16It is apparent from the order for reference, first, that when they were detained by the Hauptzollamt Löbau — Zollamt Zittau, on 31 December 2000, the goods in issue were subject to a suspensive external transit customs procedure under Article 84(1)(a) of the Customs Code; second, that those goods came from the Republic of Poland, an associated State of the European Union under the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Poland, of the other part, concluded and approved by Decision 93/743/Euratom, ECSC, EC of the Council and the Commission of 13 December 1993 (OJ 1993 L 348, p. 1), and, third, that those goods were not, at the time of their detention, in free circulation in the Community, because the removal of the customs seal was to take place in Ireland, the Member State where the goods were to be put into free circulation.
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