PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 802/68 ON THE COMMON DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF ORIGIN OF GOODS
Date: 1989-05-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: originating product, standardisation, technical barriers to trade

COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

C0M(89) 58 final 

Brussels, 22 May  1989 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending  Regulation  (EEC) No 802/68 on the common  definition  of the 

concept  of origin  of goods 

(presented  by the  Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE 

1.  The criteria concerning the size of origin certificates are laid down in 

Annex II of Council Regulation  (EEC) No. 802/68. 

2.  Recent  developments  show  that  the  certification  procedures  are 
increasingly computerized by using continuous stationery.  Thus it seems 
impossible to always respect  the exact size and there might be a danger 
that  certificates  so  issued  will  be  rejected  on  the  technicality  that 
their size does not conform to the legal requirements. 

3.  In order to overcome this situation it is proposed  to insert  into Annex 
II  of  Council  Regulation  (EEC) No.  802/68  a provision  allowing  for a 
certain tolerance in the length of the origin certificates. 

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Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending Regulation  (EEC) N* 802/68 on the common definition 

of the concept of origin of goods 

THE COUNCIL OF  THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES, 

Having  regard  to the  Treaty  establishing  the European Economic  Community, and 
in particular  Article 113 thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal  from the Commission, 

Whereas  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No.  802/68 , as  last amended  by  Commission 
Regulation  (EEC) No 3860/87  lays down  in its Annex  II the criteria  to be applied 
as regards certificates of origin; whereas  certificates of origin must  measure 
210 x 297mm, 

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Whereas  the  issue:  of  certificates  of  origin  is  increasingly  computerised, 
which  involves  the  use  of  continuous  stationery;  whereas  it  has  been  found 
impossible to conform  brecisely  to the prescribed  measurements; 

whereas it is necessary  to avoid obstacles  to  trade  and  to  remove  the  danger 
that a certificate of origin may be rejected on the technicality  that its size 
does not conform  to the measurements; whereas  it  is necessary  to  introduce  a 
tolerance of up to minus 5mm or plus 8mm in the length, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 

(1) 0J No. L 148,  28.06.1968, p.l 
(2) 0J  No. L 363,  23.12.1987, p. 30 

Article 1 

Point 4 of Annex  II to Regulation  (EEC) No 802/68 is hereby  replaced  by the 

following : 

"4.  The size  of  the  certificate  shall  be  210  x  297mm.  A  tolerance  of  up  to 

minus 5mm or plus 8mm in the length is to be allowed.  The paper  used  shall be 
white, free of mechanical  pulp,  dressed  for  writing  purposes  and  weigh  at 
least  4Ug/m2  or  between  25  and  30g/m2  where  air-mail  paper  is used.  It 
shall  have  a  printed  gui1loche  pattern  background  in  sepia  such  as  to 
reveal any  falsification by mechanical or chemical means". 

Article 2 

This  Regulation  shall  enter  into  force  on  the  third  day  following  that of its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 

This  Regulation  shall  be  binding  in  its  entirety  and  directly  applicable  in 
all Member States. 

Done at Brussels 

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COM(89)  58  final 

Proposal for  a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) 

amending  Regulation  (EEC) No 802/68  on the  common  definition  of  the 
concept of  origin of  goods 

(submitted to the  Council by the  Commission) 

22.5.1989 

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Proposal for  a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending  Regulation  (EEC) No 802/68  on the 
common  definition of  the  concept  of  origin of 
goods 

(submitted to the  Council  by the  Commission) 

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