RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/REG83/4/Add.2
WT/REG84/4/Add.2
22 October 2001
(01-5178)
Committee on Regional Trade Agreements Original:  English
FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN HUNGARY AND LITHUANIA
AND HUNGARY AND LATVIA
Questions and Replies
Addendum
II. TRADE PROVISIONS
3. Rules of Origin
In their comments on Section II.3 of WT/REG 83/4, the Parties stated that non-parties to
the Agreement that participate in the pan-Europe an Rules of Origin will receive preferential
treatment while other WTO Members will not.
(a) Can the Parties please list all the countries which benefit from this system of
rules of origin or any cumulation provisions, respectively?
The original text of the System of European Cumulation of Origin can be found in documents
G/RO/N/22 dated 16 September 1998 and G/RO/N /23 dated 5 October 1998 item B.2.  This
information was provided by the European Communities and also on behalf of its WTO partners in
the Agreements concerned (EC, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Switzerland).  This is also relevant to
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as mentioned in the information, but these countries were not members
of the WTO at that time.  A copy of the system was sent to the Committee on Regional Trade
Agreements (CRTA) for information (WT/REG/GE N/N/1).  In addition, from 1.1.1999 the System of
European Cumulation of Origin is also applied to Turkey.
(b) In order to fully comprehend the effect of  the pan-European rules in the context
of these Agreements, can each of the Part ies also list the countries with which
they, respectively, have any free trade or customs union arrangements?
An answer to this question could be found in the document WT/REG/W/39.  In addition to
the information contained in that document, Hung ary has concluded FTAs with Estonia and Croatia.
Latvia has concluded a FTA with Turkey.  Lithuania has concluded FTAs with Bulgaria and Ukraine.
(c) Can the Parties please describe whether these preferential rules of origin are
used under their respective agreements wi th the European Community on the
recognition of conformity assessment procedures, and how the use of such rules
will affect each of the Parties’ treatment of conformity assessment procedures
with respect to goods and materials produced in each other’s territories?
No agreement has been concluded between the parties on the recognition of conformity
assessment procedures.  However, for information purposes only, we can confirm that in theAgreement on the recognition of the assessment procedures between the European Communities and
Hungary the non-preferential rules of origin are applied.
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