B. Equipment necessary for businessmen, business efficiency consultants, productivity experts, accountants and members of similar professions, such as:
\nC. Equipment necessary for experts undertaking topographical surveys or geophysical prospecting work, such as:
\nD. Equipment necessary for experts combating pollution.
\nE. Instruments and apparatus necessary for doctors, surgeons, veterinary surgeons, midwives and members of similar professions.
\nF. Equipment necessary for archeologists, paleontologists, geographers, zoologists and other scientists.
\nG. Equipment necessary for entertainers, theatre companies and orchestras, including all articles used for public or private performances (musical instruments, costumes, scenery, etc.).
\nH. Equipment necessary for lecturers to illustrate their lectures.
\nI. Equipment necessary for photography trips (cameras of all kinds, cassettes, exposure meters, lenses, tripods, accumulators, battery belts, battery chargers, monitors, lighting equipment, fashion goods and accessories for models, etc.).
\nJ. Vehicles designed or specially adapted for the purposes specified above, such as mobile inspection units, travelling workshops and travelling laboratories.
\nANNEX B.3 ANNEX CONCERNING CONTAINERS, PALLETS, PACKINGS, SAMPLES AND OTHER GOODS IMPORTED IN CONNECTION WITH A COMMERCIAL OPERATION
\nDefinitions
\n(a) goods imported in connection with a commercial operation means: containers, pallets, packings, samples, advertising films and any other goods imported in connection with a commercial operation but whose importation does not in itself constitute a commercial operation; (b) packing means: all articles and materials used, or to be used, in the state in which they are imported, to pack, protect, stow or separate goods, excluding packing materials such as straw, paper, glass-wool, shavings, etc., when imported in bulk. Containers and pallets, as defined in items (c) and (d) of this Article respectively, are also excluded; (c) container means: an article of transport equipment (lift-van, movable tank or other similar structure): (i) fully or partially enclosed to constitute a compartment intended for containing goods; (ii) of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use; (iii) specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods, by one or more modes of transport, without intermediate reloading; (iv) designed for ready handling, particularly when being transferred from one mode of transport to another; (v) designed to be easy to fill and to empty; and (vi) having an internal volume of one cubic meter or more. 'Container' shall include the accessories and equipment of the container, appropriate for the type concerned, provided that such accessories and equipment are carried with the container. The term 'container' shall not include vehicles, accessories or spare parts of vehicles, or packaging or pallets. 'Demountable bodies' shall be regarded as containers; (d) pallet means: a device on the deck of which a quantity of goods can be assembled to form a unit load for the purpose of transporting it, or of handling or stacking it with the assistance of mechanical appliances. This device is made up of two decks separated by bearers, or of a single deck supported by feet; its overall height is reduced to the minimum compatible with handling by fork lift trucks or pallet trucks; it may or may not have a superstructure; (e) samples means: articles which are representative of a particular category of goods already produced or are examples of goods the production of which is contemplated, but does not include identical articles brought in by the same individual, or sent to a single consignee, in such quantity that, taken as a whole, they no longer constitute samples under ordinary commercial usage; (f) advertising films means: recorded visual media, with or without sound track, consisting
\nessentially of images showing the nature or operation of products or equipment put up for sale or hire by a person established or resident in the territory of another Contracting Party, provided that the films are of a kind suitable for exhibition to prospective customers but not for general exhibition to the public; and are imported in a packet which contains not more than one copy of each film and which does not form part of a larger consignment of films; (g) internal traffic means: the carriage of goods loaded in the customs territory of a Contracting Party for unloading at a place within the customs territory of the same Contracting Party.
\nScope
\noperation shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention: (a) packings which are imported filled for re-exportation empty or filled, or are imported empty for re-exportation filled; (b) containers, whether or not filled with goods, and accessories and equipment for temporarily admitted containers, which are either imported with a container to be re-exported separately or with another container, or are imported separately to be re-exported with a container; (c) component parts intended for the repair of containers granted temporary admission under item (b) of this Article; (d) pallets; (e) samples; (f) advertising films; (g) any other goods imported for any of the purposes listed at Appendix I to this Annex in connection with a commercial operation but whose importation does not in itself constitute a commercial operation.
\nof Contracting Parties in respect of the importation of goods carried in containers or packings, or on pallets.
\n(a) packings can be re-exported only by the person to whom the temporary admission facilities were granted. They shall not, even occasionally, be used in internal traffic; (b) containers must be marked in the manner prescribed in Appendix II to this Annex. They may be used for the carriage of goods in internal traffic, in which case each Contracting Party shall be entitled to impose the following conditions:
\nThey may not be sold or put to normal use except for the purposes of demonstration, or used in any way for hire or reward while in the territory of temporary admission; (e) the goods referred to in items 1 and 2 of Appendix I to this Annex shall not be used for gainful activity.
\ngranted without a customs document or security being required.
\nwith a commercial operation shall be at least six months from the date of temporary admission.
\nEach Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with Article 29 of this Convention, in respect of: (a) no more than three groups of goods listed in Article 2; (b) Article 5; of this Annex.
\npart thereof.
\nArticle 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the following Conventions and provisions:
\nAppendix I List of goods pursuant to Article 2 (g) 1. Goods imported for testing, checking, experiments or demonstrations.
\nAppendix II Provisions concerning the marking of containers 1. The following information shall be durably marked in an appropriate and clearly visible place on containers: (a) the identification of the owner or principal operator; (b) the identification marks and numbers of the container, given by the owner or operator; and (c) the tare weight of the container, including all its permanently fixed equipment.
\nFilm produced by the calender method of production shall not be used; (b) when identification marks and numbers have to be changed, the film to be replaced shall be removed completely prior to the affixing of the new film; placing of new film over an existing film shall not be permitted.
\nANNEX B.4 ANNEX CONCERNING GOODS IMPORTED IN CONNECTION WITH A MANUFACTURING OPERATION
\nDefinition
\nmanufacturing operation means:
\nScope
\ngranted temporary admission in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\n(a) goods imported in connection with a manufacturing operation must be owned by a person established outside the territory of temporary admission and intended for a person established in that territory; (b) all or part, as national legislation may require, of the production resulting from the use of the goods imported in connection with a manufacturing operation, as referred to in Article 1 (1) of this Annex, must be exported from the territory of temporary admission; (c) replacement means of production must be made available, temporarily and free of charge, to the person established in the territory of temporary admission by or through the supplier of the means of production the delivery of which is delayed or which must be repaired.
\nArticle 1, (1), of this Annex shall be at least 12 months from the date of temporary admission.
\nANNEX B.5 ANNEX CONCERNING GOODS IMPORTED FOR EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC OR CULTURAL PURPOSES
\nDefinitions
\n(a) goods imported for educational, scientific or cultural purposes means: scientific equipment, pedagogic material, welfare material for seafarers, and any other goods imported in connection with educational, scientific or cultural activities; (b) in paragraph (a): (i) scientific equipment and pedagogic material means: any models, instruments, apparatus, machines or accessories therefor used for purposes of scientific research or educational or vocational training; (ii) welfare material for seafarers means: material for the pursuit of cultural, educational, recreational, religious or sporting activities by persons charged with duties in connection with the working or service at sea of a foreign ship engaged in international maritime traffic.
\nIllustrative lists of 'pedagogic material', 'welfare material for seafarers' and 'any other goods imported in connection with educational, scientific or cultural activities' are reproduced at Appendices I, II and III, respectively, to this Annex.
\nScope
\naccordance with Article 2 of this Convention: (a) goods imported exclusively for educational, scientific or cultural purposes; (b) spare parts for scientific equipment and pedagogic material which has been granted temporary admission under paragraph (a) above, and tools specially designed for the maintenance, checking, gauging or repair of such equipment.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\n(a) goods imported for educational, scientific or cultural purposes must be owned by a person established outside the territory of temporary admission and must be imported by approved institutions in reasonable quantities having regard to the purpose of the importation. They must not be used for commercial purposes; (b) welfare material for seafarers must be used on board foreign ships engaged in international maritime traffic, or must be unloaded from the ship to be temporarily used ashore by the crew, or must be imported for use in hostels, clubs or recreation centres for seafarers, managed either by official organizations or by religious or other non-profit making organizations, and places of worship where services for seafarers are regularly held.
\nwelfare material for seafarers used on board ships shall be granted without a customs document or security being required. Where necessary, an inventory together with a written undertaking to re-export, may be required for scientific equipment and pedagogic material.
\nThe period for the re-exportation of goods imported for educational, scientific or cultural purposes shall be at least 12 months from the date of temporary admission.
\nEach Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with Article 29 of this Convention, in respect of the provisions of Article 4 of this Annex, in so far as they relate to scientific equipment and pedagogic material.
\npart thereof.
\nArticle 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the Customs Convention on welfare material for seafarers, Brussels, 1 December 1964, the Customs Convention on the temporary importation of scientific equipment, Brussels, 11 June 1968, and the Customs Convention on the temporary importation of pedagogic material, Brussels, 8 June 1970, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this Annex and are Contracting Parties to those Conventions.
\nAppendix I Illustrative list (a) Sound or image recorders or reproducers, such as:
\nAppendix II Illustrative list (a) Reading material, such as:
\nAppendix III Illustrative list Goods, such as:
\nANNEX B.6 ANNEX CONCERNING TRAVELLERS' PERSONAL EFFECTS AND GOODS IMPORTED FOR SPORTS PURPOSES
\nDefinitions
\n(a) traveller means: any person who temporarily enters the territory of a Contracting Party in which he or she does not normally reside, for the purposes of tourism, sports, business, professional meetings, health, study, etc.; (b) personal effects means: all articles, new or used, which a traveller may reasonably require for his or her personal use during the journey, taking into account all the circumstances of the journey, but excluding any goods imported for commercial purposes. An illustrative list of personal effects is reproduced at Appendix I to this Annex; (c) goods imported for sports purposes means: sports requisites and other articles for use by travellers in sports contests or demonstrations or for training in the territory of temporary admission. An illustrative list of such goods is reproduced at Appendix II to this Annex.
\nScope
\ngranted temporary admission in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\n(a) personal effects must be imported on the person or in the baggage (whether or not accompanied) of the traveller; (b) goods imported for sports purposes must be owned by a person established or resident outside the territory of temporary admission, and must be imported in reasonable quantities in the light of their intended use.
\na customs document or security being required. However, in the case of articles which involve a high amount of import duties and taxes, a customs document and security may be required.
\nperson who imported them leaves the territory of temporary admission.
\npart thereof.
\nArticle 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the application of Articles 2 and 5 of the Convention concerning customs facilities for touring, New York, 4 June 1954, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this Annex and are Contracting Parties to that Convention.
\nAppendix I Illustrative list 1. Clothing.
\nAppendix II Illustrative list A. Track and field equipment, such as:
\nB. Ball game equipment, such as:
\nC. Winter sports equipment, such as:
\nD. Sports wear, shoes, gloves, headgear, etc., of any kind.
\nE. Water sports equipment, such as:
\nF. Motor vehicles and craft, such as:
\nG. Equipment for miscellaneous events, such as:
\nH. Auxiliary equipment, such as:
\nANNEX B.7 ANNEX CONCERNING TOURIST PUBLICITY MATERIAL
\nDefinition
\ngoods imported for the purpose of encouraging the public to visit another foreign country, in particular in order to attend cultural, religious, touristic, sporting or professional meetings or demonstrations held there. An illustrative list of such material is reproduced at the appendix to this Annex.
\nScope
\nwhich outright importation free of import duties and taxes shall be granted, tourist publicity material shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\nmaterial must be owned by a person established outside the territory of temporary admission, and must be imported in reasonable quantities in the light of its intended use.
\nshall be at least 12 months from the date of temporary admission.
\ngranted for the following publicity material: (a) documents (folders, pamphlets, books, magazines, guides, posters framed or unframed, unframed photographs and photographic enlargements, maps whether illustrated or not, printed window transparencies), for free distribution, provided these documents do not contain more than 25 % private commercial advertising and are obviously designed for general publicity purposes; (b) lists and year-books of foreign hotels published or sponsored by official tourist agencies and timetables of transport services operating abroad, when such documents are for free distribution and do not contain more than 25 % private commercial advertising; (c) technical material sent to the accredited representatives or correspondents appointed by national official tourist agencies, not intended for distribution, i.e., year-books, telephone directories, lists of hotels, catalogues of fairs, samples of negligible value of handicraft, documentation about museums, universities, spas and similar institutions.
\nthereof.
\nArticle 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning customs facilities for touring, relating to the importation of tourist publicity documents and material, New York, 4 June 1954, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this Annex and are Contracting Parties to that Protocol.
\nAppendix Illustrative list 1. Material intended for display in the office of the accredited representatives or correspondents appointed by the official national tourist agencies or in other places approved by the customs authorities of the territory of temporary admission: pictures and drawings, framed photographs and photographic enlargements, art books, paintings, engravings or lithographs, sculptures and tapestries and other similar works of art.
\nANNEX B.8 ANNEX CONCERNING GOODS IMPORTED AS FRONTIER TRAFFIC
\nDefinitions
\n(a) goods imported as frontier traffic means:
\nScope
\nadmission in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\n(a) goods imported as frontier traffic must be owned by a frontier zone inhabitant of the frontier zone adjacent to that of temporary admission; (b) equipment for working on land must be used by frontier zone inhabitants of the frontier zone adjacent to that of temporary admission who work on land located in the latter frontier zone. This equipment must be used for the performance of agricultural work or forestry work such as the onloading or transport of timber, or for pisciculture; (c) frontier traffic for repair, manufacture or processing must be of a strictly non-criminal nature.
\nbe granted without a customs document or security being required.
\ntraffic shall be at least 12 months from the date of temporary admission.
\nANNEX B.9 ANNEX CONCERNING GOODS IMPORTED FOR HUMANITARIAN PURPOSES
\nDefinitions
\n(a) goods imported for humanitarian purposes means: medical, surgical and laboratory equipment and relief consignments; (b) relief consignments means: all goods, such as vehicles and other means of transport, blankets, tents, prefabricated houses or other goods of prime necessity, forwarded as aid to those affected by natural disaster and similar catastrophes.
\nScope
\nadmission in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\n(a) goods imported for humanitarian purposes must be owned by a person established outside the territory of temporary admission and must be loaned free of charge; (b) medical, surgical and laboratory equipment must be intended for use by hospitals and other medical institutions which, finding themselves in exceptional circumstances, have urgent need of it, provided this equipment is not available in sufficient quantity in the territory of temporary admission; (c) relief consignments must be dispatched to persons approved by the competent authorities in the territory of temporary admission.
\nwritten undertaking to re-export, may be accepted for medical, surgical and laboratory equipment, in lieu of a customs document and security.
\nlaboratory equipment shall be determined in accordance with the needs.
\nDefinitions
\n(a) means of transport means: any vessel (including lighters and barges, whether or not shipborne, and hydrofoils), hovercraft, aircraft, motor road vehicles (including cycles with engines, trailers, semi-trailers and combinations of vehicles) and railway rolling stock; together with their normal spare parts, accessories and equipment carried on board means of transport (including special equipment for the loading, unloading, handling and protection of cargo); (b) commercial use means: the transport of persons for remuneration or the industrial or commercial transport of goods, whether or not for remuneration; (c) private use means: the transport exclusively for personal use by the person concerned excluding commercial use; (d) internal traffic means: the carriage of persons or goods picked up or loaded in the territory of temporary admission for setting down or unloading at a place within the same territory; (e) normal tanks means: the tanks designed by the manufacturer for all means of transport of the same type as the means of transport in question and whose permanent fitting enables a fuel to be used directly, both for the purpose of propulsion and, where appropriate, for the operation, during transport, of refrigeration systems and other systems. Tanks fitted to means of transport designed for direct use of other types of fuel and tanks fitted to the other systems with which the means of transport may be equipped shall also be considered to be normal tanks.
\nScope
\nwith Article 2 of this Convention: (a) means of transport for commercial use or for private use; (b) spare parts and equipment imported for the repair of a means of transport already temporarily admitted. Replaced parts and equipment which are not re-exported shall be liable to import duties and taxes except where they are disposed of as provided for in Article 14 of this Convention.
\nwhich have become necessary during the journey to or within the territory of temporary admission and which are carried out during the period of temporary admission, shall not be deemed to involve a change within the meaning of Article 1 (a) of this Convention.
\ntemporarily admitted as well as lubrication oils for the normal use of such means of transport shall be admitted without payment of import duties and taxes and without application of import prohibitions or restrictions.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\n(a) means of transport for commercial use must be registered in a territory other than that of temporary admission, in the name of a person established or resident in a territory other than that of temporary admission, and be imported and used by persons operating from such a territory; (b) means of transport for private use must be registered in a territory other than that of temporary admission, in the name of a person established or resident in a territory other than that of temporary admission, and be imported and used by persons resident in such a territory.
\ncustoms document or security being required.
\nNotwithstanding the provisions of Article 5 of this Annex, (a) means of transport for commercial use may be used by third persons, even if established or resident in the territory of temporary admission, who are duly authorized by the persons granted temporary admission and who operate on their behalf; (b) means of transport for private use may be used by third persons who are duly authorized by the persons granted temporary admission.
\nEach Contracting Party may permit the use by a person resident in its territory, in particular, where the means of transport is used on behalf and on the instructions of the person granted temporary admission.
\ntemporary admission to, or to withdraw that benefit from: (a) means of transport for commercial use which are used in internal traffic; (b) means of transport for private use which are used for commercial use in internal traffic; (c) means of transport which are hired after importation or, if imported on hire, are re-hired or sublet for a purpose other than immediate re-exportation.
\nthe transport operations for which they were imported have been completed.
\nEach Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with Article 29 of this Convention in respect of: (a) Article 2 (a), in so far as it relates to temporary admission of motor road vehicles and railway rolling stock; (b) Article 6, in so far as it relates to motor road vehicles for commercial use and to means of transport for private use; (c) Article 9 paragraph 2, of this Annex.
\nArticle 27 of this Convention, terminate and replace the Customs Convention on the temporary importation of private road vehicles, New York, 4 June 1954, the Customs Convention on the temporary importation of commercial road vehicles, Geneva, 18 May 1956, and the Customs Convention on the temporary importation for private use of aircraft and pleasure boats, Geneva, 18 May 1956, in relations between the Contracting Parties which have accepted this Annex and are Contracting Parties to those Conventions.
\nANNEX D ANNEX CONCERNING ANIMALS
\nDefinitions
\n(a) animals means: live animals of any species; (b) frontier zone means: an area of the customs territory adjacent to the land frontier, the extent of which is determined in national legislation and whose limits serve to distinguish frontier traffic from other traffic; (c) frontier zone inhabitants means: persons established or resident in a frontier zone; (d) frontier traffic means: importations carried out by frontier zone inhabitants between two adjacent frontier zones.
\nScope
\nAnnex shall be granted temporary admission in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\n(a) animals must be owned by a person established or resident outside the territory of temporary admission; (b) draught animals which are to be used for working on land situated in the frontier zone of the territory of temporary admission, must be imported by frontier zone inhabitants of the frontier zone adjacent to that of temporary admission.
\n3 (b) of this Annex and of animals imported for transhumance or grazing on land situated in the frontier zone shall be granted without a customs document or security being required.
\nreservation, in accordance with Article 29 of this Convention, in respect of Article 4 (1) of this Annex.
\nmonths from the date of temporary admission.
\nthereof.
\nAppendix List as per Article 2 1. Dressage.
\nANNEX E ANNEX CONCERNING GOODS IMPORTED WITH PARTIAL RELIEF FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TAXES
\nDefinitions
\n(a) goods imported with partial relief means: goods which are mentioned in the other Annexes to this Convention but which do not fulfil all the conditions stipulated therein for the granting of temporary admission with total relief from import duties and taxes, and goods which are not mentioned in such other Annexes and which are imported to be temporarily used for, for example, production or work projects; (b) partial relief means: relief from payment of a part of the total amount of import duties and taxes which would otherwise be payable had the goods been cleared for home use on the date on which they were placed under the temporary admission procedure.
\nScope
\ngranted temporary admission with partial relief in accordance with Article 2 of this Convention.
\nMiscellaneous provisions
\nwith partial relief must be owned by a person established or resident outside the territory of temporary admission.
\nentitled to, or excluded from, the benefit of temporary admission with partial relief. The depositary of this Convention shall be notified of the content of this list.
\nprocedure may not exceed 5 %, for every month or fraction of a month during which the goods have been placed under the procedure of temporary admission with partial relief, of the amount of import duties and taxes which would have been chargeable had the goods been cleared for home use on the date on which they were placed under the temporary admission procedure.
\nexceed that which would have been charged if the goods concerned had been cleared for home use on the date on which they were placed under the temporary admission procedure.
\nbe levied by the competent authorities when the procedure is discharged.
\nrelief shall be determined taking into account the provisions of Articles 5 and 6 of this Annex.
\nEach Contracting Party shall have the right to enter a reservation, in accordance with Article 29 of this Convention, in respect of Article 2 of this Annex, in so far as it relates to partial relief from import taxes.
\nANNEX II RESERVATIONS The Community accepts the Annexes to the Istanbul Convention subject to the following reservations:
\nANNEX III NOTIFICATIONS In accordance with Article 24 (6) of the Istanbul Convention, the European Community hereby notifies the Secretary-General of the Customs Cooperation Council, as depositary of the said Convention, that:
\nFor the purposes of Article 18 of the Convention, the territory of the Community must be taken to be a single territory in respect of the matters within its competence, in accordance with the abovementioned notification pursuant ot Article 24 (7) of the Convention.
\nANNEX IV ACCEPTANCE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CUSTOMS COOPERATION COUNCIL For the purposes of Annexes A and C to the Istanbul Convention, the Community hereby notifies the Secretary-General of the Customs Cooperation Council that it accepts the Customs Cooperation Council Recommendation of 25 June 1992 concerning acceptance of the ATA carnet for the temporary admission procedure and the Customs Cooperation Council recommendation of the same date concerning acceptance of the CDP carnet for the temporary admission procedure, within the periods and on the conditions laid down in those recommendations. The Community will apply the recommendations in its relations with parties to the Conventions referred to in the said recommendations which have also accepted them.