TRADE REGIME FOR GOODS

TRADE REGIME APPLICABLE DURING THE PREPARATORY PERIOD REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 37 (1)

Each party's trade regime should evolve in a manner that enhances market access opportunities for information technology products.

HAVING regard to the expiry of the transitional preferential trade regime of the Cotonou Agreement on 31 December 2007;

In respect of agricultural products and products pro­cessed therefrom which are the subject of a special trade regime, the levies and other import measures laid down in Union rules and applicable by the United Kingdom shall be applied to third countries.

(a) Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products;

(a) to allow the Ivorian Party to benefit from the enhanced market access offered by the EC Party in the context of the EPA negotiations, and thereby to avoid disrupting trade between Côte d'Ivoire and the European Community on the expiry of the transitional trade regime of the Cotonou Agreement on 31 December 2007, pending the conclusion of a comprehensive EPA;

For the purposes of this Common Declaration, preferential rules of origin shall be defined as those laws, regulations and administrative determinations of general application applied by any Member to determine whether goods qualify for preferential treatment under contractual or autonomous trade regimes leading to the granting of tariff preferences going beyond the application of paragraph 1 of Article I of GATT 1994.

For the purposes of Parts I to IV of this Agreement, rules of origin shall be defined as those laws, regulations and administrative determinations of general application applied by any Member to determine the country of origin of goods provided such rules of origin are not related to contractual or autonomous trade regimes leading to the granting of tariff preferences going beyond the application of paragraph 1 of Article I of GATT 1994.

Members shall ensure that the administrative procedures used to implement import licensing regimes are in conformity with the relevant provisions of GATT 1994 including its annexes and protocols, as interpreted by this Agreement, with a view to preventing trade distortions that may arise from an inappropriate operation of those procedures, taking into account the economic development purposes and financial and trade needs of developing country Members.[66]

Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 (trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products)

Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products;

Where there is no risk of deflection of trade, and in particular in the event of minimal disparities in the import arrangement, the Commission may derogate from paragraphs land 2.

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural goods(6), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 8(3) thereof,

Whereas from 1 September 1995 the old reference price system applicable to imports of grape juice and must into the Community was replaced by new import arrangements resulting from the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products(1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2491/98(2), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 8(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2580/2000(2), and in particular Articles 8(3), first subparagraph, and 16 thereof,

Article 16(1) and Article 17(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 20/2002(4) concern respectively the French overseas departments and the Azores and Madeira and lay down that processors can export processed products containing raw materials that have benefited from the specific supply arrangements in the context of regional trade or dispatch them in the context of traditional trade flows, within annual quantity limits to be set by the Commission.

the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:"Processors who have declared, under Article 9(3), their intention to export, in the context of regional trade, or dispatch, in the context of traditional trade flows, processed products containing raw materials which have benefited from the specific supply arrangements, may do so within the limits of the annual quantities indicated in Annex I to the third countries listed in Annex II.

the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:"Processors who have declared, under Article 9(3), their intention to export, in the context of regional trade, or dispatch, in the context of traditional trade flows, processed products containing raw materials which have benefited from the specific supply arrangements, may do so within the limits of the annual quantities indicated in Annex III to the third countries listed in Annex IV.

The detailed rules for implementing the specific supply arrangements for the outermost regions introduced by Council Regulations (EC) No 1452/2001(4), (EC) No 1453/2001 and (EC) No 1454/2001 laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 20/2002(5), provide, among others, for the continuation of specific provisions relating to traditional trade flows with the rest of the Community, in particular as regards deliveries of C white sugar and C raw sugar within the meaning of Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.

the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:"Processors who have declared, under Article 9(3), their intention to export, in the context of regional trade, or dispatch, in the context of traditional trade flows, processed products containing raw materials which have benefited from the specific supply arrangements, may do so within the limits of the annual quantities indicated in Annex V. The competent authorities shall take the necessary measures to ensure that these operations do not exceed the annual quantities fixed.";

Non-traditional operators established in the Community of 15 at the time of registration and meeting the requirements laid down in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 who have been engaged in the commercial activity of importing fresh bananas falling within CN code 0803 00 19 into one or more of the new Member States to a declared customs value of EUR 1200000 or more during either 2002 or 2003 may submit an application for registration in the Member State of their choice with a view to the issue of import licences from 1 May 2004 under the tariff quota arrangements for imports of bananas.

Non-traditional operators established in the Community of 15 at the time of registration and meeting the requirements laid down in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 who have been engaged in the commercial activity of importing fresh bananas falling within CN code 0803 00 19 into one or more of the new Member States to a declared customs value of EUR 1200000 or more during either 2002 or 2003 may submit an application for registration in the Member State of their choice with a view to the issue of import licences from 1 May 2004 under the tariff quota arrangements for imports of bananas.

Trade arrangements involving a system of import duties should, in principle, stabilise the Community market.

Those trade arrangements should be based on the agreements concluded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations.

(f) Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 (trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products)( *24 )."

The trade arrangements applied to the Community by the OCTs may not give rise to any discrimination between Member States nor be less favourable than most-favoured-nation treatment.

Joint Declaration by the Contracting Parties on bilateral trade agreements;

Where a classification decision results in a change of classification practice or a change in category of any product subject to the present Protocol, the affected products shall follow the trade regime applicable to the practice or category they fall into after such change, as provided for in this Protocol.

PROTOCOL 1 on additional trade arrangements for certain iron and steel products

Protocol 3 lays down the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products which are listed therein.

An agreement in the form of an exchange of Letters between the European Community, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Norway, of the other part, concerning certain processed agricultural products covered by Protocol 2 to the bilateral Free Trade Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway ( 1 ), has been negotiated on a reciprocal basis in order to improve the trading arrangements and solve certain related problems.

Protocol 3 lays down the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products that are listed therein.

Without prejudice to the levying of a variable component determined in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 laying down the trade arrangement applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products, the Community shall take all necessary measures for the progressive reduction, in accordance with the timetable specified in Article 9 of this Annex, of the fixed component levied on imports into the Community of the following goods originating in Turkey:

To this end the Government of Belarus undertakes practical measures to liberalise the trade regime of the country.

The trade arrangements to apply to wine and spirit products will be defined in a separate wine and spirit agreement.

The trade arrangements to apply to wine and spirit products will be defined in an additional protocol on wine and spirits.

Whereas, in the context of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations the import regime for tomatoes and courgettes has been changed;

Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 of 18 September 2000, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2563/2000 will therefore regulate, as from the date of application of the latter Regulation, the trade regime between the European Community and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Title II on trade and trade-related provisions, including all related Annexes, of the Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, shall cease to apply to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia at the same date.

Decision No 1/98 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of 25 February 1998 on the trade regime for agricultural products (14);

The Contracting Parties shall inform each other at the time of signature of this Agreement of the provisions relating to the trade arrangements they apply.

legal instruments applicable to goods processed from agricultural products and subject to specific trade arrangements;

in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade arrangements for soups, sauces and condiments

To that end a new Protocol laying down the trade arrangements for fish and fishery products should be added to the said Europe Agreement.

In addition, the economic advantages of the specific supply arrangements should not provoke deflections of trade in the products concerned.

Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade arrangements for soups, sauces and condiments

(7) The introduction of specific measures for the Community in the sector of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin requires the establishment of trade arrangements at the Community's external borders.

on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Economic Community, and the Swiss Confederation on trade arrangements for soups, sauces and condiments

The provisions of the agreements listed in Appendix 3 shall prevail over provisions of this Protocol to the extent they grant to the EFTA States concerned more favourable trade regimes than this Protocol.