No L 179/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 11. 7. 85 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1901/85 of 8 July 1985 amending Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 on Community transit THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 23§ thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commis- sion ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 678/85 of 18 February 1985 simplifying formalities in trade in goods within the Community (*) introduced a single document in place of the present declarations for dispatch, internal Community transit and entry of goods for home use or their entry under any other procedure in the Member State of destination ; whereas the format of the internal Community transit declara- tion is thereby affected ; Whereas the relevant single document, endorsed by the customs authorities of the Member State in which the dispatch formalities are completed, serves as evidence of the Community nature of the goods to which it relates ; Whereas it is necessary, in order to facilitate the task of economic operators, to extend to all types of trade the efforts to rationalize administrative documentation, which have culminated in the introduction of the single document; Whereas, in order to be complete, such a reform must also apply to the forms for use for the purposes of external Community transit; whereas it has been found that the single document form is capable of meeting this need; Whereas such uniformity in documentation is also desirable in the case of use of computerized declara- tion processing systems which print the declaration, because the printers attached to the computers need to be fed with continuous stationery ; whereas standardi- zation of the documents thus allows different types of () OJ No C 203, 6. 8. 1982, p. 5. () O] No C 42, 14. 2. 1983, p. 67. () OJ No C 90, 5. 4. 1983, p. 16. () OJ No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 1. declarations to be combined, notably for export and Community transit ; Whereas the movement of the goods concerned within the Community must continue to be carried out in accordance with the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3617/82(%); whereas the simplification introduced in this field as regards procedure or accor- ding to types of transport must not be affected ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 should be adapted accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 222/77 is hereby amended as follows : 1. Article 1 (5) is replaced by the following: ‘5. The provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community and the European Coal and Steel Community relating to the free movement of goods shall apply to those goods which, in accordance with Article 1 (2) (b), are carried under the procedure for external Community transit and which are not exported to a third country, provided their Community status is certified in accordance with Article 6 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 678/85('). The document laid down by this provision shall be issued after the cancellation of the customs export formalities relating to the Community measures which neces- sitated the exportation of the goods to a third country. () OJ No L 79, 21. 3. 1985, p. 1. 2. The first subparagraph of Article 2 (2) is replaced by the following : ‘2. The provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community and the European Coal and Steel Community which relate to the free movement of goods shall apply to movements of goods under an international procedure for temporary importation or temporary (®) OJ No L 38, 9. 2. 1977, p. 1. (® OJ No L 382, 31. 12. 1982, p. 6.