Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the EU-Central America Association Council regarding the replacement of Appendix 2 to Annex II to the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other

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Series Details (2016) 261 final (17.5.16)
Publication Date 17/05/2016
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The Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America, on the other, was signed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on 29 June 2012 and has been provisionally applied from 2013. One of its aims is to progressively liberalise trade in goods between the Parties through eliminating customs duties.

To achieve this aim it is necessary to determine the goods originating in each Party. Annex II to the Association Agreement sets out the definition of the concept of "originating products" and methods of administrative cooperation. The list of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in order that the product manufactured can obtain originating status is set out in Appendix 2 to Annex II. These product-specific rules are based on a Harmonised System (HS) 2007 of classification of goods which is now outdated.

Central America and the European Union have agreed to update the product-specific rules by aligning them to the HS 2012, this being the most up-to-date classification. The aim is to ensure that the product-specific rules remain unchanged for those products that have been reclassified within the HS 2012.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2016)261: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2016:261:FIN
EUR-Lex: COM(2016)262: Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the EU-Central America Association Council regarding Explanatory Notes to Article 15 of Annex II to the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2016:262:FIN

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