Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1421/2013
of 30 October 2013
amending Annexes I, II and IV to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008(1), and in particular Articles 3(2), 5(3) and 17(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 provides that a list of eligible countries should be amended to take account of changes in the international status or classification of countries. The list of eligible countries is established in Annex I to that Regulation.
(2) Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 establishes criteria for the granting of tariff preferences under the general arrangement of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP). In accordance with such criteria, a country that has been classified by the World Bank as a high or an upper-middle income country for three consecutive years should not benefit from such preferences. The list of beneficiary countries of the general arrangement of the GSP is established in Annex II to that Regulation.
(3) Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 provides that a country that is identified by the UN as a least-developed country should benefit from the tariff preferences under the special arrangement for the least-developed countries (EBA). The list of EBA beneficiary countries is established in Annex IV to that Regulation.
(4) The Republic of Croatia (hereinafter Croatia) became a member of the European Union as of 1 July 2013. Therefore, Croatiashould be removed from Annex I.
(5) The Republic of South Sudan (hereinafter South Sudan) has become an independent State. On 14 July 2011, the General Assembly of United Nations adopted Resolution A/RES/65/308 admitting South Sudan to membership in the United Nations. On 18 December 2012, the General Assembly of United Nations adopted Resolution A/RES/67/136 adding South Sudan to the list of Least Developed Countries. Therefore, South Sudan should be included in Annexes I, II and IV.
(6) Regulation (EU) No 607/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 552/97 temporarily withdrawing access to generalised tariff preferences from Myanmar/Burma(2) repealed the temporary withdrawal of Myanmar/Burma’s access to the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) tariff preferences. Therefore, Myanmar/Burma should be removed from the table in Annex I, which lists the ‘Eligible countries of the scheme referred to in Article 3 which have been temporarily withdrawn from the scheme, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries’, from the table in Annex II which lists the ‘Beneficiary countries of the general arrangement referred to in point (a) of Article 1(2) which have been temporarily withdrawn from that arrangement, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries’ and from the table in Annex IV, which lists the ‘Beneficiary countries of the special arrangement for the least-developed countries referred to in point (c) of Article 1(2) which have been temporarily withdrawn from that arrangement, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries’.
(7) The People’s Republic of China (hereinafter China), the Republic of Ecuador (hereinafter Ecuador), the Republic of Maldives (hereinafter the Maldives) and the Kingdom of Thailand (hereinafter Thailand) have been classified by the World Bank as upper-middle income countries in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Accordingly, China, Ecuador, the Maldives and Thailandshould be removed from Annex II as from one year after the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
(8) Commission Regulation (EU) No 1127/2010(3) establishes a three-year transitional period for withdrawing the Maldives from the special arrangement for the least-developed countries (Everything But Arms (EBA)) and provides for the removal of the Maldivesfrom the list of EBA beneficiary countries as of 1 January 2014. Therefore, the Maldivesshould be removed from Annex IV.
(9) Article 5(2) of the GSP Regulation provides a GSP beneficiary country and economic operators with time for orderly adaptation to the change in the country’s status under the scheme. This period should be indicated for each GSP beneficiary country concerned in the respective Annex to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1U.K.
Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 is amended as follows:
Annex I is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation;
Annex II is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation;
Annex IV is replaced by the text set out in Annex III to this Regulation.
Article 2U.K.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2014.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 30 October 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso
ANNEX IU.K.
“ANNEX I
Eligible countries (4) of the scheme referred to in Article 3 U.K.
:
alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics
:
name
| a This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) and the International Court of Justice Opinion on the Kosovo's declaration of independence. | |
| A | B |
|---|---|
| AE | United Arab Emirates |
| AF | Afghanistan |
| AG | Antigua and Barbuda |
| AL | Albania |
| AM | Armenia |
| AO | Angola |
| AR | Argentina |
| AZ | Azerbaijan |
| BA | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| BB | Barbados |
| BD | Bangladesh |
| BF | Burkina Faso |
| BH | Bahrain |
| BI | Burundi |
| BJ | Benin |
| BN | Brunei Darussalam |
| BO | Bolivia |
| BR | Brazil |
| BS | Bahamas |
| BT | Bhutan |
| BW | Botswana |
| BY | Belarus |
| BZ | Belize |
| CD | Congo, Democratic Republic of |
| CF | Central African Republic |
| CG | Congo |
| CI | Côte d'Ivoire |
| CK | Cook Islands |
| CL | Chile |
| CM | Cameroon |
| CN | China, People's Republic of |
| CO | Colombia |
| CR | Costa Rica |
| CU | Cuba |
| CV | Cape Verde |
| DJ | Djibouti |
| DM | Dominica |
| DO | Dominican Republic |
| DZ | Algeria |
| EC | Ecuador |
| EG | Egypt |
| ER | Eritrea |
| ET | Ethiopia |
| FJ | Fiji |
| FM | Micronesia, Federated States of |
| GA | Gabon |
| GD | Grenada |
| GE | Georgia |
| GH | Ghana |
| GM | Gambia |
| GN | Guinea |
| GQ | Equatorial Guinea |
| GT | Guatemala |
| GW | Guinea-Bissau |
| GY | Guyana |
| HK | Hong Kong |
| HN | Honduras |
| HT | Haiti |
| ID | Indonesia |
| IN | India |
| IQ | Iraq |
| IR | Iran |
| JM | Jamaica |
| JO | Jordan |
| KE | Kenya |
| KG | Kyrgyz Republic |
| KH | Cambodia |
| KI | Kiribati |
| KM | Comoros |
| KN | St Kitts and Nevis |
| KW | Kuwait |
| KZ | Kazakhstan |
| LA | Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| LB | Lebanon |
| LC | St Lucia |
| LK | Sri Lanka |
| LR | Liberia |
| LS | Lesotho |
| LY | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
| MA | Morocco |
| MD | Moldova, Republic of |
| ME | Montenegro |
| MG | Madagascar |
| MH | Marshall Islands |
| MK | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| ML | Mali |
| MM | Myanmar/Burma |
| MN | Mongolia |
| MO | Macao |
| MR | Mauritania |
| MU | Mauritius |
| MV | Maldives |
| MW | Malawi |
| MX | Mexico |
| MY | Malaysia |
| MZ | Mozambique |
| NA | Namibia |
| NE | Niger |
| NG | Nigeria |
| NI | Nicaragua |
| NP | Nepal |
| NR | Nauru |
| NU | Niue |
| OM | Oman |
| PA | Panama |
| PE | Peru |
| PG | Papua New Guinea |
| PH | Philippines |
| PK | Pakistan |
| PW | Palau |
| PY | Paraguay |
| QA | Qatar |
| RU | Russian Federation |
| RW | Rwanda |
| SA | Saudi Arabia |
| SB | Solomon Islands |
| SC | Seychelles |
| SD | Sudan |
| SL | Sierra Leone |
| SN | Senegal |
| SO | Somalia |
| SR | Suriname |
| SS | South Sudan |
| ST | São Tomé and Príncipe |
| SV | El Salvador |
| SY | Syrian Arab Republic |
| SZ | Swaziland |
| TD | Chad |
| TG | Togo |
| TH | Thailand |
| TJ | Tajikistan |
| TL | Timor-Leste |
| TM | Turkmenistan |
| TN | Tunisia |
| TO | Tonga |
| TT | Trinidad and Tobago |
| TV | Tuvalu |
| TZ | Tanzania |
| UA | Ukraine |
| UG | Uganda |
| UY | Uruguay |
| UZ | Uzbekistan |
| VC | St Vincent and the Grenadines |
| VE | Venezuela |
| VN | Vietnam |
| VU | Vanuatu |
| WS | Samoa |
| XK | Kosovoa |
| XS | Serbia |
| YE | Yemen |
| ZA | South Africa |
| ZM | Zambia |
| ZW | Zimbabwe |
Eligible countries of the scheme referred to in Article 3 which have been temporarily withdrawn from the scheme, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries U.K.
:
alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics
:
name
| A | B |
|---|---|
| BY | Belarus” |
ANNEX IIU.K.
“ANNEX II
Beneficiary countries (5) of the general arrangement referred to in point (a) of Article 1(2) U.K.
:
alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics
:
name
| a This beneficiary country shall be removed from the list of GSP beneficiary countries one year after the date of entry into force of this Regulation. | |
| A | B |
|---|---|
| AF | Afghanistan |
| AM | Armenia |
| AO | Angola |
| BD | Bangladesh |
| BF | Burkina Faso |
| BI | Burundi |
| BJ | Benin |
| BO | Bolivia |
| BT | Bhutan |
| CD | Congo, Democratic Republic of |
| CF | Central African Republic |
| CG | Congo |
| CK | Cook Islands |
| CN | China, People's Republic ofa |
| CO | Colombia |
| CR | Costa Rica |
| CV | Cape Verde |
| DJ | Djibouti |
| EC | Ecuadora |
| ER | Eritrea |
| ET | Ethiopia |
| FM | Micronesia, Federated States of |
| GE | Georgia |
| GM | Gambia |
| GN | Guinea |
| GQ | Equatorial Guinea |
| GT | Guatemala |
| GW | Guinea-Bissau |
| HN | Honduras |
| HT | Haiti |
| ID | Indonesia |
| IN | India |
| IQ | Iraq |
| KG | Kyrgyz Republic |
| KH | Cambodia |
| KI | Kiribati |
| KM | Comoros |
| LA | Lao People’s Democratic Republic |
| LK | Sri Lanka |
| LR | Liberia |
| LS | Lesotho |
| MG | Madagascar |
| MH | Marshall Islands |
| ML | Mali |
| MM | Myanmar/Burma |
| MN | Mongolia |
| MR | Mauritania |
| MV | Maldivesa |
| MW | Malawi |
| MZ | Mozambique |
| NE | Niger |
| NG | Nigeria |
| NI | Nicaragua |
| NP | Nepal |
| NR | Nauru |
| NU | Niue |
| PA | Panama |
| PE | Peru |
| PH | Philippines |
| PK | Pakistan |
| PY | Paraguay |
| RW | Rwanda |
| SB | Solomon Islands |
| SD | Sudan |
| SL | Sierra Leone |
| SN | Senegal |
| SO | Somalia |
| SS | South Sudan |
| ST | São Tomé and Príncipe |
| SV | El Salvador |
| SY | Syrian Arab Republic |
| TD | Chad |
| TG | Togo |
| TH | Thailanda |
| TJ | Tajikistan |
| TL | Timor-Leste |
| TM | Turkmenistan |
| TO | Tonga |
| TV | Tuvalu |
| TZ | Tanzania |
| UA | Ukraine |
| UG | Uganda |
| UZ | Uzbekistan |
| VN | Vietnam |
| VU | Vanuatu |
| WS | Samoa |
| YE | Yemen |
| ZM | Zambia |
Beneficiary countries of the general arrangement referred to in point (a) of Article 1(2) which have been temporarily withdrawn from that arrangement, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries U.K.
:
alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics
:
name
| A | B” |
|---|---|
ANNEX IIIU.K.
“ANNEX IV
Beneficiary countries (6) of the special arrangement for the least-developed countries referred to in point (c) of Article 1(2) U.K.
:
alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics
:
name
| A | B |
|---|---|
| AF | Afghanistan |
| AO | Angola |
| BD | Bangladesh |
| BF | Burkina Faso |
| BI | Burundi |
| BJ | Benin |
| BT | Bhutan |
| CD | The Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
| CF | Central African (Republic) |
| DJ | Djibouti |
| ER | Eritrea |
| ET | Ethiopia |
| GM | Gambia |
| GN | Guinea |
| GQ | Equatorial Guinea |
| GW | Guinea-Bissau |
| HT | Haiti |
| KH | Cambodia |
| KI | Kiribati |
| KM | Comoros Islands (Islands) |
| LA | Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| LR | Liberia |
| LS | Lesotho |
| MG | Madagascar |
| ML | Mali |
| MM | Myanmar/Burma |
| MR | Mauritania |
| MW | Malawi |
| MZ | Mozambique |
| NE | Niger |
| NP | Nepal |
| RW | Rwanda |
| SB | The Solomon Islands |
| SD | Sudan |
| SL | Sierra Leone |
| SN | Senegal |
| SO | Somalia |
| SS | South Sudan |
| ST | Sao Tome and Principle |
| TD | Chad |
| TG | Togo |
| TL | Timor-Leste |
| TV | Tuvalu |
| TZ | Tanzania (Republic of) |
| UG | Uganda |
| VU | Vanuatu |
| WS | Samoa |
| YE | Yemen |
| ZM | Zambia |
Beneficiary countries of the general arrangement referred to in point (c) of Article 1(2) which have been temporarily withdrawn from that arrangement, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries U.K.
:
alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics
:
name
| A | B” |
|---|---|
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1127/2010 of 3 December 2010 establishing a transitional period for withdrawing the Republic of Maldives from the list of beneficiary countries of the special arrangement for least developed countries, as set out in Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 (OJ L 318, 4.12.2010, p. 15).
This list includes countries for which preferences may have been temporarily withdrawn or suspended. The Commission or the competent authorities of the country concerned will be able to provide an updated list.
This list includes countries for which preferences may have been temporarily withdrawn or suspended. The Commission or the competent authorities of the country concerned will be able to provide an updated list.
This list includes countries for which preferences may have been temporarily withdrawn or suspended. The Commission or the competent authorities of the country concerned will be able to provide an updated list.