# Council Decision (EU) 2019/1355 of 15 July 2019 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the EPA Committee established under the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d’Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of Protocol 1 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation, Article 5: Insufficient working or processing operations


1. 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 4 of this Protocol are satisfied:
(a) preserving operations to ensure that the products remain in good condition during transport and storage;
(b) simple operations consisting of the removal of dust, sifting or screening, sorting, classifying, matching (including the making-up of sets of articles), washing, cleaning, painting, polishing, cutting up;
(c) removal of oxide, oil, paint or other coverings;
(d) (i) changes of packaging and breaking up and assembly of packages;
(ii) simple placing in bottles, flasks, cans, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards, etc., and all other simple packaging operations;
(e) affixing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;
(f) simple mixing of products, whether or not of different kinds; mixing of sugar with any material;
(g) simple assembly of parts to constitute a complete product;
(h) simple disassembly of products into parts;
(i) ironing or pressing of textiles;
(j) husking, partial or total bleaching, polishing and glazing of cereals and rice;
(k) operations to colour or flavour sugar or form sugar lumps; partial or total milling of granulated sugar;
(l) peeling, stoning and shelling of fruits, nuts and vegetables;
(m) sharpening, simple grinding or simple cutting;
(n) a combination of two or more operations specified in points (a) to (m);
(o) slaughter of animals.
2. All operations carried out either in the European Union or in Côte d'Ivoire on a given product shall be considered together when determining whether the working or processing undergone by that product is to be regarded as insufficient within the meaning of paragraph 1 of this Article.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1355/attachment/2/article/5 (the official version)
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