Where, under General Rule 5 of the Harmonized System, packaging is included with the product for classification purposes, it shall be included for the purposes of determining origin.

The unit of qualification for the application of the provisions of this Protocol shall be the particular product which is considered as the basic unit when determining classification using the nomenclature of the Harmonized System.

To this end the Contracting Parties shall develop and use harmonized methods, definitions and classifications as well as common programmes and procedures organizing statistical work at appropriate administrative levels and duly observing the need for statistical confidentiality.

Classification of goods in the harmonized system shall be governed by the following principles:

Furthermore, these European Union concepts and classifications are also harmonized with those of the United Nations;

CPA for products and NACE rev. 1 for industries (specific but harmonized with the corresponding UN classifications);

Like the SNA, the ESA is harmonized with the concepts and classifications used in many other, social and economic statistics.

The provisions in paragraph 1 will not be prejudiced by entry into force of the new harmonized system of tariff classification.

The provisions in paragraph 1 will not be prejudiced by the entry into force of the new harmonized system of tariff classification.

From the entry into force in the Community of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) this classification will be based on the Harmonized System and on the Community nomenclatures derived from that system.

where, under General Rule 5 of the Harmonized System, packing is included with the product for classification purposes, it shall be included for the purposes of determining origin.

Whereas the Community is a Contracting Party to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, hereinafter referred to as the 'harmonized system', which replaces the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs;

Whereas the Community is a Contracting Party to the International Convention on the, Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, hereinafter referred to as the 'harmonized system', which replaces the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs tariffs;

The unit of qualification for the application of the origin rules shall be the particular product which is considered as the basic unit when determining classification using the nomenclature of the Harmonized System.

Whereas numerous Regulations in the poultrymeat sector must be adapted technically and as regards certain points of substance to take account of the use of the new combined nomenclature based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System which is intended to replace the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs;

Whereas numerous joint implementing Regulations in the poultrymeat and eggs sectors must be adapted technically and as regards certain points of substance in respect of the poultrymeat sector to take account of the use of the new combined nomenclature based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System which is intended to replace the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature of the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs;

The decision to place a substance in Annex I together with the harmonized classification and labelling shall be taken in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29.

Annex I (25) contains the list of substances classified in accordance with the principles outlined in paragraphs 1 and 2, together with their harmonized classification and labelling.

Annex I is an index of dangerous substances for which harmonized classification and labelling have been agreed at Community level in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 4.3 of Directive 67/548/EEC.

to prepare Explanatory Notes, Classification Opinions or other advice as guides to the interpretation of the Harmonized System;

coordination of work with other committees dealing with classifications, in particular the Harmonized System (HS) and the combined nomenclature (CN);

Whereas the Community is a signatory to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, known as the 'harmonized system', which is intended to replace the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs;

Whereas the Community is a Contracting Party of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, hereinafter referred to as the 'harmonized system', which replaces the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs;

Whereas the Community is a Contracting Party to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, hereinafter referred to as the 'harmonized system', which replaces the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs tariffs;

Whereas classification societies must update and enforce their technical standards in order to harmonize safety rules and ensure uniform implementation of international rules within the Community;

CONSIDERING that the Harmonized System is intended to promote as close a correlation as possible between import and export trade statistics and production statistics, CONSIDERING that a close correlation should be maintained between the Harmonized System and the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) of the United Nations,

Whereas the Customs Cooperation Council, by virtue of the authority invested in it under the abovementioned convention, has issued a harmonized system classification opinion in respect of the product known as 'mecadeck';

Classification is determined by the provisions of General Rules 1 and 6 for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature and by the wording of CN codes 8517 and 8517 40 00 (see also the Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized System, heading 85.17, part III).

Whereas, due to changes to the descriptions of products, their related codes and legal notes in the Harmonized System nomenclature or in the Combined Nomenclature certain classification regulations should be repealed when such regulations are no longer relevant or valid;

however, as regards goods falling within Chapters 1 to 24 of the Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs (International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of 14 June 1983), that period shall be limited to six months,

The Explanatory Notes, Classification Opinions, other advice on the interpretation of the Harmonized System and recommendations to secure uniformity in the interpretation and application of the Harmonized System, prepared during a session of the Harmonized System Committee under the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 7, shall be deemed to be approved by the Council if, not later than the end of the second month following the month during which that session was closed, no Contracting Party to this Convention has notified the Secretary-General that it requests that such matter be referred to the Council.

Description Classification CN Code Reasons [1] [2] [3] Cigarettes made from the leaves of coltsfoot and of peppermint, not containing tobacco 2402 90 00 Classification is determined by General Rules 1 and 6 for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, Note 1 to Chapter 24 and the wording of CN codes 2402 and 2402 90 00 (see also the Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized System, heading 2402)

at international level, by reason of a classification opinion or an amendment of the explanatory notes to the Nomenclature of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, adopted by the World Customs Organization established in 1952 under the name 'the Customs Cooperation Council`;

Whereas harmonized standards should include classifications that allow construction products which meet the essential requirements and which are produced and used lawfully in accordance with technical traditions warranted by local climatological and other conditions to continue to be placed on the market;

on its own initiative or on request, to furnish information or guidance on any matters concerning the classification of goods in the Harmonized System to Contracting Parties, to Members of the Council and to such intergovernmental or other international organizations as the Committee may consider appropriate;

whereas these provisions should in any case be harmonized with those of Council Directive No 73/173/EEC of 4 June 1973 concerning the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations (solvents);

whereas the changes made to the Harmonized System nomenclature include the introduction, in Chapter 84, of a new Note 5 (D) potentially affecting the classification of certain products that could serve as storage units for automatic data processing machines while performing one or more other functions at the same time;

Whereas numerous other Regulations in the eggs sector must be adapted technically to take account of the use of the new combined nomenclature based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System which is intended to replace the Convention of 15 December 1950 on Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs;

for the measures provided for in (b) of the same article and paragraph concerning the adoption of a classification opinion or amendments to the explanatory notes to the Harmonized System Nomenclature by the Customs Cooperation Council, the date of the Commission communication in the 'C' series of the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Whereas numerous measures in the beef and veal sector must be adapted at the technical level as well as in regard to certain substantive points in order to take account of the utilization of the new combined nomenclature based on the harmonized system of designation and codification of goods due to replace the Convention of 15 December 1950 on the nomenclature for the classification of goods in the customs tariffs,

It is therefore appropriate, as an initial step, to harmonize the basic principles applicable to the classification for the supply of medicinal products in the Community or in the Member State concerned, while taking as a starting point the principles already established on this subject by the Council of Europe as well as the work of harmonization completed within the framework of the United Nations, concerning narcotic and psychotropic substances.

where it is no longer compatible with the interpretation of one of the nomenclatures referred to in Article 20 (6) either at Community level by reason of amendments to the combined nomenclature or by a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, or, at international level by reason of a classification opinion or an amendment of the explanatory notes to the Nomenclature of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System adopted by the Customs Cooperation Council;