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Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 114/2000 of 22 December 2000 amending Protocol 4 to the EEA Agreement on rules of origin

Official Journal L 052 , 22/02/2001 P. 0040 - 0043

Decision of the EEA Joint Committee

No 114/2000

of 22 December 2000

amending Protocol 4 to the EEA Agreement on rules of origin

THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as adjusted by the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement", and in particular Article 98 thereof,

Whereas:

• (1) 

  Protocol 4 to the Agreement was amended by Decision No 188/1999 of the EEA Joint Committee of 17 December 1999(1).

• (2) 

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

• (3) 

  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.

• (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 must 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 to the Agreement shall be amended as follows:

• 1. 

  Article 1(i) shall be replaced by:

"(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 Article 3 or, where the customs value is not known or cannot be ascertained, the first verifiable price paid for the materials in the EEA;"

• 2. 

  Article 6 shall be replaced by:

"Article 6

Insufficient working or processing operations

• 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 5 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 products or their packaging;

(m) simple mixing of products, whether or not of different kinds;

(n) simple assembly of parts of articles to constitute a complete article or disassembly of products into parts;

(o) a combination of two or more operations specified in subparagraphs (a) to (n);

(p) slaughter of animals.

• 2. 

  All operations carried out in the EEA on a given product shall be considered together when determining whether the working or processing undergone by...

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