Commission Regulation (EC) No 2491/98 of 18 November 1998 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products
Date: 1998-11-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, agro-industry, customs tariff, export, import, trading operation

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2491/98

of 18 November 1998

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 laying down the trade arrange-
ments applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Nomenclature) had been amended; whereas the Annexes
to the Regulation should therefore be updated,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of
6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements
applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing
of agricultural products (1), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1097/98 (2), and in particular Article 12(3)
thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 is hereby
replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Whereas, since this Regulation was adopted, the Com-
munity’s Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature (Combined

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 18 November 1998.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 318, 20. 12. 1993, p. 18.
(2) OJ L 157, 30. 5. 1998, p. 1.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX B

TABLE 1

Description

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified
milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

– Yoghurt, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

– Other, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

Dairy spreads of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more but not exceeding 75 %

CN code

ex 0403

0403 10 51 to
0403 10 99

0403 90 71 to
0403 90 99

0405 20 10 to
0405 20 30

0710 40 00

Sweet corn (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen

0711 90 30

Sweet corn provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in
sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for imme-
diate consumption

ex 1517

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of
fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their
fractions of heading No 1516:

1517 10 10

– Margarine, excluding liquid margarine, containing more than 10 % but not more

than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1517 90 10

– Other, containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1702 50 00

Chemically pure fructose

ex 1704

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa, excluding liquor-
ice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing other
added substances, falling within CN code 1704 90 10

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa

ex 1901

ex 1902

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, 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, excluding
goods falling within CN code 1901 90 91

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise
prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni,
excluding stuffed pasta falling within CN codes 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30; couscous,
whether or not prepared

1903 00 00

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

1904

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

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CN code

1905

Description

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

2001 90 30

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

2001 90 40

2004 10 91

2004 90 10

2005 20 10

2005 80 00

2008 99 85

2008 99 91

Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by
weight of starch, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by
vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading No 2006

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar
or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading No 2006

Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by
vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading No 2006

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar
or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading No 2006

Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) otherwise prepared or
preserved, not containing added spirit or added sugar

Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by
weight of starch, otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit or added
sugar

2101 12 98

Preparations with a basis of coffee

2101 20 98

Preparations with a basis of tea or mat(cid:130)

2101 30 19

Roasted coffee substitutes excluding roasted chicory

2101 30 99

2102 10 31
and
2102 10 39

Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted coffee substitutes excluding those of
roasted chicory

Bakers’ yeast, dried or not

2105 00

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

ex 2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included other than those falling within
CN codes 2106 10 20, 2106 90 20 and 2106 90 92, and other than flavoured or coloured
sugar syrups

2202 90 91
and
2202 90 95
and
2202 90 99

Waters, including mineral and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweet-
ening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or
vegetable juices of heading No 2009, containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404
or fat obtained from products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404

2905 43 00

Mannitol

2905 44

d-Glucitol (sorbitol)

ex 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 raw materials in industry;
other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture
of beverages:

3302 10 29

Other, of a kind used in the drink industries, containing all flavouring agents character-
ising a beverage, other than of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding
0,5 %, other than those of CN code 3302 10 21

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CN code

Description

ex 3501

ex 3505 10

3505 20

3809 10

Caseins, caseinates and other casein derivatives

Dextrins and other modified starches, excluding esterified or etherified starches of CN
code 3505 10 50

Glues based on starches, dextrins or other modified starches

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other
products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the
textile paper, leather or like industries, with a basis of amylaceous substances, not
elsewhere specified or included

3824 60

Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44

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CN code

ex 0505

TABLE 2

Description

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 90

– Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down, other than raw

0505 90

– Other

0509 00 90

Natural sponges of animal origin, other than raw

1212 20 00

Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground

ex 1302

Vegetable saps and extracts of liquorice, hops, pyrethrum or of the roots of plants
containing rotenone

1302 19 30

Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food prepara-
tions

1302 19 91

Other, medicinal

ex 1302 20

Pectates

1302 31 00

Agar-agar, whether or not modified

1302 32 10

Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans or locust
bean seeds

1505

1506

Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin)

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

1515 60

Jojoba oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1516 20 10

Hydrogenated castor oil, so called “opal-wax”

1517 90 93

Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould release preparations

ex 1518

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated,
sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chem-
ically 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; excluding the oils of CN codes 1518 00 31 and
1518 00 39

1520 00 00

Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes

1521

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

1522 00 10

Degras

1702 90 10

Chemically pure maltose

1704 90 10

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

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

2001 90 60

Palm hearts, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

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CN code

ex 2008

Description

Fruit, 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:

2008 11 10

– Peanut butter

2008 91 00

– Palm hearts

ex 2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or mat(cid:130) and preparations with a basis
of these products; roasted chicory, extracts, essences or concentrates thereof other than
preparations of CN codes 2101 12 98, 2101 20 98, 2101 30 19 and 2101 30 99

2102 10

Active yeasts:

2102 10 10

– Culture yeast

2102 10 90

– Other, excluding bakers’ yeast

2102 20

Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead

2102 30 00

Prepared baking powders

2103

2104

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

Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations

ex 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 90

– Other:

2106 90 20

–– Compound alcoholic preparations, other

than those based on odoriferous

substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages

2106 90 92

2201 10

2202 10 00

2202 90 10

–– Other preparations 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

Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing
added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter or flavoured

Other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No
2009, not containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from
products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404

2203 00

Beer made from malt

2205

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

ex 2207

ex 2208

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher;
ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength other than obtained from
agricultural products listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol, not
obtained from agricultural products listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty; spirits,
liqueurs and other spirituous beverages

2402

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes

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CN code

2403

Description

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; “homogenised” or
“reconstituted” tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences

3301 90 21

Extracted oleoresins of liquorice and hops

3301 90 29

Extracted oleoresins of pyrethrum or of roots of plants containing rotenone; intermix-
tures of vegetables extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations

3301 90 31

Other extracted oleoresins: medicinal

ex 3302

3302 10 21

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 material in industry;
other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture
of beverages:

Of a kind used in the food and drink industries containing all flavouring agents
caracterising a beverage other than of an alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding
0,5 %, containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less
than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

3823

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols'