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ORGANIZATIONG/RO/N/29
21 July 2000
(00-3021)
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 of entr y into force of the WTO Agreement 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 th e purpose of this 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
SLOVENIA
 (Notification in English)
- Amendments to the Customs Act2 (official consolidated vers ion) – Articles 4, 11a to 14b3
(Official Gazette of the Republic of  Slovenia, No. 1/ 95, 28/95 and 32/99).
- Decree on the Implementation of the Customs Act4 (Official Gazette of the Republic of
Slovenia, No. 46/99):
-  Chapter 3:  Origin of Goods, Articles 13 to 29
-  Annexes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 75
                                                     
  1The notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).
2 Slovenia's notification of the Customs Act is contained in document G/RO/N/7.
3 The official consolidated versio n of the Customs Act contains the provisions of the Customs Act in
force (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 1/95 and 28/95) and the provisions of the Act amendingthe Customs Act (Official Gazette of the RS, No. 32/99).
4 From the date of the enforcement of this decree, Decree on the criteria for determining the method of
proving the origin of goods (Official Gaze tte of the RS, No. 56/95) ceases to apply.
5 Annexes 3 and 7 are only in Slovene language.  English translation will be submitted subsequently.G/RO/N/29
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B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II of the Agreement on Ru les 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 applicationrelating to their preferential rules of origin in effect on the date of entry into force of the WTO
Agreement for the Member concerned.  Members sha ll 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 Secr etariat shall be circulated to Members by the
Secretariat.
2. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have
been received as follows
1:
SLOVENIA
(Notification in English)
- Amendments to the Customs Act2 (official consolidated version) – Articles 4, 11a to 14b3
- Decree on the Implementation of the Customs Act4:
-  Chapter 3:  Origin of Goods, Articles 30 to 35
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1 The notifications are available for consultatio n in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).
2 Slovenia's notification of the Customs Act is contained in document G/RO/N/7.
3 The official consolidated version of the Customs Act contains the provisions of the Customs Act in
force (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 1/95 and 28/95) and the provisions of the Act amendingthe Customs Act (Official Gazette of the RS, No. 32/99).
4 From the date of the enforcement of this Decree on the criteria for determining the method of
approving the origin of goods (Official Gazette of the RS, No. 56/95) cease to apply.