CELEX: 21974D1216(03)
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-06 00:00:00
Title: Decision No 2/74 of the Joint Committee EEC-Switzerland (Community transit) of 6 November 1974 amending Appendix II A to the Agreement

No L 337/34                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             16. 12 . 74
                    DECISION No 2/74 OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE EEC—SWITZERLAND
                                                      (Community transit)
                                                      of 6 November 1974
                                         amending Appendix II A to the Agreement
THE JOINT COMMITTEE,                                                   'Article 4
Having regard to the Agreement between the                             1.    When Regulation (EEC) No 304/71 on
European Economic Community and the Swiss                              the simplification of Community transit
Confederation on the application of the rules on                      procedures for goods carried by railways
Community transit, and in particular Article 16 (3 )                   operates, the provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 3 a of
 ( a) thereof;                                                        this Regulation shall apply to loading lists which
                                                                       accompany the international consignment note
Whereas Community provisions on the use of loading                     and the number of the accompanying lists shall
lists as the descriptive part of Community transit                     be shown in box 32 of the consignment note.
declarations have recently been amended by a
Regulation of the Commission; whereas it is                           In addition each loading list must include the
therefore necessary to amend accordingly the                          wagon number to which the consignment note
provisions of Appendix II A to the Agreement,                         refers or, where appropriate, the number of the
                                                                       container in which the goods are carried.
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                              2.     For operations beginning within the
                                                                      Community comprising at the same time goods
                           Article 1                                  referred to in Article 1 (2) and in Article 1 (3 ) of
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 separate loading
Appendix II A, as added by Joint Committee                            lists shall be used and the serial numbers of the
Decision No 3/73 to the Agreement, shall be                           loading lists relating to the goods referred to in
amended as follows :                                                  Article 1 (2) of that Regulation inserted in the
                                                                      "Description of goods" box on the international
( a) In the title there is inserted, between the date                 consignment note.'
      ' 16 May 1973 ' and the dash, the figure '(*)'.
                                                                                          Article 2
(b ) The following footnote is added :
       '( 1 ) As amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                  Loading lists as referred to in Article 3a of Appendix
        1676/74 of 28 June 1974'.                                 II A must in all cases include particulars as to the
                                                                  number, nature, marks and numbers of the packages,
( c) The Regulation is supplemented by the following              the description of the goods, the gross weight in
       Article :                                                  kilogrammes of each consignment and the country
                                                                  from which the goods are consigned.
       'Article 3a
                                                                                          Article 3
       The customs authorities of each Member State
       may allow firms established in their country
       whose records are based on a system of                     This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January
                                                                  1975 .
       electronic or mechanical data processing to use
       loading lists which, although not complying with
       all the conditions of Articles 2 and 3, are                Done at Brussels, 6 November 1974.
       designed and completed in such a way that they
       can be used without difficulty by the customs
       and statistical authorities in question'.                                                 For the Joint Committee
                                                                                                       The President
(d) Article 4 of the Regulation is amended to read as
       follows :                                                                                         Ch. LENZ