Introductory text

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^f1, 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 or commercial policy, in particular by virtue of Council Decision bringing into force simultanously the acts implementing the results of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations^f2 and Council Regulation concerning certain measures resulting from the conclusion of negotiations under Article XXIV:6 and other measures necessary for simplification purposes^f3,

• the need to align or clarify texts;

Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 provides for the Commission to adopt each year by means of a regulation, to apply from 1 January of the following year, 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 measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission^f4;

Whereas it is necessary to update the list at Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 concerning the specific Community measures referred to in Article 2 of that Regulation in order to take account of the evolution of Community measures liable to affect Taric;

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: