No L 335/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 11. 87 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3521/87 of 24 November 1987 amending Regulation (EEC) No 518/79 for recording exports of complete indus- trial plant in the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 of 24 June 1975 on the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3367/87 (%), and in particular Articles 21 and 33 thereof, Having regard to Council Decision 87/36%/EEC of 7 April 1987 concerning the conclusion of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System and the Protocol of Amendment thereto (%), 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 (%), Whereas numerous provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 518/79 (%) refer to the Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature (CCCN) and to the Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Commu- nity and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE); whereas, in the system of Community nomenclatures, the CCCN and the NIMEXE are to be replaced, from 1 January 1988, by the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) and the Combined Customs and Statistical Nomenclature (CN) respectively ; Whereas the simplified declaration procedure for recor- ding exports of complete industrial plant instituted by Regulation (EEC) No 518/79 is based on the use of complete industrial plant headings identified by a six- digit code applicable to certain NIMEXE chapters; whereas it is necessary to use an eight-digit code for the corresponding chapters of the Combined Nomenclature and to group together the Combined Nomenclature subheadings for complete industrial plant in one of the chapters reserved by the Harmonized System for the () OJ No L 183, 14. 7. 1975, p. 3. () OJ No L 321, 11. 11. 1987, p. 3. () OJ No L 198, 20. 7. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 69, 20. 3. 1979, p. 10. particular purposes of the Contracting Parties to the abovementioned Convention, Whereas the measures provided for by this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on External Trade Statistics, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 518/79 ‘is hereby amended as follows : 1. In Article 2 (1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 518/79, the text which follows the words ‘... which normally fall under various headings’ and ends with the words “... hereinafter referred to as the CCCN.’ is replaced by the following : ‘of the nomenclature of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, hereinafter referred to as the Harmonized System nomenclature’. 2. Article 4 is replaced by the following : Article 4 1.  In Chapter 98 of the Combined Nomenclature, in respect of Chapters 63, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 76, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90 and 94, complete industrial plant subheadings are hereby created both at chapter level and for each of the individual headings of the Har- monized system nomenclature of which they are composed. ' The Commission may authorize any Member State which so requests to create complete industrial plant subheadings in Chapter 98 in respect of other Chap- ters of the Combined Nomenclature. The Commission shall inform the other Member States of such authori- zations. 2. Component parts falling within a given chapter shall be classified under the complete industrial plant subheading of Chapter 98 for the chapter in question unless the competent department referred to in Article 7 decides to classify the goods in Chapter 98 under the appropriate complete industrial plant subheadings at the level of the headings of the Harmonized System nomenclature or to apply the provisions of paragraph 3.