Council Directive 94/75/EC of 22 December 1994 amending Directive 94/4/EC and introducing temporary derogation measures applicable to Austria and to Germany

COUNCIL  DIRECTIVE 94/75/EC of 22 December 1994 amending Directive 94/4/EC and introducing temporary  derogation measures applicable to Austria and to Germany
(94/000/EC THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Having regard to the 1994 Accession Treaty, and in particular Article 2 (3) thereof, and the 1994  Act of Accession, and in particular Article 151 (2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, on 5 September 1994, the Republic of Austria requested a derogation based on that  applicable from 1 April 1994 to the Federal Republic of Germany pursuant to Article 3 (2) of  Council Directive 94/4/EC of 14 February 1994 amending Directives 69/196/EEC and 77/388/EEC and  increasing the level of allowances for travellers coming from third countries and the limits on  tax-free purchases in intra-Community travel (1);
Whereas that request is aimed in particular at maintaining, until 1 January 1998, the limit  currently applicable in Austria to imports of goods by travellers entering its territory by a land  frontier linking it to countries other than Member States and members of the European Free Trade  Association (EFTA);
Whereas account should be taken of the economic difficulties likely to be caused in Austria by the  amount of the allowances in the case of the travellers concerned;
Whereas, however, it is necessary to prevent distortions of competition resulting from the  application of different limits when the external frontiers linking the Community to countries  other than EFTA members are crossed; whereas it is important that the Federal Republic of Germany  and the Republic of Austria should apply the same limit to imports of goods into their respective  territories by travellers coming from the said countries,