The governments of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, taking into account the need for the proper and effective functioning of the free trade zone, in order to create conditions for the free movement of goods, seeking to establish a uniform procedure for determining the country of origin of goods, agreed on the following: for the purpose of applying tariff and non-tariff regulation the Parties adopt the Rules for determining the country of origin of goods, which are an integral part of this Agreement. The procedure for determining the country of origin of goods imported into the customs territories of the states party to the Agreement from third countries and exported to third countries from these states is regulated by the national legislation of the states party to the Agreement and international treaties. Country of origin of the goods shall be intended the country in which the goods were completely produced or subjected to sufficient processing/re-processing in accordance with these Rules. Goods entirely produced in a state party to the Agreement are considered to be: (a) natural resources extracted from the subsoil of a given country, on its territory or in its territorial sea (another waterbody of the country) or from its bottom, or from the atmospheric air in the territory of a given country ; (b) plant products grown and/or collected in the country; (c) live animals born and bred in that country; (d) products obtained in that country from animals raised in that country; (e) products obtained as a result of hunting and fishing in a given country; (f) products of marine fishing and other products of marine fishing received by a vessel of this country or leased (chartered) by it; and (g) waste and scrap (recycled raw materials) obtained as a result of production or other processing operations, as well as used products collected in a given country and suitable only for processing into raw materials. The following are considered not to meet the criterion of sufficient processing/re-processing of goods: (a) peeling, partial or complete bleaching, grinding and polishing of cereals and rice; (b) operations for coloring sugar or forming lumps of sugar; (c) peeling, seeding and cutting of fruits, vegetables and nuts; (d) bottling, filling into cans, bottles, bags, boxes, containers and other simple packaging operations; (e) slaughter of animals, cutting (sorting) of meat; and (f) a combination of two or more of the above-mentioned operations. To confirm the country of origin of goods in a specific state party to the Agreement in order to provide a free trade regime, it is necessary to provide the customs authorities of the country of import with the original certificate of form ST-1 (the forms of the certificate and the additional sheet attached thereto contained in Appendices 2 and 3, respectively, which are an integral part of these Rules) or declaration of origin of the goods.