# Commission Regulation (EC) No 3115/94 of 20 December 1994 amending Annexes I and II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, Division 4: For the purposes of heading No 8534, ‘printed circuits’ are circuits obtained by forming on an insulating base, by any printing process (for example, embossing, plating-up, etching) or by the ‘film circuit’ technique, conductor elements, contacts or other printed components (for example, inductances, resistors, capacitors) alone or interconnected according to a pre-established pattern, other than elements which can produce, rectify, modulate or amplify an electrical signal (for example, semiconductor elements).

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The term ‘printed circuits’ does not cover circuits combined with elements other than those obtained during the printing process. Printed circuits may, however, be fitted with non-printed connecting elements.
Thin or thick-film circuits comprising passive and active elements obtained during the same technological process are to be classified within heading No 8542.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1994/3115/annex/I/chapter/85/annotations/1/annotation/4 (the official version)
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