Commission Regulation (EC) No 2820/94 of 21 November 1994 fixing a threshold value for individual transactions in the context of statistics relating to trade between Member States

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2820/94 of 21 November 1994 fixing a threshold value for individual transactions in the context of statistics relating to trade between Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 of 7 November 1991 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States (1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3046/92 (2), and in particular Articles 30 and 33 thereof,
Whereas, in the context of statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States, the obligation to supply the statistical information required devolves squarely on the economic operators;
Whereas, despite the existence of statistical thresholds, there remain parties responsible for providing information effecting a large number of low-value transactions who are obliged to communicate these in the greatest detail, an obligation which  represents a burden out of all proportion to the usefulness of the information thus obtained;
Whereas, it is necessary to reduce the burden on intra-Community operators as far as possible;
Whereas any such reduction should be limited only by the need to obtain statistics of a satisfactory quality and to satisfy specific information needs;
Whereas these low-value transactions may be amalgamated under a single global heading in Chapter 99 of the combined nomenclature established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 relating to the Customs Tariff and Statistical  Nomenclature and the Common Customs Tariff (3), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1966/94 (4);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Statistics Relating to the Trading of Goods between Member States,