Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the EU-EFTA Joint Committee concerning the adoption of a Decision amending the Convention of 20 May 1987 on a common transit procedure (Modification of HS codes and packaging codes)

Pursuant to the Recommendation of 26 June 2009 of the Customs Cooperation Council changes in the Harmonised System nomenclature were made, and as a consequence on 1 January 2012 the provisions of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1006/2011 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff entered into force.

Annex A2 of Appendix III to the common transit Convention contains a list of packaging codes based upon the list of Coded representations of packaging type names used in international trade set out in Annex V and Annex VI to Recommendation No 21 of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Due to the revision of the code list following a technological development, it is appropriate to replace the list in Annex A2 of Appendix III by the latest version resulting from Revision 8.1 of Recommendation No 21.

All these amendments have a direct impact on the transit system. This requires proper adaptations in the list of sensitive goods and in the list of packaging codes. The purpose of this Decision is to introduce these amendments in the Convention of 20 May 1987 on a common transit procedure.

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