Legal provisions of COM(1974)922 -

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dossier COM(1974)922 - .
document COM(1974)922 EN
date December  9, 1975
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'    Article 1

Article 2 of Council Regulation n° 1445/72 is replaced by the following text :    ■

"1. The NIMEXE shall "be applied by the Community and by its Member States to the external trade statstic^ of the Community and statistics of . trade between Member States.,; ■    .    ■    •

2* Use of the items inserted in the NIMEXE in accordance with Article 5, paragraph 1, third sub-paragraph is optional.    '    -

3. The original Member States until 31 December 1975 and the new Member States until 31 December 1977 can continue to use their national nomenclatures for statistics of external trade of the Community and Statistics of trade between Member States. In this case, they must however ensure the transposition of their nomenclatures into the appropriate NIMEXE item.

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Article 2

The first paragraph of article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) n° 1445/72 is supplemented by the following third sub-paragraph :

"- insertion in the NIMEXE, in the form of optional items, of statistical

subdivisions answering national needs which will at the same time facilitate the correlation or adaptation referred to in the second sub-paragraph above.”

Article 3

The following article is inserted in Regulation (EEC) n° 1445/72 : ’’Article 5 A

The Commission shall publish the NIMEXE in its authoritative version on 1 January of each year.”    '    ' '

Article 4

The text of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) n° 1445/72 is replaced by the following :

"1. Member States can use, as an extension of items of the NIMEXE, Statistical sub-divisions answering national needs in addition to those alluded to in Article 5* paragraph 1, third sub-paragraph. Member States wishing to make use of this facility shall inform the Commission at least 2 months before the date when it is intended such measures as are planned shall take effect, Vfithin 1 month the Commission can • call upon the Member State to modify these measures or not to put them into effect, when it considers that these statistical sub-divisions should be the subject of Community-wide provisions under Article 5»    •

paragraph 1, second or third sub-paragraph,

2. Until 31 December 1977 and without prejudice to article 5» Member States can continue to use statistical sub-divisions answering national needs which they were using on the day this Regulation came into force,"

Article 5

Preliminary provisions 1 and 2 of the NIMEXE are replaced by the following text :

"1. The NIMEXE items correspond to positions of the Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs (Brussels Nomenclature, abbreviated BTN), to sub-divisions of the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff (abbreviated CCT) to the extent that they are not regrouped or they are not replaced by statistical sub-divisions of the positions of the BTN and the sub-positions of the nomenclature of the CCT. Moreover, some items, outside this framework, answer special needs (for example : goods carried by post, goods declared as ships stores etc).

Among the items of the NUIEXE which correspond to statistical sub-divisions or which answer special needs there are some whose application is optional,

2-.Each item of the NDIEXE is characterised by its code number, its description and where appropriate by its supplementary unit. However, the optional items are not provided with code numbers,"

Article 6 - This Eegulation shall enter into force on the third day following the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities,

This Eegulation shall be binding in its entirety and applicable in all Member States, bone at Brussels,

For the Council The President