31977R0819

No L 99/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 23 . 4. 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 819/77 of 22 April 1977 on the statistical threshold in the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN event of a significant change in the value of one or COMMUNITIES, more currencies in relation to the EUA ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas there is a need to round off the amounts so Economic Community, obtained, in the interest of simplification ; whereas, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No for technical and administrative reasons, it is advisable 1736/75 of 24 June 1975 on the external trade statis­ to allow Member States to keep their national statis­ tics of the Community and statistics of trade between tical threshold at the level at which it was fixed under Member States ('), and in particular Articles 24 (2) and Community provisions preceding this Regulation, (3) and 41 thereof, even though it may be higher than the rounded-off amounts ; Whereas these statistics are compiled, in the first instance, by the Member States ; whereas the statistical Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation threshold should be expressed in each national are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee currency ; on External Trade Statistics, Whereas pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3162/76 of 22 December 1976 relating to the statistical threshold in the external trade statistics of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the Community and statistics of trade between Member States (2), the conversion into national curren­ Article 1 cies of the value of the threshold is based on the rates used for the conversion of these currencies into EUR, The statistical threshold, within the meaning of i.e. into the units of account employed for the compi­ Article 24 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75, lation of these statistics up to 31 December 1976 ; expressed in national currencies, shall not exceed Whereas from 1 January 1977 the external trade statis­ DM 750 for Germany : tics of the Community and statistics of trade between £ 150 for the United Kingdom : Member States are to be compiled by reference to the for France : FF 1 500 European unit of account (EUA), as defined by Lit 225 000 for Italy : Commission Decision No 3289/75/ ECSC of 18 for the Netherlands : Fl 750 December 1975 (3) ; for the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union : Bfrs 12 500 Whereas the rate of conversion for each currency in relation to the EUA varies from day to day ; whereas for Denmark : Dkr 1 750 the use of this rate to determine the value of the thre­ for Ireland : £ 150 shold, fixed at 250 units of account, requires the appli­ cation of a fixed rate of conversion ; whereas this latter Article 2 rate may be based on the average exchange rates during the period November 1975 to October 1976 ; This Regulation shall apply for the first time to the Whereas this Regulation could be amended in the statistics relating to the data for 1977 and shall to the case of statistics for years subsequent to 1977 in the relevant extent replace Regulation (EEC) No 3162/76.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 April 1977. For the Commission Fransois-Xavier ORTOLI Vice-President

;') OJ No L 183, 14. 7. 1975, p. 3 . ;2) OJ No L 356, 28 . 12. 1976, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 327, 19 . 12. 1975, p. 4.