Commission notice concerning the date of application of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin or the protocols on rules of origin providing for diagonal cumulation between the European Union, Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland (including Liechtenstein), Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and West Bank and Gaza Strip

2013/C 110/04

For the purpose of the application of diagonal cumulation of origin among the European Union, Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo (1), Lebanon, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland (including Liechtenstein), Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and West Bank and Gaza Strip, the European Union and the Parties concerned notify each other, through the European Commission, of the origin rules in force with the other Parties.

Based on these notifications, the table attached specifies the date from which such cumulation becomes applicable. This table replaces the previous one (OJ C 156, 26.5.2011).

The dates mentioned in the table refer to:

It is recalled that cumulation can be only applied if the Parties of final manufacture and of final destination have concluded free trade agreements, containing identical rules of origin, with all the Parties participating in the acquisition of originating status, i.e. with all the Parties from which all the materials used originate. Materials originating in the Party which has not concluded an agreement with the Parties of final manufacture and of final destination shall be treated as non-originating. Specific examples are given in the Explanatory Notes concerning the pan-Euro-Mediterranean protocols on rules of origin (3).

All participants to the EU's Stabilisation and Association Process have been added to the table attached. However, the table attached to Commission notice (2012/C 154/07) (4) remains valid for the time being. Dates will progressively be added in the present table, each time a reference to the Convention is included in the free trade agreement concerned.

It is also recalled that Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein form a customs union.

The codes for the Parties listed in the table are given here below:

Date of application of rules of origin providing for diagonal cumulation in the pan-Euro-Med zone

(1)  This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.

(2)  OJ L 54, 26.2.2013, p. 4.

(3)  OJ C 83, 17.4.2007, p. 1.

(4)  OJ C 154, 31.5.2012, p. 13.

(5)  The use of this code does not prejudge in any way the definitive nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusions of negotiations currently taking place under the auspices of the United Nations.

(6)  For goods covered by the EU-Turkey customs union, the date of application is 27 July 2006.

For agricultural products, the date of application is 1 January 2007.

For coal and steel products, the date of application is 1 March 2009.

(7)  Please consult the table attached to Commission notice published in OJ C 154, 31.5.2012, p. 13, for the dates of application of the protocols on rules of origin providing for diagonal cumulation between the participants to the EU's Stabilisation and Association Process, the EU and Turkey.