Commission Regulation (EC) No 1031/2008 of 19 September 2008 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

Published date31 October 2008
Subject MatterAccession,Common customs tariff
Official Gazette PublicationOfficial Journal of the European Union, L 291, 31 October 2008
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31.10.2008 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 291/1

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1031/2008

of 19 September 2008

amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (1), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Combined Nomenclature’, to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements of the Common Customs Tariff, the external trade statistics of the Community, and other Community policies concerning the importation or exportation of goods.
(2) In the interests of legislative simplification, it is appropriate to modernise the Combined Nomenclature and to adapt its structure.
(3) It is necessary to amend the Combined Nomenclature, in order to take account of the following: changes in requirements relating to statistics and to commercial policy, changes made in order to fulfil international commitments, technological and commercial developments, and the need to align or clarify texts.
(4) In accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, Annex I to that Regulation should be replaced, with effect from 1 January 2009, by a complete version of the Combined Nomenclature, together with the autonomous and conventional rates of duty resulting from measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission.
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 1 January 2009.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 September 2008.

For the Commission

László KOVÁCS

Member of the Commission


(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.


ANNEX I

COMBINED NOMENCLATURE

SUMMARY

PART ONE — PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

Section I — General rules

A. General rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature
B. General rules concerning duties
C. General rules applicable both to nomenclature and to duties

Section II — Special provisions

A. Goods for certain categories of ships, boats and other vessels and for drilling or production platforms
B. Civil aircraft and goods for use in civil aircraft
C. Pharmaceutical products
D. Standard rate of duty
E. Containers and packing materials
F. Favourable tariff treatment by reason of the nature of the goods

Signs, abbreviations and symbols

Supplementary units

PART TWO — SCHEDULE OF CUSTOMS DUTIES

Chapter

Section I

Live animals; animal products

1 Live animals
2 Meat and edible meat offal
3 Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
4 Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
5 Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

Section II

Vegetable products

6 Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
7 Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
8 Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
9 Coffee, tea, maté and spices
10 Cereals
11 Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
13 Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
14 Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included

Section III

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

15 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Section IV

Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes

16 Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
17 Sugars and sugar confectionery
18 Cocoa and cocoa preparations
19 Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
20 Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
21 Miscellaneous edible preparations
22 Beverages, spirits and vinegar
23 Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
24 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes

Section V

Mineral products

25 Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
26 Ores, slag and ash
27 Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

Section VI

Products of the chemical or allied industries

28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
29 Organic chemicals
30 Pharmaceutical products
31 Fertilisers
32 Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks
33 Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
34 Soap; organic surface-active agents; washing preparations; lubricating preparations; artificial waxes; prepared waxes; polishing or scouring preparations; candles and similar articles, modelling pastes; ‘dental waxes’ and dental preparations with a basis of plaster
35 Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
36 Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
37 Photographic or cinematographic goods
38 Miscellaneous chemical products

Section VII

Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof

39 Plastics and articles thereof
40 Rubber and articles thereof

Section VIII

Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut)

41 Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
42 Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut)
43 Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof

Section IX

Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork

44 Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
45 Cork and articles of cork
46 Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork

Section X

Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof

47 Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard
48 Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
49 Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans

Section XI

Textiles and textile articles

50 Silk
51 Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
52 Cotton
53 Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn
54 Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials
55 Man-made staple fibres
56 Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof
57 Carpets and other textile floor coverings
58 Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
59 Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use
60 Knitted or crocheted fabrics
61 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
62 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
63 Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags

Section XII

Footwear; headgear; umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair

64 Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles
65 Headgear and parts thereof
66 Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and parts thereof
67 Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair

Section XIII

Articles of stone, plaster, cement...

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