Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the European Union in the EEA Joint Committee concerning the amendment of Protocol 4 (Rules of origin) to the EEA Agreement

The draft Joint Committee decision aims to amend Protocol 4 to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement, in particular to (i) extend the system of cumulation to any country which is a participant in the European Union’s Stabilisation and Association Process, (ii) include "mixing of sugars and with any other material" to the list of operations mentioned in Article 6 of Protocol 4 which are to be considered as insufficient working or processing to confer the status of originating products, and (iii) to correct certain errors.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)133: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:133:FIN

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