No L 317/32 Official Journal of the European Communities 18. 12. 93 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3478/93 of 17 December 1993 on the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, : Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 of 24 June 1975 on the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1629/88 (3, and in particular Article 41 thereof, Whereas Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No 1736/75 requires certain data to be compiled according to the current version of the country nomenclature given in Annex C thereto; Whereas Article 36 of the said Regulation requires the Commission to publish in the Official Journal of the European Communities the country nomenclature in the version thereof valid as from 1 January of each year; Whereas the version thereof valid on 1 January 1993 was annexed to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 208/93 (% ; whereas from 1 January 1994 account will have to be taken of the change in the customs status, and therefore of the statistical status, of the Republic of San Marino and the new political situation in Eritrea and the Northern Mariana Islands ; whereas the ‘miscellaneous’ title in the Annex should be amended in view of the methodological distinction made since 1 January 1993 between the statis- tics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and the statistics relating to the trading of goods with third countries ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on External Trade Statistics, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The version valid on 1 January 1994 of the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States is set out in the Annex hereto. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1994. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all- Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 December 1993. () OJ No L 183, 14. 7. 1975, p. 3. () OJ No L 147, 14. 6. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No L 25, 2. 2. 1993, p. 11. For the Commission Henning CHRISTOPHERSEN Member of the Commission