Article 1 
For the purposes of implementing the provisions relating to the preferential tariff arrangements granted by the Community in respect of certain mineral products and certain products of the chemical or allied industries set out in the Annex originating in Algeria, Austria, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, the Faeroes, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, and the ACP States (hereinafter referred to as ‘beneficiary countries or territories’), the following shall be considered as products originating in one of such beneficiary countries or territories: (a) products wholly obtained in a beneficiary country or territory; (b) products obtained in a beneficiary country or territory, in the manufacture of which products other than those specified in (a) (hereinafter referred to as ‘non-originating materials’) have been used, provided that the materials concerned have been sufficiently worked or processed within the meaning of Article 3.
Article 2 
For the purposes of Article 1 (a) the following shall be considered as wholly obtained in a beneficiary country or territory: (a) petroleum products extracted from its soil or from its seabed; (b) petroleum products taken from the seabed or beneath the seabed outside territorial waters, if that beneficiary country or territory has, for the purposes of exploitation, exclusive rights to such soil or subsoil; (c) petroleum products produced there exclusively from products specified in (a) and (b).
Article 3 
For the purposes of Article 1 (b), non-originating materials shall be considered to be sufficiently worked or processed when the obtained products specified in columns 1 and 2 of the list in the Annex fulfils the conditions set out in column 3.
Article 4 
For the purposes of HS Code ex 2707, 2713 to 2715, ex 2901, ex 2902 and ex 3403 mentioned in column 1 of the Annex, simple operations such as cleaning, decanting, desalting, water separation, filtering, colouring, marking, obtaining a given sulphur content as a result of mixing products with different sulphur contents, any combination of these operations or like operations do not confer origin.
Article 5 
1. Insofar as the provisions of the Protocols and Annexes on the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation for the application of preferential tariff arrangements granted by the Community to a beneficiary country or territory are not yet applicable to the products referred to in the Annex hereto, and without prejudice to Article 1 and to paragraph 2 of this Article, these provisions shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to such products. 2. Within the meaning of the provisions referred to in paragraph 1, those products listed in the Annex hereto which are transported by pipeline across territory other than that of the beneficiary country or territory shall also be considered as having been transported directly from an exporting beneficiary country or territory into the Community.
Article 6 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 January 1993. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 7 December 1992. For the Council The President D. HURD Done at Brussels, 7 December 1992. For the Council The President D. HURD For the Council The President D. HURD