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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2204/1999
of 12 October 1999
amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (1), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter called the "Combined Nomenclature", to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the Community;
Whereas it is necessary to amend the Combined Nomenclature to take account of:
- changes in requirements relating to statistics and commercial policy, in particular by virtue of Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986 to 1994) (2) and Council Regulation (EC) No 3093/95 of 22 December 1995 laying down the rates of duty to be applied by the Community resulting from negotiations under GATT Article XXIV:6 consequent upon the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union (3),
- the need to align or clarify texts;
Whereas it is appropriate for the Commission to adopt by means of a Regulation to apply from 1 January 2000, a complete version of the Combined Nomenclature together with the corresponding autonomous and conventional rates of duty of the Common Customs Tariff, as it results from Decision 94/800/EC and Regulation (EC) No 3231/94 as well as other measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission (4);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section of the Customs Code Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 is hereby replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2000.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 12 October 1999.