Legal provisions of COM(1997)252 - Amendment of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States

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dossier COM(1997)252 - Amendment of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States.
document COM(1997)252 EN
date May 10, 1999


Contents

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 13(1) shall be replaced by the following: '1. The statistical information required by the Intrastat system shall be covered in periodic declarations to be sent by the party responsible for providing the information to the competent national departments, under conditions which the Commission shall lay down pursuant to Article 30.'

2. Article 23 shall be amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph (1) the points (f) and (g) shall be deleted;

(b) paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following: "2. Member States may prescribe that the following additional data be provided on the statistical data medium:

(a) in the Member States of arrival, the country of origin; however, that information may only be prescribed within the limits of Community law;

(b) in the Member State of dispatch, the region of origin; in the Member State of arrival, the region of destination."

(c) paragraph 3 becomes paragraph 4 and the following new paragraph 3 shall be inserted: "3. In the case of providers of statistical information whose annual value of arrivals or dispatches falls below the thresholds fixed by the Commission in accordance with the procedure established under Article 30, it shall not be prescribed that data other than those listed in paragraphs 1 and 2 be provided for such arrivals or dispatches on the statistical data medium.

Apart from the data provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2, Member States may, solely in respect of providers of statistical information with dispatches or arrivals of an annual value in excess of the above thresholds, prescribe that the following additional data be provided on the statistical data medium:

(a) the delivery terms;

(b) the presumed mode of transport;

(c) the statistical procedure."

(d) the following paragraph shall be added: '5. The Commission shall ensure publication of a list of the data required of providers of statistical information by the Member States, as well as the thresholds referred to in paragraph 3, in the Official Journal of the European Communities.'

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 January 2001.


This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.