# 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 6: Working or processing of materials imported into the European Union free of duty


1. Without prejudice to Article 2 of this Protocol, non-originating materials which can be imported into the European Union free of customs duties in application of the conventional tariffs of the most-favoured nation (MFN) system, in accordance with its Common Customs Tariff as defined in Annex I of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, shall be considered as materials originating in Côte d'Ivoire when incorporated into a product obtained there, provided that they have undergone working or processing there which goes beyond the operations referred to in Article 5(1) of this Protocol.
2. Movement certificates EUR.1 (box 7) or origin declarations issued pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article shall bear the following entry:
‘Application de l'art. 6, para. 1, du protocole no 1 à l'APE Côte d'Ivoire-UE’,
3. The European Union shall, every year, notify the Committee of the list of materials to which the provisions of this Article apply. Once notification has been given, the list shall be published by the European Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union (C series), and by Côte d'Ivoire in accordance with its own procedures.
4. The cumulation provided for in this Article shall not apply to materials which, on importation into the European Union, are subject to antidumping or countervailing duties when originating from a country which is subject to these antidumping or countervailing duties.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1355/attachment/2/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1355/attachment-2/article-6
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