Council Regulation (EC) No 2559/2000 of 16 November 2000 amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

Council Regulation (EC) No 2559/2000
of 16 November 2000
amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas:
(1) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87(1) established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as the "Combined Nomenclature", and set out the conventional duty rates of the Common Customs Tariff.
(2) By its Decision 97/359/EC of 24 March 1997 concerning the elimination of duties on information technology products(2), the Council approved, on behalf of the Community, the Agreement on trade in information technology products (ITA), together with the Communication on its implementation.
(3) According to that Agreement, participants are to meet to consider any divergence among them in classifying information technology products, beginning with the products specified in Attachment B of the Annex thereto. This procedure brings to the fore changes to be made to the Community's tariff schedule, reproduced in Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87. Once they are agreed to by the participants to the Agreement, the said changes must be implemented as quickly as possible,