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Article 161 Directive 2006/112/EC

Customs warehouses, warehouses other than customs warehouses and similar arrangements

Title IX · Exemptions › Chapter 10 · Exemptions for transactions relating to international trade › Section 1 · Customs warehouses, warehouses other than customs warehouses and similar arrangements

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Text of Article 161

Member States may exempt supply of the following goods and of services relating thereto:

(a)the supply of goods referred to in the first paragraph of Article 30 while they remain covered by arrangements for temporary importation with total exemption from import duty or by external transit arrangements;

(b)the supply of goods referred to in the second paragraph of Article 30 while they remain covered by the internal Community transit procedure referred to in Article 276.

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