1.

Member(s) notifying:

Montenegro and the EFTA States

2.

Date of notification:

18 February 2025

3.

Notification pursuant to:                                               

[X]    Paragraph 14 of the Transparency Mechanism for Regional Trade Agreements (_WT/L/671)

4.

Changes affect:

[X]    goods

[  ]    services

[  ]   both

5.

Original RTA being modified:

Free Trade Agreement between the EFTA States and Montenegro

6.

WTO document reference of original notification of RTA:

WT/REG323/N/1

7.

Parties to the Agreement:

Montenegro and the EFTA States (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland)

8.

Date of adoption: 14 July 2021

9.

Date(s) of entry into Force/provisional-application: 1 April 2022

10.

Brief description of the changes: Taking into account that the EFTA States and Montenegro have adopted the Regional Convention on Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Preferential Rules of Origin, this Protocol set out a new Annex VIII to their Free Trade Agreement, covering rules of origin and methods of cooperation. The updated Annex VIII ensures Parties apply the same revised rules of the Convention and its subsequent amendments assuring that products originating in the EFTA States and Montenegro adhere to the same rules of origin, including cumulation, as other Convention participants.

11.

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/montenegro/EFTA-Montenegro-Protocol-amending-FTA.pdf

https://www.efta.int/trade-relations/free-trade-network/montenegro

Montenegro:

https://www.gov.me/clanak/sporazumi-o-slobodnoj-trgovini

         http://sluzbenilist.me/