Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 (repealed)Show full title

CHAPTER 1 Definitions

Article 1

For the purposes of this Regulation:

1.

Code means:

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing a Community Customs Code;

2.

ATA carnet means:

the international customs document for temporary importation established by virtue of the ATA Convention;

3.

Committee means:

the Customs Code Committee established in Article 247 of the Code;

4.

Customs Cooperation Council means:

the organization set up by the Convention establishing a Customs Cooperation Council, done at Brussels on 15 December 1950;

5.

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;

6.

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;

7.

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;

8.

Customs nomenclature means:

one of the nomenclatures referred to in Article 20 (6) of the Code;

9.

Harmonized System means:

the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;

10.

Treaty means:

the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.