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ORGANIZATIONG/RO/N/27
24 February 2000
(00-0695)
Committee on Rules of Origin
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 5 AND PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II OF
THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN
A. NON-PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN
1. Article 5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin  envisages that each Member shall provide to
the Secretariat, within 90 days after the date entry in to force of the WTO Ag reement for it, its rules of
origin, judicial decisions and administrative rulings of  general application relating to rules of origin in
effect on that date.  If by inadvertence a rule of origin has not been provided, the Member concerned
shall provide it immediately after this fact becomes known.  Lists of information received and available
within the Secretariat shall be circulat ed to the Members by the Secretariat.
2. Article 5.2 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin provides that during the period referred to in
Article 2, Members introducing modifications, other than  de minimis  modifications, to their rules of
origin or introducing new rules of origin, which, for the purpose of the Article, shall include any rule of
origin referred to in paragraph 1 and not provided to  the Secretariat, shall publish a notice to that effect
at least 60 days before the entry into force of the modified or new rule in such a manner as to enable
interested parties to become acquain ted with the intention to modify a rule of origin or to introduce a
new rule of origin, unless exceptional circumstances ar ise or threaten to arise for a Member.  In these
exceptional cases, the Member shall publish the modified or new rule as soon as possible.
3. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have
been received as follows:1
BULGARIA
(Notification in English)
Articles 29-32 of the Customs Act (published in State Gazette No. 15 of 6 February 1998) and
Articles 39-47 of the Implementing Regulation of th e Customs Act (published in State Gazette No. 149
of 17 December 1998), laying down the provisions on the rules of origin of goods.
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN
1. Paragraph 4 on Annex II of the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall
provide to the Secretariat promptly their preferential rules of origin, including a listing of the preferential
arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and administrative rulings of general application
relating to their preferential rules of origin in  effect on the date of entry into force of the
WTO Agreement for the Member concerned.  Members shall provide any modifications to their
preferential rules of origin or new preferential rules of  origin as soon as possible to the Secretariat.  Lists
of information received and available within the Se cretariat shall be circulated to Members by the
Secretariat.
                                                     
     1The notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).G/RO/N/27
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2. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have
been received as follows:2
BULGARIA
(Notification in English)
Article 33.1 of the Customs Act and Article 48 of  the Implementing Regulation of the Customs
Act.  The texts of the rules are contained in:
- amended Protocol 4 concerning  the definition of the concept of originating products and
methods of administrative cooperation to th e Europe Agreement between the European
Communities and their Member States, of the one  part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the
other part;
- amended Protocol B con cerning the definition of the concept of originating products and
methods of administrative cooperation to the Agreement between the EFTA States and the
Republic of Bulgaria;
- amended Protocol 7 concerning  the definition of the concept of originating products and
methods of administrative cooperation to th e Central European Free Trade Agreement;
- amended Protocol B con cerning the definition of the concept of originating products and
methods of administrative cooperation to the Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of
Bulgaria and Turkey;  and
- Protocol B concerning the definition of the concept of originating products and methods of
administrative cooperation to the Agreement on Free Trade between the Republic of Bulgaria
and the Republic of Macedonia.
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     2The notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).