Council Directive 2008/118/ECShow full title

Article 4

For the purpose of this Directive as well as its implementing provisions, the following definitions shall apply:

1.

‘authorised warehousekeeper’ means a natural or legal person authorised by the competent authorities of a Member State, in the course of his business, to produce, process, hold, receive or dispatch excise goods under a duty suspension arrangement in a tax warehouse;

2.

‘Member State’ and ‘territory of a Member State’ means the territory of each Member State of the Community to which the Treaty is applicable, in accordance with Article 299 thereof, with the exception of third territories;

3.

‘Community’ and ‘territory of the Community’ means the territories of the Member States as defined in point 2;

4.

‘third territories’ means the territories referred to in Article 5(2) and (3);

5.

‘third country’ means any State or territory to which the Treaty is not applicable;

6.

‘customs suspensive procedure or arrangement’ means any one of the special procedures as provided for under Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 relating to the customs supervision to which non-Community goods are subjected upon their entry into the Community customs territory, temporary storage, free zones or free warehouses, as well as any of the arrangements referred to in Article 84(1)(a) of that Regulation;

7.

‘duty suspension arrangement’ means a tax arrangement applied to the production, processing, holding or movement of excise goods not covered by a customs suspensive procedure or arrangement, excise duty being suspended;

8.

‘importation of excise goods’ means the entry into the territory of the Community of excise goods unless the goods upon their entry into the Community are placed under a customs suspensive procedure or arrangement, as well as their release from a customs suspensive procedure or arrangement;

9.

‘registered consignee’ means a natural or legal person authorised by the competent authorities of the Member State of destination, in the course of his business and under the conditions fixed by those authorities, to receive excise goods moving under a duty suspension arrangement from another Member State;

10.

‘registered consignor’ means a natural or legal person authorised by the competent authorities of the Member State of importation, in the course of his business and under the conditions fixed by those authorities, to only dispatch excise goods under a duty suspension arrangement upon their release for free circulation in accordance with Article 79 of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92;

11.

‘tax warehouse’ means a place where excise goods are produced, processed, held, received or dispatched under duty suspension arrangements by an authorised warehousekeeper in the course of his business, subject to certain conditions laid down by the competent authorities of the Member State where the tax warehouse is located.