1.  This Order may be cited as the Customs and Excise Duties (Travellers’ Allowances and Personal Reliefs)(New Member States)(Amendment) Order 2006 and comes into force on 1st January 2007.

2.  The Customs and Excise Duties (Travellers’ Allowances and Personal Reliefs)(New Member States) Order 2004(2) is amended as follows.

3.  After article 6 insert—

“7.—(1)  The references to Council Directive 77/388/EEC and Council Directive 92/12/EEC contained in the Orders listed in article 6 above are to be construed as references to those instruments as amended, modified or otherwise affected by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania and the adjustments to the treaties on which the European Union is founded(3).

(2) Paragraph 1 above has no effect in relation to article 21 of the Customs and Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs for Goods Permanently Imported) Order 1992.”.

4.  At the end of the Schedule add—

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order and the Excise Duty Points (Etc.)(New Member States)(Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I.2006/ 3159) give effect to derogations contained in the Act concerning the Accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union (“the new member States”)(4). Existing member States may maintain quantitative limits on the amount of cigarettes which may be brought into their territory, without further excise duty payment, from the new member States which have obtained derogations from Council Directive 92/79/EEC (regarding the approximation of taxes on cigarettes)(5).

This Order comes into force on 1st January 2007.

Article 3 inserts a new article 7 into the Customs and Excise Duties (Travellers’ Allowances and Personal Reliefs)(New Member States) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1002). Paragraph 1 of this new article updates references to Council Directive 77/388/EEC(6) and Council Directive 92/12/EEC(7) in the Customs and Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs for Goods Permanently Imported) Order 1992 (“the 1992 Order”)(8) and the Travellers’ Allowances Order 1994 (9). The territorial application of the Orders is defined by reference to the territorial application of the Directives. From 1st January 2007 the Directives will apply to the new member States. Paragraph 2 disapplies the effect of this in relation to article 21 of the 1992 Order (relief for legacies imported from third countries) as the reference in this case is updated by the Relief for Legacies Imported from Third Countries (Application) Order 2006 (S.I.2006/ 3158).

Article 4 amends the Schedule to the Customs and Excise Duties (Travellers’ Allowances and Personal Reliefs)(New Member States) Order 2004 so as to grant relief from excise duty on relevant tobacco products acquired in specified country and which are transported to the United Kingdom by the person who acquired them. The specified countries are set out in Column 1 of the Schedule and the nature and quantity of the products to which the relief applies are, in relation to each specified country, listed opposite that country in column 2 of the Schedule. The relief, in relation to each specified country, applies on or before the date shown opposite that country in Column 3 of the Schedule.

A transposition note setting out how this Order affects the implementation of the requirements of Council Directive 92/12/EEC is available at www.hmrc.gov.uk.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities or voluntary bodies.