Statutory Instruments
STATISTICS OF TRADE
Made
5th December 2001
Laid before Parliament
7th December 2001
Coming into force
1st January 2002
The Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), being the department designated(2) for the purpose of that subsection in relation to the receipt, regulation and control of statistics relating to the trading of goods between the United Kingdom and other member States of the Communities, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.
2. The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992(3) shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3 below.
3.—(1) For regulation 3(2)(b) there shall be substituted the following—
“(b)no later than the last day of the month following the end of the reference period to which the supplementary declaration relates.”.
(2) In regulation 3(3)—
(a)the words “paragraph (2)(b)(i) above and” shall be deleted; and
(b)for “references” there shall be substituted “reference”.
(3) Regulation 3(4) shall be deleted.
(4) In paragraphs (6) and (7) of regulation 4, for “£12,500,000” there shall be substituted “£13,500,000”.
New King’s Beam House 22 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PJ
Alex Fraser
Commissioner of Customs and Excise
5th December 2001
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which come into force on 1st January 2002, further amend the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”).
Regulation 3(1) of these Regulations amends regulation 3(2) of the 1992 Regulations so as to establish a single time limit for furnishing supplementary declarations irrespective of the means (electronic or non-electronic) by which they are furnished. Regulations 3(2) and (3) of these Regulations make amendments consequential upon the amendment made by regulation 3(1).
Regulation 3(4) of these Regulations raises the monetary limit, at or below which the exemptions conferred by regulations 4(6) and (7) of the 1992 Regulations apply, to £13,500,000. A person whose annual value of goods arriving from, or dispatched to other member States does not exceed that monetary limit is not required to include particulars relating to delivery terms in his supplementary declarations.