‘9. 5. 8§ Official Journal of the European Communities No L 124/19 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1209/85 of 3 May 1985 amending for the 13th time Regulation (EEC) No 223/77 on provisions for the implementation of the Community transit procedure and for certain simplifica- tions of that procedure and amending for the third time Regulation (EEC) No 1664/81 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 3617/82 (3, and in particular Article 57 thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 223/77 (3, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1482/83 (¥, contains provisions concerning the link between the export declaration and the Community transit declara- tion ; whereas to ensure that the particulars entered on these documents correspond it should be stipulated that they must be presented to customs at the same time ; Whereas, in its judgment in Case 302/81 (), the Court of Justice held that the Member States are both _entitled and required to issue retroactively Control Copy T No 5 as proof that the goods in question have - reached the proper destination or have been used for the proper purpose; whereas the provisions on the issue of that document must be amended accordingly ; Whereas, in the interests of simplification, it is con- sidered advisable to replace by a pictogram the phrases currently displayed in all the languages of the Community on the labels which the railway authori- ties are obliged to use to identify consignments carried under the Community transit procedure ; Whereas the development of computerized procedures inter alia for making out transit documents, and the objectives in terms of efficiency and time-saving of those procedures are incompatible with the require- ment that such documents be signed by hand; () OJ No L 38, 9. 2. 1977, p. 1. () OJ No L 382, 31. 12. 1982, p. 6. () OJ No L 38, 9, 2. 1977, p. 20. () OJ No L 151, 9. 6. 1983, p. 29. () [1982] ECR 3443. Whereas, moreover, persons authorized to use the simplified departure formalities have to satisfy certain criteria which afford sufficient safeguards for such formalities to be further simplified by dispensing such persons from the requirement of handwritten signature - when they make out Community transit documents using computerized procedures ; Whereas experience has shown that when a T2L document is issued in triplicate it is necessary, for the purposes of proper administration, to state that fact on each of the copies; Whereas the movement of goods within the Commu- nity may in certain circumstances be effected without being covered by a Community transit procedure, in particular where the territory of a non-member country with which, there is no agreement rendering that procedure applicable is crossed ; whereas trade in goods in such circumstances must nevertheless be facilitated as far as possible ; whereas, in this context, the simplified procedure for the issue of the internal Community transit document T 2L used for the purpose of certifying the Community status of goods ought in particular to be extended to cover all modes of transport; Whereas it has been considered possible to simplify in certain respects the wording of several of the specimen forms annexed to Regulation (EEC) No 223/77; Whereas it has proved necessary to amend the list of goods whose carriage gives rise to an increase in the flat-rate guarantee in order to bring the amount of that guarantee into line with that of the charges imposed on such goods and to render the nature of the goods in question more transparent; Whereas, in order to standardize texts, certain drafting changes have proved necessary ; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1664/81 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1482/83, amended Regulation (EEC) No 223/77 in such a way as to adjust in certain respects the flat-rate (9 OJ No L 166, 24. 6. 1981, p. 11.