30.10.2003 Official Journal of the European Union 1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1789/2003 of 11 September 2003 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 (1), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter called the ‘Combined ) Nomenclature’, to meet, at one and the same time, the require- ments of the Common Customs Tariff, the external trade sta- tistics of the Community and other Community policies con- cerning the importation or exportation of goods. The Combined Nomenclature is reproduced in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, together with the autonomous and the conventional duty rates and the statistical supplemen- tary units. It is appropriate to modernise and to simplify Annex I as envisaged by the SLIM initiative (simpler legislation for the internal market). 0] L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2176/2002 (OJ L 331, 7.12.2002, p. 3). (4) It is necessary to amend the Combined Nomenclature to take ~ account of: (i) changes in requirements relating to statistics and to com- mercial policy; (ii) technological or commercial developments; (iti) the need for alignment or clarification of texts. Annex I to this Regulation includes adjustments of duty rates resulting from measures adopted by the Council, including Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within its competence, of the agreements reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986 to 1994) (2), as well as measures adopted by the Council or the Commission (3). In accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, the Commission is to adopt a regulation which reproduces the complete version of the Combined Nomenclature, together with the autonomous and () OJL336,23.12.1994, p. 1. (3 N Incorporated in Annex I to this Regulation are amendments resulting from the adoption of the following measures: — Council Decision 96/611/EC of 16 September 1996 (O] L 271, 24.10.1996, p- 31), Council Decisions 97/359/EC and 97/360/EC of 24 March 1997 (OJ L 155, 12.6.1997, p. 1), Council Regulation (EC) No 2216/97 of 3 November 1997 (OJ L 305, 8.11.1997, p. 1), Council Regulation (EC) No 1110/1999 of 10 May 1999 (O] L 135, 29.5.1999, p. 1), Council Regulation (EC) No 2433/2001 of 6 December 2001 (O] L 329, 14.12.2001, p. 4),