Article 5 Insufficient working or processing operations

United Kingdom

Without prejudice to paragraph 2, 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 are satisfied:

(a)

preserving operations to ensure that the products remain in good condition during transport and storage (ventilation, spreading out, drying, chilling, placing in salt, sulphur dioxide or other aqueous solutions, removal of damaged parts and like operations);

(b)

simple operations consisting of the removal of dust, sifting or screening, sorting, classifying, matching (including the making-up of sets of articles), washing, painting, cutting up;

(c)

changes of packaging and breaking up and assembly of packages;

(d)

simple placing in bottles, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards, etc., and all other simple packaging operations;

(e)

affixing marks, labels 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 other material;

(g)

simple assembly of parts to constitute a complete product;

(h)

a combination of two or more of the operations specified in points (a) to (g);

(i)

slaughter of animals;

(j)

husking, partial or total bleaching, polishing and glazing of cereals and rice;

(k)

operations to colour sugar or form sugar lumps; partial or total milling of sugar;

(l)

peeling, stoning and shelling of fruits, nuts and vegetables.

All the operations carried out in either the ACP States or the Union 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.