30. 10. 98 [ EN ] Official Journal of the European Communities (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2261/98 of 26 October 1998 amending Annex | to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common C ustoms Tariff THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (1), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof, W hereas Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter called the ‘combined nomen- clature’, to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the Community; (1) 0) L 256,7.9.1987, p. 1. W hereas it is necessary to amend the combined nomencla- ture to take account of: — changes in requirements relating to statistics and com- mercial policy, in particular by virtue of Council Decision 94/800/EC of 22 December 1994 concerning the conclusion on behalf of the European Community, as regards matters within its competence, of the agree- ments reached in the Uruguay Round multilateral negotiations (1986-1994) (2) and Council Regulation (EC) No 3093/95 of 22 December 1995 laying down the rates of duty to be applied by the Community resulting from negotiations under GATT Article XXIV:6 conse- quent upon the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union (3), — the need to align or clarify texts; W hereas this Regulation also includes the conventional rates of duty applicable from 1 July 1999; (2) 0) L 336, 23.12. 1994, p. 1. (3) 0) L 334, 30. 12. 1995, p. 1.