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13 September 2022  
(22-6776) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Rules of Origin  Original:  French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 4 OF ANNEX II  
TO THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN  
PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1. Paragraph 4 of Annex II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that Members shall 
provide to the Secretariat as soon as possible their existing or new 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. Lis ts of 
information received and available within the Secretariat shall be circulated to Members by the 
Secretariat under the G/RO/N/ series.  
2. The Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that, with respect to preferential rules of 
origin, notifications ma de to the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) or to the 
Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could also suffice to discharge their notification 
obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin (G/RO/M/59). As a result, the Committee agreed 
that notifications which had initially been received by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated 
by the Secretariat to the CRO. The information regarding such notifications, including related to 
preferential rules of origin, can, in addition, be retri eved through the WTO database of regional trade 
agreements ( http://rtais.wto.org ) or in the WTO database of preferential trade agreements 
(http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
3. Accordingly, the f ollowing notification has been received:  
SWITZERLAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND  
A. PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
Decision No. 2/2021 of the UK -Switzerland Trade Joint Committee Amending the Appendix to 
Annex  1 of the Trade Agreement between the Swiss Confederation and the United Kingdom 
of Great  Britain and Northern Ireland, done at Bern on 11 February 2019. The new rules shall enter 
into force on 1 October 2022. The text of the Agreement can be found in the following intern et links:  
- https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/oc/2021/546/fr  
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