beneficiary countriesmeans countries benefitting from any of the preferential arrangements under the GSP;
Common Customs Tariff dutiesmeans the customs duties specified in Part Two of Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, except those duties established as part of tariff quotas;
complaintmeans a complaint submitted to the Commission through the Single Entry Point (SEP).
countriesmeans countries and territories that have a customs administration;
effective implementationmeans the integral implementation of the undertakings and obligations undertaken under the relevant conventions, thus ensuring fulfilment of the principles, objectives and rights guaranteed in the relevant conventions in the beneficiary country’s entire territory, including in any areas of that territory that the beneficiary country has designated as a special economic zone or an export processing zone;
enhanced engagementmeans a continuous process aiming to facilitate and incentivise beneficiary countries to make progress in the implementation of the conditions set out in this Regulation, or to address shortcomings in respecting the principles of the relevant conventions;
interested partiesincludes those parties involved in the production, distribution or sale of the imported products referred to in paragraph 1 and of like products or directly competing products.
least-developed countriesmeans least-developed countries designated as such by the UN;
like productmeans a product which is identical, that is to say 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.
plan of actionmeans a list of measures provided by a GSP+ requesting country to effectively implement the relevant conventions;
preferential market access arrangementmeans preferential access to the Union market through a trade agreement, either provisionally applied or in force, or through autonomous preferences granted by the Union;
Sensitive/non-sensitiverefers to the products included in the standard GSP (Article 6).
standard GSP beneficiary countriesmeans countries benefitting from the standard GSP as listed in Annex I and identified as such in column C thereof;