Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted on behalf of the European Union within the Interim Committee established by the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part, as regards the replacement of Protocol 2 to that Agreement, concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation, by a new protocol which, as regards the rules of or

The Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin ('the Convention') lays down provisions on the origin of goods traded under relevant Agreements concluded between the Contracting Parties. The EU and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the Convention on 15 June 2011 and 24 September 2013 respectively.

The EU and Bosnia and Herzegovina deposited their instrument of acceptance with the depositary of the Convention on 26 March 2012 and 26 September 2014 respectively. As a consequence, the Convention entered into force in relation to the EU and Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1 May 2012 and on 1 November 2014 respectively.

Article 6 of the Convention provides that each Contracting Party shall take appropriate measures to ensure that the Convention is effectively applied. To that effect, the Interim Committee established by the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters between the European Community, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part, should adopt a Decision replacing Protocol 2 concerning the definition of the concept of 'originating products' and methods of administrative cooperation by a new Protocol which, with regard to the rules of origin, refers to the Convention.

The position to be taken by the EU within the Interim Committee should be established by the Council.

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)22: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:022:FIN

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