Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture, including improvements to the existing preferential arrangements - Exchange of Letters
Date: 1999-03-25
Institutions: Bulgaria, European Community
Subjects: Austria, Bulgaria, European Association Agreement, Finland, Sweden, Uruguay Round, accession to the European Union, protocol to an agreement, revision of an agreement, trade agreement, trade agreement (EU)

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PROTOCOL

adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part, to
take account of the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the
Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round
existing preferential
negotiations on agriculture,

improvements

including

to the

arrangements

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as (cid:28)the Community’,

of the one part, and

THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA,

of the other part,

WHEREAS the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the other part, hereinafter
referred to as (cid:28)the Europe Agreement’, was signed in Brussels on 8 March 1993 and entered into force
on 1 February 1995;

WHEREAS the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden acceded to
the European Union on 1 January 1995;

WHEREAS, under the terms of Articles 76, 102 and 128 of the 1994 Act of Accession, the Republic
of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden have to apply, as from 1 January
1995, the provisions of the preferential agreements concluded by the Community with certain third
countries, among them Bulgaria;

WHEREAS the Community adopted as from 1 January 1995, transitional measures in the form of
autonomous tariff quotas taking into account the preferential tariff concessions applied by the
Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the Republic of Bulgaria,
and whereas Bulgaria adopted as from 1995, transitional measures in the form of autonomous tariff
quotas taking into account the preferential tariff regime applied by the Republic of Bulgaria towards
the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden, notably with regard to
basic and processed agricultural products;

WHEREAS undertakings by the Community and Bulgaria in the framework of the Uruguay Round
negotiations require the amendment of the import tariff arrangements in the Community and Bulgaria,
notably with regard to basic and processed agricultural products;

WHEREAS the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of
Sweden to the European Union and the implementation of the Uruguay Round outcome are likely to
affect the bilateral concessions granted under the Europe Agreement, which should, therefore, be
amended by means of a Protocol adjusting the trade aspects of the Agreement;

WHEREAS the Council decided by virtue of Decision 95/131/EC (1) to apply, on a provisional basis as
from 1 January 1995, the bilateral Agreement negotiated by the Commission on behalf of the
Community amending the Additional Protocol to the Europe Agreement on trade in textile products
between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria to take into account the accession of
the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union;

(1) OJ L 94, 26.4.1995, p. 1.

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WHEREAS the Council decided, by virtue of Decision 96/225/EC (1), to apply on a provisional basis
as from 1 January 1996 the bilateral Agreement which was negotiated by the Commission on behalf of
the Community following the review and amendment of the Additional Protocol to the Europe
Agreement on trade in textile products between the European Community and the Republic of
Bulgaria,

HAVE DECIDED to determine, by mutual agreement, the adjustments to be made to the trade aspects
of the Europe Agreement to take account, firstly, of the accession of the Republic of Austria, the
Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden, and, secondly, of the entry into force of the outcome
of
the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture, and to this end have designated as their
plenipotentiaries:

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY:

Dietrich von KYAW

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany

Chairman of the Permanent Representatives’ Committee

G(cid:252)nther BURGHARDT

Director-General of the Directorate-General for External Political Relations of the Commission of
the European Communities

THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA:

Nikola Ivanov KARADIMOV

Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary,

Head of the Mission of the Republic of Bulgaria to the European Union

WHO, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

2. Annex II shall be replaced by the text given in

Annex A to this Protocol.

The Additional

1.
the
Agreement on trade in textile products
amended as follows:

Protocol

to

Europe
shall be

3. Article 2(3) of Appendix A shall be replaced by the

following:

1. The first subparagraph of Article 2(3) shall be

replaced by the following:

(cid:28)3.
The origin of the products covered by this
Protocol shall be determined in accordance with
the non-preferential rules of origin in force in the
Community’.

(1) OJ L 81, 30.3.1996, p. 310.

The

(cid:28)3.
certificate of origin referred to in
paragraph 1 is not required for the importation of
goods covered by a movement certificate EUR.1 or
a form EUR.2 issued in conformity with Protocol 4
of the Europe Agreement where it is clear from
such documents that the Republic of Bulgaria may
be deemed to be the country of origin under the
non-preferential origin rules
in the
Community’.

in force

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4. The second indent of the second subparagraph of
Article 14(2) of Appendix A, Title IV shall be
amended as follows:

(cid:28)— Two letters identifying the intended Member

State of customs clearance as follows:

AT = Austria

BL = Benelux

DE = Germany

DK = Denmark

EL = Greece

ES = Spain

FI

= Finland

FR = France

GB = United Kingdom

IE = Ireland

IT = Italy

PT = Portugal

SE = Sweden’

5. The model of the certificate of origin attached to
Appendix A shall be replaced by that given in
Annex B to this Protocol.

6. The model of

licence attached to
Appendix A shall be replaced by that given in
Annex C to this Protocol.

the export

7. The model of the certificate applicable to certain
cottage industry and folklore products attached to
the Annex to Appendix C shall be replaced by that
given in Annex D to this Protocol.

8. The Annex to Appendix B shall be replaced by the

text given in Annex E to this Protocol.

2. Article 9(1) of

the Europe Agreement shall be

replaced by the following:

(cid:28)1.
The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to
products originating in the Community and in
Bulgaria listed in Chapters 25 to 97 of
the
Combined Nomenclature, with the exception of
the products listed in Annex I and Protocol 3’.

3. Article 18 of the Europe Agreement and Annex X

thereto shall be repealed.

4. Article 19(2) of the Europe Agreement shall be

replaced by the following:

The term “agricultural products” means the
(cid:28)2.
the
listed in Chapters 1 to 24 of
products
Combined Nomenclature and the products listed in
Annex I and Protocol 3, but excluding fishery
products
(EEC)
as
No 3687/91’.

by Regulation

defined

Article 3

With regard to basic agricultural products:

1. Annexes XIa and XIb and XIIa and XIIb to the
Europe Agreement shall be replaced by the texts
given in Annexes H and I
to this Protocol
respectively.

2. Article 21(2) and (3) of the Europe Agreement

shall be replaced by the following:

The preferential arrangements granted for
(cid:28)2.
imports
products
the Community
originating in the Republic of Bulgaria are set out
in Annex X.

into

of

3.
The preferential arrangements granted for
imports into the Republic of Bulgaria of products
originating in the Community are set out
in
Annex XI’.

A new Annex,

the text of which appears in
2.
Annex F to this Protocol, shall be added to the Europe
Agreement.

3. Article 21(4) of the Europe Agreement shall be

deleted.

Article 2

4. Annexes XIIIa, XIIIb, XIVa and XIVb to the

Europe Agreement shall be repealed.

With regard to processed agricultural products:

Article 4

1.

the text of Protocol 3 to the Europe Agreement
shall be replaced by the text given in Annex G to
this Protocol.

The Annexes to this Protocol shall form an integral
part thereof. This Protocol shall form an integral part
of the Europe Agreement.

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Article 5

notification that
Article 5 have been carried out.

the procedures provided for

in

This Protocol shall be approved by the Community
and Bulgaria in accordance with their own procedures.
take the necessary
The Contracting Parties
measures to implement this Protocol.

shall

Article 7

Article 6

This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of
the first month following the Contracting Parties’

This Protocol shall be drawn up in duplicate in the
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German,
Greek,
Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and
Bulgarian languages, each of those texts being equally
authentic.

Hecho en Bruselas, el veinticinco de marzo de mil novecientos noventa y nueve.

Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den femogtyvende marts nitten hundrede og nioghalvfems.

Geschehen zu Br(cid:252)ssel am f(cid:252)nfundzwanzigsten M(cid:228)rz neunzehnhundertneunundneunzig.

Łcime rsiy Bqtne(cid:228) kkey, rsiy ei(cid:228)jori pe(cid:228) mse Laqsi(cid:228)ot vi(cid:228)kia emmiajo(cid:228) ria ememg(cid:228) msa emme(cid:228) a.

Done at Brussels on the twenty-fifth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred
and ninety-nine.

Fait a` Bruxelles, le vingt-cinq mars mil neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf.

Fatto a Bruxelles, add(cid:236) venticinque marzo millenovecentonovantanove.

Gedaan te Brussel, vijfentwintigste maart negentienhonderd negenennegentig.

Feito em Bruxelas, em vinte e cinco de Marc¸o de mil novecentos e noventa e nove.

Tehty Brysseliss(cid:228) kahdentenakymmenenten(cid:228)viidenten(cid:228) p(cid:228)iv(cid:228)n(cid:228) maaliskuuta vuonna
tuhatyhdeks(cid:228)nsataayhdeks(cid:228)nkymment(cid:228)yhdeks(cid:228)n.

Som skedde i Bryssel den tjugofemte mars nittonhundranittionio.

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Por la Comunidad Europea

For Det Europæiske Fællesskab

F(cid:252)r die Europ(cid:228)ische Gemeinschaft

Cia sgm Etqxpałjg(cid:228) Joimo(cid:228) sgsa

For the European Community

Par Communaute´ europe´enne

Per la Comunita` europea

Voor de Europese Gemeenschap

Pela Comunidade Europeia

Euroopan yhteis(cid:246)n puolesta

P(cid:229) Europeiska gemenskapens v(cid:228)gnar

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ANNEX A

(cid:28)ANNEX II

The full product descriptions of the categories listed in this Annex are to be found in Annex I to the
Protocol

COMMUNITY QUANTITATIVE LIMITS

Category

Unit

2

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5

6

7

8

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tonnes

tonnes

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1 000 pieces (*)

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1996

4 722

1 495

5 185

2 500

1 909

5 662

3 388

1997

4 816

1 525

5 418

2 625

1 995

5 860

3 591

(*) For the purpose of setting off exports against the agreed quantitative limits, a conversion rate of five garments
(other than babies’ garments) of a maximum commercial size of 130 cm, or three garments whose commercial
size exceeds 130 cm, may be applied for up to 5 % of the quantitative limits. The export licence concerning these
products must bear, in box 9, the words “The conversion rate for garments of a commercial size of not more
than 130 cm must be applied”.’

1  Exporter  (name,  full  address,  country)

Exportateur  (nom,  adresse  complète,  pays)

5  Consignee  (name,  full  address,  country)

Destinataire  (nom,  adresse  complète,  pays)

ANNEX B

(cid:28)(Annex to Appendix A, Article 2(1))

O R I G I N A L

2

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3  Quota  year

Année  contingentaire

4  Category  number

Numéro  de  catégorie

C E R T I F I C A T E  O F  O R I G I N

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C E R T I F I C A T  D ’ O R I G I N E

(Produits  textiles)

6  Country  of  origin
Pays  d’origine

7  Country  of  destination
Pays  de  destination

8  Place  and  date  of  shipment  —  Means  of  transport

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9  Supplementary  details

Données  supplémentaires

10  Marks  and  numbers  —  Number  and  kind  of  packages  —  DESCRIPTION  OF  GOODS

Marques  et  numéros  —  Nombre  et  nature  des  colis  —  DÉSIGNATION  DES  MARCHANDISES

11  Quantity (1)
Quantité (1)

12  FOB  value (2)
Valeur  fob (2)

13  CERTIFICATION  BY  THE  COMPETENT  AUTHORITY  —  VISA  DE  L’AUTORITÉ  COMPÉTENTE

I,  the  undersigned,  certify  that  the  goods  described  above  originated  in  the  country  shown  in  box  No 6,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  in  force  in  the  European
Community.

Je  soussigné  certifie  que  les  marchandises  désignées  ci-dessus  sont  originaires  du  pays  figurant  dans  la  case  6,  conformément  aux  dispositions  en  vigueur  dans  la
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5  Consignee  (name,  full  address,  country)

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ANNEX C

(cid:28)(Annex referred to in Article 7(1) of Appendix A)

O R I G I N A L

2

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3  Quota  year

Année  contingentaire

4  Category  number

Numéro  de  catégorie

E X P O R T  L I C E N C E

(Textile  products)

L I C E N C E  D ’ E X P O R T A T I O N

(Produits  textiles)

6  Country  of  origin
Pays  d’origine

7  Country  of  destination
Pays  de  destination

8  Place  and  date  of  shipment  —  Means  of  transport

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9  Supplementary  details

Données  supplémentaires

10  Marks  and  numbers  —  Number  and  kind  of  packages  —  DESCRIPTION  OF  GOODS

Marques  et  numéros  —  Nombre  et  nature  des  colis  —  DÉSIGNATION  DES  MARCHANDISES

11  Quantity (1)
Quantité (1)

12  FOB  value (2)
Valeur  fob (2)

13  CERTIFICATION  BY  THE  COMPETENT  AUTHORITY  —  VISA  DE  L’AUTORITÉ  COMPÉTENTE

I,  the  undersigned,  certify  that  the  goods  described  above  have  been  charged  against  the  quantitative  limit  established  for  the  year  shown  in  box  No  3  in  respect  of  the
category  shown  in  box  No  4  by  the  provisions  regulating  trade  in  textile  products  with  the  European  Community.

Je soussigné certifie que les marchandises désignées ci-dessus ont été imputées sur la limite quantitative fixée pour l’année indiquée dans la case 3 pour la catégorie désignée dans
la  case  4  dans  le  cadre  des  dispositions  régissant  les  échanges  de  produits  textiles  avec  la  Communauté  européenne.

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Autorité  compétente  (nom,  adresse  complète,  pays)

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ANNEX D

(cid:28)(Annex referred to in Appendix C)

1  Exporter  (name,  full  address,  country)

Exportateur  (nom,  adresse  complète,  pays)

O R I G I N A L

2

No

3  Consignee  (name,  full  address,  country)

Destinataire  (nom,  adresse  complète,  pays)

CERTIFICATE  in  regard  to  HANDLOOMS,  TEXTILE  HANDICRAFTS  and  TRA-
DITIONAL  TEXTILE  PRODUCTS,  OF  THE  COTTAGE  INDUSTRY,  issued  in
conformity  with  and  under  the  conditions  regulating  trade  in  textile
products  with  the  European  Community.

CERTIFICAT  relatif  aux  TISSUS,  TISSÉS  SUR  MÉTIERS  À  MAIN,  aux  PRO-
DUITS  TEXTILES  FAITS  À  LA  MAIN,  et  aux  PRODUITS  TEXTILES  RELEVANT
DU  FOLKLORE  TRADITIONNEL,  DE  FABRICATION  ARTISANALE,  délivré  en
conformité avec et sous les conditions régissant les échanges de produits
textiles  avec  la  Communauté  européenne.

4  Country  of  origin
Pays  d’origine

5  Country  of  destination
Pays  de  destination

6  Place  and  date  of  shipment  —  Means  of  transport

Lieu  et  date  d’embarquement  —  Moyen  de  transport

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Données  supplémentaires

8  Marks  and  numbers  —  Number  and  kind  of  packages  —  DESCRIPTION  OF  GOODS

Marques  et  numéros  —  Nombre  et  nature  des  colis  —  DÉSIGNATION  DES  MARCHANDISES

9  Quantity
Quantité

10  FOB  value (1)
Valeur  fob (1)

11  CERTIFICATION  BY  THE  COMPETENT  AUTHORITY  —  VISA  DE  L’AUTORITÉ  COMPÉTENTE

I,  the  undersigned,  certify  that  the  consignment  described  above  includes  only  the  following  textile  products  of  the  cottage  industry  of  the  country  shown  in  box  No  4:
(a)  fabrics  woven  on  looms  operated  solely  by  hand  or  foot  (handlooms) (2);
(b)  garments  or  other  textile  articles  obtained  manually  from  the  fabrics  described  under  (a)  and  sewn  solely  by  hand  without  the  aid  of  any  machine  (handicrafts) (2);
(c)  traditional  folklore  handicraft  textile  products  made  by  hand,  as  defined  in  the  list  agreed  between  the  European  Community  and  the  country  shown  in  box  No  4.

Je  soussigné  certifie  que  l’envoi  décrit  ci-dessus  contient  exclusivement  les  produits  textiles  suivants  relevant  de  la  fabrication  artisanale  du  pays  figurant  dans  la  case  4:
(a)  tissus  tissés  sur  des  métiers  actionnés  à  la  main  ou  au  pied  (handlooms) (2);
(b)  vêtements  ou  autres  articles  textiles  obtenus  manuellement  à  partir  de tissus décrits sous (a) et cousus uniquement à la main sans l’aide d’une machine (handicrafts) (2);
(c)  produits  textiles  relevant  du  folklore  traditionnel  fabriqués  à  la  main,  comme  définis  dans  la  liste  convenue  entre  la  Communauté  européenne  et  le  pays  indiqué  dans  la

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ANNEX E

(cid:28)Annex to Appendix B

TEXTILE PRODUCTS

(The full product descriptions of the categories listed in this Annex are to be found in Annex I to the
Protocol)

OUTWARD PROCESSING TRAFFIC

Community quantitative limits

Category

Unit

5

6

7

8

73

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1 000 pieces

1996

6 492

9 251

13 286

6 223

3 375

1997

6 930

9 945

14 183

6 550

3 679’

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ANNEX F

(cid:28)ANNEX XVII

TEXTILE PRODUCTS

Bulgarian tariff commitment

The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria undertakes to implement the following tariff concessions
in favour of textiles and clothing products originating within the European Community and imported
into the Republic of Bulgaria, to be applied from 1 January 1996.

(a) The products listed below are transferred from Annex VI to Annex IV of the Europe Agreement:

51 01 11 00
51 01 19 00

53 01 10 00
53 01 21 00
53 01 29 00

53 02 10 00

(b) The products listed below are transferred from Annex V to Annex IV of the Europe Agreement:

51 01 21 00
51 01 29 00

53 03 10 00
53 03 90 00

51 05 30 00

54 02 43 00

54 03 31 00

56 04 90 00

63 01 10 00

(c) The products listed below are transferred from Annex VI to Annex V of the Europe Agreement:

53 06 10 00
53 06 20 00

55 15 11 00
55 15 13 00
55 15 99 00

55 16 11 00
55 16 23 00
55 16 43 00

58 01 22 00
58 01 24 00
58 01 25 00
58 01 34 00
58 01 35 00
58 01 36 00

58 04 29 00

58 06 10 00

60 01 10 00
60 01 21 00

60 02 10 00
60 02 92 90
60 02 93 90

61 01 10 00

61 09 90 20

61 11 10 00

61 15 91 00
61 15 92 00

62 11 12 90

62 16 00 90

63 02 10 00

63 03 11 00
63 03 19 00

63 04 11 00
63 04 91 00

58 01 33 00

61 06 90 00

51 02 10 00’

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ANNEX G

(cid:28)PROTOCOL 3

on trade between Bulgaria and the Community in processed agricultural products

Article 1

Article 2

The Community and Bulgaria apply to processed
1.
agricultural products the duties, listed in Annex I and
in accordance with the
Annex II
conditions mentioned therein, whether
limited by
quota or not.

respectively

The duties applied pursuant
reduced by decision of the Association Council:

to Article 1 may be

— when in trade between the Community and
Bulgaria the duties applied to the basic products
are reduced, or

2.

The Association Council shall decide on:

— extensions of

the list of processed agricultural

products under this Protocol,

— amendments to the duties referred to in Annexes I

and II,

— increases in or the abolition of tariff quotas.

— in response to reductions resulting from mutual
to processed agricultural

relating

concessions
products.

The reductions provided for under the first indent
shall be calculated on the part of the duty designated
as the agricultural component which shall correspond
to the agricultural products actually used in the
manufacture of the processed agricultural products in
question and deducted from the duties applied to these
basic agricultural products.

the respective market prices of

3.
The Association Council may replace the duties
established by this Protocol by a regime established on
the
the basis of
Community and Bulgaria of agricultural products
actually used in the manufacture of processed
agricultural products subject to this Protocol. It will
establish the list of goods subject to these amounts
and as a consequence, the list of basic products; to
this end, it will decide the general rules of application.

Article 3

The Community and Bulgaria shall inform each other
of the administrative arrangements adopted for the
products covered by this Protocol.

These arrangements should ensure equal treatment for
all
interested parties and should be as simple and
flexible as possible.

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ANNEX I

Table 1: Quotas applicable on import of goods originating in Bulgaria

CN code

Description

Annual quota

1997

1998

1999

2000

(1 000 kg)

2001 and
after

1

0405

2

3

4

5

6

7

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy
spreads:

490

490

490

490

490

0405 20

— Dairy spreads:

0405 20 10 — — Of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more, but

less than 60 %

0405 20 30 — — Of a fat content, by weight, of 60 % or more, but

not exceeding 75 %

ex 2106

3302 10

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

of

odoriferous

Mixtures
and mixtures
(including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more
of these substances, of a kind used in the food or drink
industries:

substances

3302 10 29 — Other

ex 1704

ex 1806

ex 1901

ex 1902

1904

confectionery (including white

Sugar
chocolate), not
containing cocoa; excluding liquorice extract containing
more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing
other added substances, falling within CN code 1704 90 10

163

163

163

168

175

Chocolate and other food preparation containing cocoa
other than those of CN code 1806 10 15

490

490

490

504

525

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or
malt extract, not containing cocoa powder or containing
cocoa powder in a proportion by weight of less than 50 %,
not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of
goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa
powder or containing cocoa powder in a proportion by
less than 10 %, not elsewhere specified or
weight of
included,
falling within CN code
excluding
1901 90 91

goods

97

97

97

101

106

Pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared
excluding
falling within CN codes
1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30, couscous, whether or not
prepared

stuffed

pasta

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of
cereals or cereals 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

326

326

326

336

350

245

245

245

252

263

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1905

2

3

4

5

6

7

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

571

571

571

588

613

2101 12 98

Preparations with a basis of
essences or
concentrates of coffee or with a basis of coffee, other than
those of CN code 2101 12 92

extracts,

163

163

163

168

175

2101 20 98

essences or
Preparations with a basis of
concentrates of tea or mate´ or with a basis of tea or mate´,
other than those of CN code 2101 20 92

extracts,

2101 30

Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and
extracts essences and concentrates thereof:

19

20

21

22

23

2101 30 19 — — — Other

2101 30 99 — — — Other

2102

2102 10 31
to
2102 10 39

(active

Yeasts
micro-organisms, dead (but not
heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:

inactive);

other

single-cell
including vaccines of

or

81

81

81

84

88

— — Baker’s yeast, dried

2105 00

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

81

81

81

84

88

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:

16

16

16

17

18

2202 90 91
to
2202 90 99

— — Other

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Table 2: Duties applicable on import of goods originating in Bulgaria

Note: The basic amounts taken into consideration in calculating the reduced agricultural components and additional duties,
applicable on importation into the Community of goods listed in this table are those set out in Table 3 to this Annex.

CN code

Description

Duty (1)

From
1.1.1997
to
30.6.1997

From
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998

From
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999

From
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000

As from
1.7.2000

1

0403

2

3

4

5

6

7

Yoghurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and
cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added
sugar or other
flavoured or
containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

sweetening matter or

0403 10

— Yoghurt:

0403 10 51
to
0403 10 99

— — Yoghurt, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

cocoa

0403 90

— Other:

— — Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

0403 90 71
to
0403 90 99

0405 20 10
0405 20 30

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

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

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

2106 10 20

Protein concentrates and textured protein substances
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

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

7,2 % 6,7 % 6,2 % 5,7 %

5,2 %

2106 90 92

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

3,9 % 3,6 % 3,3 % 3,1 %

2,8 %

ex 3302 10

of

odoriferous

and mixtures
Mixtures
(including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more
of these substances, of a kind used in the food or drink
industries:

substances

3302 10 21 — Containing no milkfats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose, or
than 1,5 % milkfat, 5 %

starch or containing less
sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

3,9 % 3,6 % 3,3 % 3,1 %

2,8 %

3302 10 29 — Other

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

(1) The reduced agricultural components (EAR) apply within the quantitative limits set out in Table 1. Imports exceeding these quantities are
subject to the agricultural components (EA) set out in the Common Customs Tariff (Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 as
amended).
EA may be subject to a maximum duty which, if appropriate, is set out in the Common Customs Tariff.

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0710 40 00
0711 90 30

Sweetcorn

3

EA

4

EA

5

EA

6

EA

7

EA

1302

pectates;

Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates
and
and
thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from
vegetable products:

other mucilages

agar-agar

and

— Vegetable saps and extracts:

1302 12 00 — — Of liquorice

1302 13 00 — — Of hops

1302 20

— Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

1302 20 10 — — Dry

1302 20 90 — — Other

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

2,6 % 2,4 % 2,2 % 2,0 %

1,9 %

8,3 % 8,0 % 7,7 % 7,4 %

7,1 %

6,1 % 5,9 % 5,6 % 5,4 %

5,2 %

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 CN code 1516:

1517 10

— Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

1517 10 10 — — Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 %

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

by weight of milk fats

1517 90

— Other:

1517 90 10 — — Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 %

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

by weight of milk fats

ex 1704

confectionery (including white

Sugar
chocolate), not
containing cocoa; excluding liquorice extract containing
more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing
other added substances, falling within CN code 1704 90 10

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

1704 90 10

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

7,9 % 7,4 % 6,8 % 6,3 %

5,8 %

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

ex 1806

Chocolate and other food preparation containing cocoa
other than those of CN code 1806 10 15

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

1806 10 15

Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening
matter containing no sucrose or containing less than 5 %
by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as
sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

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1901

2

3

4

5

6

7

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or
malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than
40 % by weight of cocoa on a totally defatted basis, not
elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods
of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa
powder or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa on
a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included,
excluding goods falling within CN code 1901 90 91

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

1901 90 91

Containing no milk fats, sucrose,
isoglucose, glucose or
starch or containing less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose
(including invert sugar) or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or
starch, excluding food preparations in powder form of
goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404

12,8 % 12,8 % 12,8 % 12,8 % 12,8 %

ex 1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared
excluding
falling within CN codes
1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30, couscous, whether or not
prepared

stuffed

pasta

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

1903 00 00

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

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

1904

1905

Prepared food 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 and meal),
pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified
or included

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

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

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

2001

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

2001 90

— Other:

2001 90 30 — — Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccarata)

2001 90 40 — — Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of

plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

2004

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

2004 10

— Potatoes:

— — Other:

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

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

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

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2005

2

3

4

5

6

7

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

2005 20

— Potatoes:

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

2005 80

— — Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

ex 2005 90 80 — Preparations based on flour of leguminous vegetables in
sun-dried discs or dough, known as

the form of
“papad”

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

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:

— Other,

including mixtures

other

than

those

of

subheading 2008 19

— Nuts, groundnuts and other seeds, whether or not

mixed together:

2008 11

— — Groundnuts

2008 11 10 — — Peanut butter

7,2 % 6,7 % 6,2 % 5,7 %

5,2 %

— Other,

including mixtures

other

than

those

of

subheading 2008 19:

2008 91 00 — — Palm hearts

5,8 % 5,3 % 4,7 % 4,1 %

3,5 %

2008 99

— — Other:

2008 99 85 — — — — — Maize (corn), other than sweetcorn (Zea

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

mays var. saccharata)

2008 99 91 — — — — — Yams,

sweet potatoes and similar edible
parts of plants containing 5 % or more by
weight of starch

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or mate´,
and preparations with a basis of these products or with a
basis of coffee, tea or mate´; 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

5,3 % 4,8 % 4,3 % 3,7 %

3,2 %

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
essences or concentrates of coffee:

these

extracts,

6,8 % 6,3 % 5,9 % 5,4 %

4,9 %

2101 12 98 — — — Other

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

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2101 20

2

3

4

5

6

7

— Extracts, essences and concentrates of tea or mate´, and
preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences and
concentrates or with a basis of tea or mate´

2101 20 20 — — Extracts; essences or concentrates

3,7 % 3,3 % 2,9 % 2,6 %

2,2 %

— — Preparations:

2101 20 92 — — — With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

of tea or mate´

2101 20 98 — — — Other

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

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

6,8 % 6,3 % 5,9 % 5,4 %

4,9 %

2101 30 19 — — — Other

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

— — Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory

and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 91 — — — Of roasted chicory

7,6 % 7,1 % 6,5 % 6,0 %

5,5 %

2101 30 99 — — — Other

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

2102

(active

Yeasts
single-cell
micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of No
3002); prepared baking powders:

inactive);

other

or

2102 10

— Active yeasts:

2102 10 10 — — Culture yeast

— — Baker’s yeast:

2102 10 31 — — — Dried

2102 10 39 — — — Other

2102 10 90 — — Other

6,5 % 6,1 % 5,6 % 5,2 %

4,7 %

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

5,3 % 4,9 % 4,6 % 4,2 %

3,8 %

2102 20

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

— — Inactive yeasts:

2102 20 11 — — — In tablet, cube or similar form, or in immediate

2,6 % 2,5 % 2,3 % 2,1 %

1,9 %

packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg

2102 20 19 — — — Other

2102 20 90 — — Other

3,5 % 3,3 % 3,0 % 2,8 %

2,6 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

2102 30 00 — Prepared baking powders

2,6 % 2,5 % 2,3 % 2,1 %

1,9 %

2103

Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and
mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meals and prepared
mustard:

2103 10 00 — Soya sauce

3,9 % 3,6 % 3,3 % 3,1 %

2,8 %

2103 20 00 — Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

5,3 % 4,9 % 4,6 % 4,2 %

3,8 %

2103 30

— Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

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5

6

7

2103 30 90 — — Prepared mustard

5,7 % 5,3 % 4,9 % 4,6 %

4,2 %

2103 90

— Other:

2103 90 90 — — Other

4,4 % 4,1 % 3,8 % 3,5 %

3,2 %

2104

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

2104 10

— Soups and broths and preparations therefor

6,2 % 5,7 % 5,3 % 4,9 %

4,5 %

2104 20 00 — Homogenised composite food preparations

7,6 % 7,1 % 6,5 % 6,0 %

5,5 %

2105 00

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

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

2202

2202 10

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 No 2209:

— Waters,

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

2202 90

— Other:

2202 90 10 — — Non-alcoholic beverages not

including fruit or
vegetable juices of CN code 2009 not containing
products of No 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from
products of No 0401 to 0404

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99

— — Other

2,6 % 2,5 % 2,3 % 2,1 %

1,9 %

5,3 % 4,9 % 4,6 % 4,2 %

3,8 %

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

EAR

2203 00

Beer made from malt

5,3 % 4,4 % 3,5 % 2,6 %

1,8 %

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

7,0
ECU/hl

6,6
ECU/hl

6,1
ECU/hl

5,6
ECU/hl

5,1
ECU/hl

2205 10 90 — — Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

18 % vol

2205 90

— Other:

2205 90 10 — — Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18 % vol

or less

4,4
ECU/hl

4,1
ECU/hl

3,8
ECU/hl

3,5
ECU/hl

3,2
ECU/hl

2205 90 90 — — Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

18 % vol

2905 43 00 — — Mannitol

2905 44

— — D-glucitol (sorbitol)

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

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ex 3505 10

2

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

3

EA

4

EA

5

EA

6

EA

7

EA

3505 20

Glues with a basis of starches, dextrins and other modified
starches

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

3809 10

Dressings and finishing agents with a basis of amylaceous
substances

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

3824 60

Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44

EA

EA

EA

EA

EA

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Table 3: Basic amounts taken into consideration in calculating the reduced agricultural components
and additional duties, applicable on importation into the Community of goods listed in Table 1

Basic product

From 1.1.1997
until
30.6.1997

From 1.7.1997
until
30.6.1998

From 1.7.1998
until
30.6.1999

From 1.7.1999
until
30.6.2000

As from
1.7.2000

(ECU/100 kg)

Common wheat

2,614

2,435

2,257

2,079

1,901

Durum wheat

14,199

13,231

12,263

11,295

10,326

Rye

Barley

Maize

8,914

8,306

7,698

7,090

8,751

8,306

7,698

7,090

7,408

7,408

7,408

7,193

6,483

6,483

6,577

Long-grain husked rice

25,441

23,706

21,972

20,237

18,502

Skimmed-milk powder

96,027

93,555

90,090

86,625

83,160

Whole-milk powder

125,541

116,981

108,442

99,862

91,302

Butter

182,453

170,013

157,574

145,133

132,693

White sugar

32,565

32,565

31,795

30,573

29,350

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ANNEX II

Duty (%)

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002 and
after

3

25

4

20

5

15

6

10

7

10

8

10

Bulgarian
customs
tariff code

1

0405 20

1302

Description

2

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

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

8

7

6

5

5

5

1505

grease

Wool
therefrom (including lanolin):

and fatty

substances derived

1505 90 00 1 — — Lanolin

1505 90 00 9 — — Other

8

8

7

7

6

6

5

5

5

5

5

5

1518 00

boiled,

oxidised,

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their
dehydrated,
fractions,
sulphurised, blown, polymerised 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 00 1 — Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal
or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of
different
this chapter, not
elsewhere specified or included

fats or oils of

18

15

13

10

10

10

1518 00 00 9 — Other

11

9

7

5

5

5

1704

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

1704 10

— Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated

28

22

16

10

10

10

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or
other sweetening matter

18

15

13

10

10

10

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1806

1806 20

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Chocolate and other food preparation containing
cocoa:

— 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

— Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

35

35

35

35

35

25

1806 31 00

— — Filled

1806 32

— — Not filled

1806 90

— Other

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

35

25

25

25

1901

elsewhere

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

containing

included;

powder

cocoa

not

1901 10

— Preparations for infant use, put up for retail

21

19

19

15

15

15

sale

1901 90

— Other:

1901 90 00 9 — — Other

1902

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

— Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise

prepared:

28

22

16

10

10

10

1902 19 00

— — Other

35

35

35

35

35

25

1904

cereals or

cereal products

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

prepared,

1904 10 00 00 — Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or

36

34

32

25

25

25

roasting of cereals or cereal products

1905

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

containing

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2

1905 30 00 0 — Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers

1905 90 00 0 — Other

3

36

36

4

33

33

5

30

30

6

25

25

7

25

25

8

25

25

2101 11 00 0
2101 12 00 0

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

26

19

11

3

3

3

2102

(active or

single-cell
Yeasts
including
micro-organisms,
vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking
powders:

inactive); other
not
(but

dead

2102 10

— Active yeasts:

— — Baker’s yeast:

2102 10 31

— — — Dried

2102 10 39

— — — Other

2102 20 11
2102 20 19
2102 20 90

— Inactive

yeasts;

other

single-cell

micro-organisms, dead

23

23

23

22

22

20

21

21

11

20

20

10

20

20

10

20

20

10

2102 30

— Prepared baking powders

13

12

11

8

8

8

2103

and

Sauces
therefore; mixed
condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour
and meals and prepared mustard:

preparations

2103 20 00

— Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

2103 90

— Other

38

26

37

20

36

14

35

8

35

8

25

8

2105

2106

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

35

35

35

35

35

29

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or
included:

2106 10 00 0 — Protein concentrates and textured protein

14

substances:

2106 90 00 9 — Other

17

13

13

12

8

10

3

10

3

10

3

2201

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

2201 90 00 0 — Other

26

19

12

5

5

5

2202

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

added

sugar

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2202 90

— Other

3

36

4

33

5

30

6

25

7

20

8

15

2203 00

Beer made from malt

35, min.
11,4
ECU/hl

35, min.
11,4
ECU/hl

35, min.
11,4
ECU/hl

35, min.
11,4
ECU/hl

33, min.
9,8
ECU/hl

29, min.
8,14
ECU/hl

2205

Vermouth and other wine of
flavoured with plants or aromatic substances:

fresh grapes

2205 10

— In containers holding 2 litres or less

36

33

30

25

25

25

2905

and
Acyclic
sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:

alcohols

halogenated,

their

— Other polyhydric alcohols:

2905 43 00 0 — — Mannitol

2905 44

— — D-glucitol (sorbitol)

2905 45 00

— — Glycerol

4

4

8

0

0

7

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 material 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 drinks

industries:

3302 10 21

— — — — — Containing no milkfats, sucrose,
isoglucose, glucose, or starch or
containing less than 1,5 % milkfat,
5 % sucrose or
isoglucose, 5 %
glucose or starch

17

13

3302 10 29

— — — — — Other

17

13

0

0

6

8

8

0

0

5

3

3

0

0

5

3

3

ex 3505 10

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

20

15

11,3

7,5

3,8

3505 20

Glues with a basis of starches, dextrins and
other modified starches

20

15

11,3

7,5

3,8

0

0

5

3

3

0

0

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Table 2: List of goods originating from the Community for which Bulgaria applies preferential treatment within quantitative
limits

Bulgarian
customs
tariff code

Description

Quota
(1 000 kg)

In-quota
Duty

1516 20 00 0

Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions

1702 50 00 0

Chemically pure fructose

1702 90 10

Chemically pure maltose

1 188

36

free

free

1704 90

Other
containing cocoa

sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not

200

36 %

1806 10

Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening
matter

200

36 %

2202 10

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

3 200

36 %

2208 60

Vodka

131

free

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Bulgarian customs
tariff code

1

Description

2

0501 00 00 0

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

0503 00 00 0

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 00 0 — Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down

0505 90 00 0 — Other

0506

0507

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

Ivory, tortoiseshell, 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

0508 00 00 0

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

0509 00 00 0

Natural sponges of animal origin

0510 00 00 0

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 0 — Sweetcorn

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:

ex 0711 90 00 0 — — — Sweetcorn

Rate of duty

3

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

10

40

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0903 00 00 0 Mate´

2

3

25

25

10

10

1212

Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane,
fresh chilled, frozen or dried whether or not ground; fruit stones
and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted
chicory roots of the variety Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind
used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or
included:

1212 20

— Seaweeds and other algae

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 13 00 0 — — Of hops

1302 14 00 0 — — Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone

1302 19 00 0 — — Other:

1302 19 30

— — — Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of

10

beverages or of food preparations

— — — Other:

ex 1302 19 00 0 — — — — Medicinal

1302 20 00

— Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates

— Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived

from vegetable products:

1302 31 00 0 — — Agar-agar

ex 1302 32 00 0 — — Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived

from locust beans, locust bean seed or guar seeds

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 0 — Bamboos

1402

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:

1402 10

— Kapok

1402 90

— Other

1403

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:

10

5

10

10

40

40

40

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1403 10 00 0 — Broomcorn (Sorghum vulgare var. technicum)

1403 90 00 0 — Other

1404

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:

1404 10 00 0 — Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or

tanning

1404 20 00 0 — Cotton linters

1404 90 00 0 — Other

1505

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

1505 10 00 0 — Wool grease, crude

1506 00 00 0

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

1515 60 00 0

Jojoba oil and its fractions

ex 1516 20 00 0

Hydrogenated castor oil, so-called “opal-wax”

1518 00

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 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 00 2 — Linoxyn

1521

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

ex 1522 00 00 0

Degras

1702 50 00 0

Chemically pure fructose

1702 90 00 1

Chemically pure maltose

1704 90

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing
cocoa, excluding chewing gum

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted

1804 00 00 0

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

3

40

40

40

40

40

10

25

40

15

10

10

25

15

25

40

10

10

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1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10 00 0 — Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening

40

matter

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt
extract, not containing cocoa powder 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 powder or
containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally
defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:

1901 20 00 0 — Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers’ wares of No

1905:

1901 90 00 1 — — — Malt extract

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:

1902 11 00 0

Uncooked pasta, not stuffed, containing eggs:

1902 20 00 0 — Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared

1902 30 00 0 — Other pasta

1902 40 00 0 — Couscous

1903 00 00 0

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

1904

Prepared food 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 and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared,
not elsewhere specified or included:

1904 20

— Prepared food obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from
mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or
swelled cereals

1904 90 00 0 — 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 10 00 0 — Crispbread

1905 20 00 0 — Gingerbread and the like

1905 40

— Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products

2001

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

ex 2001 90 00 0 — — Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

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ex 2001 90 00 0 — — Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants

containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

ex 2001 90 00 0 — — Palm hearts

2004

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

ex 2004 10 00 9 — — — Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes

ex 2004 90 00 0 — — Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2005

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

ex 2005 20 00 0 — Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 80 00 0 — Sweetcorn (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:

ex 2008 11

— — — Peanut butter

2008 91 00 00 0 — — Palm hearts

2008 92 00

— — Mixtures

2008 99

— — Other:

— — — Not containig added spirit:

— — — — Not containing added sugar:

ex 2008 99 00 1 — — — — — Maize (corn), other than sweetcorn (Zea mays var.

saccharata)

ex 2008 99 00 1 — — — — — Yams, sweet potatoes and similiar edible parts of

plants, containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, teas or mate´, and
preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of
coffee,
tea or mate´; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee
substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

2101 12 00 0 — Preparations with a basis of

these

extracts,

essences or

concentrates or with a basis of coffee

2101 20 00 0 — Extracts, essences and concentrates of

preparations with a basis of
concentrates or with a basis of tea or mate´

tea or mate´, and
these extracts, essences and

3

40

40

40

40

40

15

40

40

40

40

40

40

40

2101 30 00 0 — Roasted chicory and other

roasted coffee substitutes and

40

extracts, essences and concentrates thereof

2103

Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed
seasonings; mustard flour and meals and prepared mustard:

2103 10 00 0 — Soya sauce

2103 30 00 0 — Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard

40

40

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2104

2201

2

Soups
and broths
composite food preparations

and preparations

therefor; homogenised

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

3

40

40

2201 10 00 0 — Mineral waters and aerated waters

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
No 2009:

2202 10 00 0 — Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing

40

added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured

2205

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

2205 90 00 0 — Other

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 0 — Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of

80 % vol or higher

2207 20 00 0 — Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

2 ECU/%
vol/hl +
10 ECU/
hl (1)

24
ECU/hl (1)

13
ECU/hl (1)

2208

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

2208 20 00 0 — Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc

40

2208 30 00 0 — Whiskies

2208 40

— Rum and taffia

2208 50 00

— Gin and Geneva:

2208 50 00 1 — — Gin

2208 50 00 9 — — Geneva

20, min.
1,68 ECU/%
vol/hl + 4,6
ECU/hl (1)

40, min. 0,9
ECU/%
vol/hl + 3,2
ECU/hl (1)

40, min. 0,8
ECU/%
vol/hl + 3,2
ECU/hl (1)

40, min. 1,0
ECU/%
vol/hl + 6,4
ECU/hl (1)

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2208 60 00 0 — Vodka

2208 70 00 0 — Liqueurs and cordials

2208 90 00

— Other

2403

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes;
homogenised or
tobacco extracts and
essences:

reconstituted tobacco;

2403 91 00 0 — “Homogenised” or “reconstituted” tobacco

2403 99 00 0 — Other

3

20, min. 0,8
ECU/%
vol/hl + 3,2
ECU/hl (1)

40, min.
0,75 ECU/%
vol/hl + 4,5
ECU/hl (1)

40, min.
0,75 ECU/%
vol/hl + 4,5
ECU/hl (1)

5

5

(1) Duties and minimum must not exceed the duties applicable at the entry into force of the Europe Agreement.

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Bulgarian customs
code

1

0403

Description

2

Maximum
rate of duty

3

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:

0403 10

— Yoghurt:

0403 10 51
to
0403 10 99

— — Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

52 %

0403 90

— Other:

0403 90 71
to
0403 90 99

1517

1517 10

1517 90

2402

— — Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

52 %

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 No 1516:

— Margarine, excluding liquid margarine

— Other

20 %

52 %

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

2402 10 00

— Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco

52 %

2402 20

— Cigarettes, containing tobacco

2402 90 00

— Other

52 %, min.
10 ECU/
1 000 pieces

52 %, min.
10 ECU/
1 000 pieces

2403

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes;
homogenised or
tobacco extracts and
essences:

reconstituted tobacco;

2403 10

— Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes

52 %

in any proportion

29.4.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 112/41

DECLARATION

I hereby confirm that Bulgaria may apply to goods originating in the Community and listed
in Table 4 of Annex II to Protocol 3 the maximum duty rates specified therein provided
that in such case the duty rates charged on imports from the Community are lower than
those charged on imports from non-Community origins.’

ANNEX H

(cid:28)ANNEX X

Imports into the Community of the following products originating in Bulgaria shall be subject to the concesssions set out below

List of EC concessions referred to in Article 21

(MFN = Most Favoured Nation duty):

CN code

Description (1)

0101 19 10

Live horses, for slaughter

0101 19 90

Other

Live bovine animals:

0102 90 05

of a live weight not exceeding 80 kg

of a live weight exceeding 80 kg, but not
exceeding 300 kg

0102 90 21
0102 90 29
0102 90 41
0102 90 49

Applicable duty
(% of MFN) (2)

from
1.7.1996
to
30.6.1997
(tonnes)

from
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998
(tonnes)

Annual quantities

from
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999(tonnes)

from
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000
(tonnes)

Specific
provisions

from
1.7.2000
(tonnes)

free

67

20

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

178 000
heads

153 000
heads

178 000
heads

153 000
heads

178 000
heads

153 000
heads

178 000
heads

153 000
heads

178 000
heads

153 000
heads

ex 0102 90

the
Heifers and cows, not
following mountain breeds: grey, brown, yellow,
spotted Simmental and Pinzgau breed

for slaughter, of

6 %
ad valorem

7 000
heads

7 000
heads

7 000
heads

7 000
heads

7 000
heads

Live sheep or goats

free

5 238

5 338

5 438

5 500

5 600

0104 10 30
0104 10 80
0104 20 10
0104 20 90

0204

Meat of sheep or goats

free

0201
0202

Meat of bovines, fresh, chilled or frozen

20

237

220

230

240

250

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0203 29 55

Meat of domestic swine

20

344

330

345

360

375

(6)

Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen, other
than domestic

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

0203 11 90
0203 12 90
0203 19 90
0203 21 90
0203 22 90
0203 29 90

0205 00

Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies

free

210

220

230

240

250

0206 10 99
0206 21 00
0206 29 99

0206 80 91
0206 90 91

0207 32 11
0207 32 15
0207 32 19
0207 33 11
0207 33 19

ex 0207 35 15
ex 0207 36 15

Edible offal of bovine animals fresh, chilled or
frozen

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

Edible offal of horses, asses, mules and hinnies

50

Ducks

20

525

550

575

600

625

Cuts of ducks, boneless, fresh, chilled or frozen

ex 0207 35 53
ex 0207 36 53

Breasts and cuts thereof, of ducks with bone-in,
fresh, chilled or frozen

ex 0207 35 63
ex 0207 36 63

Legs and cuts thereof, of ducks with bone-in,
fresh, chilled or frozen

ex 0207 35 79
ex 0207 36 79

Duck breasts and cuts thereof, the ribs of which
have been partially or completely removed,
fresh, chilled or frozen

20 % of MFN
duty applicable
to products
falling under
CN code
0207 35 53

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Description (1)

Applicable duty
(% of MFN) (2)

from
1.7.1996
to
30.6.1997
(tonnes)

from
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998
(tonnes)

Annual quantities

from
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999(tonnes)

from
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000
(tonnes)

Specific
provisions

from
1.7.2000
(tonnes)

Geese

20

525

550

575

600

625

0207 32 51
0207 32 59
0207 33 51
0207 33 59
0207 35 11
0207 35 23
0207 35 51
0207 35 61
0207 36 11
0207 36 23
0207 36 51
0207 36 61

ex 0207 35 31
ex 0207 36 31

Whole wings of geese, with or without tips,
fresh, chilled or frozen

ex 0207 35 41
ex 0207 36 41

Backs, necks, backs with necks attached, rumps
and wing tips of geese, fresh, chilled or frozen

ex 0207 35 71
ex 0207 36 71

Goose paletots, fresh, chilled or frozen

ex 0207 35 99
ex 0207 36 90

Offal of geese, other than livers fresh, chilled or
frozen

ex 0207 35 79
ex 0207 36 79

Breasts and cuts thereof of geese, the ribs of
completely
which
removed, fresh, chilled or frozen

partially

have

been

or

20 % of MFN
duty applicable
to products
falling unter
CN code
0207 35 51

0207 33 11

Ducks, cuts of ducks and guinea fowls

549 ECU/t

2 800

2 800

2 800

2 800

2 800

0207 35 15

0207 36 15

0207 36 63

946 ECU/t

946 ECU/t

513 ECU/t

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“70 % chickens”

0207 12 90

“65 % chickens”

20

1 904

1 760

1 840

1 920

2 000

Fatty liver of geese or ducks

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

0207 34
0207 36 81
0207 36 85

Other meat and edible meat offal

0208 10 11

Of rabbits or hares

0208 10 19

0208 10 90

0208 20 00

Frogs’ legs

0208 90 10

Of domestic pigeons

0208 90 20
0208 90 40

Of game, other than rabbits or hares

0208 90 60

Of reindeer

0208 90 80

Other

0406

Cheese and curd

0408 91 80 Whole eggs, dried

0408 99 80

Other whole eggs, not in shell

70

70

free

free

50

free

free

free

20

20

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

4 620

4 840

5 060

5 280

5 500

(9)

671

660

690

720

750

0409 00 00

Natural honey

17 %
ad valorem

310

310

310

310

310

0409 00 00

Natural honey

93

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

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Description (1)

Applicable duty
(% of MFN) (2)

from
1.7.1996
to
30.6.1997
(tonnes)

from
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998
(tonnes)

Annual quantities

from
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999(tonnes)

from
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000
(tonnes)

Specific
provisions

from
1.7.2000
(tonnes)

0602 40 90

Budded or grafted roses

0602 90 30

Treed and shrubs, excluding fruit and forest
trees and shrubs other

46

92

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

Other live plants, cuttings and roots, excluding
yuccas and cacti not planted in pots, tubs

Cut flowers, fresh

20

210

220

230

240

250

0602 90 45
0602 90 49
0602 90 59
ex 0602 90 70
0602 90 91
ex 0602 90 99

0603 10 13
0603 10 51
0603 10 53
0603 10 55

0603 90 00

Cut flowers

35

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

Foliage, branches and other parts of plants,
without flowers or flower buds, and grasses,
mosses and lichens, being goods of a kind
ornamental
suitable
purposes,
bleached,
impregnated or otherwise prepared

for
dyed,

bouquets

dried,

fresh,

for

or

ex 0604 10 90
0604 91 21
0604 91 29
0604 91 41
0604 91 49
0604 91 90

ex 0604 10 90
0604 99 10

fresh

70

Not further prepared than dried

free

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2 625

2 750

2 875

3 000

3 125

free

20

20

Tomatoes, fresh or chilled

20

5 250

5 500

5 750

6 000

6 250

(8)

0701 90 51

Potatoes

0701 90 59

0701 90 90

0702 00 15
0702 00 20
0702 00 25
0702 00 30
0702 00 35
0702 00 40
0702 00 45
0702 00 50

0703 10 19

Onions

free

450

450

450

450

450

0703 20 00

Garlic

free

735

770

805

840

875

Cucumbers, fresh or chilled (from 1 November
to 15 May)

20

7 035

7 370

7 705

8 040

8 375

(8)

0707 00 10
0707 00 15
0707 00 20
0707 00 35
0707 00 40

0707 00 90

Gherkins

0707 00 25
0707 00 30

Cucumbers, fresh or chilled (from 16 May to
31 October)

80

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

(8)

0709 60 10

Sweet peppers

free

1 680

1 760

1 840

1 920

2 000

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Description (1)

Applicable duty
(% of MFN) (2)

from
1.7.1996
to
30.6.1997
(tonnes)

from
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998
(tonnes)

Annual quantities

from
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999(tonnes)

from
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000
(tonnes)

Specific
provisions

from
1.7.2000
(tonnes)

ex 0709 30 00

Aubergines, from 1 January to 31 March

ex 0709 40 00

Celery, other than celeriac, from 1 January to
31 March

0709 51 30

Chanterelles

0709 60 99

Peppers of the genus Pimenta

ex 0709 90 90

Other,
31 March

except parsley,

from 1 January to

56

56

free

50

56

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

0710 21 00

Peas, frozen

0710 22 00

Beans, frozen

0710 29 00

Other leguminous, frozen

0710 80 85
0710 80 95

Other vegetables, frozen

20

1 050

1 100

1 150

1 200

1 250

0710 80 59

Peppers of the genus Capsicum or of the genus
Pimenta, excluding sweet peppers

50

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

0711 40 00

Cucumbers and gherkins

0711 90 10

Peppers of the genus Capsicum or of the genus
Pimenta, excluding sweet peppers

80

50

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

0711 90 40
2003 10 20
2003 10 30

Mushrooms, of genus Agaracus

8,4 %
ad valorem

1 470

1 540

1 610

1 680

1 750

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Dried onions

ex 0712 30 00 Mushrooms, except cultivated mushrooms

ex 0712 90 90

Horseradish

50

37

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or
not skinned or split

0713 10 90

Pears, not for sowing

ex 0713 20 00

Chickpeas
of
Cicerarietinum, not for sowing

(garbanzos)

the

species

Beans, not for sowing

ex 0713 31 00
ex 0713 32 00
0713 33 90
ex 0713 39 00

0713 50 90

Broad beans, not for sowing

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

ex 0713 90 90

Other peas, dried

0713 40 90

Lentils, other

0802 31 00

Common walnuts, in shell

0802 32 00

Common walnuts, shelled

free

free

315

330

345

360

375

525

550

575

600

625

0806 10

Fresh grapes

20

525

550

575

600

625

(8)

0807 11 00
0807 19 00

Melons (including watermelons), fresh

free

315

330

345

360

375

ex 0807 11 00 Watermelons, from 1 November to 30 April

0808 10

Apples

59

20

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

945

990

1 035

1 080

1 125

(8)

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Description (1)

Pears

0808 20 10
0808 20 57
0808 20 67

0808 20 90

Quinces

0809 10

Apricots

Sour cherries, fresh

0809 20 11
0809 20 21
0809 20 31
0809 20 41
0809 20 51
0809 20 61
0809 20 71

0809 30

Peaches

0809 40 30

Plums, from 1 July to 30 September

0809 40 10
0809 40 20
0809 40 40

Plums, other

0809 40 90

Sloes

0810 10 05
0810 10 10
0810 10 80

Strawberries

Applicable duty
(% of MFN) (2)

from
1.7.1996
to
30.6.1997
(tonnes)

from
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998
(tonnes)

Annual quantities

from
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999(tonnes)

from
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000
(tonnes)

Specific
provisions

from
1.7.2000
(tonnes)

20

2 625

2 750

2 875

3 000

3 125

(8)

free

20

73

20

20

20

47

20

315

630

330

660

345

690

360

720

375

750

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

840

880

920

960

1 000

6 405

6 710

7 015

7 320

7 625

1 470

1 540

1 610

1 680

1 750

(8)

(8)

(8)

(8)

(8)

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

2 090

2 090

2 090

2 090

2 090

(7)

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Raspberries

0810 30 10

Blackcurrants, fresh

0810 30 30

Redcurrants, fresh

0810 40 90

Other berry fruits

0811 10 90

Strawberries, not containing added sugar or
other sweetening matter

0811 20 31

Raspberries

0811 20 59

Blackberries and mulberries

0811 20 90

Other berries

0811 90 50

Bilberries

ex 0811 90 95

Quinces

41

41

41

42

36

39

53

33

47

56

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

(7)

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

(7)

0812 10 00

Cherries, provisionally preserverd

free

1 050

1 100

1 150

1 200

1 250

0812 90

Other fruits and nuts, provisionally preserved

0813 10 00

Apricots, dried

20

79

1 050

1 100

1 150

1 200

1 250

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

0813 40

Other fruits, dried

free

735

770

805

840

875

0904 20 90

Fruit of genus Capsicum or Pimenta, crushed or
ground

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

1001 90 99

Common wheat

1008 20 00 Millet

20

20

2 621

2 420

2 530

2 640

2 750

1 664

1 540

1 610

1 680

1 750

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Description (1)

Applicable duty
(% of MFN) (2)

from
1.7.1996
to
30.6.1997
(tonnes)

from
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998
(tonnes)

Annual quantities

from
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999(tonnes)

from
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000
(tonnes)

Specific
provisions

from
1.7.2000
(tonnes)

ex 1106 30 90

Flour, meals and powder of chestnuts

58

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

Seeds, fruit and spores

free

1 155

1 210

1 265

1 320

1 375

1209 21 00
1209 22 10
1209 25 90
1209 29 10
1209 29 80
1209 91 90
1209 99 99

1210 10 00
1210 20 00

Hops

free

315

330

345

360

375

1211 10 00

Liquorice roots

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

1212 30 00

Apricot, peach or plum stones and kernels

free

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

1503 00 11

Lard for industrial uses

free

5 040

5 280

5 520

5 760

6 000

1512 11 91
1512 19 91

Sunflowerseed oil

1602 20 11
1602 20 19

Goose or duck liver

free

420

440

460

480

500

69

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

1602 31 11

Prepared meat of turkeys

20

315

330

345

360

375

1602 32 19
1602 39 29

Other

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Cucumbers, preserved

2001 90 20

Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus
Pimenta, excluding sweet peppers

20

50

2 625

2 750

2 875

3 000

3 125

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

2002 10 10
2002 10 90

Preserved tomatoes

20

8 060

8 060

8 060

8 060

8 060

2002 90 11
2002 90 19
2002 90 31
2002 90 39
2002 90 91
2002 90 99

2003 10 20
2003 10 30

Preserved tomatoes

20

8 410

8 410

8 410

8 410

8 410

Mushrooms of the species Agaricus

free

315

330

345

360

375

2003 10 80 Mushrooms, prepared or preserved otherwise

free

210

220

230

240

250

than by vinegar or acetic acid

2005 90 10

Fruits of the genus Capsicum

2007 99 10

Plum pure´e and paste

2007 99 31

Cherry jams,
jellies, marmalades, pure´e and
pastes with a sugar content exceeding 30 % by
weight

50

86

83

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

(8)

2007 99 33

Strawberry jam

20

210

220

230

240

250

(8)

2
9
.
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Description (1)

with a sugar content exceeding 30 % by weight.
Fruit coming unter CN codes 0801, 0803, 0804
0807 20 00,
(except
0810 20 90,
0810 40 10,
0810 40 50, 0810 40 90, 0810 90

0810 30 90,

pineapples),

and

figs

Applicable duty
(% of MFN) (2)

from
1.7.1996
to
30.6.1997
(tonnes)

from
1.7.1997
to
30.6.1998
(tonnes)

Annual quantities

from
1.7.1998
to
30.6.1999(tonnes)

from
1.7.1999
to
30.6.2000
(tonnes)

Specific
provisions

from
1.7.2000
(tonnes)

27

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

(8)

with a sugar content exceeding 13 % but not
exceeding 30 by weight. Fruits coming under
CN codes 0801, 0803, 0804 (except figs and
0810 20 90,
0807 20 00,
pineapples),
0810 30 90,
0810 40 50,
0810 40 10,
0810 40 90, 0810 90

other. Fruit coming under CN codes 0801, 0803,
0804 (except figs and pineapples), 0807 20 00,
0810 20 90,
0810 40 10,
0810 30 90,
0810 40 50, 0810 40 90, 0810 90

Apricots, preserved

20

420

440

460

480

500

cherries,

Sour
immediate packings of a net
exceeding 1 kg

containing

added sugar,

in
content not

70

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

ex 2007 99 39

ex 2007 99 58

ex 2007 99 93
ex 2007 99 98

2008 50 71
2008 50 79
2008 50 92
2008 50 94

2008 60 61

2008 60 69

Cherries, preserved

2008 70 79

Peaches, preserved

2008 80 70

Stawberries, preserved

2008 99 55

Plums, preserved

20

20

20

20

105

630

546

210

110

660

572

220

115

690

598

230

120

720

624

240

125

750

650

250

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Apple juice, concentrated, other

Apple juice of a density not exceeding 1,33 g/cm3
at 20 (cid:30)C

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

Tobacco

2009 70 30
2009 70 93
2009 70 99

2309 90 31
2309 90 41

2401 10 60
2401 10 70
2401 20 60
2401 20 70

20

48

20

20

4 620

4 840

5 060

5 280

5 500

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

3 339

3 080

3 220

3 360

3 500

6 300

6 600

6 900

7 200

7 500

(1) Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than indicative value, the preferential
scheme being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN code. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be by application to the CN code and
corresponding description taken together.
In cases where an MFN minimum duty exists, the applicable minimum duty is equal to the MFN minimum duty multiplied by the percentage indicated in this column.

(2)
(3) The quota for this product is opened for the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In case imports into the Communtiy of live bovine
domestic animals may exceed 500 000 heads for any given year, the Community may take the management measures needed to protect its market, notwithstanding any other rights given under the
Agreement.

(4) The quota for this product is opened for the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
(5) The Community may take into account, in the framework of its legislation and when appropriate, the supply needs of its market, and the need to maintain its market balance.
(6) Excluding tenderloin presented alone.
(7) Subject to minimum import price arrangements contained in the Annex to this Annex.
(8) The reduction applies only to the ad valorem part of the duty.
(9) This concession replaces all the preferential concessions previously existing for the products concerned, including the concessions provided for in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1600/95.

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L 112/56

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Official Journal of the European Communities

29.4.1999

Annex to Annex X

Minimum import price arrangement for certain soft fruit for processing

1. Minimum import prices are fixed as follows for the following products for processing originating

in Bulgaria.

CN code

Description

Minimum import
price
(ECU/100 kg net)

ex 0810 10 05

Strawberries, fresh, from 1 January to 30 April

ex 0810 10 10

Strawberries, fresh, from 1 May to 31 July

ex 0810 10 80

Strawberries, fresh, from 1 August to 31 December

ex 0810 20 10

Raspberries, fresh

ex 0810 30 10

Blackcurrants, fresh

ex 0810 30 30

Redcurrants, fresh

ex 0811 10 90

Frozen strawberries, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter: whole fruit

ex 0811 10 90

Frozen strawberries, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter: other

ex 0811 20 31

Frozen raspberries, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter: whole fruit

ex 0811 20 31

Frozen raspberries, containing no added sugar or other
sweetening matter: other

51,4

51,4

51,4

63,1

38,5

23,3

75,0

57,6

99,5

79,6

2. The minimum import prices, as set out in point 1, will be respected on a consignment-by-consign-
ment basis. In the case of a customs declaration value being lower than the minimum import price,
a countervailing duty equal to the difference between the minimum import price and the customs
declaration value will be charged.

3.

If the import prices of a given product covered by this Annex show a trend suggesting that the
prices could go below the level of the minimum import prices in the immediate future, the
European Commission will inform the Bulgarian authorities in order to enable them to correct the
situation.

4. At the request of either the Community or Bulgaria, the Association Committee shall examine the
functioning of the system or the revision of the level of the minimum import prices. If appropriate,
the Association Committee shall take the necessary decisions.

5. To encourage and promote the development of trade and for the mutual benefit of all parties
concerned, a consultation meeting will be organised three months before the beginning of each
marketing year in the European Community. This consultation meeting will take place between the
European Commission and the interested European producers’ organisations for the products
concerned, on the one part, and the authorities’, producers’ and exporters’ organisations of all the
associated exporting countries, on the other part.

During this consultation meeting, the market situation for soft fruit including,
in particular,
forecasts for production, stock situation, price evolution and possible market development, as well
as possibilities to adapt supply to demand, will be discussed.’

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ANNEX I

(cid:28)ANNEX XI

List of concessions from Bulgaria referred to in Article 21

Imports into Bulgaria of the following products originating in the Community shall be subject to the
concessions set out below.

The applicable reduced duty will be either that indicated in column I or that indicated in column II,
whichever is the lower.

BCT code
Bulgarian customs
tariff code

Description (1)

Column I

Column II

Annual quantities
(tonnes)

reduction
of duty
(%)

reduced duty
(ad valorem)

from
1.7.1996 to
30.6.1997

from
1.7.1997

Live fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing not
more than 185 g:

15

33

35

0105 11 10

Breeding poultry

0105 11 90

Other

4,25 %

12,75 %

0202 20 30

Unseparated or separated forequarters with bone-in, frozen

15

8,50 %

8 149

8 149

0202 20 50

Unseparated or
frozen

separated hindquarters with bone-in,

0402 10

Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar
or other sweetening matter, in powder, granules or other
solid forms, of a fat content by weight, not exceeding
1,5 %

15

12,75 %

2 400

2 400

0402 21

Milk and cream, concentrated not containing added sugar
or other sweetening matter, in powder, granules or other
solid forms, of a fat content by weight, exceeding 1,5 %

15

12,75 %

554

554

ex 0405

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, excluding
0405 20 00 1

30

28 %

73

73

0406

Cheese and curd

30

17,5 %

2 100

2 100

tuberous

roots,

corms and rhizomes,

—

10 %

21

0601 10 00 0

Bulbs,
dormant

tubers,

0601 20 00 0

For planting

0701 10 00 0

Seed potatoes, fresh or chilled

0703 10

Onions and shallot

21

26

—

30

—

10 %

26

17,5 %

328

332

25 % (2)

2 389

2 389

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29.4.1999

BCT code
Bulgarian customs
tariff code

Description (1)

0703 20

Garlic

0704 20 00 0

Brussels sprouts

0706 10 00 0

Carrots and turnips

0707

Cucumbers and gherkins

0709 30 00 0

Aubergines (egg-plant)

0709 60 00 1

Sweet peppers:

Column I

Column II

Annual quantities
(tonnes)

reduction
of duty
(%)

reduced duty
(ad valorem)

from
1.7.1996 to
30.6.1997

from
1.7.1997

—

—

—

—

—

25 % (3)

26

40 %

39

26

39

40 %

255

255

40 % (4)

1 130

1 130

40 %

45

45

0709 60 00 2

from 1 November to 30 June

—

40 %

141

141

from 1 July to 31 October

55 % (5)

0710 10 00 0

Potatoes, frozen

0710 21 00 0

Peas (Pisum sativum), frozen

0710 22 00 0

Beans (Vigna spp or Phaseolus spp), frozen

0712 20 00 0 Onions, dried

0801 11 00 0
0801 19 00 0

Coconuts, fresh or dried

0802 12 00 0

Almonds, shelled

0801 31 00 0

Cashew nuts

0803 00 00 0

Bananas, fresh or dried

0805 10 00 1 Oranges, fresh or dried from 16 October to 31 March

0805 20 00 0 Mandarins, clementins wilkings and similar citrus hybrids

0805 30 00 0

Lemons

40 %

224

224

—

—

—

—

40 %

40 %

40 %

80

21

12

30

17,5 %

35

28 %

80

21

12

37

—

30

15

30

15

25 %

177

177

7 %

150

156

8,5 %

14 000

15 000

7 %

57

60

7 %

10 350

10 800

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BCT code
Bulgarian customs
tariff code

Description (1)

Column I

Column II

Annual quantities
(tonnes)

reduction
of duty
(%)

reduced duty
(ad valorem)

from
1.7.1996 to
30.6.1997

from
1.7.1997

0806 10

Fresh grapes

0806 20 00 0

Grapes, dried

0807 11

Watermelons, fresh

0807 20 00 0

Papaws (papayas)

0808 10 00 1

Apples:

— — — in bulk, not suitable for direct consumption, for

processing

0808 10 00 4 — — — Others

0808 10 00 6

0808 10 00 7

0808 20 00 9

Pears and quinces, other than from 1 April to 30 June

0809 10 00 0

Apricots

0809 30 00 0

Peaches, including nectarines

0809 30 00 0

Peaches, including nectarines

0811 20 00 0

Raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, loganberries, black-,
white- or red-currant and gooseberries

0813 30 00 0

Apples, dried

0901 21

0901 22

0902 30

Coffee, roasted, not decaffeinated

Coffee, roasted, decaffeinated

Black tea (fermented) and partly fermented, in immediate
packings of a content not exceeding 3 kg

0902 40 00 0 Other black tea

0904 11 00 0

Pepper of the genus Piper, neither crushed nor ground

0908 30 00 2

Cardamoms

0910 10 00 0

Ginger

0910 30 00 0

Turmeric (Curcuma)

—

15

15

—

—

—

—

15

—

—

—

30

40 % (6)

1 098

1 098

34 %

11

12

34 %

162

169

40 %

28

28

40 %

3 880

3 880

(7)

40 %

202

202

40 %

145

145

34 %

400

400

40 % (8)

1 621

1 621

40 %

18

40 %

10

18

10

1 047

1 071

17,5 %

17,5 %

10,50 %

10,50 %

3,50 %

10,50 %

10,50 %

10,50 %

1003 00 90 1

Barley for brewing purposes

30

17,5 %

100

100

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BCT code
Bulgarian customs
tariff code

Description (1)

Column I

Column II

Annual quantities
(tonnes)

reduction
of duty
(%)

reduced duty
(ad valorem)

from
1.7.1996 to
30.6.1997

from
1.7.1997

1006 30 00 0

Rice, semi-milled or wholly milled

15

12,75 %

2 880

2 880

1103 12 00 0

Groats; meal and pellets of oats

1103 14 00 0

Groats; meal and pellets of rice

1108 19 00 0 Other starches

—

—

—

25 %

216

216

25 %

13 671

13 617

15 %

263

263

1201 00 90 0

Soya beans, other than for sowing, whether or not broken

30

10,50 %

100

100

1207 99

Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits

—

15 %

169

169

1209 21 00 0

Lucerne (alfafa) seeds

30

3,50 %

63

1209 91 00 0

Vegetable seeds

30

3,50 %

37

1302 13 00 0

Vegetable saps and extracts of hops

—

10 %

73

1503 00 00 0

Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil,
not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared

15

12,75 %

20

66

38

73

20

1507 10 00 0

Crude soya-bean oil, whether or not degummed

15

12,75 %

1 825

1 904

1509

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

15

8,5 %

400

400

1514 90 00 0

Rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof, other
than crude oil

30

17,50 %

56

59

1515 30 00 0

Castor oil and its fractions

30

10,50 %

11

12

1516 20 00 0

Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions

30

10,50 %

330

330

1517 10 00 0 Margarine, excluding liquid margarine

30

10,50 %

1 316

1 316

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BCT code
Bulgarian customs
tariff code

Description (1)

Column I

Column II

Annual quantities
(tonnes)

reduction
of duty
(%)

reduced duty
(ad valorem)

from
1.7.1996 to
30.6.1997

from
1.7.1997

1602 10 00 0 Homogenised preparations of preserved meat, meat offal

or blood

1602 20 00 0 Homogenised preparations of liver of any animal

30

30

28 %

50

50

28 %

1602 49 00 0 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal of swine,

15

34 %

912

950

including mixtures

1602 50 00 0 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood of

bovine animals

1701 99 00 0

Sugar, other than raw sugar and not containing added
flavouring or colouring matter

15

34 %

20 976

21 888

2002 10 00 0

Tomatoes, prepared or preserved, whole or in pieces

15

34 %

750

750

2002 90 00 0 Other tomatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by

vinegar or acetic acid

2004 10

Potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar
or acetic acid, frozen

—

40 %

535

535

2005 70 00 0 Olives, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or

15

8,50 %

4 763

4 970

acetic acid

2007 10 00 0 Homogenised preparations

—

40 %

155

155

2008 20

Pineapples, prepared or preserved

30

17,50 %

2

2

2009 11 00 0 Orange juice, frozen

2009 19 00 0 Other orange juice

15

21,25 %

510

520

2009 20 00 0

Grapefruit juice

15

21,25 %

451

462

2009 30 00 0

Juice of other single citrus fruit

2009 40 00 0

Pineapple juice

2009 90

Mixtures of juices

2009 60 00 0

Grape juice (including grape must)

2301 20 00 0

Flours, meals and pellets of fish, crustaceans, molluscs or
other aquatic invertebrates

15

30

34 %

369

385

7 %

7 631

7 963

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BCT code
Bulgarian customs
tariff code

Description (1)

Column I

Column II

Annual quantities
(tonnes)

reduction
of duty
(%)

reduced duty
(ad valorem)

from
1.7.1996 to
30.6.1997

from
1.7.1997

2303 10 00 0

Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues

30

7 %

424

443

2304 00 00 0 Oil-cake and other solid residues, from the extraction of

30

17,50 %

392

409

soya-bean oil

2309 90

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, other than
dog or cat food, put up for retail sale

15

8,50 %

12 752

12 752

Tobacco

30

6 000

6 000

2401 10

Tobacco not stemmed/stripped

2401 10 10 0

2401 10 20 0

2401 10 30 0

2401 10 41 0

2401 10 49 0

2401 10 50 0

2401 10 60 0

2401 10 70 0

2401 10 80 0

2401 10 90 0

2401 20

Tobacco partly or wholly stemmed/stripped

2401 20 10 0

2401 20 20 0

2401 20 30 0

2401 20 41 0

2401 20 49 0

2401 20 50 0

2401 20 60 0

2401 20 70 0

2401 20 80 0

2401 20 90 0

7 %

7 %

7 %

7 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

7 %

7 %

7 %

7 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

28 %

(1) Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Bulgarian customs tariff (BCT), the wording for the description of the products is to be
considered as having no more than indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, within the context of this Annex, by the coverage
of the BCT code. Where ex BCT codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application to the BCT codes and
corresponding description taken together.

(2) From 1.7 to 31.12, minimum duty applicable = 50 USD/tonne.
(3) From 1.7 to 31.12, minimum duty applicable = 140 USD/tonne.
(4) From 1.3 to 31.5, minimum duty applicable = 120 USD/tonne.
From 1.6 to 30.9, minimum duty applicable = 160 USD/tonne.
From 1.10 to end of February minimum duty applicable = 120 USD/tonne.

(5) From 1.7 to 31.10, minimum duty applicable = 40 USD/tonne.
(6) From 1.7 to 31.10, minimum duty applicable = 240 USD/tonne.
(7) From 1.8 to 31.12, minimum duty applicable = 180 USD/tonne.
(8) From 1.7 to 30.9, minimum duty applicable = 260 USD/tonne.

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L 112/63

Exchange of Letters between the European Community and Bulgaria regarding entry prices
applied to the import of fruit and vegetables into the Community

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

The Agreement on the adaptation of the agricultural part of the Europe Agreement
following the implementation of the Uruguay Round and the enlargement of the European
Community signed today between the European Community and Bulgaria does not contain
any provisions regarding the entry price regime applied to the import of fruit and
vegetables into the Community.

It has been agreed that the Parties will continue consultations on this sector in order to
find a solution. Taking into account, inter alia, the experience of the last marketing years,
the solution should allow the continuation of trade relations traditionally established
between the Community and Bulgaria for the products concerned. In the meantime,
Bulgaria will not be treated less favourably than other associated countries in this context.

In addition, both parties will continue talks in the framework of the relevant procedures of
the Europe Agreement on any other unresolved issues in order to find as soon as possible
mutually acceptable solutions.

I should be obliged if you would confirm the agreement of the Government of the Republic
of Bulgaria to the contents of this letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

For the Council of the
European Union

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B. Letter from the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today’s date which reads as
follows:

“The Agreement on the adaptation of the agricultural part of the Europe Agreement
following the implementation of the Uruguay Round and the enlargement of the
European Community signed today between the European Community and Bulgaria
does not contain any provisions regarding the entry price regime applied to the import
of fruit and vegetables into the Community.

the solution should allow the continuation of

It has been agreed that the Parties will continue consultations on this sector in order to
find a solution. Taking into account, inter alia, the experience of the last marketing
years,
trade relations traditionally
established between the Community and Bulgaria for the products concerned. In the
meantime, Bulgaria will not be treated less favourably than other associated countries
in this context.

the relevant
In addition, both parties will continue talks in the framework of
procedures of the Europe Agreement on any other unresolved issues in order to find as
soon as possible mutually acceptable solutions.

I should be obliged if you would confirm the agreement of the Government of the
Republic of Bulgaria to the contents of this letter.”

I have the honour to confirm that the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria is in
agreement with the contents of this letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

On behalf of the Government
of the Republic of Bulgaria’