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ORGANIZATIONG/RO/N/29/Rev.1
21 November 2000
(00-4946)
Committee on Rules of Origin
NOTIFICATIONS UNDER ARTICLE 5 AND PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II OF
THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN
Revision
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 entr y 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 circulat ed 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 th e 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 acquain ted with the intention to modify a rule of origin or to introduce a
new rule of origin, unless exceptional circumstances ar ise 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 follows:1
SLOVENIA
 (Notification in English)
- Amendments to the Customs Act2 (official consolidated vers ion) – Articles 4, 11a to 14b3
(Official Gazette of the Republic of  Slovenia, No. 1/ 95, 28/95 and 32/99).
                                                     
  1The notifications are available for consultation in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).
2 The Customs Act is contained in document G/VAL/N/1/SVN (6 February 1996).  The amendments to
the Act that have been adopted in 1999 and published in Official Gazette of the RS, No. 32/99, are submitted tothe Secretariat and are available for consultation in th e Secretariat (Market Access Division).  For practical
reasons, i.e. greater transparency  and facilitation of implementation of the Customs Act, the official
consolidated version of the Customs Act has b een prepared with the amendments indicated in italics.
3 The official consolidated versio n of the Customs Act contains the provisions of the Customs Act in
force (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 1/95 and 28/95) and the provisions of the Act amending
the Customs Act (Official Gazette of the RS, No. 32/99).G/RO/N/29/Rev.1
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- Decree on the Implementation of the Customs Act1 (Official Gazette of the Republic of
Slovenia, No. 46/99):
-  Chapter 3:  Origin of Goods, Articles 13 to 29
-  Annexes 3, 4, 5 and 6
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II of the Agreement on Ru les of Origin envisages that Members shall
provide to the Secretariat promptly their preferential rules of origin, including a listing of the preferential
arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and administrative rulings of general application
relating to their preferential rules of origin in effect on the date of entry into force of the WTO
Agreement for the Member concerned.  Members sha ll provide any modifications to their preferential
rules of origin or new preferential rules of origin  as soon as possible to the Secretariat.  Lists of
information received and available within the Secr etariat shall be circulated to Members by the
Secretariat.
2. Previous notifications received are listed in the G/RO/N/- series.  Further notifications have
been received as follows
2:
SLOVENIA
(Notification in English)
- Amendments to the Customs Act3 (official consolidated version) – Articles 4, 11a to 14b4
- Decree on the Implementation of the Customs Act1:
-  Chapter 3:  Origin of Goods, Articles 30 to 35
-  Annex 7
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1 From the date of the enforcement of this Decree on the criteria for determining the method of
approving the origin of goods (Official Gazette of the RS, No. 56/95) cease to apply.
2 The notifications are available for consultatio n in the Secretariat (Market Access Division).
3 The Customs Act is contained in document G/VAL/N/1/SVN (6 February 1996).  The amendments to
the Act that have been adopted in 1999 and published in Official Gazette of the RS, No. 32/99, are submitted tothe Secretariat and are available for consultation in th e Secretariat (Market Access Division).  For practical
reasons, i.e. greater transparency  and facilitation of implementation of the Customs Act, the official
consolidated version of the Customs Act has b een prepared with the amendments indicated in italics.
4 The official consolidated version of the Customs Act contains the provisions of the Customs Act in
force (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 1/95 and 28/95) and the provisions of the Act amendingthe Customs Act (Official Gazette of the RS, No. 32/99).