
Article 1 
The following Additional Note is hereby inserted in Chapter 84 of the combined nomenclature annexed to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87;
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2. Subheading 8471 70 51 shall also apply to CD-ROM drives, being storage units for automatic data processing machines, which consists of drive units designed for retrieving the signals from CD-ROMs, audio CDs and photo CDs and equipped with a jack of earphones, a volume-control button or a start/stop button.
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Article 2 
Points 2 and 3 of the table annexed to Regulation (EC) No 2564/95 are hereby repealed.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 January 1997.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 23 December 1996.
For the Commission
Mario MONTI
Member of the Commission