Article 43 Customs Cooperation Committee

A Customs Cooperation Committee, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Committee’, shall be set up and charged with carrying out administrative cooperation with a view to the correct and uniform application of this Protocol and with carrying out any other task in the customs field.

The Committee shall examine regularly the effect on the ESA States and in particular on the least developed ESA States of application of the rules of origin and shall recommend to the EPA Committee appropriate measures.

The Committee shall take decisions on cumulation under the conditions laid down in Article 5.

The Committee shall take decisions on derogations from this Protocol, under the conditions laid down in Article 44.

The Committee shall meet regularly and with an agenda agreed in advance by the ESA States and the Community.

The Committee shall be composed on the one hand of experts from the Member States of the Community and of Commission officials responsible for customs questions, and on the other hand of experts representing the ESA States and of officials of regional groupings of the ESA States who are responsible for customs questions. The Committee may call upon appropriate expertise where necessary. The Office of chairperson of the Committee shall be held alternately by each of the Parties.