2. pants

Šis Līgums stāsies spēkā pēdējā

paziņojuma dienā par iekšējo juridisko spēkā stāšanās prasību

izpildi.

Latvijas Republika pielietos šo

Līgumu uz pagaidu nosacījumiem sākot no 1999.gada 1.janvāra līdz

brīdim, kad visas iekšējās juridiskās spēkā stāšanās prasības

tiks izpildītas.

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(*) Lihtenšteinas Hercogistei ir

muitas ūnija ar Šveici un tā ir arī Eiropas Ekonomiskās Telpas

Līguma Dalībvalsts

(**) Šajā pantā dotā kumulācija

nav attiecināma uz Turcijas izcelsmes materiāliem, kas uzskaitīti

šī Protokola V Pielikuma sarakstā

(1) Īpašos nosacījumus

attiecībā uz produkciju, kas iegūta no jauktiem

tekstilmateriāliem, skat. 5. ievadpiezīmi.

(a) Džutas dzijas pielietošana

tiek atļauta no 2000. gada 1. jūlija.

(2) SEMII -

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute

Incorporated.

Agreement Between The Republic Of

Latvia And The Republic Of Slovakia On Amendments To The Protocol

3 On Rules Of Origin To The Free Trade Agreement Between The

Republic Of Latvia And The Republic Of Slovakia

The Republic of Latvia

(hereinafter called Latvia) and the Republic of Slovakia (

hereinafter called Slovakia),

Having regard Free Trade Agreement

between the Republic of Slovakia, of the one part, and the

Republic of Latvia, of the other part (1),signed in Riga on 1

July,1996, and in particular Article 38 and Protocol 3

thereof,

Whereas within this Protocol 3 the

definition of the term "originating products" needs to

be amended to ensure the proper operation of the extended system

of cumulation which permits the use of materials originating in

the European Community, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of

Poland, the Republic of Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Republic

of Bulgaria, Romania, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of

Lithuania, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Slovenia, the

European Economic Area, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland;

Whereas it would seem advisable to

maintain in operation by 31 December 2000 the system of flat rate

charges provided for in Article 15 of this Protocol 3 in

connection with the prohibition of drawback and exemption from

customs duty;

Whereas it would also be

appropriate to extend the cumulation system to such products

originating in the Republic of Turkey;

Whereas to facilitate and simplify

administrative tasks it would be desirable to amend the wording

of Articles 3, 4 and 12 of Protocol 3;

Whereas taking into account of

changes in processing techniques and shortages of certain raw

materials, some corrections must be made to the list of working

and processing requirements which non-originating materials have

to fulfil to qualify for originating status,

HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Protocol 3 concerning the

definition of the concept of "originating products" and

methods of administrative cooperation is hereby amended as

follows:

1. Paragraph 1(i) of Article 1

shall be replaced by :

"(i) "added value"

shall be taken to be the ex-works price minus the customs value

of each of the materials incorporated which originate in the

other countries referred to in Article3 and 4 or, where the

customs value is not known or cannot be ascertained, the first

price verifiably paid for the products in the Party."

2. Articles 3 and 4 shall be

replaced by the following:

"Article

3

Cumulation in Slovakia:

l. Without prejudice to the

provisions of Article 2 paragraph l, products shall be considered

as originating in Slovakia if such products are obtained there,

incorporating materials originating in the European Community,

the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of

Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, the

Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of

Estonia, the Republic of Slovenia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland

(including Liechtenstein)* or the Republic Turkey ** in

accordance with the provisions of the Protocol on rules of origin

annexed to the Agreements between Slovakia and each of these

countries, provided that the working or processing carried out in

Slovakia goes beyond that referred to in Article 7 of this

Protocol. It shall not be necessary that such materials have

undergone sufficient working or processing.

2. Where the working or processing

carried out in Slovakia does not go beyond the operations

referred to in Article 7, the product obtained shall be

considered as originating in Slovakia only where the value added

there is greater than the value of the materials used originating

in any one of the other countries referred to in paragraph 1. If

this is not so, the product obtained shall be considered as

originating in the country which accounts for the highest value

of originating materials used in the manufacture in Slovakia.

3. Products, originating in one of

the countries referred to in paragraph 1, which do not undergo

any working or processing in Slovakia, retain their origin if

exported into one of these countries.

4. The cumulation provided for in

this Article may only be applied to materials and products which

have acquired originating status by an application of rules of

origin identical to those given in this Protocol.

Article 4

Cumulation in Latvia

l. Without prejudice to the

provisions of Article 2 paragraph l, products shall be considered

as originating in Latvia if such products are obtained there,

incorporating materials originating in the European Community,

the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of

Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, the

Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of

Estonia, the Republic of Slovenia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland

(including Liechtenstein)* or the Republic Turkey** in accordance

with the provisions of the Protocol on rules of origin annexed to

the Agreements between Latvia and each of these countries,

provided that the working or processing carried out in Latvia

goes beyond that referred to in Article 7 of this Protocol. It

shall not be necessary that such materials have undergone

sufficient working or processing.

2. Where the working or processing

carried out in Latvia does not go beyond the operations referred

to in Article 7, the product obtained shall be considered as

originating in Latvia only where the value added there is greater

than the value of the materials used originating in any one of

the other countries referred to in paragraph 1. If this is not

so, the product obtained shall be considered as originating in

the country which accounts for the highest value of originating

materials used in the manufacture in Latvia.

3. Products, originating in one of

the countries referred to in paragraph 1, which do not undergo

any working or processing in Latvia, retain their origin if

exported into one of these countries.

4. The cumulation provided for in

this Article may only be applied to materials and products which

have acquired originating status by an application of rules of

origin identical to those given in this Protocol.

3. Article 12 shall be replaced by

the following:

"Article 12

Principle of territoriality:

l. Except as provided for in

Article 2(1)(c), Articles 3 and 4 and paragraph 3 of this

Article, the conditions for acquiring originating status set out

in Title II must continue to be fulfilled at all times in

Slovakia or Latvia.

2. Except as provided for in

Articles 3 and 4, where originating goods exported from Slovakia

or Latvia to another country return, they must be considered as

non-originating, unless it can be demonstrated to the

satisfaction of the customs authorities that:

(a) the returning goods are the

same as those that were exported; and

(b) they have not undergone any

operation beyond that necessary to preserve them in good

condition while in that country or while being exported.

3. The acquisition of originating

status in accordance with the conditions set out in Title II

shall not be affected by working or processing done outside

Slovakia or Latvia on materials exported from Slovakia or Latvia

and subsequently reimported there, provided:

(a) the said materials are wholly

obtained in Slovakia or Latvia or have undergone working or

processing beyond the insufficient operations listed in Article 7

prior to being exported; and

(b) it can be demonstrated to the

satisfaction of the customs authorities that:

i) the reimported goods have been

obtained by working or processing the exported materials; and

ii) the total added value acquired

outside Slovakia or Latvia by applying the provisions of this

Article does not exceed 10% of the ex-works price of the end

product for which originating status is claimed.

4. For the purposes of paragraph

3, the conditions for acquiring originating status set out in

Title II shall not apply to working or processing done outside

Slovakia or Latvia. But where, in the list in Annex II, a rule

setting a maximum value for all the non-originating materials

incorporated is applied in determining the originating status of

the end product, the total value of the non-originating materials

incorporated in the territory of Slovakia or Latvia concerned,

taken together with the total added value acquired outside

Slovakia or latvia by applying the provisions of this Article,

shall not exceed the stated percentage.

5. For the purposes of applying

the provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4, "total added

value" shall be taken to mean all costs arising outside

Slovakia and, including the value of the materials incorporated

there.

6. The provisions of paragraphs 3

and 4 shall not apply to products which do not fulfil the

conditions set out in the list in Annex II or which can be

considered suffciently worked or processed only if the general

values fixed in Article 6(2) are applied.

7. The provisions of paragraphs 3

and 4 shall not apply to products coming under Chapters 50 to 63

of the Harmonised System.

8. Any working or processing of

the kind covered by the provisions of this Article and done

outside the Parties shall be done under the outward processing

arrangements, or similar arrangements."

4) in Articles

13,14,15,17,21,27,30,32, the phrase " referred to in Article

4" shall be replaced by "referred to in Articles 3 and

4" ;

5) In the last paragraph of

Article 15 (6) the date" 31 December 1998" shall be

replaced by the new date "31 December 2000".

6) In Article 26 (1) the reference

C2/CP3" shall be re laced b the new reference

CN22/CN23".

7) In Annex I Note 5.2 :

(a) between the indents

-" artificial man-made

filaments" and

- synthetic man-made staple fibres

of polypropylene",

the following shall be

inserted:

" -current conducting

filaments";

(b) the fifth Example ("A

carpet with tufts ...are met") shall be deleted;

8) In Annex II shall be amended as

follows:

- between the rules for HS

headings 2202 and 2208 the rule of the following text shall be

inserted:

HS Heading

No

Description of product

Working of processing of

non-originating materials that confers originating

status

(1)

(2)

(3) (4)

2207

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of

an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher; ethyl

alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength.

Manufacture:

- using materials not classified in headings 2207 of

2208

(b) In Annex II the text of the

rule for Charter 57 shall be replaced by:

"Chapter 57

Carpets and other textile floor

covering:

- Of needleloom felt

Manufacture from1:

- natural fibres or

- chemical materials or

textile pulp However:

- polypropylene filament of

heading 5402,

- polypropylene fibres of

heading 5503 or 5506,

- polypropylene filament tow

of heading 5501, of which the denomination in all cases of

a single filament or fibre is less than 9 decitex, may be

used provided their value does not exceed 40% of the

ex-works price of the product

-jute fabric may be used as

backing

- Of other felt

Manufacture from':

- natural fibres not

carded

or combed

or otherwise processed for

spinning, or

- chemical materials or

textile pulp

- Other

Manufacture from':

- coir or jute yarn (*),

- synthetic or artifcial

filament yarn,

- natural fibres, or

- man-made staple fibres not

carded or combed or otherwise processed for spinning

But jute fabric may be used

as backing"

(c) In Annex II the text of

the rule for HS heading7006 shall be replaced by:

"7006

Glass of headings 7003, 7004 or 7005, bent,

edgeworked, engraved, drilled, enamelledor otherwise worked,

but not framed or ftted with other materials:

Manufacture from

materials (substrates) of heading 7006

- Glass plate substrate coated with

dielectric thin film, semiconductor grade, in accordance with

SEMII standards1

Manufacture from materials

(substrates) of heading 7001

- Other ";

(d) In Annex II the text of the

rule for HS heading 7601 shall be replaced by:

"7601

Unwrought aluminium

Manufacture in which:

- all the materials used are

classified within a heading other than that of the product;

and

- the value of all the

materials used does not exceed 50% of the ex-works price of

the product or

Manufacture by thermal or

electrolytic treatment from unalloyed aluminium or waste

and scrap of aluminium"

(g) the following Annex shall be

added:

"Annex V

List of products

originating in Turkey to which provisions of Articles 3 and 4 do

not apply, Listed in the order of HS Chapters and Headings

Chapter 1

Chapter2

Chapter 3

0401 to 0402 Buttermilk,curded

milk and cream,yoghurt,kephir and other

ex 0403- fermented or acidified

milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added

sugar or other sweetening matter

0404 to 0410

0504

Chapter6 Vegetables,except

sweetcorn of heading No.07104000 (uncoked or cooked by steaming

or boiling in water), frozen

0701 to 0709 ex 0710 Vegetables,

except sweetcorn of heading No. 07119030, provisionally preserved

(for example, by sulphur oxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or

in other preservative solutions), but unsituable in that state

for immediate cunsumption

ex 0711

0712 to 0714 Cofee,tae,spices,

excluding mate of heading No.0903

Chapter 8

Ex Chapter 9 Pectic

substances,pectinates and pectates

Chapter 10

Chapter 11 Other fixed vegetable

fats and oils and their fractions, party or wholly

hydroheneted,

Chapter 12

Ex1302

Inter-caterefied,re-catarified ,whether or not refined, but not

further prepared, excluding hydrogenated castor oil known as

"opal-wax"

1501to1514

ex1515 Margefines, imitation lard

and other prepared edible fats

Residues resulting from the

treatment of farty substances or animal or vegetable waxes,

excluding degras

ex1517 and ex1518

ex1522 Other sugars, including

chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid

form; sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or coloring

matters; artificial honey, whether or not

Chapter 16 moxed with natural

honey; caramel excluding that heading 1701 No. 17021100,17023051,

17023059, 17025000 and 17029010

ex 1702 Pasta, stuffed, containing

more that 20% by weight of fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other

squistic invertebretes, sauseges and

1703

1801 and 1802 the meat or meat

offal or any kind, including fats of all kinds

Cucumbers and gherkins, onions,

mango chutley, fruit of the

ex 1902 genus Capsicum other than

sweet papers or pimentes, mushrooms and olives, prepared or

preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

ex 2001 Other vagetables prepared

or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acatic acid, frozen,

other than products of heading No.2006,

2002 and 2003 excluding potatoes

in form of flour, meat or flakes and sweet corn

ex 2004 Other vagetables prepred

or preserved otherwise than by vinegard or acetic acid, not

frozen, other than products of heading No.2006, excluding

potatoes in form of flour, meat or flakes and sweet corn

ex2005 Fruits, nuts and other

eligible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or presereved,

whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetining matter

or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included, ecxluding peanut

butter, palm hearts, maize, yarns, sweet potatoes and similar

edible parts of plants containing 5% or more by weight of starch,

vine leaves, hop shoots and other similar

2006 and 2007 edible parts of

plants

ex2008 Flavoured and coloured

sugar, syrups

2009

ex 2106 Undenatured etyl alcohol

of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher obtained

from agricultural produce listed here

2204 Undenatured etyl alcohol of

an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher obtained

from agricultural produce listed here

2206

ex 2207

ex 2208

2209

Chapter 23

2401

4501

5301 and 5302

Article 2

1.This Agreement shall enter into

force on the date of the last notification on the fulfilment of

internal legal requirements for its entry into force.

The Republic of Latvia shall apply

this Agreement provisionally from 1 January 1999 till all its

internal legal requirements for its entry into force have been

fulfilled.

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* The Principality if

Liechtenstein has a Customs union with Switzerland, and is a

Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic

Area.

** Cumulation as provided for this

Article does not apply to materials originating in Turkey which

are mentioned in the list at Annex V to this Protocol.

1 SEMII - Semiconductor

Equipment and Materials Institute Incorporated.