Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia,the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic to the European Union
Date: 2005-05-31
Institutions: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, European Community, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Member States, Tunisia, United Kingdom
Subjects: EU Member State, Mediterranean region (EU), Tunisia, Union for the Mediterranean, accession to the European Union, association agreement (EU), protocol to an agreement

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PROTOCOL

to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Commu-
nities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part, to
take account of the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia,the Republic of
Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic
of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic to the Euro-
pean Union

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,

THE CZECH REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA,

THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

IRELAND,

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS,

THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY,

THE REPUBLIC OF MALTA,

THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,

THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND,

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVAKIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,

THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,

hereinafter referred to as ‘EC Member States’, represented by the Council of the European Union, and

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

hereinafter referred to as ‘the Community’, represented by the Council of the European Union and the Commission of
the European Communities, of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF TUNISIA, hereinafter referred to as ‘Tunisia’, of the other part,

CONSIDERING THAT the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Commu-
nities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part, hereinafter referred to as
‘the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement’, was signed in Brussels on 17 July 1995 and entered into force on 1 March 1998.

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CONSIDERING THAT the Treaty concerning the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic
of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the
Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European Union (hereinafter referred to as
the Treaty of Accession) was signed in Athens on 16 April 2003 and entered into force on 1 May 2004.

CONSIDERING THAT, pursuant to Article 6(2) of the 2003 Act of Accession, the accession of the new Contracting
Parties to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement shall be agreed by the conclusion of a Protocol to that Agreement.

CONSIDERING THAT consultations pursuant to Article 23(2) of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement have taken place in
order to ensure that account has been taken of the mutual interests of the Community and Tunisia,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of
Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the
Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of
Poland,
the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic
hereby become Contracting Parties to the Euro-Mediterranean
Agreement, and shall respectively adopt and take note, in the
same way as the other Member States of the Community, of
the texts of the Agreement, and of the Joint Declarations,
Unilateral Declarations and Exchanges of Letters.

Article 2

To take account of recent institutional developments within the
European Union, the Parties agree that, following expiry of the
Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community,
existing provisions in the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement refer-
ring to the European Coal and Steel Community shall be
deemed to refer to the European Community, which has taken
over all rights and obligations contracted by the European Coal
and Steel Community.

CHAPTER I

AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT OF THE EURO-MEDITERRA-
NEAN AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ITS PROTOCOLS

Article 3

Agricultural products

In Article 3 of Protocol No 1, paragraphs 1 and 2 shall

1.
be replaced by the following:

‘1.
Imports of untreated olive oil falling within CN codes
1509 10 10 and 1509 10 90, wholly obtained in Tunisia
and transported direct from Tunisia to the Community,
shall be allowed to enter the Community at a zero rate of
duty from 1 January 2001, up to a maximum of 50 000
tonnes. An annual quantity of 700 tonnes shall be added as
of 1 May 2004.

2.
Starting on 1 January 2002, this quantity shall be
increased annually by 1 500 tonnes over four years, with a
view to achieving an annual quantity of 56 700 tonnes
from 1 January 2005.’

In the table annexed to Protocol No 1 concerning the
2.
arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of
agricultural products originating in Tunisia, the line concerning
the concession for products falling under CN code 1509 10
shall be replaced by the following:

‘CN code

Description

Rate of reduction of MFN
customs duty (%)

Annual tariff quotas or for
the indicated period (tons
net weight)

Rate of reduction of MFN
customs duty in addition
to existing tariff quotas
( %)

Specific provisions

1509 10

Olive oil and its frac-
tions, virgin

100

50 000 + 700

—

Article 3(2)’

Article 4

DE “NACHTRÄGLICH AUSGESTELLT”

Rules of origin

ET “VÄLJA ANTUD TAGASIULATUVALT”

Protocol No 4 shall be amended as follows:

EL “ΕΚ∆ΟΘΕΝ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΥΣΤΕΡΩΝ”

1. Article 19(4) shall be replaced by the following:

‘4. Movement certificates EUR.1 issued retrospectively
must be endorsed with one of the following phrases:

ES “EXPEDIDO A POSTERIORI”

CS “VYSTAVENO DODATEČNĚ”

EN “ISSUED RETROSPECTIVELY”

FR “DÉLIVRÉ À POSTERIORI”

IT “RILASCIATO A POSTERIORI”

DA “UDSTEDT EFTERFØLGENDE”

LV “IZSNIEGTS RETROSPEKTĪVI”

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LT “RETROSPEKTYVUSIS IŠDAVIMAS”

HU “KIADVA VISSZAMENŐLEGES HATÁLLYAL”

‘4.
In the cases referred to in paragraph 3(a), one of the
following phrases shall be entered in the “Remarks” box of
the EUR.1 movement certificate:

MT “MAĦRUĠ RETROSPETTIVAMENT”

NL “AFGEGEVEN A POSTERIORI”

PL “WYSTAWIONE RETROSPEKTYWNIE”

PT “EMITIDO A POSTERIORI”

SL “IZDANO NAKNADNO”

SK “VYDANÉ DODATOČNE”

FI

“ANNETTU JÄLKIKÄTEEN”

SV “UTFÄRDAT I EFTERHAND”

AR

’

“PROCEDURA

PROCEDURE”,

“VEREINFACHTES VERFAHREN”,

“PROCEDIMIENTO SIMPLIFICADO”, “FORENKLET PROCE-
“ΑΠΛΟΥΣΤΕΥ-
DURE”,
ΜΕΝΗ ∆ΙΑ∆ΙΚΑΣΙΑ”, “SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE”, “PROCÉ-
SEMPLIFICATA”,
SIMPLIFIÉE”,
DURE
“VEREENVOUDIGDE
“PROCEDIMENTO
SIMPLIFICADO”,
“YKSINKERTAISTETTU MENETTELY”,
“FÖRENKLAT FÖRFARANDE”, “ZJEDNODUŠENÝ POSTUP-
TOLLIPROTSEDUUR”,
ČLÁNEK”,
“SUPAPRASTINTA
“VIENKĀRŠOTA
PROCEDURA”,
“PROCE-
“PROCEDURA UPROSZCZONA”,
DURA SIMPLIFIKATA”,
“POENOSTAVLJEN
“ZJEDNODUŠENÝ
POSTUP”,

“EGYSZERŰSÍTETT ELJÁRÁS”,

“LIHTSUSTATUD

PROCEDŪRA”,

POSTOPEK”,

’

2. Article 20(2) shall be replaced by the following:

Article 5

The duplicate issued in this way must be endorsed

‘2.
with one of the following words:

Presidency of the Association Committee

ES “DUPLICADO”

CS “DUPLIKÁT”

DA “DUPLIKÁT”

DE “DUPLIKAT”

ET “DUPLIKAAT”

EL “ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟ”

EN “DUPLICATE”

FR “DUPLICATA”

IT “DUPLICATO”

LV “DUBLIKĀTS”

LT “DUBLIKATAS”

HU “MÁSODLAT”

MT “DUPLIKAT”

NL “DUPLICAAT”

PL “DUPLIKAT”

PT “SEGUNDA VIA”

SL “DVOJNIK”

SK “DUPLIKÁT”

FI

“KAKSOISKAPPALE”

SV “DUPLIKAT”

AR

’

Article 82(3) shall be replaced by the following:

‘3.
The Association Committee shall be chaired in turn
by a representative of the Commission of the European
Communities and by a representative of the Government of
the Republic of Tunisia.’

CHAPTER II

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Article 6

Proofs of origin and administrative cooperation

1.
By this Protocol, proofs of origin properly issued by
either Tunisia or a new Member State under preferential agree-
ments or autonomous arrangements applied between them
shall be accepted in the respective countries, provided that:

tariff
(a) the acquisition of such origin confers preferential
treatment on the basis of either the preferential
tariff
measures contained in the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement
or in the Community scheme of generalised tariff prefer-
ences;

(b) the proof of origin and the transport documents were
issued no later than the day before the date of accession;

3. Article 22(4) shall be replaced by the following:

(c) the proof of origin is submitted to the customs authorities
within a period of four months from the date of accession.

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Where goods were declared for importation in either Tunisia or
a new Member State, prior to the date of accession, under
preferential agreements or autonomous arrangements applied
between Tunisia and that new Member State at that time, proof
of origin issued retrospectively under those agreements or
arrangements may also be accepted provided that
is
submitted to the customs authorities within a period of four
months from the date of accession.

it

2.
Tunisia and the new Member States are entitled to retain
the authorisations granting the status of ‘approved exporters’
under preferential agreements or autonomous arrangements
applied between them, provided that:

(a) such a provision is also included in the Agreement
concluded between Tunisia and the Community concluded
prior to the date of accession;

(b) the approved exporter applies the rules of origin in force

under that Agreement.

These authorisations shall be replaced, no later than one year
after the date of accession, by new authorisations issued under
the conditions of the Agreement.

Requests for subsequent verification of proof of origin
3.
the preferential agreements or autonomous
issued under
arrangements referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be
accepted by the competent customs authorities of either
Tunisia or the new Member States for a period of three years
after the issue of the proof of origin concerned and may be
made by those authorities for a period of three years after
acceptance of the proof of origin submitted to those authorities
in support of an import declaration.

Article 7

Goods in transit

The provisions of

1.
the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement
may be applied to goods exported from either Tunisia to one
of the new Member States or from one of the new Member
States to Tunisia, which comply with the provisions of Protocol
No 4 and which on the date of accession are either en route or
in temporary storage, in a customs warehouse or in a free zone
in Tunisia or in that new Member State.

Preferential

2.
treatment may be granted in such cases,
subject to the submission to the customs authorities of the
importing country, within four months from the date of acces-
sion, of a proof of origin issued retrospectively by the customs
authorities of the exporting country.

CHAPTER III

GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 8

sion pursuant to GATT Articles XXIV(6) and XXVIII in relation
to the enlargement of the Community.

Article 9

For 2004, the increase in the volume of the existing tariff
quota for imports of untreated olive oil shall be calculated as a
pro rata of the basic volumes, taking into account the part of
the period elapsed before the date referred to in Article 12(2).

Article 10

This Protocol shall form an integral part of the Euro-Mediterra-
nean Agreement. The Annexes to this Protocol shall form an
integral part thereof.

Article 11

1.
This Protocol shall be approved by the Community, by
the Council of the European Union, on behalf of the Member
States, and by Tunisia in accordance with their own proce-
dures.

2.
The Parties shall notify each other of the accomplishment
of the corresponding procedures referred to in paragraph 1.
The instruments of approval shall be deposited with the
General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.

Article 12

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the
1.
first month following the date of deposit of the last instrument
of approval.

This Protocol shall apply provisionally as from 1 May

2.
2004.

Article 13

This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the following
languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Maltese,
Spanish,
Swedish and Arabic; the texts in each language being equally
authentic.

Portuguese,

Slovenian,

Slovak,

Polish,

Article 14

The text of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement, including the
Annexes and Protocols forming an integral part thereof, and
the Final Act together with the declarations annexed thereto,
shall be drawn up in the Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Hungarian, Maltese, Polish, Slovak and Slovenian languages and
these texts shall be authentic in the same way as the original
texts (1).

The Association Council shall approve these texts.

By this Protocol, Tunisia undertakes not to submit any claim,
request or referral and not to modify or withdraw any conces-

(1) OJ L 97 of 30.3.1998, p. 2.

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Hecho en Luxemburgo, el treinta y uno de mayo del dos mil cinco.

V Lucemburku dne třicátého prvního května dva tisíce pět.

Udfærdiget i Luxembourg den enogtredivte maj to tusind og fem.

Geschehen zu Luxemburg am einunddreißigsten Mai zweitausendfünf.

Kahe tuhande viienda aasta maikuu kolmekümne esimesel päeval Luxembourgis.
'Εγινε στo Λουξεµβούργο, στις τριανταµία Μαΐου δύο χιλιάδες πέντε.

Done at Luxembourg on the thirty–first day of May in the year two thousand and five.

Fait à Luxembourg, le trente–et–un mai deux mille cinq.

Fatto a Lussembourgo, addi' trentuno maggio duemilacinque.

Luksemburgā, divtūkstoš piektā gada trīsdesmit pirmajā maijā.

Priimta du tūkstančiai penktų metų gegužės trisdešimt pirmą dieną Liuksemburge.

Kelt Luxembourgban, a kettőezer ötödik év május harmincegyedik napján.
Magħmul fil-Lussemburgu, fil-wieħed u tletin jum ta' Mejju tas-sena elfejn u ħamsa.

Gedaan te Luxemburg, de eenendertigste mei tweeduizend vijf.

Sporządzono w Luksemburgu dnia trzydziestego pierwszego maja roku dwutysięcznego piątego.

Feito em Luxemburgo, em trinta e um de Maio de dois mil e cinco.

V Luxembourgu, enaintridesetega maja leta dva tisoč pet.

V Luxemburgu dňa tridsiateho prvého mája dvetisícpäť.

Tehty Luxemburgissa kolmantenakymmenentenäensimmäisenä päivänä toukokuuta vuonna kaksituhatta-
viisi.

Som skedde i Luxemburg den trettioförsta maj tjugohundrafem.

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Por los Estados miembros
Za členské státy
For medlemsstaterne
Für die Mitgliedstaaten
Liikmesriikide nimel
Για τα κράτη µέλη
For the Member States
Pour les États membres
Per gli Stati membri
Dalîbvalstu vārdā
Valstybių narių vardu
A tagállarnok réseéröl
Għall-Istati Membri
Voor de lidstaten
W imieniu Państw Członkowskich
Pelos Estados-Membros
Za členské štáty
Za države članice
Jäsenvaltioiden puolesta
Pä medlemsstaternas vägnar

Por la Comunidad Europea
Za Evropské společenství
For Det Europæiske Fællesskab
Für die Europäische Gemeinschaft
Euroopa Ühenduse nimel
Για την Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα
For the European Community
Pour la Communauté européenne
Per la Comunità europea
Eiropas Kopienas värdā
Europos bendrijos värdā
az Európai Közösség részéről
Għall-Komunità Ewropea
Voor de Europese Gemeenschap
W imieniu Wspólnoty Europejskiej
Pela Comunidade Europeia
Za Európske spoločenstvo
Za Ecropsko skupnost
Euroopan yhteisön puolesta
På Europeiska gemenskapens vägnar

Por la República de Túnez
Za Tuniskou republiku
For Den Tunesiske Republik
Für die Tunesische Republik
Tuneesia Vabariigi nimel
Για τη ∆ηµοκρατία της Τυνησίας
For the Republic of Tunisia
Pour la République Tunisienne
Per la Repubblica Tunisina
Tunisijas Republikas värdā
Tuniso Respublikos vardu
A Tunéz Köztársaság részéről
Għar-Repubblika tat-Tuniżija
Voor de Republiek Tunesië
W imieniu Republiki Tunezyjskiej
Pela República da Tunísia
Za Tuniskú republiku
Za Republiko Tunizijo
Tunisian tasavallan puolesta
For Republiken Tunisien