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  "legislation": "eur/2020/1197",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1197",
  "path": "annex/Appendix",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "Appendix",
  "heading": "List of goods and movements excluded from European statistics on international trade in goods",
  "text": "(a) monetary gold;\n(b) means of payment which are legal tender and securities, including means which are payments for services such as postage, taxes, user fees;\n(c) goods for or following temporary use (e.g. hire, loan, operational leasing), provided all the following conditions are met:\nno processing is or was planned or carried out,\nthe expected duration of the temporary use was or is not intended to be longer than 24 months,\nthe intra-Union export/import has not to be declared as an intra-Union supply/acquisition for VAT purposes or no change of ownership took place or is intended to take place for extra-Union export/import;\n(d) goods moving between:\na Member State and its territorial enclaves in other Member States or non-member countries, and\nthe host Member State and territorial enclaves of other Member States, non-member countries or international organisations.\nTerritorial enclaves include embassies, consulates, military bases and scientific bases outside the territory of the mother country;\n(e) goods used as carriers of customised information, including software;\n(f) data and software downloaded from the internet;\n(g) goods supplied free of charge which are themselves not the subject of a commercial transaction, provided that the movement is with the sole intention of preparing or supporting an intended subsequent trade transaction by demonstrating the characteristics of goods or services such as:\nadvertising material,\ncommercial samples;\n(h) goods for and after repair or maintenance and replacement parts that are incorporated in the framework of the repair or maintenance and replaced defective parts;\n(i) means of transport travelling in the course of their work, including spacecraft launchers at the time of launching;\n(j) goods declared orally to Customs authorities which are either of a commercial nature provided that their value does not exceed the extra-Union trade statistical threshold of EUR 1 000 in value or 1 000 kg in net mass, or of a non-commercial nature;\n(k) goods released for free circulation after being subject to the customs procedures of inward processing are excluded from extra-Union trade in goods;\n(l) periodicals under subscription;\n(m) Personal property belonging to natural persons transferring their normal place of residence; trousseaux and household effects belonging to a person transferring his or her normal place of residence on the occasion of his or her marriage; personal property acquired by inheritance; school outfits, educational materials and related household effects; coffins containing bodies, funerary urns containing the ashes of deceased persons, and ornamental funerary articles transported with the coffins and urns; goods for charitable or philanthropic organisations and goods for the benefit of disaster victims.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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