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Official Journal of the European Union
13.11.2012
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1055/2012
of 9 November 2012
amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
ensure a uniform interpretation throughout the
territory of the Union.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
(4) Regulation
(EEC)
No
2658/87
should
therefore
be
amended accordingly.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of
23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and
(5) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
on the Common Customs Tariff
( 1 ), and in particular
accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code
Article 9(1)(a) thereof,
Committee,
Whereas:
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(1) Regulation
(EEC)
No
2658/87
established
a
nomenclature
of goods, hereinafter referred to as the Combined
Article 1
Nomenclature, which is set out in Annex I to that Regu
In Chapter 20 of the Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex
lation.
I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, the following Additional
Note 9 is inserted:
(2) In
the
interest
of
legal
certainty,
it
is
necessary
to
clarify
the scope of Chapter 20 of the Combined Nomenclature
“9. Seaweeds and other algae prepared or preserved by processes not
as including seaweeds and other algae that are prepared
provided for in Chapter 12, such as cooking, roasting, seasoning or
or preserved by processes such as cooking, roasting,
adding sugar, fall in Chapter 20 as preparations of other parts of
seasoning and adding sugar, and hence not covered by
plants. Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried,
heading 1212 ('seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled,
whether or not ground, are to be classified under heading 1212.”
frozen or dried, whether or not ground'). Seaweeds and
other algae are considered "other plants" in the meaning
Article 2
of the Combined Nomenclature.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
(3) A
new
Additional
Note
should
therefore
be
inserted following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
in Chapter 20 of the Combined Nomenclature to
European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 9 November 2012.
For the Commission,
On behalf of the President,
Algirdas EMETA
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.

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