Council Regulation (EC) No 1186/2009 Article 28

Article 28

1. Without prejudice to the measures in force in the Member States with regard to industrial and commercial policy, and subject to Articles 29 to 33, the capital goods and other equipment belonging to undertakings which definitively cease their activity in a third country and move to the customs territory of the Community in order to carry on a similar activity there, shall be admitted free of import duties. Where the undertaking transferred is an agricultural holding, its livestock shall also be admitted free of import duties. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, ‘undertaking’ means an independent economic unit of production or of the service industry.

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