Decision No 1/2000 of the EC-Turkey Customs Cooperation Committee

of 25 July 2000

on the acceptance, as proof of Community or Turkish origin, of movement certificates EUR.1 or invoice declarations issued by certain countries that have signed a preferential agreement with the Community or Turkey

(2000/526/EC)

THE CUSTOMS COOPERATION COMMITTEE,

Having regard to the Agreement of 12 September 1963 establishing an association between the EEC and Turkey,

Having regard to Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of 22 December 1995 on implementing the final phase of the Customs Union(1), and in particular Articles 16 and 28 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Decision No 1/96 of the EC-Turkey Customs Cooperation Committee of 20 May 1996, laying down detailed rules for the application of Decision No 1/95(2) provides that proof that the necessary conditions for implementation of the provisions on free circulation of industrial products between the Community and Turkey have been met is to be provided by a movement certificate A.TR.

(2) The Community and Turkey have signed preferential agreements with the following European countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.

(3) Under those agreements, preferential origin is proven by movement certificates EUR.1 or invoice declarations.

(4) Where products of Community or Turkish origin, within the meaning of the aforementioned agreements, are first exported from the Community or Turkey to one of the countries referred to above and, without being processed or having undergone only minimal operations, are then sent to Turkey or the Community respectively, the above countries must issue the products in question with a movement certificate EUR.1 or invoice declaration stating that they are of Community or Turkish origin, as appropriate.

(5) Under those circumstances, neither the Community nor Turkey can grant the other the preferential tariff treatment provided for by Decision No 1/95,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

1. Products covered by Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council that originate in the Community, within the meaning of the agreements which the latter has signed with Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland, shall receive the preferential tariff treatment provided for in the above Decision in Turkey if they are accompanied by a movement certificate EUR.1 or an invoice declaration issued in one of the above countries stating that they are of Community origin.

2. Products covered by Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council that originate in Turkey, within the meaning of the agreements which the latter has signed with Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland, shall receive the preferential tariff treatment provided for in the above Decision in the Community if they are accompanied by a movement certificate EUR.1 or an invoice declaration issued in one of the above countries stating that they are of Turkish origin.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.

Done at Ankara, 25 July 2000.

For the Customs Cooperation Committee

The President

O. Onal

(1) OJ L 35, 13.2.1996, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 200, 9.8.1996, p. 14.