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On 9 February 2017, the Official Journal published Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/217 of 5 December 2016 amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences. The criteria for granting tariff preferences under the general arrangement of the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) provide that a country that has been classified by the World Bank as a high-income or an upper-middle income country for three consecutive years, or a country that benefits from a preferential market access arrangement which provides the same tariff preferences as the GSP, or better, for substantially all trade, should not benefit from GSP.  The list of GSP beneficiary countries is reviewed annually. If a country’s status changes, it is given time for an orderly adaption to the new status.