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Rules of Origin : The Example of the Regional
Convention for the Pan-Euro-Med Area
JOINT CUSTOMS AND TRADE FACILITATION FORUM:
A CUSTOMS STRATEGY FOR THE CONTINENTAL FREE
TRADE AREA (CFTA)
T CUSTOMS AND TRADE FACILITATION
Guillaume DOREY
FORUM:
TAXUD B3
A CUSTOMS STRATEGY FORDG
THE
Rules
of origin
CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA
(CFTA)
General Presentation of the rules of origin
for the pan-Euro-Med zone
Pan-Euro-Mediterranean free trade zone and its
rules of origin
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Network of bilateral free trade agreements between the EU, EFTA
members, Faroe Islands, Turkey and Mediterranean countries
participating in the Barcelona process (16 partners in total)
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A system of pan-Euro-Mediterranean cumulation operates on the basis
of identical rules of origin (PEM protocol on rules of origin) annexed to
these free trade agreements
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Cumulation concept: "what is mine/yours is yours/mine"
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Tool of regional integration/enhanced sourcing possibilities
3
40% max non-originating
PEM cumulation
1.000 €
Turkey
EU
4.000 €
Morocco
Tunisia
1.000 €
10.000 €
Russia
2.000 €
Turkey
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
EU
Norway
Switzerland/
Lichtenstein
Montenegro
Iceland
Kosovo/UNMIK
How does PEM cumulation work?
•There are FTAs linking all /some of the Members
Albania
Faeroe
•Each bilateral FTA contains a Protocol on origin
•All the Protocols on origin contain identical RoO
Croatia
•Every time a modification in the RoO is needed, all
the Protocols need to be adapted.
Former Yugoslav
Rep. of Macedonia
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Serbia
Egypt
Lebanon
Jordan
West Bank and
Gaza Strip
Israel
Syria
Matrix of PEM cumulation
01/12/12
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Turkey
EU
Norway
Switzerland/
Lichtenstein
Montenegro
Iceland
Kosovo*
Albania
Croatia
Former Yugoslav Rep. of
Macedonia
The PEM Convention:
A common Protocol
on RoO, which
replaces each Protocol
to each FTA
Faeroe
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Serbia
Egypt
Lebanon
Jordan
West Bank and
Gaza Strip
Israel
Syria
PEM Convention – concept and benefits
• Will base diagonal cumulation of origin on a single legal
instrument. No more separate protocols on RoO.
• Will allow easier revision and update of RoO.
• Will include entire Western Balkans region into in the panEuro-Mediterranean zone of diagonal cumulation.
• Will allow accession of neighbouring countries in the panEuro-Mediterranean cumulation zone.
CONTRACTING PARTIES OF THE PEM CONVENTION
WESTERN BALKANS
PEM system
of
cumulation
EU
Turkey
Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Kosovo*
the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia
SAA
Montenegro
cumulation
Serbia
EFTA
Norway
Switzerland
Lichtenstein
Iceland
Faroe
Islands
MEDS
Algeria
Egypt
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Morocco
Syria
Tunisia
West Bank and Gaza
Strip
Contact:
TAXUD, unit B3 (Rules of Origin)
Email: [email protected]
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