30. 5. 89 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 146/9 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1473/89. of 26 May 1989 amending Regulation (EEC) No 4141/87 determining the condmons under which goods for certain categories of aircraft and ships are eligible on import for a favourable tariff arrangement by reason of their end-use THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical .nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 20/89 (3, and in particular Article 11 thereof, Whereas the combined nomenclature annexed to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 lays down, in Section II point' A2 of its ‘Preliminary provisions’ that customs duties shall be suspended in respect of goods intended for incorporation in drilling or production platforms, whether fixed of subheading ex 8430 49 or floating or submersible of subheading = 890520, for the purposes of their construction, repair, maintenance or conversion, and in respect of goods intended for equipping the said platforms ; whereas the same applies for: tubes, pipes, cables and their connection pieces, linking these drilling or production  platforms to the mainland; whereas however, the suspensions are subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions, with a view to customs “control of the use of such goods;. Whereas in order to ensure uniform application of the combined nomenclature, -provisions are. necessary for fixing those conditions ; Whereas Commission. Regulation (EEC) No 4141/87 (%), determined, in accordance -with Section II points A.l1 and B of the same ‘Preliminary provisions’, the -conditions under which goods for certain categories of aircraft and ships are eligible on import - for a favourable tariff arrangement by reason of their end-use; Whereas, as a consequence, it is -desirable to integrate Regulation (EEC) No 4141/87 into the appropriate: provisions relating to the products referred to in the abovementioned Section II point A.2; ) Whereas it is appropriate out of a concern to simplify. the tasks of both the traders concerned and the customs () OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 4, 6. 1. 1989, p. 19. () OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1987, p. 76. administrations, to make provision to enable the products in question to be brought into land-based operational. bases and then to be moved from such bases to platforms and vice versa, as well as between platforms, such movements being the subject of “an entry in the prescribed records ; Whereas the Nomenclature Committee has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 4141/87 is hereby amended as follows : 1. The title is replaced by the following : ‘Regulation (EEC) No  4141/87 determining - the conditions under which goods for certain categories of aircraft, ships or drilling or production platforms are eligible on import for a favourable tariff arrangement by reason of their end-use’; 2. the following Article 9a is inserted after Article 9: ‘Article 9a 1. At the request of the holder.of an authorization granted in- accordance -with Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 4142/87, the competent customs authorities shall - determine the conditions as to the places — hereinafter called “land-based operational bases” — in which the products listed in Annex II, Section B may be stored or subjected to operations of any kind.’; 2.  without prejudice to the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 4142/87, the movement of goods. . referred to in paragraph 1-above: (a) from the “land-based operational bases” to the platforms, whether they are within or outside territorial waters, and vice versa;