25.11.2005   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 307/8

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 of 18 November 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 1901/2000 and (EEC) No 3590/92 (2) determines provisions for some data elements and specific goods. These provisions should be adapted in order to facilitate data collection and to become more accurate on some particular trade transactions.

(2)

With a view to reducing the reporting burden for parties responsible for providing the information, Member States should have the possibility to exempt companies from providing information on the quantity in net mass for all the goods for which supplementary units have to be mentioned at the same time.

(3)

In order to meet national data requirements Member States should be given more flexibility on the collection of codes of the Nature of Transaction as long as information transmitted to the Commission is not affected.

(4)

With a view to harmonising Community statistics relating to the trading of vessels and aircraft between Member States, data transmission on trade with vessels and aircraft should be limited to transactions registered in the national ships or aircraft register and involving companies established in the reporting Member State.

(5)

Additional provisions on data sources should be specified in order to enable national authorities to collect more precise information on arrival and dispatches as regards trade with vessels and aircraft, sea products, electricity and natural gas.

(6)

Clarification is also needed regarding replacement parts which are used for repair.

(7)

Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(8)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States,

1.

Article 9 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 9

Quantity of the goods

1.   The net mass shall be given in kilograms. However, where there is a supplementary unit mentioned according to paragraph 2, it is not mandatory to request the specification of net mass from the parties responsible for providing information.

2.   The supplementary units shall be mentioned in accordance with the information set out in the Combined Nomenclature hereinafter referred to as “CN” as established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (3) opposite the subheadings concerned, the list of which is published in Part I “Preliminary provisions” of the said Regulation.

2.

In Article 10, the following sentence is added:

‘Member States may collect code numbers for national purposes in column B provided that only the code numbers of column A are transmitted to the Commission.’

3.

Article 17 is amended as follows:

4.

In Article 21 paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4.   Provided that there is no conflict with other Community legislation, national authorities shall have access to all available additional data sources other than those of the Intrastat System or the Single Administrative Document for customs or fiscal purposes such as information on declarations of national registered vessels on sea products landed in other Member States.’

5.

In Article 22 paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4.   Provided that there is no conflict with other Community legislation, national authorities shall have access to all available additional data sources other than those of the Intrastat System or the Single Administrative Document for customs or fiscal purposes which they may need to apply this Article.’

6.

Article 23 is amended as follows:

7.

In Annex I, point (h) is replaced by the following:

8.

Annex II is deleted.