./.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/RO/N/47 
6 July 2005 
 
 (05-2983) 
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 
 ALBANIA (Notification in English)  
 Non-preferential rules of  origin are contained in: 
  –  Articles 29-32 of the Customs Code (L aw No. 8449, dated 27 January 1999, published in 
Official Journal of the Republic of Albania on 4 January 2001, and amended by law No. 8473 (1999), law No. 8719 (2000), and law No. 8999 (2003)) 
 – Articles 47-53 of the Implementing Provisions of the Customs Code 
 – Decision of the Council of Ministers, No. 435 dated 9 September 1999  – Guideline of the Albanian General Direct orate of Customs, No.8 dated 2 November 1999 
 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, including 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 
                                                      
1 The notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division). G/RO/N/47 
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 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.  
2. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have 
been received as follows
2: 
 ALBANIA (Notification in English) 
 
 Protocol of the free trade agreements that Albania has signed with countries in the region 
"Protocol concerning the definition of the con cept of originating products and methods of 
administrative co-operation"   
 Albania has Free Trade Agreements with (i) Macedonia, (ii) Croatia, (iii) Bulgaria,  
(iv) UNMNIK/Kosovo, (v) Romania, (vi) Serbia a nd Montenegro, (vii) Moldova and (viii) Bosnia 
and Herzegovina.     These agreements are ratified by respective laws as following:  
 (i) Law No. 8892, dated 14 May 2002;  (ii) Law No. 8973, dated 21 November 2002;  (iii) 
Law No. 9077, dated 09 June 2003;  (iv) Law No. 9122, dated 29 July 2003;  (v) Law No. 
9050, dated 17 April 2003;  (vi) Law No. 9195,  dated 26 February 2004;  (vii) Law No. 9196, 
dated 26 February 2004;  (viii) Law No. 910 1, dated 10 July 2003 and are published in 
Official Journal of the Republic of Albani a No. 24/2002 with Macedonia, No. 85/2002 with 
Croatia, No. 34/2003 with Romania, No. 55/2003 with Bulgaria, No. 68/2003 with Bosnia & 
Herzegovina, No. 73/2003 with UNMNIK/Kosovo, No. 17/2004 with Serbia & Montenegro 
and No. 19/2004 with Moldova. 
  Rules of origin attached to each agreement are identical and ar e based on the principles of the 
Pan-European System of Rules of Origin. 
 
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2 The notifications are available for consultati on in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).