28.10.1999 Official Journal of the European Communities (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2204/ 1999 of 12 October 1999 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 265887 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff ('), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter called the ‘Combined Nomenclature’, to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the Community; () OJL256,7.9.1987,p. 1. Whereas it is necessary to amend the Combined Nomencla- ture to take account of: — changes in requirements relating to statistics and com- mercial policy, in particular by virtue of Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclu- sion 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) and Council Regulation (EC) No 3093/95 of 22 December 1995 laying down the rates of duty to be applied by the Community resulting from negotiations under GATT Article XXIV:6 consequent upon the acces- sion of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union (3), — the need to align or clarify texts; (*) OJL336,23.12.1994,p. 1. () OJL 334,30.12.1995,p. 1.