Uredba o ratifikaciji sklepa Skupnega odbora Slovenija

35. Uredba o ratifikaciji sklepa Skupnega odbora Slovenija – EFTA št. 1/2000: spremembe in dopolnitve Protokola B

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U R E D B O O RATIFIKACIJI SKLEPA SKUPNEGA ODBORA SLOVENIJA – EFTA ŠT. 1/2000: SPREMEMBE IN DOPOLNITVE PROTOKOLA B

1. člen

Ratificira se sklep Skupnega odbora Slovenija – EFTA št. 1/2000: spremembe in dopolnitve Protokola B, ki je bil sprejet 22. novembra 2000.

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Sklep se v izvirniku v angleškem jeziku in v prevodu v slovenskem jeziku glasi:

DECISION OF THE JOINT EFTA - SLOVENIA COMMITTEE No. 1 of 2000 (Adopted by written procedure on 22 November 2000) AMENDMENTS TO PROTOCOL B

THE JOINT COMMITTEE,

Having regard to Protocol B to the Free Trade Agreement between the EFTA States and Slovenia signed on 13 June 1995, hereafter referred to as ‘this Agreement’, concerning the definition of the concept of originating products and methods of administrative cooperation, amended on 9 October 1996 by a Protocol between the EFTA States and the Republic of Slovenia and by Decision No. 1 of 1998 and No. 9 of 1999 of the Joint EFTA - Slovenia Committee,

Noting that certain provisions applied within the European cumulation system need to be amended in order to be in line with legal developments and to take account of the shortage within these free trade zones of certain materials,

Nothing that the following amendments are based on an agreement in the “30 countries’ meeting“ held in the context of the pan-European cumulation system,

Having regard to Article 32 of the Agreement, empowering the Joint Committee to amend Protocol B to this Agreement,

DECIDES:

1.

The expression “units of account“ in the Table of Contents (Article 30), in Article 21 (1) (b) and 26 (3) shall be replaced by “euro“,

2.

Article 1 (i) shall be replaced by:

“(i) ‘added value’ 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 and 4 or, where the customs value is not known or cannot be ascertained, the first verifiable price paid for the materials in teh EFTA State or in Slovenia; “

3.

Article 1 (n) shall be replaced by:

“ (n) ‘euro’ means the single currency of the European Monetary Union.“

4.

Article 7 shall be replaced by:

“Article 7

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 6 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) simple assembly of parts of articles to constitute a complete article or disassembly of products into parts;

(o) a combination of two or more operations specified in subparagraphs (a) to (n);

(p) slaughter of animals.

2. All operations carried out either in an EFTA State or Slovenia 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.“

5. In Article 15, the final sentence in paragraph 6 shall be replaced by:

“The provisions of this paragraph shall apply until 31 December 2001.“

6. The following article shall be inserted after Article 20 and a reference to this article shall be added in the Table of Contents:

“Article 20a