# 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), Annex Appendix: List of goods and movements excluded from European statistics on international trade in goods

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

(a) monetary gold;
(b) means of payment which are legal tender and securities, including means which are payments for services such as postage, taxes, user fees;
(c) goods for or following temporary use (e.g. hire, loan, operational leasing), provided all the following conditions are met:
no processing is or was planned or carried out,
the expected duration of the temporary use was or is not intended to be longer than 24 months,
the 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;
(d) goods moving between:
a Member State and its territorial enclaves in other Member States or non-member countries, and
the host Member State and territorial enclaves of other Member States, non-member countries or international organisations.
Territorial enclaves include embassies, consulates, military bases and scientific bases outside the territory of the mother country;
(e) goods used as carriers of customised information, including software;
(f) data and software downloaded from the internet;
(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:
advertising material,
commercial samples;
(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;
(i) means of transport travelling in the course of their work, including spacecraft launchers at the time of launching;
(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;
(k) goods released for free circulation after being subject to the customs procedures of inward processing are excluded from extra-Union trade in goods;
(l) periodicals under subscription;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1197/annex/Appendix (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1197/annex-Appendix
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