31974R1676
29 . 6 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 1 75/79
REGULATION ( EEC) No 1676/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 June 1974 amending Regulation ( EEC) No 1461 /73 of 16 May 1973 on the use of loading lists as the descriptive part of Community transit declarations
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN records are based on a system of electronic or COMMUNITIES, mechanical data processing to use loading lists, which , although not complying with all the condi Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; ■. tions of Articles 2 and 3, are designed and completed in such a way that they can be used Having regard, to Council Regulation (EEC) No without difficulty by the customs and statistical 542/69 (') of 18 March 1969 on Community transit, authorities in question .' and in particular Article 58 ( 1 ) (c) ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1461 /73 (2) provides Article 2 for the use, under certain conditions, of loading ' lists in conformity with a specimen to be used as the Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1461 /73 of 16 May descriptive part of Community transit declarations ; 1973 shall be replaced as follows : Whereas it is agreed that loading lists conforming to 'Article 4 the specimen in the Annex to the Regulation are not suitable for use with systems based on the electronic 1 . When Regulation (EEC) No 304/71 (3) on or mechanical processing of data ; whereas to avoid the simplification of Community transit proce difficulties for firms using modern procedures, the use dures for goods carried by railways operates, the of loading lists capable of integration into the system provisions of Articles 2, 3 and 3a of this Regula adopted should be allowed ; tion shall apply to loading lists which accompany the International Consignment Note and the Whereas, additionally, it has been shown that in number of the accompanying lists shall be shown respect of rail transport, loading lists are never in box 32 of the Consignment Note . attached to the Express Parcels Consignment Note and that the reference to the wagon or container In addition each loading list must include the number is sufficient to establish the link between the wagon number to which the Consignment Note International Consignment Note and the attached refers or, where appropriate, the number of the loading lists ; whereas the relevant provisions must be container in which the goods, are carried . amended ' and simplified ; 2. For operations beginning within the Commu Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation nity comprising at the same time goods referred to are in accordance with the Opinion of the Commu in Article 1 (2) and in Article 1 (3) of Regulation nity Transit Committee , (EEC) No 542/69 separate loading lists shall be used and the serial numbers of the loading lists HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : relating to the goods referred to in Article 1 (2) of that Regulation inserted in the " Description of A rticle 1 goods" box on the International Consignment The following Article 3a shall be added to Regulation Note .' ( EEC) No 1461 / 73 : 'Article 3ci Article 3 The customs authorities of each Member State may allow firms established in their country whose This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels , 28 June 1974. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 77, 29 . 3 . 1969 , p. 1 . M OJ No L 1 45, 2. 6. 1 973, p. 7. (3 ) OJ No L 35, 12 . 2 . 1971 , p. 31 .