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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1186/annex-I/division-A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1186/annex-I/division-A.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/1186",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1186/2009 of 16 November 2009 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty (codified version)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1186",
  "path": "annex/I/division/A",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "A",
  "heading": "Books, publications and documents",
  "text": "The exemption shall not, however, apply to articles in which the advertising covers more than 25 % of the surface. In the case of publications and posters for the promotion of tourism, this percentage applies only to private commercial publicity.\nCN code\nDescription\n3705\nPhotographic plates and film, exposed and developed, other than cinematograph film:\nex 3705 90 10\n–\nMicrofilms of books, children's picture books and drawing or painting books, school exercise books (workbooks), crossword-puzzle books, newspapers and periodicals, printed documents or reports of a non-commercial character, and of loose illustrations, printed pages and reproduction proofs for the production of books\nex 3705 10 00\n–\nReproduction films for the production of books\nex 3705 90 90\n4903 00 00\nChildren's picture, drawing or colouring books\n4905\nMaps and hydrographic or similar charts of all kinds, including atlases, wall maps, topographical plans and globes, printed:\n–\nOther:\nex 4905 99 00\n– –\nOther:\n–\nMaps, charts and diagrams of interest in scientific fields such as geology, zoology, botany, mineralogy, palaeontology, archaeology, ethnology, meteorology, climatology and geophysics\nex 4906 00 00\nArchitectural, industrial or engineering plans and designs and reproductions thereof\n4911\nOther printed matter, including pictures and photographs:\n4911 10\n–\nTrade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like:\nex 4911 10 90\n– –\nOther:\n–\nCatalogues of books and publications, being books and publications offered for sale by publishers or booksellers established outside the territory of the European Communities\n–\nCatalogues of films, recording or other visual and auditory materials of an educational, scientific or cultural character\n–\nPosters for the promotion of tourism and tourist publications, brochures, guidebooks, timetables, pamphlets and like publications, whether or not illustrated, including those published by private concerns, designed to encourage the public to travel outside the territory of the European Communities, including microcopies of such articles\n–\nBibliographical information material for distribution free of charge\n–\nOther:\n4911 99 00\n– –\nOther:\n–\nLoose illustrations, printed pages and reproduction proofs to be used for the production of books, including microcopies of such Articles\n–\nMicrocopies of books, children's picture books and drawing or painting books, school exercise books (workbooks), crossword puzzle books, newspapers and periodicals and of documents or reports of a non-commercial character\n–\nPublications designed to encourage the public to study outside the territory of the European Communities, including microcopies of such publications\n–\nMeteorological and geophysical diagrams\n9023 00\nInstruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses:\nex 9023 00 80\n–\nOther:\n–\nMaps and charts in relief of interest in scientific fields such as geology, zoology, botany, mineralogy, palaeontology, archaeology, ethnology, meteorology, climatology and geophysics",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The exemption shall not, however, apply to articles in which the advertising covers more than 25 % of the surface. In the case of publications and posters for the promotion of tourism, this percentage applies only to private commercial publicity."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1186/annex/I/division/A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:04.812584+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."
}