NOTIFICATION
UNDER PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II
OF THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN
PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN
1._
Paragraph 4 of
Annex II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall
provide to the Secretariat as soon as possible their existing or new
preferential rules of origin, including a listing of the preferential
arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and administrative
rulings of general application relating to their preferential rules of origin.
Lists of information received and available within the Secretariat shall be
circulated to Members by the Secretariat under the _G/RO/N/
series.
2._
The Committee on
Rules of Origin further agreed that, with respect to preferential rules of
origin, notifications made to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA)
or to the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could also suffice to
discharge their notification obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin
(_G/RO/M/59).
As a result, the Committee agreed that notifications which had initially been
received by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated by the Secretariat to
the CRO. The information regarding such notifications, including related to
preferential rules of origin, can, in addition, be retrieved through the WTO
database of regional trade agreements (http://rtais.wto.org)
or in the WTO database of preferential trade agreements (http://ptadb.wto.org).
3._
Accordingly, the
following notification has been received:
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND AND
THE EUROPEAN UNION[1]
A. PREFERENTIAL
RULES OF ORIGIN
The text of the Agreement can be found in the
following link:
EU-New Zealand: Text of the agreement
(europa.eu).
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[1] Originally notified to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
(CRTA) and circulated in document _WT/REG484/N/1
of 9 April 2024.