consignment — products which are either: sent simultaneously from one exporter to one consignee; or covered by a single transport document covering their shipment from the exporter to the consignee or, in the absence of such document, by a single invoice (n)

customs value — the value as determined in accordance with the 1994 Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation) (g)

EPA countries — regions or states which are part of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and which have concluded agreements establishing, or leading to the establishment of, Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA), when such an EPA is either provisionally applied, or enters into force, whichever is the earlier (a)

ex-works price — the price paid for the product ex-works to the manufacturer in whose undertaking the last working or processing is carried out, provided that the price includes the value of all the materials used and all other costs related to its production, minus any internal taxes which are, or may be, repaid when the product obtained is exported. Where the actual price paid does not reflect all costs related to the manufacturing of the product which are actually incurred in the OCTs, the ex-works price means the sum of all those costs, minus any internal taxes which are, or may be, repaid when the product obtained is exported. For the purpose of this definition, where the last working or processing has been subcontracted to a manufacturer, the term ‘manufacturer’ referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph may refer to the enterprise that has employed the subcontractor (i)

exporter — a person exporting the goods to the Union or to an OCTs who is able to prove the origin of the goods, whether or not the person is the manufacturer and whether or not they themselves carry out the export formalities (o)

financing decision — the act adopted by the Commission specifying the details of the Union’s financial contribution and authorizing to grant financial aid from the European Development Fund (g)

fungible materials — materials that are of the same kind and commercial quality, with the same technical and physical characteristics, and which cannot be distinguished from one another once they are incorporated into the finished product (f)

goods — both materials and products (e)

GSP country — a country or territory as defined in Article 2(d) of Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) (r)

interested parties — those parties involved in the production, distribution and/or sale of the imports mentioned in Article 2(1) of this Annex and of like or directly competing products (b)

legal person of an OCTs — a legal person of the OCTs set up in accordance with the laws applicable in a given OCTs, and having its registered office, its central administration, or its principal place of business in the territory in this OCTs; should the legal person have only its registered office or central administration in the OCTs, it shall not be considered as a legal person of the OCTs, unless it engages in an activity which has a real and continuous link with the economy of that country or territory (b)

like product — a product which is identical, namely alike in all respects, to the product under consideration, or, in the absence of such a product, another product which, although not alike in all respects, has characteristics closely resembling those of the product under consideration (a)

major trading economy — any developed country, or any country accounting for a share of world merchandise exports above one per cent, or, without prejudice to paragraph 3, any group of countries acting individually, collectively or through an economic integration agreement accounting collectively for a share of world merchandise exports above 1,5 %. For this calculation the latest available official data by the WTO on leading exporters in world merchandise trade (excluding intra-Union trade) shall be used art_45__para_4

manufacture — any kind of working or processing including assembly (b)

material — any ingredient, raw material, component or part, etc., used in the manufacture of the product (c)

maximum content of non-originating materials — the maximum content of non-originating materials which is permitted in order to consider a manufacture as working or processing sufficient to confer originating status on the product. It may be expressed as a percentage of the ex-works price of the product or as a percentage of the net weight of these materials used falling under a specified group of chapters, chapter, heading or sub-heading (j)

natural person from an OCTs — a person ordinarily resident in an OCTs who is a national of a Member State or who enjoys a legal status specific to an OCTs. This definition is without prejudice to the rights conferred by citizenship of the Union within the meaning of the TFEU (a)

net weight — the weight of the goods themselves without packing materials and packing containers of any kind (k)

OCTs concerned — the OCTs benefitting from the operation anx_III__art_3__para__2

origin — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own (d)

product — the product being manufactured, even if it is intended for later use in another manufacturing operation (d)

programmable aid — the non-repayable aid under the European Development Fund allocated to the OCTs in order to finance territorial or regional strategies and priorities set out in programming documents (a)

programming — the process of organisation, decision-making and allocation of indicative financial resources intended to implement, on a multi-annual basis, in an area referred to in Part Two of this Decision, the action to achieve the association’s objectives for the sustainable development of the OCTs (b)

programming document — the document which sets out the OCTs’s strategy, priorities and arrangements and translates the objectives and targets of the OCTs for its sustainable development in an effective and efficient way to pursue the objectives of the association (c)

regional allocation — the amount allocated for the programmable aid under the European Development Fund in order to finance regional cooperation strategies or thematic priorities common to several OCTs and set out in programming documents (f)

registered exporter — an exporter who is registered with the competent authorities of the OCTs concerned or of the Union for the purpose of making out statements on origin for the purpose of exporting under this Decision (p)

statement on origin — a statement made out by the exporter indicating that the products covered by it comply with the rules of origin of this Annex, for the purpose of allowing either the person declaring the goods for release for free circulation in the Union to claim the benefit of preferential tariff treatment or the economic operator in a OCTs importing materials for further processing in the context of cumulation rules to prove the originating status of such goods (q)

sub-headings — the chapters, the headings and sub-headings (four- or six-digit codes) used in the nomenclature which makes up the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonised System) with the changes pursuant to the Recommendation of 26 June 2004 of the Customs Cooperation Council; ‘classified’ refers to the classification of a product or material under a particular heading or sub-heading of the Harmonised System Article 1

territorial allocation — the amount allocated to individual OCTs for the programmable aid under the European Development Fund in order to finance territorial strategies and priorities set out in programming documents (e)