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II 
(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Recommendation for a Council Regulation on the conclusion of a Protocol to the 
Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Portuguese Republic 
consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Community 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 23 June 1981) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 
European Economic Community, and in particular 
Articles 113 and 235 thereof, 
Having regard to the recommendation from the 
Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Whereas it is necessary to approve the Protocol to the 
Agreement between the European Economic 
Community and the Portuguese Republic (') to take 
account of the accession of the Hellenic Republic to 
the Community, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 
The Protocol is hereby approved on behalf of the 
Community. 
The text of the Protocol is annexed to this 
Regulation. 
Article 2 
The President of the Council shall give the 
notification provided for in Article 18 of the 
Protocol. 
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
(') OJ No L 301, 31. 12. 1972, p. 165. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
No C 238/2 Official Journal of the European Communities 17.9. 81 
DRAFT 
PROTOCOL 
to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Portuguese 
Republic consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the Community 
HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, 
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK, 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC, 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, 
THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, 
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG, 
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, 
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND 
NORTHERN IRELAND, 
whose States are Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the European Economic 
Community, and 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
of the one part, and 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC, 
of other part, 
Considering the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Communities on 1 January 
1981, 
Having regard to the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Portuguese 
Republic signed at Brussels on 22 July 1972 and subsequently amended and supplemented, 
hereinafter called 'the Agreement', 
Have decided to determine by common accord the adjustments to the Agreement and transitional 
measures consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Economic 
Community and to conclude this Protocol. 
To this end they have designated as their plenipotentiaries: 
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Article 1 
The Hellenic Republic hereby becomes party to the 
Additional Protocol to the Agreement and to the 
Joint Declaration to the Final Act signed at Brussels 
on 20 September 1976. 
TITLE I 
Adjustments 
Article 2 
The text of the Agreement, including the Annexes 
and Protocols which form an integral part thereof, 
and the declarations annexed to the Final Act, drawn 
up in Greek, shall be authentic in the same way as the 
original texts. The Joint Committee shall approve the 
Greek version. 
Article 3 
1. For products falling within Chapter 48 or 49 of 
the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Portugal which are not listed in Annex I, the Hellenic 
Republic shall apply the provisions laid down in the 
table contained in Article 1 (3) of Protocol 1 to the 
Agreement. 
2. Subject to Article 9 of this Protocol, the 
Portuguese Republic shall apply Article 4 (1) of 
Protocol 1 to the Agreement to all products covered 
by that Article and imported from the Hellenic 
Republic. 
Article 4 
1. Article 4 (1) of the Additional Protocol, as 
amended by Article 5 of the Supplementary Protocol, 
is replaced by the following text: 
' 1. For the period 1 January 1980 to 31 December 
1983, imports into the Community as originally 
constituted, into Greece and into Ireland of the 
following products originating in Portugal shall be 
subject to annual ceilings free of customs duties: 
CCT 
heading 
No 
48.01 Description 
Paper and paperboard (including cellulose wadding), in 
rolls or sheets: 
C. Kraft paper and kraft board: 
ex II. Other: 
— Kraft liner 
F. Other Ceiling 
(tonnes) 
62 000 
2 000 
When a ceiling on imports of a product is reached, 
the Community may re-introduce residual duties 
for the product in question until the end of the 
calendar year.' 
2. Subject to such ceiling, Greece shall accord 
imports originating in Portugal the same tariff 
treatment as it accords the Community of Nine. 
3. Should the Community re-introduce residual 
duties for the product in question, Greece shall 
charge duties calculated in accordance with Articles 
6 and 7 of this Protocol. 4. Under the ceiling indicated in paragraph 1, 
where imports into Greece of kraft liner falling 
within subheading ex 48.01 C II of the Common 
Customs Tariff reach 2 000 tonnes, the Hellenic 
Republic may re-introduce customs duties as 
specified in paragraph 3. 
Article 5 
1. The volumes of the Community tariff quotas 
provided for in Article 9 of the Supplementary 
Protocol to the Agreement shall be increased as 
follows for the products indicated: 
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CCT heading 
No Description Volume of 
tariff quota 
22.05 Wine of fresh grapes; grape must with fermentation 
arrested by the addition of alcohol: 
C. Other: 
I. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not 
exceeding 13% vol, in containers holding: 
ex a) Two litres or less: 
— Verde 
Other: 
I. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not 
exceeding 13% vol, in containers holding: 
ex a) Two litres or less: 
— Dao 
II. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume 
exceeding 13% vol but not exceeding 15% vol, 
in containers holding: 
ex a) Two litres or less: 
— Dao 
III. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume 
exceeding 15% vol but not exceeding 18% vol, 
in containers holding: 
a) Two litres or less: 
ex 1. Port, Madeira, sherry, Tokay (Aszu 
and Szamorodni) and Setubal 
muscatel ('): 
— Port 
IV. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume 
exceeding 18% vol but not exceeding 22% vol, 
in containers holding: 
a) Two litres or less: 
ex 1. Port, Madeira, sherry, Tokay (Aszu 
and Szamorodni) and Setubal 
muscatel ('): 
— Port 
C. III. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume 
exceeding 15% vol but not exceeding 18% vol, 
in containers holding: 
a) Two litres or less: 
ex 1. Port, Madeira, sherry, Tokay (Aszu 
and Szamorodni) and Setubal 
muscatel ('): 
— Madeira 
IV. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume 
exceeding 18% vol but not exceeding 22% 
vol, in containers holding: 
a) Two litres or less: 
ex 1. Port, Madeira, sherry, Tokay 
(Aszu and Szamorodni) and 
Setubal muscatel (*): 
— Madeira 5 025 hi 
2 010 hi 
100 400 hi 
4 050 hi 
(') Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent 
authorities. 
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2. Subject to such Community tariff quotas, Greece 
shall apply customs duties calculated in accordance 
with Article 13 of this Protocol. 
TITLE II 
Transitional measures 
Article 6 
1. For the products listed in Annex I, other than 
pectates falling within heading No ex 13.03 of the 
Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic Republic 
shall progressively abolish customs duties on 
products originating in Portugal in accordance with 
the following timetable: 
— on the date of this Protocol's entry in force, each 
duty shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic duty, 
— on 1 January 1982, each duty shall be reduced to 
80 % of the basic duty, 
— the other four reductions of 20 % each shall be 
made on: 
— 1 January 1983, 
— 1 January 1984, 
— 1 January 1985, 
— 1 January 1986. 
2. In respect of pectates falling within heading No 
ex 13.03 of the Common Customs Tariff, the Hellenic 
Republic shall progressively reduce the difference 
between the basic duty and the duty resulting from 
the application of the Agreement in accordance with 
the timetable set out in paragraph 1. 
Article 7 
1. For the products listed in Annex I, the basic duty 
to which the successive reductions as provided for in 
Article 6 are to be applied shall, for each product, be 
the duty actually applied by the Hellenic Republic in 
respect of Portugal on 1 July 1980. 
2. However, in respect of matches falling within 
heading No 36.06 of the Common Customs Tariff of 
the European Communities, the basic duty shall be 
17 • 2 % ad valorem. 
Article 8 
1. For the products listed in Annex I, the Hellenic 
Republic shall progressively abolish charges having 
equivalent effect to customs duties on products 
originating in Portugal in accordance with the 
following timetable: 
— on the date of this Protocol's entry into force, 
each charge shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic 
rate, 
— on 1 January 1982, each charge shall be reduced 
to 80 % of the basic rate, :an Communities No C 238/5 
— the other four reductions of 20 % each shall be 
made on: 
— 1 January 1983, 
— 1 January 1984, 
— 1 January 1985, 
— 1 January 1986. 
2. The basic rate to which the successive reductions 
as provided for in paragraph 1 are to be applied shall, 
for each product, be the rate applied by the Hellenic 
Republic on 31 December 1980 in relation to the 
Community of Nine. 
3. Any charge having equivalent effect to a customs 
duty on imports introduced as from 1 January 1979 
in trade between the Hellenic Republic and Portugal 
shall be abolished. 
Article 9 
1. For the products listed in Annex II to this 
Protocol, List B of Annex D to Protocol 1 to the 
Agreement and Annexes I and II to the Additional 
Protocol, Portugal shall progressively abolish 
customs duties on products from Greece in 
accordance with the following timetable: 
— on the date of this Protocol's entry into force, 
each charge shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic 
rate, 
— on 1 January 1982, each charge shall be reduced 
to 80 % of the basic rate, 
— the four other reductions of 20 % each shall be 
made on: 
— 1 January 1983, 
— 1 January 1984, 
— 1 January 1985, 
— 1 January 1986. 
In no case may products from Greece be imported 
into Portugal at rates of duty more favourable than 
those applied to products from the Community of 
Nine. 
Article 10 
1. For the products listed in Article 9, the basic duty 
to which the successive reductions as provided for in 
Article 9 are to be applied shall, for each product, be 
the duty actually applied by Portugal in respect of the 
Hellenic Republic on 1 July 1980. 
2. However, the basic duties for tinder falling 
within heading No 36.08.03 of the Portuguese 
Customs Tariff and for matches falling within 
heading No 36.06 of the Portuguese Customs Tariff 
shall be 36 % and 30 % ad valorem respectively. 
Article 11 
If the Hellenic Republic suspends or reduces duties 
or charges of equivalent effect on products imported 
from the Community of Nine more quickly than laid 
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down in the timetable, it shall also suspend or reduce, 
by the same percentage, those duties or charges of 
equivalent effect on products originating in 
Portugal. 
Article 12 
1. The variable component which the Hellenic 
Republic may apply in accordance with the 
provisions of Article 1 of Protocol 2 to the Agreement 
to the products listed in Table 1 of that Protocol and 
originating in Portugal shall be adjusted by the 
compensatory amount applied in trade between the 
Community of Nine and Greece. 
2. On the products which are listed in Table I of 
Protocol 2 to the Agreement and also in Annex I to 
this Protocol, the Hellenic Republic shall abolish, in 
accordance with the timetable set out in Article 6, the 
difference between: 
— the fixed component of the duty to be applied by 
the Hellenic Republic upon accession, and 
— the duty (other than the variable component) 
shown in the last column of Table I of Protocol 
2. 
Article 13 
With regard to the products listed in Annex II to the 
EEC Treaty, the preferential rates stipulated or 
calculated shall be applied to the duties actually 
levied by the Hellenic Republic on imports from 
third countries as provided in Article 64 of the 1979 
Act of Accession. 
In no case may products orginating in Portugal be 
imported into Greece at rates of customs duty more 
favourable than those applied to imports from the 
Community of Nine. 
Article 14 
1. The Hellenic Republic may retain quantitative 
restrictions until 31 December 1985 on products 
listed in Annex III to this Protocol and originating in 
Portugal. 
2. The restrictions referred to in paragraph 1 shall 
take the form of quotas. The quotas for 1981 are listed 
in Annex III. 
3. The minimum rate of progressive increase for 
such quotas shall be 25 % at the beginning of each for 
quotas expressed in units of account, and 20 % at the 
beginning of each year for quotas expressed in terms of volume. Such increases shall be added to each 
quota and the next increase calculated on the basis of 
the total thus obtained. 
Where a quota is expressed in terms of both volume 
and value, the quota relating to the volume shall be 
raised by at least 20 % a year and the quota relating to 
the value by at least 25 % a year, the succeeding 
quotas to be calculated each year on the basis of the 
preceding quota plus the increase. 
However, with regard to motor coaches and buses 
and other vehicles falling within subheading ex 87.02 
A I of the Common Customs Tariff, the quota shall 
be raised by 20 % a year. 
4. Where it is found that imports into Greece of a 
product listed in Annex III have for two consecutive 
years been less than 90 % of the quota, the Hellenic 
Republic shall liberalize imports of that product 
originating in Portugal if the product in question is at 
that time liberalized vis-a-vis the Community of 
Nine. 
5. If the Hellenic Republic Liberalizes imports 
from the Community of Nine of a product listed in 
Annex III or increases a quota beyond the minimum 
rate applicable to the Community of Nine, it shall 
also liberalize imports of that product originating in 
Portugal or increase the quota proportionally. 
6. Regarding licences for imports of products listed 
in Annex III and originating in Portugal, the 
Hellenic Republic shall apply the same 
administrative rules and practices as applied to such 
imports originating in the Community of Nine, with 
the exception of the quota for fertilizers falling within 
heading No 31.02 or 31.03 or subheading 31.05 A I, II 
or IV of the Common Customs Tariff of the 
European Communities, for which the Hellenic 
Republic may apply the rules and practices relevant 
to the exercise of exclusive marketing rights. 
Article 15 
1. Import deposits and cash payments in force in 
Greece on 31 December 1980 with regard to products 
originating in Portugal shall be eliminated in 
accordance with the following timetable: 
— on the date of this Protocol's entry into force: 
25 %, 
— 1 January 1982:25%, 
— 1 January 1983: 25%, 
— 1 January 1984: 25%. 
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2. For imports of products listed in Annex II to the 
EEC Treaty and originating in Portugal, Greece shall 
on entry into force of this Protocol abolish charges 
having equivalent effect to customs duties and 
measures having equivalent effect to quantitative 
restrictions (such as import deposits, cash payment 
schemes or validation of invoices) subject to Article 
65 of the 1979 Act of Accession. 
3. If, in relation to the Community of Nine, the 
Hellenic Republic reduces the rate of import deposits 
or cash payments more quickly than under the 
timetable set out in paragraphs 1 and 2, it shall make 
the same reduction with regard to imports originating 
in Portugal. 
TITLE III 
General and final provisions 
Article 16 
The Joint Committee shall make any amendments 
which may be necessary to the origin rules consequent upon the accession of the Hellenic 
Republic to the European Communities. 
Article 17 
The Annexes to this Protocol form an integral part 
thereof. This Protocol forms an integral part of the 
Agreement. 
Article 18 
This Protocol shall be approved by the Contracting 
Parties in accordance with their own procedures. It 
shall enter into force on the first day of the second 
month following notification by the Contracting 
Parties of the completion of such procedures. 
Article 19 
This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, 
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian and 
Portuguese languages, each of these texts being 
equally authentic. 
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ANNEX I 
List referred to in Article 6 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
Chapter 13 
ex 13.03 
Chapter 15 
ex 15.10 
Chapter 17 
17.04 
Chapter 18 
18.06 
Chapter 19 
ex 19.02 
19.03 
19.05 
ex 19.07 
19.08 
Chapter 21 
ex 21.02 
ex 21.04 
ex 21.06 
Chapter 22 
ex 22.02 Description 
Pectates 
Products obtained from pinewood, with a fatty acid content of 90% or more 
by weight 
Sugar confectionery, not containing cocoa 
Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa 
Malt extract 
Macaroni, spaghetti and similar products 
Prepared foods obtained by swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products 
(puffed rice, corn flakes and similar products) 
Bread, ships' biscuits and other ordinary bakers' wares, not containing added 
sugar, honey, eggs, fats, cheese or fruit 
Pastry, biscuits, cakes and other fine bakers' wares, whether or not containing 
cocoa in any proportion 
Roasted coffee substitutes other than roasted chicory; extracts, essences and 
concentrates of roasted coffee substitutes other than of roasted chicory 
Sauces; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings other than fluid mango 
chutney 
Baker's yeast and inactive natural yeasts 
Lemonade, flavoured spa waters and flavoured aerated waters and other non­
alcoholic beverages, not including fruit and vegetable juices falling within 
heading No 20.07 
— not containing milk or milkfats but containing sugar (sucrose or invert 
sugar) 
or 
— containing milk or milkfats 
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Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
22.03 
22.06 
ex 22.09 
Chapter 25 
25.20 
25.22 
25.23 
ex 25.30 
ex 25.32 
Chapter 27 
27.05 bis 
27.06 
27.08 
ex 27.10 
ex 27.11 
27.12 
27.13 
27.14 
27.15 
27.16 
Chapter 28 
ex 28.01 
ex 28.04 
ex 28.06 Description 
Beer made from malt 
Vermouths, and other wines or fresh grapes flavoured with aromatic 
extracts 
Spirituous beverages, containing eggs or egg yolks and/or sugar (sucrose or 
invert sugar) 
Gypsum; anhydrite; calcined gypsum, and plasters with a basis of calcium 
sulphate, whether or not coloured, but not including plasters specially 
prepared for use in dentistry 
Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and 
hydroxide 
Portland cement, ciment fondu, slag cement, supersulphate cement and 
similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of 
clinker 
Crude natural boric acid containing not more than 85% of H3BO3 calculated 
on the dry weight 
Earth colours, whether or not calcined or mixed together; santorin, 
pozzolana, trass and similar earths, used in making hydraulic cements, 
whether or not powdered 
Coal gas, water gas, producer gas and similar gases 
Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, and other mineral tars, 
including partially distilled tars and blends of pitch with creosote oils or with 
other coal tar distillation products 
Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars 
Mineral oils and greases for lubricating purposes 
Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons, excluding propane of a 
purity not less than 99% for use other than as a power or heating fuel 
Petroleum jelly 
Paraffin wax, micro-crystalline wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, peat 
wax and other mineral waxes, whether or not coloured 
Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils or of 
oils obtained from bituminous minerals 
Bitumen and asphalt, natural: bituminous shale, asphaltic rock and tar 
sands 
Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on natural bitumen, on 
petroleum bitumen, on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (for example, 
bituminous mastics, cut-backs) 
Chlorine 
Hydrogen, oxygen (including ozone) and nitrogen 
Hydrochloric acid 
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Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
28.08 
28.09 
28.10 
28.12 
28.13 
28.15 
28.16 
28.17 
ex 28.19 
ex 28.20 
28.22 
ex 28.23 
ex 28.27 
28.29 
ex 28.30 
ex 28.31 
28.35 
28.36 
28.37 
ex 28.38 
ex 28.40 
ex 28.42 
ex 28.44 
ex 28.45 
ex 28.46 
ex 28.48 
28.54 
ex 28.56 
ex 28.58 Description 
Sulphuric acid; oleum 
Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids 
Phosphorus pentoxide and phosphoric acids (meta-, ortho- and pyro-) 
Boric oxide boric acid 
Other inorganic acids and oxygen compounds of non-metals (excluding 
water) 
Sulphides or non-metals; phosphorus trisulphide 
Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution 
Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); 
peroxides of sodium or potassium 
Zinc oxide 
Artificial corundum 
Manganese oxides 
Iron oxides, including earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of 
combined iron evaluated as Fe2C>3 
Red lead and litharge 
Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroborates and other complex fluorine salts 
Magnesium chloride, calcium chloride 
Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites 
Sulphides; polysulphides 
Dithionites, including those stabilized with organic substances; 
sulphoxylates 
Sulphites and thiosulphates 
Sodium, barium, iron, zinc, magnesium and aluminium sulphates; alums 
Phosphites, hypophosphites and phosphates, excluding bibasic lead 
phosphate 
Carbonates, including commercial ammonium carbonate containing 
ammonium carbamate, excluding lead hydrocarbonate (white lead) 
Mercury fulminate 
Sodium silicate and potassium silicate, including commercial grades 
Refined borax 
Arsenites and arsenates 
Hydrogen peroxide (including solid hydrogen peroxide) 
Silicon, boron and calcium carbides 
Distilled and conductivity water and water of similar purity 
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Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) Description 
Chapter 29 
ex 29.01 Hydrocarbons for use as power or heating fuels; Naphthalene and 
anthracene 
ex 29.04 Amyl alcohols 
29.06 Phenols and phenol-alcohols 
ex 29.08 Amylethyl ether (diamyl ether), diethyl ether, anethole 
ex 29.14 Palmitic, stearic and oleic acids and their water soluble salts; anhydrides 
ex 29.16 Tartaric, citric and gallic acids; calcium tartrate 
ex 29.21 Nitroglycerine 
ex 29.42 Nicotine sulphate 
29.43 Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose, glucose and lacrose; sugar ethers 
and sugar esters, and their salts, other than products of heading Nos 29.39, 
29.41 and 29.42 
Chapter 30 
ex 30.02 
ex 30.03 
30.04 Antisera 
Medicaments (including veterinary medicaments), excluding the following 
products: 
— Anti-asthmatic-cigarettes 
— Quinine, cinchonine, quinidine and their salts, whether or not in the form 
of proprietary products 
— Morphine, cocaine and other narcotics, whether or not in the form of 
proprietary products 
— Antibiotics and preparations based on antibiotics 
— Vitamins and preparations based on vitamins 
— Sulphonamides, hormones and preparations based on hormones 
Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, 
adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical 
substances or put up in retail packings for medical or surgical purposes, other 
than goods specified in Note 3 to this Chapter 
Chapter 31 
ex 31.03 
31.05 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, phosphatic, excluding: 
— Basic slag 
— Disintegrated (calcined) calcium phosphates (thermo phosphates and 
fused phosphates) and calcined natural aluminium calcium phosphates 
— Calcium hydrogen phosphate containing not less than 0-2% of fluorine 
Other fertilizers; goods of the present Chapter in tablets, lozenges and similar 
prepared forms or in packings of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg 
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Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
Chapter 32 
ex 32.01 
ex 32.04 
ex 32.05 
32.06 
ex 32.07 
32.08 
32.09 
32.11 
32.12 
32.13 
Chapter 33 
ex 33.01 
ex 33.06 
Chapter 34 Description 
Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins (tannic acids), including water-
extracted gall-nut tannin 
Colouring matter of vegetable origin (including dyewood extract and other 
vegetable dyeing extracts, but excluding indigo, henna and chlorophyll) or of 
animal origin, excluding cochineal extract and kermes 
Synthetic organic dyestuffs (including pigment dyestuffs and excluding 
artificial indigo); synthetic organic products of a kind used as luminophores; 
products of the kind known as optical bleaching agents, substantive to the 
fibre 
Colour lakes 
Other colouring matter, excluding: 
(a) inorganic pigments or pigments of mineral origin, whether or not 
containing other substances facilitating dyeing, based on cadmium 
salts, 
(b) chrome colours and Prussian blue; inorganic products of a kind used as 
luminophores 
Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colours, vitrifiable 
enamels and glazes, liquid lustres and similar products, of the kind used in the 
ceramic, enamelling and glass industries; engobes (slips); glass frit and other 
glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes 
Varnishes and lacquers; distempers; prepared water pigments of the kind 
used for finishing leather; paints and enamels; pigments dispersed in linseed 
oil, white spirit, spirits of turpentine, or other media of a kind used in the 
manufacture of paints or enamels; stamping foils; dyes or other colouring 
matter in forms or packings of a kind sold by retail; solutions as defined by 
Note 4 to this Chapter 
Prepared driers 
Glaziers' putty; grafting putty; painters' fillings; non-refractory surfacing 
preparations; stopping, sealing and similar mastics, including resin mastics 
and cements 
Writing ink, printing ink and other inks 
Essential oils (terpeneless or not); concretes and absolutes, excluding 
essences of roses, rosemary, eucalyptus, sandalwood and cedar; resinoids; 
concentrates of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, or in waxes or the like, 
obtained by cold absorption or by maceration 
Eau de Cologne and other toilet waters; cosmetics and products for the care 
of the skin, hair and nails; toothpowders and toothpastes, products for oral 
hygiene; room deodorizers, prepared, whether or not perfumed 
Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating 
preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing and scouring 
preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes and 'dental 
waxes' 
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Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
Chapter 35 
Chapter 36 
Chapter 37 
37.03 
Chapter 38 
38.03 
38.09 
ex 38.11 
38.18 
ex 38.19 
Chapter 39 
ex 39.02 
ex 39.01 
ex 39.02 
ex 39.03 
ex 39.04 
ex 39.05 
ex 39.06 
ex 39.07 
Chapter 40 Description 
Albuminoidal substances, excluding ovalbumin and lactalbumin; glues, 
enzymes 
Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain 
combustible preparations 
Sensitized paper; paperboard and cloth, unexposed or exposed but not 
developed 
Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, 
including spent animal black 
Wood tar; wood tar oils (other than the composite solvents and thinners 
falling within heading No 38.18); wood creosote; wood naphtha; acetone oil; 
vegetable pitch of all kinds; brewers' pitch and similar compounds based on 
rosin or on vegetable pitch; foundry core binders based on natural resinous 
products 
Disinfectants insecticides, rat poisons, pesticides and similar products, put up 
in the form of articles such as sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, fly­
papers, sticks coated with hexachlorodyclohexane (BHC) and the like; 
preparations consisting of an active product (such as DDT) mixed with other 
materials and put up in aerosol containers ready for use 
Composite solvents and thinners for varnishes and similar products 
Preparations known as 'liquids for hydraulic transmission' (in particular for 
hydraulic brakes) containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or of 
oils obtained from bituminous minerals 
Polyvinyl chloride 
Polystyrene in all its forms; other plastic materials, cellulose ethers and esters, 
artificial resins, excluding: 
(a) those in the form of granules, flakes, powders, waste and scrap to be used 
as raw materials for the manufacture of the products mentioned in this 
Chapter 
(b) ion exchangers 
Articles of materials of the kinds described in heading Nos 39.01 to 39.06, 
excluding fans and hand screens, non-mechanical, frames and handles 
therefor and parts of such frames and handles, and spools, reels and similar 
supports for photographic and cinematographic film or for tapes, films and 
the like falling within heading No 92.12 
Rubber, synthetic rubber, factice, and articles thereof, excluding heading 
Nos 40.01, 40.02, 40.03 and 40.04, latex (ex 40.06), solutions and dispersions 
(ex 40.06), protective clothing for surgeons and radiologists and divers' suits 
(ex 40.13), and bulk forms or blocks, scrap,waste and powder of hardened 
rubber (ebonite and vulcanite) (ex 40.15) 
No C 238/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 17.9. 81 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
Chapter 41 
Chapter 42 
Chapter 43 
Chapter 44 
Chapter 45 
45.03 
45.04 
Chapter 46 
Chapter 48 
ex 48.01 
48.03 
48.04 
ex 48.05 
ex 48.07 
ex 48.13 Description 
Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather, excluding parchment-
dressed leather and articles falling within heading Nos 41.01 and 41.09 
Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar 
containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk worm gut) 
Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof 
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal, excluding heading No 44.07, 
articles of fibre building board (ex 44.21, ex 44.23, ex 44.27, ex 44.28), spools, 
reels and similar supports for photographic and cinematographic film or for 
tapes, films and the like falling within heading No 92.12 (ex 44.26) and wood 
paving blocks (ex 44.28) 
Articles of natural cork 
Agglomerated cork (being cork agglomerated with or without a binding 
substance) and articles of agglomerated cork 
Manufacture of straw, of esparto and of other plaiting materials; basketware 
and wickerwork, excluding plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, 
for all uses, whether or not assembled into strips (ex 46.02) 
Paper and paperboard (including cellulose wadding), in rolls or sheets 
excluding the following products: 
— Ordinary newsprint made from chemical and mechanical pulp, weighing 
not more than 60 g/m2 
— Magazine paper 
— Cigarette paper 
— Tissue paper 
— Filter paper 
— Cellulose wadding 
— Hand-made paper and paperboard 
Parchment or greaseproof paper and paperboard, and imitations thereof, and 
glazed transparent paper, in rolls or sheets 
Composite paper or paperboard (made by sticking flat layers together with an 
adhesive), not surface-coated or impregnated, whether or not internally 
reinforced, in rolls or sheets 
Paper and paperboard, corrugated (with or without flat surface sheets) 
embossed in rolls or sheets 
Paper and paperboard, impregnated, coated, surface-coloured, surface-
decorated or printed (not constituting printed matter within Chapter 49) in 
rolls or sheets, excluding squared paper, gold paper or silver paper and 
imitations thereof, transfer paper, indicator paper and unsensitized 
photographic paper 
Carbon paper 
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Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) Description 
48.14 Writing blocks, envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards, correspondence 
cards; boxes, pouches, wallets and writing compendiums, of paper or 
paperboard, containing only an assortment of paper stationery 
ex 48.15 Other paper or paperboard, cut to size or shape, excluding cigarette paper, 
tapes for teletype machines, perforated tapes for monotype machines and 
calculating machines, filter paper and filter boards (including those for 
cigarette filter tips) and gummed strip 
48.16 Boxes, bags and other packing containers, of paper or paperboard; box files, 
letter trays, storage boxes and similar articles, of paper or paperboard, of a 
kind commonly used in offices, shops and the like 
48.18 Registers, exercise books, note books, memorandum blocks, order books, 
receipt books, diaries, blotting pads, binders (loose-leaf or other), file covers 
and other stationery of paper or paperboard; sample and other albums and 
book covers, of paper or paperboard 
48.19 Paper or paperboard labels, whether or not printed or gummed 
ex 48.21 Lamp shades; tablecloths and serviettes, handkerchiefs and towels; dishes, 
plates, cups, table-mats, bottle-mats, glass-mats 
Chapter 49 
ex 49.01 
ex 49.03 
ex 49.07 
49.09 
ex 49.10 
ex 49.11 Printed books, booklets, brochures and leaflets in the Greek language 
Children's picture books and painting books, printed wholly or partly in the 
Greek language 
Stamps not intended for public service 
Picture postcards, Christmas and other picture greeting cards, printed by any 
process, with or without trimmings 
Calendars of any kind, of paper or paperboard, including calendar blocks, 
but excluding calendars intended for publicity purposes, in other languages 
than Greek 
Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs, but 
excluding the following articles: 
— Theatrical and photographic studio scenery 
— Printed matter for publicity purposes (including travel publicity), printed 
in other languages than Greek 
Chapter 50 
Chapter 51 
Chapter 52 
Chapter 53 Silk and waste silk 
Man-made fibres (continuous) 
Metallized textiles 
Wool and other animal hair, excluding raw, bleached and undyed products of 
heading Nos 53.01, 53.02, 53.03 and 53.04 
No C 238/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 17. 9. 81 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
Chapter 54 
Chapter 55 
Chapter 56 
Chapter 57 
Chapter 58 
Chapter 59 
Chapter 60 
Chapter 61 
Chapter 62 
Chapter 63 
Chapter 64 
Chapter 65 
Chapter 66 
66.01 
Chapter 67 
ex 67.01 
67.02 
Chapter 68 
68.04 Description 
Flax and ramie, excluding heading No 54.01 
Cotton 
Man-made fibres (discontinuous) 
Other vegetable textile materials, excluding No 57.01; paper yarn and woven 
fabrics of paper yarn 
Carpets, mats, matting and tapestries; pile and chenille fabrics; narrow 
fabrics; trimmings; tulle and other net fabrics; lace; embroidery 
Wadding and felt; twine, cordage, ropes and cables; special fabrics; 
impregnated and coated fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for 
industrial use 
Knitted and crocheted goods 
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories of textile fabric, other than 
knitted or crocheted goods 
Other made-up textile articles, excluding fans and hand screens (ex 62.05) 
Old clothing and other textile articles; rags 
Footwear, gaiters and the like, parts of such articles 
Headgear and parts thereof 
Umbrellas and sunshades (including walking-stick umbrellas, umbrella tents, 
and garden and similar umbrellas) 
Feather dusters 
Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof; articles made of artificial 
flowers, foliage or fruit 
Hand polishing stones, whetstones, oilstones, bones and the like, and 
millstones, grindstones, grinding wheels and the like (including grinding, 
sharpening, polishing, trueing and cutting wheels, heads, discs and points), of 
natural stone (agglomerated or not), of agglomerated natural or artificial 
abrasives, or of pottery, with or without cores, shanks, sockets, axles and the 
like of other materials, but without frameworks; segments and other finished 
parts of such stones and wheels, of natural stone (agglomerated or not), of 
agglomerated natural or artificial abrasives, or of pottery 
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Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
68.06 
68.09 
68.10 
68.11 
68.12 
68.14 
Chapter 69 
Chapter 70 
70.04 
70.05 
ex 70.06 
ex 70.07 
70.08 
70.09 
70.10 Description 
Natural or artificial abrasive powder or grain, on a base of woven fabric, of 
paper, or paperboard or of other materials, whether or not cut to shape or 
sewn or otherwise made up 
Panels, boards, tiles, blocks and similar articles of vegetable fibre, of wood 
fibre, of straw, of wood shavings or of wood waste (including sawdust), 
agglomerated with cement, plaster or with other mineral binding 
substances 
Articles of plastering material 
Articles of cement (including slag cement), of concrete or of artificial stone 
(including granulated marble agglomerated with cement), reinforced or 
not 
Articles of asbestos-cement, of cellulose fibre-cement or the like 
Friction material (segments, discs, washers, strips, sheets, plates, rolls and the 
like) of a kind suitable for brakes, for clutches or the like, with a basis of 
asbestos, other mineral substances or of cellulose, whether or not combined 
with textile or other materials 
Ceramic products, excluding heading Nos 69.01,69.02, other than bricks with 
a basis of magnesite and of magnesito-chromite, 69.03, 69.04 and 69.05, 
utensils and apparatus for laboratory and industrial use, containers for the 
transport of acids and other chemical products and articles, of a kind used in 
agriculture, of heading No 69.09, and porcelain articles of heading Nos 69.10, 
69.13 and 69.14 
Unworked cast or rolled glass (including flashed or wired glass) whether 
figured or not, in rectangles 
Unworked drawn of blown glass (including flashed glass) in rectangles 
Cast, rolled, drawn or blown glass (including flashed or wired glass) in 
rectangles, surface ground or polished, but not further worked, excluding 
non-wired glass for mirrors 
Cast, rolled, drawn or blown glass (including flashed or wired glass) cut to 
shape other than rectangular shape, or bent or otherwise worked (for 
example, edge worked or engraved), whether or not surface ground or 
polished: leaded lights and the like 
Safety glass consisting of toughened or laminated glass, shaped or not 
Glass mirrors (including rear-view mirrors), unframed, framed or backed 
Carboys, bottles, jars, pots, tubular containers and similar containers, of 
glass, of a kind commonly used for the conveyance or packing of goods; 
stoppers and other closures, of glass 
No C 238/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 17. 9. 81 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) Description 
ex 70.13 Glassware (other than articles falling within heading No 70.19) of a kind 
commonly used for table, kitchen, toilet or office purposes, for indoor 
decoration, or for similar uses, excluding fire-resisting glassware of a kind 
commonly used for table or kitchen purposes, with a low coefficient of 
expansion, similar to Pyrex or Durex 
70.14 Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, 
not optically worked or of optical glass 
ex 70.15 Glass of a kind used sunglasses (but excluding glass suitable for corrective 
lenses), curved, bent, hollowed and the like 
ex 70.16 Multi-cellular glass in blocks, slabs, plates, panels and similar forms 
ex 70.17 Laboratory, hygienic and pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not 
graduated or calibrated, excluding glassware for chemical laboratories; glass 
ampoules 
ex 70.21 Other articles of glass, excluding articles for industry 
Chapter 71 
ex 71.12 
71.13 
ex 71.14 
71.16 Articles of jewellery, of silver (including silvergilt or platinum-plated silver), 
or rolled precious metal on base metal 
Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious 
metal or rolled precious metal, other than goods falling within heading 
No71.12 
Other articles of precious metal or rolled precious metal, excluding articles 
and utensils for workshops and laboratories 
Imitation jewellery 
Chapter 73 Iron and steel and articles thereof, excluding: 
(a) Products within the jurisdiction of the European Coal and Steel 
Community, falling within heading Nos 73.01, 73.02, 73.03, 73.05, 73.06, 
73.07, 73.08, 73.09, 73.10, 73.11, 73.12, 73.13, 73.15 and 73.16 
(b) Products falling within heading Nos 73.02, 73.05, 73.07 and 73.16 which 
are not within the jurisdiction of the European Coal and Steel 
Community 
(c) Heading Nos 73.04, 73.17, 73.19, 73.30, 73.33 and 73.34 and springs and 
leaves for springs, of iron or steel, for railway coaches, of heading 
No 73.35 
Chapter 74 Copper and articles thereof, excluding copper alloys containing more than 
10% by weight of nickel and articles falling within heading Nos 74.01, 74.02, 
74.06 and 74.11 
Chapter 76 Aluminium and articles thereof, excluding heading Nos 76.01 and 76.05 and 
spools, reels and similar supports for photographic and cinematographic film 
or for tapes, films and the like falling within heading No 92.12 (ex 76.16) 
Chapter 78 Lead and articles thereof 
Chapter 79 Zinc and articles thereof, excluding heading Nos 79.01, 79.02 and 79.03 
Official Journal of the European Communities No C 238/19 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) Description 
Chapter 82 
ex 82.01 Hand tools, the following: spades, shovels, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes, 
bill hooks and similar hewing tools; hay knives, grass shears, timber wedges 
and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry 
82.02 Saws (non-mechanical) and blades for hand or machine saws (including 
toothless saw blades) 
ex 82.04 Portable forges; grinding wheels with frameworks (hand or pedal operated); 
articles for domestic use 
82.09 Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other 
than knives falling within heading No 82.06, and blades therefor 
ex 82.11 Safety razor blades and blanks thereof 
ex 82.13 Other articles of cutlery (for example secateurs, hair clippers, butchers' 
cleavers, paper knives), excluding hand-operated clippers and parts 
thereof 
82.14 Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or 
tableware 
82.15 Handles of base metal for articles falling within heading Nos 82.09, 82.13 and 
82.14 
Chapter 83 Miscellaneous articles of base metal, excluding heading No 83.08, statuettes 
and other ornaments of a kind used indoors (ex 83.06) and beads and 
spangles (ex 83.09) 
Chapter 84 
ex 84.06 
ex 84.10 
ex 84.11 
ex 84.12 Spark ignition engines, petrol driven of a cylinder capacity of 220 cc or more; 
internal combustion engines, semi diesel type; internal combustion engines, 
diesel type, of 37 kW or less; engines for motor-cycles and auto-cycles 
Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids, whether or not 
fitted with measuring devices 
Air pumps and vacuum pumps (including motor and turbo-pumps); fans, 
blowers and the like, with integral motors, weighing less than 150 kg and fans 
or blowers without motor, weighing 100 kg or less 
Air-conditioning machines, self-contained, comprising a motor-driven fan 
and elements for changing the temperature and humidity of air, for domestic 
ex 84.14 Bakery ovens and parts thereof 
ex 84.15 Refrigerating cabinets and other refrigerating plant, equipped with a 
refrigerating unit 
ex 84.17 Instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electrical 
84.20 Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better), 
including weight-operated counting and checking machines; weighing 
machine weights of all kinds 
ex 84.21 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand operated) for projecting, 
dispersing or spraying liquids or powders, for domestic use; similar hand 
operated appliances for agricultural use; similar appliances for agricultural 
use, truck mounted, weighing 60 kg or less 
No C 238/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 17.9. 81 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
ex 84.24 
ex 84.25 
84.27 
ex 84.28 
84.29 
ex 84.34 
ex 84.38 
ex 84.40 
ex 84.47 
ex 84.56 
ex 84.59 
84.61 
ex 84.63 
Chapter 85 
ex 85.01 
85.03 
85.04 
ex 85.06 
85.10 
85.12 Description 
Ploughs designed for tractor or animal draught, weighing 700 kg or less; 
ploughs designed for mounting on tractors, with two or three shares or discs; 
harrows designed for tractor or animal draught, with fixed framework and 
fixed teeth; disc harrows, weighing 700 kg or less 
Threshers; maize huskers and maize threshers; harvesting machinery, animal 
drawn; straw or fodder presses; fanning mills and similar machines for 
screening seeds and cereal graders 
Presses, crushers and other machinery, of a kind used in wine making, cider 
making, fruit juice preparation or the like 
Seed crushing machines; farm-type milling machines 
Machinery of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry, and other 
machinery (other than farm type machinery) for the working of cereals or 
dried leguminous vegetables 
Printing type 
Shuttles; reeds for looms 
Washing machines, whether or not electric, for domestic use 
Machine tools for sawing and planing wood, cork, bone, ebonite (vulcanite), 
hard artificial plastic materials or other hard carving materials, other than 
machines falling within heading No 84.49 
Machinery for agglomerating, moulding or shaping ceramic paste, 
unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products 
Oil presses and mills; machines for stealing soap manufacture 
Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats 
and the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically-
controlled valves 
Speed reducers 
Generators of 20kVA output or less; motors of 74 kW or less; rotary 
converters of 37 kW or less; transformers and static converters other than for 
radio-broadcasting, radiotelephonic, radiotelegraphic and television 
receivers 
Primary cells and primary batteries 
Electric accumulators 
Room fans 
Portable electric battery and magneto lamps, other than lamps falling within 
heading No 85.09 
Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; 
electric soil heating apparatus and electric space heating apparatus; electric 
hair dressing appliances (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong 
heaters) and electric smoothing irons; electro-thermic domestic appliances; 
electric heating resistors, other than those of carbon 
17.9. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 238/21 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
ex 85.17 
ex 85.19 
ex 85.20 
ex 85.21 
85.23 
85.25 
85.26 
85.27 
Chapter 87 
ex 87.02 
87.05 
ex 87.06 
ex 87.11 
ex 87.12 
87.13 
Chapter 89 
ex 89.01 
Chapter 90 
ex 90.01 
90.03 
90.04 
ex 90.26 Description 
Electric sound signalling apparatus 
Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the 
protection of electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical 
circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge 
suppressors, plugs, lamp holders and junction boxes) 
Electric filament lamps and electric discharge lamps, excluding infra-red and 
ultra-violet lamps 
Cathode-ray tubes for television sets 
Insulated (including enamelled or anodized) electric wire, cable, bars, strip 
and the like (including co-axial cable), whether or not fitted with 
connectors 
Insulators of any material 
Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being 
fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of 
metal incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly, but not 
including insulators falling within heading No 85.25 
Electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with 
insulating material 
Motor vehicles for the public transport of persons and motor vehicles for the 
transport of goods or materials (excluding chassis mentioned in Note 2 to 
Chapter 87) 
Bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles falling within heading 
No 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03 
Chassis without engines, and parts thereof 
Invalid carriages (other than motorized or otherwise mechanically 
propelled) 
Parts and accessories of invalid carriages (other than motorized or otherwise 
mechanically propelled) 
Baby carriages and parts thereof 
Lighters and barges; tankers designed to be towed; sailing vessels; inflatable 
boats of artificial plastic materials 
Ophthalmic lenses 
Frames and mountings, and parts thereof, for spectacles, pince-nez, 
lorgnettes, goggles and the like 
Spectacles, pince-nez, lorgnettes, goggles and the like, corrective, protective 
or other 
Meters for hand-operated petrol pumps and water meters (volumetric and 
tachometric) 
No C 238/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 17. 9. 81 
Brussels 
Nomenclature 
heading No 
(CCCN) 
Chapter 92 
92.12 
Chapter 93 
ex 93.04 
ex 93.07 
Chapter 94 
Chapter 96 
Chapter 97 
97.01 
97.02 
97.03 
ex 97.05 
Chapter 98 Description 
Gramophone records and other sound or similar recordings; matrices for the 
production of records, prepared record blanks, film for mechanical sound 
recording, prepared tapes, wires, strips and like articles of a kind commonly 
used for sound or similar recording 
Sporting guns and rifles 
Wads for shotguns; sporting cartridges, cartridges for revolvers, pistols and 
walking stick guns, ball or shot cartridges for target shooting guns of calibres 
up to 9 mm; cartridge cases for sporting guns and sporting rifles, of metal and 
paperboard; bullets, shot and buckshot for sporting guns and sporting 
rifles 
Furniture and parts thereof; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions 
and similar stuffed furnishings, excluding heading No 94.02 
Brooms, brushes, powder puffs and sieves, excluding prepared knots and 
tufts for broom or brush making of heading No 96.01 and articles falling 
within heading Nos 96.05 and 96.06 
Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children (for example, toy bicycles 
and tricycles, and pedal motor cars); dolls' prams and dolls' push chairs 
Dolls 
Other toys; working models of a kind used for recreational purposes 
Streamers and confetti 
Miscellaneous manufactured articles, excluding stylograph pens falling 
within heading No 98.03 and excluding heading Nos 98.04,98.10,98.11,98.14 
and 98.15 
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ANNEX II 
Lists referred to in Article 9 
Portuguese 
customs tariff 
No 
28.08 
28.16 
01 
31.02 
02 
03 
06 
31.03 
31.05 
36.01 
36.02 
36.04 
36.06 
36.08 03 
42.02 
06 
55.05 
55.08 
01 
02 
55.09 
56.05 
02 
03 
56.07 
58.01 
58.02 
58.04 
01 
02 
03 
60.01 
02 
03 
04 
05 
61.01 
61.02 Description 
Sulphuric acid; oleum 
Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution: 
Anhydrous 
Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous: 
Ammonium nitrate: 
In packings of a gross weight of not less than 45 kg tonne 
Other 
Calcium nitrate with a nitrogen content not exceeding 16 % by weight; calcium 
magnesium nitrate 
Mineral or chemical fertilizers, phosphatic 
Other fertilizers; goods of the present Chapter in tablets, lozenges and similar 
prepared forms, or in packings ... 
Propellent powders 
Prepared explosives 
Safety fuses; detonating fuses; percussion and detonating caps; igniters; 
detonators 
Matches 
Tinder 
Travel goods, shopping-bags, handbags, satchels, etc. ... 
Other 
Cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale 
Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of cotton: 
Unbleached or bleached 
Dyed 
Other woven fabrics of cotton 
Yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste), not put up for retail sale 
Of synthetic textile fibres 
Of regenerated textile fibres 
Woven fabrics of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste), put up for retail 
sale 
Carpets, carpeting and rugs, knotted (made up or not) 
Other carpets, carpeting, rugs, mats and matting... (made up or not) 
Woven pile fabrics and chenille fabrics... 
Of silk 
Of man-made fibres 
Of wool or of fine animal hair 
Knitted or crocheted fabric, not elastic or rubberized: 
Of man-made fibres: 
Continuous 
Discontinuous 
Of wool or of fine animal hair 
Of other fibres 
Men's and boys' outer garments 
Women's, girls' and infants' outer garments 
No C 238/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 17. 9. 81 
Portuguese 
customs tariff 
No 
61.03 
61.04 
61.05 
64.02 
64.04 
64.05 
82.02 
84.21 
84.53 
84.55 
85.13 
85.15 
90.24 
92.12 01 
02 
03 
04 
01 
02 
03 
04 
04 
05 
01 
02 
01 
01 
02 
05 
01 
02 
03 
04 
05 
01 
01 Description 
Men's and boy's under garments... 
Women's, girls' and infants' under garments 
Handkerchiefs 
Footwear with outer soles of leather or composition leather; footwear ... with 
outer soles of rubber or artificial plastic material: 
Of fabrics of silk or of man-made fibres 
Of leather, with uppers of a height of more than 30 cm ... pair, 
Other, with outer soles of leather or of leather with outer soles of rubber 
Other 
Footwear with outer soles of other materials 
Parts of footwear ... of any material except metal: 
Of fabric 
Of leather 
Of rubber or artificial plastic materials 
Of other materials 
Saws (non-mechanical) and blades for hand or machine saws ... 
Circular-saw blades 
Other 
Mechanical appliances ... for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or 
powders; ... 
Sprinkler watering appliances 
Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; ... 
Other 
Parts and accessories ... suitable for use solely with machines of a kind falling 
within heading No 84.51, 84.52, 84.53 or 84.54: 
For machines falling within heading No 84.51, 84.52 or 84.54 
Electrical line telephonic and telegraphic apparatus . .. 
Telegraphic apparatus 
Telephonic apparatus: 
Telephone sets, receivers and parts 
Parts 
Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ... 
Radio-broadcasting reception apparatus 
Television reception apparatus 
Other apparatus 
Input radio-frequency tuning units 
Other parts 
Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or automatically controlling 
the flow, depth, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for 
automatically controlling temperature (for example, pressure gauges, 
thermostats, level gauges, flow meters, heat meters, automatic oven-draught 
regulators), not being articles falling within heading No 90.14: 
Thermostats and manostats 
Gramophone records and other sound or similar recordings; matrices for the 
production of records, prepared record blanks, film for mechanical sound 
recording, prepared tapes, wires, strips and like articles of a kind commonly used 
for sound or similar recording: 
Sound-recording media: 
Prepared for recording: 
Wires, strips and tapes 
17. 9. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 238/25 
ANNEX III 
List referred to in Article 14 
CCT 
heading 
No 
31.02 
31.03 
31.05 
ex 73.37 
ex 84.01 
84.06 
84.10 Description 
Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous 
Mineral or chemical fertilizers, phosphatic 
Other fertilizers; goods of the present Chapter in tablets, 
lozenges and similar prepared forms or in packings of a 
gross weight not exceeding 10 kg: 
A. Other fertilizers : 
I. Containing the three fertilizing substances: 
nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium 
II. Containing the two fertilizing substances: 
nitrogen and phosphorus 
IV. Other 
Boilers (excluding boilers of heading No 84.01) and 
radiators, for central heating, not electrically heated, 
and parts thereof, of iron or steel; air heaters and hot air 
distributors (including those which can also distribute 
cool or conditioned air), not electrically heated, 
incorporating a motor-driven fan or blower, and parts 
thereof, of iron or steel: 
— Boilers for central heating 
Steam and other vapour generating boilers (excluding 
central heating hot water boilers capable also of 
producing low pressure steam); super heated water 
boilers: 
— Of a power of 32 MW or less 
Internal combustion piston engines: 
C. Other engines: 
ex II. Compression ignition engines: 
— Of a power of less than 37 kW 
Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for 
liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring devices; 
liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and 
similar kinds: 
ex A. Delivery pumps fitted, or designed to be fitted, 
with a measuring device, other than pumps for 
dispensing fuel 
B. Other pumps 
C. Liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band 
and similar kinds Quotas for the 
period 1 January 
to 31 December 
1981 
620 tonnes 
2 500 EUA 
5 000EUA 
14 000 EUA 
> 60 000 EUA 
No C 238/26 Official Journal of the European Communities 17. 9. 81 
CCT 
heading 
No 
84.14 
ex 84.20 
85.01 
85.15 Description 
Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, non­
electric: 
exB. Other: 
— Parts of steel, for cement ovens 
Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity 
of 5 eg or better) including weight-operated counting 
and checking machines; weighing machine weights of 
all kinds, other than: 
— Baby scales 
— Precision scales graduated in grams for domestic 
use 
— Weighing machine weights of all kinds 
Electrical goods of the following descriptions: 
generators, motors, converters (rotary or static), 
transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus, 
inductors: 
A. Generators, motors (whether or not equipped 
with speed reducing, changing or step-up gear) 
and rotary converters: 
ex II. Other: 
Motors of an output of not less than 
370 W and not more than 15000 W 
ex C. Parts: 
For motors of an output of not less than 370 
and not more than 15000 W 
Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and 
reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television 
transmission and reception apparatus (including 
receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) 
and television cameras; radio navigational aid 
apparatus, radar apparatus and radio remote control 
apparatus: 
A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission 
and reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and 
television transmission and reception apparatus 
(including receivers incorporating sound recorders 
or reproducers) and television cameras: 
ex III. Receivers, whether or not incorporating 
sound recorders or reproducers: 
— Television Quotas for the 
period 1 January 
to 31 December 
1981 
000 EUA 
16 000 EUA 
2 220 EUA 
130 000 EUA 
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CCT 
heading 
No 
85.15 
(cont'd) 
ex 85.23 
87.02 
87.05 Description 
C. Parts: 
I. Cabinets and cases: 
ex a) Of wood: 
— For television receivers 
ex b) Of other materials: 
— For television receivers 
ex III. Other: 
— Chassis for television receivers and their 
parts, assembled or mounted 
— Printed circuit boards for television 
receivers 
Insulated (including enamelled or anodized) electric 
wire, cable, bars, strip and the like (including co-axial 
cable), whether or not fitted with connectors: 
— Cables for television aerials 
Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods or 
materials (including sports motor vehicles, other than 
those of heading No 87.09): 
A. For the transport of persons, including vehicles 
designed for the transport of both passengers and 
goods: 
I. With either a spark ignition or a compression 
ignition engine: 
ex a) Motor vehicles and buses with either a 
spark ignition engine of a cylinder 
capacity of 2800 cc or more or a 
compression ignition engine of a cylinder 
capacity of 2 500 cc or more: 
— Complete motor buses and coaches 
ex b) Other: 
— Complete, with a seating capacity of 
more than six 
Bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles falling 
within heading No 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03: 
ex A. Bodies and cabs of metal for the industrial 
assembly of: 
— Agricultural walking tractors falling within 
subheading 87.01 A 
— Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, 
including vehicles designed for the transport 
of both passengers and goods, with a seating 
capacity of more than six and less than 15 Quotas for the 
period 1 January 
to 31 December 
1981 
-• 125 000 EUA 
50 000 EUA 
3 300 EUA 
• 150 000 ERE 
-
No C 238/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 17.9. 81 
CCT 
heading 
No 
87.05 
(cont'd) Description 
— Motor vehicles for the transport of goods or 
materials, with either a spark ignition engine 
of a cylinder capacity of less than 2 800 cc or a 
compression ignition engine of a cylinder 
capacity of less than 2 500 cc 
— Special purpose motor lorries and vans of 
heading No 87.03 (a) 
exB. Other: 
— Bodies and cabs of metal, other than for 
motor vehicles for the transport of persons, 
with a seating capacity of six or less Quotas for the 
period 1 January 
to 31 December 
1981 
1 000 EUA 
(a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent 
authorities. 
17. 9. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 238/29 
ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL 
to the Agreement between the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community 
and the European Coal and Steel Community of the one part, and the Portuguese Republic 
of the other part, consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the 
Community 
THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM, 
THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK, 
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, 
THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC, 
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, 
THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, 
THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, 
THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG, 
THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, 
THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, 
being Members of the European Coal and Steel Community, and 
THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, 
of the one part, and 
THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC, 
of the other part, 
considering the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Communities on 1 January 
1981, 
having regard to the Agreement between the Member States of the European Coal and Steel 
Community and the European Coal and Steel Community, of the one part, and the Portuguese 
Republic, of the other part, signed at Brussels on 22 July 1972, and hereinafter called 'the 
Agreement', 
have decided to determine by common accord the adjustments to the Agreement and transitional 
measures consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic to the European Coal and Steel 
Community and to conclude this Protocol: 
No C 238/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 17.9. 81 
Article 1 
The Hellenic Republic hereby accedes to the 
Agreement. 
TITLE I 
Adjustments 
Article 2 
The text of the Agreement and the Final Act with the 
declarations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in 
Greek and shall be authentic in the same way as the 
original texts. The Joint Committee shall approve the 
Greek text. 
TITLE II 
Transitional measures 
Article 3 
For the products covered by the Agreement, the 
Hellenic Republic and Portugal shall progressively 
abolish customs duties in accordance with the 
following timetable: 
— on the date of this Protocol's entry into force, 
each duty shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic 
duty, 
— on I January 1982, each duty shall be reduced to 
80 % of the basic duty, 
— the four other reductions of 20 % each shall be 
made on: 
— 1 January 1983, 
— 1 January 1984, 
— 1 January 1985, 
— 1 January 1988. 
Article 4 
The basic duty to which the successive reductions as 
provided for in Article 3 are to be applied shall, for 
each product, be the duty actually applied on 1 July 
1980. 
Article 5 
1. The Hellenic Republic shall progressively 
abolish charges having equivalent effect to customs 
duties on products originating in Portugal in 
accordance with the following timetable: — on the date of this Protocol's entry into force, 
each charge shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic 
rate, 
— on 1 January 1982, each charge shall be reduced 
to 80 % of the basic rate, 
— the four other reductions of 20 % each shall be 
made on: 
— 1 January 1983, 
— 1 January 1984, 
— 1 January 1985, 
— 1 January 1986. 
2. The basic rate to which the successive reductions 
as provided for in paragraph 1 are to be applied shall, 
for each product, be the rate applied by the Hellenic 
Republic on 31 December 1980 in respect of the 
Community of Nine. 
3. Any charge having equivalent effect to a customs 
duty on imports, introduced as from 1 January 1979, 
in trade between the Hellenic Republic and Portugal 
shall be abolished. 
Article 6 
If the Hellenic Republic suspends or reduces customs 
duties or charges having equivalent effect on 
products imported from the Community of Nine 
more quickly than determined by the timetable set 
out in Articles 3 and 5, the Hellenic Republic shall 
also suspend or reduce to the same level those duties 
or charges having equivalent effect on products 
originating in Portugal. 
Article 7 
1. Import deposits and cash payments in force in 
Greece on 31 December 1980 with regard to products 
originating in Portugal shall be progressively 
eliminated in accordance with the following 
timetable: 
— from the date of this Protocol's entry into force: 
25 %, 
— 1 January 1982: 25%, 
— 1 January 1983: 25%, 
— 1 January 1984: 25 %. 
2. If in relation to the Community of Nine the 
Hellenic Republic reduces the rate of import deposits 
or cash payments more quickly than determined by 
the timetable set out in paragraph 1, the Hellenic 
Republic shall make the same reduction with regard 
to imports originating in Portugal. 
17.9. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 238/31 
Article 8 
1. Until 31 December 1985, iron and steel 
undertakings in Greece are authorized to apply the 
system of multiple points chosen for basing their 
price lists. 
2. Until 31 December 1985, the prices charged by 
undertakings in Portugal for sales of iron and steel 
products on the Greek market, reduced to their 
equivalent at the point chosen for their price lists, 
may not be below the prices shown in the price lists in 
question for comparable transactions. This provision 
is applicable as long as undertakings in the other nine 
Member States are not granted authorizations 
derogating from this provision. The Community will 
inform Portugal immediately of any such derogation. 
From that date Portuguese undertakings may take 
advantage of the conditions of the authorizations 
mentioned above. Undertakings in Portugal shall 
retain the right to align their delivered prices in 
Greece on those charged there by third countries for 
the same products. 
The first subparagraph shall only concern alignment 
of Portuguese undertakings and of undertakings in 
the other nine Member States on price lists of 
producers in Portugal, the Hellenic Republic and the 
other nine Member States for products actually 
produced in Greece on 1 January 1981. The 
Community will provide Portugal with a list of such 
products. TITLE III 
General and final provisions 
Article 9 
The Joint Committee shall make any amendments 
which may be necessary to the origin rules 
consequent on the accession of the Hellenic Republic 
to the European Communities. 
Article 10 
This Protocol forms an integral part of the 
Agreement. 
Article 11 
This Protocol shall be approved by the Contracting 
Parties in accordance with their own procedures. It 
shall enter into force on the first day of the second 
month following notification of the completion of 
the necessary procedures by the Contracting 
Parties. 
Article 12 
This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in the Danish, 
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian and 
Portuguese languages, each of these texts being 
equally authentic.