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9.6.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
150/3
COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 555/2011
of 6 June 2011
amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on
the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Article 1
Union, and in particular Article 31 thereof,
Part Two, Section XVI, Chapter 85 of Annex I to Regulation
(EEC) No 2658/87 is amended as follows:
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
(1) the text in column 3 for CN code 8528 59 10 is replaced
Whereas:
by the following:
‘14 (*)
(1) Council
Regulation
(EC)
No
179/2009
of
5
March
2009
amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on
___________
the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the
(*) Customs duty autonomously suspended, until 30 June
Common Customs Tariff ( 1 ) suspended totally, for a
2011, for black and white or other monochrome
period of two years, the autonomous Common
monitors, using liquid crystal display technology,
Customs Tariff duties for certain black and white or
equipped with either digital visual interface (DVI) or a
other monochrome, and certain colour monitors using
video graphics array (VGA) connector or both with a
liquid crystal display technology and falling under
diagonal measurement of the screen not exceeding
Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes 8528 59 10 and
77,50 cm (i.e. 30,5 inches), with an aspect ratio of
8528 59 90.
1:1, 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10, with a pixel resolution
exceeding 1,92 mega pixels, and with a dot pitch not
(2)
On economic and industrial policy grounds, it is in the
exceeding 0,3 mm. (TARIC code 8528 59 10 10).’;
interest of the Union to prolong the autonomous duty
suspension provided for in Regulation (EC) No 179/2009
for a period of six months starting from 1 January 2011.
(2) the text in column 3 for CN code 8528 59 40 is replaced
by the following:
(3) Following
a
restructuring
of
CN
heading
8528,
the
‘14 (*)
monitors in question are now covered by CN codes
8528 59 10 and 8528 59 40. The tariff suspensions
___________
provided for in this Regulation should therefore
(*) Customs duty autonomously suspended, until 30 June
concern those CN codes.
2011, for colour monitors, using liquid crystal display
technology, with a diagonal measurement of the screen
(4) Council
Regulation
(EEC)
No
2658/87
( 2 ) should
not exceeding 55,9 cm (i.e. 22 inches), with an aspect
therefore be amended accordingly.
ratio of 1:1, 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10. (TARIC code
8528 59 40 40).’.
(5) The
suspensions
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
an
extension of the suspensions provided for by Regulation
(EC) No 179/2009 that expired on 31 December 2010.
Article 2
Since it is not in the interest of the Union that there be
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi
any interruption of the tariff treatment of the monitors
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.
covered by the suspension, this Regulation should apply
from 1 January 2011,
It shall apply from 1 January 2011.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Luxembourg, 6 June 2011.
For the Council
The President
RTHELYI M.
( 1 ) OJ L 63, 7.3.2009, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.

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