SG Committees for Transmission to EP

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL TAXATION AND CUSTOMS UNION CUSTOMS POLICY Movement of goods and transit

Brussels 11 June 2002

Doc TAXUD/1248/2002

SG Committees – for transmission to EP

Summary record of the 72nd meeting of the Customs Code Committee – Transit Section held on 7 June 2002

1. Adoption of the agenda

Agenda adopted.

2. Draft proposals for a Regulation to amend the Code implementing provisions (doc TAXUD/1213/2002 rev 1)

In introducing doc TAXUD/1213/2002 rev 1, the Commission acknowledged that there were some linguistic errors in all language versions. Despite this, the Commission expressed the hope that the Committee would be able to vote on the adoption of the draft regulation.

A number of delegates took the floor to draw attention to these linguistic errors while others suggested more substantive changes to the draft (for example, a new recital cross referring to the amended TIR Convention and clarification of the text concerning the guarantee associations liability to pay the customs debt).

In conclusion, the Commission felt that there were too many linguistic changes to enable the proposals to go to a vote at this meeting. Having established that Member States had no other concerns of substance the Commission agreed to revise and align the French and English texts as TAXUD/1213/2002 Rev 2. These two language versions would then be distributed to delegates together with their own language version of revision 1. Delegates would then check/amend their own language versions to ensure they were in accord with the French and English texts. Once that had been confirmed the Commission would proceed with the adoption of the draft regulation using the written procedure. The Commission indicated a time frame of 6 weeks to complete the work.

3. AOB

There were no items.

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Chairman: Mr VAULONT Nikolaus TAXUD B3 Head of Unit

Representatives of the following Member States:

Belgium : Mr STEVENS Rudy

Denmark : Mr BYRGESEN John

Germany : Mr BROXTERMANN Jürgen

Greece : Ms METAXA-MARIATOU Helen

Spain : Mr SANTOS Julián

France: Mr SAU Michel

Italy : Mr AMELIO Mario

Luxembourg : Mr NOTHUM Emile

Pays-Bas : Mr JACOBS Guus

Ms VISSER Guusta

Austria : Mrs GABRIEL-LANG Brigitte

Portugal: Ms SANTOS Isabel

Finland : Mr BOXSTROM Rolf

Mr MARUAMAKI Kari

Sweden : Ms OGRUN Martina

United Kingdom : Ms HOECKX

Representatives from the Commission Services:

Mr MARQUES Joaquim Jose TAXUD/B/3 Mr HOOK Peter TAXUD/B/3 Mr BARNETT Gerald OLAF Mr NYHUIS Christian BUDGET Copied to:

Member States Mr Vanden Abeele Ms Ory Mr Wiedow Mr Vaulont Mr Barnett OLAF Mr Nyhuis