In Part II, Title II, the heading "Chapter 7, Simplifications", the heading "Section 1, Simplified procedure for the issue of the document used to establish the Community status of goods", Articles 389 to 396, the heading "Section 2, Simplification of transit formalities to be carried out at offices of departure and destination" and Article 397 are deleted.

During a transitional period determined individually for each ETA guideline by EOTA, in order to ensure the comparability of the ETAs issued by the approval bodies, the draft ETA with the accompanying documents (test results) are submitted for prior consultation to the relevant EOTA bodies (1) and the General Secretariat asking for their comments within two months.

when the third subdivision of box 1 contains the symbol T, boxes 32 (Item number), 33 (Commodity code), 35 (Gross mass (kg)), 38 (Net mass (kg)), 40 (Summary declaration/previous document) and 44 (Additional information, documents produced, certificates and authorisations) of the first item of goods of the transit declaration used must be struck through and the first box 31 (Packages and description of goods) of this document may not be used to enter the marks, numbers, number and kind of packages or goods description.

Until a procedure has been agreed for the exchange of statistical information to ensure that the EFTA countries and the Member States of the Community have the data necessary for the preparation of their transit statistics, an additional copy of the copy N° 4 of the T 1 and T 2 documents shall be supplied for statistical purposes unless not required by a Contracting Party:

The competent authorities of Austria, the Community and the Member States shall, each within the limits of their jurisdiction, provide each other with administrative assistance in investigating and prosecuting infringements of the Transit Agreement or this Administrative Arrangement, notably in ensuring that the documents specified in Article 3 are correctly used and handled.

The Commission shall inform the Secretariat of the Customs Cooperation Council of the acceptance by the Community of the Annex concerning customs transit and, subject to the reservations referred to in Article 1, of the Annexes concerning rules of origin, documentary evidence of origin, temporary admission for inward processing and temporary exportation for outward processing.

boxes 32 (Item number), 33 (Commodity code), 35 (Gross mass (kg)), 38 (Net mass (kg)) and 44 (Additional information, documents produced, certificates and authorisations) of the transit declaration, T2L or T2LF form used must be struck through and box 31 (Packages and goods description) may not be used to enter the marks, numbers, number and kind of packages or goods description.

where this is considered necessary by the decision-making customs authority, commercial or administrative documents (such as invoices, dispatch details, transit documents or health certificates) containing a full description of the goods (trade description, quantities, marks and other identifying particulars) which were presented with the declaration for the said procedure or with the declaration for export from the customs territory of the Community or the customs declaration made for the goods in the third country of destination, as the case may be;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 719/91 (6) further simplifies the rules for use of TIR and ATA carnets with effect from 1 January 1992 by providing that the Community is to be considered for this purpose to form a single customs territory, thus eliminating entirely the need, at internal frontier crossings, for the formalities and controls inherent in the use of TIR and ATA carnets as transit documents;

The transitional provisions for the border inspection posts between the Member States and the new Member States which are due to be abolished on accession are not made sufficiently clear in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 282/2004 introducing a document for the declaration of, and veterinary checks on, animals from third countries entering the Community(2) and should be reworded to avoid any ambiguity.

When deciding on the format of the separate sheet mentioned in Annex I to which the group transit visa should be affixed, Member States should take into account the uniform format, as set out in Council Regulation (EC) No 333/2002 of 18 February 2002 on a uniform format for forms for affixing the visa issued by Member States to persons holding travel documents not recognised by the Member State drawing up the form(7).

'checks at the time of introduction, export, re-export and transit` shall mean documentary checks on the certificates, permits and notifications provided for in this Regulation and - in cases where Community provisions so provide or in other cases by representative sampling of the consignments - examination of the specimens, where appropriate accompanied by the taking of samples with a view to analysis or more detailed checks.

This Convention shall be without prejudice to the application of any other international agreement concerning a transit procedure, in particular the TIR procedure or the Rhine manifest, subject to any limitations to such application in respect of the carriage of goods from one point in the Community to another point in the Community and to any limitations to the issue of T 2 L documents certifying the Community status of goods.

«checks at the time of introduction, export, re-export and transit» shall mean documentary checks on the certificates, permits and notifications provided for in this Regulation and - in cases where Community provisions so provide or in other cases by representative sampling of the consignments - examination of the specimens, where appropriate accompanied by the taking of samples with a view to analysis or more detailed checks.

Where a loading list is used, boxes 15 (Country of dispatch/export), 32 (Item number), 33 (Commodity code), 35 (Gross mass (kg)), 38 (Net mass (kg)) and, where appropriate, 44 (Additional information, documents produced, certificates and authorisations) of the transit declaration form must be struck through and box 31 (Packages and goods description) may not be used to enter the marks, numbers, number and kind of packages or goods description.

For one year after the application of the provisions referred to in Article 30 (2), Member States may apply transitional measures in respect of professional persons who, after that date, maintain the right to audit the annual accounting documents of certain types of company or firm not subject to statutory audit but who will no longer be able to carry out such audits upon the introduction of new statutory audits unless special measures are enacted for their benefit.

For six years after the application of the provisions referred to in Article 30 (2), Member States may apply transitional measures in respect of persons already undergoing professional or practical training when those provisions are applied who, on completion of their training, would not fulfil the conditions imposed by this Directive and would therefore be unable to carry out statutory audits of the documents referred to in Article 1 (1) for which they had been trained.

The Single Administrative Document form shall, where necessary, also be used during the transitional period laid down in the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal in connection with trade between the Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 and Spain or Portugal and between those two last-mentioned Member States in goods still liable to certain customs duties and charges having equivalent effect or which remain subject to other measures laid down by the Act of Accession.

Where a product circulating under the external Community transit procedure or the common transit procedure is placed in a Member State other than that of export under a procedure as provided for in paragraph 1 for carriage to a station of destination or delivery to a consignee outside the customs territory of the Community, the customs office at which the product has been placed under a procedure as referred to above shall insert one of the following entries under 'Remarks' in the section headed 'Control of use and/or destination' on the back of the original of the T5 control copy: - Salida del territorio aduanero de la Comunidad bajo el régimen de tránsito comunitario simplificado por ferrocarril o en grandes contenedores: - Documento de transporte: - tipo: - número:

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 31, for a transitional period ending not later than 31 December 1995 and provided that the applicant, at the time of this application has not requested the issue of a Community import licence conforming to the specimen set out in Appendix 1, the competent authorities of the Member States shall be authorized to use their own national forms to issue the import authorizations or surveillance documents and any extracts thereof, instead of the forms referred to in Article 31.

Without prejudice to Article 87, certificates of origin form A together with documentary evidence of direct transport may be produced for a period of six months from the date on which a country or territory is admitted or readmitted as a GSP beneficiary, in respect of products referred to in the Council regulations and ECSC decisions for the year in question, which are either in transit or being held in the Community in temporary storage, under the customs warehousing procedure or in a free zone or free warehouse.

Where the principal uses loading lists for a consignment comprising two or more types of goods, boxes 15 'Country of dispatch/export', 33 'Commodity code', 35 'Gross mass (kg)', 38 'Net mass (kg)' and, where necessary, 44 'Additional information, documents produced, certificates and authorizations' of the form used for the purposes of Community transit shall be barred and box 31 'Packages and description of goods' of that form shall not be used to show the marks and numbers, number and kind of the packages and description of goods.

Whereas to facilitate the introduction of such a Community import licence in all Member States, it seems appropriate to authorize the competent authorities of the Member States, during a transitional period which shall end no later than 31 December 1995, to continue to issue the national forms that were in use before the date of entry into force of this Regulation for issuing import authorizations and surveillance documents, unless the applicant, at the time of this application, has requested the issue of a Community import licence;

The provisions of the Agreement may be applied to goods which comply with the provisions of Title I and which, on 1 January 1992, are either in transit or are in the Community or in Jordan in temporary storage, in bonded warehouses or in free zone, subject to the submission to the customs authorities of the importing State, within six months of the said date, of an EUR.1 certificate made out retrospectively by the competent authorities of the exporting State together with the documents showing that the goods have been transported direct.'

Where the principal uses loading lists for a consignment comprising two or more types of goods, the boxes 15 'Country of dispatch/export', 32 'Item No', 33 'Commodity code', 35 Gross mass (kg)', 38 'Net mass (kg)' and where necessary, 44 'Additional information/Documents produced/Certificates and authorizations' of the form used for the purposes of transit shall be barred and the box 31 'Packages and description of goods' of that form shall not be used to show the marks and numbers, number and kind of the packages and description of goods.

Whereas the international comparability of economic statistics requires that the Member States and the Community institutions use statistical units which are directly linked to the descriptions given in the introduction to the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC REV 3) and the United Nations System of National Accounts documents; Whereas the production system is made up of all entities involved in production and all economic and financial operations carried out by those entities; Whereas the introduction of strict application of these units throughout the Community requires a transitional period, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

in other cases, if an internal Community transit document issued to establish the Community status of the goods is produced.'

Community transit operation effected under document T 1/T 2

When the customs service has authorized transhipment without supervision, the carrier must himself annotate the transit document accordingly and, for certification purposes, inform the next customs office at which the goods must be produced.

The single document shall, depending on the circumstances, serve as a declaration or document of export, transit or import.

on a transitional period concerning the issuing or making out of documents relating to the proof of origin

the use of the single administrative document and creating a link between the Community and Moroccan transit systems.

Joint Declaration on a transitional period concerning the issuing or making out of documents relating to the proof of origin;

Provisions on the completion, by means of the single document, of the formalities needed for the export, transit and import of the goods are laid down in Annex II to this Convention.

allowing the use of loading lists for the completion of transit formalities in the case of consignments composed of several kinds of goods, in lieu of continuation sheets of the single document;

enabling the competent authorities, should a computerized declaration-processing system be used, to provide that the export, transit or import declaration be constituted either by the single document produced by that system or by entry of the data in the computer if such a document is not produced;

It should be noted that when goods are transhipped the carrier must approach the competent authorities, in particular when it proves necessary to affix new seals, in order to have the document relating to transit certified.

This Convention lays down measures to simplify formalities in trade in goods between the Community and the EFTA countries, as well as between the EFTA countries themselves, in particular by introducing a single administrative document (hereinafter referred to as the single document) to be used for any procedure at export and import and for a common transit procedure applicable to trade between the Contracting Parties (hereinafter referred to as transit), regardless of the kind and origin of the goods.

The alphabetical coding of countries and territories is based on the ISO alpha 2 standard into force as far as it is compatible with the requirements of Community legislation; moreover, it is preferable to have a transition period allowing Member States to adapt to the amendments made; it is essential for purposes of simplification for this transition period to end when the provisions revising the rules on the Single Administrative Document come into force.

When a single document set is used successively for completion of export, transit and/or import formalities, each person intervening in the operation shall be liable only with respect to the particulars relating to the procedure which he requested as declarant, principal or representative of the declarant or principal.

The provisions of the Agreement may be applied to goods which comply with the provisions of this Protocol and which on the date of entry into force of the Agreement are either in transit or are in the Community or in Bulgaria in temporary storage in bonded warehouses or in free zones, subject to the submission to the customs authorities of the importing State, within four months of that date, or a certificate EUR.l endorsed retrospectively by the competent authorities of the exporting State together with the documents showing that the goods have been transported directly.