10. 9. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 (Acts whose publication is obligatorj') COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2472/90 of 31 July 1990 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 Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statisti- cal nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (1), 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; Whereas it is necessary to amend the combined nomenclature to take account of : — changes in requirements relating to statistics or commercial policy, — the need to align or clarify texts; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Nomencla- ture Committee; ‘Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 provides for the Commission to adopt each year by means of a Regulation, to apply from 1 January of (1) OJ No L 256, 7.9. 1987, p. 1. the following year, a complete version of the com- bined nomenclature together with the corresponding autonomous and conventional rates of duty of the Common Customs Tariff, as it results from measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission (2), HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 i Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 is hereby replaced by the Annex to this Regulation. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991. (®) Incorporated in the Annex to this Regulation are amend- ments resulting from the adoption of the following meas- ures : . — Council Regulation (EEC) No 750/87 of 16 March 1987 (OJ No L 76, 18. 3. 1987, p.-1), — Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3469/89 of 16 November 1989 (OJ No L 337, 21.11. 1989, p. 5), — Commission Regulation (EEC) No 323/90 of 6 Feb- ruary 1990 (OJ No L 36, 8.2. 1990, p. 7), — Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1119/90 of 2 May 1990 (OJ No L 112, 3. 5. 1990, p. 9), — Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1251/90 of 11 May 1990 (OJ No L 121, 12. 5. 1990, p. 29), — Council Regulation (EEC) No 1436/90 of 21 May 1990 (OJ No L 138, 31. 5. 1990, p. 9).