{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1982/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1982/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/1982",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 of 18 November 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 1901/2000 and (EEC) No 3590/92",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1982",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Industrial plant",
  "text": "1. For the purpose of this Article:\n(a) ‘industrial plant’ is a combination of machines, apparatus, appliances, equipment, instruments and materials which together make up large-scale, stationary units producing goods or providing services;\n(b) ‘component part’ means a delivery for an industrial plant which is made up of goods which all belong to the same chapter of the CN.\n2. Statistics on trade between Member States and the United Kingdom may cover only dispatches and arrivals of component parts used for the construction of industrial plants or the re-use of industrial plants.\n3. The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs when applying paragraph 2 may apply the following particular provisions on condition that the overall statistical value of a given industrial plant exceeds £2.62 million, unless they are complete industrial plants for re-use:\n(a) The commodity codes shall be composed as follows:\nthe first four digits shall be 9880,\nthe fifth and the sixth digits shall correspond to the CN chapter to which the goods of the component part belong,\nthe seventh and the eighth digits shall be 0.\n(b) The quantity shall be optional.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Statistics of Trade (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/47), regs. 1(4), 4(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Statistics of Trade (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/47), regs. 1(4), 5(1)(j)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 15(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Statistics of Trade (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/47), regs. 1(4), 5(1)(j)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1982/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:07.078190+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}