COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVKJNITIES 
C0M(91) 450 final 
Brussels, 15 November 1991 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
totally or partially suspending die duties applicable to' certain products falling within 
Chapters 1 to 24 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Malu (1992) 
(presented by the Commission) 
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EXPLANATORY MEM3RANDUM 
1. The Council has decided that from 1 January 1974 Malta should benefit 
from treatment no less favourable that that granted to countries which 
benefit from the Generalized System of Preferences. 
The aim of the attached Regulation is to implement that decision for 
the year 1992. It unilaterally suspends, totally or partially, the 
Common Customs Tariff duties on products falling within Chapters 1 to 
24, In ULne with the Commission's proposal for the generalized Systeml 
of preferences. 
2. Within the limits of these suspensions, Spain and Portugal will apply 
customs duties calculated in accordance with the Protocol to the 
Agreement between the EBC and Malta consequent on the accession of 
Spain and Portugal. 
3. The proposal concerns only those products which are of interest to 
Malta and for which the Community arrangements in respect of Malta are 
not more favourable than those laid down in the Generalized System of 
Preferences. 
4. Attention is drawn to the fact that both the arrangements set out in 
the Regulation and the list of products contained in the Annex are 
directly related to the proposal which the Commission has presented to 
the Council concerning generalized preferences for products falling 
within Chapters 1 to 24. 
The attached proposal will therefore need to be aligned on the 
definitive text of the Regulation referred to above when it has been 
adopted by the Council. It may therefore amend its proposal in the 
course of the procedure in order to adapt it, where necessary, to 
requirements. 
Annex: proposal for a Regulation 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 
of /91 
totally or partially suspending the duties applicable to certain products falling within 
Chapters 1 to 24 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Malta (1992) 
mi: COUNCIL oi iin: UUROPKAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 
thereof, 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 of 
11 November 1980 laying down the trade arrangements 
applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of 
agricultural products ('), and in particular Article 12 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas, pursuant to Annex I to the Agreement establishing 
an Association between the European Economic Community 
and Malta (2), the Community must partially suspend the 
Common Customs Tariff duties applicable to certain 
products; whereas it would also be appropriate provisionally 
to adjust or supplement certain of the tariff benefits provided 
for in the said Annex; whereas, in respect of products listed 
in the Annex to this Regulation and originating in Malta, 
the Community should accordingly suspend the fixed 
component of the charge applicable to goods covered by 
Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 and the customs duty 
applicable to other goods at the levels indicated for each 
product from 1 January to 31 December 199?, 
Whereas in the context of the said tariff suspensions, the 
Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic will apply 
customs duties calculated in accordance with the said 
Protocol to the Agreement establishing an Association 
between the European Economic Community and Malta 
consequent on the accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the 
Portuguese Republic to the Community (3), 
HAS ADOITUD PHIS RIXJUIA HON: 
Article 1 
1. From 1 January to 31 December 199 2products listed 
in the Annex and originating in Malta shall be imported into 
the Community at the rates of duty indicated in the Annex for 
each product. 
(') OJ No I. 323, 29. 11. 1980, p. 1. 
(') OJ No I. 61, 14.3. 1971, p. 3. 
(') OJ No 1.81, 23. 3. 1989, p. 11. Within the context of these tarif! suspensions the Kingdom of 
Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties 
calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of 
the Protocol to the Association Agreement between the 
European Economic Community and Malta consequent on 
the accession of Spain and Portugal. 
2. For the purposes of applying this Regulation, the rules 
of origin shall be those in force at the time for the 
implementation of the Agreement establishing an 
Association between the European Economic Community 
and Malta. 
Article 2 
Where products benefiting from the arrangements, provided 
for in Article 1 are imported into the Community in such 
quantities or at such prices that they cause or threaten to 
cause material injury to Community producers of like or 
directly competing products, the duties applicable may be 
partially or totally reimposed on the products concerned. 
Such measures may be taken also in the event of material 
injury or threat of material injury limited to one region of the 
Community. 
Article 3 
1. In order to implement Article 2 the Commission may 
adopt a Regulation reimposing customs duties for a given 
period. 
2. Where a Member State asks the Commission to adopt 
such a Regulation, the Commission shall reach its decision 
within a maximum of 10 working days from the day on 
which it receives the request and shall inform the Member 
States of the action taken. 
3. Any Member State may refer the measure taken by the 
Commission to the Council within 10 working days of 
notification. The fact that the matter is referred to the 
Council shall not cause the measure to be suspended. The 
Council shall meet immediately. It may, acting on a qualified 
majority, amend or rescind the measure in question. 
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 1 January 
1992. 
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the Council 
The President 
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ANNHX 
List of products falling within Chapters 1 to 24 originating in Malta (a) 
Older 
No 
(D 
16.0040 
16.0055 
16.0060 
16.0070 
16.0160 
16.0210 
16.0230 
16.0330 
16.0340 
16.0350 
16.0360 
16.0370 
16.0380 
16.0400 
16.0410 
16.0420 
16.0500 
16.0510 
16.0520 
16.0530 
16.0540 
16.0550 CN code 
(2) 
0206 10 99 
0206 21 00 
0206 29 99 
0208 10 10 
0208 10 90 
0208 20 00 
0302 65 
0303 75 
0304 10 11 
0304 20 11 
0306 12 
0306 13 10 
0306 13 90 
0306 14 
0306 19 10 
ex 0306 19 90 
0306 22 
0306 23 10 
0306 23 90 
0307 39 90 
0307 41 
0307 49 11 
0307 49 19 
0307 49 31 
0307 49 33 
0307 49 35 
0307 49 38 
0307 49 51 
0307 49 71 
0307 49 91 
0307 49 99 Description 
(3) 
Edible offal fresh, chilled or frozen 
Of bovine animals 
Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen 
of domestic rabbits 
Of rabbits, other than domestic rabbits, or hares 
Of frogs' legs 
Dogfish and other sharks 
Dogfish and other sharks 
Fish fillets and other fish meat, fresh, chilled or frozen 
Frozen fillets of trout 
Lobsters 
Shrimps and prawns 
Other shrimps and prawns 
Crabs 
Freshwater crayfish 
Perullus spp. 
Lobsters 
Shrimps and prawns 
Other shrimps and prawns 
Mussels (Perna ssp.) 
Cuttlefish and squid 
Cuttlefish 
Squid 
Cuttlefish 
Squid Rate of 
duty (b) 
(4) 
2% 
7% 
Free 
4% 
4% 
10% 
4% 
4,5% 
4% 
4% 
4,5% 
4% 
5,5% 
4% 
(a) Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no 
more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes. Where ex CN codes 
arc indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken together. 
(b) Without prejudice to the levying of any additional duties applicable. 
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(1) 
16.0560 (2) 
0307 51 00 
0307 59 10 
0307 59 90 
0307 91 00 
0307 9913 
0307 99 19 
0307 99 90 
16.0570 
16.0580 0409 00 00 
ex 0410 00 00 
ex 0410 00 00 
16.0690 
16.0734 0603 90 00 
0707 0019 
16.0740 
ex 0709 20 00 
16.0750 
16.0760 ex 0709 30 00 
ex 0709 40 00 
16.0790 ex 0709 90 90 
16.0825 
16.0860 
16.0880 
16.1070 071140 00 
ex 0712 30 00 
0713 10 90 
ex 0807 10 10 (3) 
Octopus 
Natural honey 
Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included 
- Royal jelly 
Other 
Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, 
dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared 
Cucumbers, fresh or chilled, from 16 May to 31 October 
Other vegetable, fresh or chilled 
Asparagus, from 31 October 
Aubergines, from 1 January to 31 March 
Celery, other than celeriac, from 1 January to 31 March (4) 
4% 
25% 
4% 
2% 
7% 
16% 
12% 
9% 
Pumpkins and courgettes, from 1 January to the last day of February 
Other, excluding parsleyl from 1 January to. 31 March 
r—Ï ft-L.~ «j^t^-jg esçulentus L. or AbeUnoschus 
Cucumbers and gherkins 
Mushrooms, excluding cultivated mushrooms 
16.1300 0814 00 00 
16.1610 
16.1620 1212 1091 
1212 10 99 
16.2020 
1515 21 10 Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split 
Watermelons, from 1 November to 30 April 
Peel of citrus fruit or melons, fresh, frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in 
sulphur water or in other preservative solutions 
Locust bean seeds, not decorticated, crushed or ground 
Other locust bean seeds 9% 
12% 
6% 
2% 
6,5% 
Free 
Free 
6% 
Other fixed vegetable fats and poils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions 
Maize (corn) oil and its fractious for technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture 
of foodstuffs for human consumption (e) 2/% 
7*-
(1) 
16.2290 
16.2510 
16.2520 
16.2580 
16.2600 
16.2610 
16.2620 
16.2630 
16.2660 
16.2670 
16.2680 
16.2690 
16.2700 
16.2750 
16.2800 (2) 
ex 1602 90 31 
1704 90 30 
ex 1704 90 51 
1704 90 55 
1704 90 61 
1704 90 65 
1704 90 71 
1704 90 75 
1704 90 81 
1704 90 99 
ex 1901 10 00 
1901 20 00 
ex 1901 90 90 
1904 10 10 
1904 10 30 
1904 10 90 
1904 90 10 
1904 90 90 
1905 10 00 
1905 90 10 
1905 90 20 
1905 90 30 
2001 20 00 
2001 90 50 
ex 2001 90 80 
ex 2004 90 30 
2005 90 30 (3) 
Prepared or preserved rabbit 
While chocolate 
Other pastes, including marzipan 
Throat pastilles and cough drops 
Sugar-coated (panned) goods 
Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery 
Boiled sweets whether or not filled 
Toffees, caramels and similar sweets 
Compressed tablets 
Other 
Food preparations of flour, meal, starch nor malt extract, not containing cocoa powder or 
containing cocoa powder in a proportion by weight of less than 50%, not elsewhere 
specified or included; food preparations of goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not 
containing cocoa powder or containing cocoa powder in a proportion by weight of less than 
10 %, not elsewhere specified or included 
Preparations for infant use, put for retail sale,not Containing CâCaO DOWder 
Mixed and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No 1905 
Other / not containing cacao powder 
Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for 
example, corn flakes), cereals, other than maize (corn), in grain form, pre-cooked or 
otherwise prepared 
Prepared food obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products 
Of rice 
Of other cereals 
Crispbrcad 
Matzos 
Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing 
wafers, rice paper and similar products 
Bread 
Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or 
acetic acid 
Onions 
- Mushrooms 
— Other, excluding 'mixed pickles', sweet peppers 
Capers 
Capers (4) 
14% 
4% 
6% 
Free 
Free 
3% 
2% 
Free 
Free 
Free 
4% 
14% 
14% 
12% 
12% 
cF-
(i) 
16.2820 (2) 
ex 2006 00 39 
16.2830 ex 2006 00 90 
16.2840 
ex 2007 10 90 
16.2850 
ex 2007 91 10 
ex 2007 91 30 (3) 
Fruits, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or 
crystallized) 
Other, with a sugar content exceeding 13% by weight 
Fruit falling within heading Nos 0801, 0803, 0804 (except figs and pineapples), 
0805 40 00,0807 20 00,0810 20 90,0810 30 90,0810 40 10,0810 40 50,0810 40 90, 
0810 90 10, 0810 90 30 and 0810 90 80 
Other, than with a sugar content not exceeding 13% 
Fruit falling within heading Nos 0801, 0803, 0804 (except figs and pineapples), 
0805 40 00,0807 20 00,0810 30 90,0810 40 10,0810 40 50,0810 40 90,0810 90 10, 
0810 90 30 and 0810 90 80 
Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, being cooked 
preparations, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 
Other 
Fruit falling within heading Nos 0K01, 0803, 0804 (excluding figs and pineapples), 
0807 20 00,0810 20 90,0810 30 90,0810 40 10,0810 40 SO, 0810 40 90,0810 90 10, 
0810 90 30 and 0810 90 80 
Jams and marmalades of citrus fruit 
With a sugar content exceeding 30% by weight, excluding orange jam and marmalade 
With sugar content exceeding 13% but not exceeding 307.. by weight, excluding orange 
jam and marmalade 
16.2860 ex 2007 91 90 
16.2865 2007 99 31 
16.2870 
16.2880 
16.2890 
16.2900 
16.3290 ex 2007 99 39 
ex 2007 10 10 
ex 2007 99 59 
ex 2007 99 90 Other, excluding orange jam and marmalade 
Jam, jellies, marmelades, cherry purée and cherry pastes with a sugar content exceeding 
30 % by weight 
With a sugar content exceeding 30 % by weight 
Fruit falling within heading Nos 0801, 0803, 0804 (except figs and pineapples), 
0807 20 00,0810 20 90,0810 30 90,0810 40 10,0810 40 50,0810 40 90,0810 90 10, 
0810 90 30 and 0810 90 80 
With a sugar content exceeding 13 7.» but not exceeding 30 7.» by weight 
Fruit falling within heading Nos 0801, 0803, 0804 (except figs and pineapples), 
0807 20 00,0810 20 90,0810 30 90,0810 40 10,0810 40 50,0810 40 90,0810 90 10, 
0810 90 30 and 0810 90 80 
Other 
Fruit falling within heading Nos 0801, 0803, 0804 (excluding figs and pineapples), 
0807 20 00,0810 20 90,0810 30 90,0810 40 10,0810 40 50,0810 40 90,0810 90 10, 
0810 90 30 and 0810 90 80 
ex 2008 11 91 
ex 2008 11 99 
2008 19 10 
2009 20 11 (4) 
6 7„ 
6 7o 
87o 
18 % 
197o 
25 7o 
8 % 
8 7o 
Fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or 6 % 
not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or 
included 
(.round-nuts 
Other, including mixtures in immediate packings of a net content exceeding 1 kg, excluding 
almonds, walnuts and hazelnuts 
Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfcrmenied and not containing 28 % 
added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 
(îrapelruit juices 
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(I) 
16..13(H) 
16.3310 
16.3320 
16.3340 
16.3360 
16.3370 
16.3400 
16.3550 
16.3580 
16.3760 (2) 
2009 20 19 
2009 20 91 
2009 20 99 
ex 2009 30 31 
ex 2009 30 39 
2009 30 91 
2009 30 95 
2009 40 30 
2009 40 91 
ex 2009 80 39 
2102 10 31 
2102 10 39 
2102 20 90 
2309 10 90 (3) 
Grapefruit juice 
Grapefruit juice 
Citrus fruit juices (excluding lemon juices) containing added sugar 
Citrus fruit juices (excluding lemon juices) not containing added sugar 
Other citrus fruit juices 
With an added sugar content exceeding 30 % by weight 
With an added sugar content not exceeding 30 % by weight 
Pineapple juice 
Pineapple juice 
Date juice 
Bakers' yeast 
Other 
Preparation of a kind used in animal feeding 
Other dog or cat food (4) 
28 7.» 
7 7u 
13 7., 
14 7o 
177o 
17% 
free 
4 7o 
Free 
3% 
Order No 
16.0380 
16.0580 
52.0740 
16.0750 
16.0760 
16.0790 Tarie codes 
CN code 
ex 0306 19 90 
ex 0410 00 00 
ex 0410 00 00 -io~ 
ex 0709 20 00 
ex 0709 30 00 
ex 0709 40 00 
ex 0709 90 90 
16.0860 
16.1070 
16.2290 
16.2520 
16.2580 ex 0712 30 00 
ex 0807 10 10 
ex 1602 90 31 
ex 1704 90 51 
ex 1901 10 00 
ex 1901 90 90 Taric code 
0106 19 90 * 20 
0410 00 00 * 10 
0410 00 00 ' 90 
0709 20 00 * 12 
* 92 
0709 30 00 • 10 
* 20 
0709 40 00 * 13 
* 91 
0709 90 90 * 12 
* 23 
* 24 
* 31 
* 51 
* 52 
*58 
* 91 
0712 30 00 * 22 
0712 30 00 * 24 -GTte-aMJO-*-27 
0807 10 10 • 10 
* 20 
1602 90 31 ' 20 
1704 90 51 • 90 
1901 10 00 * 16 
1901 10 00 * 18 
1901 10 00 * 96 
1901 10 00 * 98 
1901 90 90 * 16 
1901 90 90 * 18 
1901 90 90 * 97 
1901 90 90 * 99 
16.2700 ex 2001 90 80 
16.2750 
16.2820 
16.2830 
16.7840 
16.2850 
16.2860 
16.2870 
16.2880 
16.2890 
16.2900 
16.3320 
16.1400 ex 2004 
ex 2006 
ex 2006 
ex 2007 
ex 2007 
ex 2007 
ex 2007 
ex 2007 
ex 2007 
ex 2007 90 .10 
00 39 
00 90 
10 90 
91 10 
91 30 
91 90 
99 39 
10 10 
99 59 
ex 2007 99 90 
ex 2008 19 10 
ex 2009 
ex 2009 30 31 
30 39 
ex ?00c> 80 39 2001 90 80 • 41 
•49 
•51 
•59 
• 61 
•69 
•70 
• 92 
• 93 
• 97 
*98 
2004 90 30 * 20 
2006 00 39 • 10 
2006 00 90 MO 
2007 10 90 * 10 
2007 91 10 * 19 
2007 91 30 * 19 
2007 91 90 • 19 
2007 99 39 • 10 
2007 10 10 • 10 
2007 99 59 • 10 
2007 99 90 • 10 
2008 19 10 » 90 
2009.10 31 • 90 
2009 30 .19 • 90 
2009 «0 }« « 20 
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FINANCIAL RECORD 
1. Budget line œnoerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120 
2. Legal basis : Art. 113 of the Treaty 
3. Title of the tariff measure oonoerned : Proposal for a Council 
Regulation totally or partially suspending the duties applicable to 
certain products of Chapters 1 to 24 of the Combined Noooaenclature and 
originating in Malta (1992) 
4. Objective : Implementation of a Council Decision (to apply to Malta a 
treatment which is not less favourable than that accorded to those 
countries benefitting from generalised preferences) 
5. Method of calculation : 
OCT heading: various 
Duty to be applied: various, between 0% and 25% 
Normal OCT duty: various, between 3% and 27% 
6. Duty-loss : Duty-loss for 1992 cannot be calculated, due to the 
uncertainty as to Malta's export possibilities. 
There should be no Increase in duty-loss for 1992 as compared with 
1991. 

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