The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.

2.  The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992 (1) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6 below.

3.  In regulation 1(2)—

(a) for the definition of “Principal Regulation” there shall be substituted the following—

““Principal Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91(2) as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3046/92(3) and Regulation (EC) No 1182/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council(4)”;

(b) for the definition of “threshold Regulation” there shall be substituted the following—

““Threshold Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1901/2000(5)”.

4.  For regulation 3 there shall be substituted the following—

“3.— (1) For the purposes of the application of Article 17 of the Threshold Regulation—

(a) the assimilation threshold at the arrival stage shall be £233,000;

(b) the assimilation threshold at the dispatch stage shall be £233,000.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, any supplementary declaration shall be furnished—

(a) at such place as the Commissioners shall direct; and

(b) no later than—

(i) where it is furnished by electronic means, the last day of the month following the end of the reference period to which the supplementary declaration relates;

(ii) in any other case, the tenth day following the end of the reference period to which the supplementary declaration relates.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b)(i) above and regulation 4(4) below, references to the furnishing of supplementary declarations by electronic means includes their being furnished by means of a telecommunication system (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (6).

(4) For the purposes of calculating the tenth day following the end of the reference period mentioned in paragraph (2) (b) (ii) above, no account shall be taken of any day upon which the place designated by the Commissioners for receipt of supplementary declarations is not open to the public for business.”

5.  In regulation 4—

(a) in paragraph (2) for the words “specified by the Commissioners in accordance with paragraph (3) of regulation 3” there shall be substituted the words “directed by the Commissioners in accordance with regulation 3(2)(a)”;

(b) after paragraph (5) there shall be added the following paragraphs—

“(6) Where for any person the annual value of goods arriving from other member States does not exceed £12,500,000, he shall not be required to provide on any supplementary declaration that he is required to furnish, any particulars relating to delivery terms.

(7) Where for any person the annual value of goods dispatched to other member States does not exceed £12,500,000, he shall not be required to provide on any supplementary declaration that he is required to furnish, any particulars relating to delivery terms.”.

6.  For the form set out in the Schedule there shall be substituted the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

7.  The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 1999(7) are hereby revoked.

Ray McAfee

Commissioner of Customs and Excise

New King’s Beam House,

22 Upper Ground,

London SE1 9PJ

8th December 2000