31988R1045

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1045/88

of 18 April 1988

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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3985/87 (2), established a goods nomenclature based on the harmonized system, hereinafter called the combined nomenclature, to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the Community and fixed the autonomous and conventional rates of duty of the said Common Customs Tariff;

Whereas, when the Common Customs Tariff was transposed into the harmonized system, in order to establish the conventional rate of duty for products falling within CN code 8527 32 00, account was taken only of clock radios previously free of duty at the conventional rate under Common Customs Tariff subheading 85.15 A III b) 2 bb) 11 (3); whereas, however, CN code 8527 32 00 also covers tuners and tuner amplifiers, combined with a clock, previously liable to duty at the conventional rate of 14 % under Common Customs Tariff subheading 85.15 A III b) 2 bb) 55;

Whereas, to rectify this error, it is necessary to amend Annex I of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 to take account of this latter rate of duty,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. In Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, CN code 8527 32 00 is replaced by the following:

1.2.3,4.5 // // // // // 'CN code // Description // Rate of duty // Supplementary unit // 1.2.3.4.5 // // // autonomous (%) // conventional (%) // // // // // // // 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // // // // // // 8527 32 // Not combined with sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock: // // // // 8527 32 10 // Alarm clock radios // 22 // free // p/st // 8527 32 90 // 1987, p. 1. (3) OJ No L 345, 8. 12. 1986, p. 1.

2. The amendments provided for in this Regulation shall be applied as Taric subheadings until their insertion in the combined nomenclature under the conditions laid down in Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.

Article 2

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

Done at Luxembourg, 18 April 1988.

For the Council

The President

G. STOLTENBERG Other // 22 // 14 // p/st' // // // // //

(1) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1. (2) OJ No L 376, 31. 12.