# Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 of 27 June 2005 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences, Article 14

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The tariff preferences referred to in Articles 7 and 8 shall be removed in respect of products originating in a beneficiary country of a section, when the average value of Community imports from that country of products included in the section concerned and covered by the arrangement enjoyed by that country exceeds 15 % of the value of Community imports of the same products from all countries and territories listed in Annex I over three consecutive years, on the basis of the most recent data available on 1 September 2004. For each of the sections XI(a) and XI(b) the threshold shall be 12,5 %.
2. The sections removed in accordance with paragraph 1 are listed in Annex I, column C.
3. The removal of sections from this scheme shall apply as from 1 January 2006 until 31 December 2008.
4. The Commission shall notify a beneficiary country of the removal of a section.
5. Paragraph 1 does not apply to a beneficiary country in respect of any section which represents more than 50 % in value of all GSP-covered imports to the Community originating from the country in question.
6. The statistical source used for the purpose of this Article shall be the COMEXT statistics.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/980/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-980/article-14
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