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6.11.69 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 279/9

REGULATION (EEC) No 2198 /69 OF THE COMMISSION of 30 October 1969 concerning the periods of grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 on the valuation of goods for customs purposes

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 10 (4) of the above MUNITIES, Regulation, the goods to which the periods of grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3 ) apply and the length of the period of grace applicable under Article Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 10 (3 ) are to be determined in accordance with the European Economic Community ; procedure laid down in Article 17 of that Regulation ; whereas, in order to do this, account should be taken Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No of trade practices in the Member States ; 803/68 1 of 27 June 1968 on the valuation of goods for customs purposes, and in particular Article 10 (4) Whereas it is important to ensure uniform application thereof; of the relevant provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 and to adopt the necessary provisions to that Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 ( 1 ) (a) of the above end; Regulation, one of the conditions for the acceptance of the price paid or payable as the value of the goods Whereas the measures provided for in this RegulatiQn for customs purposes is that the contract of sale must are in accordance with the Opinion of the Customs be executed within the period specified in Article 10 Valuation Committee; of the said Regulation ; whereas, for the purposes of Article 9, Article 10 ( 1 ) prescribes that the price paid HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: or payable may be accepted where the date of the contract precedes the date for valuation for customs Article 1 purposes as laid down in Article 5 by not more than six months ; For the purposes of Article 9 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 of 27 June 1968, the periods of Whereas for goods which are usually sold with a grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3 ) of that delivery period of between six months and twelve Regulation shall apply to the goods listed in the months the period may be extended to twelve Table annexed to this Regulation in accordance with months pursuant to Article 10 (2) of the said the specifications of that Table . Regulation ; for goods which are usually sold with a delivery period of more than twelve months, the Article 2 period of grace may be correspondingly increased, but not beyond twenty-four months, pursuant to This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January Article 10 (3 ); 1970 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels, 30 October 1969. For the Commission The President Jean REY

1 OJ No L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 6.

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ANNEX CCT Period Heading Description of goods (in months) No

ex 02.04 C III Turtle meat 12 ex 03.01 A I (b) Frozen salmon 12 ex 03.01 A III Carp 12 ex 03.02 A - Herrings, whole, headless, in pieces or fillets 15 04.06 Natural honey 12 ex 05.15 A Shrimps and prawns, dried 12 ex 06.01 Flower bulbs 12 07.01 A I Seed potatoes 12 ex 07.01 H Onions and shallots for planting 15 07.03 B Capers 12 07.03 E Tomatoes 12 07.04 Dried, dehydrated or evaporated vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken of in powder, but not further prepared : Parsnips 15 Other 12 07.05 Dried leguminous, vegetables, shelled, whether or not 12 skinned or split I ex 07.06 B Manioc roots, whether or not cut in chips or sliced 12 ex 08.01 Dates, coconuts, Brazil nuts, dried, shelled or not, pineapples, avocados, mangoes, guavas and mangosteens 12 Bananas 1 08.01 B ex 08.01 E II Cashew nuts 15 ex 08.02 Citrus fruit, dried 12 08.03 B Figs, dried 12 08.04 B Grapes, dried 12 ex 08.05 Nuts other than those falling within heading No 08.01 , dried, shelled or not 12 08.05 A II Almonds, other than bitter 15 08.11 Fruit provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preserv­ ative solutions) but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption 12 08.12 Fruit, dried, other than that falling within heading Nos 08.01 , 08.02, 08.03, 08.04 or 08.05 12 09.01 A I . Coffee, unroasted 12 ex 09.04 Pepper of the genus Piper 24 ex 09.04 Pimento of the genus Capsicum or the genus Pimenta 12 09.05 Vanilla 12 09.06 Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers 12 09.07 Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems) 12 09.08 Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms 12

1 To be fixed later.

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CCT Period heading Description of goods (in months) No

ex 09.09 Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander and juniper 12 09.10 Thyme, saffron and bay leaves; other spices 12 12.03 Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing 12 12.06 Hop cones and lupulin 24 12.07 Plants and parts (including seeds and fruit) of trees, bushes, shrubs or other plants, being goods of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy, or for insecti­ cidal , fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whole, cut, crushed, ground or powdered 12 ex 12.08 C Apricot kernels 12 13.03 Vegetable saps and extracts : pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, derived from vegetable products 12 14.01 A II Osier, other 12 15.04 A I Fish-liver oil, with a vitamin A content not exceeding 2500 international units per gramme 12 ex 15.07 Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or purified, other than olive oil 12 15.11 A Crude glycerol and glycerol lyes 12 16.04 A I Caviar (sturgeons' eggs) 12 ex 16.04 B Salmon 12 16.04 D Sadines 12 16.04 E Tunny 12 ex 16.04 G Pilchards and haddock liver 12 ex 16.05 Lobster and crab meat 12 ex 18.01 Cocoa beans, whole, raw 18 ex 18.01 Cocoa beans, whole or broken, roasted 12 ex 18.04 Cocoa butter 18 18.05 Cocoa powder, unsweetened 12 ex 20.01 B Tomato purée 12 20.02 Vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid 12 20.06 Fruit otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or spirit 12 20.07 Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, whether or not containing added sugar, but unfermented and not containing spirit 12 ex 23.01 B Flours and meals of fish 18 23.07 A Fish or whale solubles 18 ex 24.01 Unmanufactured tobacco 12 28.01 B Chlorine 12 28.28 G Tungsten oxides and hydroxides 12 28.28 H I Vanadic pentoxide 12 ex 28.47 F Ammonium paratungstate 12 ex 28.56 D Tungsten carbide 12 29.05 A II Menthol 12

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éx 29.35 A Furfuraldehyde (furfural, furfurol) 12 ex 29.36 Sulphonamides for veterinary purposes 12 ex 29.38 Vitamins 12 33.01 Essential oils (terpeneless or not); concretes and absolutes ; resinoids 12 ■ 35.01 A Casein 18 ex 35.02 A II ( a) Ovalbumin, other 12 35.05 A Dextrins; soluble or roasted starches 12 38.19 K Non-agglomerated mixtures of metallic carbides 12 41.02 Bovine cattle leather (including buffalo leather) and equine leather except leather falling within heading Nos 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08 12 ex 44.02 Wood charcoal 12 44.05 B II Coniferous wood, of a lengh of 125 cm or less and of a thickness of less than 12-5. mm 12 44.07 Railway or tramway sleepers of wood 12 47.01 Pulp derived by mechanical or chemical means from any fibrous vegetable material : A. Mechanical and semi-chemical wood pulp 12 B. I and II. Chemical wood pulp ; sulphate, soda or sulphite pulp . 18 ex Section XI Yarns falling within Chapters 50, 51 and 53 to 56, not put up for retail sale : Flax yarn 18 Other 12 ex Section XI Fashion collection fabrics (being seasonal fabrics) for outer garments, the fashionableness of which is deter­ mined by the weave, the printing pattern, the use of yarns of different colours, the finish (tinged, moiré, embossed, etc. ) or the arrangement of the materials used ; single-shade fabrics, in fashionable shades 12 ex 50.09 Far Eastern fabrics of silk 18 ex 53.05 Sheep's or lambs' wool, carded or combed 12 ex 55.09 Woven fabrics of cotton, unbleached 12 ex 56.07 Woven fabrics of / man-made fibres (discontinous of waste), as they come from the loom 12 57.05 A Yarn of true hemp, not put up for retail sale 18 57.06 Yarn of jute 12 ex 57.07 B Yarn of sisal ' 12 57.10 Woven fabrics of jute 12 ex 58.02 A Coir matting 12 ex 59.04 Twine of true hemp or Manila hemp (abaca) (Musa textilis) 12 62.03 A II Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods, other than used, of jute 12 81.01 Tungsten (wolfram), unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof 12 81.04 A II Bismuth, wrought 12 81.04 II Antimony 12