Specific provisions and arrangements are laid down in:

1. (a)

   Protocol 12 and Annex II in relation to technical regulations, standards, testing and certification;

2. (b)

   Protocol 47 in relation to the abolition of technical barriers to trade in wine;

3. (c)

   Annex III in relation to product liability.

They shall apply to all products unless otherwise specified.

Annex IV contains specific provisions and arrangements concerning energy.

Where compliance with the provisions of Articles 10 and 12 leads to:

1. (a)

   re-export towards a third country against which the exporting Contracting Party maintains, for the product concerned, quantitative export restrictions, export duties or measures or charges having equivalent effect; or

2. (b)

   a serious shortage, or threat thereof, of a product essential to the exporting Contracting Party;

and where the situations referred to above give rise, or are likely to give rise, to major difficulties for the exporting Contracting Party, that Contracting Party may take appropriate measures in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 113.

Anti-dumping measures, countervailing duties and measures against illicit commercial practices attributable to third countries shall not be applied in relations between the Contracting Parties, unless otherwise specified in this Agreement.