C 166/8
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
20.4.2022
Notice to importers Imports of textile products from Bangladesh into the Community (2022/C 166/06) By a notice to importers published in the Official Journal C 41 of 15 February 2008, p. 8, the Commission advised European Union operators declaring origin / presenting documentary evidence of origin in order to benefit from preferential treatment for textile products of HS chapters 61 and 62 imported from Bangladesh to take all necessary precautions, as there was reasonable doubt as to the origin of those products for which the benefit of the EU Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) preferential origin was claimed.
The release of those products for free circulation could thus give rise to a customs debt, and lead to fraud against the European Union’s financial interests.
Based on the information available, the reasonable doubts mentioned above are no longer supported by any evidence that would show that the underlying risks continue to persist.
In addition, since 1 January 2021, all exporters from the GSP beneficiary countries exporting under GSP have been applying the REX self-certification system (1) and hence issuing statements on origin as the only documentary evidence to claim preferential origin.
Form A certificates of origin may no longer be issued by the governmental authorities of the GSP beneficiary countries.
The notice to importers published in the Official Journal C 41 of 15 February 2008 has therefore become devoid of purpose as regards consignments of the products concerned declared for release for free circulation on or after the date of the publication of this notice, and is hereby withdrawn.
(1) Articles 80 and 81 of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558).