Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 154/2013 of 18 December 2012 amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences
Date: 2012-12-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Azerbaijan, Iran, generalised preferences, industrialised country, tariff preference








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            COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 154/2013
of 18 December 2012
         
amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and in particular Article 207 thereof,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 (1), and in particular Article 5(3) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 (GSP Regulation) establishes criteria for the granting of tariff preferences under the general arrangement of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP). Accordingly, a country that has been classified by the World Bank as a high or an upper-middle income country for three consecutive years should not benefit from such preferences.












(2)


The list of beneficiary countries of the general arrangement of the GSP is established in Annex II to the GSP Regulation.












(3)


The Commission has been empowered to adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 290 TFEU to review Annex II by 1 January of each year following the entry into force of the GSP Regulation as provided in its Article 5(2).












(4)


The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been classified by the World Bank as upper-middle income countries in 2010, 2011 and 2012.












(5)


The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Iran should be removed from the list of the beneficiary countries of a general arrangement of the GSP and Annex II to the GSP Regulation should be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply as from one year after the date of entry into force of this Regulation.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 18 December 2012.


For the Commission


The President

José Manuel BARROSO
            





(1)  
            OJ L 303, 31.10.2012, p. 1.




ANNEX




                     ‘ANNEX II

Beneficiary countries
                            (1)
of the general arrangement referred to in point (a) of Article 1(2)








Column A


:


alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics




Column B


:


name










A


B




AF


Afghanistan




AM


Armenia




AO


Angola




BD


Bangladesh




BF


Burkina Faso




BI


Burundi




BJ


Benin




BO


Bolivia




BT


Bhutan




CD


Congo, Democratic Republic of




CF


Central African Republic




CG


Congo




CK


Cook Islands




CN


China, People’s Republic of




CO


Colombia




CR


Costa Rica




CV


Cape Verde




DJ


Djibouti




EC


Ecuador




ER


Eritrea




ET


Ethiopia




FM


Micronesia, Federated States of




GE


Georgia




GM


Gambia




GN


Guinea




GQ


Equatorial Guinea




GT


Guatemala




GW


Guinea-Bissau




HN


Honduras




HT


Haiti




ID


Indonesia




IN


India




IQ


Iraq




KG


Kyrgyz Republic




KH


Cambodia




KI


Kiribati




KM


Comoros




LA


Lao People’s Democratic Republic




LK


Sri Lanka




LR


Liberia




LS


Lesotho




MG


Madagascar




MH


Marshall Islands




ML


Mali




MM


Burma/Myanmar




MN


Mongolia




MR


Mauritania




MV


Maldives




MW


Malawi




MZ


Mozambique




NE


Niger




NG


Nigeria




NI


Nicaragua




NP


Nepal




NR


Nauru




NU


Niue




PA


Panama




PE


Peru




PH


Philippines




PK


Pakistan




PY


Paraguay




RW


Rwanda




SB


Solomon Islands




SD


Sudan




SL


Sierra Leone




SN


Senegal




SO


Somalia




ST


São Tomé and Príncipe




SV


El Salvador




SY


Syrian Arab Republic




TD


Chad




TG


Togo




TH


Thailand




TJ


Tajikistan




TL


Timor-Leste




TM


Turkmenistan




TO


Tonga




TV


Tuvalu




TZ


Tanzania




UA


Ukraine




UG


Uganda




UZ


Uzbekistan




VN


Vietnam




VU


Vanuatu




WS


Samoa




YE


Yemen




ZM


Zambia





Beneficiary countries of the general arrangement referred to in point (a) of Article 1(2) which have been temporarily withdrawn from that arrangement, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries








Column A


:


alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the Union external trade statistics




Column B


:


name










A


B




MM


Burma/Myanmar’









(1)  This list includes countries for which preferences may have been temporarily withdrawn or suspended. The Commission or the competent authorities of the country concerned will be able to provide an updated list.