Commission Regulation (EU) No 1209/2014 of 29 October 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 Text with EEA relevance

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 establishing a new statistical classification of products by activity (CPA) and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3696/93 (1), and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 established a statistical classification of products by activity (hereinafter referred to as the ‘CPA’), to meet the requirements of statistics in the Union.

(2) Following the update of the United Nations' Central Product Classification (‘CPC Ver.2’), the CPA should be adapted in order to maintain the comparability and consistency with product classification standards used at international level.

(3) Further amendments to the CPA, as well as alignment and clarification of the texts, are required following the revision of the Harmonised System (HS) and the Combined Nomenclature (CN), pursuant to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1001/2013 (2) and Council Regulation (EU) No 1326/2013 (3).

(4) Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2015.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 29 October 2014.

For the Commission The President José Manuel BARROSO

(1) OJ L 145, 4.6.2008, p. 65.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1001/2013 of 4 October 2013 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 290, 31.10.2013, p. 1.

(3) Council Regulation (EU) No 1326/2013 of 9 December 2013 amending Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, OJ L 334, 13.12.2013, p. 4.