No L 119/100 Official Journal of the European Communities 29. 4. 89 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1159/89 of 28 April 1989 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87 on provisions for the implementation of the Community  transit procedure and for certain simplifications of that procedure, Regulations (EEC) No 2855/85 and (EEC) No 2793/86 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 (), 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 Regulation (EEC) No 1062/87 (), and in particular Article 3 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1900/85 of 8 July 1985 introducing Community export and import declaration forms (), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No1059/86 ("), and in particular Article 8 thereof, - Whereas the provisions concerning the single document allow authorization of the use of additional lists ; whereas for the purposes of simplification this possibility should be extended to transit operations; Whereas the simplified Community transit procedure for the carriage of goods by rail by means of large containers is effected under cover of a special transport document, which has the same value as a customs transit document which is entitled “Community transit transfer note’; Whereas the model of this document has been recently adapted ; whereas, moreover, nothing prohibits the use of this document by all transport - undertakings- for all consignments, even without application of the simplified - procedure for Community transit; whereas these reforms necessitate a number of adaptations of a technical nature to the provisions concerning this simplified procedure ; () OJ No L 38, 9. 2. 1977, p. 1. () O] No L 157, 17. 6. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 1. () O] No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 7. () OJ No L 107, 22. 4. 1987, p. 1. 9 O] No L 179, 11. 7. 1985, p. 4. () OJ No L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 7. Whereas it is necessary to specify the elements which must comprise the authentication of T 2L documents and, where necessary, documents T 2 L bis, where these are authenticated. by the ‘customs -authorities of - the Member State of departure; Whereas it is desirable to exempt the authorized consignor from the handwritten signature requirement in respect .of T 2L documents where such documents are produced by an electronic or automatic data processing system ; Whereas it has proved useful to simplify the presentation of certain forms - used in the application of. the Community transit procedure by replacing’ their multilingual title by a code attributed to each form for the purposes of identifying it, together with the title in the language of the form itself; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2793/86 of 22 July 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 (), as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1469/88 (%), provided .for, in particular, the indication in the- first subdivision of box 1:of the forms, of the symbol.IM in the case of declaration for import of non-Community goods, while Council - Regulation (EEC). No 1900/85 provides for the use of the IM form for placing goods imported into the customs territory of the Community under any customs procedure as well as for placing non-Community goods, in trade between.two Member States, under a customs procedure at destination ; whereas some confusion may arise as a result for both traders and administrations ; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2793/86 should be amended accordingly ; Whereas experience has shown the need to. clarify the conditions laid down for the completion of certain boxes of the forms in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2855/85 of- 18 September - 1985 laying down implementing provisions for -Council Regulations (EEC) No 678/85 and (EEC) No 679/85 (**), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1469/88; () OJ No L 263, 15. 9. 1986, p. 74. ) OJ No L 132, 28. 5. 1988, p. 67. (%) OJ No L 274, 15. 10. 1985, p. 1.