CHAPTER 1U.K.Definitions
Article 1U.K.
For the purposes of this Regulation:
Code means:
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing a Community Customs Code(1);
[F1ATA carnet means :
the international customs document for temporary importation established by virtue of the ATA Convention or the Istanbul Convention;]
[F2Committee means :
the Customs Code Committee established by Articles 247a and 248a of the Code;]
Customs Cooperation Council means:
the organization set up by the Convention establishing a Customs Cooperation Council, done at Brussels on 15 December 1950;
Particulars required for identification of the goods means:
on the one hand, the particulars used to identify the goods commercially allowing the customs authorities to determine the tariff classification and, on the other hand, the quantity of the goods;
Goods of a non-commercial nature means:
goods whose entry for the customs procedure in question is on an occasional basis and whose nature and quantity indicate that they are intended for the private, personal or family use of the consignees or persons carrying them, or which are clearly intended as gifts;
Commercial policy measures means:
non-tariff measures established, as part of the common commercial policy, in the form of Community provisions governing the import and export of goods, such as surveillance or safeguard measures, quantitative restrictions or limits and import or export prohibitions;
Customs nomenclature means:
one of the nomenclatures referred to in Article 20 (6) of the Code;
Harmonized System means:
the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;
[F1Istanbul Convention means:
the Convention on Temporary Admission agreed at Istanbul on 26 June 1990 [F3;] ]
[F4Economic operator means:
a person who, in the course of his business, is involved in activities covered by customs legislation;]
[F5Single authorisation means:
an authorisation involving customs administrations in more than one Member State for one of the following procedures:
the simplified declaration procedure pursuant to Article 76(1) of the Code, or
the local clearance procedure pursuant to Article 76(1) of the Code, or
customs procedures with economic impact pursuant to Article 84(1)(b) of the Code, or
end-use pursuant to Article 21(1) of the Code;
Integrated authorisation means:
an authorisation to use more than one of the procedures referred to in point 13; it may take the form of an integrated single authorisation where more than one customs administration is involved;
Authorising customs authority means:
the customs authority who grants an authorisation.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1762/95 of 19 July 1995 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code.
F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 444/2002 of 11 March 2002 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code and Regulations (EC) No 2787/2000 and (EC) No 993/2001 (Text with EEA relevance).
F3 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1875/2006 of 18 December 2006 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code (Text with EEA relevance).
[F6Article 1a U.K.
For the purposes of applying Articles 291 to 300, the countries of the Benelux Economic Union shall be considered as a single Member State.]
Textual Amendments