31.12.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 355/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 1421/2013 of 30 October 2013 amending Annexes I, II and IV to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, least-developed countries (EBA). The list of EBA Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European beneficiary countries is established in Annex IV to that Regulation. Union, (4)  The Republic of Croatia (hereinafter Croatia) became a member of the European Union as of 1 July 2013. Therefore, Croatiashould be removed from Annex 1. Having regard to 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 (5)  The Republic of South Sudan (hereinafter South Sudan) Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 ('), and in particular has become an independent State. On 14 July 2011, the Articles 3(2), 5(3) and 17(2) thereof, General Assembly of United Nations adopted Resolution A[RES/65/308 admitting South Sudan to membership in the United Nations. On 18 December 2012, the General Assembly of United Nations adopted Resolution Whereas: A[RES[67/136 adding South Sudan to the list of Least Developed Countries. Therefore, South Sudan should be included in Annexes I, Il and IV. (1)  Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 provides that a list of eligible countries should be amended to take (6)  Regulation (EU) No 607/2013 of the European account of changes in the international status or classifi- cation of countries. The list of eligible countries is estab- lished in Annex I to that Regulation. Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 9782012 establishes criteria for the granting of tariff preferences under the general arrangement of the Generalised Scheme of Pref- erences (GSP). In accordance with such criteria, a country that has been classified by the World Bank as a high or an upper-middle income country for three consecutive years should not benefit from such preferences. The list of beneficiary countries of the general arrangement of the GSP is established in Annex 1II to that Regulation. Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 provides that a country that is identified by the UN as a least- developed country should benefit from the tariff pref- erences under the special arrangement for the () O] L 303, 31.10.2012, p. 1. Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 repealing  Council Regulation (EC) No 55297 temporarily withdrawing access to generalised tariff pref- erences from Myanmar/Burma (?) repealed the temporary withdrawal of Myanmar/Burma’s access to the Gener- alised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) tariff preferences. Therefore, Myanmar/Burma should be removed from the table in Annex I, which lists the ‘Eligible countries of the scheme referred to in Article 3 which have been temporarily withdrawn from the scheme, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries’, from the table in Annex II which lists the Beneficiary countries of the general arrangement referred to in point (@ of Article 1(2) which have been temporarily withdrawn from that arrangement, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries’ and from the table in Annex IV, which lists the ‘Beneficiary countries of the special arrangement for the least- developed countries referred to in point (c) of Article 1(2) which have been temporarily withdrawn from that arrangement, in respect of all or of certain products originating in these countries’. () OJ L 181, 29.6.2013, p. 13.