DECISION No 1/2000
OF THE EC-TURKEY CUSTOMS COOPERATION COMMITTEE
of 25 July 2000 on the acceptance, as proof
of Community or Turkish origin, of movement certificates EUR.1
or invoice declarations issued by certain countries that have
signed a preferential agreement with the Community or Turkey
(2000/526/EC)
THE CUSTOMS COOPERATION COMMITTEE,
Having regard to the Agreement of 12 September
1963 establishing an association between the EEC and Turkey,
Having regard to Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council
of 22 December 1995 on implementing the final phase of the Customs
Union(1), and in particular Articles 16 and 28 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Decision No 1/96 of the EC-Turkey Customs Cooperation Committee
of 20 May 1996, laying down detailed rules for the application of
Decision No 1/95(2) provides that proof that the necessary conditions
for implementation of the provisions on free circulation of industrial
products between the Community and Turkey have been met is to be
provided by a movement certificate A.TR.
(2) The Community and Turkey have signed preferential agreements
with the following European countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.
(3) Under those agreements, preferential origin is proven by movement
certificates EUR.1 or invoice declarations.
(4) Where products of Community or Turkish origin, within the meaning
of the aforementioned agreements, are first exported from the Community
or Turkey to one of the countries referred to above and, without
being processed or having undergone only minimal operations, are
then sent to Turkey or the Community respectively, the above countries
must issue the products in question with a movement certificate
EUR.1 or invoice declaration stating that they are of Community
or Turkish origin, as appropriate.
(5) Under those circumstances, neither the Community nor Turkey
can grant the other the preferential tariff treatment provided for
by Decision No 1/95,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
1. Products covered by Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association
Council that originate in the Community, within the meaning of the
agreements which the latter has signed with Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway,
Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland, shall receive
the preferential tariff treatment provided for in the above Decision
in Turkey if they are accompanied by a movement certificate EUR.1
or an invoice declaration issued in one of the above countries stating
that they are of Community origin.
2. Products covered by Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association
Council that originate in Turkey, within the meaning of the agreements
which the latter has signed with Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia and Switzerland, shall receive the preferential tariff
treatment provided for in the above Decision in the Community if
they are accompanied by a movement certificate EUR.1 or an invoice
declaration issued in one of the above countries stating that they
are of Turkish origin.
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.
Done at Ankara, 25 July 2000.
For the Customs Cooperation Committee
The President
O. Onal
(1) OJ L 35, 13.2.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 200, 9.8.1996, p. 14.
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