14.7.75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 183/3 REGULATION (EEC) No 1736/75 OF THE COUNCIL of 24 June 1975 on the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof; Having regard to the Commission; proposal from the Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament (); Whereas a thorough examination of the situation has shown the need to establish standard definitions and methods for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States; Whereas the European Parliament in its resolution - of 18 January 1972 embodying its Opinion on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council for a Regulation concerning the nomenclature of goods for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States (NIMEXE) expressed the hope that the unification of the nomenclatures of goods for external trade statistics would be supplemented as soon as possible by a corresponding harmonization of the concepts, methods and definitions used in external trade statistics; Whereas, since the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States are not collected and compiled by the institutions of the Community but by the Member States themselves, homogeneous and detailed data for the Community can only be obtained from national data collected and compiled according to standard definitions and methods; Whereas, as between Member States and between Member States and the institutions of the Community, the exchange of statistical data in conjunction with the application of modern methods for the transmission of information can be effected only if standard definitions and methods () OJ No C 19, 12. 4. 1973, p. 41, are applied to the collection and compilation of national results; Whereas the application of standard definitions and methods to the external trade statistics of the Community and the statistics on trade between Member States will encourage the standardization and simplification of the documents and other information media used in international trade; Whereas the replacement of national rules by Community rules will improve comparability and facilitate the analysis of the results of the external trade statistics of the Community and of the Member States; Whereas the application of standard definitions and methods could help to simplify the collection and compilation of data on trade between Member States, and the establishment of substitute Com- munity methods for the statistical recording of trade between Member States, should recording of the movement of goods at domestic frontiers be abolished; Whereas in order to conduct negotiations in which it is participating as a unit, it is essential for the Community to have homogeneous statistical data on external trade; Whereas the establishment of Community statistics on transit and warehousing traffic will be facilitated by the application of standard definitions ‘and methods to the statistical recording of all other movements of goods concerned with external trade; Whereas it is necessary, in order to ensure the provision of regular and complete statistical information on the external trade of the Community and on trade between the Member States, for the Member States and the institutions of the Com- munity to compile their results according to a standard systém and a standard calendar; Whereas the.standard definitions .and methods for the external trade: statistics: of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States must. be