2008/938/EC: Commission Decision of 9 December 2008 on the list of the beneficiary countries which qualify for the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance, provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 (notified under document number C(2008) 8028)
Date: 2008-12-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: developing countries, generalised preferences, governance, sustainable development

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 9 December 2008

on the list of the beneficiary countries which qualify for the special incentive arrangement for
sustainable development and good governance, provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No
732/2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009
to 31 December 2011

(notified under document number C(2008) 8028)

(2008/938/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of
22 July 2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences
for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 and
amending Regulations (EC) No 552/97,
(EC) No 1933/2006
and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1100/2006 and (EC)
No 964/2007 (1), and in particular Article 10(2) thereof,

(5)

Whereas:

In accordance with Article 10(6) of Regulation (EC) No
732/2008,
the fulfilment of criteria which are also
subject of the pending investigations with regard to Sri
Lanka (2) and El Salvador (3) initiated by the Commission
pursuant
to Article 18(2) of Council Regulation (EC)
980/2005 (4), is being examined in the course of these
investigations.

Timely publication of this Decision in the Official Journal
of the European Union should ensure that the obligation
to Article 10(3) of Regulation (EC) No
pursuant
732/2008, to publish a notice in the Official Journal of
the European Union listing the countries benefiting from
the special
incentive arrangement for sustainable devel­
opment and good governance as from 1 January 2009, is
met.

(1)

(2)

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 provides for the granting
of a special incentive arrangement for sustainable devel­
opment and good governance to developing countries
which satisfy certain requirements established under its
Articles 8 and 9.

implement

itself of the
Each developing country wishing to avail
special
incentive arrangement had to submit a request
to that effect by 31 October 2008, accompanied by
comprehensive information concerning ratification of
the relevant conventions, the legislation and measures
the
to
conventions and its commitment to accept and comply
fully with the monitoring and review mechanism
envisaged in the
and related
instruments. To be granted the request, the requesting
country also has to be considered to be a vulnerable
country as defined in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 732/2008.

conventions

provisions

effectively

relevant

the

of

The Commission has examined the requests made,
in
accordance with the provisions of Article 10(1) of Regu­
lation (EC) No 732/2008, and has established the list of
criteria.
beneficiary
Accordingly,
incentive arrangement should
be granted to those countries from 1 January 2009 to
31 December 2011.

countries which
the special

fulfil

the

(1) OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1.

(6)

The measures provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Preferences Committee,

in this Decision are in
the Generalised

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The following developing countries shall benefit
from the
special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and
good governance provided for in Regulation (EC) No 732/2008
from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011:

(AM) Armenia

(AZ) Azerbaijan

(BO)

Bolivia

(CO) Colombia

(CR)

Costa Rica

(EC)

Ecuador

(GE) Georgia

(GT) Guatemala

(HN) Honduras

(LK)

Sri Lanka

(2) OJ L 277, 18.10.2008, p. 34.
(3) OJ L 108, 18.4.2008, p. 29.
(4) OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1.

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(MN) Mongolia

(NI)

(PE)

(PY)

(SV)

(VE)

Nicaragua

Peru

Paraguay

El Salvador

Venezuela

Ecuador, the Republic of El Salvador, Georgia, the Republic of
Guatemala, the Republic of Honduras, Mongolia, the Republic
of Nicaragua, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Peru,
the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Boli­
varian Republic of Venezuela.

Done at Brussels, 9 December 2008.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to: the Republic of Armenia, the
Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Bolivia, the Republic
the Republic of
of Colombia,

the Republic of Costa Rica,

For the Commission

Catherine ASHTON
Member of the Commission