10The Customs Cooperation Council, now the World Customs Organisation (WCO), was created by the convention establishing that body concluded at Brussels on 15 December 1950. The Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (‘the HS’) was drawn up by the WCO and established by the International Convention on the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System concluded at Brussels on 14 June 1983 and approved, with its amending protocol of 24 June 1986, on behalf of the European Economic Community by Council Decision 87/369/EEC of 7 April 1987 (OJ 1987 L 198, p. 1). The CN takes over the six-digit headings and subheadings of the HS. Only the seventh and eighth digits creating further subdivisions are specific to it.
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