2008 No. 557
Statistics Of Trade
The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
Made 5th March 2008
Laid before Parliament 5th March 2008
Coming into force 1st April 2008

The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are the department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating 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 in exercise of the powers conferred by that section they make the following Regulations:
The functions of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c.11). Section 50(1) of that Act provides that a reference to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise shall be taken as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
By article 2 of and the Schedule to the European Communities (Designation) Order 1992, S.I.1992/707.
1972 c.68

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st April 2008.

2 Amendment of the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992
1 The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992 shall be amended as follows.
S.I.1992/2790; relevant amending instrument is S.I.2000/3227.
2 For the forms set out in the Schedule there shall be substituted the forms set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Dave Hartnett Mike Hanson Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs 5th March 2008
SCHEDULE

“SCHEDULE The forms of Supplementary Declaration are set out in the following pages.
Regulation 4”

Regulation 2

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 2008, amend the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992 (“the principal regulations”).
Regulation 2 of these regulations substitutes new forms for those set out in the Schedule to the principal regulations.
Intrastat, the regime established for the purpose of collecting Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States pursuant to the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) 638/2004 and Commission Regulation (EC) 1982/2004, is implemented in the United Kingdom by the principal regulations.
Intrastat information is provided by traders to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (the Commissioners) in their capacity as the national authority responsible for the collection of the information required by the regime. The information is provided on the forms set out in the schedule to the principal regulations.
Regulation 2 of the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I.2008/556), which comes into force on 1st April 2008, amends the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 (“the VAT regulations”) (S.I.1995/2518) by introducing a new Part, 4B, regulations 23E and 23F. Those regulations require a taxable person who is responsible for providing information for the purposes of Intrastat to provide that information to the Commissioners for the purposes of value added tax on the same occasion and using the same form as that used for Intrastat.
The headings on the forms have been altered to indicate that they are submitted not only for the purposes of the principal regulations but also for the purposes of the VAT regulations.