10.2.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 37/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 113/2010 of 9 February 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics relating to external trade with non-member countries, as regards trade coverage, definition of the data, compilation of statistics on trade by business characteristics and by invoicing currency, and specific goods or movements (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European the revision of statistics should be laid down in order to ensure comparable and accurate figures. Union, (7)  The codes of nature of transaction should be amended in ) ) order to identify goods for processing under contract Having regard to Regulation (EQ) No 471/2009 of the European returning to the initial country of exports. Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on Community statistics relating to external trade with non-member countries and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 (1), and in (8)  Measures should be adopted which ensure the provision particular Article 3(2), (3) and (4), Article 4(5), Article 5(2) and of statistical data when further simplifications of customs (4), Article 6(2) and (3) and Article 8(1) and (2) thereof, formalities and controls would lead to non-availability of customs data, in particular simplifications pursuant to Whereas: Article 116 of Regulation (EC) No 450/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April (1)  Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 establishes a common 2008 la.ying down the Community Customs Code framework for the systematic production of European (Modernised Customs Code) (%). statistics relating to the trading of goods with non- member counties. (9  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 of ) ) 7 September 2000 laying down certain provisions for () It is necessary to flhgn the scope of ext.ernal trade the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) statistics with spec1f1c customs procedures in order to No 1172/95 as regards statistics on external trade (%) avoid double counting of trade flows, and to specify should consequently be repealed. the goods or movements exempted from external trade statistics for methodological reasons. (10)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in (6) For the purpose of harmonised compilation of external trade statistics, the data from records on imports and exports, including the codes to be used, should be specified. Provisions applicable to specific goods or movements should be established for methodological reasons. In order to ensure harmonised compilation of statistics on trade by business characteristics and aggregated statistics on trade broken down by invoicing currency, the methodology for production of these statistics should be defined. Provisions relating to the transmission of data by Member States to the Commission (Eurostat) and to () O] L 152, 16.6.2009, p. 23. accordance with the opinion of the Committee on statistics relating to the trading of goods with non- member countries, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1 Excluded goods and movements The goods and movements listed in Annex I shall be excluded from external trade statistics. ) ) O] O] L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 1. L 229, 9.9.2000, p. 14.