. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/RO/N/48 
8 November 2006 
 (06-5365) 
Committee on Rules of Origin  
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 5 AND PARAGRAPH 4 OF 
ANNEX II TO THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN  
 
 
A. N
ON-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 afte r the date of entry in to force of the WTO Agreement for it, its rules 
of origin, judicial decisions and admi nistrative rulings of general applica tion relating to rules of origin in 
effect on that date.  If by inadvertence a rule of origin has not been provide d, the Member concerned 
shall provide it immediately after this fact becomes k nown.  Lists of informatio n received and available 
within the Secretariat shall be circulated 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 mo dified or new rule in such a manner as to enable 
interested parties to become acquainted with the intention to m odify a rule of origin or to introduce a 
new rule of origin, unless exceptional circumstances arise or threaten to arise for a Member.  In these exceptional cases, the Member shall publish th e 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 
 SAUDI ARABIA (Notification in English) 
 
 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not have any non-preferential rules of origin  B. 
PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN   
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II of the Agreement on  Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall 
provide to the Secretariat promptly their preferential rules of origin, in cluding a listing of the preferential 
arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisi ons, and administrative rulings of general application 
relating to their preferential rule s 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 Secretariat shall be circulated to Members by the 
Secretariat.  
                                                     
 
1 The notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division). G/RO/N/48 
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  2. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have 
been received as follows
2: 
 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (Notification in French) 
 
 The Government of the Democratic Republic of  the Congo applies the rules of origin in the 
framework of the COMESA and the SADC regional agreements. 
  
 
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2 The notifications are available for consultati on in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).