Traduction de «Internal consistency the common customs tariff » (Anglais → Français) :

Dried pasta covered by heading 19.03 of the common customs tariff

The Customs union acquis consists almost exclusively of legislation which is directly binding on the Member States and does not require transposition into national law. It includes the Community's Customs Code and its implementing provisions; the Combined Nomenclature, Common Customs Tariff and provisions on tariff classification, cus ...[+++]toms duty relief, duty suspensions and certain tariff quotas; and other provisions such as those on customs control of counterfeit and pirated goods, drugs precursors and cultural goods and on mutual administrative assistance in customs matters as well as Community agreements in the areas concerned, including transit.

I would like to underline today, however, that the Commission has begun infringement proceedings against 10 Member States on the question of the proper application of the Common Customs Tariff on military and non-military goods.

The Commission's view is that permanent maintenance of the tariff exemptions - the introduction of which is, moreover, at an advanced stage - would be detrimental to the consistency of Community law and the internal market insofar as the integral application of Common Customs Tariff duties in relations with ...[+++]non-Member countries is one of the essential pillars of the customs union.

WHEREAS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CUSTOMS UNION IS GOVERNED IN THE MAIN BY TITLE 1 , CHAPTER 1 OF THE TREATY ; WHEREAS THAT CHAPTER OF THE TREATY CONTAINS A SERIES OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS , DEALING IN PARTICULAR WITH THE ELIMINATION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES BETWEEN MEMBER STATES , THE ESTABLISHMENT AND PROGRESSIVE INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF AND THE AUTONOMOUS ALTERATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE DUTIES THEREIN ; WHEREAS THE WORDS " AUTONOMOUS ALTERATION OR SUSPENSION OF DUTIES IN THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF " IN ARTICLE 28 , DO NOT MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO BASE THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO VALUE FOR CUSTOMS PURPOSES ON THAT ARTICLE ; WHEREAS , WHILE ARTICLE 27 PROVIDES THAT MEMBER STATES SHALL , BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST STAGE AND IN SO FAR AS ...[+++] MAY BE NECESSARY , TAKE STEPS TO APPROXIMATE THEIR PROVISIONS LAID DOWN BY LAW , REGULATION OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION IN RESPECT OF CUSTOMS MATTERS , THAT ARTICLE DOES NOT EMPOWER THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY TO ISSUE BINDING PROVISIONS IN THAT FIELD ; WHEREAS , HOWEVER , A THOROUGH EXAMINATION , UNDERTAKEN JOINTLY WITH MEMBER STATES , HAS SHOWN THE NEED IN CERTAIN FIELDS FOR DECISION , BY BINDING ACTS OF THE COMMUNITY , UPON MEASURES ESSENTIAL FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF CUSTOMS LEGISLATION WHICH WILL ENSURE UNIFORM APPLICATION OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF ;

WHEREAS THESE PREPARATIONS CONSIST MAINLY OF FOODSTUFFS FALLING WITHIN CHAPTERS 1 TO 21 OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF ; WHEREAS FURTHERMORE THESE PREPARATIONS , BECAUSE OF THEIR USE AS ADDITIVES IN FOODSTUFFS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION AND OF THEIR COMPOSITION , HAVE A CLOSER CONNECTION WITH THE FOOD INDUSTRIES THAN WITH THE CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES ; WHEREAS THEREFORE THESE PREPARATIONS CANNOT BE INCLUDED IN HEADING N 38.19 OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF BUT MUST BE CLASSIFIED UNDER A HEADING WHICH COMPRISES PRODUCTS FOR USE AS FOODSTUFFS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION ; WHEREAS , IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY MORE SPECIFIC HEADING , THEY MUST BE CLASSIFIED UNDER HEADING N 21.07 ;