Notice published pursuant to Article 12(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 of 10 December 2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004
Date: 2002-09-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: drug addiction, environmental protection, generalised preferences, labour law, originating product, third country

25.9.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

C 228/11

Notice published pursuant to Article 12(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 of 10
December 2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from
1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004 (1)

(2002/C 228/04)

Article 12 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 stipulates that the tariff preferences provided for by
this Regulation shall be removed in respect of products originating in a beneficiary country, of a sector
which has met certain criteria during three consecutive years.

These criteria are laid down in Article 12(1):

(a) — the country's development index, as defined in Annex II, is higher than – 2, and

— Community imports from that country of all products of the sector concerned and included in the
arrangements enjoyed by that country exceed 25 % of Community imports of the same products
from all countries and territories listed in Annex I;

(b) — the country's development index, as defined in Annex II, is higher than – 2, and

— the specialisation index of the sector concerned is higher than the threshold corresponding to that

country's development index, as defined in Annex II, and

— Community imports from that country of all products of the sector concerned and included in the
arrangements enjoyed by that country exceed 2 % of Community imports of the same products
from all countries and territories listed in Annex I.

According to Article 12(4), the notice shall list the sectors which meet the criteria set out in paragraph 1
in respect of the most recent year for which data are available.

The most recent year for which data are available is 1999. According to the data provided by the statistical
sources referred to in Annex II of the Regulation, the following sectors (2) met the above criteria in 1999:

Criteria of Article 12(1)(a)

Code

Beneficiary country

Sector

Argentina

Brazil

I

XI

People's Republic of China

III, IV, VIII, IX, XIV, XVI, XVIII, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXIV,
XXV, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXXII, XXXIII

Indonesia

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Kazakhstan

Philippines

Russian Federation

Thailand

X, XIX

IX

XXX

VII

XIII, XV

XXV

AR

BR

CN

ID

IR

KZ

PH

RU

TH

(1) OJ L 346, 31.12.2001, p. 1.
(2) Trade statistics are updated regularly. Therefore the information provided in this notice is provisional and may

undergo changes at a later stage.

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Criteria of Article 12(1)(b)

Code

Beneficiary country

Sector

AR

BR

BY

CL

CO

CR

CY

GT

ID

IN

LK

MA

MO

MU

MX

MY

PH

PK

TH

TN

VE

UY

Argentina

Brazil

Belarus

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cyprus

Guatemala

Indonesia

India

Sri Lanka

Morocco

Macao

Mauritius

Mexico

Malaysia

Philippines

Pakistan

Thailand

Tunisia

Venezuela

Uruguay

II, V, X, XVII, XXVI

I, VI, XII, XVII, XIX, XX, XXVI

XV

V

V

V

V

V

XXIII

XVIII, XXI

XXII

II, V, XV, XXII

XXII

XXII

XI, XIV, XXIV, XXVI, XXXI

X, XVI, XIX, XXIX

X

XVII, XVIII, XXI, XXII

II, XI, XVI, XXI, XXIII, XXIV, XXIX

XV, XXII

XXVI

I, XVII