. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/RO/N/22
16 September 1998
(98-3509)
Committee on Rules of Origin
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 5 AND PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II OF
THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN
A. NON-PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN
1. Article 5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that each Member shall provide to
the Secretariat, within 90 days after the date of en try into force of the WTO Agreement for it, its rules
of origin, judicial decisions and administrative rulings of general application relating to rules of origin
in effect on that date.  If by inadvertence a rule of origin has not been provided, the Member
concerned shall provide it immediately after this fact becomes known.  Lists of information received
and available within the Secretariat shall be circulated to the Members by the Secretariat.
2. Article 5.2 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin provides that during the period referred to in
Article 2, Members introducing modifications, other than de minimis  modifications, to their rules of
origin or introducing new rules of origin, which, for the purpose of this Article, shall include any rule
of origin referred to in paragraph 1 and not provided to the Secretariat, shall publish a notice to that
effect at least 60 days before the entry into force of the modified or new rule in such a manner as to
enable interested parties to become acquainted with  the intention to modify a rule of origin or to
introduce a new rule of origin, unless exceptional circumstances arise or threaten to arise for a
Member.  In these exceptional cases, the Member shall publish the modified or new rule as soon as
possible.
3. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have
been received as follows1:
CHAD
(Notification in French)
Chad does not have non-preferential rules of origin.
MALDIVES
(Notification in English)
Maldives does not have legal instruments relating to non-preferential rules of origin.
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II of the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall
provide to the Secretariat promptly their preferential rules of origin, including a listing of thepreferential arrangements to which they apply, judici al decisions, and administrative rulings of general
application relating to their preferential rules of origin in effect on the date of entry into force of theWTO Agreement for the Member concerned.  Members shall provide any modifications to their
                                                     
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preferential rules of origin or new preferential rule s of origin as soon as possible to the Secretariat.
Lists of information received and available within the Secretariat shall be circulated to Members bythe Secretariat.
2. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have
been received as follows
2:
BOLIVIA
(Notification in Spanish)
- Free Trade Agreement between Bolivia and Mexico;
- Economic Complementarity Agreement between Bolivia and the MERCOSUR.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, BULGARIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, ICELAND,
LIECHTENSTEIN, NORWAY, POLAND, ROMANIA, THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, SLOVENIAAND SWITZERLAND
(Notification in English)
System of European Cumulation of Origin
3.
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2 The notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).
3 Circulated in document WT/REG1, 2, 12, 13, 15, 16/N/1.