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Council Regulation (EC) No 1186/2009 of 16 November 2009 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty (codified version)
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1.Nothing in this Regulation shall prevent the Member States from granting:
(a)relief pursuant to the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations of 18 April 1961, the Vienna Convention on consular relations of 24 April 1963 or other consular conventions, or the New York Convention of 16 December 1969 on special missions;
(b)relief under the customary privileges accorded by virtue of international agreements or headquarters agreements to which either a third country or an international organisation is a contracting party, including the relief granted on the occasion of international meetings;
(c)relief under the customary privileges and immunities accorded in the context of international agreements concluded by all the Member States and setting up a cultural or scientific institute or organisation under international law;
(d)relief under the customary privileges and immunities accorded in the context of cultural, scientific or technical cooperation agreements concluded with third countries;
(e)special relief introduced under agreements concluded with third countries and providing for common measures for the protection of persons or of the environment;
(f)special relief introduced under agreements concluded with adjacent third countries, justified by the nature of the frontier-zone trade with the countries in question;
(g)relief in the context of agreements entered into on the basis of reciprocity with third countries that are Contracting Parties to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago 1944) for the purpose of implementing Recommended Practices 4,42 and 4,44 in Annex 9 to the Convention (eighth edition, July 1980).
2.Where an international convention not covered by any of the categories referred to in paragraph 1, to which a Member State intends to subscribe, provides for the grant of relief, that Member State shall submit a request to the Commission for the application of such relief, supplying the Commission with all the necessary information.
A decision shall be taken on such a request in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 247a of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92.
3.The supply of information as specified in paragraph 2 shall not be required where the international convention in question provides for the grant of relief not exceeding the limits set under Community law.
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