Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 (repealed)Show full title

Article 1 U.K.

1. This Regulation sets out those cases in which, owing to special circumstances, relief from import or export duties shall be granted respectively when goods are put into free circulation or are exported from the [F1 customs territory of the Community].

2. For the purposes of this Regulation:

(a) ‘import duties’ means customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and also agricultural levies and other import charges provided for under the common agricultural policy or under specific arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products;

(b) ‘export duties’ means agricultural levies and other export charges provided for under the common agricultural policy or under specific arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products;

(c) ‘personal property’ means any property intended for the personal use of the persons concerned or for meeting their household needs.

The following, in particular, shall constitute ‘personal property’:

• (c) household effects,

• cycles and motor cycles, private motor vehicles and their trailers, camping caravans, pleasure craft and private aeroplanes.

Household provisions appropriate to normal family requirements, household pets and saddle animals, as well as the portable instruments of the applied or liberal arts, required by the person concerned for the pursuit of his trade or profession, shall also constitute ‘personal property’. Personal property must not be such as might indicate, by its nature or quantity, that it is being imported for commercial reasons;

(d) ‘household effects’ means personal effects, household linen, furnishings and equipment intended for the personal use of the persons concerned or for meeting their household needs;

[F2 (e) ‘ alcoholic products ’ means products (beer, wine, aperitifs with a wine en alcohol base, brandies, liquers or spirituous beverages, etc.) falling within heading Nos 2203 to 2208 of the Combined Nomenclature.]

[F1 3. Save as otherwise provided in this Regulation for the purpose of applying Chapter I, the concept of third countries also includes those parts of Member States' territories excluded from the customs territory of the Community by virtue of Regulation (EEC) No 2151/84 (1) .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1315/88 of 3 May 1988 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff and Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty.

F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3691/87 of 9 December 1987 amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty.

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[F1 OJ No L 197, 27. 7. 1984, p. 1 .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1315/88 of 3 May 1988 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff and Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty.