Council Decision (EU) 2018/1560 of 15 October 2018 establishing the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the EPA Committee set up by the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d'Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of a Decision of the EPA Committee concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union

Article 81 of the Agreement is replaced by the following:

Article 81

Authentic texts

This Agreement is drawn up in duplicate in the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish languages, each of these texts being equally authentic..

Article 3

The Union shall communicate the Croatian language version of the Agreement to Côte d'Ivoire.

Article 4

1. The provisions of the Agreement shall apply to goods exported from either Côte d'Ivoire to the Republic of Croatia or from the Republic of Croatia to Côte d'Ivoire which comply with the rules of origin in force in the territory of the Parties to the Agreement and which, on 3 September 2016, were either in transit or in temporary storage, in a customs warehouse or in a free zone in Côte d'Ivoire or in the Republic of Croatia.

1. Preferential treatment shall be granted in the cases referred to in paragraph 1, provided that a proof of origin issued retroactively by the customs authorities of the exporting country is submitted to the customs authorities of the importing country within four months of the date of entry into force of this Decision.

Article 5

Côte d'Ivoire undertakes not to make any claim, request or referral nor to modify or withdraw any concession pursuant to Article XXIV.6 and Article XXVIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994 or Article XXI of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in relation to the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the Union.

Article 6

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its signature.

However, Articles 3 and 4 shall apply from 3 September 2016.

Done at …,

For Côte d'Ivoire

For the European Union