1.For the purpose of this Article:
(a)‘industrial plant’ is a combination of machines, apparatus, appliances, equipment, instruments and materials which together make up large-scale, stationary units producing goods or providing services;
(b)‘component part’ means a delivery for an industrial plant which is made up of goods which all belong to the same chapter of the CN.
2.Statistics on trade between Member States may cover only dispatches and arrivals of component parts used for the construction of industrial plants or the re-use of industrial plants.
3.Member States applying paragraph 2 may apply the following particular provisions on condition that the overall statistical value of a given industrial plant exceeds 3 million EUR, unless they are complete industrial plants for re-use:
(a)The commodity codes shall be composed as follows:
(a)the first four digits shall be 9880,
the fifth and the sixth digits shall correspond to the CN chapter to which the goods of the component part belong,
the seventh and the eighth digits shall be 0.
(b)The quantity shall be optional.