# Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91, Article 3: Scope

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

1. Statistics relating to the trading of goods ... shall cover dispatches and arrivals of goods.
2. Dispatches shall cover the following goods leaving the Member State of dispatch for a destination in a Member State:
(a) Community goods ...;
(b) goods placed in the Member State of dispatch under the inward processing customs procedure ....
3. Arrivals shall cover the following goods entering the Member State of arrival, which were initially dispatched from a Member State:
(a) Community goods ...;
(b) goods ... released for free circulation in the Member State of arrival.
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5. Some goods ... shall be excluded from the statistics for methodological reasons.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/638/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-638/article-3
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