Stabilisation and Association process in the Western Balkans: exceptional trade preferences

PURPOSE : the codification of exceptional trade measures for the countries involved in the EU's Stabilisation and Association process. CONTENT : this proposal aims to undertake a codification of Council Regulation 2007/2000 introducing exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the EU's Stabilisation and Association process, amending Regulation 2820/98/EC, and repealing Regulations 1763/1999/EC and 6/2003/EC. The new Regulation will supersede the various Regulations incorporated in it. The proposal fully preserves the substance of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself. Insofar as the Articles have been given new numbers, the correlation between the old and the new numbers is shown in a table set out in Annex IV to the codified Regulation.�