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Document 01994A0103(01)-20230614

Consolidated text: Agreement on the European Economic Area

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AGREEMENT ON THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

(OJ L 001 3.1.1994, p. 3)

Amended by:

 

 

Official Journal

  No

page

date

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PROTOCOL ADJUSTING THE AGREEMENT ON THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA  

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572

3.1.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 2/94 of 8 February 1994

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64

30.3.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 3/94 of 8 February 1994

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65

30.3.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 4/94 of 8 February 1994

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66

30.3.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 5/94 of 8 February 1994

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71

30.3.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 6/94 of 8 March 1994

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22

14.4.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 7/94 of 21 March 1994

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1

28.6.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 8/94 of 7 June 1994

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142

30.7.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 10/94 of 12 August 1994

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32

29.9.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 11/94 of 12 August 1994

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34

29.9.1994

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 1/95 of 27 January 1995

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19

2.3.1995

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DECISION OF THE EEA COUNCIL No 1/95 of 10 March 1995

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58

20.4.1995

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 35/95 of 19 May 1995

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39

31.8.1995

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 36/95 of 19 May 1995

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45

31.8.1995

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 4/96 of 29 February 1996

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45

25.4.1996

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 45/96 of 19 July 1996

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38

14.11.1996

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 54/96 of 4 October 1996

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9

23.1.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 71/96 of 22 November 1996

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12

23.1.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 56/96 of 28 October 1996

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50

27.2.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 70/96 of 29 November 1996

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43

13.3.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 84/96 of 20 December 1996

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44

13.3.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 55/96 of 28 October 1996

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64

27.3.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 83/96 of 13 December 1996

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52

5.6.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 13/97 of 14 March 1997

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10.7.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 39/97 of 10 July 1997

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23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 40/97 of 27 June 1997

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23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 41/97 of 10 July 1997

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23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 42/97 of 10 July 1997

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23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 43/97 of 10 July 1997

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23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 44/97 of 10 July 1997

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23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 45/97 of 10 July 1997

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23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 46/97 of 11 July 1997

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32

23.10.1997

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 37/97 of 27 June 1997

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38

4.6.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 38/97 of 27 June 1997

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39

4.6.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 73/97 of 4 October 1997

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39

9.7.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 86/97 of 31 October 1997

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40

9.7.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 98/97 of 12 December 1997

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55

9.7.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 99/97 of 9 December 1997

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59

9.7.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 102/97 of 15 December 1997

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62

9.7.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 13/98 of 6 March 1998

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18

8.10.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 18/98 of 6 March 1998

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8.10.1998

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 54/98 of 3 June 1998

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57

4.2.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 77/98 of 31 July 1998

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56

8.7.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 78/98 of 17 July 1998

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57

8.7.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 79/98 of 17 July 1998

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58

8.7.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 80/98 of 31 July 1998

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8.7.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 81/98 of 31 July 1998

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60

8.7.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 99/98 of 25 September 1998

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73

22.7.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 114/98 of 27 November 1998

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28.10.1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 35/2000 of 31 March 2000

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15.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 36/2000 of 31 March 2000

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15.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 37/2000 of 31 March 2000

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15.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 38/2000 of 31 March 2000

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15.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 39/2000 of 11 April 2000

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15.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 40/2000 of 11 April 2000

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68

15.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 22/1999 of 26 February 1999

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22.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 23/1999 of 26 February 1999

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22.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 24/1999 of 26 February 1999

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22.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 25/1999 of 26 February 1999

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51

22.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 26/1999 of 26 February 1999

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22.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 27/1999 of 26 February 1999

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54

22.6.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 44/2000 of 19 May 2000

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55

13.7.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 45/2000 of 19 May 2000

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57

13.7.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 46/2000 of 19 May 2000

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58

13.7.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 47/2000 of 22 May 2000

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59

13.7.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 64/2000 of 28 June 2000

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21.9.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 70/2000 of 2 August 2000

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53

5.10.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 38/1999 of 30 March 1999

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27

19.10.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 45/1999 of 26 March 1999

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19.10.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 60/1999 of 30 April 1999

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38

9.11.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 69/1999 of 2 June 1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 70/1999 of 2 June 1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 71/1999 of 2 June 1999

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9.11.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 72/1999 of 15 June 1999

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9.11.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 73/1999 of 28 May 1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 74/1999 of 28 May 1999

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9.11.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 82/1999 of 25 June 1999

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23.11.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 83/1999 of 25 June 1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 89/1999 of 25 June 1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 90/1999 of 25 June 1999

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53

23.11.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 99/1999 of 30 July 1999

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 100/1999 of 30 July 1999

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23.11.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 82/2000 of 2 October 2000

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26

14.12.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 83/2000 of 2 October 2000

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28

14.12.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 84/2000 of 2 October 2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 85/2000 of 2 October 2000

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32

14.12.2000

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 99/2000 of 27 October 2000

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29

11.1.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 100/2000 of 10 November 2000

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32

11.1.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 101/2000 of 10 November 2000

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36

11.1.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 102/2000 of 10 November 2000

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38

11.1.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 112/2000 of 15 December 2000

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37

22.2.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 114/2000 of 22 December 2000

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40

22.2.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 172/1999 of 26 November 1999

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31

1.3.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 173/1999 of 26 November 1999

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33

1.3.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 174/1999 of 26 November 1999

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35

1.3.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 187/1999 of 17 December 1999

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18

15.3.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 188/1999 of 17 December 1999

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20

15.3.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 192/1999 of 17 December 1999

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32

15.3.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 17/2000 of 28 January 2000

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34

12.4.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 24/2000 of 25 February 2000

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51

12.4.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 58/2001 of 18 May 2001

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21.6.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 59/2001 of 18 May 2001

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65

21.6.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 87/2001 of 19 June 2001

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41

6.9.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 88/2001 of 19 June 2001

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43

6.9.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 98/2001 of 13 July 2001

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20.9.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 99/2001 of 13 July 2001

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20.9.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 100/2001 of 13 July 2001

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27

20.9.2001

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 140/2001 of 23 November 2001

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34

24.1.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 164/2001 of 11 December 2001

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46

7.3.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 165/2001 of 11 December 2001

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48

7.3.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 46/2002 of 19 April 2002

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34

13.6.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 66/2002 of 31 May 2002

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38

5.9.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 67/2002 of 31 May 2002

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40

5.9.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 94/2002 of 25 June 2002

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71

3.10.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 111/2002 of 12 July 2002

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37

31.10.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 135/2002 of 27 September 2002

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36

12.12.2002

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 140/2002 of 8 November 2002

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5

23.1.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 154/2002 of 8 November 2002

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52

23.1.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE Nr. 18/2003 of 31 January 2003

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78

10.4.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 19/2003 of 31 January 2003

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80

10.4.2003

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PROTOCOL  adjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural concessions

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17

30.4.2003

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PROTOCOL  adjusting the trade aspects of the Europe Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, to take account of the outcome of negotiations between the parties on new mutual agricultural concessions

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30.4.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 32/2003 of 14 April 2003

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5.6.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 38/2003 of 14 April 2003

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5.6.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 64/2003 of 16 May 2003

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54

31.7.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 85/2003 of 20 June 2003

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42

9.10.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 86/2003 of 20 June 2003

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9.10.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 96/2003 of 11 July 2003

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23.10.2003

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 163/2003 of 7 November 2003

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12.2.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 164/2003 of 7 November 2003

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12.2.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 165/2003 of 7 November 2003

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12.2.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 181/2003 of 5 December 2003

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25.3.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 9/2004 of 6 February 2004

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22.4.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 10/2004 of 6 February 2004

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58

22.4.2004

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AGREEMENT  on the participation of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic in the European Economic Area

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29.4.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 78/2004 of 8 June 2004

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19.6.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 79/2004 of 8 June 2004

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19.6.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 58/2004 of 23 April 2004

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26.8.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 65/2004 of 26 April 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 66/2004 of 26 April 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 67/2004 of 26 April 2004

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26.8.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 138/2004 of 29 October 2004

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18.11.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 87/2004 of 8 June 2004

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25.11.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 88/2004 of 8 June 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 89/2004 of 8 June 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 90/2004 of 8 June 2004

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25.11.2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 115/2004 of 6 August 2004

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10.3.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 116/2004 of 6 August 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 117/2004 of 6 August 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 130/2004 of 24 September 2004

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10.3.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 137/2004 of 24 September 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 160/2004 of 29 October 2004

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21.4.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 177/2004 of 3 December 2004

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26.5.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 178/2004 of 3 December 2004

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26.5.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 180/2004 of 16 December 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 181/2004 of 16 December 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 182/2004 of 16 December 2004

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 183/2004 of 16 December 2004

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26.5.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 23/2005 of 8 February 2005

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23.6.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 40/2005 of 11 March 2005

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28.7.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 43/2005 of 11 March 2005

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28.7.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 72/2005 of 29 April 2005

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15.9.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 73/2005 of 29 April 2005

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15.9.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 74/2005 of 29 April 2005

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15.9.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 75/2005 of 29 April 2005

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15.9.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 88/2005 of 10 June 2005

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13.10.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 89/2005 of 10 June 2005

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13.10.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 107/2005 of 8 July 2005

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45

24.11.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 136/2005 of 21 October 2005

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8.12.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 123/2005 of 30 September 2005

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22.12.2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 129/2005 of 30 September 2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 135/2005 of 21 October 2005

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 17/2006 of 27 January 2006

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 38/2006 of 10 March 2006

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 73/2006 of 2 June 2006

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 98/2006 of 7 July 2006

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 128/2006 of 22 September 2006

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 153/2006 of 8 December 2006

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 161/2006 of 8 December 2006

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AGREEMENT  on the participation of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania in the European Economic Area

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 63/2007 of 15 June 2007

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 115/2007 of 28 September 2007

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 142/2007 of 26 October 2007

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 39/2008 of 14 March 2008

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 75/2008 of 6 June 2008

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 81/2008 of 4 July 2008

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 109/2008 of 26 September 2008

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 110/2008 of 5 November 2008

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 40/2009 of 17 March 2009

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 61/2009 of 29 May 2009

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 75/2009 of 29 May 2009

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 91/2009 of 3 July 2009

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 153/2009 of 4 December 2009

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 159/2009 of 4 December 2009

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 160/2009 of 4 December 2009

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 57/2010 of 30 April 2010

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 78/2010 of 11 June 2010

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 92/2010 of 2 July 2010

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 96/2010 of 2 July 2010

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AGREEMENT  between the European Union, Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway on an EEA Financial Mechanism 2009-2014

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 4/2011 of 11 February 2011

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 50/2011 of 20 May 2011

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 76/2011 of 1 July 2011

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 91/2011 of 19 July 2011

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 104/2011 of 30 September 2011

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 61/2012 of 30 March 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 101/2012 of 30 April 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 102/2012 of 30 April 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 109/2012 of 15 June 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 121/2012 of 15 June 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 122/2012 of 15 June 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 190/2012 of 28 September 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 204/2012 of 26 October 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 233/2012 of 7 December 2012

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 18/2013 of 1 February 2013

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 101/2013 of 3 May 2013

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 118/2013 of 14 June 2013

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 132/2013 of 14 June 2013

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 133/2013 of 8 July 2013

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 134/2013 of 8 July 2013

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 211/2013 of 8 November 2013

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 212/2013 of 8 November 2013

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AGREEMENT  on the participation of the Republic of Croatia in the European Economic Area and three related agreements

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 109/2014 of 16 May 2014

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 148/2014 of 27 June 2014

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 149/2014 of 27 June 2014

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 150/2014 of 27 June 2014

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 157/2014 of 9 July 2014

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 158/2014 of 9 July 2014

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 33/2015 of 25 February 2015

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 70/2015 of 20 March 2015

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AGREEMENT  between the European Union, Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway on an EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 102/2015 of 30 April 2015

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 196/2015 of 10 July 2015  amending Protocol 31 to the EEA Agreement, on cooperation in specific fields outside the four freedoms [2017/36]

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 280/2015 of 30 October 2015

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 132/2016 of 3 June 2016

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 133/2016 of 3 June 2016

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DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 160/2016 of 8 July 2016

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25.2.2021

►M349

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 221/2018 of 26 October 2018

  L 105

20

25.3.2021

►M350

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 130/2021 of 15 March 2021

  L 226

41

25.6.2021

►M351

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 29/2022 of 4 February 2022

  L 176

46

1.7.2022

►M352

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 151/2022 of 29 April 2022

  L 246

114

22.9.2022

►M353

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 163/2022 of 29 April 2022

  L 246

133

22.9.2022

►M354

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 164/2022 of 29 April 2022

  L 246

222

22.9.2022

►M355

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 136/2019 of 8 May 2019

  L 279

44

27.10.2022

►M356

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 181/2019 of 14 June 2019

  L 291

73

10.11.2022

►M357

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 182/2019 of 14 June 2019

  L 291

75

10.11.2022

►M358

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 201/2019 of 10 July 2019

  L 298

39

17.11.2022

►M359

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 202/2019 of 10 July 2019

  L 298

40

17.11.2022

►M360

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 203/2019 of 10 July 2019

  L 298

41

17.11.2022

►M361

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 204/2019 of 10 July 2019

  L 298

42

17.11.2022

►M362

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 205/2019 of 10 July 2019

  L 298

43

17.11.2022

►M363

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 246/2019 of 27 September 2019

  L 4

83

5.1.2023

►M364

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 269/2019 of 25 October 2019

  L 11

38

12.1.2023

►M365

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 29/2020 of 7 February 2020

  L 49

60

16.2.2023

►M366

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 83/2020 of 12 June 2020

  L 78

30

16.3.2023

 M367

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 225/2022 of 8 July 2022

  L 85

47

23.3.2023

►M368

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 226/2022 of 8 July 2022

  L 85

48

23.3.2023

►M369

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 271/2022 of 23 September 2022

  L 106

77

20.4.2023

►M370

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 272/2022 of 23 September 2022

  L 106

78

20.4.2023

►M371

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 273/2022 of 23 September 2022

  L 106

81

20.4.2023

►M372

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 274/2022 of 23 September 2022

  L 106

85

20.4.2023

►M373

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 275/2022 of 23 September 2022

  L 106

88

20.4.2023

►M374

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 276/2022 of 23 September 2022

  L 106

90

20.4.2023

►M375

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 337/2022 of 9 December 2022

  L 164

83

29.6.2023

►M376

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 136/2020 of 25 September 2020

  L 173

37

6.7.2023

 M377

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 145/2020 of 25 September 2020

  L 173

50

6.7.2023

►M378

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 171/2020 of 23 October 2020

  L 227

39

14.9.2023

►M379

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 172/2020 of 23 October 2020

  L 227

40

14.9.2023

►M380

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 173/2020 of 23 October 2020

  L 227

41

14.9.2023

►M381

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 174/2020 of 23 October 2020

  L 227

42

14.9.2023

►M382

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 175/2020 of 23 October 2020

  L 227

43

14.9.2023

►M383

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 28/2023 of 3 February 2023

  L 2303

1

19.10.2023

►M384

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 27/2023 of 3 February 2023

  L 2304

1

19.10.2023

►M385

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 22/2023 of 3 February 2023

  L 2306

1

19.10.2023

►M386

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 21/2023 of 3 February 2023

  L 2310

1

19.10.2023

►M387

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 63/2023 of 17 March 2023

  L 2354

1

26.10.2023

►M388

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 109/2023 of 28 April 2023

  L 2262

1

9.11.2023

►M389

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 110/2023 of 28 April 2023

  L 2263

1

9.11.2023

►M390

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 174/2023 of 13 June 2023

  L 2570

1

30.11.2023

►M391

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 175/2023 of 13 June 2023

  L 2571

1

30.11.2023

►M392

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 176/2023 of 13 June 2023

  L 2572

1

30.11.2023

►M393

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 228/2021 of 28 July 2021

  L 269

1

8.2.2024

►M394

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 224/2021 of 9 July 2021

  L 271

1

8.2.2024

►M395

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 223/2021 of 9 July 2021

  L 274

1

8.2.2024

►M396

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 271/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 476

1

22.2.2024

►M397

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 273/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 477

1

22.2.2024

►M398

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 270/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 480

1

22.2.2024

►M399

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 267/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 481

1

22.2.2024

►M400

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 264/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 484

1

22.2.2024

►M401

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 266/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 487

1

22.2.2024

►M402

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 269/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 488

1

22.2.2024

►M403

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 274/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 500

1

22.2.2024

►M404

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 263/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 507

1

22.2.2024

►M405

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 262/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 508

1

22.2.2024

►M406

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 265/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 510

1

22.2.2024

►M407

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 268/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 514

1

22.2.2024

►M408

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 272/2021 of 24 September 2021

  L 515

1

22.2.2024

►M409

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 319/2021 of 29 October 2021

  L 526

1

29.2.2024

►M410

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 371/2021 of 10 December 2021

  L 711

1

14.3.2024

►M411

DECISION OF THE EEA JOINT COMMITTEE No 244/2023 of 22 September 2023

  L 984

1

25.4.2024


Corrected by:

►C1

Corrigendum, OJ L 349, 25.11.2004, p.  70 (78/2004)

►C2

Corrigendum, OJ L 198, 28.7.2005, p.  65 (182/2004)

►C3

Corrigendum, OJ L 053, 23.2.2006, p.  65 (89/2005)

 C4

Corrigendum, OJ L 047, 21.2.2008, p.  69 (131/2007)

 C5

Corrigendum, OJ L 247, 13.9.2012, p.  16 (104/2011)

►C6

Corrigendum, OJ L 211, 17.7.2014, p.  49 (121/2012)




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AGREEMENT ON THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREAMBLE

PART I

OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES

PART II

FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

Chapter 1

Basic principles

Chapter 2

Agricultural and fishery products

Chapter 3

Cooperation in customs-related matters and trade facilitation

Chapter 4

Other rules relating to the free movement of goods

Chapter 5

Coal and steel products

PART III

FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS, SERVICES AND CAPITAL

Chapter 1

Workers and self-employed persons

Chapter 2

Right of establishment

Chapter 3

Services

Chapter 4

Capital

Chapter 5

Economic and monetary policy cooperation

Chapter 6

Transport

PART IV

COMPETITION AND OTHER COMMON RULES

Chapter 1

Rules applicable to undertakings

Chapter 2

State aid

Chapter 3

Other common rules

PART V

HORIZONTAL PROVISIONS RELEVANT TO THE FOUR FREEDOMS

Chapter 1

Social policy

Chapter 2

Consumer protection

Chapter 3

Environment

Chapter 4

Statistics

Chapter 5

Company law

PART VI

COOPERATION OUTSIDE THE FOUR FREEDOMS

PART VII

INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS

Chapter 1

The structure of the association

Chapter 2

The decision-making procedure

Chapter 3

Homogeneity, surveillance procedure and settlement of disputes

Chapter 4

Safeguard measures

PART VIII

FINANCIAL MECHANISM

PART IX

GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

PROTOCOLS

ANNEXES

FINAL ACT



PREAMBLE

▼M187

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,

THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA,

THE CZECH REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA,

IRELAND,

THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

▼M268

THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA,

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THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS,

THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

►M268  ————— ◄ HUNGARY,

►M268  THE REPUBLIC OF ◄ MALTA,

THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,

THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND,

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

ROMANIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,

THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,

THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,

and

ICELAND,

THE PRINCIPALITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN,

THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY,

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hereinafter referred to as the CONTRACTING PARTIES;

CONVINCED of the contribution that a European Economic Area will bring to the construction of a Europe based on peace, democracy and human rights;

REAFFIRMING the high priority attached to the privileged relationship between the European Community, its Member States and the EFTA States, which is based on proximity, long-standing common values and European identity;

DETERMINED to contribute, on the basis of market economy, to world-wide trade liberalization and cooperation, in particular in accordance with the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Convention on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development;

CONSIDERING the objective of establishing a dynamic and homogeneous European Economic Area, based on common rules and equal conditions of competition and providing for the adequate means of enforcement including at the judicial level, and achieved on the basis of equality and reciprocity and of an overall balance of benefits, rights and obligations for the Contracting Parties;

DETERMINED to provide for the fullest possible realization of the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital within the whole European Economic Area, as well as for strengthened and broadened cooperation in flanking and horizontal policies;

AIMING to promote a harmonious development of the European Economic Area and convinced of the need to contribute through the application of this Agreement to the reduction of economic and social regional disparities;

DESIROUS of contributing to the strengthening of the cooperation between the members of the European Parliament and of the Parliaments of the EFTA States, as well as between the social partners in the European Community and in the EFTA States;

CONVINCED of the important role that individuals will play in the European Economic Area through the exercise of the rights conferred on them by this Agreement and through the judicial defence of these rights;

DETERMINED to preserve, protect and improve the quality of the environment and to ensure a prudent and rational utilization of natural resources on the basis, in particular, of the principle of sustainable development, as well as the principle that precautionary and preventive action should be taken;

DETERMINED to take, in the further development of rules, a high level of protection concerning health, safety and the environment as a basis;

NOTING the importance of the development of the social dimension, including equal treatment of men and women, in the European Economic Area and wishing to ensure economic and social progress and to promote conditions for full employment, an improved standard of living and improved working conditions within the European Economic Area;

DETERMINED to promote the interests of consumers and to strengthen their position in the market place, aiming at a high level of consumer protection;

ATTACHED to the common objectives of strengthening the scientific and technological basis of European industry and of encouraging it to become more competitive at the international level;

CONSIDERING that the conclusion of this Agreement shall not prejudge in any way the possibility of any EFTA State to accede to the European Communities;

WHEREAS, in full deference to the independence of the courts, the objective of the Contracting Parties is to arrive at, and maintain, a uniform interpretation and application of this Agreement and those provisions of Community legislation which are substantially reproduced in this Agreement and to arrive at an equal treatment of individuals and economic operators as regards the four freedoms and the conditions of competition;

WHEREAS this Agreement does not restrict the decision-making autonomy or the treaty-making power of the Contracting Parties, subject to the provisions of this Agreement and the limitations set by public international law;

HAVE DECIDED to conclude the following Agreement:



PART I

OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES

Article 1

1.  
The aim of this Agreement of association is to promote a continuous and balanced strengthening of trade and economic relations between the Contracting Parties with equal conditions of competition, and the respect of the same rules, with a view to creating a homogeneous European Economic Area, hereinafter referred to as the EEA.
2.  

In order to attain the objectives set out in paragraph 1, the association shall entail, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement:

(a) 

the free movement of goods;

(b) 

the free movement of persons;

(c) 

the free movement of services;

(d) 

the free movement of capital;

(e) 

the setting up of a system ensuring that competition is not distorted and that the rules thereon are equally respected; as well as

(f) 

closer cooperation in other fields, such as research and development, the environment, education and social policy.

Article 2

For the purposes of this Agreement:

(a) 

the term ‘Agreement’ means the main Agreement, its Protocols and Annexes as well as the acts referred to therein;

(b) 

►M135  the term ‘EFTA States’ means the ►M187  ————— ◄ Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway; ◄

(c) 

the term ‘Contracting Parties’ means, concerning the Community and the EC Member States, the Community and the EC Member States, or the Community, or the EC Member States. The meaning to be attributed to this expression in each case is to be deduced from the relevant provisions of this Agreement and from the respective competences of the Community and the EC Member States as they follow from the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ►M135  ————— ◄ ;

▼M135

(d) 

the term ‘Act of Accession of 16 April 2003’ shall mean the Act concerning the conditions of Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, adopted in Athens on 16 April 2003;

▼M187

(e) 

the term ‘Act of Accession of 25 April 2005’ shall mean the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, adopted in Luxembourg on 25 April 2005;

▼M268 —————

▼M268

(f) 

the term ‘Act of Accession of 9 December 2011’ shall mean the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Croatia and the adjustments to the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 9 December 2011.

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Article 3

The Contracting Parties shall take all appropriate measures, whether general or particular, to ensure fulfilment of the obligations arising out of this Agreement.

They shall abstain from any measure which could jeopardize the attainment of the objectives of this Agreement,

Moreover, they shall facilitate cooperation within the framework of this Agreement.

Article 4

Within the scope of application of this Agreement, and without prejudice to any special provisions contained therein, any discrimination on grounds of nationality shall be prohibited.

Article 5

A Contracting Party may at any time raise a matter of concern at the level of the EEA Joint Committee or the EEA Council according to the modalities laid down in Articles 92(2) and 89(2), respectively.

Article 6

Without prejudice to future developments of case-law, the provisions of this Agreement, in so far as they are identical in substance to corresponding rules of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and to acts adopted in application of these two Treaties, shall, in their implementation and application, be interpreted in conformity with the relevant rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Communities given prior to the date of signature of this Agreement.

Article 7

Acts referred to or contained in the Annexes to this Agreement or in decisions of the EEA Joint Committee shall be binding upon the Contracting Parties and be, or be made, part of their internal legal order as follows:

(a) 

an act corresponding to an EEC regulation shall as such be made part of the internal legal order of the Contracting Parties;

(b) 

an act corresponding to an EEC directive shall leave to the authorities of the Contracting Parties the choice of form and method of implementation.

PART II

FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

CHAPTER 1

BASIC PRINCIPLES

Article 8

1.  
Free movement of goods between the Contracting Parties shall be established in conformity with the provisions of this Agreement.
2.  
Unless otherwise specified, Articles 10 to 15, 19, 20 and 25 to 27 shall apply only to products originating in the Contracting Parties.
3.  

Unless otherwise specified, the provisions of this Agreement shall apply only to:

(a) 

products falling within Chapters 25 to 97 of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, excluding the products listed in Protocol 2;

(b) 

products specified in Protocol 3, subject to the specific arrangements set out in that Protocol.

Article 9

1.  
The rules of origin are set out in Protocol 4. They are without prejudice to any international obligations which have been, or may be, subscribed to by the Contracting Parties under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
2.  
With a view to developing the results achieved in this Agreement, the Contracting Parties will continue their efforts in order further to improve and simplify all aspects of rules of origin and to increase cooperation in customs matters.
3.  
A first review will take place before the end of 1993. Subsequent reviews will take place at two-yearly intervals. On the basis of these reviews, the Contracting Parties undertake to decide on the appropriate measures to be included in this Agreement.

Article 10

Customs duties on imports and exports, and any charges having equivalent effect, shall be prohibited between the Contracting Parties. Without prejudice to the arrangements set out in Protocol 5, this shall also apply to customs duties of a fiscal nature.

Article 11

Quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect shall be prohibited between the Contracting Parties.

Article 12

Quantitative restrictions on exports and all measures having equivalent effect shall be prohibited between the Contracting Parties.

Article 13

The provisions of Articles 11 and 12 shall not preclude prohibitions or restrictions on imports, exports or goods in transit justified on grounds of public morality, public policy or public security; the protection of health and life of humans, animals or plants; the protection of national treasures possessing artistic, historic or archaeological value; or the protection of industrial and commercial property. Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not, however, constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between the Contracting Parties.

Article 14

No Contracting Party shall impose, directly or indirectly, on the products of other Contracting Parties any internal taxation of any kind in excess of that imposed directly or indirectly on similar domestic products.

Furthermore, no Contracting Party shall impose on the products of other Contracting Parties any internal taxation of such a nature as to afford indirect protection to other products.

Article 15

Where products are exported to the territory of any Contracting Party, any repayment of internal taxation shall not exceed the internal taxation imposed on them whether directly or indirectly.

Article 16

1.  
The Contracting Parties shall ensure that any State monopoly of a commercial character be adjusted so that no discrimination regarding the conditions under which goods are procured and marketed will exist between nationals of EC Member States and EFTA States.
2.  
The provisions of this Article shall apply to any body through which the competent authorities of the Contracting Parties, in law or in fact, either directly or indirectly supervise, determine or appreciably influence imports or exports between Contracting Parties. These provisions shall likewise apply to monopolies delegated by the State to others.

CHAPTER 2

AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERY PRODUCTS

Article 17

Annex I contains specific provisions and arrangements concerning veterinary and phytosanitary matters.

Article 18

Without prejudice to the specific arrangements governing trade in agricultural products, the Contracting Parties shall ensure that the arrangements provided for in Articles 17 and 23 (a) and (b), as they apply to products other than those covered by Article 8(3), are not compromised by other technical barriers to trade. Article 13 shall apply.

Article 19

1.  
The Contracting Parties shall examine any difficulties that might arise in their trade in agricultural products and shall endeavour to seek appropriate solutions.
2.  
The Contracting Parties undertake to continue their efforts with a view to achieving progressive liberalization of agricultural trade.
3.  
To this end, the Contracting Parties will carry out, before the end of 1993 and subsequently at two-yearly intervals, reviews of the conditions of trade in agricultural products.
4.  
In the light of the results of these reviews, within the framework of their respective agricultural policies and taking into account the results of the Uruguay Round, the Contracting Parties will decide, within the framework of this Agreement, on a preferential, bilateral or multilateral, reciprocal and mutually beneficial basis, on further reductions of any type of barriers to trade in the agricultural sector, including those resulting from State monopolies of a commercial character in the agricultural field.

Article 20

Provisions and arrangements that apply to fish and other marine products are set out in Protocol 9.

CHAPTER 3

COOPERATION IN CUSTOMS-RELATED MATTERS AND TRADE FACILITATION

Article 21

1.  
In order to facilitate trade between them, the Contracting Parties shall simplify border controls and formalities. Arrangements for this purpose are set out in Protocol 10.
2.  
The Contracting Parties shall assist each other in customs matters in order to ensure that customs legislation is correctly applied. Arrangements for this purpose are set out in Protocol 11.
3.  
The Contracting Parties shall strengthen and broaden cooperation with the aim of simplifying the procedures for trade in goods, in particular in the context of Community programmes, projects and actions aimed at trade facilitation, in accordance with the rules set out in Part VI.
4.  
Notwithstanding Article 8(3), this Article shall apply to all products.

Article 22

A Contracting Party which is considering the reduction of the effective level of its duties or charges having equivalent effect applicable to third countries benefiting from most-favoured-nation treatment, or which is considering the suspension of their application, shall, as far as may be practicable, notify the EEA Joint Committee not later than 30 days before such reduction or suspension comes into effect. It shall take note of any representations by other Contracting Parties regarding any distortions which might result therefrom.

CHAPTER 4

OTHER RULES RELATING TO THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

Article 23

Specific provisions and arrangements are laid down in:

(a) 

Protocol 12 and Annex II in relation to technical regulations, standards, testing and certification;

(b) 

Protocol 47 in relation to the abolition of technical barriers to trade in wine;

(c) 

Annex III in relation to product liability.

They shall apply to all products unless otherwise specified.

Article 24

Annex IV contains specific provisions and arrangements concerning energy.

Article 25

Where compliance with the provisions of Articles 10 and 12 leads to:

(a) 

re-export towards a third country against which the exporting Contracting Party maintains, for the product concerned, quantitative export restrictions, export duties or measures or charges having equivalent effect; or

(b) 

a serious shortage, or threat thereof, of a product essential to the exporting Contracting Party;

and where the situations referred to above give rise, or are likely to give rise, to major difficulties for the exporting Contracting Party, that Contracting Party may take appropriate measures in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 113.

Article 26

Anti-dumping measures, countervailing duties and measures against illicit commercial practices attributable to third countries shall not be applied in relations between the Contracting Parties, unless otherwise specified in this Agreement.

CHAPTER 5

COAL AND STEEL PRODUCTS

Article 27

Provisions and arrangements concerning coal and steel products are set out in Protocols 14 and 25.

PART III

FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS, SERVICES AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER 1

WORKERS AND SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS

Article 28

1.  
Freedom of movement for workers shall be secured among EC Member States and EFTA States.
2.  
Such freedom of movement shall entail the abolition of any discrimination based on nationality between workers of EC Member States and EFTA States as regards employment, remuneration and other conditions of work and employment.
3.  

It shall entail the right, subject to limitations justified on grounds of public policy, public security or public health:

(a) 

to accept offers of employment actually made;

(b) 

to move freely within the territory of EC Member States and EFTA States for this purpose;

(c) 

to stay in the territory of an EC Member State or an EFTA State for the purpose of employment in accordance with the provisions governing the employment of nationals of that State laid down by law, regulation or administrative action;

(d) 

to remain in the territory of an EC Member State or an EFTA State after having been employed there.

4.  
The provisions of this Article shall not apply to employment in the public service.
5.  
Annex V contains specific provisions on the free movement of workers.

Article 29

In order to provide freedom of movement for workers and self-employed persons, the Contracting Parties shall, in the field of social security, secure, as provided for in Annex VI, for workers and self-employed persons and their dependants, in particular:

(a) 

aggregation, for the purpose of acquiring and retaining the right to benefit and of calculating the amount of benefit, of all periods taken into account under the laws of the several countries;

(b) 

payment of benefits to persons resident in the territories of Contracting Parties.

Article 30

In order to make it easier for persons to take up and pursue activities as workers and self-employed persons, the Contracting Parties shall take the necessary measures, as contained in Annex VII, concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications, and the coordination of the provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in the Contracting Parties concerning the taking up and pursuit of activities by workers and self-employed persons.

CHAPTER 2

RIGHT OF ESTABLISHMENT

Article 31

1.  
Within the framework of the provisions of this Agreement, there shall be no restrictions on the freedom of establishment of nationals of an EC Member State or an EFTA State in the territory of any other of these States. This shall also apply to the setting up of agencies, branches or subsidiaries by nationals of any EC Member State or EFTA State established in the territory of any of these States.

Freedom of establishment shall include the right to take up and pursue activities as self-employed persons and to set up and manage undertakings, in particular companies or firms within the meaning of Article 34, second paragraph, under the conditions laid down for its own nationals by the law of the country where such establishment is effected, subject to the provisions of Chapter 4.

2.  
Annexes VIII to XI contain specific provisions on the right of establishment.

Article 32

The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply, so far as any given Contracting Party is concerned, to activities which in that Contracting Party are connected, even occasionally, with the exercise of official authority.

Article 33

The provisions of this Chapter and measures taken in pursuance thereof shall not prejudice the applicability of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action providing for special treatment for foreign nationals on grounds of public policy, public security or public health.

Article 34

Companies or firms formed in accordance with the law of an EC Member State or an EFTA State and having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the territory of the Contracting Parties shall, for the purposes of this Chapter, be treated in the same way as natural persons who are nationals of EC Member States or EFTA States.

‘Companies or firms’ means companies or firms constituted under civil or commercial law, including cooperative societies, and other legal persons governed by public or private law, save for those which are non-profit-making.

Article 35

The provisions of Article 30 shall apply to the matters covered by this Chapter.

CHAPTER 3

SERVICES

Article 36

1.  
Within the framework of the provisions of this Agreement, there shall be no restrictions on freedom to provide services within the territory of the Contracting Parties in respect of nationals of EC Member States and EFTA States who are established in an EC Member State or an EFTA State other than that of the person for whom the services are intended.
2.  
Annexes IX to XI contain specific provisions on the freedom to provide services.

Article 37

Services shall be considered to be ‘services’ within the meaning of this Agreement where they are normally provided for remuneration, in so far as they are not governed by the provisions relating to freedom of movement for goods, capital and persons.

‘Services’ shall in particular include:

(a) 

activities of an industrial character;

(b) 

activities of a commercial character;

(c) 

activities of craftsmen;

(d) 

activities of the professions.

Without prejudice to the provisions of Chapter 2, the person providing a service may, in order to do so, temporarily pursue his activity in the State where the service is provided, under the same conditions as are imposed by that State on its own nationals.

Article 38

Freedom to provide services in the field of transport shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 6.

Article 39

The provisions of Articles 30 and 32 to 34 shall apply to the matters covered by this Chapter.

CHAPTER 4

CAPITAL

Article 40

Within the framework of the provisions of this Agreement, there shall be no restrictions between the Contracting Parties on the movement of capital belonging to persons resident in EC Member States or EFTA States and no discrimination based on the nationality or on the place of residence of the parties or on the place where such capital is invested. Annex XII contains the provisions necessary to implement this Article.

Article 41

Current payments connected with the movement of goods, persons, services or capital between Contracting Parties within the framework of the provisions of this Agreement shall be free of all restrictions.

Article 42

1.  
Where domestic rules governing the capital market and the credit system are applied to the movements of capital liberalized in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, this shall be done in a non-discriminatory manner.
2.  
Loans for the direct or indirect financing of an EC Member State or an EFTA State or its regional or local authorities shall not be issued or placed in other EC Member States or EFTA States unless the States concerned have reached agreement thereon.

Article 43

1.  
Where differences between the exchange rules of EC Member States and EFTA States could lead persons resident in one of these States to use the freer transfer facilities within the territory of the Contracting Parties which are provided for in Article 40 in order to evade the rules of one of these States concerning the movement of capital to or from third countries, the Contracting Party concerned may take appropriate measures to overcome these difficulties.
2.  
If movements of capital lead to disturbances in the functioning of the capital market in any EC Member State or EFTA State, the Contracting Party concerned may take protective measures in the field of capital movements.
3.  
If the competent authorities of a Contracting Party make an alteration in the rate of exchange which seriously distorts conditions of competition, the other Contracting Parties may take, for a strictly limited period, the necessary measures in order to counter the consequences of such alteration.
4.  
Where an EC Member State or an EFTA State is in difficulties, or is seriously threatened with difficulties, as regards its balance of payments either as a result of an overall disequilibrium in its balance of payments, or as a result of the type of currency at its disposal, and where such difficulties are liable in particular to jeopardize the functioning of this Agreement, the Contracting Party concerned may take protective measures.

Article 44

The Community, on the one hand, and the EFTA States, on the other, shall apply their internal procedures, as provided for in Protocol 18, to implement the provisions of Article 43.

Article 45

1.  
Decisions, opinions and recommendations related to the measures laid down in Article 43 shall be notified to the EEA Joint Committee.
2.  
All measures shall be the subject of prior consultations and exchange of information within the EEA Joint Committee.
3.  
In the situation referred to in Article 43(2), the Contracting Party concerned may, however, on the grounds of secrecy and urgency take the measures, where this proves necessary, without prior consultations and exchange of information.
4.  
In the situation referred to in Article 43(4), where a sudden crisis in the balance of payments occurs and the procedures set out in paragraph 2 cannot be followed, the Contracting Party concerned may, as a precaution, take the necessary protective measures. Such measures must cause the least possible disturbance in the functioning of this Agreement and must not be wider in scope than is strictly necessary to remedy the sudden difficulties which have arisen.
5.  
When measures are taken in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4, notice thereof shall be given at the latest by the date of their entry into force, and the exchange of information and consultations as well as the notifications referred to in paragraph 1 shall take place as soon as possible thereafter.

CHAPTER 5

ECONOMIC AND MONETARY POLICY COOPERATION

Article 46

The Contracting Parties shall exchange views and information concerning the implementation of this Agreement and the impact of the integration on economic activities and on the conduct of economic and monetary policies. Furthermore, they may discuss macroeconomic situations, policies and prospects. This exchange of views and information shall take place on a non-binding basis.

CHAPTER 6

TRANSPORT

Article 47

1.  
Articles 48 to 52 shall apply to transport by rail, road and inland waterway.
2.  
Annex XIII contains specific provisions on all modes of transport.

Article 48

1.  
The provisions of an EC Member State or an EFTA State, relative to transport by rail, road and inland waterway and not covered by Annex XIII, shall not be made less favourable in their direct or indirect effect on carriers of other States as compared with carriers who are nationals of that State.
2.  
Any Contracting Party deviating from the principle laid down in paragraph 1 shall notify the EEA Joint Committee thereof. The other Contracting Parties which do not accept the deviation may take corresponding countermeasures.

Article 49

Aid shall be compatible with this Agreement if it meets the needs of coordination of transport or if it represents reimbursement for the discharge of certain obligations inherent in the concept of a public service.

Article 50

1.  
In the case of transport within the territory of the Contracting Parties, there shall be no discrimination which takes the form of carriers charging different rates and imposing different conditions for the carriage of the same goods over the same transport links on grounds of the country of origin or of destination of the goods in question.
2.  
The competent authority according to Part VII shall, acting on its own initiative or on application by an EC Member State or an EFTA State, investigate any cases of discrimination falling within this Article and take the necessary decisions within the framework of its internal rules.

Article 51

1.  
The imposition, in respect of transport operations carried out within the territory of the Contracting Parties, of rates and conditions involving any element of support or protection in the interest of one or more particular undertakings or industries, shall be prohibited unless authorized by the competent authority referred to in Article 50(2).
2.  
The competent authority shall, acting on its own initiative or on application by an EC Member State or an EFTA State, examine the rates and conditions referred to in paragraph 1, taking account in particular of the requirements of an appropriate regional economic policy, the needs of underdeveloped areas and the problems of areas seriously affected by political circumstances, on the one hand, and of the effects of such rates and conditions on competition between the different modes of transport, on the other.

The competent authority shall take the necessary decisions within the framework of its internal rules.

3.  
The prohibition provided for in paragraph 1 shall not apply to tariffs fixed to meet competition.

Article 52

Charges or dues in respect of the crossing of frontiers which are charged by a carrier in addition to transport rates shall not exceed a reasonable level after taking the costs actually incurred thereby into account. The Contracting Parties shall endeavour to reduce these costs progressively.

PART IV

COMPETITION AND OTHER COMMON RULES

CHAPTER 1

RULES APPLICABLE TO UNDERTAKINGS

Article 53

1.  

The following shall be prohibited as incompatible with the functioning of this Agreement: all agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices which may affect trade between Contracting Parties and which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the territory covered by this Agreement, and in particular those which:

(a) 

directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions;

(b) 

limit or control production, markets, technical development, or investment;

(c) 

share markets or sources of supply;

(d) 

apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;

(e) 

make the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts.

2.  
Any agreements or decisions prohibited pursuant to this Article shall be automatically void.
3.  

The provisions of paragraph 1 may, however, be declared inapplicable in the case of:

— 
any agreement or category of agreements between undertakings;
— 
any decision or category of decisions by associations of undertakings;
— 
any concerted practice or category of concerted practices;

which contributes to improving the production or distribution of goods or to promoting technical or economic progress, while allowing consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit, and which does not:

(a) 

impose on the undertakings concerned restrictions which are not indispensable to the attainment of these objectives;

(b) 

afford such undertakings the possibility of eliminating competition in respect of a substantial part of the products in question.

Article 54

Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the territory covered by this Agreement or in a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the functioning of this Agreement in so far as it may affect trade between Contracting Parties.

Such abuse may, in particular, consist in:

(a) 

directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions;

(b) 

limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers;

(c) 

applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;

(d) 

making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts.

Article 55

1.  
Without prejudice to the provisions giving effect to Articles 53 and 54 as contained in Protocol 21 and Annex XIV of this Agreement, the EC Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority provided for in Article 108(1) shall ensure the application of the principles laid down in Articles 53 and 54.

The competent surveillance authority, as provided for in Article 56, shall investigate cases of suspected infringement of these principles, on its own initiative, or on application by a State within the respective territory or by the other surveillance authority. The competent surveillance authority shall carry out these investigations in cooperation with the competent national authorities in the respective territory and in cooperation with the other surveillance authority, which shall give it its assistance in accordance with its internal rules.

If it finds that there has been an infringement, it shall propose appropriate measures to bring it to an end.

2.  
If the infringement is not brought to an end, the competent surveillance authority shall record such infringement of the principles in a reasoned decision.

The competent surveillance authority may publish its decision and authorize States within the respective territory to take the measures, the conditions and details of which it shall determine, needed to remedy the situation. It may also request the other surveillance authority to authorize States within the respective territory to take such measures.

Article 56

1.  

Individual cases falling under Article 53 shall be decided upon by the surveillance authorities in accordance with the following provisions:

(a) 

individual cases where only trade between EFTA States is affected shall be decided upon by the EFTA Surveillance Authority;

(b) 

without prejudice to subparagraph (c), the EFTA Surveillance Authority decides, as provided for in the provisions set out in Article 58, Protocol 21 and the rules adopted for its implementation, Protocol 23 and Annex XIV, on cases where the turnover of the undertakings concerned in the territory of the EFTA States equals 33% or more of their turnover in the territory covered by this Agreement;

(c) 

the EC Commission decides on the other cases as well as on cases under (b) where trade between EC Member States is affected, taking into account the provisions set out in Article 58, Protocol 21, Protocol 23 and Annex XIV.

2.  
Individual cases falling under Article 54 shall be decided upon by the surveillance authority in the territory of which a dominant position is found to exist. The rules set out in paragraph l(b) and (c) shall apply only if dominance exists within the territories of both surveillance authorities.
3.  
Individual cases falling under subparagraph (c) of paragraph 1, whose effects on trade between EC Member States or on competition within the Community are not appreciable, shall be decided upon by the EFTA Surveillance Authority.
4.  
The terms ‘undertaking’ and ‘turnover’ are, for the purposes of this Article, defined in Protocol 22.

Article 57

1.  
Concentrations the control of which is provided for in paragraph 2 and which create or strengthen a dominant position as a result of which effective competition would be significantly impeded within the territory covered by this Agreement or a substantial part of it, shall be declared incompatible with this Agreement.
2.  

The control of concentrations falling under paragraph 1 shall be carried out by:

(a) 

the EC Commission in cases falling under Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 in accordance with that Regulation and in accordance with Protocols 21 and 24 and Annex XIV to this Agreement. The EC Commission shall, subject to the review of the EC Court of Justice, have sole competence to take decisions on these cases;

(b) 

the EFTA Surveillance Authority in cases not falling under subparagraph (a) where the relevant thresholds set out in Annex XIV are fulfilled in the territory of the EFTA States in accordance with Protocols 21 and 24 and Annex XIV. This is without prejudice to the competence of EC Member States.

Article 58

With a view to developing and maintaining a uniform surveillance throughout the European Economic Area in the field of competition and to promoting a homogeneous implementation, application and interpretation of the provisions of this Agreement to this end, the competent authorities shall cooperate in accordance with the provisions set out in Protocols 23 and 24.

Article 59

1.  
In the case of public undertakings and undertakings to which EC Member States or EFTA States grant special or exclusive rights, the Contracting Parties shall ensure that there is neither enacted nor maintained in force any measure contrary to the rules contained in this Agreement, in particular to those rules provided for in Articles 4 and 53 to 63.
2.  
Undertakings entrusted with the operation of services of general economic interest or having the character of a revenue-producing monopoly shall be subject to the rules contained in this Agreement, in particular to the rules on competition, in so far as the application of such rules does not obstruct the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks assigned to them. The development of trade must not be affected to such an extent as would be contrary to the interests of the Contracting Parties.
3.  
The EC Commission as well as the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall ensure within their respective competence the application of the provisions of this Article and shall, where necessary, address appropriate measures to the States falling within their respective territory.

Article 60

Annex XIV contains specific provisions giving effect to the principles set out in Articles 53, 54, 57 and 59.

CHAPTER 2

STATE AID

Article 61

1.  
Save as otherwise provided in this Agreement, any aid granted by EC Member States, EFTA States or through State resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall, in so far as it affects trade between Contracting Parties, be incompatible with the functioning of this Agreement.
2.  

The following shall be compatible with the functioning of this Agreement:

(a) 

aid having a social character, granted to individual consumers, provided that such aid is granted without discrimination related to the origin of the products concerned;

(b) 

aid to make good the damage caused by natural disasters or exceptional occurrences;

(c) 

aid granted to the economy of certain areas of the Federal Republic of Germany affected by the division of Germany, in so far as such aid is required in order to compensate for the economic disadvantages caused by that division.

3.  

The following may be considered to be compatible with the functioning of this Agreement:

(a) 

aid to promote the economic development of areas where the standard of living is abnormally low or where there is serious underemployment;

(b) 

aid to promote the execution of an important project of common European interest or to remedy a serious disturbance in the economy of an EC Member State or an EFTA State;

(c) 

aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest;

(d) 

such other categories of aid as may be specified by the EEA Joint Committee in accordance with Part VII.

Article 62

1.  

All existing systems of State aid in the territory of the Contracting Parties, as well as any plans to grant or alter State aid, shall be subject to constant review as to their compatibility with Article 61. This review shall be carried out:

(a) 

as regards the EC Member States, by the EC Commission according to the rules laid down in Article 93 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community;

(b) 

as regards the EFTA States, by the EFTA Surveillance Authority according to the rules set out in an agreement between the EFTA States establishing the EFTA Surveillance Authority which is entrusted with the powers and functions laid down in Protocol 26.

2.  
With a view to ensuring a uniform surveillance in the field of State aid throughout the territory covered by this Agreement, the EC Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall cooperate in accordance with the provisions set out in Protocol 27.

Article 63

Annex XV contains specific provisions on State aid.

Article 64

1.  
If one of the surveillance authorities considers that the implementation by the other surveillance authority of Articles 61 and 62 of this Agreement and Article 5 of Protocol 14 is not in conformity with the maintenance of equal conditions of competition within the territory covered by this Agreement, exchange of views shall be held within two weeks according to the procedure of Protocol 27, paragraph (f).

If a commonly agreed solution has not been found by the end of this two-week period, the competent authority of the affected Contracting Party may immediately adopt appropriate interim measures in order to remedy the resulting distortion of competition.

Consultations shall then be held in the EEA Joint Committee with a view to finding a commonly acceptable solution.

If within three months the EEA Joint Committee has not been able to find such a solution, and if the practice in question causes, or threatens to cause, distortion of competition affecting trade between the Contracting Parties, the interim measures may be replaced by definitive measures, strictly necessary to offset the effect of such distortion. Priority shall be given to such measures that will least disturb the functioning of the EEA.

2.  
The provisions of this Article will also apply to State monopolies, which are established after the date of signature of the Agreement.

CHAPTER 3

OTHER COMMON RULES

Article 65

1.  
Annex XVI contains specific provisions and arrangements concerning procurement which, unless otherwise specified, shall apply to all products and to services as specified.
2.  
Protocol 28 and Annex XVII contain specific provisions and arrangements concerning intellectual, industrial and commercial property, which, unless otherwise specified, shall apply to all products and services.

PART V

HORIZONTAL PROVISIONS RELEVANT TO THE FOUR FREEDOMS

CHAPTER 1

SOCIAL POLICY

Article 66

The Contracting Parties agree upon the need to promote improved working conditions and an improved standard of living for workers.

Article 67

1.  
The Contracting Parties shall pay particular attention to encouraging improvements, especially in the working environment, as regards the health and safety of workers. In order to help achieve this objective, minimum requirements shall be applied for gradual implementation, having regard to the conditions and technical rules obtaining in each of the Contracting Parties. Such minimum requirements shall not prevent any Contracting Party from maintaining or introducing more stringent measures for the protection of working conditions compatible with this Agreement.
2.  
Annex XVIII specifies the provisions to be implemented as the minimum requirements referred to in paragraph 1.

Article 68

In the field of labour law, the Contracting Parties shall introduce the measures necessary to ensure the good functioning of this Agreement. These measures are specified in Annex XVIII.

Article 69

1.  
Each Contracting Party shall ensure and maintain the application of the principle that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work.

For the purposes of this Article, ‘pay’ means the ordinary basic or minimum wage or salary and any other consideration, whether in cash or in kind, which the worker receives, directly or indirectly, in respect of his employment from his employer.

Equal pay without discrimination based on sex means:

(a) 

that pay for the same work at piece rates shall be calculated on the basis of the same unit of measurement;

(b) 

that pay for work at time rates shall be the same for the same job.

2.  
Annex XVIII contains specific provisions for the implementation of paragraph 1.

Article 70

The Contracting Parties shall promote the principle of equal treatment for men and women by implementing the provisions specified in Annex XVIII.

Article 71

The Contracting Parties shall endeavour to promote the dialogue between management and labour at European level.

CHAPTER 2

CONSUMER PROTECTION

Article 72

Annex XIX contains provisions on consumer protection.

CHAPTER 3

ENVIRONMENT

Article 73

1.  

Action by the Contracting Parties relating to the environment shall have the following objectives:

(a) 

to preserve, protect and improve the quality of the environment;

(b) 

to contribute towards protecting human health;

(c) 

to ensure a prudent and rational utilization of natural resources.

2.  
Action by the Contracting Parties relating to the environment shall be based on the principles that preventive action should be taken, that environmental damage should as a priority be rectified at source, and that the polluter should pay. Environmental protection requirements shall be a component of the Contracting Parties' other policies.

Article 74

Annex XX contains the specific provisions on protective measures which shall apply pursuant to Article 73.

Article 75

The protective measures referred to in Article 74 shall not prevent any Contracting Party from maintaining or introducing more stringent protective measures compatible with this Agreement.

CHAPTER 4

STATISTICS

Article 76

1.  
The Contracting Parties shall ensure the production and dissemination of coherent and comparable statistical information for describing and monitoring all relevant economic, social and environmental aspects of the EEA.
2.  
To this end the Contracting Parties shall develop and use harmonized methods, definitions and classifications as well as common programmes and procedures organizing statistical work at appropriate administrative levels and duly observing the need for statistical confidentiality.
3.  
Annex XXI contains specific provisions on statistics.
4.  
Protocol 30 contains specific provisions on the organization of cooperation in the field of statistics.

CHAPTER 5

COMPANY LAW

Article 77

Annex XXII contains specific provisions on company law.

PART VI

COOPERATION OUTSIDE THE FOUR FREEDOMS

Article 78

The Contracting Parties shall strengthen and broaden cooperation in the framework of the Community's activities in the fields of:

— 
research and technological development,
— 
information services,
— 
the environment,
— 
education, training and youth,
— 
social policy,
— 
consumer protection,
— 
small and medium-sized enterprises,
— 
tourism,
— 
the audiovisual sector, and
— 
civil protection,

in so far as these matters are not regulated under the provisions of other Parts of this Agreement.

Article 79

1.  
The Contracting Parties shall strengthen the dialogue between them by all appropriate means, in particular through the procedures provided for in Part VII, with a view to identifying areas and activities where closer cooperation could contribute to the attainment of their common objectives in the fields referred to in Article 78.
2.  
They shall, in particular, exchange information and, at the request of a Contracting Party, hold consultations within the EEA Joint Committee in respect of plans or proposals for the establishment or amendment of framework programmes, specific programmes, actions and projects in the fields referred to in Article 78.
3.  
Part VII shall apply mutatis mutandis with regard to this Part whenever the latter or Protocol 31 specifically provides therefor.

Article 80

The cooperation provided for in Article 78 shall normally take one of the following forms:

— 
participation by EFTA States in EC framework programmes, specific programmes, projects or other actions;
— 
establishment of joint activities in specific areas, which may include concertation or coordination of activities, fusion of existing activities and establishment of ad hoc joint activities;
— 
the formal and informal exchange or provision of information;
— 
common efforts to encourage certain activities throughout the territory of the Contracting Parties;
— 
parallel legislation, where appropriate, of identical or similar content;
— 
coordination, where this is of mutual interest, of efforts and activities via, or in the context of, international organizations, and of cooperation with third countries.

Article 81

Where cooperation takes the form of participation by EFTA States in an EC framework programme, specific programme, project or other action, the following principles shall apply:

(a) 

The EFTA States shall have access to all parts of a programme.

(b) 

The status of the EFTA States in the committees which assist the EC Commission in the management or development of a Community activity to which EFTA States may be contributing financially by virtue of their participation shall take full account of that contribution.

(c) 

Decisions by the Community, other than those relating to the general budget of the Community, which affect directly or indirectly a framework programme, specific programme, project or other action, in which EFTA States participate by a decision under this Agreement, shall be subject to the provisions of Article 79(3). The terms and conditions of the continued participation in the activity in question may be reviewed by the EEA Joint Committee in accordance with Article 86.

(d) 

At the project level, institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals of EFTA States shall have the same rights and obligations in the Community programme or other action in question as those applicable to partner institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals of EC Member States. The same shall apply mutatis mutandis to participants in exchanges between EC Member States and EFTA States, under the activity in question.

(e) 

EFTA States, their institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals shall have the same rights and obligations with regard to dissemination, evaluation and exploitation of results as those applicable to EC Member States, their institutions, undertakings, organizations and nationals.

(f) 

The Contracting Parties undertake, in accordance with their respective rules and regulations, to facilitate the movement of participants in the programme and other action to the extent necessary.

Article 82

1.  

When the cooperation envisaged under the present Part involves a financial participation of the EFTA States, this participation shall take one of the following forms:

(a) 

The contribution of the EFTA States, arising from their participation in Community activities, shall be calculated proportionally:

— 
to the commitment appropriations; and
— 
to the payment appropriations;

entered each year for the Community in the general budget of the Community for each budgetary line corresponding to the activities in question.

The ‘proportionality factor’ determining the participation of the EFTA States shall be the sum of the ratios between, on the one hand, the gross domestic product at market prices of each of the EFTA States and, on the other hand, the sum of the gross domestic products at market prices of the EC Member States and of that EFTA State. This factor shall be calculated, for each budgetary year, on the basis of the most recent statistical data.

The amount of the contribution of the EFTA States shall be additional, both in commitment appropriations and in payment appropriations, to the amounts entered for the Community in the general budget on each line corresponding to the activities concerned.

The contributions to be paid each year by the EFTA States shall be determined on the basis of the payment appropriations.

Commitments entered into by the Community prior to the entry into force, on the basis of this Agreement, of the participation of the EFTA States in the activities in question — as well as the payments which result from this — shall give rise to no contribution on the part of the EFTA States.

(b) 

The financial contribution of the EFTA States deriving from their participation in certain projects or other activities shall be based on the principle that each Contracting Party shall cover its own costs, with an appropriate contribution which shall be fixed by the EEA Joint Committee to the Community's overhead costs.

(c) 

The EEA Joint Committee shall take the necessary decisions concerning the contribution of the Contracting Parties to the costs of the activity in question.

2.  
The detailed provisions for the implementation of this Article are set out in Protocol 32.

Article 83

Where cooperation takes the form of an exchange of information between public authorities, the EFTA States shall have the same rights to receive, and obligations to provide, information as EC Member States, subject to the requirements of confidentiality, which shall be fixed by the EEA Joint Committee.

Article 84

Provisions governing cooperation in specific fields are set out in Protocol 31.

Article 85

Unless otherwise provided for in Protocol 31, cooperation already established between the Community and individual EFTA States in the fields referred to in Article 78 on the date of entry into force of this Agreement shall thereafter be governed by the relevant provisions of this Part and of Protocol 31.

Article 86

The EEA Joint Committee shall, in accordance with Part VII, take all decisions necessary for the implementation of Articles 78 to 85 and measures derived therefrom, which may include, inter alia, supplementing and amending the provisions of Protocol 31, as well as adopting any transitional arrangements required by way of implementation of Article 85.

Article 87

The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary steps to develop, strengthen or broaden cooperation in the framework of the Community's activities in fields not listed in Article 78, where such cooperation is considered likely to contribute to the attainment of the objectives of this Agreement, or is otherwise deemed by the Contracting Parties to be of mutual interest. Such steps may include the amendment of Article 78 by the addition of new fields to those listed therein.

Article 88

Without prejudice to provisions of other Parts of this Agreement, the provisions of this Part shall not preclude the possibility for any Contracting Party to prepare, adopt and implement measures independently.

PART VII

INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1

THE STRUCTURE OF THE ASSOCIATION

Section 1

The EEA Council

Article 89

1.  
An EEA Council is hereby established. It shall, in particular, be responsible for giving the political impetus in the implementation of this Agreement and laying down the general guidelines for the EEA Joint Committee.

To this end, the EEA Council shall assess the overall functioning and the development of the Agreement. It shall take the political decisions leading to amendments of the Agreement.

2.  
The Contracting Parties, as to the Community and the EC Member States in their respective fields of competence, may, after having discussed it in the EEA Joint Committee, or directly in exceptionally urgent cases, raise in the EEA Council any issue giving rise to a difficulty.
3.  
The EEA Council shall by decision adopt its rules of procedure.

Article 90

1.  
The EEA Council shall consist of the members of the Council of the European Communities and members of the EC Commission, and of one member of the Government of each of the EFTA States.

Members of the EEA Council may be represented in accordance with the conditions to be laid down in its rules of procedure.

2.  
Decisions by the EEA Council shall be taken by agreement between the Community, on the one hand, and the EFTA States, on the other.

Article 91

1.  
The office of President of the EEA Council shall be held alternately, for a period of six months, by a member of the Council of the European Communities and a member of the Government of an EFTA State,
2.  
The EEA Council shall be convened twice a year by its President. The EEA Council shall also meet whenever circumstances so require, in accordance with its rules of procedure.

Section 2

The EEA Joint Committee

Article 92

1.  
An EEA Joint Committee is hereby established. It shall ensure the effective implementation and operation of this Agreement. To this end, it shall carry out exchanges of views and information and take decisions in the cases provided for in this Agreement.
2.  
The Contracting Parties, as to the Community and the EC Member States in their respective fields of competence, shall hold consultations in the EEA Joint Committee on any point of relevance to the Agreement giving rise to a difficulty and raised by one of them.
3.  
The EEA Joint Committee shall by decision adopt its rules of procedure.

Article 93

1.  
The EEA Joint Committee shall consist of representatives of the Contracting Parties.
2.  
The EEA Joint Committee shall take decisions by agreement between the Community, on the one hand, and the EFTA States speaking with one voice, on the other.

Article 94

1.  
The office of President of the EEA Joint Committee shall be held alternately, for a period of six months, by the representative of the Community, i.e. the EC Commission, and the representative of one of the EFTA States.
2.  
In order to fulfil its functions, the EEA Joint Committee shall meet, in principle, at least once a month. It shall also meet on the initiative of its President or at the request of one of the Contracting Parties in accordance with its rules of procedure.
3.  
The EEA Joint Committee may decide to establish any subcommittee or working group to assist it in carrying out its tasks. The EEA Joint Committee shall in its rules of procedure lay down the composition and mode of operation of such subcommittees and working groups. Their tasks shall be determined by the EEA Joint Committee in each individual case.
4.  
The EEA Joint Committee shall issue an annual report on the functioning and the development of this Agreement.

Section 3

Parliamentary cooperation

Article 95

1.  
An EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee is hereby established. It shall be composed of equal numbers of, on the one hand, members of the European Parliament and, on the other, members of Parliaments of the EFTA States. The total number of members of the Committee is laid down in the Statute in Protocol 36.
2.  
The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall alternately hold sessions in the Community and in an EFTA State in accordance with the provisions laid down in Protocol 36.
3.  
The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall contribute, through dialogue and debate, to a better understanding between the Community and the EFTA States in the fields covered by this Agreement.
4.  
The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee may express its views in the form of reports or resolutions, as appropriate. It shall, in particular, examine the annual report of the EEA Joint Committee, issued in accordance with Article 94(4), on the functioning and the development of this Agreement.
5.  
The President of the EEA Council may appear before the EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee in order to be heard by it.
6.  
The EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

Section 4

Cooperation between economic and social partners

Article 96

1.  
Members of the Economic and Social Committee and other bodies representing the social partners in the Community and the corresponding bodies in the EFTA States shall work to strengthen contacts between them and to cooperate in an organized and regular manner in order to enhance the awareness of the economic and social aspects of the growing interdependence of the economies of the Contracting Parties and of their interests within the context of the EEA.
2.  
To this end, an EEA Consultative Committee is hereby established. It shall be composed of equal numbers of, on the one hand, members of the Economic and Social Committee of the Community and, on the other, members of the EFTA Consultative Committee. The EEA Consultative Committee may express its views in the form of reports or resolutions, as appropriate.
3.  
The EEA Consultative Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

CHAPTER 2

THE DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURE

Article 97

This Agreement does not prejudge the right for each Contracting Party to amend, without prejudice to the principle of non-discrimination and after having informed the other Contracting Parties, its internal legislation in the areas covered by this Agreement:

— 
if the EEA Joint Committee concludes that the legislation as amended does not affect the good functioning of this Agreement; or
— 
if the procedures referred to in Article 98 have been completed.

Article 98

The Annexes to this Agreement and Protocols 1 to 7, 9 to 11, 19 to 27, 30 to 32, 37, 39, 41 and 47, as appropriate, may be amended by a decision of the EEA Joint Committee in accordance with Articles 93(2), 99, 100, 102 and 103.

Article 99

1.  
As soon as new legislation is being drawn up by the EC Commission in a field which is governed by this Agreement, the EC Commission shall informally seek advice from experts of the EFTA States in the same way as it seeks advice from experts of the EC Member States for the elaboration of its proposals.
2.  
When transmitting its proposal to the Council of the European Communities, the EC Commission shall transmit copies thereof to the EFTA States.

At the request of one of the Contracting Parties, a preliminary exchange of views takes place in the EEA Joint Committee.

3.  
During the phase preceding the decision of the Council of the European Communities, in a continuous information and consultation process, the Contracting Parties consult each other again in the EEA Joint Committee at the significant moments at the request of one of them.
4.  
The Contracting Parties shall cooperate in good faith during the information and consultation phase with a view to facilitating, at the end of the process, the decision-taking in the EEA Joint Committee.

Article 100

The EC Commission shall ensure experts of the EFTA States as wide a participation as possible according to the areas concerned, in the preparatory stage of draft measures to be submitted subsequently to the committees which assist the EC Commission in the exercise of its executive powers. In this regard, when drawing up draft measures the EC Commission shall refer to experts of the EFTA States on the same basis as it refers to experts of the EC Member States.

In the cases where the Council of the European Communities is seized in accordance with the procedure applicable to the type of committee involved, the EC Commission shall transmit to the Council of the European Communities the views of the experts of the EFTA States.

Article 101

1.  
In respect of committees which are covered neither by Article 81 nor by Article 100 experts from EFTA States shall be associated with the work when this is called for by the good functioning of this Agreement,

These committees are listed in Protocol 37. The modalities of such an association are set out in the relevant sectoral Protocols and Annexes dealing with the matter concerned.

2.  
If it appears to the Contracting Parties that such an association should be extended to other committees which present similar characteristics, the EEA Joint Committee may amend Protocol 37.

Article 102

1.  
In order to guarantee the legal security and the homogeneity of the EEA, the EEA Joint Committee shall take a decision concerning an amendment of an Annex to this Agreement as closely as possible to the adoption by the Community of the corresponding new Community legislation with a view to permitting a simultaneous application of the latter as well as of the amendments of the Annexes to the Agreement. To this end, the Community shall, whenever adopting a legislative act on an issue which is governed by this Agreement, as soon as possible inform the other Contracting Parties in the EEA Joint Committee.
2.  
The part of an Annex to this Agreement which would be directly affected by the new legislation is assessed in the EEA Joint Committee.
3.  
The Contracting Parties shall make all efforts to arrive at an agreement on matters relevant to this Agreement.

The EEA Joint Committee shall, in particular, make every effort to find a mutually acceptable solution where a serious problem arises in any area which, in the EFTA States, falls within the competence of the legislator.

4.  
If, notwithstanding the application of the preceding paragraph, an agreement on an amendment of an Annex to this Agreement cannot be reached, the EEA Joint Committee shall examine all further possibilities to maintain the good functioning of this Agreement and take any decision necessary to this effect, including the possibility to take notice of the equivalence of legislation. Such a decision shall be taken at the latest at the expiry of a period of six months from the date of referral to the EEA Joint Committee or, if that date is later, on the date of entry into force of the corresponding Community legislation.
5.  
If, at the end of the time-limit set out in paragraph 4, the EEA Joint Committee has not taken a decision on an amendment of an Annex to this Agreement, the affected part thereof, as determined in accordance with paragraph 2, is regarded as provisionally suspended, subject to a decision to the contrary by the EEA Joint Committee. Such a suspension shall take effect six months after the end of the period referred to in paragraph 4, but in no event earlier than the date on which the corresponding EC act is implemented in the Community. The EEA Joint Committee shall pursue its efforts to agree on a mutually acceptable solution in order for the suspension to be terminated as soon as possible.
6.  
The practical consequences of the suspension referred to in paragraph 5 shall be discussed in the EEA Joint Committee. The rights and obligations which individuals and economic operators have already acquired under this Agreement shall remain. The Contracting Parties shall, as appropriate, decide on the adjustments necessary due to the suspension.

Article 103

1.  
If a decision of the EEA Joint Committee can be binding on a Contracting Party only after the fulfilment of constitutional requirements, the decision shall, if a date is contained therein, enter into force on that date, provided that the Contracting Party concerned has notified the other Contracting Parties by that date that the constitutional requirements have been fulfilled.

In the absence of such a notification by that date, the decision shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the last notification.

2.  
If upon the expiry of a period of six months after the decision of the EEA Joint Committee such a notification has not taken place, the decision of the EEA Joint Committee shall be applied provisionally pending the fulfilment of the constitutional requirements unless a Contracting Party notifies that such a provisional application cannot take place. In the latter case, or if a Contracting Party notifies the non-ratification of a decision of the EEA Joint Committee, the suspension provided for in Article 102(5) shall take effect one month after such a notification but in no event earlier than the date on which the corresponding EC act is implemented in the Community.

Article 104

Decisions taken by the EEA Joint Committee in the cases provided for in this Agreement shall, unless otherwise provided for therein, upon their entry into force be binding on the Contracting Parties which shall take the necessary steps to ensure their implementation and application.

CHAPTER 3

HOMOGENEITY, SURVEILLANCE PROCEDURE AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

Section 1

Homogeneity

Article 105

1.  
In order to achieve the objective of the Contracting Parties to arrive at as uniform an interpretation as possible of the provisions of the Agreement and those provisions of Community legislation which are substantially reproduced in the Agreement, the EEA Joint Committee shall act in accordance with this Article.
2.  
The EEA Joint Committee shall keep under constant review the development of the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the EFTA Court. To this end judgments of these Courts shall be transmitted to the EEA Joint Committee which shall act so as to preserve the homogeneous interpretation of the Agreement.
3.  
If the EEA Joint Committee within two months after a difference in the case-law of the two Courts has been brought before it, has not succeeded to preserve the homogeneous interpretation of the Agreement, the procedures laid down in Article 111 may be applied.

Article 106

In order to ensure as uniform an interpretation as possible of this Agreement, in full deference to the independence of courts, a system of exchange of information concerning judgments by the EFTA Court, the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities and the Courts of last instance of the EFTA States shall be set up by the EEA Joint Committee. This system shall comprise:

(a) 

transmission to the Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Communities of judgments delivered by such courts on the interpretation and application of, on the one hand, this Agreement or, on the other hand, the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, as amended or supplemented, as well as the acts adopted in pursuance thereof in so far as they concern provisions which are identical in substance to those of this Agreement;

(b) 

classification of these judgments by the Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Communities including, as far as necessary, the drawing up and publication of translations and abstracts;

(c) 

communications by the Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Communities of the relevant documents to the competent national authorities, to be designated by each Contracting Party.

Article 107

Provisions on the possibility for an EFTA State to allow a court or tribunal to ask the Court of Justice of the European Communities to decide on the interpretation of an EEA rule are laid down in Protocol 34.

Section 2

Surveillance procedure

Article 108

1.  
The EFTA States shall establish an independent surveillance authority (EFTA Surveillance Authority) as well as procedures similar to those existing in the Community including procedures for ensuring the fulfilment of obligations under this Agreement and for control of the legality of acts of the EFTA Surveillance Authority regarding competition.
2.  
The EFTA States shall establish a court of justice (EFTA Court).

The EFTA Court shall, in accordance with a separate agreement between the EFTA States, with regard to the application of this Agreement be competent, in particular, for:

(a) 

actions concerning the surveillance procedure regarding the EFTA States;

(b) 

appeals concerning decisions in the field of competition taken by the EFTA Surveillance Authority;

(c) 

the settlement of disputes between two or more EFTA States.

Article 109

1.  
The fulfilment of the obligations under this Agreement shall be monitored by, on the one hand, the EFTA Surveillance Authority and, on the other, the EC Commission acting in conformity with the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ►M135  ————— ◄ and this Agreement.
2.  
In order to ensure a uniform surveillance throughout the EEA, the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the EC Commission shall cooperate, exchange information and consult each other on surveillance policy issues and individual cases.
3.  
The EC Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall receive any complaints concerning the application of this Agreement. They shall inform each other of complaints received.
4.  
Each of these bodies shall examine all complaints falling within its competence and shall pass to the other body any complaints which fall within the competence of that body.
5.  
In case of disagreement between these two bodies with regard to the action to be taken in relation to a complaint or with regard to the result of the examination, either of the bodies may refer the matter to the EEA Joint Committee which shall deal with it in accordance with Article 111.

Article 110

Decisions under this Agreement by the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the EC Commission which impose a pecuniary obligation on persons other than States, shall be enforceable. The same shall apply to such judgments under this Agreement by the Court of Justice of the European Communities, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities and the EFTA Court.

Enforcement shall be governed by the rules of civil procedure in force in the State in the territory of which it is carried out. The order for its enforcement shall be appended to the decision, without other formality than verification of the authenticity of the decision, by the authority which each Contracting Party shall designate for this purpose and shall make known to the other Contracting Parties, the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the EC Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Communities, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities and the EFTA Court.

When these formalities have been completed on application by the party concerned, the latter may proceed to enforcement, in accordance with the law of the State in the territory of which enforcement is to be carried out, by bringing the matter directly before the competent authority.

Enforcement may be suspended only by a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, as far as decisions by the EC Commission, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities or the Court of Justice of the European Communities are concerned, or by a decision of the EFTA Court as far as decisions by the EFTA Surveillance Authority or the EFTA Court are concerned. However, the courts of the States concerned shall have jurisdiction over complaints that enforcement is being carried out in an irregular manner.

Section 3

Settlement of disputes

Article 111

1.  
The Community or an EFTA State may bring a matter under dispute which concerns the interpretation or application of this Agreement before the EEA Joint Committee in accordance with the following provisions.
2.  
The EEA Joint Committee may settle the dispute. It shall be provided with all information which might be of use in making possible an in-depth examination of the situation, with a view to finding an acceptable solution. To this end, the EEA Joint Committee shall examine all possibilities to maintain the good functioning of the Agreement.
3.  
If a dispute concerns the interpretation of provisions of this Agreement, which are identical in substance to corresponding rules of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community and to acts adopted in application of these two Treaties and if the dispute has not been settled within three months after it has been brought before the EEA Joint Committee, the Contracting Parties to the dispute may agree to request the Court of Justice of the European Communities to give a ruling on the interpretation of the relevant rules.

If the EEA Joint Committee in such a dispute has not reached an agreement on a solution within six months from the date on which this procedure was initiated or if, by then, the Contracting Parties to the dispute have not decided to ask for a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Communities, a Contracting Party may, in order to remedy possible imbalances,

— 
either take a safeguard measure in accordance with Article 112(2) and following the procedure of Article 113;
— 
or apply Article 102 mutatis mutandis.
4.  
If a dispute concerns the scope or duration of safeguard measures taken in accordance with Article 111(3) or Article 112, or the proportionality of rebalancing measures taken in accordance with Article 114, and if the EEA Joint Committee after three months from the date when the matter has been brought before it has not succeeded to resolve the dispute, any Contracting Party may refer the dispute to arbitration under the procedures laid down in Protocol 33. No question of interpretation of the provisions of this Agreement referred to in paragraph 3 may be dealt with in such procedures. The arbitration award shall be binding on the parties to the dispute.

CHAPTER 4

SAFEGUARD MEASURES

Article 112

1.  
If serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties of a sectorial or regional nature liable to persist are arising, a Contracting Party may unilaterally take appropriate measures under the conditions and procedures laid down in Article 113.
2.  
Such safeguard measures shall be restricted with regard to their scope and duration to what is strictly necessary in order to remedy the situation. Priority shall be given to such measures as will least disturb the functioning of this Agreement.
3.  
The safeguard measures shall apply with regard to all Contracting Parties.

Article 113

1.  
A Contracting Party which is considering taking safeguard measures under Article 112 shall, without delay, notify the other Contracting Parties through the EEA Joint Committee and shall provide all relevant information.
2.  
The Contracting Parties shall immediately enter into consultations in the EEA Joint Committee with a view to finding a commonly acceptable solution.
3.  
The Contracting Party concerned may not take safeguard measures until one month has elapsed after the date of notification under paragraph 1, unless the consultation procedure under paragraph 2 has been concluded before the expiration of the stated time-limit. When exceptional circumstances requiring immediate action exclude prior examination, the Contracting Party concerned may apply forthwith the protective measures strictly necessary to remedy the situation.

For the Community, the safeguard measures shall be taken by the EC Commission.

4.  
The Contracting Party concerned shall, without delay, notify the measures taken to the EEA Joint Committee and shall provide all relevant information.
5.  
The safeguard measures taken shall be the subject of consultations in the EEA Joint Committee every three months from the date of their adoption with a view to their abolition before the date of expiry envisaged, or to the limitation of their scope of application.

Each Contracting Party may at any time request the EEA Joint Committee to review such measures.

Article 114

1.  
If a safeguard measure taken by a Contracting Party creates an imbalance between the rights and obligations under this Agreement, any other Contracting Party may towards that Contracting Party take such proportionate rebalancing measures as are strictly necessary to remedy the imbalance. Priority shall be given to such measures as will least disturb the functioning of the EEA.
2.  
The procedure under Article 113 shall apply.

PART VIII

FINANCIAL MECHANISM

Article 115

With a view to promoting a continuous and balanced strengthening of trade and economic relations between the Contracting Parties, as provided for in Article 1, the Contracting Parties agree on the need to reduce the economic and social disparities between their regions. They note in this regard the relevant provisions set out elsewhere in this Agreement and its related Protocols, including certain of the arrangements regarding agriculture and fisheries.

Article 116

A Financial Mechanism shall be established by the EFTA States to contribute, in the context of the EEA and in addition to the efforts already deployed by the Community in this regard, to the objectives laid down in Article 115.

Article 117

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Provisions governing the Financial Mechanisms are set out in Protocol 38, Protocol 38a, the Addendum to Protocol 38a, Protocol 38b, the Addendum to Protocol 38b and Protocol 38c.

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PART IX

GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 118

1.  
Where a Contracting Party considers that it would be useful in the interests of all the Contracting Parties to develop the relations established by this Agreement by extending them to fields not covered thereby, it shall submit a reasoned request to the other Contracting Parties within the EEA Council. The latter may instruct the EEA Joint Committee to examine all the aspects of this request and to issue a report.

The EEA Council may, where appropriate, take the political decisions with a view to opening negotiations between the Contracting Parties.

2.  
The agreements resulting from the negotiations referred to in paragraph 1 will be subject to ratification or approval by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures.

Article 119

The Annexes and the acts referred to therein as adapted for the purposes of this Agreement as well as the Protocols shall form an integral part of this Agreement.

Article 120

Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement and in particular in ►M1  Protocols 41 and 43 ◄ , the application of the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail over provisions in existing bilateral or multilateral agreements binding the European Economic Community, on the one hand, and one or more EFTA States, on the other, to the extent that the same subject matter is governed by this Agreement.

Article 121

The provisions of this Agreement shall not preclude cooperation:

(a) 

within the framework of the Nordic cooperation to the extent that such cooperation does not impair the good functioning of this Agreement;

(b) 

within the framework of the regional union between Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the extent that the objectives of this union are not attained by the application of this Agreement and the good functioning of this Agreement is not impaired;

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Article 122

The representatives, delegates and experts of the Contracting Parties, as well as officials and other servants acting under this Agreement shall be required, even after their duties have ceased, not to disclose information of the kind covered by the obligation of professional secrecy, in particular information about undertakings, their business relations or their cost components.

Article 123

Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent a Contracting Party from taking any measures:

(a) 

which it considers necessary to prevent the disclosure of information contrary to its essential security interests;

(b) 

which relate to the production of, or trade in, arms, munitions and war materials or other products indispensable for defence purposes or to research, development or production indispensable for defence purposes, provided that such measures do not impair the conditions of competition in respect of products not intended for specifically military purposes;

(c) 

which it considers essential to its own security in the event of serious internal disturbances affecting the maintenance of law and order, in time of war or serious international tension constituting threat of war or in order to carry out obligations it has accepted for the purpose of maintaining peace and international security.

Article 124

The Contracting Parties shall accord nationals of EC Member States and EFTA States the same treatment as their own nationals as regards participation In the capital of companies or firms within the meaning of Article 34, without prejudice to the application of the other provisions of this Agreement.

Article 125

This Agreement shall in no way prejudice the rules of the Contracting Parties governing the system of property ownership.

Article 126

1.  
The Agreement shall apply to the territories to which the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ►M135  ————— ◄ is applied and under the conditions laid down in ►M135  that Treaty ◄ , and to the territories of ►M135  the ►M187  ————— ◄ Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway ◄ .
2.  

Notwithstanding paragraph 1, this Agreement shall not apply to the Åland Islands. The Government of Finland may, however, give notice, by a declaration deposited when ratifying this Agreement with the Depositary, which shall transmit a certified copy thereof to the Contracting Parties, that the Agreement shall apply to those Islands under the same conditions as it applies to other parts of Finland subject to the following provisions:

(a) 

The provisions of this Agreement shall not preclude the application of the provisions in force at any given time on the Åland Islands on:

(i) 

restrictions on the right for natural persons who do not enjoy regional citizenship in Åland, and for legal persons, to acquire and hold real property on the Åland Islands without permission by the competent authorities of the Islands;

(ii) 

restrictions on the right of establishment and the right to provide services by natural persons who do not enjoy regional citizenship in Åland, or by any legal person, without permission by the competent authorities of the Åland Islands.

(b) 

The rights enjoyed by Ålanders in Finland shall not be affected by this Agreement.

(c) 

The authorities of the Åland Islands shall apply the same treatment to all natural and legal persons of the Contracting Parties.

Article 127

Each Contracting Party may withdraw from this Agreement provided it gives at least 12 months' notice in writing to the other Contracting Parties.

Immediately after the notification of the intended withdrawal, the other Contracting Parties shall convene a diplomatic conference in order to envisage the necessary modifications to bring to the Agreement.

Article 128

►M1  

Any European State becoming a member of the Community shall, and the Swiss Confederation or any European State becoming a member of EFTA may, apply to become a party to this Agreement. It shall address its application to the EEA Council.

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2.  
The terms and conditions for such participation shall be the subject of an agreement between the Contracting Parties and the applicant State. That agreement shall be submitted for ratification or approval by all Contracting Parties in accordance with their own procedures.

Article 129

1.  
This Agreement is drawn up in a single original in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish languages, each of these texts being equally authentic.

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Pursuant to the enlargements of the European Economic Area the versions of this Agreement in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian languages shall be equally authentic.

The texts of the acts referred to in the Annexes are equally authentic in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages as published in the Official Journal of the European Union and shall for the authentication thereof be drawn up in the Icelandic and Norwegian languages and published in the EEA Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union.

▼B

2.  
This Agreement shall be ratified or approved by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.

It shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities by which certified copies shall be transmitted to all other Contracting Parties.

The instruments of ratification or approval shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities which shall notify all other Contracting Parties.

▼M1

3.  
This Agreement shall enter into force on the date and under the conditions provided for in the Protocol adjusting the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

▼B

En fe de lo cual, los plenipotenciarios abajo firmantes suscriben el presente acuerdo.

Til bekræftelse heraf har undertegnede befuldmægtigede underskrevet denne aftale.

Zu Urkund dessen haben die unterzeichneten Bevollmächtigten ihre Unterschriften unter dieses Abkommen gesetzt.

Εις πίστωση των ανωτέρω, οι υπογεγραμμένοι πληρεξούσιοι έθεσαν τις υπογραφές τους στην παρούσα συμφωνία.

In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Agreement.

En foi de quoi, les plénipotentiaires soussignés ont apposé leurs signatures au bas du présent accord.

þEssu til staðfestingar hafa undirritaðir fulltrúar, sem til þess hafa fullt umboð, undirritað samning þennan.

In fede di che, i plenipotenziari sottoscritti hanno apposto le loro firme in calce al presente accordo.

Ten blijke waarvan de ondergetekende gevolmachtigden hun handtekening onder deze Overeenkomst hebben gesteld.

Som bevitnelse på dette har de undertegnede befullmäktigade undertegnet denne avtal.

Em fé do que, os plenipotenciários abaixo assinados apuseram as suas assinaturas no final do presente acordo.

Tämän vakuudeksi alla mainitut täysivaltaiset edustajat ovat allekirjoittaneet tämän sopimuksen.

Till bestyrkande härav har undertecknade befullmäktigade ombud undertecknat detta avtal.

Hecho en Oporto, el dos de mayo de mil novecientos noventa y dos.

Udfærdiget i Porto, den anden maj nitten hundrede og tooghalvfems.

Geschehen zu Porto am zweiten Mai neunzehnhundertzweiundneunzig.

'Εγινε στο Πόρτο, στις δύο Μαΐου χίλια εννιακόσια ενενήντα δύο.

Done at Oporto on the second day of May in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two.

Fait à Porto, le deux mai mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-douze.

Gjört í Oporto annan dag maímánaðar árið nítján hundruð níutíu og tvö.

Fatto a Porto, addì due maggio millenovecentonovantadue.

Gedaan te Oporto, de tweede mei negentienhonderd tweeënnegentig.

Gitt i Oporte på den annen dag i mai i året nittenhundre og nitti to.

Feito no Porto, em dois de Maio de mil novecentos e noventa e dois.

Tehty portossa toisena päivänä toukokuuta tuhat yhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäkaksi.

Undertecknat i Oporto de 2 maj 1992.

Por el Consejo y la Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas

For Rådet og Kommissionen for De Europæiske Fællesskaber

Für den Rat und die Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften

Για το Συμβούλιο και την Επιτροπή των Ευρωπαϊκών Κοινοτήτων

For the Council and the Commission of the European Communities

Pour le Conseil et la Commission des Communautés européennes

Per il Consiglio e la Commissione delle Comunità europee

Voor de Raad en de Commissie van de Europese Gemeenschappen

Pelo Conselho e pela Comissão das Comunidades Europeias

signatory

Pour le royaume de Belgique

Voor het Koninkrijk België

signatory

På Kongeriget Danmarks vegne

signatory

Für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland

signatory

Για την Ελληνική Δημοκρατία

signatory

Por el Reino de España

signatory

Pour la République française

signatory

Thar cheann Na hÉireann

For Ireland

signatory

Per la Repubblica italiana

signatory

Pour le grand-duché de Luxembourg

signatory

Voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

signatory

Pela República Portuguesa

signatory

For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

signatory

Für die Republik Österreich

signatory

Suomen tasavallan puolesta

signatory

Fyrir Lýðveldið Ísland

signatory

Für das Fürstentum Liechtenstein

signatory

For Kongeriket Norge

signatory

För Konungariket Sverige

signatory

Für die Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft

Pour la Confédération suisse

Per la Confederazione svizzera

signatory

PROTOCOLS



PROTOCOL 1

on horizontal adaptations



The provisions of the acts referred to in the Annexes to the Agreement shall be applicable in accordance with the Agreement and this Protocol, unless otherwise provided in the respective Annex. The specific adaptations necessary for individual acts are set out in the Annex where the act concerned is listed.

1.   INTRODUCTORY PARTS OF THE ACTS

The preambles of the acts referred to are not adapted for the purposes of the Agreement. They are relevant to the extent necessary for the proper interpretation and application, within the framework of the Agreement, of the provisions contained in such acts.

2.   PROVISIONS ON EC COMMITTEES

Procedures, institutional arrangements or other provisions concerning EC committees contained in the acts referred to are dealt with in Articles 81, 100 and 101 of the Agreement and in Protocol 31.

3.   PROVISIONS SETTING UP PROCEDURES FOR ADAPTING/AMENDING COMMUNITY ACTS

Where an act referred to provides for EC procedures on its adaptation, extension or amendment or for the development of new Community policies, initiatives or acts, the relevant decision-making procedures provided for in the Agreement shall apply.

4.   EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES

▼M2

(a) 

Where an EC Member State is to submit information to the EC Commission, an EFTA State shall submit such information to the EFTA Surveillance Authority which shall pass it on to the Standing Committee on the EFTA States. The same shall apply when the transmission of information is to be carried out by the competent authorities. The EC Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority shall exchange information they have received from the EC Member States or from the EFTA States or from the competent authorities.

▼B

(b) 

Where an EC Member State is to submit information to one or more other EC Member States, it shall also submit that information to the EC Commission which shall pass it on to the Standing Committee for distribution to the EFTA States.

An EFTA State shall submit corresponding information to one or more other EFTA States and to the Standing Committee which shall pass it on to the EC Commission for distribution to the EC Member States. The same shall apply when the information is to be submitted by the competent authorities.

(c) 

In areas where, for reasons of urgency, rapid transfer of information is called for, appropriate sectoral solutions providing for direct exchange of information shall apply.

(d) 

Functions of the EC Commission in the context of procedures for verification or approval, information, notification or consultation and similar matters shall for the EFTA States be carried out according to procedures established among them. This is without prejudice to paragraphs 2, 3 and 7. The EC Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority or the Standing Committee, as the case may be, shall exchange all information regarding these matters. Any issue arising in this context may be referred to the EEA Joint Committee.

5.   REVIEW AND REPORTING PROCEDURES

Where, according to an act referred to, the EC Commission or another EC body is to prepare a report or an assessment or the like, the EFTA Surveillance Authority or the Standing Committee, as the case may be, shall, unless otherwise agreed, concurrently prepare, as appropriate, a corresponding report or assessment or the like, with regard to the EFTA States. The EC Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority or the Standing Committee, as the case may be, shall consult each other and exchange information during the preparation of their respective reports, copies of which shall be sent to the EEA Joint Committee.

6.   PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION

(a) 

Where, according to an act referred to, an EC Member State is to publish certain information on facts, procedures and the like, also the EFTA States shall, under the Agreement, publish the relevant information in a corresponding manner.

(b) 

Where, according to an act referred to, facts, procedures, reports and the like are to be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities, the corresponding information regarding the EFTA States shall be published in a separate EEA section ( 3 ) thereof.

7.   RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

Rights conferred and obligations imposed upon the EC Member States or their public entities, undertakings or individuals in relation to each other, shall be understood to be conferred or imposed upon Contracting Parties, the latter also being understood, as the case may be, as their competent authorities, public entities, undertakings or individuals.

8.   REFERENCES TO TERRITORIES

Whenever the acts referred to contain references to the territory of the ‘Community’ or of the ‘common market’ the references shall for the purposes of the Agreement be understood to be references to the territories of the Contracting Parties as defined in Article 126 of the Agreement.

9.   REFERENCES TO NATIONALS OF EC MEMBER STATES

Whenever the acts referred to contain references to nationals of EC Member States, the references shall for the purposes of the Agreement be understood to be references also to nationals of EFTA States.

10.   REFERENCES TO LANGUAGES

Where an act referred to confers upon the EC Member States or their public entities, undertakings or individuals rights or imposes obligations regarding the use of any of the official languages of the European Communities, the corresponding rights and obligations regarding the use of any of the official languages of all Contracting Parties shall be understood to be conferred or imposed upon Contracting Parties, their competent authorities, public entities, undertakings or individuals.

11.   ENTRY INTO FORCE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTS

Provisions on the entry into force or implementation of the acts referred to in the Annexes to the Agreement are not relevant for the purposes of the Agreement. The time limits and dates for the EFTA States for bringing into force and implementing acts referred to follow from ►M1  the date of entry into force ◄ of the Agreement, as well as from provisions on transitional arrangements.

12.   ADDRESSEES OF THE COMMUNITY ACTS

Provisions indicating that a Community act is addressed to the Member States of the Community are not relevant for the purposes of the Agreement.

▼M108

PROTOCOL 2

on products excluded from the scope of the agreement in accordance with article 8(3)(a)



HS heading No

Description of products

 

 

3502

 

Albumins, albuminates and other albumin derivates:

 

– Egg albumin:

ex 11

– – Dried, other than unfit, or to be rendered unfit, for human consumption

ex 19

– – Other egg albumin, other than unfit, or to be rendered unfit, for human consumption

ex 20

– Milk albumin, including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, other than unfit, or to be rendered unfit, for human consumption

3823

 

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols:

 

– Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining:

ex 11

– – Stearic acid for animal feeding

ex 12

– – Oleic acid for animal feeding

ex 13

– – Tall oil fatty acids for animal feeding

ex 19

– – Other for animal feeding

ex 70

– Industrial fatty alcohols for animal feeding

PROTOCOL 3

concerning products referred to in article 8(3)(b) of the agreement





Article 1

1.  
The provisions of the Agreement shall apply to the products listed in Tables I and II, subject to the provisions of this Protocol.
2.  
The provisions of this Protocol shall not apply to Liechtenstein ►M153  ————— ◄ .

Article 2

1.  
The products specified in Table I shall be subject to the customs duties set out in the Annexes to that Table.

▼M320

Products covered by Table I originating in Iceland or the European Union in accordance with the provisions of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin shall be subject to the customs duties set out in point 4a of Annex I to Table I and point 1a of Annex II to Table I, respectively.

▼M108

2.  
These customs duties shall be subject to annual calendar reviews. They may be adapted by the Joint Committee taking account of the evolution of the costs among the Contracting Parties of the basic agricultural products and/or mutual concessions.

Article 3

1.  
This Protocol shall not prevent each Contracting Party from applying its system of export refunds for the goods listed in Table I, taking into account the impact of the differences in prices between the world market and the markets of the Contracting Parties for the basic agricultural products.
2.  
Where production refunds or direct subsidies related to the basic agricultural products used in the production of the exported products are granted, the export refund shall be reduced accordingly.

Article 4

The Contracting Parties shall periodically make available to each other the levels of refunds granted in respect of the basic agricultural products for which the products listed in Table I may be eligible and related changes in the agricultural policy including institutional prices.

Article 5

1.  
The Contracting Parties may not levy customs duties or charges having equivalent effect on import or grant refunds upon export of the products listed in Table II.
2.  
The provisions of Article 4 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the products listed in Table II.

Article 6

At the request of a Contracting Party, this Protocol may be reviewed by the EEA Joint Committee. Such review may involve amendments to Tables I or II relating to the extent of the products covered and the duties applicable.

Article 7

1.  
The Contracting Parties shall notify the EEA Joint Committee of the detailed implementing rules adopted for the application of this Protocol.
2.  
Any Contracting Party may at any time request a discussion in the EEA Joint Committee on the functioning of this Protocol.



TABLE I

HS heading No

Description of products

 

 

0403

 

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

10

– Yogurt:

ex 10

– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

90

– Other:

ex 90

– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

0501

 

Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair

0502

 

Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair

0503

 

Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material

0505

 

Skins and other parts or birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers

0507

 

Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products

0508

 

Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttlebone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste thereof

0509

 

Natural sponges of animal origin

0510

 

Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved

0710

 

Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:

40

– Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

0711

 

Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption:

90

– Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

ex 90

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

1302

 

Vegetables saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

 

– Vegetable saps and extracts:

14

– – Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone

19

– – Other:

ex 19

– – – Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations

ex 19

– – – Other medicinal than intermixtures of vegetable extracts for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations or of vanilla oleoresin

20

– Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

ex 20

– – Containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

1401

 

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and of lime bark)

1402

 

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for example kapok, vegetable hair and eel-grass), whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material

1403

 

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for example broomcorn piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles

1404

 

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:

10

– Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing and tanning

90

– Other

1517

 

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading No 1516:

10

– Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

ex 10

– – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

90

– Other:

ex 90

– – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

ex 90

– – Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould release preparations

1520

 

Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes:

ex 00

For feed purpose (1)

1522

 

Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:

ex 00

– Degras for feed purpose (1)

1702

 

Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form; sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey; caramel:

50

– Chemically pure fructose

90

– Other, including invert sugar:

ex 90

– – Chemically pure maltose

1704

 

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa

1806

 

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa

1901

 

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa powder or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included

1902

 

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:

 

– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:

11

– – Containing eggs

19

– – Other

20

– Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

ex 20

– – Other than products containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal or blood, or any combination thereof

30

– Other pasta

40

– Couscous

1903

 

Tapioca and substitutes thereof prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms

1904

 

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included

1905

 

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

2001

 

Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:

90

– Other:

ex 90

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata); palm hearts; yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

2004

 

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading No 2006:

10

– Potatoes:

ex 10

– – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

90

– Other vegetables and mixtures or vegetables:

ex 90

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2005

 

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading No 2006:

20

– Potatoes:

ex 20

– – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

80

– Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2006

 

Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystillised):

ex 2006

– Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2007

 

Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, being cooked preparations, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

2008

 

Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included:

 

– Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

11

– – Ground-nuts:

ex 11

– – – Peanut butter

ex 11

– – – Ground nuts, roasted

 

– Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading No 2008 19 :

ex 91

– – Palm hearts for feed purpose (1)

99

– – Other:

ex 99

– – – Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2101

 

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

 

– Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

12

– – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

ex 12

– – – Containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

20

– Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates, or with a basis of tea or maté:

ex 20

– – Containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

30

– Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

ex 30

– – Other roasted coffee substitutes than roasted chicory; extracts, essences and concentrates of other roasted coffee substitutes than roasted chicory

2102

 

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders

2103

 

Sauces and preparations thereof; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

20

– Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

30

– Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

ex 30

– – Prepared mustard containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

90

– Other:

ex 90

– – Other than mango chutney, liquid

2104

 

Soups and broths and preparations thereof; homogenised composite food preparations

2105

 

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa (2)

2106

 

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included (3):

ex 2106

– Other than flavoured or coloured sugar syrups

2202

 

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No 2009

2203

 

Beer made from malt

2205

 

Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances

2207

 

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol. or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

20

– Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

2208

 

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol.; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

40

– Rum and tafia

50

– Gin and genever

60

– Vodka

70

– Liqueurs and cordials:

ex 70

– – Liqueurs containing more than 5 % by weight of added sugar

90

– Other:

ex 90

– – Aquavit

2209

 

Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid

2402

 

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes

2403

 

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; homogenised or reconstituted tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences

2905

 

Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:

 

– Other polyhydric alcohols:

43

– – Mannitol

44

– – D-glucitol (sorbitol)

3302

 

Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

10

– Of a kind used in the food or drink industries

3501

 

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues

3505

 

Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pre-gelatinised or esterified starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches

3809

 

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the drying or fixing or dyestuffes and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included:

10

– With a basis of amylaceous substances

3824

 

Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixture of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included; residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included:

60

– Sorbitol other than that of subheading No 2905 44

(1)   

This split is only applicable to Norway.

(2)   

With regard to Iceland, the provisions of Protocol 3 shall not apply to products classified within heading No 2105.

(3)   

With regard to Iceland, the provisions of Protocol 3 shall not apply to preparations consisting mainly of fat and water, containing more than 15 % by weight of butter or other milkfat classified within subheading No 2106 90 .

ANNEX I TO TABLE I

Community Import Regime

1. The following basic amounts will be used for the calculation of the agricultural components and the additional duties:

— 
Cereal (common wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley and maize): 7,583 EUR/100 kg
— 
Long grain husked rice: 25,610 EUR/100 kg
— 
Whole milk powder: 126,488 EUR/100 kg
— 
Skimmed-milk powder: 115,236 EUR/100 kg
— 
Butter: 183,912 EUR/100 kg
— 
Sugar: 40,640 EUR/100 kg
— 
Molasses: 0,34 EUR/100 kg.

2. The de minimis quantity below which a duty will not be applied for starch/glucose and sucrose/invert sugar/isoglucose will be 5 %.

3. The intervals of the notional quantities and the agreed quantities of agricultural raw materials to be taken into account, as well as the standard recipes used in the calculation of the customs duties, are set out in the Appendix.

▼M142

4. The customs duties for the products listed in the table below are as specified.



CN Code

Applied duty

Comments

0501 00 00

Zero

 

0502 10 00

Zero

 

0502 90 00

Zero

 

0503 00 00

Zero

 

0505 10 10

Zero

 

0505 10 90

Zero

 

0505 90 00

Zero

 

0507 10 00

Zero

 

0507 90 00

Zero

 

0508 00 00

Zero

 

0509 00 10

Zero

 

0509 00 90

Zero

 

0510 00 00

Zero

 

1302 14 00

Zero

 

1302 19 30

Zero

 

1302 19 91

Zero

 

ex 1302 20 10

18,6 %

Containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

ex 1302 20 90

10,9 %

Containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

1401 10 00

Zero

 

1401 20 00

Zero

 

1401 90 00

Zero

 

1402 00 00

Zero

 

1403 00 00

Zero

 

1404 10 00

Zero

 

1404 90 00

Zero

 

1517 10 10

0 % + 26,1 EUR/100 kg

 

1517 90 10

0 % + 26,1 EUR/100 kg

 

1517 90 93

Zero

 

1702 50 00

Zero

 

1702 90 10

Zero

 

1704 90 10

Zero

 

1806 10 15

Zero

 

1901 90 91

Zero

 

1902 20 10

8,2 %

 

2001 90 60

Zero

 

ex 2006 00 38

9,12 EUR/100 kg

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

ex 2006 00 99

9,12 EUR/100 kg

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2007 10 10

13,98 % + 4,07 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 10 91

13,14 %

 

2007 10 99

15,15 %

 

2007 91 10

11,64 % + 22,31 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 91 30

11,64 % + 4,07 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 91 90

18,90 %

 

2007 99 10

19,53 %

 

2007 99 20

13,98 % + 19,11 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 99 31

13,98 % + 22,31 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 99 33

13,98 % + 22,31 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 99 35

13,98 % + 22,31 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 99 39

7 % + 22,31 EUR/100 kg

 

2007 99 55

13,98 % + 4,07 EUR/100 kg

 

ex 2007 99 57

13,98 % + 4,07 EUR/100 kg

Chestnut purée and paste

ex 2007 99 57

7 % + 4,07 EUR/100 kg

Other than chestnut purée and paste

2007 99 91

20,97 %

 

2007 99 93

13,14 %

 

2007 99 98

16,31 %

 

2008 11 10

Zero

 

2008 11 92

Zero

 

2008 11 96

Zero

 

2102 10 10

Zero

 

2102 10 90

Zero

 

2102 20 11

Zero

 

2102 20 19

Zero

 

2102 20 90

Zero

 

2102 30 00

Zero

 

2103 20 00

Zero

 

ex 2103 30 90

Zero

Containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

2103 90 30

Zero

 

2103 90 90

Zero

 

2104 10 10

Zero

 

2104 10 90

Zero

 

2104 20 00

Zero

 

2106 10 20

12,4 %

 

2106 90 10

24,25 EUR/100 kg

 

2106 90 20

16,8 % min 0,97 EUR/% vol/hl

 

2106 90 92

Zero

 

2202 10 00

Zero (1)

 

2202 90 10

Zero (1)

 

2203 00 01

Zero

 

2203 00 09

Zero

 

2203 00 10

Zero

 

2205 10 10

Zero

 

2205 10 90

Zero

 

2205 90 10

Zero

 

2205 90 90

Zero

 

2207 20 00

9,9 EUR/hl

 

2208 40 11

Zero

 

2208 40 31

Zero

 

2208 40 39

Zero

 

2208 40 51

Zero

 

2208 40 91

Zero

 

2208 40 99

Zero

 

2208 50 11

Zero

 

2208 50 19

Zero

 

2208 50 91

Zero

 

2208 50 99

Zero

 

2208 60 11

Zero

 

2208 60 19

Zero

 

2208 60 91

Zero

 

2208 60 99

Zero

 

2208701011

Zero

Containing more than 5 % by weight of added sugar

2208709011

Zero

Containing more than 5 % by weight of added sugar

2208905610

Zero

Aquavit

2208907710

Zero

Aquavit

2209 00 11

3,10 EUR/hl

 

2209 00 19

2,33 EUR/hl

 

2209 00 91

2,49 EUR/hl

 

2209 00 99

1,50 EUR/hl

 

2402 10 00

12,60 %

 

2402 20 10

Zero

 

2402 20 90

27,95 %

 

2402 90 00

27,95 %

 

2403 10 10

36,35 %

 

2403 10 90

36,35 %

 

2403 91 00

8,05 %

 

2403 99 10

20,2 %

 

2403 99 90

Zero

 

3302 10 21

5,8 %

 

3501 10 10

Zero

 

3501105010

Zero

Of a water content of more than 50 % by weight

3501105090

2,9 %

Of a water content not exceeding 50 % by weight

3501 10 90

8,7 %

 

3501 90 10

8,1 %

 

3501 90 90

6,2 %

 

3505 10 50

7,5 %

 

(1)   

The zero rate is temporarily suspended. For Iceland, the preferential arrangement provided for by Protocol No 2 to the bilateral Free Trade Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Iceland shall apply (zero duty rate). For Norway, Protocol 2 to the bilateral Free Trade Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Norway will be adapted to include a duty free quota on imports of these goods originating in Norway into the Community.

▼M320

4a. The customs duties applicable to the following products originating in Iceland shall be zero:



CN Code

Comments

0710 40 00

 

0711 90 30

 

ex 1302 20 10

Containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

ex 1302 20 90

Containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

1517 10 10

 

1517 90 10

 

1704 10 10

 

1704 10 90

 

1704 90 10

 

1704 90 30

 

1704 90 51

 

1704 90 55

 

1704 90 61

 

1704 90 65

 

1704 90 71

 

1704 90 75

 

1704 90 81

 

1704 90 99

 

1806 10 15

 

1806 10 20

 

1806 10 30

 

1806 10 90

 

1806 20 10

 

1806 20 30

 

1806 20 50

 

1806 20 70

 

1806 20 80

 

1806 20 95

 

1806 31 00

 

1806 32 10

 

1806 32 90

 

1806 90 11

 

1806 90 19

 

1806 90 31

 

1806 90 39

 

1806 90 50

 

1806 90 60

 

1806 90 70

 

1806 90 90

 

1901 10 00

 

1901 20 00

 

1901 90 11

 

1901 90 19

 

1901 90 99

 

1902 11 00

 

1902 19 10

 

1902 19 90

 

1902 20 10

 

1902 20 91

 

1902 20 99

 

1902 30 10

 

1902 30 90

 

1902 40 10

 

1902 40 90

 

1903 00 00

 

1904 10 10

 

1904 10 30

 

1904 10 90

 

1904 20 10

 

1904 20 91

 

1904 20 95

 

1904 20 99

 

1904 30 00

 

1904 90 10

 

1904 90 80

 

1905 10 00

 

1905 20 10

 

1905 20 30

 

1905 20 90

 

1905 31 11

 

1905 31 19

 

1905 31 30

 

1905 31 91

 

1905 31 99

 

1905 32 05

 

1905 32 11

 

1905 32 19

 

1905 32 91

 

1905 32 99

 

1905 40 10

 

1905 40 90

 

1905 90 10

 

1905 90 20

 

1905 90 30

 

1905 90 45

 

1905 90 55

 

1905 90 60

 

1905 90 90

 

2001 90 30

 

2001 90 40

 

2004 10 91

 

2004 90 10

 

2005 20 10

 

2005 80 00

 

ex 2006 00 38

Sweet corn (Zea Mays var. saccharata)

ex 2006 00 99

Sweet corn (Zea Mays var. saccharata)

2007 10 10

 

2007 10 91

 

2007 10 99

 

2007 91 10

 

2007 91 30

 

2007 91 90

 

2007 99 10

 

2007 99 20

 

2007 99 31

 

2007 99 33

 

2007 99 35

 

2007 99 39

 

2007 99 50

 

2007 99 93

 

2007 99 97

 

ex 2008 11 91

Roasted

2008 99 85

 

2008 99 91

 

ex 2101 12 92

Containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

ex 2101 12 98

Containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

ex 2101 20 92

Containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

ex 2101 20 98

Containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

2101 30 19

 

2101 30 99

 

2102 10 31

 

2102 10 39

 

2102 20 11

 

2102 20 19

 

2103 20 00

 

2103 90 90

 

2104 10 00

 

2106 10 20

 

2106 10 80

 

2106 90 20

 

2106 90 92

 

2202 10 00

 

2202 90 10

 

2202 90 91

 

2202 90 95

 

2202 90 99

 

2205 10 10

 

2205 10 90

 

2205 90 10

 

2205 90 90

 

2207 20 00

 

2208 90 91

 

2208 90 99

 

2209 00 11

 

2209 00 19

 

2209 00 91

 

2209 00 99

 

2402 10 00

 

2402 20 90

 

2402 90 00

 

2403 11 00

 

2403 19 10

 

2403 19 90

 

2403 91 00

 

2403 99 10

 

2905 43 00

 

2905 44 11

 

2905 44 19

 

2905 44 91

 

2905 44 99

 

3302 10 10

 

3302 10 21

 

3302 10 29

 

3501 10 50

 

3501 10 90

 

3501 90 10

 

3501 90 90

 

3505 10 10

 

3505 10 50

 

3505 10 90

 

3505 20 10

 

3505 20 30

 

3505 20 50

 

3505 20 90

 

3809 10 10

 

3809 10 30

 

3809 10 50

 

3809 10 90

 

3824 60 11

 

3824 60 19

 

3824 60 91

 

3824 60 99

 

▼M142

5. The ad valorem part of the customs duties for the following products is 0 %:

0403 10 51 to 0403 10 59
0403 10 91 to 0403 10 99
0403 90 71 to 0403 90 79
0403 90 91 to 0403 90 99
0710 40 00
0711 90 30
1704 10
1704 90 30 to 1704 90 99
1806 10 20 to 1806 10 90
1806 20 10 to 1806 20 50
1806 20 70
1806 20 80
1806 20 95
1806 31 00
1806 32
1806 90 11 to 1806 90 50
1806 90 60 10
1806 90 60 90
1806 90 70 10
1806 90 70 90
1806 90 90 11
1806 90 90 19
1806 90 90 91
1806 90 90 99
1901 10 00
1901 20 00
1901 90 11
1901 90 19
1901 90 99
1902 11 00
1902 19
1902 20 91
1902 20 99
1902 30
1902 40
1903 00 00
1904
1905
2001 90 30
2001 90 40
2004 10 91
2004 90 10
2005 20 10
2005 80 00
2008 99 85
2008 99 91
2101 12 98 91
2101 20 98 90
2101 30 19
2101 30 99
2105 00
2106 10 80
2106 90 98
2202 90 91 to 2202 90 99
3302 10 29
3505 10 10
3505 10 90
3505 20
3809 10 .

6. The ad valorem part of the customs duties for the following products is 5,8 %:

2905 44
3824 60 .

▼M108

7. The ad valorem part of the customs duties for the following product is 7,8 %:

2905 43 00 .

▼M320

8. Tariff codes set out in this Annex refer to those applicable in the European Union on 1 January 2004. However, the tariff codes set out in paragraph (4a) refer to those applicable in the European Union on 1 January 2015. The terms of this Annex will not be affected by any changes that may be made in the tariff nomenclature.

▼M108

Appendix

Quantities and recipes referred to in paragraph 3



(per 100 kg of goods)

Quantities to be taken into account within the bands — milk and milk products

Milk fat

(% of weight)

Milk prot.

(% of weight)

Skimmed-milk powder

(kg)

WMP

(kg)

Butter

(kg)

0–1,5

0–2,5

0

0

0

2,5–6

14

0

0

6–18

42

0

0

18–30

75

0

0

30–60

146

0

0

60->

208

0

0

1,5–3

0–2,5

0

0

3

2,5–6

14

0

3

6–18

42

0

3

18–30

75

0

3

30–60

146

0

3

60->

208

0

3

3–6

0–2,5

0

0

6

2,5–12

12

20

0

12->

71

0

6

6–9

0–4

0

0

10

4–15

10

32

0

15->

71

0

10

9–12

0–6

0

0

14

6–18

9

43

0

18->

70

0

14

12–18

0–6

0

0

20

6–18

0

56

2

18->

65

0

20

18–26

0–6

0

0

29

6->

50

0

29

26–40

0–6

0

0

45

6->

38

0

45

40–55

0

0

0

63

55–70

0

0

0

81

70–85

0

0

0

99

85->

0

0

0

117



(per 100 kg of goods)

Quantities to be taken into account within the bands — other than milk products

Banding

To be applied

White sugar (kg)

Common wheat (kg)

Maize (kg)

Sucrose, invert sugar and/or isoglucose

0–5

0

 

 

5–30

24

 

 

30–50

45

 

 

50–70

65

 

 

70->

93

 

 

Starch/glucose

0–5

 

0

0

5–25

 

22

22

25–70

 

47

47

50–75

 

74

74

75->

 

101

101



Standard recipes used in the calculation of customs duties upon importation into the Community

CN Code

Common wheat

Durum wheat

Rye

Barley

Maize

Rice

White sugar

Molasses

Skimmed-milk powder

Whole-milk powder

Butter

kg

kg

kg

kg

kg

kg

kg

kg

kg

kg

kg

0403 10 51

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

 

0403 10 53

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

0403 10 59

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

42

 

68

0403 10 91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

2

0403 10 93

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

5

0403 10 99

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

10

0403 90 71

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

 

0403 90 73

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

0403 90 79

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

42

 

68

0403 90 91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

2

0403 90 93

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

5

0403 90 99

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

10

0710 40 00

 

 

 

 

100  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

0711 90 30

 

 

 

 

100  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1704 10 11

 

 

 

 

30

 

58

 

 

 

 

1704 10 19

 

 

 

 

30

 

58

 

 

 

 

1704 10 91

 

 

 

 

16

 

70

 

 

 

 

1704 10 99

 

 

 

 

16

 

70

 

 

 

 

1704 90 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

 

 

20

 

1806 10 20

 

 

 

 

 

 

60

 

 

 

 

1806 10 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

75

 

 

 

 

1806 10 90

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

 

 

 

1806 32 90  (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

50

 

 

20

 

1901 90 11

 

 

 

195

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1901 90 19

 

 

 

159

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 11 00

 

167

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 19 10  (3)

 

167

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 19 90  (4)

67

100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 20 91

 

41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 20 99

 

116

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 30 10

 

167

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 30 90

 

66

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 40 10

 

167

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 40 90

 

66

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1903 00 00

 

 

 

 

161

 

 

 

 

 

 

1904 10 10

 

 

 

 

213

 

 

 

 

 

 

1904 10 30

 

 

 

 

 

174

 

 

 

 

 

1904 10 90

 

53

 

53

53

53

 

 

 

 

 

1904 20 91

 

 

 

 

213

 

 

 

 

 

 

1904 20 95

 

 

 

 

 

174

 

 

 

 

 

1904 20 99

 

53

 

53

53

53

 

 

 

 

 

1904 90 10

 

 

 

 

 

174

 

 

 

 

 

►M142  19049080  ◄

 

174

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 10 00

 

 

140

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 20 10

44

 

40

 

 

 

25

 

 

 

 

1905 20 30

33

 

30

 

 

 

45

 

 

 

 

1905 20 90

22

 

20

 

 

 

65

 

 

 

 

1905 90 10

168

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 90 20

 

 

 

 

644

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001 90 30

 

 

 

 

100  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001 90 40

 

 

 

 

40  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001 90 10

 

 

 

 

100  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005 80 00

 

 

 

 

100  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008 99 85

 

 

 

 

100  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008 99 91

 

 

 

 

40  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2101 30 19

 

 

 

137

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2101 30 99

 

 

 

245

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2102 10 31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

425

 

 

 

2102 10 39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

125

 

 

 

2105 00 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

25

 

10

 

 

2105 00 91

 

 

 

 

 

 

20

 

 

23

 

2105 00 99

 

 

 

 

 

 

20

 

 

35

 

2202 90 91

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

 

8

 

 

2202 90 95

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

 

 

6

 

2202 90 99

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

 

 

13

 

2905 43 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

300

 

 

 

 

2905 44 11

 

 

 

 

172

 

 

 

 

 

 

2905 44 19

 

 

 

 

 

 

90

 

 

 

 

2905 44 91

 

 

 

 

245

 

 

 

 

 

 

2905 44 99

 

 

 

 

 

 

128

 

 

 

 

3505 10 10

 

 

 

 

189

 

 

 

 

 

 

3505 10 90

 

 

 

 

189

 

 

 

 

 

 

3505 20 10

 

 

 

 

48

 

 

 

 

 

 

3505 20 30

 

 

 

 

95

 

 

 

 

 

 

3505 20 50

 

 

 

 

151

 

 

 

 

 

 

3505 20 90

 

 

 

 

189

 

 

 

 

 

 

3809 10 10

 

 

 

 

95

 

 

 

 

 

 

3809 10 30

 

 

 

 

132

 

 

 

 

 

 

3809 10 50

 

 

 

 

161

 

 

 

 

 

 

3809 10 90

 

 

 

 

189

 

 

 

 

 

 

3824 60 11

 

 

 

 

172

 

 

 

 

 

 

3824 60 19

 

 

 

 

 

 

90

 

 

 

 

3824 60 91

 

 

 

 

245

 

 

 

 

 

 

3824 60 99

 

 

 

 

 

 

128

 

 

 

 

(1)   

For 100 kg of drained sweet potatoes or maize.

(2)   

For the goods containing by weight 3% or more but less than 6% of milkfat, the additional code 6920 is applicable.

(3)   

For durum wheat, pasta, not containing or containing by weight not more than 3% of other cereals, the additional code 6921 is applicable.

(4)   

For other goods under this subheading than durum wheat, pasta, not containing or containing by weight not more than 3% of other cereals, the additional code 6922 is applicable.

ANNEX II TO TABLE I

Icelandic Import Regime

1.

 



Icelandic Tariff Code

Description of products

Applied duty

(ISK/kg)

0403

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

 

0403.1011

– Yogurt containing cocoa

53

0403.1012

– Yogurt containing fruit or nuts

53

0403.1013

– Yogurt, flavoured, n.e.s.

53

0403.1021

– Yogurt as beverage containing cocoa

51

0403.1022

– Yogurt as beverage containing fruit or nuts

51

ex 0403.1029

– Yogurt as beverage, flavoured, n.e.s.

51

0403.9011

– Other containing cocoa

45

0403.9012

– Other containing fruit or nuts

45

0403.9013

– Other, flavoured, n.e.s.

45

0403.9021

– Other as beverage containing cocoa

45

0403.9022

– Other as beverage containing fruit or nuts

45

ex 0403.9029

– Other as beverage, flavoured, n.e.s.

45

1517

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading No 1516:

 

1517.1001

– Margarine, excluding liquid margarine, containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

88

1517.1001

– Other than margarine, excluding liquid margarine, containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

88

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

– Other preparations in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg:

 

1806.2003

– – Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading No 1901, containing by weight 30 % or more of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed-milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances

109

1806.2004

– – Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading No 1901, containing by weight less than 30 % of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed-milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances

39

1806.2005

– – Other preparations, excluding products of heading No 1901, containing by weight 30 % or more of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed-milk powder

109

1806.2006

– – Other preparations, excluding products of heading No 1901, containing by weight less than 30 % of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed-milk powder

39

 

– Other in blocks, slabs or bars:

 

1806.3101

– – Filled chocolate in slabs or bars

51

1806.3109

– – Other filled in blocks, slabs and bars

51

1806.3202

– – Not filled chocolate containing cocoa paste, sugar, cocoa butter and milk powder, in slabs or bars

47

1806.3203

– – Not filled imitation chocolate in slabs or bars

39

1806.3209

– – Other not filled in blocks, slabs and bars

21

 

– Other:

– – Substances for the manufacture of beverages:

 

1806.9011

– – – Prepared substances for beverages, with a basis of goods of headings Nos 0401 to 0404, containing by weight 5 % or more of cocoa powder calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s., sugar or other sweetening matter, in addition to other minor ingredients and flavouring matter

22

 

– – Other than substances for the manufacture of beverages:

 

1806.9022

– – – Food specially prepared for infants and for dietetic purposes

18

1806.9023

– – – Easter eggs

48

1806.9024

– – – Ice-cream sauces and dips

39

1806.9025

– – – Coated or covered, such as raisins, nuts,

‘puffed’

cereals, liquorice, caramels and jellies

53

1806.9026

– – – Chocolate creams (konfekt)

48

1806.9028

– – – Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading No 1901, containing by weight 30 % or more of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed-milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances

118

1806.9029

– – – Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading No 1901, containing by weight less than 30 % of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed-milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances

43

1806.9039

– – – Other

47

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:

– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No 1905, containing a total of 3 % or more of fresh milk powder, skimmed-milk powder, eggs, milkfat (such as butter), cheese or meat:

 

1901.2012

– – For the preparation of gingerbread and the like of heading No 1905.2000

25

1901.2013

– – For the preparation of sweet biscuits of headings Nos 1905.3011 and 1905.3029, including cookies

17

1901.2014

– – For the preparation of ginger snaps of heading No 1905.3021

29

1901.2015

– – For the preparation of waffles and wafers of heading No 1905.3030

10

1901.2016

– – For the preparation of rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products of heading No 1905.4000

15

1901.2017

– – For the preparation of bread of heading No 1905.9011 with filling based on butter or other dairy products

39

1901.2018

– – For the preparation of bread of heading No 1905.9019

5

1901.2019

– – For the preparation of plain biscuits of heading No 1905.9020

5

1901.2022

– – For the preparation of cakes and pastry of heading No 1905.9040

33

1901.2023

– – Mixes and doughs, containing meat, for the preparation of pies, including pizza, of heading No 1905.9051

97

1901.2024

– – Mixes and doughs, containing ingredients other than meat, for the preparation of pizza and the like of heading No 1905.9059

53

1901.2029

– – For the preparation of products of heading No 1905.9090

43

1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:

 

1902.1100

– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared, containing eggs

8

 

– Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

 

1902.2022

– – Stuffed with preparations of sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof in a proportion of 3 % but not more than 20 % by weight of sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof

41

1902.2031

– – Stuffed with cheese in a proportion of more than 3 % by weight of cheese

35

1902.2041

– – Stuffed with meat and cheese in a proportion of more than 20 % by weight of meat and cheese

142

1902.2042

– – Stuffed with meat and cheese in a proportion of 3 % but not more than 20 % by weight of meat and cheese

41

 

– Other pasta:

 

1902.3021

– – With sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof in a proportion of 3 % but not more than 20 % by weight

41

1902.3031

– – With cheese in a proportion of more than 3 % by weight

35

1902.3041

– – With meat and cheese in a proportion of 3 % but not more than 20 % by weight

41

1902.4021

– Couscous with sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof in a proportion of 3 % but not more than 20 % by weight

41

1903

Tapioca and substitutes thereof prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms:

 

1903.0001

– In retail packings of 5 kg or less

Zero

1903.0009

– Other than in retail packings of 5 kg or less

Zero

1904

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals [other than maize (corn)] in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included:

– Other:

 

1904.9001

– – Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % but not more than 20 % by weight

42

1905

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:

 

1905.2000

– Gingerbread and the like

83

 

– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers coated or covered with chocolate or with fondants containing cocoa:

 

1905.3011

– – Sweet biscuits (including cookies)

17

1905.3019

– – Other than sweet biscuits

16

 

– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers not coated or covered with chocolate or with fondants containing cocoa:

– – Sweet biscuits (including cookies):

 

1905.3021

– – – Ginger snaps

31

1905.3022

– – – Sweet biscuits and cookies, containing less than 20 % of sugar

23

1905.3029

– – – Other than sweet biscuits and cookies

19

1905.3030

– – Other

11

1905.4000

– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products

16

 

– Other:

– – Bread:

 

1905.9011

– – – With a filling consisting essentially of butter or other dairy products (for example, garlic butter)

39

1905.9019

– – – Other

5

1905.9020

– – Plain biscuits

5

1905.9040

– – Cakes and pastry

35

 

– – Pies, including pizza:

 

1905.9051

– – – Containing meat

97

1905.9059

– – – Other

53

1905.9090

– – Other

45

2103

Sauces and preparations thereof; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

– Other than soya sauce, tomato ketchup and other tomato, mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard sauces:

 

2103.9020

– – Mayonnaise

19

2103.9030

– – Sauces of oil n.e.s. (for example remoulades sauces)

19

2103.9051

– – Containing meat in a proportion of more than 20 % by weight

97

2103.9052

– – Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % or more but not more than 20 % by weight

52

2104

Soups and broths and preparations thereof; homogenised composite food preparations:

– Soups and broths and preparations thereof:

 

2104.1001

– – Preparations of vegetable soups with a basis of flour, meal, starch or malt extract

3

2104.1002

– – Other soup powder in packings of 5 kg or more

31

2104.1003

– – Canned fish soups

27

 

– – Other soups:

 

2104.1011

– – – Containing meat in a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

78

2104.1012

– – – Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % but not exceeding 20 % by weight

44

2104.1019

– – – Other

21

 

– – Other:

 

2104.1021

– – – Containing meat in a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

78

2104.1022

– – – Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % but not exceeding 20 % by weight

44

2104.1029

– – – Other

21

 

– Homogenised composite food preparations:

 

2104.2001

– – Containing meat in a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

97

2104.2002

– – Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % but not exceeding 20 % by weight

51

2104.2003

– – Containing fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates

24

2104.2009

– – Other

24

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

– Other:

– – Powder for making desserts:

 

2106.9041

– – – In retail packings of 5 kg or less, containing milk powder, egg white or egg yolks

67

2106.9048

– – – Other, containing milk powder, egg white or egg yolks

80

2106.9049

– – – Other, not containing milk powder, egg white or egg yolks

67

2106.9064

– – Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

41

2202

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No 2009:

– Other:

– – Of dairy products with other ingredients, provided that the dairy products are 75 % or more by weight excluding packings:

 

2202.9011

– – – In packings of paperboard

41

2202.9012

– – – In disposable packings of steel

41

2202.9013

– – – In disposable packings of aluminium

41

2202.9014

– – – In disposable packings of glass exceeding 500 ml

41

2202.9015

– – – In disposable packings of glass not exceeding 500 ml

41

2202.9016

– – – In disposable packings of plastics, coloured

41

2202.9017

– – – In disposable packings of plastics, not coloured

41

2202.9019

– – – Other

41

▼M320

1a. The customs duties applicable to the following products originating in the European Union shall be zero:



Icelandic Tariff Code

Product description

0501.0000

Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair

0502

Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair:

0502.1000

–  Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof

0502.9000

–  Other

0505

Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers:

 

–  Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:

0505.1001

– –  Feathers

0505.1002

– –  Eider down, cleaned

0505.1003

– –  Other down

0505.1009

– –  Other

0505.9000

–  Other

0507

Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products:

 

–  Ivory; ivory powder and waste:

0507.1001

– –  Whale teeth

0507.1009

– –  Other

 

–  Other

0507.9001

– –  Whalebone

0507.9002

– –  Bird's claws

0507.9003

– –  Sheep horns

0507.9004

– –  Bovine horns

0507.9009

– –  Other

0508.0000

Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape powder and waste thereof

0510.0000

Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved

ex 0710

Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:

0710.4000

–  Sweet corn

ex 0711

Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption:

 

–  Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

0711.9002

– –  Sweet corn

ex 1302

Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar -agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

 

–  Vegetable saps and extracts:

 

– –  Other:

1302.1901

– – –  For food preparations

1302.1909

– – –  Other

 

–  Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

1302.2001

– –  Containing by weight 5 % or more of added sugar

1401

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark):

1401.1000

–  Bamboos

1401.2000

–  Rattans

1401.9000

–  Other

1404

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:

1404.2000

–  Cotton linters

 

–  Other:

1404.9001

– –  Teazel-heads

1404.9009

– –  Other

ex 1517

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading No 1516 :

 

–  Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

1517.1001

– –  Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milkfat

 

–  Other:

1517.9002

– –  Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1517.9005

– –  Edible mixtures of animal or vegetable fats and oils for use as mould release preparations

ex 1702

Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form; sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey; caramel:

1702.5000

–  Chemically pure fructose

 

–  Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50 % by weight of fructose:

1702.9004

– –  Chemically pure maltose

1704

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:

1704.1000

–  Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated

 

–  Other:

1704.9001

– –  Paste of powdered almonds with added sugar, and persipan (imitations of powdered almond paste), in units of 5 kg or more

1704.9002

– –  Paste of powdered almonds, with added sugar, and persipan (imitations of powdered almond paste), in units of less than 5 kg

1704.9003

– –  Moulded ornamental sugar

1704.9004

– –  Liquorice, with sugar and liquorice preparations

1704.9005

– –  Sugar bonbons, sweet tablets (lozenges), n.e.s

1704.9006

– –  Caramels

1704.9007

– –  Preparations of gum Arabic

1704.9008

– –  Sugar confectionery not containing gluten nor protein specially prepared for allergy and metabolism disorder

1704.9009

– –  Other

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

 

–  Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

1806.1001

– –  For the manufacture of beverages

1806.1009

– –  Other

 

–  Other preparations in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg:

1806.2010

– –  Paste of nougat in blocks of 5 kg or more

1806.2020

– –  Powder for making desserts

 

– –  Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading 1901 , containing by weight 30 % or more of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances:

1806.2031

– – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806.2039

– – –  Other

 

– –  Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading 1901 , containing by weight less than 30 % of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances:

1806.2041

– – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806.2049

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

1806.2050

– – –  Other preparations, excluding products of heading 1901 , containing by weight 30 % or more of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed milk powder

1806.2060

– – –  Other preparations, excluding products of heading 1901 , containing by weight less than 30 % of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed milk powder

1806.2090

– – –  Other

 

–  Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

 

– –  Filled:

1806.3101

– – –  Filled chocolate in blocks, slabs or bars

1806.3109

– – –  Other

 

– –  Not filled:

1806.3201

– – –  Chocolate composed solely of cocoa paste, sugar and not more than 30 % of cocoa butter, in slabs and bars.

1806.3202

– – –  Chocolate containing cocoa paste, sugar, cocoa butter and milk powder, in slabs or bars.

1806.3203

– – –  Imitation chocolate in slabs or bars

1806.3209

– – –  Other

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Substances for the manufacture of beverages:

1806.9011

– – –  Prepared substances for beverages, with a basis of goods of headings 0401 to 0404 , containing by weight 5 % or more of cocoa powder calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s., sugar or other sweetening matter, in addition to other minor ingredients and flavouring matter

1806.9012

– – –  Prepared substances for beverages, containing cocoa together with proteins and/or other nutritive elements, also vitamins, minerals, vegetable fibres, polyunsaturated fatty acids and flavouring matter

1806.9019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

1806.9021

– – –  Powder for making desserts; puddings and soups

1806.9022

– – –  Food specially prepared for infants and for dietetic purposes

1806.9023

– – –  Easter eggs

1806.9024

– – –  Ice-cream sauces and dips

1806.9025

– – –  Coated or covered, such as raisins, nuts, ‘puffed’ cereals, liquorice, caramels and jellies

1806.9026

– – –  Chocolate creams (konfekt)

1806.9027

– – –  Breakfast cereals

 

– – –  Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading 1901 , containing by weight 30 % or more of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances:

1806.9041

– – – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806.9049

– – – –  Other

 

– – –  Cocoa powder, excluding products of heading 1901 , containing by weight less than 30 % of fresh milk powder and/or skimmed milk powder, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, but not mixed with other substances:

1806.9051

– – – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806.9059

– – – –  Other

 

– – –  Other:

1806.9091

– – – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806.9099

– – – –  Other

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa powder or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings Nos 0401 to 0404 , not containing cocoa or containing cocoa powder in a proportion by weight of less than 5 % calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:

1901.1000

–  Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

 

–  Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No 1905 :

 

– –  Containing a total of 3 % or more of fresh milk powder, skimmed milk powder, eggs, milkfat (such as butter), cheese or meat:

1901.2011

– – –  For the preparation of crisp bread of heading 1905.1000

1901.2012

– – –  For the preparation of gingerbread and the like of heading 1905.2000

1901.2051

– – –  For the preparation of sweet biscuits of headings 1905.3110 , including cookies

1901.2052

– – –  For the preparation of sweet biscuits of headings 1905.3120 , including cookies

1901.2053

– – –  For the preparation of ginger snaps of heading 1905.3131

1901.2054

– – –  For the preparation of waffles and wafers of heading 1905.3201 and 1905.3209 containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1901.2055

– – –  For the preparation of waffles and wafers of heading 1905.3201 and 1905.3209 without added sugar or other sweetening matter

1901.2056

– – –  For the preparation of rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products of heading 1905.4000

1901.2057

– – –  For the preparation of bread of heading 1905.9011 with filling based on butter or other dairy products

1901.2058

– – –  For the preparation of bread of heading 1905.9019

1901.2059

– – –  For the preparation of plain biscuits of headings 1905.9021 and 1905.9029

1901.2061

– – –  For the preparation of savoury and salted biscuits of heading 1905.9030

1901.2062

– – –  For the preparation of cakes and pastry of headings 1905.9041 and 1905.9049 containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1901.2063

– – –  For the preparation of cakes and pastry of headings 1905.9041 and 1905.9049 without added sugar or other sweetening matter

1901.2064

– – –  Mixes and doughs, containing meat, for the preparation of pies, including pizza, of heading 1905.9051

1901.2065

– – –  Mixes and doughs, containing ingredients other than meat, for the preparation of pizza and the like of heading 1905.9059

1901.2066

– – –  For the preparation of snacks, such as flakes, screws, rings, cones, sticks, and the like

1901.2067

– – –  For the preparation of products of heading 1905.9091

1901.2068

– – –  For the preparation of products of heading 1905.9099

 

– –  Other:

1901.2071

– – –  For the preparation of crispbread of heading 1905.1000

1901.2072

– – –  For the preparation of gingerbread and the like of heading 1905.2000

1901.2073

– – –  For the preparation of sweet biscuits of headings 1905.3110 , including cookies

1901.2074

– – –  For the preparation of sweet biscuits of 1905.3120 , including cookies

1901.2075

– – –  For the preparation of ginger snaps of heading 1905.3131

1901.2076

– – –  For the preparation of waffles and wafers of heading 1905.3201 and 1905.3209

1901.2077

– – –  For the preparation of rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products of heading 1905.4000

1901.2078

– – –  For the preparation of bread of heading 1905.9011 with filling based on butter or other dairy products

1901.2079

– – –  For the preparation of bread of heading 1905.9019

1901.2081

– – –  For the preparation of plain biscuits of heading 1905.9021 and 1905.9029

1901.2082

– – –  For the preparation of savoury and salted biscuits of heading 1905.9030

1901.2083

– – –  For the preparation of cakes and pastry of heading 1905.9041

1901.2084

– – –  For the preparation of cakes and pastry of heading 1905.9049

1901.2085

– – –  Mixes and doughs, containing meat, for the preparation of pies, including pizza, of heading 1905.9051

1901.2086

– – –  Mixes and doughs, containing ingredients other than meat, for the preparation of pizza and the like of heading 1905.9059

1901.2087

– – –  For the preparation of snacks, such as flakes, screws, rings, cones, sticks, and the like

1901.2088

– – –  For the preparation of products of heading 1905.9091 containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1901.2089

– – –  For the preparation of products of heading 1905.9099

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Substances for the manufacture of beverages:

1901.9021

– – –  Prepared substances for beverages, with a basis of goods of headings 0401 to 0404 , not containing cocoa or containing by weight less than 5 % of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s., added sugar or other sweetening matter, in addition to other minor ingredients and flavouring matter

1901.9029

– – –  Other prepared substances for beverages, with a basis of goods of headings 0401 to 0404 , not containing cocoa or containing by weight less than 5 % of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s.

1901.9031

– – –  Other substances for beverages containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1901.9039

– – –  Other substances for beverages

1901.9091

– – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1901.9099

– – –  Other

ex 1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:

 

–  Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:

1902.1100

– –  Containing eggs

1902.1900

– –  Other

 

–  Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

 

– –  Stuffed with preparations of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates:

1902.2011

– – –  In a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

1902.2019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Stuffed with preparations of sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof:

1902.2022

– – –  Containing 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight of sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof

1902.2029

– – –  Other

 

– –  Stuffed with cheese:

1902.2031

– – –  Containing more than 3 % by weight of cheese

1902.2039

– – –  Other

 

– –  Stuffed with meat and cheese:

1902.2041

– – –  Containing more than 20 % by weight of meat and cheese

1902.2042

– – –  Containing a total of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight of meat and cheese

1902.2049

– – –  Other

1902.2050

– –  Other

 

–  Other pasta:

1902.3010

– –  With fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates

 

– –  With sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof:

1902.3021

– – –  In a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

1902.3029

– – –  Other

 

– –  With cheese:

1902.3031

– – –  In a proportion exceeding 3 % by weight

1902.3039

– – –  Other

 

– –  With meat and cheese:

1902.3041

– – –  In a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight, total

1902.3049

– – –  Other

1902.3050

– –  Other

 

–  Couscous:

1902.4010

– –  With fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates

 

– –  With sausages, meat, meat offal or blood or mixtures thereof:

1902.4021

– – –  In a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

1902.4029

– – –  Other

1902.4030

– –  Other

1903

Tapioca and substitutes therefore prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms:

1903.0001

–  In retail packings of 5 kg or less

1903.0009

–  Other

1904

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included

 

–  Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:

1904.1001

– –  Snacks, such as flakes, screws, rings, cones, sticks, and the like

1904.1003

– –  Breakfast cereals containing more than 10 % of added sugar

1904.1004

– –  Other breakfast cereals

1904.1009

– –  Other

 

–  Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

1904.2001

– –  Based on swelled cereals or roasted cereals or products of cereals

1904.2009

– –  Other

 

–  Bulgur wheat:

1904.3001

– –  Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

1904.3009

– –  Other

 

–  Other:

1904.9001

– –  Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

1904.9009

– –  Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

1905

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:

1905.1000

–  Crisp bread

1905.2000

–  Gingerbread and the like

 

–  Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

 

– –  Sweet biscuits:

1905.3110

– – –  Coated or covered with chocolate or with fondants containing cocoa

1905.3120

– – –  Not containing gluten nor protein specially prepared for allergy- and metabolism disorder

 

– – –  Other:

1905.3131

– – – –  Ginger snaps

1905.3132

– – – –  Sweet biscuits and cookies, containing less than 20 % of sugar

1905.3139

– – – –  Other sweet biscuits and cookies

 

– –  Waffles and wafers:

1905.3201

– – –  Coated or covered with chocolate or with fondants containing cocoa

1905.3209

– – –  Other

1905.4000

–  Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Bread:

1905.9011

– – –  With a filling consisting essentially of butter or other dairy products (for example, garlic butter)

1905.9019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Plain biscuits:

1905.9021

– – –  Not containing gluten nor protein specially prepared for allergy- and metabolism disorder

1905.9029

– – –  Other

1905.9030

– –  Savoury and salted biscuits

 

– –  Cakes and pastry:

1905.9041

– – –  Not containing gluten nor protein specially prepared for allergy- and metabolism disorder

1905.9049

– – –  Other

 

– –  Pies, including pizza:

1905.9051

– – –  Containing meat

1905.9059

– – –  Other

1905.9060

– –  Snacks, such as flakes, screws, rings, cones, sticks, and the like

 

– –  Other

1905.9091

– – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1905.9099

– – –  Other

ex 2001

Vegetable, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:

 

–  Other:

2001.9001

– –  Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2001.9002

– –  Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

ex 2001.9009

– –  others containing palm hearts

ex 2004

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen:

 

–  Potatoes:

2004.1001

– –  Flour, meal or flakes

 

–  Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004.9001

– –  Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

ex 2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen:

 

–  Potatoes:

2005.2001

– –  Flour, meal or flakes

2005.8000

–  Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

ex 2006

Fruit, nuts, fruit-peel other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised)

 

–  Frozen vegetables:

2006.0011

– –  Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

 

–  Other vegetables:

2006.0021

– –  Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2007

Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut puree and fruit or nut pastes, being cooked preparations, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

2007.1000

–  Homogenised preparations

 

–  Other:

2007.9100

– –  Citrus fruit

2007.9900

– –  Other

ex 2008

Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included:

 

–  Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

 

– –  Ground-nuts:

2008.1101

– – –  Peanut butter

ex 2008.1109

– – –  Other, roasted

 

–  Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008.19 :

2008.9100

– –  Palm hearts

 

– –  Other:

2008.9902

– – –  Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var., saccharata)

ex 2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or mate and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

 

–  Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

 

– –  Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101.1201

– – –  Containing by weight 1,5 % or more of milkfat, 2,5 % or more of milk protein, 5 % or more of sugar or 5 % or more of starch

 

–  Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté:

2101.2001

– –  Containing by weight 1,5 % or more of milkfat, 2,5 % or more of milk protein, 5 % or more of sugar or 5 % or more of starch

 

–  Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

2101.3001

– –  Other roasted coffee substitutes, excluded roasted chicory, extracts, essences and concentrates of other roasted coffee substitutes, excluded roasted chicory

2102

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading No 3002 ); prepared baking powders:

 

–  Active yeasts:

2102.1001

– –  Other than for baking of bread, excluded yeasts for use in animal fodder

2102.1009

– –  Other

 

–  Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:

2102.2001

– –  Inactive yeasts

2102.2002

– –  Dead, single-cell algae

2102.2003

– –  For use in animal fodder

2102.2009

– –  Other

 

–  Prepared baking powders:

2102.3001

– –  In retail packings of 5 kg or less

2102.3009

– –  Other

ex 2103

Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103.2000

–  Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

 

–  Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103.3001

– –  Prepared mustard containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

 

–  Other:

2103.9010

– –  Prepared vegetable sauces with a basis of flour, meal, starch or malt extract

2103.9020

– –  Mayonnaise

2103.9030

– –  Sauces of oil n.e.s. (for example rémoulades sauces)

 

– –  Containing meat:

2103.9051

– – –  In a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

2103.9052

– – –  In a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

2103.9059

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2103.9091

– – –  Containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

2103.9099

– – –  Other

2104

Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:

 

–  Soups and broths and preparations therefor:

2104.1001

– –  Preparations of vegetable soups with a basis of flour, meal, starch or malt extract

2104.1002

– –  Other soup powder in packings of 5 kg or more

2104.1003

– –  Canned fish soups

 

– –  Other soups:

2104.1011

– – –  Containing meat in a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

2104.1012

– – –  Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

2104.1019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2104.1021

– – –  Containing meat in a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

2104.1022

– – –  Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

2104.1029

– – –  Other

 

–  Homogenised composite food preparations:

2104.2001

– – –  Containing meat in a proportion exceeding 20 % by weight

2104.2002

– – –  Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

2104.2003

– –  Containing, fish, crustaceans molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates

2104.2009

– – –  Other

ex 2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106.1000

–  Protein concentrates and textured protein substances

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Fruit juices, prepared or mixed more than specified in heading No 2009 :

2106.9011

– – –  Unfermented and not containing sugar, in containers of 50 kg or more

2106.9012

– – –  Other in other containers containing added sugar or other sweetening matters

2106.9013

– – –  Other in other containers

 

– –  Preparations for making beverages:

2106.9023

– – –  Mixtures of plants or parts of plants, whether or not mixed with extracts from plants, for the preparations of plant broths

2106.9024

– – –  Specially prepared as infant food or for dietetic purposes

2106.9025

– – –  Prepared substances for beverages, containing proteins and/or other nutritive elements, also vitamins, minerals, vegetable fibres, polyunsaturated fatty acids and flavouring matter

2106.9026

– – –  Prepared substances for beverages, of ginseng extract mixed with other ingredients, for example glucose or lactose

2106.9027

– – –  Non-alcoholic preparations (concentrated extracts) without sugar or other sweetening matter

2106.9028

– – –  Non- alcoholic preparations (concentrated extracts) containing added sugar

2106.9029

– – –  Non-alcoholic preparations (concentrated extracts) containing added sweetening matter

 

– – –  Alcoholic preparations of an alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0,5 %, for making beverages:

2106.9031

– – – –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 0,5 % up to and including 2,25 % vol

2106.9032

– – – –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 2,25 % up to and including 15 % vol

2106.9033

– – – –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 15 % up to and including 22 % vol

2106.9034

– – – –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume more than 22 % up to and including 32 % vol

2106.9035

– – – –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume more than 32 % up to and including 40 % vol

2106.9036

– – – –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume more than 40 % up to and including 50 % vol

2106.9037

– – – –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume more than 50 % up to and including 60 % vol

2106.9038

– – – –  Other

2106.9039

– – –  Other

 

– –  Powder for making desserts:

2106.9041

– – –  In retail packings of 5 kg or less, containing milk powder, egg white or egg yolks

2106.9042

– – –  In retail packings of 5 kg or less, not containing milk powder, egg white or egg yolks

2106.9048

– – –  Other, containing milk powder, egg white or egg yolks

2106.9049

– – –  Other, not containing milk powder, egg white or egg yolks

2106.9051

– –  Mixtures of chemical substances and food, such as saccharin and lactose used as sweetening matter

2106.9062

– –  Fruit soups and porridge

2106.9064

– –  Containing meat in a proportion of 3 % up to and including 20 % by weight

2106.9065

– –  Fish liver oil capsules and other vitamins, n.e.s.

2106.9066

– –  Food supplements, n.e.s.

2106.9067

– –  Vegeterian cream

2106.9068

– –  Vegeterian cheese

 

– –  Candy, containing neither sugar nor cocoa:

2106.9071

– – –  Chewing gum

2106.9072

– – –  Other

2106.9079

– –  Other

2202

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No 2009 :

 

–  Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured:

 

– –  Carbonated beverages containing added sugar or sweetening matter:

2202.1011

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.1012

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.1013

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.1014

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.1015

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.1016

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.1019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Carbonated beverages without added sugar or sweetening matter:

2202.1031

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.1032

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.1033

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.1034

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.1035

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.1036

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.1039

– – –  Other

 

– –  Specially prepared as infant food or for dietetic purposes:

2202.1041

– – –  In packings of paperboard

2202.1042

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.1043

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.1044

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.1045

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.1046

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.1047

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.1049

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2202.1091

– – –  In packings of paperboard

2202.1092

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.1093

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.1094

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.1095

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.1096

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.1097

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.1099

– – –  Other

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Of dairy products with other ingredients, provided that the dairy products are 75 % or more by weight excluding packings:

2202.9011

– – –  In packings of paperboard

2202.9012

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.9013

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.9014

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.9015

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.9016

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.9017

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.9019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Specially prepared as infant food or for dietetic purposes:

2202.9021

– – –  In packings of paperboard

2202.9022

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.9023

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.9024

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.9025

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.9026

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.9027

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.9029

– – –  Other

 

– –  Beverages of soya beans:

2202.9031

– – –  In packings of paperboard

2202.9032

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.9033

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.9034

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.9035

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.9036

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.9037

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.9039

– – –  Other

 

– –  Beverages of rice and/or almonds:

2202.9041

– – –  In packings of paperboard

2202.9042

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.9043

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.9044

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.9045

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.9046

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.9047

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.9049

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2202.9091

– – –  In packings of paperboard

2202.9092

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2202.9093

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2202.9094

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2202.9095

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2202.9096

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2202.9097

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2202.9099

– – –  Other

2203

Beer made from malt:

 

–  Malt ale of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 0,5 % up to and including 2,25 % vol:

2203.0011

– –  In disposable packings of steel

2203.0012

– –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2203.0013

– –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2203.0014

– –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2203.0015

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2203.0016

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2203.0019

– –  Other

 

–  Other:

2203.0091

– –  In disposable packings of steel

2203.0092

– –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2203.0093

– –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2203.0094

– –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2203.0095

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2203.0096

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2203.0099

– –  Other

2205

Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances:

 

–  In containers holding 2 l or less:

 

– –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 0,5 % up to and including 2,25 % vol:

2205.1011

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2205.1012

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2205.1013

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2205.1014

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2205.1015

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2205.1016

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2205.1019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 2,25 % up to and including 15 % of pure alcohol provided the goods contains solely alcohol formed by fermentation without any kind of distillation:

2205.1021

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2205.1022

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2205.1023

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2205.1024

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2205.1025

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2205.1026

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2205.1029

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2205.1091

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2205.1092

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2205.1093

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2205.1094

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2205.1095

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2205.1096

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2205.1099

– – –  Other

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 0,5 % up to and including 2,25 % vol:

2205.9011

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2205.9012

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2205.9013

– – –  In disposable packings of glass

2205.9015

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2205.9016

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2205.9019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 2,25 % and a maximum of 15 % and contains solely alcohol formed by fermentation without any kind of distillation:

2205.9021

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2205.9022

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2205.9023

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2205.9025

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2205.9026

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2205.9029

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2205.9091

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2205.9092

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2205.9093

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2205.9095

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2205.9096

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2205.9099

– – –  Other

ex 2207

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength:

2207.2000

–  Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

ex 2208

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol.; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages;

 

–  Rum and other spirits obtained by distilling fermented sugar-cane products:

2208.4011

– –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.4012

– –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.4013

– –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.4014

– –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.4015

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.4016

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.4019

– –  Other

 

–  Gin and Geneva:

 

– –  Gin:

2208.5031

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.5032

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.5033

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.5034

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.5035

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.5036

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.5039

– – –  Other

 

– –  Geneva:

2208.5041

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.5042

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.5043

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.5044

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.5045

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.5046

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.5049

– – –  Other

 

–  Vodka:

2208.6011

– –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.6012

– –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.6013

– –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.6014

– –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.6015

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.6016

– –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.6019

– –  Other

 

–  Liqueurs and cordials:

 

– –  Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 0,5 % up to and including 2,25 % vol:

2208.7021

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.7022

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.7023

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.7024

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.7025

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.7026

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.7029

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2208.7081

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.7082

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.7083

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.7084

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.7085

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.7086

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.7089

– – –  Other

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Aqua vitae (brennivín):

2208.9021

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.9022

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.9023

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.9024

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.9025

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.9026

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.9029

– – –  Other

 

– –  Aquavit:

2208.9031

– – –  In disposable packings of steel

2208.9032

– – –  In disposable packings of aluminium

2208.9033

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for more than 500 ml

2208.9034

– – –  In disposable packings of glass for 500 ml or less

2208.9035

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, coloured

2208.9036

– – –  In disposable packings of plastic, uncoloured

2208.9039

– – –  Other

2209.0000

Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid

2402

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes:

 

–  Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco:

2402.1001

– –  Brought to the country by travelers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2402.1009

– –  Other

 

–  Cigarettes containing tobacco:

2402.2001

– –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2402.2009

– –  Other

 

–  Other:

 

– –  Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos of tobacco substitutes:

2402.9011

– – –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2402.9019

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2402.9091

– – –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2402.9099

– – –  Other

2403

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; ‘homogenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences:

 

–  Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion:

 

– –  Water pipe tobacco specified om Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter:

2403.1101

– – –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2403.1109

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

2403.1901

– – –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2403.1909

– – –  Other

 

– –  ‘Homogenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco:

2403.9101

– – –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2403.9109

– – –  Other

 

– –  Other:

 

– – –  Snuff containing solutio ammoniae:

2403.9911

– – – –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2403.9919

– – – –  Other

 

– – –  Other snuff:

2403.9921

– – – –  Brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2403.9929

– – – –  Other

 

– – –  Other:

2403.9992

– – – –  Imitation tobacco snuff

2403.9993

– – – –  Imitation tobacco for oral use

2403.9994

– – – –  Other, brought to the country by travellers, crew members and others for personal use, or is sent to the country without being professional importation

2403.9999

– – – –  Other

▼M320

2. Tariff codes set out in paragraph (1) refer to those applicable in Iceland on 1 July 2001. Tariff codes set out in paragraph (1a) refer to those applicable in Iceland on 1 January 2015. The terms of this Annex will not be affected by any changes that may be made in the tariff nomenclature.

▼M108

3.

 



HS code

Description of products

 

 

2105

 

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

2106

 

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

.90

– Other:

ex .90

– – Preparations consisting mainly of fat and water, containing more than 15 % by weight of butter or other milkfat

4. The temporary arrangement set out in paragraph 3 shall be taken up for a review by the Contracting Parties before the end of 2007.

ANNEX III TO TABLE I

Norwegian Import Regime

1.

The following reference rates (NOK/kg) of the agricultural raw materials will be used for the calculation of the duties for the processed agricultural products, except as provided for in paragraph 6:



 

Matrix ()

Standard recipes

Actual content

Whole milk powder (*)

11,43

11,43

11,43

Skimmed-milk powder (*)

12,16

12,16

12,16

Butter (*)

12,74

12,74

12,74

Milk for yogurt

 ()

3,01

3,01

Milk for beverages

 ()

2,23

2,23

Liquid whole milk

 ()

1,43

Liquid skimmed milk

 ()

1,07

Condensed milk fat

 ()

4,98

Condensed milk skimmed

 ()

4,72

Milk powder 20 % fat

 ()

11,41

Buttermilk powder

 ()

11,93

Cream

 ()

4,48

Cream mixture

 ()

5,33

Heavy sour cream

 ()

6,69

Cream powder

 ()

10,77

Whey powder

 ()

3,00

Caseinates

 ()

33,47

Milk albumin

 ()

33,47

Wheat flour (*)

1,96

1,96

1,96

Rye flour

1,96

2,16

1,96

Durum flour

1,96

1,32

1,96

Barley flour

1,96

1,96

Rye wheat flour

1,96

1,96

Maize flour

0

0

Rice flour

0

0

Flour of other cereals

0

0

Common wheat

1,52

1,52

Durum wheat

0,98

0,98

Barley

1,37

1,37

Oats

1,17

1,17

Rye

1,46

1,46

Rye wheat

1,46

1,46

Maize

0

0

Other cereals

0

0

Wheat bran

1,96

1,96

Oat bran

1,96

1,96

Rolled oats

1,96

1,96

Wheat malt

0

0

Barley malt

0

0

Wheat gluten

0

0

Rice

0

0

Potato starch (*)

4,41

4,41

4,41

Other starch (*)

4,41

4,41

Modified starch

4,41

4,41

Glucose and glucose syrup

4,41

4,41

4,41

Sugar

0

0

Maltodextrine

0

0

Potatoes

0,81

0,81

Flour and flakes of potatoes

3,75

12,01

12,01

Beef meat, boneless (14 % fat) (*)

25,89

25,89

25,89

Pig meat (23 % fat)

19,23

19,23

19,23

Sheep meat

8,63

8,63

Poultry meat

3,02

3,02

Fats other than butter

0

0

Frozen raspberries (*)

4,29  ()

4,29  ()

Raspberry concentrate

22,22  ()

22,22  ()

Frozen blackcurrants

0  ()

0  ()

Blackcurrant concentrate

0  ()

0  ()

Frozen strawberries

4,45  ()

4,45  ()

4,45  ()

Strawberry concentrate

23,05  ()

23,05  ()

Apple pulp

0

0

Apple concentrate

0

0

Cheese (*)

20,08

20,08

20,08

Cheese powder

12,45

12,45

Whole egg powder (*)

45,37

45,37

45,37

Eggs in shell

9,48

9,48

Preserved egg yolks (liquid egg yolks)

26,90

26,90

26,90

Egg-yolk powder

56,81

56,81

Whole egg paste (whole egg not in shell)

9,32

9,32

9,32

Liquid albumen

0

0

Albumen in powder

0

0

(1)   

The reference rates for the agricultural raw materials indicated with an asterisk (*) are those on which duties are calculated for the processed agricultural products subject to the matrix system — the other reference rates for the raw materials to be declared under this heading are those resulting from the application of the conversion coefficients.

(2)   

The matrix reference rates for these raw materials will depend on the actual milk fat and milk protein content in accordance with the conversion coefficient.

(3)   

The reference rates for these raw materials will be subject to annual joint review before 15 June. Such joint reviews will take account of the market prices, the market situation, Norwegian production and imports to Norway.

▼M142

2.

Tariff codes set out in this Annex refer to those applicable in Norway on 1 January 2004. The terms of this Annex will not be affected by any changes that may be made in the tariff nomenclature.

▼M108

3.

The de minimis quantity below which a duty will not be applied for flour, starch and/or glucose will be 5 %.

4.

The de minimis quantity below which a duty will not be applied for the additional raw materials (meat, cheese, eggs and soft fruits (frozen raspberries, frozen blackcurrants and frozen strawberries)) will be 3 %. In calculating the duty, fresh soft fruits will be assimilated to frozen on the basis of a one-to-one conversion.

5.

The intervals of the notional quantities and the agreed quantities of agricultural raw materials to be taken into account, as well as the standard recipes used in the calculation of the customs duties, are set out in the Appendix.

6.



Norwegian Tariff Code

Description of products

 

 

19.04

 

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); ►M142  cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included ◄ :

– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

.2010

– – Preparations of the Müsli type, based on unroasted cereal flakes

21.04

 

Soups and broths and preparations thereof; homogenised composite food preparations:

– Soups and broths and preparations thereof:

– – In airtight containers:

.1020

– – – Vegetable soup, whether or not pre-cooked, containing neither meat nor meat extracts

.1030

– – – Fish soup containing 25 % or more by weight of fish

.1040

– – – Other

 

– – Other:

.1050

– – – Containing meat or meat extracts

.1060

– – – Fish soup containing 25 % or more by weight of fish

.1090

– – – Other

▼M142

7.

The customs duties for the products listed in the table below are as specified.



Norwegian Tariff Code

Description of products

Applied duty (NOK/kg)

05.01

Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair

Zero

05.02

Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair

Zero

05.03

Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material

Zero

05.05

Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers

Zero

05.07

Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products

Zero

05.08

Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof

Zero

05.09

Natural sponges of animal origin

Zero

05.10

Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved

Zero

07.10

Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:

– Sweet corn:

 

.4010

– – For feed purpose

1,73

.4090

– – Other

Zero

07.11

Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption:

– Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

– – Sweet corn:

 

.9011

– – – For feed purpose

1,73

.9020

– – – Other

Zero

13.02

Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

– Vegetable saps and extracts:

 

.1400

– – Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone

– – Other:

Zero

.1903

– – – Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations

Zero

.1904

– – – For therapeutic or prophylatic uses (medicinal)

– Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates

Zero

ex .2000

– – Containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

Zero

14.01

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark)

Zero

14.02

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for example, kapok, vegetable hair and eel-grass), whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material

Zero

14.03

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for example, broomcorn, piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles

Zero

14.04

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:

 

.1000

– Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing and tanning

Zero

.9000

– Other

Zero

15.17

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 15.16 :

– Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

– – Other:

– – – Animal:

 

.1021

– – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

– – – Vegetable:

14,5 %

.1031

– – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

– Other:

– – Other:

– – – Liquid margarine:

14,5 %

.9032

– – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

– – – Edible liquid mixtures of animal and vegetable oils consisting essentially of vegetable oils:

14,5 %

.9041

– – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

– – – Other:

10,2 %

.9091

– – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

Zero

ex .9098

– – – – Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould release preparations

Zero

15.20

Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes:

 

.0010

– For feed purpose

3,79

15.22

Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:

 

.0011

– For feed purpose

3,79

17.02

Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form; sugar, syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey; caramel:

– Chemically pure fructose:

 

.5010

– – For feed purpose

1,37

.5090

– – Other

– Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50 % by weight of fructose:

Zero

ex .9022

– – Chemically pure maltose for feed purpose

1,37

ex .9022

– – Chemically pure maltose not for feed purpose

Zero

18.06

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

 

.1000

– Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

Zero

19.01

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 0401 to 0404 , not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:

– Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale:

 

.1010

– – Of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04

– Other:

5,10  (1)

.9010

– – Malt extract

Zero

19.04

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included:

– Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:

 

.1010

– – ‘Corn flakes’

– – Other:

Zero

.1091

– – – Popcorn

Zero

.1099

– – – Other

– Other:

– – Pre-cooked rice not containing any added ingredients:

Zero

.9010

– – – For feed purpose

1,11

.9020

– – – Other

Zero

19.05

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:

 

.2000

– Gingerbread and the like

0,75

20.01

Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:

– Other:

– – Vegetables:

– – – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata):

 

.9031

– – – – For feed purpose

1,73

.9041

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

Zero

.9062

– – – – Palm hearts

2,22

.9063

– – – – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

2,22

20.04

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading 20.06 :

– Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

– Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata):

 

.9011

– – – For feed purpose

1,73

.9020

– – – Other

Zero

20.05

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 20.06 :

– Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata):

 

.8010

– – For feed purpose

1,73

.8090

– – Other

Zero

20.06

Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised):

– Other products:

 

ex .0031

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) with a sugar content exceeding 13 % by weight for feed purpose

1,94

ex .0031

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) with a sugar content exceeding 13 % by weight not for feed purpose

Zero

ex .0091

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by weight for feed purpose

1,94

ex .0091

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) with a sugar content not exceeding 13 % by weight not for feed purpose

Zero

20.07

Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut puree and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

– Homogenised preparations:

 

.1001

– – Containing added sugar or sweetening matter

5,30

ex .1009

– – Other, not containing sugar or sweetening matter, of raw materials other than strawberries, blackcurrant and raspberries

3,28

ex .1009

– – Other

– Other:

– – Citrus fruit:

4,55

.9110

– – – Containing added sugar or sweetening matter

Zero

.9190

– – – Other

– – Other:

– – – Containing added sugar or sweetening matter:

Zero

.9902

– – – – Of apricots, mangos, kiwis, peaches or mixtures thereof

Zero

ex .9903

– – – – Of lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis- idaea), blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus), other berries of the specis Vaccinium or cloudberries (Norwegian tariff line 0810.9010 ), or mixtures of these berries

1,76

ex .9903

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

5,30

.9907

– – – – Of apricots, mangos, kiwis, peaches or mixtures thereof

Zero

ex .9908

– – – – Of raw materials other than strawberries, blackcurrant and raspberries

1,76

ex .9908

– – – – Other

5,30

20.08

Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included:

– Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

– – Ground-nuts:

 

.1110

– – – Peanut butter

– – – Other:

Zero

.1180

– – – – For feed purpose

1,69

.1191

– – – – Other

– Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008.19 :

– – Palm hearts:

Zero

.9110

– – – For feed purpose

– – Other:

4,67

ex .9903

– – – Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) for feed purpose

2,67

21.01

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or mate and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

– Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

– – Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee

 

ex .1202

– – – Preparations with a basis of coffee, containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

Zero

ex .1209

– – – Other, containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

– Extracts, essences and concentrates of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté:

Zero

ex .2010

– – Extracts, essences and concentrates of tea, containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

– – Other:

Zero

ex .2091

– – – Preparations with a basis of tea or maté, containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

Zero

ex .2099

– – – Other, containing by weight 1,5 % or more milk fat, 2,5 % or more milk proteins, 5 % or more sugar or 5 % or more starch

Zero

ex .3000

– Other roasted coffee substitutes than roasted chicory; extracts, essences and concentrates of other roasted coffee substitutes than roasted chicory

Zero

21.02

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading 30.02 ); prepared baking powders:

– Active yeasts:

 

.1010

– – Wine yeasts

Zero

.1020

– – Baking yeasts, liquid, pressed or dried

Zero (2)

.1090

– – Other

– Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:

Zero

.2010

– – Yeasts for feed purpose

2,58

.2020

– – Other inactive yeasts

Zero

.2031

– – Other single-cell micro-organisms, dead, for feed purpose

2,58

.2040

– – Other single-cell micro-organisms, dead, not for feed purpose

Zero

.3000

– Prepared baking powders

Zero

21.03

Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

– Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauce:

 

.2010

– – Tomato ketchup

– Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

– – Prepared mustard:

Zero

.3009

– – – Prepared mustard containing 5 % or more by weight of added sugar

Zero

21.04

Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:

– Soups and broths and preparations therefore:

– – In airtight containers:

– – – Meat broth:

 

.1011

– – – Dried

Zero

21.05

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa:

– Other:

 

.0090

– – Other

Zero

21.06

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

– Other:

 

.9010

– – Non-alcoholic compounds (known as ‘concentrated extracts’) with a basis of goods of heading 13.02 , for the manufacture of beverages

Zero

.9020

– – Preparations based on juices of apples or blackcurrants, for the manufacture of beverages

– – Other preparations of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

8,73 %

.9039

– – – Other than flavoured or coloured syrups

– – Drops and chewing gum, not containing sugar:

Zero

.9041

– – – Drops

– – – Chewing gum:

Zero

.9043

– – – – Chewing gum containing nicotine

Zero

.9044

– – – – Other

– – Other:

– – – Cream substitutes:

Zero

.9051

– – – – Dried

5,83

.9052

– – – – Liquid

2,92

22.02

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 20.09 :

 

.1000

– Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured

– Other:

Zero

.9010

– – Non-alcoholic wines

Zero

.9020

– – Non-alcoholic beer (beer with an alcoholic strength not exceeding 0,5 % by volume)

Zero

.9090

– – Other

Zero

22.03

Beer made from malt

Zero

22.05

Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances

Zero

22.07

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength:

 

.2000

– Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

Zero

22.08

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume less than 80 % vol; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

 

.4000

– Rom and taffia

Zero

.5000

– Gin and Geneva

Zero

.6000

– Vodka

– Liqueurs and cordials:

Zero

ex .7000

– – Liqueurs containing more than 5 % by weight of sugar

– Other:

Zero

.9003

– – Aquavit (distilled spirits flavoured with cumin seeds)

Zero

22.09

Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid

Zero

24.02

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes:

– Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco:

 

.1001

– – Cigars

Zero

.1009

– – Other

Zero

.2000

– Cigarettes containing tobacco

Zero

.9000

– Other

Zero

24.03

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; ‘homogenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences:

 

.1000

– Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion

– Other:

Zero

.9100

– – ‘Homogenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco

– – Other:

Zero

.9910

– – – Tobacco extracts and essences

Zero

.9990

– – – Other

Zero

29.05

Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:

– Other polyhydric alcohols:

 

.4300

– – Mannitol

Zero

.4400

– – D-glucitol (sorbitol)

Zero

33.02

Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages

 

.1000

– Of a kind used in the food or drink industries

Zero

35.05

Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pregelatinised or esterified starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches:

– Dextrins and other modified starches:

 

.1001

– – Esterified or etherified

7,40  (3)

.1009

– – Other

7,40  (3)

.2000

– Glues

Zero

38.09

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included:

 

.1000

– With a basis of amylaceous substances

Zero

38.24

Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included:

 

.6000

– Sorbitol, other than that of subheading 2905.44

Zero

(1)   

The agricultural element is based on a standard recipe in Protocol 2 to the FTA.

(2)   

The duty free regime shall apply from 1 January 2005.

(3)   

For technical use, the customs duty will be zero.

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8.



Norwegian Tariff Code

Description of products

1806.2012

Table cream powders in containers or immediate packages, of a content exceeding 2 kg

1806.2090

Other (other than ice-cream powders or table cream powders) in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packages, of a content exceeding 2 kg

1806.3100

Other, in blocks, slabs and bars — filled

1806.3200

Other, in blocks, slabs and bars — not filled

1806.9010

Other chocolate, including sugar confectionery, containing cocoa (other than in blocks, slabs and bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packages, of a content exceeding 2 kg

1806.9022

Table cream powders

1806.9090

Other edible preparations

2103.9099

Other sauces and preparations thereof, mixed condiments and mixed seasonings (other than tomato ketchup and other tomato sauce, mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard, mayonnaise and remoulades and mango chutney liquid)

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9.

The customs duty for products classified within Norwegian codes 1901.2097 and 1901.2098 (other mixes for the preparation of bakers’ wares of heading 1905 ) and declared as free from gluten for sufferers of coeliac diseases will be 0,37 NOK/kg.

10.

The customs duty for products classified within Norwegian code ex 2008.9903 (maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. Saccharata), not for feed purpose) will be calculated subject to the matrix system. The maximum customs duty shall, however, not exceed 12 NOK/kg.

11.

The customs duty for products classified within Norwegian code 2106.9060 (emulsified fats and similar products containing more than 15 % by weight of edible milk-fats) will be calculated subject to the matrix system. The maximum customs duty shall, however, not exceed 7 NOK/kg.

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Appendix

Quantities and recipes referred to in paragraph 5



(per 100 kg of goods)

Quantities to be taken into account within the bands — milk and milk products

Milk fat

(% of weight)

Milk prot.

(% of weight)

Skimmed-milk powder

(kg)

WMP

(kg)

Butter

(kg)

0–1,5

0–2,5

0

0

0

2,5–6

14

0

0

6–18

42

0

0

18–30

75

0

0

30–60

146

0

0

60->

208

0

0

1,5–3

0–2,5

0

0

3

2,5–6

14

0

3

6–18

42

0

3

18–30

75

0

3

30–60

146

0

3

60->

208

0

3

3–6

0–2,5

0

0

6

2,5–12

12

20

0

12->

71

0

6

6–9

0–4

0

0

10

4–15

10

32

0

15->

71

0

10

9–12

0–6

0

0

14

6–18

9

43

0

18->

70

0

14

12–18

0–6

0

0

20

6–18

0

56

2

18->

65

0

20

18–26

0–6

0

0

29

6->

50

0

29

26–40

0–6

0

0

45

6->

38

0

45

40–55

0

0

0

63

55–70

0

0

0

81

70–85

0

0

0

99

85->

0

0

0

117



(per 100 kg of goods)

Quantities to be taken into account within the bands — other than milk products

Banding

To be applied

 

 

Starch/glucose

0–5

0

 

5–15

12,5

(3,13 NOS + 9,38 PS)

15–25

22,5

(5,63 NOS + 16,88 PS)

25–50

43,75

(10,94 NOS + 32,81 PS)

50–75

68,75

(17,19 NOS + 51,56 PS)

75->

100

(25 NOS + 75 PS)

Flour/meal of cereals

0–5

0

 

5–15

12,5

 

15–25

22,5

 

25–35

32,5

 

35–45

42,5

 

45–55

52,5

 

55–65

62,5

 

65–75

72,5

 

75->

115

 

Meat

0–3

0

 

3–6

5,25

 

6–10

7,5

 

10–15

12,5

 

15–20

17,5

 

20->

50

 

Cheese

0–3

0

 

3–5

4,5

 

5–10

8,75

 

10–15

13,75

 

15–20

18,75

 

20–30

27,5

 

30–50

45

 

50->

60

 

Egg

0–3

0

 

3–5

4,5

 

5–10

8,75

 

10–15

13,75

 

15–20

18,75

 

20–30

27,5

 

30–50

45

 

50->

60

 

Berries

0–3

0

 

3–5

4,5

 

5–10

8,75

 

10–15

13,75

 

15–20

18,75

 

20–30

27,5

 

30–50

45

 

50->

60

 



Standard recipes used in the calculation of customs duties upon importation into Norway

NO Code

Milk for yogurt

Strawberries

Glucose

Butter

Skimmed-milk powder

Whole-milk powder

Wheat flour

Potato starch

Whole egg powder

Durum flour

Whole egg paste

Rye flour

Bovine meat 14 %

Pork meat 23 %

Cheese

Flour/flakes of potatoes

Conserved egg yolks

Milk for beverages

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

0403 10 20

381

30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0403 10 30

103

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0403 10 91

103

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0403 90 01

103

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0403 90 02

103

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1704 10 00

 

 

18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1704 90 10

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1704 90 91

 

 

35

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1806 20 11

 

 

 

 

95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1806 90 21

 

 

 

 

95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1901 20 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

35

5

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1901 20 91

 

 

 

 

 

 

35

5

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1901 20 92

 

 

 

 

2

 

35

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 11 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 19 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1902 40 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1903 00 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 10 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

22

 

 

 

 

88

 

 

 

 

 

 

►M142  1905 32 00  ◄

 

 

 

 

 

3

70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 40 00

 

 

 

 

2

 

85

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 90 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

25

 

 

 

 

 

5

5

15

 

 

 

1905 90 22

 

 

 

 

 

1

65

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 90 32

 

 

 

 

 

 

30

 

 

 

 

100

 

 

 

 

 

 

1905 90 33

 

 

 

 

2

 

35

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004 10 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

95

 

 

2004 10 20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

46

 

 

2005 20 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

95

 

 

2005 20 20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

46

 

 

2103 20 21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2103 20 29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2103 90 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

ex 2104 10 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15  (1)

 

 

 

 

 

2105 00 10

 

 

 

 

 

35

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2105 00 20

 

6

 

 

 

35

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2202 90 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

95

3501 10 00

 

 

 

 

300

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3501 90 10

 

 

 

 

300

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)   

The standard recipe is not applicable to dried meat broth.



TABLE II

HS heading No

Description of products

 

 

0901

 

Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion

0902

 

Tea

1302

 

Vegetables saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

 

– Vegetable saps and extracts:

.12

– – Of liquorice

.13

– – Of hops

.20

– Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

ex .20

– – Containing less than 5% by weight of added sugar

 

– Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

.31

– – Agar-agar

.32

– – Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds

.39

– – Other

1404

 

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included

.20

– Cotton linters

1516

 

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:

.20

– Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:

ex .20

– – Hydrogenated caster oil, so called ‘opal-wax’

1518

 

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading No 1516 ; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included:

ex .1518

– Linoxyn

1520

 

Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes (1)

1521

 

Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured

1522

 

Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes (2)

1803

 

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted

1804

 

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805

 

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

2002

 

Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid:

.90

– Other

2008

 

Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included:

 

– Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading No 2008 19 :

.91

– – Palm hearts (3)

2101

 

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

 

– Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

.11

– – Extracts, essences and concentrates

.12

– – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

ex .12

– – – Containing no milk fats, milk proteins, sugar or starch or containing by weight less than 1,5 % milk fat, 2,5 % milk proteins, 5 % sugar or 5 % starch

.20

– Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates, or with a basis of tea or maté:

ex .20

– – Containing no milk fats, milk proteins, sugar or starch or containing by weight less than 1,5 % milk fat, 2,5 % milk proteins, 5 % sugar or 5 % starch

.30

– Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

ex .30

– – Roasted chicory; extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory

2103

 

Sauces and preparations thereof; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

.10

– Soya sauce

.30

– Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

ex .30

– – Mustard flour and meal; prepared mustard containing less than 5 % by weight of added sugar

.90

– Other:

ex .90

– – Mango chutney, liquid

2201

 

Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter not flavoured; ice and snow

2208

 

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol.; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

.20

– Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc

.30

– Whiskies

.70

– Liqueurs and cordials:

ex .70

– – Other than liqueurs containing more than 5 % by weight of added sugar

.90

– Other:

ex .90

– – Other than aquavit

(1)   

For Norway, products for feed purpose classified within this heading are covered by Table I.

(2)   

For Norway, degras for feed purpose classified within this heading is covered by Table I.

(3)   

For Norway, palm hearts for feed purpose classified within this subheading are covered by Table I.

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PROTOCOL 4

on rules of origin

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

Definitions

TITLE II

DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘ORIGINATING PRODUCTS’

Article 2

General requirements

Article 3

Diagonal cumulation of origin

Article 4

Wholly obtained products

Article 5

Sufficiently worked or processed products

Article 6

Insufficient working or processing

Article 7

Unit of qualification

Article 8

Accessories, spare parts and tools

Article 9

Sets

Article 10

Neutral elements

TITLE III

TERRITORIAL REQUIREMENTS

Article 11

Principle of territoriality

Article 12

Direct transport

Article 13

Exhibitions

TITLE IV

DRAWBACK OR EXEMPTION

Article 14

Prohibition of drawback of, or exemption from, customs duties

TITLE V

PROOF OF ORIGIN

Article 15

General requirements

Article 16

Procedure for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED

Article 17

Movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED issued retrospectively

Article 18

Issue of a duplicate movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED

Article 19

Issue of movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED on the basis of a proof of origin issued or made out previously

Article 20

Accounting segregation

Article 21

Conditions for making out an origin declaration or an origin declaration EUR-MED

Article 22

Approved exporter

Article 23

Validity of proof of origin

Article 24

Submission of proof of origin

Article 25

Importation by instalments

Article 26

Exemptions from proof of origin

Article 27

Supplier's declarations

Article 28

Supporting documents

Article 29

Preservation of proof of origin, supplier's declarations and supporting documents

Article 30

Discrepancies and formal errors

Article 31

Amounts expressed in euro

TITLE VI

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COOPERATION

Article 32

Administrative cooperation

Article 33

Verification of proofs of origin

Article 34

Verification of supplier's declarations

Article 35

Dispute settlement

Article 36

Penalties

Article 37

Free zones

TITLE VII

CEUTA AND MELILLA

Article 38

Application of the Protocol

Article 39

Special conditions

LIST OF ANNEXES

Annex I:

Introductory notes to the list in Annex II

Annex II:

List of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in order for the product manufactured to obtain originating status

Annex IIIa:

Specimens of movement certificate EUR.1 and application for a movement certificate EUR.1

Annex IIIb:

Specimens of movement certificate EUR-MED and application for a movement certificate EUR-MED

Annex IVa:

Text of the origin declaration

Annex IVb:

Text of the origin declaration EUR-MED

Annex V:

Specimen of the supplier's declaration

Annex VI:

Specimen of the long-term supplier's declaration

JOINT DECLARATIONS

Joint declaration concerning the acceptance of proofs of origin issued within the framework of the agreements referred to in Article 3 of Protocol 4 for products originating in the European Union, Iceland or Norway

Joint declaration concerning the Principality of Andorra

Joint declaration concerning the Republic of San Marino

Joint declaration concerning the withdrawal of a Contracting Party from the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin



TITLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

Definitions

For the purposes of this Protocol:

(a) 

‘manufacture’ means any kind of working or processing including assembly or specific operations;

(b) 

‘material’ means any ingredient, raw material, component or part, etc., used in the manufacture of the product;

(c) 

‘product’ means the product being manufactured, even if it is intended for later use in another manufacturing operation;

(d) 

‘goods’ means both materials and products,

(e) 

‘customs value’ means the value as determined in accordance with the 1994 Agreement on implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (WTO Agreement on customs valuation);

(f) 

‘ex-works price’ means the price paid for the product ex works to the manufacturer in the EEA in whose undertaking the last working or processing is carried out, provided the price includes the value of all the materials used, minus any internal taxes which are, or may be, repaid when the product obtained is exported;

(g) 

‘value of materials’ means the customs value at the time of importation of the non-originating materials used, or, if this is not known and cannot be ascertained, the first ascertainable price paid for the materials in the EEA;

(h) 

‘value of originating materials’ means the value of such materials as defined in (g) applied mutatis mutandis;

(i) 

‘value added’ shall be taken to be the ex-works price minus the customs value of each of the materials incorporated which originate in the other countries referred to in Article 3 with which cumulation is applicable or, where the customs value is not known or cannot be ascertained, the first ascertainable price paid for the materials in the EEA;

(j) 

‘chapters’ and ‘headings’ mean the chapters and the headings (four-digit codes) used in the nomenclature which makes up the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System, referred to in this Protocol as ‘the Harmonised System’ or ‘HS’;

(k) 

‘classified’ refers to the classification of a product or material under a particular heading;

(l) 

‘consignment’ means products which are either sent simultaneously from one exporter to one consignee or covered by a single transport document covering their shipment from the exporter to the consignee or, in the absence of such a document, by a single invoice;

(m) 

‘territories’ includes territorial waters.

TITLE II

DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘ORIGINATING PRODUCTS’

Article 2

General requirements

1.  

For the purpose of implementing the Agreement, the following products shall be considered as originating in the EEA:

(a) 

products wholly obtained in the EEA within the meaning of Article 4;

(b) 

products obtained in the EEA incorporating materials which have not been wholly obtained there, provided that such materials have undergone sufficient working or processing in the EEA within the meaning of Article 5.

For this purpose, the territories of the Contracting Parties to which the Agreement applies, shall be considered as a single territory.

2.  
Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the territory of the Principality of Liechtenstein shall be excluded from that of the EEA, for the purpose of determining the origin of the products referred to in Tables I and II of Protocol 3 and such products shall be considered to be originating in the EEA only if they have been either wholly obtained or sufficiently worked or processed in the territories of the other Contracting Parties.

Article 3

Diagonal cumulation of origin

1.  
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 2, products shall be considered as originating in the EEA if they are obtained there, incorporating materials originating in Switzerland (including Liechtenstein) ( 4 ), Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands, Turkey, the European Union or in any participant in the European Union's Stabilisation and Association Process ( 5 ), provided that the working or processing carried out in the EEA goes beyond the operations referred to in Article 6. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing.
2.  
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 2, products shall be considered as originating in the EEA if they are obtained there, incorporating materials originating in any country which is a participant in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, based on the Barcelona Declaration adopted at the Euro-Mediterranean Conference held on 27 and 28 November 1995, other than Turkey ( 6 ), provided that the working or processing carried out in the EEA goes beyond the operations referred to in Article 6. It shall not be necessary for such materials to have undergone sufficient working or processing.
3.  
Where the working or processing carried out in the EEA does not go beyond the operations referred to in Article 6, the product obtained shall be considered as originating in the EEA only where the value added there is greater than the value of the materials used originating in any one of the countries referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2. If this is not so, the product obtained shall be considered as originating in the country which accounts for the highest value of originating materials used in the manufacture in the EEA.
4.  
Products, originating in one of the countries referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, which do not undergo any working or processing in the EEA shall retain their origin if exported into one of these countries.
5.  

The cumulation provided for in this Article may be applied only provided that:

(a) 

a preferential trade agreement in accordance with Article XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is applicable between the countries involved in the acquisition of the originating status and the country of destination;

(b) 

materials and products have acquired originating status by the application of rules of origin identical to those given in this Protocol;

and

(c) 

notices indicating the fulfilment of the necessary requirements to apply cumulation have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (C series) and in the other Contracting Parties according to their own procedures.

The cumulation provided for in this Article shall apply from the date indicated in the notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union (C series).

The European Union shall provide the other Contracting Parties, through the European Commission, with details of the Agreements, including their dates of entry into force, and their corresponding rules of origin, which are applied with the other countries referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.

Article 4

Wholly obtained products

1.  

The following shall be considered as wholly obtained in the EEA:

(a) 

mineral products extracted from their soil or from their seabed;

(b) 

vegetable products harvested there;

(c) 

live animals born and raised there;

(d) 

products from live animals raised there;

(e) 

products obtained by hunting or fishing conducted there;

(f) 

products of sea fishing and other products taken from the sea outside the territorial waters of the Contracting Parties by their vessels;

(g) 

products made aboard their factory ships exclusively from products referred to in (f);

(h) 

used articles collected there fit only for the recovery of raw materials, including used tyres fit only for retreading or for use as waste;

(i) 

waste and scrap resulting from manufacturing operations conducted there;

(j) 

products extracted from marine soil or subsoil outside their territorial waters provided that they have sole rights to work that soil or subsoil;

(k) 

goods produced there exclusively from the products specified in (a) to (j).

2.  

The terms ‘their vessels’ and ‘their factory ships’ in paragraph 1(f) and (g) shall apply only to vessels and factory ships:

(a) 

which are registered or recorded in a Member State of the European Union or in an EFTA State;

(b) 

which sail under the flag of a Member State of the European Union or of an EFTA State;

(c) 

which are owned to an extent of at least 50 % by nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of an EFTA State, or by a company with its head office in one of these States, of which the manager or managers, Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board, and the majority of the members of such boards are nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of an EFTA State and of which, in addition, in the case of partnerships or limited companies, at least half the capital belongs to those States or to public bodies or nationals of the said States;

(d) 

of which the master and officers are nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of an EFTA State;

and

(e) 

of which at least 75 % of the crew are nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of an EFTA State.

Article 5

Sufficiently worked or processed products

1.  
For the purposes of Article 2, products which are not wholly obtained shall considered to be sufficiently worked or processed when the conditions set out in the list in Annex II are fulfilled.

The conditions referred to above indicate, for all products covered by the Agreement, the working or processing which must be carried out on non-originating materials used in manufacturing and apply only in relation to such materials. It follows that if a product which has acquired originating status by fulfilling the conditions set out in the list is used in the manufacture of another product, the conditions applicable to the product in which it is incorporated do not apply to it, and no account shall be taken of the non-originating materials which may have been used in its manufacture.

2.  

Notwithstanding paragraph 1, non-originating materials which, according to the conditions set out in the list in Annex II, should not be used in the manufacture of a product may nevertheless be used, provided that:

(a) 

their total value does not exceed 10 % of the ex-works price of the product;

(b) 

any of the percentages given in the list for the maximum value of non-originating materials are not exceeded by virtue of this paragraph.

This paragraph shall not apply to products falling within Chapters 50 to 63 of the Harmonised System.

3.  
Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply subject to the provisions of Article 6.

Article 6

Insufficient working or processing

1.  

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 5 are satisfied:

(a) 

preserving operations to ensure that the products remain in good condition during transport and storage;

(b) 

breaking-up and assembly of packages;

(c) 

washing, cleaning; removal of dust, oxide, oil, paint or other coverings;

(d) 

ironing or pressing of textiles;

(e) 

simple painting and polishing operations;

(f) 

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

(g) 

operations to colour sugar or form sugar lumps;

(h) 

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

(i) 

sharpening, simple grinding or simple cutting;

(j) 

sifting, screening, sorting, classifying, grading, matching; (including the making-up of sets of articles);

(k) 

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

(l) 

affixing or printing marks, labels, logos and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging;

(m) 

simple mixing of products, whether or not of different kinds;

(n) 

mixing of sugar with any material;

(o) 

simple assembly of parts of articles to constitute a complete article or disassembly of products into parts;

(p) 

a combination of two or more operations specified in (a) to (o);

(q) 

slaughter of animals.

2.  
All operations carried out in the EEA 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.

Article 7

Unit of qualification

1.  
The unit of qualification for the application of the provisions 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.

It follows 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 constitutes 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 must be taken individually when applying the provisions of this Protocol.

2.  
Where, under General Rule 5 of the Harmonised System, packaging is included with the product for classification purposes, it shall be included for the purposes of determining origin.

Article 8

Accessories, spare parts and tools

Accessories, spare parts and tools dispatched with a piece of equipment, machine, apparatus or vehicle, which are part of the normal equipment and included in the price thereof or which are not separately invoiced, shall be regarded as one with the piece of equipment, machine, apparatus or vehicle in question.

Article 9

Sets

Sets, as defined in General Rule 3 of the Harmonised System, shall be regarded as originating when all component products are originating. Nevertheless, when a set is composed of originating and non-originating products, the set as a whole shall be regarded as originating, provided that the value of the non-originating products does not exceed 15 % of the ex-works price of the set.

Article 10

Neutral elements

In order to determine whether a product is an originating product, it shall not be necessary to determine the origin of the following which might be used in its manufacture:

(a) 

energy and fuel;

(b) 

plant and equipment;

(c) 

machines and tools;

(d) 

goods which neither enter into the final composition of the product nor are intended to do so.

TITLE III

TERRITORIAL REQUIREMENTS

Article 11

Principle of territoriality

1.  
Except as provided for in Article 3 and paragraph 3 of this Article, the conditions for acquiring originating status set out in Title II must be fulfilled without interruption in the EEA.
2.  

Except as provided for in Article 3, where originating goods exported from the EEA to another country return, they must be considered as non-originating, unless it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that:

(a) 

the returning goods are the same as those exported;

and

(b) 

they have not undergone any operation beyond that necessary to preserve them in good condition while in that country or while being exported.

3.  

The acquisition of originating status in accordance with the conditions set out in Title II shall not be affected by working or processing done outside the EEA on materials exported from the EEA and subsequently reimported there, provided:

(a) 

the said materials are wholly obtained in the EEA or have undergone working or processing beyond the operations referred to in Article 6 prior to being exported;

and

(b) 

it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that:

(i) 

the reimported goods have been obtained by working or processing the exported materials;

and

(ii) 

the total added value acquired outside the EEA by applying the provisions of this Article does not exceed 10 % of the ex-works price of the end product for which originating status is claimed.

4.  
For the purposes of paragraph 3, the conditions for acquiring originating status set out in Title II shall not apply to working or processing done outside the EEA. However, where, in the list in Annex II, a rule setting a maximum value for all the non-originating materials incorporated is applied in determining the originating status of the end product, the total value of the non-originating materials incorporated in the territory of the party concerned, taken together with the total added value acquired outside the EEA by applying the provisions of this Article, shall not exceed the stated percentage.
5.  
For the purposes of applying the provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4, ‘total added value’ shall be taken to mean all costs arising outside the EEA, including the value of the materials incorporated there.
6.  
The provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4 shall not apply to products which do not fulfil the conditions set out in the list in Annex II or which can be considered sufficiently worked or processed only if the general tolerance fixed in Article 5(2) is applied.
7.  
The provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4 shall not apply to products of Chapters 50 to 63 of the Harmonised System.
8.  
Any working or processing of the kind covered by this Article and done outside the EEA shall be done under the outward processing arrangements, or similar arrangements.

Article 12

Direct transport

1.  
The preferential treatment provided for under the Agreement applies only to products, satisfying the requirements of this Protocol, which are transported directly within the EEA or through the territories of the countries referred to in Article 3 with which cumulation is applicable. However, products constituting one single consignment may be transported through other territories with, should the occasion arise, trans-shipment or temporary warehousing in such territories, provided that they remain under the surveillance of the customs authorities in the country of transit or warehousing and do not undergo operations other than unloading, reloading or any operation designed to preserve them in good condition.

Originating products may be transported by pipeline across territory other than that of the EEA.

2.  

Evidence that the conditions set out in paragraph 1 have been fulfilled shall be supplied to the customs authorities of the importing country by the production of:

(a) 

a single transport document covering the passage from the exporting country through the country of transit; or

(b) 

a certificate issued by the customs authorities of the country of transit:

(i) 

giving an exact description of the products;

(ii) 

stating the dates of unloading and reloading of the products and, where applicable, the names of the ships, or the other means of transport used;

and

(iii) 

certifying the conditions under which the products remained in the transit country; or

(c) 

failing these, any substantiating documents.

Article 13

Exhibitions

1.  

Originating products, sent for exhibition in a country other than those referred to in Article 3 with which cumulation is applicable and sold after the exhibition for importation in the EEA shall benefit on importation from the provisions of the Agreement provided it is shown to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that:

(a) 

an exporter has consigned these products from one of the Contracting Parties to the country in which the exhibition is held and has exhibited them there;

(b) 

the products have been sold or otherwise disposed of by that exporter to a person in another Contracting Party;

(c) 

the products have been consigned during the exhibition or immediately thereafter in the state in which they were sent for exhibition;

and

(d) 

the products have not, since they were consigned for exhibition, been used for any purpose other than demonstration at the exhibition.

2.  
A proof of origin shall be issued or made out in accordance with the provisions of Title V and submitted to the customs authorities of the importing country in the normal manner. The name and address of the exhibition shall be indicated thereon. Where necessary, additional documentary evidence of the conditions under which the products have been exhibited may be required.
3.  
Paragraph 1 shall apply to any trade, industrial, agricultural or crafts exhibition, fair or similar public show or display which is not organised for private purposes in shops or business premises with a view to the sale of foreign products, and during which the products remain under customs control.

TITLE IV

DRAWBACK OR EXEMPTION

Article 14

Prohibition of drawback of, or exemption from, customs duties

1.  
Non-originating materials used in the manufacture of products originating in the EEA or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 for which a proof of origin is issued or made out in accordance with the provisions of Title V shall not be subject in any of the Contracting Parties to drawback of, or exemption from, customs duties of whatever kind.
2.  
The prohibition in paragraph 1 shall apply to any arrangement for refund, remission or non-payment, partial or complete, of customs duties or charges having an equivalent effect, applicable in any of the Contracting Parties to materials used in the manufacture, where such refund, remission or non-payment applies, expressly or in effect, when products obtained from the said materials are exported and not when they are retained for home use there.
3.  
The exporter of products covered by a proof of origin shall be prepared to submit at any time, upon request from the customs authorities, all appropriate documents proving that no drawback has been obtained in respect of the non-originating materials used in the manufacture of the products concerned and that all customs duties or charges having equivalent effect applicable to such materials have actually been paid.
4.  
The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 3 shall also apply in respect of packaging within the meaning of Article 7(2), accessories, spare parts and tools within the meaning of Article 8 and products in a set within the meaning of Article 9 when such items are non-originating.
5.  
The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 4 shall apply only in respect of materials which are of the kind to which the Agreement applies. Furthermore, they shall not preclude the application of an export refund system for agricultural products, applicable upon export in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement.

TITLE V

PROOF OF ORIGIN

Article 15

General requirements

1.  

Originating products shall, on importation into one of the Contracting Parties, benefit from the provisions of the Agreement upon submission of one of the following proofs of origin:

(a) 

a movement certificate EUR.1, a specimen of which appears in Annex IIIa;

(b) 

a movement certificate EUR-MED, a specimen of which appears in Annex IIIb;

(c) 

in the cases specified in Article 21(1), a declaration, subsequently referred to as the ‘origin declaration’ or the ‘origin declaration EUR-MED’, given by the exporter on an invoice, a delivery note or any other commercial document which describes the products concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified; the texts of the origin declarations appear in Annexes IVa and b.

2.  
Notwithstanding paragraph 1, originating products within the meaning of this Protocol shall, in the cases specified in Article 26, benefit from the provisions of the Agreement without it being necessary to submit any of the proofs of origin referred to in paragraph 1.

Article 16

Procedure for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED

1.  
A movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall be issued by the customs authorities of the exporting country on application having been made in writing by the exporter or, under the exporter's responsibility, by his authorised representative.
2.  
For this purpose, the exporter or his authorised representative shall fill in both the movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED and the application form, specimens of which appear in the Annexes IIIa and b. These forms shall be completed in one of the languages in which the Agreement is drawn up and in accordance with the provisions of the national law of the exporting country. If the forms are handwritten, they shall be completed in ink in printed characters. The description of the products shall be given in the box reserved for this purpose without leaving any blank lines. Where the box is not completely filled, a horizontal line shall be drawn below the last line of the description, the empty space being crossed through.
3.  
The exporter applying for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of the exporting country where the movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED is issued, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol.
4.  

Without prejudice to paragraph 5, a movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the customs authorities of a Contracting Party in the following cases:

— 
if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in the EEA or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(1) with which cumulation is applicable, without application of cumulation with materials originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2), and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol,
— 
if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2) with which cumulation is applicable, without application of cumulation with materials originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol, provided a certificate EUR-MED or an origin declaration EUR-MED has been issued in the country of origin.
5.  

A movement certificate EUR-MED shall be issued by the customs authorities of a Contracting Party, if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in the EEA or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 with which cumulation is applicable, fulfil the requirements of this Protocol and:

— 
cumulation was applied with materials originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2), or
— 
the products may be used as materials in the context of cumulation for the manufacture of products for export to one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2), or
— 
the products may be re-exported from the country of destination to one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2).
6.  

A movement certificate EUR-MED shall contain one of the following statements in English in box 7:

— 
if origin has been obtained by application of cumulation with materials originating in one or more of the countries referred to in Article 3:
‘CUMULATION APPLIED WITH …’ (name of the country/countries)
— 
if origin has been obtained without the application of cumulation with materials originating in one or more of the countries referred to in Article 3:

‘NO CUMULATION APPLIED’

7.  
The customs authorities issuing movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall take any steps necessary to verify the originating status of the products and the fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol. For this purpose, they shall have the right to call for any evidence and to carry out any inspection of the exporter's accounts or any other check considered appropriate. They shall also ensure that the forms referred to in paragraph 2 are duly completed. In particular, they shall check whether the space reserved for the description of the products has been completed in such a manner as to exclude all possibility of fraudulent additions.
8.  
The date of issue of the movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall be indicated in Box 11 of the certificate.
9.  
A movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall be issued by the customs authorities and made available to the exporter as soon as actual exportation has been effected or ensured.

Article 17

Movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED issued retrospectively

1.  

Notwithstanding Article 16(9), a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED may exceptionally be issued after exportation of the products to which it relates if:

(a) 

it was not issued at the time of exportation because of errors or involuntary omissions or special circumstances;

or

(b) 

it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED was issued but was not accepted at importation for technical reasons.

2.  
Notwithstanding Article 16(9), a movement certificate EUR-MED may be issued after exportation of the products to which it relates and for which a movement certificate EUR.1 was issued at the time of exportation, provided that it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that the conditions referred to in Article 16(5) are satisfied.
3.  
For the implementation of paragraphs 1 and 2, the exporter must indicate in his application the place and date of exportation of the products to which the movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED relates, and state the reasons for his request.
4.  
The customs authorities may issue a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED retrospectively only after verifying that the information supplied in the exporter's application complies with that in the corresponding file.
5.  

Movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED issued retrospectively shall be endorsed with the following phrase in English:

‘ISSUED RETROSPECTIVELY’

Movement certificates EUR-MED issued retrospectively by application of paragraph 2 shall be endorsed with the following phrase in English:

ISSUED RETROSPECTIVELY (Original EUR.1 No …(date and place of issue)
6.  
The endorsement referred to in paragraph 5 shall be inserted in box 7 of the movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED.

Article 18

Issue of a duplicate movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED

1.  
In the event of theft, loss or destruction of a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED, the exporter may apply to the customs authorities which issued it for a duplicate made out on the basis of the export documents in their possession.
2.  

The duplicate issued in this way shall be endorsed with the following word in English:

‘DUPLICATE’

3.  
The endorsement referred to in paragraph 2 shall be inserted in box 7 of the duplicate movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED.
4.  
The duplicate, which shall bear the date of issue of the original movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED, shall take effect as from that date.

Article 19

Issue of movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED on the basis of a proof of origin issued or made out previously

When originating products are placed under the control of a customs office in the Contracting Parties, it shall be possible to replace the original proof of origin by one or more movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED for the purpose of sending all or some of these products elsewhere within the EEA. The replacement movement certificate(s) EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall be issued by the customs office under whose control the products are placed.

Article 20

Accounting segregation

1.  
Where considerable cost or material difficulties arise in keeping separate stocks of originating and non-originating materials which are identical and interchangeable, the customs authorities may, at the written request of those concerned, authorise the so-called ‘accounting segregation’ method (hereinafter referred to as the ‘method’) to be used for managing such stocks.
2.  
The method must be able to ensure that, for a specific reference period, the number of products obtained which could be considered as ‘originating’ is the same as that which would have been obtained had there been physical segregation of the stocks.
3.  
The customs authorities may make the grant of authorisation referred to in paragraph 1, subject to any conditions deemed appropriate.
4.  
The method shall be applied and on the application thereof shall be recorded on the basis of the general accounting principles applicable in the country where the product was manufactured.
5.  
The beneficiary of the method may make out or apply for proofs of origin, as the case may be, for the quantity of products which may be considered as originating. At the request of the customs authorities, the beneficiary shall provide a statement of how the quantities have been managed.
6.  
The customs authorities shall monitor the use made of the authorisation and may withdraw it whenever the beneficiary makes improper use of the authorisation in any manner whatsoever or fails to fulfil any of the other conditions laid down in this Protocol.

Article 21

Conditions for making out an origin declaration or an origin declaration EUR-MED

1.  

An origin declaration or an origin declaration EUR-MED as referred to in Article 15(1)(c) may be made out:

(a) 

by an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 22;

or

(b) 

by any exporter for any consignment consisting of one or more packages containing originating products whose total value does not exceed EUR 6 000 .

2.  

Without prejudice to paragraph 3, an origin declaration may be made out in the following cases:

— 
if the products concerned may be considered as products originating in the EEA or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(1) with which cumulation is applicable, without application of cumulation with materials originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2), and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol;
— 
if the products concerned may be considered as products originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2) with which cumulation is applicable, without application of cumulation with materials originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol, provided a certificate EUR-MED or an origin declaration EUR-MED has been issued in the country of origin.
3.  

An origin declaration EUR-MED may be made out if the products concerned may be considered as products originating in the EEA or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 with which cumulation is applicable, fulfil the requirements of this Protocol and:

— 
cumulation was applied with materials originating in one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2), or
— 
the products may be used as materials in the context of cumulation for the manufacture of products for export to one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2),
or
— 
the products may be re-exported from the country of destination to one of the countries referred to in Article 3(2).
4.  

An origin declaration EUR-MED shall contain one of the following statements in English:

— 
if origin has been obtained by application of cumulation with materials originating in one or more of the countries referred to in Article 3:
‘CUMULATION APPLIED WITH …’ (name of the country/countries)
— 
if origin has been obtained without application of cumulation with materials originating in one or more of the countries referred to in Article 3:

‘NO CUMULATION APPLIED’.

5.  
The exporter making out an origin declaration or an origin declaration EUR-MED shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of the exporting country, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol.
6.  
An origin declaration or an origin declaration EUR-MED shall be made out by the exporter by typing, stamping or printing on the invoice, the delivery note or another commercial document, the declaration, the texts of which appear in Annexes IVa and b, using one of the linguistic versions set out in these Annexes and in accordance with the provisions of the national law of the exporting country. If the declaration is handwritten, it shall be written in ink in printed characters.
7.  
Origin declarations and origin declarations EUR-MED shall bear the original signature of the exporter in manuscript. However, an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 22 shall not be required to sign such declarations provided that he gives the customs authorities of the exporting country a written undertaking that he accepts full responsibility for any origin declaration which identifies him as if it had been signed in manuscript by him.
8.  
An origin declaration or an origin declaration EUR-MED may be made out by the exporter when the products to which it relates are exported, or after exportation on condition that it is presented in the importing country at the latest two years after the importation of the products to which it relates.

Article 22

Approved exporter

1.  
The customs authorities of the exporting country may authorise any exporter (hereinafter referred to as ‘approved exporter’) who makes frequent shipments of products under the Agreement to make out origin declarations or origin declarations EUR-MED irrespective of the value of the products concerned. An exporter seeking such authorisation shall offer to the satisfaction of the customs authorities all guarantees necessary to verify the originating status of the products as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol.
2.  
The customs authorities may grant the status of approved exporter subject to any conditions which they consider appropriate.
3.  
The customs authorities shall grant to the approved exporter a customs authorisation number which shall appear on the origin declaration or on the origin declaration EUR-MED.
4.  
The customs authorities shall monitor the use of the authorisation by the approved exporter.
5.  
The customs authorities may withdraw the authorisation at any time. They shall do so where the approved exporter no longer offers the guarantees referred to in paragraph 1, no longer fulfils the conditions referred to in paragraph 2 or otherwise makes an incorrect use of the authorisation.

Article 23

Validity of proof of origin

1.  
A proof of origin shall be valid for four months from the date of issue in the exporting country and shall be submitted within the said period to the customs authorities of the importing country.
2.  
Proofs of origin which are submitted to the customs authorities of the importing country after the final date for presentation specified in paragraph 1 may be accepted for the purpose of applying preferential treatment, where the failure to submit these documents by the final date set is due to exceptional circumstances.
3.  
In other cases of belated presentation, the customs authorities of the importing country may accept the proofs of origin where the products have been submitted before the said final date.

Article 24

Submission of proof of origin

Proofs of origin shall be submitted to the customs authorities of the importing country in accordance with the procedures applicable in that country. The said authorities may require a translation of a proof of origin and may also require the import declaration to be accompanied by a statement from the importer to the effect that the products meet the conditions required for the implementation of the Agreement.

Article 25

Importation by instalments

Where, at the request of the importer and on the conditions laid down by the customs authorities of the importing country, dismantled or non-assembled products within the meaning of General Rule 2(a) of the Harmonised System falling within sections XVI and XVII or headings 7308 and 9406 of the Harmonised System are imported by instalments, a single proof of origin for such products shall be submitted to the customs authorities upon importation of the first instalment.

Article 26

Exemptions from proof of origin

1.  
Products sent as small packages from private persons to private persons or forming part of travellers' personal luggage shall be admitted as originating products without requiring the submission of a proof of origin, provided that such products are not imported by way of trade and have been declared as meeting the requirements of this Protocol and where there is no doubt as to the veracity of such a declaration. In the case of products sent by post, this declaration can be made on customs declaration CN22/CN23 or on a sheet of paper annexed to that document.
2.  
Imports which are occasional and consist solely of products for the personal use of the recipients or travellers or their families shall not be considered as imports by way of trade if it is evident from the nature and quantity of the products that no commercial purpose is in view.
3.  
Furthermore, the total value of these products shall not exceed EUR 500 in the case of small packages or EUR 1 200 in the case of products forming part of travellers' personal luggage.

Article 27

Supplier's declaration

1.  
When a movement certificate EUR.1 is issued, or an origin declaration is made out, in one of the Contracting Parties for originating products, in the manufacture of which goods coming from other Contracting Parties which have undergone working or processing in the EEA without having obtained preferential originating status have been used, account shall be taken of the supplier's declaration given for these goods in accordance with this Article.
2.  
The supplier's declaration referred to in paragraph 1 shall serve as evidence of the working or processing undergone in the EEA by the goods concerned for the purpose of determining whether the products in the manufacture of which these goods are used, may be considered as products originating in the EEA and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol.
3.  
A separate supplier's declaration shall, except in cases provided in paragraph 4, be made out by the supplier for each consignment of goods in the form prescribed in Annex V on a sheet of paper annexed to the invoice, the delivery note or any other commercial document describing the goods concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified.
4.  
Where a supplier regularly supplies a particular customer with goods for which the working or processing undergone in the EEA is expected to remain constant for considerable periods of time, he may provide a single supplier's declaration to cover subsequent consignments of those goods, hereinafter referred to as a ‘long-term supplier's declaration’.

A long-term supplier's declaration may normally be valid for a period of up to one year from the date of making out the declaration. The customs authorities of the country where the declaration is made out lay down the conditions under which longer periods may be used.

The long term supplier's declaration shall be made out by the supplier in the form prescribed in Annex VI and shall describe the goods concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified. It shall be provided to the customer concerned before he is supplied with the first consignment of goods covered by this declaration or together with his first consignment.

The supplier shall inform his customer immediately if the long-term supplier's declaration is no longer applicable to the goods supplied.

5.  
The supplier's declaration referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall be typed or printed using one of the languages in which the Agreement is drawn up, in accordance with the provisions of the national law of the country where it is made out, and shall bear the original signature of the supplier in manuscript. The declaration may also be hand-written; in such a case, it shall be written in ink in printed characters.
6.  
The supplier making out a declaration must be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of the country where the declaration is made out, all appropriate documents proving that the information given on this declaration is correct.

Article 28

Supporting documents

The documents referred to in Articles 16(3), 21(5) and 27(6) used for the purpose of proving that products covered by a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED or an origin declaration or origin declaration EUR-MED may be considered as products originating in the EEA or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol and that the information given in a supplier's declaration is correct, may consist, inter alia, of the following:

(a) 

direct evidence of the processes carried out by the exporter or supplier to obtain the goods concerned, contained for example in his accounts or internal book keeping;

(b) 

documents proving the originating status of materials used, issued or made out in the Contracting Party where these documents are used in accordance with national law;

(c) 

documents proving the working or processing of materials in the EEA, issued or made out in the Contracting Party where these documents are used in accordance with national law;

(d) 

movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED or origin declarations or origin declarations EUR-MED proving the originating status of materials used, issued or made out in the Contracting Parties in accordance with this Protocol, or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3, in accordance with rules of origin which are identical to the rules in this Protocol.

(e) 

supplier's declarations proving the working or processing undergone in the EEA by materials used, made out in the Contracting Parties in accordance with this Protocol;

(f) 

appropriate evidence concerning working or processing undergone outside the EEA by application of Article 11, proving that the requirements of that Article have been satisfied.

Article 29

Preservation of proof of origin, supplier's declarations and supporting documents

1.  
The exporter applying for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall keep for at least three years the documents referred to in Article 16(3).
2.  
The exporter making out an origin declaration or origin declaration EUR-MED shall keep for at least three years a copy of this origin declaration as well as the documents referred to in Article 21(5).
3.  
The supplier making out a supplier's declaration shall keep for at least three years copies of the declaration and of the invoice, delivery notes or other commercial document to which this declaration is annexed as well as the documents referred to in Article 27(6).

The supplier making out a long-term supplier's declaration shall keep for at least three years copies of the declaration and of all the invoices, delivery notes or other commercial documents concerning goods covered by that declaration sent to the customer concerned, as well as the documents referred to in Article 27(6). This period shall begin from the date of expiry of validity of the long-term supplier's declaration.

4.  
The customs authorities of the exporting country issuing a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED shall keep, for at least three years, the application form referred to in Article 16(2).
5.  
The customs authorities of the importing country shall keep for at least three years the movement certificates EUR.1 and EUR-MED and the origin declarations and origin declarations EUR-MED submitted to them.

Article 30

Discrepancies and formal errors

1.  
The discovery of slight discrepancies between the statements made in the proof of origin and those made in the documents submitted to the customs office for the purpose of carrying out the formalities for importing the products shall not ipso facto render the proof of origin null and void if it is duly established that this document does correspond to the products submitted.
2.  
Obvious formal errors such as typing errors on a proof of origin should not cause this document to be rejected if these errors are not such as to create doubts concerning the correctness of the statements made in this document.

Article 31

Amounts expressed in euro

1.  
For the application of the provisions of Article 21(1)(b) and Article 26(3) in cases where products are invoiced in a currency other than euro, amounts in the national currencies of the Member States of the European Union and of the countries referred to in Article 3 equivalent to the amounts expressed in euro shall be fixed annually by each of the countries concerned.
2.  
A consignment shall benefit from the provisions of Article 21(1)(b) or Article 26(3) by reference to the currency in which the invoice is drawn up, according to the amount fixed by the country concerned.
3.  
The amounts to be used in any given national currency shall be the equivalent in that currency of the amounts expressed in euro as at the first working day of October each year. The amounts shall be communicated to the European Commission by 15 October and shall apply from 1 January the following year. The European Commission shall notify all countries concerned of the relevant amounts.
4.  
A country may round up or down the amount resulting from the conversion into its national currency of an amount expressed in euro. The rounded-off amount may not differ from the amount resulting from the conversion by more than 5 %. A country may retain unchanged its national currency equivalent of an amount expressed in euro if, at the time of the annual adjustment provided for in paragraph 3, the conversion of that amount, prior to any rounding-off, results in an increase of less than 15 % cent in the national currency equivalent. The national currency equivalent may be retained unchanged if the conversion were to result in a decrease in that equivalent value.
5.  
The amounts expressed in euro shall be reviewed by the EEA Joint Committee at the request of the Contracting Parties. When carrying out this review, the EEA Joint Committee shall consider the desirability of preserving the effects of the limits concerned in real terms. For this purpose, it may decide to modify the amounts expressed in euro.

TITLE VI

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COOPERATION

Article 32

Administrative cooperation

1.  
The customs authorities of the Contracting Parties shall provide each other, through the European Commission, with specimen impressions of stamps used in their customs offices for the issue of movement certificates EUR.1 and EUR-MED, and with the addresses of the customs authorities responsible for verifying those certificates, origin declarations and origin declarations EUR-MED or suppliers' declarations.
2.  
In order to ensure the proper application of this Protocol, the Contracting Parties shall assist each other, through the competent customs administrations, in checking the authenticity of the movement certificates EUR.1 and EUR-MED, the origin declarations and the origin declarations EUR-MED or the suppliers' declarations and the correctness of the information given in these documents.

Article 33

Verification of proofs of origin

1.  
Subsequent verifications of proofs of origin shall be carried out at random or whenever the customs authorities of the importing country have reasonable doubts as to the authenticity of such documents, the originating status of the products concerned or the fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol.
2.  
For the purposes of implementing paragraph 1, the customs authorities of the importing country shall return the movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED and the invoice, if it has been submitted, the origin declaration or the origin declaration EUR-MED, or a copy of these documents, to the customs authorities of the exporting country giving, where appropriate, the reasons for the request for verification. Any documents and information obtained suggesting that the information given on the proof of origin is incorrect shall be forwarded in support of the request for verification.
3.  
The verification shall be carried out by the customs authorities of the exporting country. For this purpose, they shall have the right to call for any evidence and to carry out any inspection of the exporter's accounts or any other check considered appropriate.
4.  
If the customs authorities of the importing country decide to suspend the granting of preferential treatment to the products concerned while awaiting the results of the verification, release of the products shall be offered to the importer subject to any precautionary measures judged necessary.
5.  
The customs authorities requesting the verification shall be informed of the results thereof as soon as possible. These results shall indicate clearly whether the documents are authentic and whether the products concerned may be considered as products originating in the EEA or in one of the countries referred to in Article 3 and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol.
6.  
If in cases of reasonable doubt there is no reply within 10 months of the date of the verification request or if the reply does not contain sufficient information to determine the authenticity of the document in question or the real origin of the products, the requesting customs authorities shall, except in exceptional circumstances, refuse entitlement to the preferences.

Article 34

Verification of supplier's declarations

1.  
Subsequent verifications of suppliers' declarations or long-term suppliers' declarations may be carried out at random or whenever the customs authorities of the country, where such declarations have been taken into account to issue a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED or to make out an origin declaration or origin declaration EUR-MED, have reasonable doubts as to the authenticity of the document or the correctness of the information given in this document.
2.  
For the purposes of implementing paragraph 1, the customs authorities of the country referred to in paragraph 1 shall return the supplier's declaration and invoice(s), delivery note(s) or other commercial documents concerning goods covered by this declaration, to the customs authorities of the country where the declaration was made out, giving, where appropriate, the reasons of substance or form for the request for verification.

They shall forward, in support of the request for subsequent verification, any documents and information that have been obtained suggesting that the information given in the supplier's declaration is incorrect.

3.  
The verification shall be carried out by the customs authorities of the country where the supplier's declaration was made out. For this purpose, they shall have the right to call for any evidence and carry out any inspection of the supplier's accounts or any other check which they consider appropriate.
4.  
The customs authorities requesting the verification shall be informed of the results thereof as soon as possible. These results shall indicate clearly whether the information given in the supplier's declaration is correct and make it possible for them to determine whether and to what extent this supplier's declaration could be taken into account for issuing a movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED or for making out an origin declaration or origin declaration EUR-MED.

Article 35

Dispute settlement

Where disputes arise in relation to the verification procedures of Articles 33 and 34 which cannot be settled between the customs authorities requesting a verification and the customs authorities responsible for carrying out this verification or where they raise a question as to the interpretation of this Protocol, they shall be submitted to the EEA Joint Committee.

In all cases the settlement of disputes between the importer and the customs authorities of the importing country shall take place under the legislation of that country.

Article 36

Penalties

Penalties shall be imposed on any person who draws up, or causes to be drawn up, a document which contains incorrect information for the purpose of obtaining a preferential treatment for products.

Article 37

Free zones

1.  
The Contracting Parties shall take all necessary steps to ensure that products traded under cover of a proof of origin which in the course of transport use a free zone situated in their territory, are not substituted by other goods and do not undergo handling other than normal operations designed to prevent their deterioration.
2.  
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, when products originating in the EEA are imported into a free zone under cover of a proof of origin and undergo treatment or processing, the authorities concerned shall issue a new movement certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED at the exporter's request, if the treatment or processing undergone complies with the provisions of this Protocol.

TITLE VII

CEUTA AND MELILLA

Article 38

Application of the Protocol

1.  
The term ‘EEA’ used in this protocol does not cover Ceuta and Melilla. The term ‘products originating in the EEA’ does not cover products originating in Ceuta and Melilla.
2.  
For the purpose of applying Protocol 49 concerning products originating in Ceuta and Melilla, this Protocol shall apply, mutatis mutandis, subject to the special conditions set out in Article 39.

Article 39

Special conditions

1.  

Providing they have been transported directly in accordance with Article 12, the following shall be considered as:

(1) 

products originating in Ceuta and Melilla:

(a) 

products wholly obtained in Ceuta and Melilla;

(b) 

products obtained in Ceuta and Melilla in the manufacture of which products other than those referred to in (a) are used, provided that:

(i) 

the said products have undergone sufficient working or processing within the meaning of Article 5;

or that

(ii) 

those products originate in the EEA, provided that they have been submitted to working or processing which goes beyond the operations referred to in Article 6.

(2) 

products originating in the EEA:

(a) 

products wholly obtained in the EEA;

(b) 

products obtained in the EEA, in the manufacture of which products other than those referred to in (a) are used, provided that:

(i) 

the said products have undergone sufficient working or processing within the meaning of Article 5;

or that

(ii) 

those products originate in Ceuta and Melilla or in the EEA, provided that they have been submitted to working or processing which goes beyond the operations referred to in Article 6.

2.  
Ceuta and Melilla shall be considered as a single territory.
3.  
The exporter or his authorised representative shall enter ‘EEA’ and ‘Ceuta and Melilla’ in box 2 of movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED or on origin declarations or on origin declarations EUR-MED. In addition, in the case of products originating in Ceuta and Melilla, this shall be indicated in box 4 of movement certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED or on origin declarations or on the origin declarations EUR-MED.
4.  
The Spanish customs authorities shall be responsible for the application of this Protocol in Ceuta and Melilla.

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ANNEX I

Introductory notes to the list in Annex II

See Annex I of Appendix I to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin

Any reference to ‘this Appendix’ in Note 1 and 3.1 of Annex I to Appendix I to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin should be read as a reference to ‘this Protocol’.

ANNEX II

List of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in order for the product manufactured to obtain originating status

See Annex II of Appendix I to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean rules of preferential origin.

ANNEX IIIa

Specimens of movement certificate EUR.1 and application for a movement certificate EUR.1

See Annex IIIa of Appendix I to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean rules of preferential origin.

ANNEX IIIb

Specimens of movement certificate EUR-MED and application for a movement certificate EUR-MED

See Annex IIIb of Appendix I to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean rules of preferential origin.

ANNEX IVa

Text of the origin declaration

See Annex IVa of Appendix I to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean rules of preferential origin.

ANNEX IVb

Text of the origin declaration EUR-MED

See Annex IVb of Appendix I to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean rules of preferential origin.

ANNEX V

Supplier's declaration

The supplier's declaration, the text of which is given below, must be made out in accordance with the footnotes. However, the footnotes do not have to be reproduced.

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ANNEX VI

Long-term supplier's declaration

The long-term supplier's declaration, the text of which is given below, must be made out in accordance with the footnotes. However, the footnotes do not have to be reproduced.