G/RO/N/179  
 
22 January 2019  
(19-0356) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Rules of Origin  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION UNDER A RTICLE  5 AND PARAGRA PH 4 OF 
ANNEX  II TO THE AGRE EMENT ON RULES OF OR IGIN  
NON-PREFERENTIAL AND  PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1.  According to Article  5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin, each Member shall provide to 
the Secretariat,  within 90  days after the date of entry 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 or igin has not been provided, the 
Member concerned shall provide it immediately after this fact becomes known. Article  5.2 of  the 
Agreement provides, moreover, 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, 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 ac quainted with 
the intention to modify a rule of origin or to introduce a new rule of  origin, unless exceptional 
circumstances arise or threaten to arise for a Member.  
2.  Furthermore, paragraph  4 of Annex  II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages th at 
Members shall promptly provide to the Secretariat their existing or new preferential rules of origin, 
including a listing of the preferential arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and 
administrative rulings of general application relatin g to their preferential rules of origin. In this 
respect, the Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that notifications made to the Committee 
on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) or the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could 
also suffice to dis charge Members' notification obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin 
(G/RO/M/59). As a result, the Committee agreed that notifications which had been initially received 
by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated by the Secretariat to the C RO. Information 
regarding such notifications, including related to preferential rules of origin, can also be obtained 
through the WTO  database on regional trade agreements ( http://rtais.wto.org ) or the WTO  database 
on preferential trade agreements ( http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
3.  With reference to these rules, the following notification has been received:  
RUSSIAN FEDERATION  
With reference to the Agreement on Rules of Origin Article 5 and  paragraph 4 of Annex II to the 
same agreement, we hereby inform about adopted amendments regarding non -preferential rules of 
origin and preferential rules of origin  in the Eurasian Economic Union's Common System of Tariff 
Preferences  as well as  preferenti al rules of origin concerning free trade agreements  in force in the 
Eurasian Economic Union.  
A. NON-PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
Non-preferential rules of origin have been adopted by the Decision No. 49  of the Council  of the 
Eurasian Economic Commission  "Rules of origin of goods imported into the customs territory of the 
Eurasian Economic Union ( non-preferential rules of origin) " dated 13 July 2018. The Decision  entered  
into force on 12 January 2019.  
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  B. PREFERENTIAL RULES O F ORIGIN  
1.  Preferential rules of origin in the GSP system  
Preferential rules of origin in the Eurasian Economic Union's Common System of Tariff 
Preferences  have been adopted by the Decision No. 60 of the Council  of the Eurasian Economic 
Commission  "Rules of origin for developing and le ast developed countries " dated 
14 June 2018. The Decision entered  into force on 16 January 2019.  
The legislative texts of n on-preferential rules of origin and p referential rules of origin in the 
Eurasian Economic Union's Common System of Tariff Preferences  can be found by the 
following link :   
http://www.eurasiancommission.org/en/act/trade/dotp/prav_proish/Pages/default.aspx  
2.  Preferential rules of origin in  free trade agreements  
Preferential rules of origin are established in the Free Trade Agreement between the Eurasian 
Economic Union and Its Member States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.  
The text of the Agreement can be found in the following intern et link :  
https://docs.eaeunion.org/docs/en -us/0147849/iatc_02062015 . 
 
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