NOTIFICATION
OF CHANGES AFFECTING THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF A REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT
Addendum
The following
communication, dated 4 February 2025, has been received from the Delegations of the
EFTA States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) and Albania.
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Notification of
the entry into force of Decision No.1 of 2021 of the EFTA-Albania Joint
Committee concerning amendments to Protocol B concerning the definition of the
concept of originating products and methods of administrative cooperation.
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Member(s) notifying:
Albania and the EFTA States
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Date of notification:
4
February 2025
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Notification pursuant to:
[X] Paragraph 14 of the Transparency Mechanism
for Regional Trade Agreements (_WT/L/671)
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Changes affect:
[X] goods
[ ] services
[ ] both
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Original RTA being modified:
Free
Trade Agreement between the EFTA States and Albania
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WTO document reference of original notification of RTA:
_WT/REG292/N/1
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Parties to the Agreement:
Albania and the EFTA States (Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland)
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Date of adoption: 24 June 2021
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Date(s) of entry into Force/provisional-application: 1
January 2022
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Brief description of the changes: Taking into account that the EFTA
States and the Republic of Albania have adopted the Regional Convention on
Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Preferential Rules of Origin, the Decision updates
Protocol B to align with the revised Convention's framework and its subsequent
amendments. This incorporation ensures that products originating in the EFTA
States and Albania benefit from the same rules of origin, including
cumulation rules, as other participants to the Convention.
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Text and related
schedules, annexes and protocols are:
[X] submitted
to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)
[X] available
from the following official Internet link(s):
EFTA:
https://www.efta.int/sites/default/files/documents/legal-texts/free-trade-relations/Albania/Protocol-amending-the-Free-Trade-Agreement-between-the-Republic-of-Albania-and-the-EFTA-States.pdf
https://www.efta.int/trade-relations/free-trade-network/albania
Albania:
http://qbz.gov.al/eli/dekret/2021/12/17/13390
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