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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
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CHAPTER II GENERAL ARRANGEMENT
Article 4.(1) An eligible country shall benefit from the tariff preferences...
Article 5.(1) A list of GSP beneficiary countries meeting the criteria...
Article 6.(1) The products included in the general arrangement referred to...
Article 7.(1) Common Customs Tariff duties on products listed in Annex...
Article 8.(1) The tariff preferences referred to in Article 7 shall...
CHAPTER III SPECIAL INCENTIVE ARRANGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
Article 9.(1) A GSP beneficiary country may benefit from the tariff...
Article 10.(1) The special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good...
Article 11.(1) The products included in the special incentive arrangement for...
Article 12.(1) The Common Customs Tariff ad valorem duties on all...
Article 14.(1) By 1 January 2016, and every two years thereafter,...
Article 15.(1) The special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good...
Article 16.Where the Commission finds that the reasons justifying a temporary...
CHAPTER IV SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT FOR THE LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
CHAPTER V TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL PROVISIONS COMMON TO ALL ARRANGEMENTS
CHAPTER VI SAFEGUARD AND SURVEILLANCE PROVISIONS
Article 22.(1) Where a product originating in a beneficiary country of...
Article 23.Serious difficulties shall be considered to exist where Union producers...
Article 24.(1) The Commission shall investigate whether the normal Common Customs...
Article 25.On duly justified grounds of urgency relating to deterioration of...
Article 26.Where the facts as finally established show that the conditions...
Article 27.Where the facts as finally established show that the conditions...
Article 28.Common Customs Tariff duties shall be reintroduced as long as...
SECTION II Safeguards in the Textile, Agriculture and Fisheries Sectors
SECTION III Surveillance in the Agricultural and Fisheries Sectors
Article 33.(1) To benefit from the tariff preferences, the products for...
Article 35.(1) The statistical source to be used for the purpose...
Article 36.(1) The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on...
Article 37.(1) Delegated acts adopted under this Article shall enter into...
Article 38.(1) Information received pursuant to this Regulation shall be used...
Article 39.(1) The Commission shall be assisted by the Generalised Preferences...
Article 40.By 1 January 2016 and every two years thereafter, the...
Article 41.Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 is repealed with effect from 1...
List of products included in the general arrangement referred to in Article 1(2)(a)
Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature...
The column ‘ Section ’ lists GSP sections (Article 2(h))....
The column ‘ Sensitive/non-sensitive ’ refers to the products included...
For reasons of simplification, the products are listed in groups. These...
Section Chapter CN code Description Sensitive/non-sensitive S-1a 01 0101 29...
Modalities for the application of Chapter III of this Regulation
Conventions referred to in Article 9
PART A Core human and labour rights UN/ILO Conventions
1. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of...
2. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial...
3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
4. International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
5. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against...
6. Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment...
8. Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, No 29 (1930)
9. Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right...
10. Convention concerning the Application of the Principles of the Right...
11. Convention concerning Equal Remuneration of Men and Women Workers for...
12. Convention concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour, No 105 (1957)...
13. Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation, No...
14. Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, No 138...
15. Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination...
PART B Conventions related to the environment and to governance principles
16. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna...
17. Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987)...
18. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous...
20. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992)
22. Stockholm Convention on persistent Organic Pollutants (2001)
23. Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
24. United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961)
25. United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971)
26. United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and...
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