Council Regulation (EC) No 814/2003 of 8 May 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004
Date: 2003-05-08
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: developing countries, drug addiction, environmental protection, generalised preferences, labour law, originating product, third country

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 814/2003

of 8 May 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for
the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

2. Paragraph 6 of Article 12 shall be replaced by the following:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Since its entry into force on 1 January 2002, Regulation
(EC) No 2501/2001 (1) has been found to require certain
amendments.

In particular, a specific provision should be introduced
in order to allow any beneficiary country which would
face a grave economic and financial crisis
to be
exempted from the graduation of new sectors. Further-
more, since the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 2501/
2001 referring to sectors cannot apply to products to
which no specific sector has been assigned, Annex III to
the said Regulation should be amended so as to specify a
sector for every product covered by any of the different
arrangements.

It proved impossible to adopt the first decision envisaged
the abovementioned Regulation
in Article 12(5) of
it is therefore appropriate to
before 1 January 2003;
provide that the removal of tariff preferences should
apply, in two stages, from 1 November 2003 and 1 May
2004.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) 2501/2001 is hereby amended as follows:

The first decision taken in accordance with paragraph

‘6.
5 shall apply as follows:

— it shall apply with respect to the removal of tariff prefer-
ences by 50 % as from 1 November 2003 and by 100 %
as from 1 May 2004, in accordance with the procedure
laid down in paragraph 1; and

— it shall apply as from 1 January 2003 with respect to
the re-establishment of tariff preferences, in accordance
with the procedure laid down in paragraph 2.

Subsequently, decisions taken in accordance with paragraph
5 shall enter into force on 1 January of the second year
following the one during which they were taken.’;

3. The following paragraph shall be added to Article 12:

‘8. Where a beneficiary country records a decrease of at
least 3 % of its real Gross Domestic Product, expressed in its
national currency and in respect of the most recent 12-
month period for which data are available, paragraph 1 shall
not apply to the decisions taken in accordance with para-
graph 5.’;

4. In Annex I, the explanatory part at the beginning shall be

amended as follows:

In the reference to ‘Column D’, the parenthesis ‘(Article
7(8))’ shall be replaced by ‘(Article 7(8) and Article 10(3))’;

5. In Annex II, the text under Point 4 (‘Statistical sources’) shall

be replaced by the following:

‘The statistical source for per capita income is the World
for quarterly gross
Bank's World Development Report,
domestic product the IMF International Financial Statistics,
for manufactured exports the UN Comtrade statistics, and
for Community imports the Comext statistics.’;

6. In Annex III a further sector, as set out in the Annex to this

1. The following paragraph shall be added to Article 10:

Regulation, shall be added.

‘3.
The tariff preferences referred to in paragraphs 1 and
2 shall not apply to products of sectors in respect of which
those tariff preferences have been removed, for the country
of origin concerned, in accordance with column D of Annex
I or a decision taken subsequently in accordance with
Article 12.’;

Article 2

(1) OJ L 346, 31.12.2001, p. 1.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 May 2003.

For the Council

The President

M. CHRISOCHOÏDIS

ANNEX

(Sector to be added to Annex III as referred to in Article 1, point 6)

‘XXXIV

Other base metals and articles of base
metal

7207 19 19;
7207 20 59;
7210 11 90;
7210 41 90;
7210 69 90;
7211 23 91;
7211 90 19;
7212 20 19;
7212 40 95;
7212 50 75;
7212 50 99;

7207 19 39;
7207 20 79;
7210 12 90;
7210 49 90;
7210 70 90;
7211 23 99;
7211 90 90;
7212 20 90;
7212 40 98;
7212 50 91;
7212 60 19;

7202 19; 7202 29; 7202 30 00; 7202 92 00; 7207 11 90;
7207 19 90;
7207 12 90;
7208 90 90;
7207 20 19;
7210 20 90;
7209 90 90;
7210 50 90;
7210 30 90;
7210 90 10;
7210 61 90;
7211 29 50;
7210 90 90;
7212 10 93;
7211 29 90;
7212 30 19;
7212 10 99;
7212 50 10;
7212 30 90;
7212 50 93;
7212 50 58;
7212 50 97;
7212 60 93;
7212 60 99; 7215 10 00; 7215 50; 7215 90 90; 7216 61;
7218 91 90;
7216 69 00;
7219 90 90;
7218 99 19;
7220 20 59;
7220 20 31;
7220 90 39;
7220 20 91;
7222 30 91;
7220 90 90;
7222 40 99;
7222 30 98;
7225 20 90;
7224 90 19;
7226 11 90;
7225 91 90;
7226 93 80;
7226 19 90;
7228 10 90;
7226 94 80;
7228 20 60; 7228 40; 7228 50; 7228 60 81; 7228 60 89;
7228 70 91; 7228 70 99; 7229; 7301 20 00; 7302 10 10;
7302 40 90; 7302 90 30; 7302 90 90.’

7216 99 90;
7218 99 99;
7220 20 51;
7220 90 19;
7222 30 51;
7222 40 93;
7224 90 99;
7225 99 90;
7226 92 90;
7228 10 50;

7216 91;
7218 99 91;
7220 20 39;
7220 20 99;
7222 20;
7222 40 91;
7224 90 91;
7225 92 90;
7226 20 80;
7226 99 80;