Article 7
Insufficient working or processing 1. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, the following operations shall be considered as insufficient to confer the status of originating products, whether or not the requirements of Article 6 are satisfied: (a) operations to ensure the preservation of products in good condition during transport and storage (ventilation, spreading out, drying, chilling, placing in salt, sulphur dioxide or other aqueous solutions, removal of damaged parts and like operations); (b) simple operations consisting of removal of dust, sifting or screening, sorting, classifying, matching (including the making-up of sets of articles), washing, painting, cutting up; (c) (i) changes of packaging and breaking up and assembly of packages; (ii) simple placing in bottles, flasks, bags, cases, boxes, fixing on cards or boards etc., and all other simple packaging operations; d) affixing marks, labels and other like distinguishing signs on products or their packaging; e) simple mixing of products, whether or not of different kinds, where one or more components of the mixtures do not meet the conditions laid down in this Annex to enable them to be considered as originating in the Community or in Ceuta and Melilla; f) simple assembly of parts to constitute a complete product; g) a combination of two or more operations specified in points (a) to (f); h) slaughter of animals. 2. All the operations carried out in either the Community or Ceuta and Melilla on a given product shall be considered together when determining whether the working or processing undergone by that product is to be regarded as insufficient within the meaning of paragraph 1.