2001/130/EC: Decision No 2/2001 of the EU-Romania Association Council of 23 January 2001 amending Protocol 4 to the Europe Agreement with Romania concerning the definition of the concept of "originating products" and methods of administrative cooperation - Main contents

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2001/130/EC: Decision No 2/2001 of the EU-Romania Association Council of 23 January 2001 amending Protocol 4 to the Europe Agreement with Romania concerning the definition of the concept of "originating products" and methods of administrative cooperation

Official Journal L 048 , 17/02/2001 P. 0027 - 0030

Decision No 2/2001 of the EU-Romania Association Council

of 23 January 2001

amending Protocol 4 to the Europe Agreement with Romania concerning the definition of the concept of "originating products" and methods of administrative cooperation

(2001/130/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Romania, of the other part(1), signed in Brussels on 1 February 1993, and in particular Article 38 of Protocol 4 thereto,

Whereas:

• (1) 

  Some technical amendments are in order to correct anomalies between the different language versions of the text.

• (2) 

  The list of insufficient working and processing needs to be amended to ensure proper interpretation and to take account of the need to include some operations not covered previously by this list.

• (3) 

  The provisions for the temporary use of flat rates in cases where drawback is prohibited or exemptions from customs duties are granted need to be prolonged until 31 December 2001.

• (4) 

  The need has arisen to provide for a system of accounting segregation of originating and non-originating materials, subject to authorisation by customs authorities.

• (5) 

  The provisions concerning the amounts expressed in euro need to be revised in order to clarify the procedure and to provide greater stability for the level of the amounts in national currencies.

• (6) 

  To take account of the lack of production of a certain material within the countries concerned, a correction should be made to the list of working and processing requirements which non-originating materials have to fulfil to qualify for originating status,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Protocol 4 concerning the definition of originating products and methods of administrative cooperation is hereby amended as follows:

• 1. 

  Article 1(i) shall be replaced by the following:

"(i) 'added value' shall be taken to be the ex-works price minus the customs value of each of the materials incorporated which originate in the other countries referred to in Articles 3 and 4 or, where the customs value is not known or cannot be ascertained, the first verifiable price paid for the materials in the Community or Romania;"

• 2. 

  Article 7 shall be replaced by the following:

"Article 7

Insufficient working or processing

• 1. 

  Without prejudice to paragraph 2, the following operations shall be considered as insufficient working or processing to confer the status of originating products, whether or not the requirements of Article 6 are satisfied:

(a) preserving operations to ensure that the products remain in good condition during transport and storage;

(b) breaking-up and assembly of packages;

(c) washing, cleaning; removal of dust, oxide, oil, paint or other coverings;

(d) ironing or pressing of textiles;

(e) simple painting and polishing operations;

(f) husking, partial or total bleaching, polishing, and glazing of cereals and rice;

(g) operations to colour sugar or form sugar lumps;

(h) peeling, stoning and shelling, of fruits, nuts and vegetables;

(i) sharpening, simple grinding or simple cutting;

(j) sifting, screening, sorting, classifying, grading, matching (including the making-up of sets of articles);

(k) simple placing in bottles, cans, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards and all other simple packaging operations;

(l) affixing or printing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on...

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