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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1810/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/1810",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1810/2004 of 7 September 2004 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1810/2004\nof 7 September 2004\namending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987, and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nRegulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter called the ‘Combined Nomenclature’, to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements of the Common Customs Tariff, the external trade statistics of the Community and other Community policies concerning the importation or exportation of goods.\n(2)\nThe Combined Nomenclature is reproduced in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, together with the autonomous and the conventional duty rates and the statistical supplementary units.\n(3)\nIt is appropriate to modernise and to simplify Annex I as envisaged by the SLIM initiative (simpler legislation for the internal market).\n(4)\nIt is necessary to amend the Combined Nomenclature to take account of:\n(i) changes in requirements relating to statistics and to commercial policy;\n(ii) technological or commercial developments;\n(iii) the need for alignment or clarification of texts.\n(5)\nIn accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, the Commission is to adopt a regulation which reproduces the complete version of the Combined Nomenclature, together with the autonomous and conventional rates of duty, resulting from measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission. Such a regulation is to be published not later than 31 October in the Official Journal of the European Union, to apply from 1 January of the following year.\n(6)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1558/2004 (OJ L 283, 2.9.2004, p.7)."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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