No L 261/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 9. 90 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2723/90 of 24 September 1990 replacing the codes established on the basis of the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature in force on 31 December 1987 with those established on the basis of the Combined Nomenclature in certain Regulations concerning the ’ classification of goods THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Haviﬁg 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 statistica nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2472/90 (3, and in particular Article 15 thereof, Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 of 28 June 1968 on the Common Customs Tariff (}), repealed by Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, established the nomencla- ture of the Common Customs Tariff on the basis of the Convention of 15 December 1950 on nomenclature for the classification of goods in customs tariffs ; Whereas the Commission has adopted a number of Regu- lations concerning the classification of goods in the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff on the basis of Regulation (EEC) No 97/69 of the Council of 16 January 1969 on measures to be taken for uniform appli- cation of the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff (*), replealed by Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature called the Combined Nomenclature, which simultaneously meets the requirements of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statis- tics of the Community, and is based on the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, replacxng the Convention of 25 December 1950 ; Whereas Article 15 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 lays down that the codes and descriptions of. goods established on the basis of the Combined Nomenclature are to replace those established on the basis of the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff in force on 31 December 1987 ; Whereas those Regulations which are still of practical significance and whose transposition will involve no changes of substance should be amended accordingly and so to complement an initial series of Regulations which has been adopted by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 646/89 (), HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 In the Regulations listed in column 1 of the Annex, which refer to the goods described in column 2, the codes based on the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff in column 3 shall be replaced by the codes based on the Combined Nomenclature listed in column 4. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official ]oumal of the European Communities. i This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 24 September 1990. () OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 247, 10. 9. 1990, p. 1. () OJ No L 172, 22. 7. 1968, p. 1. () OJ No L 14, 21. 1. 1969, p. 1. For the Commission Christiane SCRIVENER Member of the Commission () OJ No L 71, 15. 3. 1989, p. 20.