Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/341Show full title

Codes of economic conditions (Article 211(3) and (4) of the Code) U.K.

Until the date of deployment of the UCC Customs Decision system referred to in the annex to Commission Implementing Decision of 29 April 2014 establishing the Work Programme for the Union Customs Code (WPUCC), the following codes of economic conditions shall be used for the purposes of applying for an authorisation for inward processing:

• the processing of goods not listed in Annex 71-02 (Code 01);

• repair (Code 30.4);

• the processing of goods directly or indirectly put at the disposal of the holder of the authorisation, carried out according to specifications on behalf of a person established outside of the customs territory of the Union, generally against payment of processing costs alone (Code 30.2);

• the processing of durum wheat into pasta (Code 30.6);

• the placing of goods under inward processing within the limits of the quantity determined on the basis of a balance in accordance with Article 18 of Council Regulation (EU) No 510/2014 (Code 31);

• the processing of goods which are listed in Annex 71-02, in the following situations:

  (i)

  unavailability of goods produced in the Union sharing the same 8-digit CN code, the same commercial quality and technical characteristics as the goods intended to be imported for the processing operations envisaged (Code 10);

  (ii)

  differences in price between goods produced in the Union and those intended to be imported, where comparable goods cannot be used because their price would not make the proposed commercial operation economically viable (Code 11);

  (iii)

  contractual obligations where comparable goods do not conform to the contractual requirements of the third-country purchaser of the processed products, or where, in accordance with the contract, the processed products must be obtained from the goods intended to be placed under inward processing in order to comply with provisions concerning the protection of industrial or commercial property rights (Code 12).

  (iv)

  the aggregate value of goods to be placed under the inward processing procedure per applicant and calendar year for each eight-digit CN code does not exceed EUR 150 000 (Code 30.7)

• the processing of goods to ensure their compliance with technical requirements for their release for free circulation (Code 40);

• the processing of goods of a non-commercial nature (Code 30.1);

• the processing of goods obtained under a previous authorisation, the issuing of which was subject to an examination of the economic conditions (Code 30.5);

• the processing of solid and fluid fractions of palm oil, coconut oil, fluid fractions of coconut oil, palm kernel oil, fluid fractions of palm kernel oil, babassu oil or castor oil into products which are not destined for the food sector (Code 41);

• the processing into products to be incorporated in or used for civil aircraft for which an airworthiness certificate has been issued (Code 42);

• the processing into products benefitting from the autonomous suspension of import duty on certain weapons and military equipment in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 150/2003 (Code 43);

• the processing of goods into samples (Code 44);

• the processing of any electronic type of components, parts, assemblies or any other materials into information technology products (Code 45);

• the processing of goods falling within CN codes 2707 or 2710 into products falling within CN codes 2707, 2710 or 2902 (Code 46);

• the reduction to waste and scrap, destruction, recovery of parts or components (Code 47);

• denaturing (Code 48);

• usual forms of handling referred to in Article 220 of the Code (Code 30.3);

• the aggregate value of goods to be placed under the inward processing procedure per applicant and calendar year for each eight-digit CN code does not exceed EUR 150 000 with regard to goods which are covered by Annex 71-02 and EUR 300 000 for other goods, except where the goods intended to be placed under the inward-processing procedure would be subject to a provisional or definitive anti-dumping duty, a countervailing duty, a safeguard measure or an additional duty resulting from a suspension of concessions if they were declared for release for free circulation (Code 49).