28. 5. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 132/67 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1469/88 of 26 May 1988 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87 on provisions for the impleméntation of the Community transit procedure and for certain simplifications of that procedure, and Regulation (EEC) No 2793/86 and (EEC) No 2855/85 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 of 13 December 1976 on Community transit (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1674/87 (3, and in _particular Article 57 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 678/85 of 18 February 1985 simplifying formalities in trade in goods within the Community (%), and in particular Article 17 thereof, \ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 679/85 of 18 February 1985 introducing a specimen declaration form to be used in trade in goods within the Community (), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87 (), and in patticular Article 3 thereof, ) Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1674/87 inserted into Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 an Article 40a, which introduces a procedure for waiving the guarantee for internal Community transit operations ; whereas Article 40a provides that certain implementing measures shall be determined in accordance with the procedure laid down " in Article 57; - Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87, as. amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2823/87 (), contains inter alia provisions for the implementation of the Community transit procedure and must, therefore, be supplemented accordingly ; Whereas the rule contained in Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87 which provides that goods under cover of a Community transit document bearing no indication of their customs status are.deemed to be moving under the external Community transit procedure should be amended to take account of the situation where such goods are subject inter alia to export duties or other Community measures applicable to export ; Whereas it should be specified that the time limit prescribed by the office of departure by which the goods () OJ No L 38, 9. 2. 1977, p. 1. () OJ No L 157, 17. 6. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 1. () OJ No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 7. () OJ No L 107, 22. 4. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 270, 23. 9. 1987, p. 1. must be produced at the office of destination is binding on the customs authorities of the countries whose territory is entered during a Community transit operation and shall not therefore be altered by those authorities ; Whereas, in order to overcome difficulties which may . arise from the renumbering of boxes on railway documents used as customs transit documents-under the simplified Community transit procedure for the carriage of goods by rail, it has proved necessary to refer to such boxes by their heading rather than by their number; Whereas for the purposes of linguistic uniformity certain alterations to the wording of the Regulation have proved necessary ; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2793/86 of 22 July 1986 laying down the codes to be used in the forms laid down in Council Regulations (EEC) No " 678/85, (EEC) No 1900/85 and (EEC) No 222/77 (7), and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2855/85 of 18 September 1985 laying down implementing provisions for Council Regulation (EEC) No 678/85 simplifying formalities in trade in goods within the Community and Council Regulation (EEC) No 679/85 introducing a specimen declaration form for use in trade in goods within the Community (), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2792/86 (°), provide in particular that, in the case of goods moving under the internal Community transit procedure in the context of trade between two Member States, the symbol ‘COM’ shall be entered in the first subdivision of box No 1 of the declaration forms for use in trade in goods within the Community and on the document proving the Community status of the goods ; whereas when the abovementioned procedure and document are used in the context of other types of trade, the symbol ‘COM’ is not used ; whereas, therefore, this may result in a certain amount of confusion both for . commercial operators and administrative authorities ; whereas the most reasonable solution, therefore, is to abolish the requirement to enter the symbol ‘COM’ in the abovementioned ' cases; whereas abolition of = the requirement to enter the symbol ‘COM’ necessitates amendments to the text of Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87 ; () OJ No L 263, 15. 9. 1986, p. 74. () OJ No L 274, 15. 10. 1985, p. 1. () OJ No L 263, 15. 9. 1986, p. 9.