# 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 9: Unit of qualification


1. The unit of qualification for the application of this Protocol shall be the particular product which is considered as the basic unit when determining classification using the nomenclature of the Harmonised System.
This means that:
(a) when a product composed of a group or assembly of articles is classified under the terms of the Harmonised System in a single heading, the whole shall constitute the unit of qualification;
(b) when a consignment consists of a number of identical products classified under the same heading of the Harmonised System, each product shall be taken individually when applying this Protocol.
2. Where, under General Rule 5 of the Harmonised System, packaging is included with the product for classification purposes, it must be included for the purposes of determining origin.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1355/attachment/2/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1355/attachment-2/article-9
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