23.11.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 307/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1063/2010 of 18 November 2010 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 particular in development-orientated arrangements such as the GSP. Union, (3)  In the context of the Doha Development Agenda, the need to ensure a better integration of developing countries into the world economy has been recognised, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of in particular throggh improved access to the markets of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs developed countries. Code (1), and in particular Article 247 thereof, For that purpose, the rules of preferential origin should Whereas: be simplified and, where appropriate, made less stringent, ’ so that products originating in beneficiary countries can actually benefit from the preferences granted. (1) By virtue of Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 applying 2 scheme of generalised tariff (4 In order to ensure that the preferences actually benefit preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to h h d th d h 31 December 2011 and amending Regulations (EC) No t fos}«le Who need them anh tohp rotect t iowrll res?urcefs 552/97, (EC) No 1933/2006 and Commission Regu- ort fiEuer.ean Union, the ¢ anges 10 the rules ol prel- lations (EC) No 1100/2006 and (EC) No 964/2007 () erfenﬁlal orlglg shot;ld bhe .accompanled by an adaptation the European Union grants trade preferences to of the procedures for thelr management. developing countries, in the framework of its scheme of generalised tariff preferences (the ‘GSP’ or ‘scheme). . . . In accordance with Article 5(2) of that Regulation, the (5)  The Commission’s impact assessment of this Reg}llat10n rules of origin concerning the definition of the concept demonstrates that GSP ru.les- of origin are perceived as of originating products, the procedures and the methods too complex and too restrictive. It further shows that the of administrative cooperation related thereto, are to be actual use of t.he preferences granted is low fpr certain those laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No products and, in particular, those products which are of 2454/93 (). most interest to the least developed countries, and that rules of origin are one reason for this. 2)  Followi ide-ranging debate initiated by its G @ orowing @ WideTanging cebate mtigrec by s Hreer (6)  The impact assessment indicated that simplification and Paper of 18 December 2003 on the future of rules of origin in preferential trade arrangements (*), on 16 March 2005 the Commission adopted a Communication entitled ‘The rules of origin in preferential trade arrangements: Orientations for the future’ (°) (the ‘Communication’). That Communication sets out a new approach to rules of origin in all preferential trade arrangements involving the European Union and in development-friendliness could be achieved by a single criterion applicable to all products for determining the origin of goods which are not wholly obtained in a beneficiary country, based on the value-added in the beneficiary country concerned and requiring compliance with a sufficient processing threshold. However, it did not demonstrate that a single method is indispensable to simplification or development-friendliness. Moreover, according to feedback from stakeholders there are a 8 8} i ;(1)% 29812%(1)392 II) number of sectors for which the value-added criterion () OJ L 253, 11.10. 1995 p. 1 is either not well suited or should not be used as the (*) COM(2003) 787. sole criterion, such as agricultural and processed agri- (}) COM(2005) 100. cultural products, fishery products, chemicals, metals,