Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code

For the purposes of this Regulation:

1. Code means:

   Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing a Community Customs Code⁽²⁾;

2. ATA carnet means:

   the international customs document for temporary importation established by virtue of the ATA Convention or the Istanbul Convention;

3. Committee means:

   the Customs Code Committee established by Articles 247a and 248a of the Code;

4. Customs Cooperation Council means:

   the organization set up by the Convention establishing a Customs Cooperation Council, done at Brussels on 15 December 1950;

5. Particulars required for identification of the goods means:

   on the one hand, the particulars used to identify the goods commercially allowing the customs authorities to determine the tariff classification and, on the other hand, the quantity of the goods;

6. Goods of a non-commercial nature means:

   goods whose entry for the customs procedure in question is on an occasional basis and whose nature and quantity indicate that they are intended for the private, personal or family use of the consignees or persons carrying them, or which are clearly intended as gifts;

7. Commercial policy measures means:

   non-tariff measures established, as part of the common commercial policy, in the form of Community provisions governing the import and export of goods, such as surveillance or safeguard measures, quantitative restrictions or limits and import or export prohibitions;

8. Customs nomenclature means:

   one of the nomenclatures referred to in Article 20 (6) of the Code;

9. Harmonized System means:

   the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;

10. Treaty means:

    the Treaty establishing the European Community;

11. Istanbul Convention means:

    the Convention on Temporary Admission agreed at Istanbul on 26 June 1990;

12. Economic operator means:

    a person who, in the course of his business, is involved in activities covered by customs legislation;

13. Single authorisation means:

    an authorisation involving customs administrations in more than one Member State for one of the following procedures:

    • the simplified declaration procedure pursuant to Article 76(1) of the Code, or

    • the local clearance procedure pursuant to Article 76(1) of the Code, or

    • customs procedures with economic impact pursuant to Article 84(1)(b) of the Code, or

    • end-use pursuant to Article 21(1) of the Code;

14. Integrated authorisation means:

    an authorisation to use more than one of the procedures referred to in point 13; it may take the form of an integrated single authorisation where more than one customs administration is involved;

15. Authorising customs authority means:

    the customs authority who grants an authorisation;

16. EORI number (Economic Operators Registration and Identification number) means:

    a number, unique in the European Community, assigned by a Member State customs authority or designated authority or authorities to economic operators and to other persons in accordance with the rules laid down in Chapter 6;

17. Entry summary declaration means:

    the summary declaration referred to in Article 36a of the Code to be lodged for goods brought into the customs territory of the Community, except where otherwise provided for in this Regulation.