L 307/8 Official Journal of the European Union 25.11.2005 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1915/2005 of 24 November 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 with regard to the simplification of the recording of the quantity and specifications on particular movements of goods THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 () and in particular Articles 3(4) and (5), 9, 10 and 12 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 of 18 November 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 638/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 1901/2000 and (EEC) No 3590/92 (3 determines provisions for some data elements and specific goods. These provisions should be adapted in order to facilitate data collection and to become more accurate on some particular trade trans- actions. (2)  With a view to reducing the reporting burden for parties responsible for providing the information, Member States should have the possibility to exempt companies from providing information on the quantity in net mass for all the goods for which supplementary units have to be mentioned at the same time. (3) In order to meet national data requirements Member States should be given more flexibility on the collection of codes of the Nature of Transaction as long as infor- mation transmitted to the Commission is not affected. (4  With a view to harmonising Community statistics relating to the trading of vessels and aircraft between Member States, data transmission on trade with vessels and aircraft should be limited to transactions registered in the national ships or aircraft register and involving companies established in the reporting Member State. (5)  Additional provisions on data sources should be specified in order to enable national authorities to collect more precise information on arrival and dispatches as regards () O] L 102, 7.4.2004, p. 1. 0] L 343, 19.11.2004, p. 3. trade with vessels and aircraft, sea products, electricity and natural gas. (6)  Clarification is also needed regarding replacement parts which are used for repair. (7)  Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly. (8)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 1982/2004 is amended as follows: 1. Article 9 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 9 Quantity of the goods 1. The net mass shall be given in kilograms. However, where there is a supplementary unit mentioned according to paragraph 2, it is not mandatory to request the specifi- cation of net mass from the parties responsible for providing information. 2. The supplementary units shall be mentioned in accordance with the information set out in the Combined Nomenclature hereinafter referred to as “CN” as established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (*) opposite the subheadings concerned, the list of which is published in Part [ “Preliminary provisions” of the said Regulation. (*) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 493/2005 (O] L 82, 31.3.2005, p- 1), 2. In Article 10, the following sentence is added: ‘Member States may collect code numbers for national purposes in column B provided that only the code numbers of column A are transmitted to the Commission.’