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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1664/81

of 23 June 1981

amending for the eighth time Regulation (EEC) No 223/77 on provisions for the implementation of the Community transit procedure and for certain simplifications of that procedure

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 of 13 December 1976 on Community transit (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular Article 57 thereof,

Whereas Article 23 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 223/77 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3298/80 (3), provides that, under the flat-rate guarantee system, the acceptance of the guarantee by the guarantee office shall be the guarantor's authority to issue a flat-rate guarantee voucher or vouchers for the purposes of Community transit operations;

Whereas experience has shown a need for the guarantor to be able to limit, at the time of issuing flat-rate guarantee vouchers, the extent of the risk which he thereby accepts; whereas he should be allowed, on a trial basis, to indicate this limitation on these vouchers;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 223/77 should therefore be amended accordingly;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Community Transit Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 223/77 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The following subparagraphs are inserted after the first subparagraph of Article 23 (1):

'The guarantor may issue flat-rate guarantee vouchers:

- which are not valid for a Community transit operation in respect of goods which are listed in Annex XIII, and

- which may be used in multiples of up to seven vouchers per means of transport as referred to in Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 for goods other than those referred to in the previous indent.

For this purpose the guarantor shall make such flat-rate guarantee vouchers diagonally in capital letters with one of the following statements:

BESCHRAENKTE GELTUNG - ANWENDG. ART. 23 ABS. 1 UNTERABS. 2 VO (EWG) 223/77

LIMITED VALIDITY - REG. (EEC) 223/77, APPLICATION ART. 23 (1), 2ND SUBPARA.

PERIORISMENI ISCHYS: EFARMOGI ARTHR. 23, PAR. 1, EDAF. 2, KAN. (EOK) 223/77

VALIDITÉ LIMITÉE - APPLICATION ART. 23, PAR. 1, AL. 2, RÈGL. (CEE) 223/77

VALIDITÀ LIMITATA - APPLICAZIONE ART. 23, PAR. 1, 2° COMMA, REG. (CEE) 223/77

BEPERKTE GELDIGHEID - TOEPASSING ART. 23, LID 1, 2 E AL., VER. (EEG) 223/77

BEGRAENSET GYLDIGHED - ANV. AF ART. 23, STK. 1, 2. AFS. FO (EOEF) 223/77'.

2. Article 23 (3) is replaced by the following:

'3. Without prejudice to the provisions in the second and third subparagraphs of paragraph 1 and in Article 24, the principal may carry out one Community transit operation under each flat-rate guarantee voucher. The voucher shall be delivered to the office of departure, where it shall be retained.'

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981.

It shall apply until 30 June 1982.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 June 1981.

For the Commission

Karl-Heinz NARJES

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 38, 9. 2. 1977, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 38, 9. 2. 1977, p. 20.

(3) OJ No L 344, 19. 12. 1980, p. 16.