Commission Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 of 7 September 2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 as regards statistics on external trade (Text with EEA relevance)
Modified by
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 1669/2001of 20 August 2001amending Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 as regards statistics on external trade(Text with EEA relevance), 301R1669, August 21, 2001
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 179/2005of 2 February 2005amending Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 with regard to the transmission of data to the Commission, 305R0179, February 3, 2005
Corrected by
- Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 of 7 September 2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 as regards statistics on external trade, 300R1917R(01), January 6, 2001
released for free circulation after being subject to inward processing or processing under customs control, contained in the list of exemptions set out in Annex I.
(a) imports: 7 normal 1 after outward processing 3 for inward processing, suspension system 5 for inward processing, drawback system 6 after economic outward processing for textiles; (b) exports: 1 normal 3 for outward processing 5 after inward processing, suspension system 6 after inward processing, drawback system 7 for economic outward processing for textiles.
(a) "country of origin" means the country where the goods originate in accordance with Title II, Chapter 2, Section 1, of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92; (b) "country of consignment" means the country from which the goods were initially dispatched to the importing Member State, without any halt or legal operation not inherent in their transport having occurred in an intermediate country; if such halts or legal operations have occurred, the final intermediate country shall be regarded as the country of consignment; (c) "country of destination" means the last country to which it is known, at the time of export, that the goods are to be delivered; (d) "Member State of export or import" means the Member State in which the export or import formalities are carried out; (e) "Member State of destination" means the Member State to which it is known, at the time of import, that the goods are to be ultimately delivered; (f) "Member State of actual export" means the Member State, other than the Member State of export, from which the goods were initially dispatched for the purpose of export, if the exporter is not established in the Member State of export. Where the goods were not initially dispatched from another Member State for the purpose of export or when the exporter is established in the Member State of export, the Member State of export shall be the same as the Member State of actual export.
(a) for goods the origin of which is not known; (b) for the following goods, even if their origin is known: goods falling within Chapter 97 of the Combined Nomenclature, goods imported after outward processing, returned goods and other goods of Community origin.
(a) "net mass" means the actual mass of the good excluding all packaging; failing any provisions to the contrary adopted pursuant to Article 10(4) of the Basic Regulation, the net mass shall be expressed in kilograms for each subheading of the Combined Nomenclature; (b) "supplementary units" means the units measuring quantity, other than the units measuring mass expressed in kilograms; they must be mentioned in accordance with the information set out in the current version of the Combined Nomenclature, opposite the subheadings concerned, the list of which is published in Part I "Preliminary provisions" of the said nomenclature.
on export, the value of the goods at the place and time where they leave the statistical territory of the exporting Member State, on import, the value of the goods at the place and time where they enter the statistical territory of the importing Member State.
in the case of sale or purchase, on the basis of the invoiced amount of the goods, in other cases, on the basis of the amount which would have been invoiced in the case of sale or purchase.
in the case of exported goods, takes place in the statistical territory of the exporting Member State, in the case of imported goods, takes place outside the statistical territory of the importing Member State.
on export, the goods are presumed to leave the statistical territory of the Community, on import, the goods are presumed to have entered the statistical territory of the Community.
on export, the goods are presumed to have left the place of departure, on import, the goods reach the place of arrival.
| A | B | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | Sea transport |
| 12 | Railway wagon on a seagoing vessel | |
| 16 | Powered road vehicle on a seagoing vessel | |
| 17 | Trailer or semi-trailer on a seagoing vessel | |
| 18 | Inland waterway vessel on a seagoing vessel | |
| 2 | 20 | Rail transport |
| 23 | Road vehicle on railway wagon | |
| 3 | 30 | Road transport |
| 4 | 40 | Air transport |
| 5 | 50 | Postal consignment |
| 7 | 70 | Fixed transport installations |
| 8 | 80 | Inland waterway transport |
| 9 | 90 | Own propulsion |
(a) "transaction" means any operation, whether commercial or not, which leads to a movement of goods covered by statistics on external trade; (b) "nature of the transaction" means all those characteristics which distinguish one transaction from another.
(a) industrial plants; (b) vessels and aircraft, as defined in Chapter 3 of this Title; (c) sea products; (d) ships' and aircraft's stores and supplies; (e) staggered consignments; (f) military goods; (g) offshore installations; (h) spacecraft and spacecraft launchers; (i) motor vehicle and aircraft parts; (j) postal consignments; (k) petroleum products; (l) waste products.
1. the code shall comprise eight digits; 2. the first two digits shall be 9 and 8 respectively; 3. the third digit, which shall serve to identify exports of complete industrial plant, shall be 8; 4. the fourth digit shall vary from 0 to 9 according to the main economic activity carried out by the complete industrial plant and in accordance with the classification given below: Code Economic activities 0 Energy (including production and distribution of steam and hot water) 1 Extraction of non-energy-producing minerals (including preparation of metalliferous ores and peat extraction); manufacture of non-metallic mineral products (including manufacture of glass and glassware) 2 Iron and steel industry; manufacture of metal articles (excluding mechanical engineering and construction of means of transport) 3 Mechanical engineering and construction of means of transport, instrument engineering 4 Chemical industry (including man-made fibres industry); rubber and plastics industry 5 Food, drink and tobacco industry 6 Textile, leather, footwear and clothing industry 7 Timber and paper industry (including printing and publishing); manufacturing industries not classified elsewhere 8 Transport (excluding services connected with transport, services of travel agents, freight brokers and other agents facilitating the transport of passengers or goods, storage and warehousing) and communications 9 Collection, purification and distribution of water; services connected with transport; economic activities not classified elsewhere; 5. the fifth and sixth digits shall correspond to the number of the chapter of the Combined Nomenclature to which the complete industrial plant subheading relates. However, for the purposes of Article 17(3), these fifth and sixth digits shall be 9; 6. for complete industrial plant subheadings which are situated: at Combined Nomenclature chapter level, the seventh and eighth digits shall be 0, at Harmonised System heading level, the seventh and eighth digits shall correspond to the third and fourth digits of that heading;
7. the competent department referred to in Article 17 (2) shall prescribe the designation and the code number to be used in the statistical information medium to identify the component parts of a complete industrial plant.
(a) "vessels" means the vessels used for sea transport, referred to in Additional Notes 1 and 2 of Chapter 89 of the Combined Nomenclature, and warships; (b) "aircraft" means aeroplanes falling within CN code 8802 for civilian use, provided they are used by an airline, or for military use;(c) "ownership of a vessel or an aircraft" means the fact of a physical or legal person's registration as owner of a vessel or an aircraft; (d) "partner country"' means: on import, the third country of construction if the vessel or aircraft is new; in other cases it shall mean the third country where the natural or legal person transferring the ownership of the vessel or aircraft is established, on export, the third country where the natural or legal person to whom the ownership of the vessel or aircraft is transferred is established.
(a) the transfer of ownership of a vessel or aircraft from a physical or legal person established in a third country to a physical or legal person established in a Member State; this transaction shall be treated in the same way as an import; (b) the transfer of ownership of a vessel or aircraft from a physical or legal person established in a Member State to a physical or legal person established in a third country; this transaction shall be treated in the same way as an export; If the vessel or aircraft is new, the export shall be recorded in the Member State of construction; (c) the placing of vessels or aircraft under inward processing customs procedures and their re-export after inward processing to a destination in a third country; (d) the placing of vessels or aircraft under outward processing customs procedures and their re-import after outward processing.
the code corresponding to the subdivision of the Combined Nomenclature, the statistical procedure, the partner country, the quantity, as number of items and in any other supplementary units laid down in the Combined Nomenclature, for vessels, and the quantity, in net mass and in supplementary units, for aircraft, the statistical value.
"ships" and aircraft's stores' means the various products for consumption by the crew and passengers of vessels or aircraft; "ships" and aircraft's supplies' means the products for the operation of the engines, machines and other equipment on vessels or aircraft, such as fuel, oil and lubricants.
(a) any delivery of ships' and aircraft's stores and supplies to vessels or aircraft for which the natural or legal person responsible for their commercial use is established in a third country, and which are stationed in a port or airport of the reporting Member State, provided that they are Community goods or non-Community goods placed under inward processing customs arrangements or under arrangements for processing under customs control; this operation shall be treated as an export; (b) any delivery of ships' and aircraft's stores and supplies to national vessels or aircraft, which are stationed in a port or airport of the reporting Member State, provided that they are non-Community goods which have not been released by customs for free circulation, placed under inward processing customs arrangements or under arrangements for processing under customs control; this operation shall be treated as an import.
(a) the product code, according to the following simplified coding: 99302400 : goods from Chapters 1 to 24 of the Harmonised System,99302700 : goods from Chapter 27 of the Harmonised System,99309900 : goods classified elsewhere,
(b) the specific country code QS (or 952); (c) the statistical procedure; (d) the quantity in net mass; (e) the statistical value.
(a) the code corresponding to the subdivision of the product classification referred to in Article 8 of the Basic Regulation; (b) the code of the partner country; (c) the statistical procedure; (d) the quantity in net mass and, where appropriate, in supplementary units; (e) the statistical value.
(a) the delivery of goods to a national installation directly from a non-member country or from a foreign installation; this transaction shall be treated in the same way as an import; (b) the delivery of goods to a non-member country or to a foreign installation from a national installation; this transaction shall be treated in the same way as an export; (c) the delivery of goods to a national installation from a customs' warehouse located on the statistical territory of a Member State; this transaction shall be treated in the same way as an import; (d) the import to the statistical territory of this Member State of goods from a foreign installation; (e) the export from the statistical territory of this Member State of goods destined for a foreign installation.
(a) the code corresponding to the subdivision of the Combined Nomenclature. However, without prejudice to the customs regulations, if the goods are those referred to in Article 23 the Member States shall have the option of using the simplified codes set out in Article 24(2)(a); (b) the code of the partner country. However, without prejudice to the customs regulations, in the case of goods coming from or destined for installations, the partner country shall be the country where the natural or legal person responsible for the commercial use of the installation in question is established. Where this information is not available, the code QW (or 960) shall be used; (c) the statistical procedure; (d) the quantity in net mass; (e) the statistical value.
(a) "spacecraft" means craft such as satellites which travel in space outside the earth's atmosphere; (b) "ownership of a spacecraft" means the fact of a natural or legal person's registration as owner of a spacecraft.
(a) the admission of a spacecraft under inward-processing arrangements and its export under such arrangements to a non-member country; (b) the admission of a spacecraft under outward-processing arrangements and its import under such arrangements; (c) the space launch of a spacecraft which was the subject of a transfer of ownership between a natural or legal person established in a non-member country and a natural or legal person established in a Member State. This operation shall be recorded as an import in the Member State where the new owner is established; (d) the space launch of a spacecraft which was the subject of a transfer of ownership from a natural or legal person established in a Member State to a natural or legal person established in a non-member State. This operation shall be recorded as an export by the Member State of manufacture of the finished spacecraft; (e) the transfer of ownership of a spacecraft in orbit from a natural or legal person established in a non-member country to a natural or legal person established in a Member State. This operation shall be recorded as an import; (f) the transfer of ownership of a spacecraft in orbit from a natural or legal person established in a Member State to a natural or legal person established in a non-member country. This operation shall be recorded as an export.
(a) the code corresponding to the subdivision of the product classification referred to in Article 8 of the Basic Regulation; (b) the code of the partner country. For the operations referred to in paragraph 1(c), the partner country means the country of manufacture of the finished spacecraft. For the operations referred to in paragraph 1(d) and (f), the partner country means the country where the natural or legal person to whom the ownership of the spacecraft is transferred is established. For the operations referred to in paragraph 1(e), the partner country means the country where the natural or legal person transferring the ownership of the spacecraft is established; (c) the statistical procedure; (d) the quantity in net mass and in supplementary units; (e) the statistical value. For the imports referred to in paragraph 1(c), the statistical value includes the transport and insurance costs connected with conveyance to the launch base and the space journey.
(a) aggregated results defined, for each flow, as the total value of the trade with non-member countries and the breakdown by products according to Sections of the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3; (b) detailed results referred to in Article 10(1) of the basic Regulation.
(a) in accordance with paragraph 1(a), no later than 40 days after the end of the reference period; (b) in accordance with paragraph 1(b) no later than 42 days after the end of the reference period.
(a) means of payment which are legal tender, and securities; (b) monetary gold; (c) emergency aid for disaster areas; (d) because of the diplomatic or similar nature of their intended use: 1. goods benefiting from diplomatic and consular or similar immunity; 2. gifts to Head of State or to members of a government or parliament; 3. items being circulated within the framework of administrative mutual aid;
(e) provided that they are not the subject of a commercial transaction: 1. decorations, honorary distinctions and prizes, commemorative badges and medals; 2. travel equipment, provisions and other items, including sports equipment, intended for personal use or consumption which accompany, precede or follow the traveller; 3. bridal outfits, items involved in moving house, or heirlooms; 4. coffins, funerary urns, ornamental funerary articles and items for the upkeep of graves and funeral monuments; 5. printed advertising material, instructions for use, price lists and other advertising items; 6. goods which have become unusable, or which cannot be used for industrial purposes; 7. ballast; 8. postage stamps; 9. pharmaceutical products used at international sporting events;
(f) products used as part of exceptional common measures for the protection of persons or of the environment; (g) goods which are the subject of non-commercial traffic between persons resident in the frontier zones defined by the Member States (frontier traffic); products obtained by agricultural producers on properties located outside, but adjacent to, the statistical territory within which they have their principal undertaking; (h) provided that the trade is temporary, goods imported and exported for the repair of means of transport, containers and related transport equipment, but which are not placed under processing arrangements, and parts replaced during the repairs; (i) goods exported to national armed forces stationed outside the statistical territory as well as imported goods which had been conveyed outside the statistical territory by the national armed forces, as well as goods acquired or diposed disposed of on the statistical territory of a Member State by the foreign armed forces which are stationed there; (j) goods used as carriers of information such as floppy disks, computer tapes, films, plans, audio- and videotapes, CD-ROMs which are traded in order to provide information, where developed to order for a particular client or where they are not the subject of a commercial transaction, as well as goods which complement a previous delivery e.g. an update, and for which the consignee is not invoiced; (k) satellite launchers: on export and import pending their launching into space, at the time of launching into space.
| A | B |
|---|---|
| First sub-box | Meaning | Second sub-box |
|---|---|---|
| Incoterm Code | Incoterm ICC/ECE Geneva | Place to be indicated |
| EXW | ex-works | location of works |
| FCA | free carrier | … agreed place |
| FAS | free alongside ship | agreed port of loading |
| FOB | free on board | agreed port of loading |
| CFR | cost and freight (C & F) | agreed port of destination |
| CIF | cost, insurance and freight | agreed port of destination |
| CPT | carriage paid to | agreed port of destination |
| CIP | carriage and insurance paid to | agreed port of destination |
| DAF | delivered at frontier | agreed Place of Delivery at Frontier |
| DES | delivered ex-ship | agreed port of destination |
| DEQ | delivered ex-quay | after customs clearance, agreed port |
| DDU | delivered duty unpaid | agreed place of destination in importing country |
| DDP | delivered duty paid | agreed place of delivery in importing country |
| XXX | delivered terms other than the above | precise statement of terms specified in the contract |