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Council Regulation (EC) No 274/2008Show full title
Council Regulation (EC) No 274/2008 of 17 March 2008 amending Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 setting up a Community system of relief from customs duty
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Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 is hereby amended as follows:
1.
in Article 1, paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:
‘1.This Regulation sets out those cases in which, owing to special circumstances, relief from import duties, export duties and measures adopted on the basis of Article 133 of the Treaty shall be granted respectively when goods are released for free circulation or are exported from the customs territory of the Community.’;
2.
in Chapter I, Title IV shall be deleted;
3.
in Article 27 the value of ECU 22 shall be replaced by EUR 150;
4.
Article 45 shall be replaced by the following:
‘Article 45
Goods contained in the personal luggage of travellers coming from a third country shall be admitted free of import duties, provided such imports are exempt from value added tax (VAT) under provisions of national law adopted in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive 2007/74/EC of 20 December 2007 on the exemption from value added tax and excise duty of goods imported by persons travelling from third countries(1).
Goods imported into territories listed in Article 6(1) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax(2) shall be subject to the same provisions on duty relief as goods imported into any other parts of the territory of the Member State concerned.’;
5.
Articles 46 to 49 shall be deleted;
6.
the following paragraph shall be added to Article 127:
‘3.Goods which may be imported under relief from duties in accordance with this Regulation shall also not be subject to quantitative restrictions applied pursuant to measures adopted on the basis of Article 133 of the Treaty.’
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 December 2008.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 17 March 2008.
For the Council
The President
I. Jarc
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