental charges with regard to which the undersigned
                    has agreed to be responsible by the issue of guarantee vouchers up to a maximum amount
                    of 5 000 units of account per voucher.
                2. The undersigned undertakes to pay forthwith, upon the first application in writing by
                    the competent authorities of the States, the sums requested up to an amount of 5 000 units
                    of account per guarantee voucher.
                3 . This undertaking shall be valid from the day of its acceptance by the office of guarantee.
                    This guarantee may be cancelled at any time by the undersigned, or by the State in the
                    territory of which the office of guarantee is situated.
                    The cancellation shall take effect on the sixteenth day after notification thereof to the other
                    party .
                    The undersigned shall remain responsible for payment of the sums which become payable
                    in respect of Community transit operations covered by this undertaking which began before
                    the date on which the cancellation took effect, even if the demand for payment is made
                    after that date .
            (x) Surname and forenames, or name of firm .
            (2) Full address .
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                  4. For the purposes of this undertaking, the undersigned gives his address for service (*) as
                                                                      :         :                                                       2)
                      and, in each of the other States, as care of
                                       State                        Surname and forenames, or name of firm, and full adress
                      1
                     2
                     3
                     4
                      5.             ....:.'.....!.          ·
                     6
                      The undersigned acknowledges that all correspondence and notices and any formalities or
                      procedures relating to this undertaking addressed to or effected in writing at one of his
                      addresses for service shall be accepted as duly delivered to him.
                      The undersigned acknowledges the jurisdiction of the courts of the places where he has
                      an address for service.
                      The undersigned undertakes to maintain his addresses for service or, if he has to alter one
                      or more of those addresses, to advise the office of departure in advance.
                                                                             Done at                              cm
                                                                                                    Signature (s)
            II. Acceptance by the office of departure
                  Office of departure
                  Guarantor's undertaking accepted on the
                 to cover the Community transit operation under T1/T2 (4),
                 issued on                                        under No
                                                                                                Stamp and signature
            ( :) If, in the law of a State, there is no provision for giving addresses for service the guarantor shall appoint, in each of
                 the States referred to in paragraph 1 , an agent authorized to receive any communications addressed to him . The
                 courts of the places in which the addresses for service of the guarantor or of his agents are situated shall have juris­
                 diction in disputes concerning this guarantee. The acknowledgement in the second subparagraph and the undertaking in
                 the fourth subparagraph of paragraph 4 must be made to correspond .
            (2 ) Full address .
            (3) The signature must be preceded by the following in the signatory 's own hand, handwriting ' Guarantee                    '.
            (4) Delete as appropriate.
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                                                                                                                   (FRONT)
                                                                 MODEL IV
                                                         E.C.     C.E.     E.G.    E.F.
                                                       COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                    GUARANTEE CERTIFICATE
             The office of guarantee                                                                                        • (*)
             certifies that (2)
             in respect of whom ( )
             jointly and severally guarantees up to a maximum amount of
                                                            (in figures and words)
             has obtained on..
             provisional authorization for Community transit operations in the following                                 ... (4)
             States
                                                             Done at                                          on
                                                                                  (Place of signature)            (date)
                                                                                              Stamp and signature
            N.B. If the provisional authorization is revoked, this certificate must be returned without delay
                    to the office of guarantee.
            (1) Full address and State .
            (2) Surname and forenames, or name of firm , and full address of principal .
            (3) Surname and forenames , or name of firm, and full address.
            (*) Number written out in full .
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                                                                                                       (BACK)
            LIST OF PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO SIGN COMMUNITY TRANSIT DECLARATIONS
                                        ON BEHALF OF THE PRINCIPAL
                    Surname and forename                                   Specimen signature
                                         Agreed herewith :
                                         at                                , on
                                                      (Place of signature)                    (date)
                                                                                Signature or principal
            N.B. The unused portion of the list must be cancelled.
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                                                      PROTOCOL
                                  on the application of Article 6 (1) of the Agreement
             "With reference to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Com­
             munity transit, the Contracting Parties have agreed as follows :
             1 . In respect of agricultural products which, in the Community, are covered by a common
                 organization of the market, and also in respect of processed agricultural products
                 subject to specific rules as a result of the implementation of the common agri­
                 cultural policy, T2 or T2L documents may be issued only upon presentation of a T2
                 document where the latter bears an indication that the products concerned have not
                 been the subject of customs export formalities with a view to the grant of refunds on
                 exportation to third countries under the common agricultural policy.
             2. The products to which the rules set out in (1 ) shall be agreed upon by an Exchange
                 of Letters .
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                                                         ANNEX I
            Sir, . . .
            1 refer to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community transit,
            and I have the honour to advise you as follows :
            The combined provisions of Articles 1 (1), 2 (2) and 13 (1) of the Agreement covers the con­
            ditions under which the international transit procedures such as the TIR procedure may be main­
            tained in respect of the movements of goods, via Swiss territory, between two points situated
            in the Community.
            Pursuant to Article 7 ( 1) and (2) of the Regulation on Community transit (Appendix 1), which
            is not included in Article 13 ( 1) of the Agreement, international transit procedures may be
            applied with no other restriction than the condition that the carriage of goods began or is to
            end outside the Community, it being understood that under the second subparagraph of Article
            2 (2) of this Agreement the word ' Community' means the European Economic Community.
            Consequently international transit procedures may be applied in allj the cases falling within
            Article 1 (1 ) of the Agreement where carriage of goods is to end or began in Switzerland.
            I would appreciate your confirming your agreement with the contents of this letter.
            Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
            Sir, ...
            I have the honour to confirm my agreement with your letter of today's date, which reads as
            follows :
            'I refer to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community transit,
            and I have the honour to advise you as follows :
            The combined provisions of Articles 1 ( 1), 2 (2) and 13 (1 ) of the Agreement covers the
            conditions under which the international transit procedures, such as the TIR procedure, may be
            maintained in respect of the movement of goods, via Swiss territory, between two points in
            the Community.
            Pursuant to Article 7 ( 1) and (2) of the Regulation on Community transit (Appendix 1), which is
            not included in Article 13 ( 1 ) of the Agreement, international transit procedures may be applied
            with no other restriction than the condition that the carriage of goods began or is to end outside
            the Community, it being understood that under the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of this
            Agreement the word ' Community' means the European Economic Community.
            Consequently international transit procedures may be applied in all the cases falling within
            Article 1 ( 1) of the Agreement where carriage of goods is to end or began in Switzerland.
            I would appreciate your confirming your agreement with the contents of this letter.'
            Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
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                                                         ANNEX II
             Sir, . . .
             With reference to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community
             transit, I have the honour to set out below the points we have agreed :
             In the cases referred to in Article 4 of the Agreement, the customs authorities of the Member
             States and of the Swiss Confederation will supply all information available to them, if necessary
             after carrying out proceedings, at the request of the customs authorities of either a Member
             State or the Swiss Confederation, concerning the goods themselves and concerning the persons
             found or suspected to have infringed the rules on Community transit.
             However, in regard to persons neither found nor suspected to have infringed the aforementioned
             provisions, the administrative assistance provided for in Article 4 may, having regard to the
             national laws governing the protection of industrial, commercial or professional secrecy, be
             limited to aspects which are not prejudicial to such protection.
             I would appreciate your acknowledging receipt of this letter.
             Please accept, Sir, the assurance for my highest consideration.
             Sir, . . .
             I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date in accordance with
             which we have agreed as follows :
             'With reference to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community
             transit, I have the honour to set out below the points we have agreed :
             In the cases referred to in Article 4 of the Agreement, the customs authorities of the Member
             States and of the Swiss Confederation will supply all information available to them, if necessary
             after carrying out procedures at the request of the customs authorities of either a Member
             State or the Swiss Confederation, concerning the goods themselves and concerning persons found
             or suspected to have infringed the rules on Community transit.
             However, in regard to persons neither found nor suspected to have infringed the aforementioned
             provisions, the administrative assistance provided for in Article 4 may, having regard to the
             national laws governing the protection of industrial, commercial or professional secrecy, be
             limited to aspects which are not prejudicial to such protection.
             I would appreciate your acknowledging receipt of this letter.'
             Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
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                                                       ANNEX 111
            Sir, . . .
            I refer to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community transit,
            and I have the honour to advise you as follows :
            The Community is aware of the difficulties which implementation of the Protocol on the appli­
            cation of Article 6 ( 1 ) of the Agreement may bring about for the Swiss customs authorities.
            Consequently, the Community undertakes to consider an amendment of the Regulation on
            Community transit (Appendix I) in order to make compulsory the application of the external
            Community transit procedure in the case of products which, in one of the Member States, have
            been the subject of customs export formalities with a view to the grant of a refund on exporta­
            tion to third countries under the common agricultural policy. A proposal for an appropriate
            amendment of the aforementioned Regulation is now under consideration by the Council of the
            European Communities. You will be notified of the decision of the Council as soon as this has
            been reached .
            Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
            Sir, . . .
            I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date in which you informed
            me as follows :
            'I refer to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community transit,
            and I have the honour to advise you as follows :
            The Community is aware of the difficulties which implementation of the Protocol on the appli­
            cation of Article 6 ( 1 ) of the Agreement may bring about for the Swiss customs authorities.
            Consequently, the Community undertakes to consider an amendment of the Regulation on
            Community transit (Appendix I) in order to make compulsory the application of the external
            Community transit procedure in the case of products which, in one of the Member States, have
            been the subject of customs export formalities with a view to the grant of a refund on expor­
            tation to third countries under the common agricultural policy. A proposal for such an appro­
            priate amendment of the aforementioned Regulation is now under consideration by the Council
            of the European Communities. You will be notified of the decision of the Council as soon as this
            has been reached .'
            Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
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                                                         ANNEX IV
              Sir, . . .
              I refer to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community transit,
              and I have the honour to advise you as follows :
              The customs authorities and the railway authorities of the Member States have agreed that,
              in order to reach a quicker settlement of any dispute which may arise in future, irregularities
              discovered during or in respect of a Community transit operation by rail shall be dealt with
              exclusively by the customs authorities of the same country. This principle is to apply irrespective
              of which railway authority is the principal within the meaning of the rules relating to Com­
              munity transit.
             It is understood that the conclusion of the conclusion of the Agreement shall extend this
              arrangement to apply to the customs and railway authorities of the Swiss Confederation.
             Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
             Sir , . . .
             I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date in which you advised
             me as follows :
             'I refer to the Agreement signed this day on the application of the rules on Community transit
             and I have the honour to advise you as follows :
             The customs authorities and the railway authorities of the Member States have agreed that, in
             order to reach a quicker settlement of any dispute which may arise in future, irregularities
             discovered during or in respect of a Community transit operation by rail shall be dealt with
             exclusively by the customs authorities concerned and the railway authorities of the same country.
             This principle is to apply irrespective of which railway authority is the principal within the
             meaning of the rules relating to Community transit.
             It is understood that the conclusion of the Agreement shall extend this arrangement to apply to
             the customs and railway authorities of the Swiss Confederation.'
             Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.