- alcoholic products
means products (beer, wine, aperitifs with a wine or alcohol base, brandies, liqueurs or spirituous beverages, etc.) falling within heading Nos 2203 to 2208 of the Combined Nomenclature.
- basic necessities
means those goods required to meet the immediate needs of human beings, for example food, medicine, clothing and bed-clothes.
- blood-grouping reagents
means all reagents, whether of human, animal, plant or other origin used for blood-type grouping and for the detection of blood incompatibilities;
- commercial motor vehicle
means any motorised road vehicle (including tractors with or without trailers) which by its type of construction and its equipment is designed for and capable of transporting, whether for payment or not: and any road vehicle for a special purpose other than transport as such;
- educational materials
means objects and instruments (including calculators and typewriters) normally used by pupils or students for the purposes of their studies.
- equipment
means instruments, apparatus, machines and their accessories including spare parts and tools specially designed for their maintenance, inspection, calibration or repair, used for the purpose of scientific research;
- export duties
means agricultural levies and other export charges provided for under the common agricultural policy or under specific arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products;
- frontier zone
means, without prejudice to existing conventions in this respect, a zone which, as the crow flies, does not extend more than 15 kilometres from the frontier.
- goods of negligible value
means goods the intrinsic value of which does not exceed a total of EUR 150 per consignment.
- household effects
means personal effects, household linen, furnishings and equipment intended for the personal use of the persons concerned or for meeting their household needs;
- import duties
means customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and also agricultural levies and other import charges provided for under the common agricultural policy or under specific arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products;
- outfit
means underwear or household linen as well as clothing, whether or not new;
- personal property
means all the property referred to in Article 2(1)(c) constituting the estate of the deceased.
- private motor vehicle
means any motor vehicle not covered by the definition set out in point (a);
- products remaining
means products resulting from the examination, analysis or tests or goods not actually used.
- pupil or student
means any person enrolled in an educational establishment in order to attend full-time the courses offered therein;
- samples of goods
means any article representing a type of goods whose manner of presentation and quantity, for goods of the same type or quality, rule out its use for any purpose other than that of seeking orders.
- scientific instrument or apparatus
means any instrument or apparatus which, by reason of its objective technical characteristics and the results which it makes possible to obtain, is mainly or exclusively suited to scientific activities;
- special container
means any container fitted with specially designed apparatus for refrigeration systems, oxygenation systems, thermal insulation systems, or other systems.
- standard tanks
means:
- therapeutic substances of human origin
means human blood and its derivatives (whole human blood, dried human plasma, human albumin and fixed solutions of human plasma protein, human immunoglobulin and human fibrinogen);
- tissue-typing reagents
means all reagents whether of human, animal, plant or other origin used for the determination of human tissue-types.
- trade fair or similar event
means: but not exhibitions staged for private purposes in commercial stores or premises to sell goods of third countries.
- undertaking
means an independent economic unit of production or of the service industry.