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Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91
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1.In order to satisfy users' needs for statistical information without imposing excessive burdens on economic operators, Member States shall define each year thresholds expressed in annual values of intra-Community trade, below which parties are exempted from providing any Intrastat information or may provide simplified information.
2.The thresholds shall be defined by each Member State, separately for arrivals and dispatches.
[F13. The thresholds below which parties are exempted from providing any Intrastat information shall be set at a level that ensures that the value of at least 97 % of the total dispatches and at least [F293 %] of the total arrivals of the relevant Member State's taxable persons is covered.
The Commission shall adapt those Intrastat coverage rates to technical and economic developments, whenever it is possible to reduce them while maintaining statistics which meet the quality indicators and standards in force. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(3).]
4.Member States may define other thresholds below which parties may benefit from the following simplification:
(a)exemption from providing information about the quantity of the goods;
(b)exemption from providing information about the nature of the transaction;
(c)possibility of reporting a maximum of 10 of the detailed relevant subheadings of the Combined Nomenclature, that are the most used in terms of value, and regrouping the other products in accordance with rules determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 14(2).
[F1The Commission shall specify the conditions for defining those thresholds. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia , by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(3).]
[F15. Member States may under certain conditions, which meet quality requirements, simplify the information to be provided for small individual transactions. The conditions shall be defined by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia , by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 14(3).]
6.The information on the thresholds applied by the Member States shall be sent to the Commission (Eurostat) no later than 31 October of the year preceding the year to which they apply.
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F1 Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 222/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States.
F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1093/2013 of 4 November 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 as regards the simplification within the Intrastat system and the collection of Intrastat information.
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