Considerations on COM(2017)153 - EU position concerning an amendment to Protocol 3 to the EEA Agreement, concerning products referred to in Article 8(3)(b) of the Agreement

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dossier COM(2017)153 - EU position concerning an amendment to Protocol 3 to the EEA Agreement, concerning products referred to in Article 8(3)(b) ...
document COM(2017)153 EN
date May 11, 2017
 
table>(1)The Agreement on the European Ecoomic Area (2) (‘the EEA Agreement’) entered into force on 1 January 1994.
(2)Pursuant to Article 98 of the EEA Agreement, the EEA Joint Committee may decide to amend, inter alia, Protocol 3 to the EEA Agreement. That Protocol determines specific trade arrangements for certain agricultural and processed agricultural products between the Contracting Parties.

(3)Article 2(2) of Protocol 3 to the EEA Agreement stipulates that the customs duties set out in the Annexes to Table I of that Protocol can be adapted by the EEA Joint Committee, taking account of mutual concessions. Iceland and the European Union have agreed to eliminate tariffs for certain products listed in Protocol 3 to the EEA Agreement. These concessions will apply only to products originating, respectively, in the European Union and in Iceland, within the meaning of the Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin.

(4)Protocol 3 to the EEA Agreement should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)The position of the Union within the EEA Joint Committee should therefore be based on the attached draft decision,