1. SIMPLER AND MORE DEVELOPMENT-FRIENDLY RULES: DETERMINATION OF PREFERENTIAL ORIGIN AND CUMULATION OF ORIGIN 8

(4) In order to ensure uniform conditions for implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission in respect of: the adoption within six months of the entry into force of this Regulation of a work programme relating to the development and deployment of the electronic systems; decisions allowing one or several Member States to use means of exchange and storage of data other than electronic data-processing techniques; decisions authorising Member States to test simplifications in the application of the customs legislation using electronic data-processing techniques; decisions requesting Member States to take, suspend, annul, amend or revoke a decision; common risk criteria and standards, control me ...[+++]asures and priority control areas; the management of the tariff quota and tariff ceilings and the management of the surveillance of the release for free circulation or export of goods; the determination of the tariff classification of goods; the temporary derogation from the rules on preferential origin of goods benefiting from preferential measures adopted unilaterally by the Union; the determination of the origin of goods; the temporary prohibitions relating to the use of comprehensive guarantees; the mutual assistance between the customs authorities in case of incurrence of a customs debt; decisions on repayment or remission of an amount of import or export duty; the official opening hours of customs offices; the determination of the tariff subheading of the goods which are subject to the highest rate of import or export duty where a consignment is made of goods falling under different tariff subheadings; Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers.

Based on the WTO draft, the Commission, as part of the modernisation process, has adapted the Customs Code and developed different binding rules of origin for non-preferential origin.

N. whereas it is the customs authorities of the individual EU Member States which are responsible for checking the validity of claims regarding the preferential origin of products imported into the EU; whereas the customs authorities, despite their best endeavours, cannot possibly check and control each and every proof-of-origin document and every consignment preferentially imported from Israel into the EU; whereas the Convention may compound this logistical challenge by expanding the number of partner countries that cumulate working or processing with materials exported by Israel when exporti ...[+++]ng products under their agreements with the EU;

N. whereas it is the customs authorities of the individual EU Member States which are responsible for checking the validity of claims regarding the preferential origin of products imported into the EU; whereas the customs authorities, despite their best endeavours, cannot possibly check and control each and every proof-of-origin document and every consignment preferentially imported from Israel into the EU; whereas the Convention may compound this logistical challenge by expanding the number of partner countries that cumulate working or processing with materials exported by Israel when exportin ...[+++]g products under their agreements with the EU;

We note that there is an imbalance in the proposal between preferential origin on the one hand and non-preferential origin and customs value on the other, the key principles of which are laid down in the Code itself (albeit in a simplified manner compared to the current Code, as far as non-preferential origin is concerned).