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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1236/2009 of 10 December 2009 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1236/2009of 10 December 2009amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 and amending Regulations (EC) No 552/97, (EC) No 1933/2006 and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1100/2006 and (EC) No 964/2007OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1., and in particular Article 25 thereof,After consulting the Generalised Preferences Committee,Whereas:(1)Commission Decision 2008/938/EC of 9 December 2008OJ L 334, 12.12.2008, p. 90. as amended by Decision 2009/454/ECOJ L 149, 12.6.2009, p. 78., has established the list of the beneficiary countries which qualify for the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance provided for in Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011.(2)Column E of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 should include information on the beneficiary countries of the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance. Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 10 December 2009.For the CommissionThe PresidentJosé Manuel BarrosoANNEX"ANNEX IBeneficiary countriesThis list includes countries which may have been suspended temporarily from the Community's GSP or which may not have complied with the requirements for administrative cooperation (a precondition for goods to be granted the benefit of tariff preferences). The Commission or the competent authorities of the country concerned will provide an updated list.and territories of the Community’s scheme of generalised tariff preferencesColumn Aalphabetical code, in accordance with the nomenclature of countries and territories for the external trade statistics of the CommunityColumn Bname of the country or territoryColumn Csection(s) in respect of which the tariff preferences have been removed, for the beneficiary country concerned (Article 13)Column Dcountry included in the special arrangement for the least developed countries (Article 11)Column Ecountry included in the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance (Article 7)

A	B	C		D	E
AE	United Arab Emirates
AF	Afghanistan			X
AG	Antigua and Barbuda
AI	Anguilla
AM	Armenia				X
AN	Netherlands Antilles
AO	Angola			X
AQ	Antarctica
AR	Argentina
AS	American Samoa
AW	Aruba
AZ	Azerbaijan				X
BB	Barbados
BD	Bangladesh			X
BF	Burkina Faso			X
BH	Bahrain
BI	Burundi			X
BJ	Benin			X
BM	Bermuda
BN	Brunei Darussalam
BO	Bolivia				X
BR	Brazil	S-IV	Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
BR	Brazil	S-IX	Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
BS	Bahamas
BT	Bhutan			X
BV	Bouvet Island
BW	Botswana
BY	Belarus
BZ	Belize
CC	Cocos Islands (or Keeling Islands)
CD	Congo, Democratic Republic of			X
CF	Central African Republic			X
CG	Congo
CI	Côte d’Ivoire
CK	Cook Islands
CM	Cameroon
CN	China, People’s Republic of	S-VI	Products of the chemical or allied industries
		S-VII	Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
		S-VIII	Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut)
		S-IX	Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
		S-XI(a)	Textiles; S-XI(b) Textile articles
		S-XII	Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
		S-XIII	Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware
		S-XIV	Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
		S-XV	Base metals and articles of base metal
		S-XVI	Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
		S-XVII	Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
		S-XVIII	Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
		S-XX	Miscellaneous manufactured articles
CO	Colombia				X
CR	Costa Rica				X
CU	Cuba
CV	Cape Verde			X
CX	Christmas Island
DJ	Djibouti			X
DM	Dominica
DO	Dominican Republic
DZ	Algeria
EC	Ecuador				X
EG	Egypt
ER	Eritrea			X
ET	Ethiopia			X
FJ	Fiji
FK	Falkland Islands
FM	Micronesia, Federated States of
GA	Gabon
GD	Grenada
GE	Georgia				X
GH	Ghana
GI	Gibraltar
GL	Greenland
GM	Gambia			X
GN	Guinea			X
GQ	Equatorial Guinea			X
GS	South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
GT	Guatemala				X
GU	Guam
GW	Guinea-Bissau			X
GY	Guyana
HM	Heard Island and McDonald Islands
HN	Honduras				X
HT	Haiti			X
ID	Indonesia	S-III	Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
IN	India	S-XI(a)	Textiles
IO	British Indian Ocean Territory
IQ	Iraq
IR	Iran
JM	Jamaica
JO	Jordan
KE	Kenya
KG	Kyrgyzstan
KH	Cambodia			X
KI	Kiribati			X
KM	Comoros			X
KN	St Kitts and Nevis
KW	Kuwait
KY	Cayman Islands
KZ	Kazakhstan
LA	Lao People’s Democratic Republic			X
LB	Lebanon
LC	St Lucia
LK	Sri Lanka				X
LR	Liberia			X
LS	Lesotho			X
LY	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
MA	Morocco
MG	Madagascar			X
MH	Marshall Islands
ML	Mali			X
MM	Myanmar			X
MN	Mongolia				X
MO	Macao
MP	Northern Mariana Islands
MR	Mauritania			X
MS	Montserrat
MU	Mauritius
MV	Maldives			X
MW	Malawi			X
MX	Mexico
MY	Malaysia	S-III	Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
MZ	Mozambique			X
NA	Namibia
NC	New Caledonia
NE	Niger			X
NF	Norfolk Island
NG	Nigeria
NI	Nicaragua				X
NP	Nepal			X
NR	Nauru
NU	Niue
OM	Oman
PA	Panama
PE	Peru				X
PF	French Polynesia
PG	Papua New Guinea
PH	Philippines
PK	Pakistan
PM	St Pierre and Miquelon
PN	Pitcairn
PW	Palau
PY	Paraguay				X
QA	Qatar
RU	Russian Federation
RW	Rwanda			X
SA	Saudi Arabia
SB	Solomon Islands			X
SC	Seychelles
SD	Sudan			X
SH	Saint Helena
SL	Sierra Leone			X
SN	Senegal			X
SO	Somalia			X
SR	Suriname
ST	São Tomé and Príncipe			X
SV	El Salvador				X
SY	Syrian Arab Republic
SZ	Swaziland
TC	Turks and Caicos Islands
TD	Chad			X
TF	French Southern Territories
TG	Togo			X
TH	Thailand	S-XIV	Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
TJ	Tajikistan
TK	Tokelau
TL	Timor-Leste			X
TM	Turkmenistan
TN	Tunisia
TO	Tonga
TT	Trinidad and Tobago
TV	Tuvalu			X
TZ	Tanzania			X
UA	Ukraine
UG	Uganda			X
UM	United States Minor Outlying Islands
UY	Uruguay
UZ	Uzbekistan
VC	St Vincent and the Grenadines
VE	Venezuela
VG	Virgin Islands, British
VI	Virgin Islands, US
VN	Vietnam	S-XII	Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
VU	Vanuatu			X
WF	Wallis and Futuna
WS	Samoa			X
YE	Yemen			X
YT	Mayotte
ZA	South Africa
ZM	Zambia			X
ZW	Zimbabwe"