Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Malta concerning the improvements of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Malta, (hereinafter referred to as the "Association Agreement"), approved by Council - Regulation (EEC) No 492/71 of 1 March 1971 [1] provides for tariff concessions for agricultural products originating in Malta.

[1] OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 1

Council directives authorised the Commission to enter into negotiations with Malta with a view to improving the trade arrangement for processed agricultural products in preparation for accession.

The two parties have reached a draft agreement, which envisages completed liberalisation of trade for certain processed agricultural products and duty free quotas or a reduction of import duties for others.

For imports outside of these quotas the current trade provisions as laid down by the Association Agreement will continue to apply.

Processed Agricultural Products, not covered by Annex I to the Treaty will not be eligible for export refunds under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000 of 13 July 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods, not covered by Annex I to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amounts of such refunds [2].

[2] OJ L 177, 15.7.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 740/2003 (OJ L 106, 29.4.2003, p. 12)

The Council has authorised the implementation of this agreement in the form of autonomous and transitional measures, which have been in force since 1 November 2003. It is therefore proposed to the Council to adopt this proposal for a Decision of the Association Council to amend the Association Agreement.

2004/0034 (ACC)

Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Malta concerning the improvements of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133 in conjunction with the second subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1) The Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Malta, (hereinafter referred to as the "Association Agreement"), approved by Council - Regulation (EEC) No 492/71 of 1 March 1971 [3] provides for tariff concessions for agricultural products originating in Malta.

[3] OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 1

(2) New trade improvements have recently been negotiated which aim to improve economic convergence in preparation for accession and lay down concessions in the form of completed liberalisation of trade for certain processed agricultural products and duty free quotas for others. For imports outside of the quotas the current provisions continue to apply.

(3) Under the Association Agreement the Association Council has to decide in particular on any amendment of the duties mentioned in the annexes to this Agreement and on the increase or abolition of tariff quotas.

(4) The Association Council also decides that the duties applied may be reduced in response to reductions resulting from mutual concessions relating to processed agricultural products.

(5) The concessions to be granted by the European Union entered into force on 1 November 2003 in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1890/2003 [4] of 27 October 2003 adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Malta and the exportation of certain processed agricultural products to Malta. Regulation No 1890/2003 will be redundant and should therefore be repealed as soon as the decision of the Association Council enters into force.

[4] OJ L 278, 29.10.2003, p. 1

(6) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code [5] provide the procedures for managing the tariff quotas to be used in chronological order of the dates of the customs declarations. These procedures should be applicable for imports under the tariff Association Council Decision.

[5] OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2286/2003 (OJ L 343, 31.12.2003, p. 1)

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Association Agreement concerning bilateral trade of processed agricultural products, shall be based on a draft Decision of the Association Council attached to this Decision.

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 1890/2003 shall be repealed on the date when the Decision of the Association Council attached to this Decision enters into force.

Article 3

The tariff quotas set out in Annex II of the Decision of the Association Council shall be managed by the Commission in accordance with Articles 308a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93.

Done at Brussels, [...]

For the Council

The President

ANNEX

Proposal for an EC-Malta ASSOCIATION COUNCIL DECISION No... /2003 concerning the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products provided for in the Association Agreement

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to Article 12 of the Association Agreement between the European Economic Community and Malta,

Whereas:

(1) The Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Malta, (hereinafter referred to as the "Association Agreement"), approved by Council - Regulation (EEC) No 492/71 of 1 March 1971 [6] provides for tariff concessions for agricultural products originating in Malta.

[6] OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 1

(2) New trade improvements have recently been negotiated which aim to improve economic convergence in preparation for accession and lay down concessions in the form of completed liberalisation of trade for certain processed agricultural products and duty free quotas for others. For imports outside of the quotas the current provisions continue to apply.

(3) Council Regulation (EC) No 3010/95 of 18 December 1995 totally or partially suspending the customs duties applicable to certain products falling within Chapters 1 to 24 of the Combined Nomenclature originating in Malta [7] should continue to apply for certain goods covered by it but not listed in this Decision and for certain other goods covered by it, for which the tariff quotas opened by this Decision are exhausted.

[7] OJ L 314, 28.12.1995, p. 1, Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 779/98 (OJ L 113, 15.4.1998, p. 1

(4) For the importation of certain goods no customs duties should be applied. For certain other goods tariff quotas should be opened; those quotas should be reduced by the quantities of goods subject to the tariff quotas from 1 November 2003 used in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1890/2003 adopting autonomous measures concerning the importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Malta and the exportation of certain processed agricultural products to Malta [8].

[8] OJ L 278, 29.10.2003, p. 1

(5) On processed agricultural products covered by the Association Agreement but not listed in this Decision or for which the opened quotas are exhausted the existing trade provisions laid down by the Association Agreement should continue to apply.

(6) For processed agricultural products not covered by Annex I to the Treaty no export refunds should be granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000 of 13 July 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds [9]. This will be subject to a decision by the Commission under the procedure laid down in Council Decision No 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 [10].

[9] OJ L 177, 15.7.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 740/2003 (OJ L 106, 29.4.2003, p. 12)

[10] OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

(7) For goods originating in Malta and exported to the European Union no export refunds should be granted.

(8) The annual quotas provided for in Annex II and Annex III to this Decision should be opened for the period 1 November to 31 December 2003 and 2004.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

From 1 November 2003 on imports of processed agricultural products into the European Union and originating in Malta listed in Annex I no customs duties shall be applied.

From 1 November 2003 on imports of processed agricultural products into Malta and originating in the European Union listed in Annex I no customs duties shall be applied.

Article 2

Processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I to the Treaty originating in the European Union and exported to Malta shall not be eligible for export refunds granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000.

Processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I to the Treaty originating in Malta and exported to the European Union shall not be eligible for export refunds in Malta.

Article 3

1. The tariff quotas referred to in Annex II and Annex III shall be open from 1 November 2003 to 31 December 2003 and for 2004 under the conditions laid down therein.

2. For certain products the preferential duties listed in Annex III shall be applicable under the conditions laid down therein.

Article 4

The quantities of goods subject to tariff quotas opened under Regulation (EC) No 1890/2003, and put in free circulation from 1 November 2003, shall be fully counted against the quantities provided in the corresponding tariff quotas set out in Annex II.

Article 5

For processed agricultural products, which are not covered by Annex I, II and III or for which the quotas set out in Annex II and III are exhausted, the provisions laid down in the Association Agreement shall continue to apply.

Article 6

1. Regulation (EC) No 3010/95 shall continue to apply for the tariff concessions for the following products not covered by Annex I or II:

a) Other sugar confectionery containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) of CN Code ex 1704 90 99;

b) Other food preparations, not containing cocoa powder of CN Codes ex 1901 90 91 and ex 1901 90 99.

2. After the exhaustion of the tariff quotas covered by Annex II, Regulation (EC) No 3010/95 shall continue to apply for the tariff concessions for the following products:

a) Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No 1905 of CN Code 1901 20 00;

b) Crispbread of CN Code 1905 10 00;

c) Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not more than 5 % of fat of CN Code 1905 90 30.

Article 7

This decision shall enter into force on the first day of the month following that of its adoption.

Done at Brussels, [...]

For the Association Council

The President

ANNEX I Mutually liberalised goods - exempted from duties and equivalent Charges in the European union and in Malta

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

0501 00 00 // Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair

0502 // Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair:

0502 10 00 // -Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof

0502 90 00 // -Other

0503 00 00 // Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material

0505 // Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers:

0505 10 // -Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:

0505 10 10 // --Raw

0505 10 90 // --Other

0505 90 00 // -Other

0506 // Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products:

0506 10 00 // -Ossein and bones treated with acid

0506 90 00 // -Other

0507 // Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products:

0507 10 00 // -Ivory; ivory powder and waste

0507 90 00 // -Other

0508 00 00 // Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof

0509 00 // Natural sponges of animal origin:

0509 00 10 // -Raw

0509 00 90 // -Other

0510 00 00 // Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved

0710 // Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:

0710 40 00 // -Sweet corn

0711 // Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption:

0711 90 // -Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

// --Vegetables:

0711 90 30 // ---Sweet corn

0903 00 00 // Maté

1302 // Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

// -Vegetable saps and extracts:

1302 12 00 // --Of liquorice

1302 13 00 // --Of hops

1302 14 00 // --Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone

1302 19 // --Other:

1302 19 30 // ---Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations

// ---Other:

1302 19 91 // ----Medicinal

1302 20 // -Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

1302 20 10 // --Dry

1302 20 90 // --Other

// -Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

1302 31 00 // --Agar-agar

1302 32 // --Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds:

1302 32 10 // ---Of locust beans or locust bean seeds

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

1401 // Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned,bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark):

1401 10 00 // -Bamboos

1401 20 00 // -Rattans

1401 90 00 // -Other

1402 00 00 // Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for example, kapok, vegetable hair and eel-grass), whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material:

1403 00 00 // Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for example, broomcorn piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles:

1404 // Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:

1404 10 00 // -Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning

1404 20 00 // -Cotton linters

1404 90 00 // -Other

1505 // Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):

1505 00 10 // -Wool grease, crude

1505 00 90 // -Other

1506 00 00 // Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1515 // Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:

1515 90 15 // -- Jojoba and oiticica oils; myrtle wax and Japan Wax; their fractions

1516 // Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinized, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:

1516 20 // -Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:

1516 20 10 // --Hydrogenated castor oil, so called "opal-wax"

1518 00 // Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidized, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading No 1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, not elsewhere specified or included:

1518 00 10 // -Linoxyn

// -Other:

1518 00 91 // --Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidized, dehydrated, sulphurized, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading No1516

// --Other:

1518 00 95 // ---Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or of animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions

1518 00 99 // ---Other

1520 00 00 // Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

1521 // Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured:

1521 10 00 // - Vegetable waxes

1521 90 // -Other:

1521 90 10 // --Spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured

// --Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured:

1521 90 91 // ---Raw

1521 90 99 // ---Other

1522 00 // Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:

1522 00 10 // -Degras

1702 // Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form; sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey; caramel:

1702 50 00 // -Chemically pure fructose

1702 90 // -Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50 % by weight of fructose

1702 90 10 // --Chemically pure maltose

1704 // Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:

1704 10 // -Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

// --Containing less than 60% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 11 // ---Gum in strips

1704 10 19 // ---Other

// --Containing 60% or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 91 // ---Gum in strips

1704 10 99 // ---Other

1704 90 // -Other:

1704 90 10 // --Liquorice extract containing more than 10% by weight of sucrose but not containing other added substances

1704 90 30 // --White chocolate

// --Other:

1704 90 51 // ---Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or more

1704 90 55 // ---Throat pastilles and cough drops

1704 90 61 // ---Sugar coated (panned) goods

// ---Other:

1704 90 65 // ----Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery

1704 90 71 // ----Boiled sweets whether or not filled

1704 90 75 // ----Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

// ----Other:

1704 90 81 // -----Compressed tablets

Ex 1704 90 99 (TARIC code 1704 90 99 10) // -----Other (excluding products containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose))

1803 // Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:

1803 10 00 // -Not defatted

1803 20 00 // -Wholly or partly defatted

1804 00 00 // Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00 // Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806 // Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10 // -Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

1806 10 15 // --Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 20 // --Containing 5% or more but less than 65% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 30 // --Containing 65% or more but less than 80% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 20 // -Other preparations in block, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg:

1806 20 10 // --Containing 31% or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31% or more of cocoa butter and milk fat

1806 20 30 // --Containing a combined weight of 25% or more, but less than 31% of cocoa butter and milk fat

// --Other:

1806 20 50 // ---Containing 18% or more by weight of cocoa butter

1806 20 70 // ---Chocolate milk crumb

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

Ex 1806 20 80 (TARIC code 1806 20 80 10) // ----Chocolate flavour coating (excluding products containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose))

Ex 1806 20 95 (TARIC code 1806 20 95 10) // ----Other (excluding products containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose))

// -Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00 // --Filled

1806 32 // --Not filled

1806 32 10 // ---With added cereal, fruit or nuts

1806 32 90 // ---Other

1806 90 // -Other:

// --Chocolate and chocolate products:

// ---Chocolates, whether or not filled:

1806 90 11 // ----Containing alcohol

1806 90 19 // ----Other

// ---Other:

1806 90 31 // ----Filled

1806 90 39 // ----Not filled

1806 90 50 // --Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa

1806 90 60 // --Spreads containing cocoa

1806 90 70 // --Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages

Ex 1806 90 90 (TARIC code 1806 90 90 11 and 1806 90 90 91) // --Other (excluding products containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose))

1901 // Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:

1901 10 00 // -Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 90 // -Other:

// --Malt extract:

1901 90 11 // ---With a dry extract content of 90% or more by weight

1901 90 19 // ---Other

1902 // Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni, couscous, whether or not prepared:

// -Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:

1902 11 00 // --Containing eggs

1902 20 // -Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

// --Other:

1902 20 91 // ---Cooked

1902 20 99 // ---Other

1902 40 // -Couscous:

1902 40 10 // --Unprepared

1902 40 90 // --Other

1903 00 00 // Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar forms

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

1904 // Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, cornflakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)), in grain form, or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included:

1904 10 // -Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:

1904 10 10 // --Obtained from maize

1904 10 30 // --Obtained from rice

1904 10 90 // --Other:

1904 20 // -Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

1904 20 10 // --Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal flakes

// --Other:

1904 20 91 // ---Obtained from maize

1904 20 95 // ---Obtained from rice

1904 20 99 // ---Other

1904 30 00 // -Bulgur wheat

1904 90 // -Other:

1904 90 10 // --Rice

1904 90 80 // --Other

1905 // Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:

1905 20 // -Gingerbread and the like:

1905 20 10 // --Containing by weight less than 30% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

1905 20 30 // --Containing by weight 30% or more but less than 50% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

1905 20 90 // --Containing by weight 50% or more of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

// -Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

1905 32 // --Waffles and wafers:

// ---Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:

1905 32 11 // ----In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g

1905 32 19 // ----Other

// ---Other:

1905 32 91 // ----Salted, whether or not filled

1905 40 // -Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:

1905 40 10 // --Rusks

1905 40 90 // --Other

1905 90 // -Other:

1905 90 10 // --Matzos

1905 90 20 // --Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

2001 // Vegetables, fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:

2001 90 // -Other:

2001 90 30 // --Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2001 90 40 // --Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5% or more by weight of starch

2001 90 60 // --Palm hearts

2004 // Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading No 2006:

2004 10 // -Potatoes:

// --Other

2004 10 91 // ---In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2004 90 // -Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004 90 10 // --Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

2005 // Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading No 2006:

2005 20 // -Potatoes:

2005 20 10 // --In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 80 00 // -Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

2008 // Fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included:

// -Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

2008 11 // --Ground-nuts:

2008 11 10 // ---Peanut butter

// -Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:

2008 91 00 // --Palm hearts

2008 99 // --Other:

// ---Not containing added spirit:

// ----Not containing added sugar:

2008 99 85 // -----Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2008 99 91 // -----Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5% or more by weight of starch

2101 // Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

// -Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101 11 // --Extracts, essences or concentrates:

2101 11 11 // ---With a coffee-based dry matter content of 95% or more by weight

2101 11 19 // ---Other

2101 12 // --Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101 12 92 // ---Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates of coffee

2101 12 98 // ---Other

2101 20 // -Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences and concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté:

2101 20 20 // --Extracts, essences or concentrates

// --Preparations:

2101 20 92 // ---With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or maté

2101 20 98 // ---Other

2101 30 // -Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

// --Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 11 // ---Roasted chicory

2101 30 19 // ---Other

// --Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 91 // ---Of roasted chicory

2101 30 99 // ---Other

2102 // Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:

2102 10 // -Active yeasts:

2102 10 10 // --Culture yeast

// --Baker's yeast:

2102 10 31 // ---Dried

2102 10 39 // ---Other

2102 10 90 // --Other

2102 20 // -Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:

// --Inactive yeasts:

2102 20 11 // ---In tablet, cube or similar form, or in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg.

2102 20 19 // ---Other

2102 20 90 // --Other

2102 30 00 // -Prepared baking powders

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

2103 // Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 10 00 // -Soya sauce

2103 30 // -Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 30 10 // --Mustard flour

2103 30 90 // --Prepared mustard

2103 90 // -Other:

2103 90 10 // --Mango chutney, liquid

2103 90 30 // --Aromatic bitters of an alcoholic strength by volume of 44,2 to 49,2% vol containing from 1,5 to 6% by weight of gentian, spices and various ingredients and from 4 to 10% of sugar, in containers holding 0,5 litre or less

2104 // Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:

2104 20 00 // -Homogenised composite food preparations

2106 // Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10 // -Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:

2106 10 20 // --Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing, by weight, less than 1.5% milk fat, 5% sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch

2106 10 80 // --Other

2106 90 // -Other:

2106 90 20 // --Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages

// --Other:

2106 90 92 // ---Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing,by weight, less than 1.5% milk fat, 5% sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch

2201 10 // -Mineral waters and aerated waters:

// --Natural mineral waters:

2201 10 11 // ---Not carbonated

2201 10 19 // ---Other

2201 10 90 // --Other:

2201 90 00 // -Other

2202 // Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No 2009:

2202 10 00 // -Waters including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured

2202 90 // -Other:

2202 90 10 // --Not containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404

2205 // Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances:

2205 10 // -In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2205 10 10 // --Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less

2205 10 90 // --Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol

2205 90 // -Other:

2205 90 10 // --Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less

2205 90 90 // --Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol

2207 // Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength:

2207 10 00 // -Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher

2207 20 00 // -Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

2208 // Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

2208 20 // -Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc:

// --In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2208 20 12 // ---Cognac

2208 20 14 // ---Armagnac

2208 20 26 // ---Grappa

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2208 20 27 // ---Brandy de Jerez

2208 20 29 // ---Other

// --In containers holding more than 2 litres:

2208 20 40 // ---Raw distillate

// ---Other:

2208 20 62 // ----Cognac:

2208 20 64 // ----Armagnac

2208 20 86 // ----Grappa

2208 20 87 // ----Brandy de Jerez

2208 20 89 // ----Other

2208 30 // -Whiskies:

// --Bourbon whiskey, in containers holding:

2208 30 11 // ---2 litres or less

2208 30 19 // ---More than 2 litres

// --Scotch whisky:

// ---Malt whisky, in containers holding:

2208 30 32 // ----2 litres or less

2208 30 38 // ----More than 2 litres

// ---Blended whisky, in containers holding:

2208 30 52 // ----2 litres or less

2208 30 58 // ----More than 2 litres

// ---Other, in containers holding:

2208 30 72 // ----2 litres or less

2208 30 78 // ----More than 2 litres

// --Other in containers holding:

2208 30 82 // ---2 litres or less

2208 30 88 // ---More than 2 litres

2208 40 // -Rum and taffia:

// --In containers holding 2 litres or less

2208 40 11 // ---Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl and methyl alcohol equal to or exceeding 225 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol (with a 10 % tolerance)

// ---Other:

2208 40 31 // ----Of a value exceeding 7.9 EUR per litre of pure alcohol

2208 40 39 // ----Other

// --In containers holding more than 2 litres:

2208 40 51 // ---Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl and methyl alcohol equal to or exceeding 225 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol (with a 10 % tolerance)

// ---Other:

2208 40 91 // ----Of a value exceeding 2 EUR per litre of pure alcohol

2208 40 99 // ----Other

2208 50 // -Gin and Geneva:

// --Gin, in containers holding:

2208 50 11 // ---2 litres or less

2208 50 19 // ---More than 2 litres

// --Geneva, in containers holding:

2208 50 91 // ---2 litres or less

2208 50 99 // ---More than 2 litres

2208 60 // -Vodka:

// --Of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45.4% vol or less in containers holding:

2208 60 11 // ---2 litres or less

2208 60 19 // ---more than 2 litres

// --Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 45.4% vol in containers holding:

2208 60 91 // ---2 litres or less

2208 60 99 // ---more than 2 litres

2208 70 // -Liqueurs and cordials:

2208 70 10 // --In containers holding 2 litres or less

2208 70 90 // --In containers holding more than 2 litres

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2208 90 // -Other:

// --Arrack, in containers holding:

2208 90 11 // ---2 litres or less

2208 90 19 // ---More than 2 litres

// --Plum, pear or cherry spirit (excluding liqueurs), in containers holding:

2208 90 33 // ---2 litres or less:

2208 90 38 // ---More than 2 litres:

// --Other spirits and other spirituous beverages, in containers holding:

// ---2 litres or less:

2208 90 41 // ----Ouzo

// ----Other:

// -----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

// ------Distilled from fruit:

2208 90 45 // -------Calvados

2208 90 48 // -------Other

// ------Other:

2208 90 52 // -------Corn

2208 90 54 // -------Tequilla

2208 90 56 // -------Other

2208 90 69 // -----Other spirituous beverages

// ---More than 2 litres:

// ----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

2208 90 71 // -----Distilled from fruit

2208 90 75 // -----Tequilla

2208 90 77 // -----Other

2208 90 78 // ----Other spirituous beverages

// --Undernatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% volume, in containers holding:

2208 90 91 // ---2 litres or less

2208 90 99 // ---More than 2 litres

3301 // Essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids; extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, in waxes or the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils:

3301 90 // -Other:

3301 90 10 // --Terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils

// --Extracted oleoresins:

3301 90 21 // --- Of liquorice and hops

3301 90 30 // --- Other

3301 90 90 // -- Other

3302 // Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used as a raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

3302 10 // -Of a kind used in the food or drink industries:

// --Of the type used in the drink industries:

// ---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterizing a beverage:

3302 10 10 // ----Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0.5%

// ----Other:

3302 10 21 // -----Containing no milkfats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose, or starch or containing, by weight, less than 1.5% milkfat, 5%sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch

3302 10 29 // -----Other

3501 // Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues:

3501 10 // -Casein:

3501 10 10 // --For the manufacture of regenerated textile fibres

3501 10 50 // --For industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs or fodder

3501 10 90 // --Other

3501 90 // -Other:

3501 90 90 // --Other

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3823 // Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols:

// -Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining:

3823 11 00 // --Stearic acid

3823 12 00 // --Oleic acid

3823 13 00 // --Tall oil fatty acids

3823 19 // --Other:

3823 19 10 // ---Distilled fatty acids

3823 19 30 // ---Fatty acid distillate

3823 19 90 // ---Other

3823 70 00 // -Industrial fatty alcohols

ANNEX II DUTY FREE QUOTAS APPLICABLE UPON IMPORT INTO THE EUROPEAN UNION OF GOODS ORIGINATING IN MALTA

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ANNEX III REDUCTION OF 15 % ON EXISTING IMPORT LEVY RATE APPLICABLE IN JULY 2003 ON IMPORTS INTO MALTA OF IDENTIFIED PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

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