Considerations on COM(2024)335 -

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dossier COM(2024)335 - .
document COM(2024)335
date July 30, 2024
 
(1) The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, of the other part (the Agreement) was concluded by the Union by Council and Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/9981 and entered into force on 1 June 2015.

(2) Pursuant to Article 117 of the Agreement, the Stabilisation and Association Council, established according to the provisions of article 115 of the Agreement, may adopt decisions.

(3) The Stabilisation and Association Council, during its next meeting, is to adopt a decision establishing the general requirements on proofs of origin issued electronically.

(4) It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf in the Stabilisation and Association Council as the Decision of the Stabilisation and Association Council will be binding on the Union.

(5) During the first technical meeting on Transitional rules of origin held in Brussels on 5 February 2020, the majority of the Contracting Parties to the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin (the Convention)2 agreed to implement the revised rules of the Convention3 (the Transitional rules of origin) in parallel with the rules of the Convention, on a transitional bilateral basis, pending the adoption of the revised rules of the Convention.

(6) The application of the Transitional rules of origin ensures the adaptation of the trade flows and customs practices pending the entry into force on 1 January 2025 of the revised rules of the Convention, on which the Transitional rules of origin are based. 

(7) Since 1 September 2021, a network of bilateral protocols on rules of origin among several Contracting Parties to the Convention4 is in force rendering the Transitional rules of origin applicable5 pending the entry into force of the amendment of the Convention.

(8) The two main objectives of the Transitional rules of origin6 are to introduce more relaxed rules to facilitate the qualification of the preferential originating status for goods; and to create the possibility to use proofs of origin issued electronically or submitted electronically.

(9) The Union and Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed to apply the provisions of Article 17(4) of Appendix A to Protocol 2 to the Agreement, as regards proofs of origin issued electronically. Therefore, a framework of general requirements should be determined.