Council Decision (EU) 2017/813 of 12 October 2015 on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the EU-Chile Association Committee regarding the replacement of Appendix II to Annex III to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part
EU Decision 2017/813 · Adopted 12 October 2015 · Extends to United Kingdom
Council Decision (EU) 2017/813
of 12 October 2015
on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the EU-Chile Association Committee regarding the replacement of Appendix II to Annex III to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 207(4) in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Whereas:
(1)
In accordance with Article 38 of Annex III to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other partf1 (‘the Agreement’), the EU-Chile Association Committee (‘the Association Committee’) may decide to amend the provisions of that Annex.
(2)
On 4 November 2014, the Special Committee on Customs Cooperation and Rules of Origin, set up by Article 81 of the Agreement, agreed to recommend to the Association Committee amendments to Appendix II to Annex III to the Agreement, setting out the list of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in order for the product manufactured to obtain originating status (‘the product-specific rules’), in order to bring that Appendix into line with the latest version of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (HS).
(3)
The HS is updated every five years, the last update being in 2012. Since the product-specific rules in the Agreement are based on an outdated version of the HS, namely the HS 2002, they should be updated to reflect the HS 2012.
(4)
The product-specific rules should remain unchanged for those products that have been reclassified within the HS 2012. In cases where products need to be moved to a different chapter or heading, the product-specific rules should move with those products when the rules in the new chapter or heading are different from those laid down in the old chapter or heading.
(5)
The product-specific rules for a number of products of Chapter 72 of the HS should be amended in order to reflect the developments in the technological process of production of steel.
(6)
For reasons of clarity, taking into account the number of amendments that need to be made in Appendix II to Annex III to the Agreement, that Appendix should be replaced in its entirety.
(7)
The position to be adopted on the Union’s behalf within the Association Committee should be based on the attached draft decision,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: