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DECISION No … OF THE EU-TURKEY JOINT COMMITTEE
of …
replacing Protocol 1 to the Agreement between the European Coal and Steel Community and the Republic of Turkey on trade in products covered by the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation
THE EU-TURKEY JOINT COMMITTEE,
Having regard to the Agreement between the European Coal and Steel Community and the Republic of Turkey on trade in products covered by the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Communityf1, and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,
Having regard to Protocol 1 to the Agreement between the European Coal and Steel Community and the Republic of Turkey on trade in products covered by the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation,
Whereas:
(1)
Article 6(2) of the Agreement between the European Coal and Steel Community and the Republic of Turkey on trade in products covered by the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (‘the Agreement’) refers to Protocol 1 to the Agreement (‘Protocol 1’) which lays down the rules of origin and provides for cumulation of origin between the Union, Turkey and other Contracting Parties to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of originf2 (‘the Convention’).
(2)
Article 39 of Protocol 1 provides that the Joint Committee established in accordance with Article 14 of the Agreement may decide to amend the provisions of that Protocol.
(3)
The Convention aims to replace the protocols on rules of origin currently in force among the countries of the pan-Euro-Mediterranean area with a single legal act.
(4)
The Union and Turkey signed the Convention on 15 June 2011 and 4 November 2011 respectively.
(5)
The Union and Turkey deposited their instruments of acceptance with the depositary of the Convention on 26 March 2012 and 4 December 2013 respectively. Consequently, in application of Article 10(3) of the Convention, the Convention entered into force in relation to the European Union and Turkey on 1 May 2012 and on 1 February 2014 respectively.
(6)
The Convention has included the participants in the Stabilisation and Association Process in the pan-Euro-Mediterranean zone of cumulation of origin.
(7)
Protocol 1 should therefore be replaced by a new protocol making reference to the Convention,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Done at …,
For the EU-Turkey Joint Committee
The Chairman