Explained: Goods Not Fulfilling the Conditions Prescribed in the Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community

Goods not fulfilling Articles 9 and 10 of the treaty establishing the European Economic Community?

The reason behind this yellow sticker on your package is Treaty establishing the European Economic Community – EEC (Rome, 25 March 1957), a successor to the most important treaty of the European Union – the Treaty of Rome.

Specifically the articles 9 and 10

Here is a copy-paste of articles 9 and 10 from the source document “Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community“:

Article 9

1. The Community shall be based upon a customs union covering the exchange of all

goods and comprising both the prohibition, as between Member States, of customs duties

on importation and exportation and all charges with equivalent effect and the adoption of

a common customs tariff in their relations with third countries.

2. The provisions of Chapter 1, Section 1 and of Chapter 2 of this Title shall apply to

products originating in Member States and also to products coming from third countries

and having been entered for consumption in Member States.

Article 10

1. Products having been entered for consumption in a Member State shall be deemed to

be products coming from a third country in cases where, in respect of such products, the

necessary import formalities have been complied with and the appropriate customs duties

or charges with equivalent effect have been levied in such Member State and where such

products have not benefited by any total or partial drawback on such duties or charges.

2. The Commission shall, before the end of the first year after the date of the entry into

force of this Treaty, lay down the methods of administrative co-operation to be adopted

for the application of Article 9, paragraph 2, taking due account of the need for reducing

as far as possible the formalities imposed on trade.

Before the end of the first year after the date of the entry into force of this Treaty, the

Commission shall lay down the provisions applicable, as regards trade between Member

States, to goods originating in another Member State in whose manufacture products

have been used on which the appropriate customs duties or charges with equivalent effect

in the exporting Member State have not been levied or which have benefited by a total or

partial drawback on such duties or charges.

When laying down such provisions, the Commission shall take due account of the rules

for the elimination of customs duties within the Community and for the progressive

application of the common customs tariff.

So what does it all mean?

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