11.6.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 1591 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 530/2013 of 10 June 2013 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code (1), and in particular Article 247 thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 (%) provides for tariff preferences that apply from 1 January 2014. In accordance with Regulation (EU) No 978/2012, in order to benefit from the tariff prefer- ences, the products for which the tariff preferences are claimed have to originate in a beneficiary country. (20 The rules of origin on the basis of which the Union scheme of generalised tariff preferences (the scheme’) is implemented were adapted in 2010 and are laid down in Articles 66 to 97w of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 (°). The changes provided for in Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 concern, inter alia, the country coverage of the scheme and have thus an impact on certain provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 2454[93, especially those regarding regional cumulation. Regu- lation (EEC) No 2454/93 should reflect those changes. (3) It is therefore necessary to provide that regional cumu- lation applies amongst countries in the same regional group only where they are, at the time of exportation of the product to the Union, beneficiaries of the scheme. (4) It is also necessary to provide that where countries are no longer beneficiaries of the scheme, certain of their obligations continue to apply, in particular as regards 0J L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1. () O] L 303, 31.10.2012, p. 1. 0] L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. administrative cooperation, for a period of three years from the date of the change of their status, with the aim to enable the subsequent verification of proofs of origin for the products exported from those countries. (5)  Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 should therefore be amended accordingly. (6)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 is amended as follows: (1) Article 66 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 66 This section lays down the rules concerning the definition of the concept of “originating products”, the procedures and the methods of administrative cooperation related thereto, for the purposes of the application of the scheme of generalised tariff preferences (GSP) granted by the Union by Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*) to developing countries (“the scheme”). (*) OJ L 303, 31.10.2012, p. 1.; (2) Article 67 is amended as follows: (a) in paragraph 1, point (a) is replaced by the following: ‘() “beneficiary country” means a country or territory as defined in Article 2(d) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012;; (b) the following paragraph 1la is inserted: ‘la. For the purpose of paragraph 1(a), where reference is made to a “beneficiary country”, the term shall also cover and cannot exceed the limits of the