CELEX: 51983PC0162
Language: en
Date: 1983-03-29
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION SIMPLIFYING CUSTOMS FACILITIES IN TRADE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY

No C 102/4                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                15.4.83
                                                            II
                                                    (Preparatory Acts)
                                               COMMISSION
                Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation simplifying customs facilities in
                                             trade within the Community (')
                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                                        149 of the EEC Treaty on 6 April 1983)
 The Commission amends its proposal as follows:                        consignee to draw up an                incomplete
                                                                       declaration, to be completed subsequently in
 1. The text of the first subparagraph of Article 4 (1)
                                                                       the form of a general periodic declaration,
     is replaced by the following:
                                                                  — in cases where Community goods are
     '1.    Where Community goods are the subject of
                                                                       addressed by more than one consignor to more
     trade between two Member States, the formalities
                                                                       than one consignee.
     connected with such trade shall be completed
     using a single document, based on a declaration on
     a form, a specimen of which is to be established by          2.     The provisions of this Regulation shall not
     the Council acting by a qualified majority on a              preclude:
    proposal by the Commission and after consulting               — the application of special provisions laid down
    the European Parliament. This document or                          with regard to consignments by letter or parcel
    declaration shall serve, depending on the circum-                  post,
    stances, as the dispatch document or declaration or
     as the document or declaration of internal                   — exemption from the requirements to submit a
    Community transit or of entry for home use or of                   written declaration in certain cases, notably as
    entry of the goods under any other procedure in                    regards Community goods contained in
    the Member State of destination.'                                  travellers' personal luggage, for dispatch or
                                                                       entry for home use,
2. The following paragraph         2 is inserted     after        — agreements made or to be made between
    paragraph 1 of Article 4:                                          Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands or
    '2.     In intra-Community trade, Member States                    between the United Kingdom and Ireland with
    may not require an administrative document other                   a view to greater simplification of formalities in
    than the document provided for in paragraph 1,                     trade between those States,
    except for those required pursuant to specific
                                                                  — the establishment between Member States, by
    provisions of the Treaty or of Community acts.'
                                                                       means of bilateral arrangements, of simplified
3. The former paragraph 2 of Article 4 becomes                         procedures applicable to certain trade flows,
    paragraph 3.                                                       the effect of which is to dispense with the
                                                                       production of any administrative document in
4. The text of Article 10 is replaced by the following:                the trade concerned, apart from those required
                                                                       pursuant to specific provisions of the Treaty or
    '1.     Simplified procedures, whether or not based
                                                                       of Community acts,
    on the use of computers, may be implemented,
    particularly:                                                 — the drawing up of declarations by means of
    — in order to allow a consignor or a consignee                     publicly or privately owned computers,
         not to have to present the goods in question at          — the possibility of Member States providing that
         a customs office,                                             particulars given in the declaration may be
    -— in order to allow a consignor or a consignee                    entered by the person concerned in the
         not to have to present a declaration at a                     automatic      data-processing     system      for
         customs office or to allow a consignor or a                   declarations.'
(») OJ No C 203, 6. 8. 1982, p. 5.