No L 364/32 Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 12. 92 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3590/92 of 11 December 1992 concerning the statistical information media for statistics on 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 3330/91 of 7 November 1991, on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States (*), as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3046/92 () and in particular Article 12 thereof, Whereas, in the context of statistics on trade between Member States, it is necessary to adopt standard statistical forms for regular use by the parties responsible for provi- ding information in order to ensure that the declarations required of them adhere to a consistent format, irrespec- tive of the Member State where they are made ; whereas the choice accorded to the parties responsible for provi- ding information by Article 12 (2) of the abovementioned Regulation is only available if the Commission sets up the appropriate information media; whereas, moreover, certain Member States would rather use Community media than produce national forms of their own ; Whereas it is important to provide the competent authorities with all the technical details required for the printing of these forms; Whereas it is advisable in order to ensure uniform treat- ment of the parties responsible for providing information, to contribute towards the cost of these forms ; whereas it is necessary to estimate the amount of Community funds required for this; whereas this amount must be in line with the financial perspective set out in the Interinstitu- tional Agreement of 29 June 1988 on Budgetary Disci- pline and Improvement of the Budgetary Procedure (3); whereas, in compliance with this Agreement, the appro- priations actually available must be determined in accordance with budgetary procedure ; Whereas it is necessary to take account of other modes of transmitting information, and, in particular, to promote the use of magnetic or electronic information media; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation reflect the opinion of the Committee on Statistics Rela- ting to the Trading of Goods between Member States, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. With a view to the drawing-up by the Community and its Member States of statistics on trade between the Member States, the statistical information media provided () OJ No L 316, 16. 11. 1991, p. 1. () OJ No L 307, 23. 10. 1992, p. 27. () O No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 33. for in Article 12, paragraph 1, of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91, hereafter referred to as ‘the basic Regulation’, shall be set up in accordance with the provi- sions of this Regulation. 2. In Member States where no distinction is made between the periodic declaration and the periodic declara- tion required for tax purposes, the provisions necessary for the setting-up of information media shall, insofar as necessary, be adopted within the framework of Commu- nity or national tax regulations, and in conformity with the other implementing provisions of the basic Regula- tion. Article 2 Without prejudice to provisions adopted pursuant to Article 34 of the basic Regulation, Intrastat forms N-Dispatch, R-Disaptch and S-Dispatch and N-Arrival, R-Arrival and S-Arrival, specimens of which are annexed to this Regulation, shall be used in conformity with the provisions set out below. — Forms N shall be used by parties responsible for providing information who are not subject to the dispensations resulting from the assimilation and simplification thresholds fixed by each Member State, nor to the exemption provided for in the following indent. — Forms R shall be used by parties responsible for providing information whom the competent national authorities have exempted from giving a description of the goods. — Forms § shall be used by parties responsible for provi- ding information who are subject to the dispensations resulting from the simplification threshold. Article 3 1. The forms referred to in Article 2 shall consist of a single sheet, which shall be delivered to the competent national authorities. The Member States may, however, require parties respon- sible for providing information to retain a copy in accordance with the instructions of the competent national authorities. 2.  The forms shall be printed on paper which is suitable for writing and weighs no less than 70 g/m2 The colour of the paper used shall be white. The colour of the print shall be red. The paper and the print used must meet the technical requirements of optical character recognition (OCR) equipment.