
Article 1 
In Annex I, Part One, Section II ‘Special Provisions’ of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, a letter G ‘Duty-Free Treatment of Multi-Chip Integrated Circuits (MCPs)’ as contained in the Annex to this regulation is added.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 April 2006.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 March 2006.
For the Council
The President
U. PLASSNIK
ANNEX

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G.  1. Relief from customs duty is provided for multi-chip integrated circuits (MCPs) consisting of two or more interconnected monolithic integrated circuits combined to all intents and purposes indivisibly, whether or not on one or more insulating substrates, with or without lead frames, but with no other active or passive circuit elements.
 2. Goods eligible to this relief of customs duty are covered by the following headings: 8418, 8422, 8450, 8466, 8473, 8517, 8518, 8522, 8523, 8525, 8528, 8529, 8530, 8531, 8535, 8536, 8537, 8538, 8543, 8548, 8708, 9009, 9026, 9031, 9504.
 3. Upon presentation to the Member State's customs authorities of the customs declaration for release into free circulation of MCPs, the declarant shall indicate in box 44 of the Single Administrative Document (“SAD”) the reference number C500.
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