CELEX: 51976PC0142
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Date: 1976-04-07
Title: Draft JOINT COMMITTEE DECISION adding to Note 11 - Article 23 of Annex I of Protocol No. 3 concerning the definition of the concept of "originating products" and methods of administrative co-operation (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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         adding to Note 11 - Article 23 of Annex I of
         Protocol No . 3 concerning the definition of the
         concept of "originating products n and methods
         of administrative co-operation         <
           ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(76 ) 142 final
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      Article 23 of Protocol No 3 of the Agreements EEC-EFTA , modified
by Decision No 1 /75 of the EEC-EFTA Joint Committees , stipulates that
products of the kind covered by the Agreements used in the manufacture
of products destined to benefit from the preferences provided by the
Agreements , may not be the subject of "drawback or remission of any
kind ", unless we are concerned with "originating products ".
      The expression "used in manufacture " has caused some difficulties
of intrepretation because given the absence of any precision one may
limit this expression and thus the application of Article 23 to the
products actually "physically " used in the final product . But , the
procedures laid down , especially in the Community , governing the use of
third c untry products under suspension of customs duties ( called
"inward processing " in the Community ) allows for in certain cases and 1
under certain conditions the use of an equivalent Community product
in replacement of the third country product under consideration .
      It follows that an interpretation limiting the concept of productB
"used in manufacture " to those products "physically" incorporated
allows third country products replaced by Community products to avoid
the application of the rule in Article 23.
      The annexed draft decision is therefore intended to clarify the
situation in this respect .
      It is proposed that the Council adopts this draft as the common
position of the Community for the various EEC-EFTA Joint Committees .
It has been prepared for the EEC-Austria Agreement , and is in such
a form that it can be used as it stands for all the other EEC-EFTA
Agreements .
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                JOINT COMMITTEE DECISION
            adding to Note 11 - Article 23 of Annex I
          of Protocol No 3 concerning the definition of
            the concept of "originating products" and
             methods of administrative co-operation
THE JOINT COMMITTEE .
Having regard to the Agreement between the European Economic Community
and the Republic of Austria signed on 22 July 1972 in Brussels ,
Having regard to Protocol No 3 concerning the definition of the concept
of "originating products " and methods of administrative co-operation ,
and in particular Article 28 thereof ,
Whereas it is expedient to clarify the meaning of the expression
"products used in manufacture " used in Article 23 of Protocol No 3i
H AS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                             Sole Article
      Note 11 - Article 23 of Annex I of Protocol No 3 shall be amended
by the addition of the new sub-paragraph as follows t
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" Products used in manufacture " shall mean any products in respect
  of which "drawback or remission of any kind granted from customs
  duties " is authorized in view of the export of originating products
  for which a certificate EUR.1 is issued or a form EUR . 2 is made out ."
The Secretaries                         Done at Brussels
                                        For the Joint Committee
                                        The Président