CELEX: 22016D2126
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00
Title: Decision No 1/2016 of the Joint Committee of the Regional Convention on Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Preferential Rules of Origin of 28 September 2016 as regards the request of Georgia to become a Contracting Party to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin [2016/2126]

3.12.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 329/118
            
         DECISION No 1/2016 OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONAL CONVENTION ON PAN-EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN
   of 28 September 2016
   as regards the request of Georgia to become a Contracting Party to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin [2016/2126]
   THE JOINT COMMITTEE,
   Having regard to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin (1), hereafter ‘the Convention’,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Article 5(1) of the Convention provides that a third party may become a Contracting Party to the Convention provided that the candidate country or territory has a free trade agreement in force, providing for preferential rules of origin, with at least one of the Contracting Parties.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Georgia submitted a written request for accession to the Convention to the depositary of the Convention on 23 September 2015.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Georgia has a free trade agreement in force with two Contracting Parties to the Convention and complies with the condition set out in Article 5(1) of the Convention to become a Contracting Party.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               Article 4(3)(b) of the Convention provides that the Joint Committee shall adopt by decision invitations to third parties to accede to the Convention.
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Georgia shall be invited to accede to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin.
   Article 2
   This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
   
      Done at Brussels, 28 September 2016.
      
         
            For the Joint Committee
         
         
            The Chair
         
         Péter KOVÀCS
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 54, 26.2.2013, p. 4.