Decision No 1/1999 of the EU-Tunisia Association Council of 25 October 1999 on the implementation of the provisions on processed agricultural products laid down in Article 10 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other part
Date: 1999-10-25
Institutions: EC–Tunisia Association Council
Subjects: Tunisia, agricultural product, agro-industry, association agreement (EU), customs duties

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COUNCIL

DECISION No 1/1999 OF THE EU-TUNISIA ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

of 25 October 1999

on the implementation of the provisions on processed agricultural products laid down in Article
10 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European
Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other
part

(1999/743/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Having regard to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement estab-
lishing an association between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of
the other part (1), and in particular Article 10
Tunisia, of
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 10(2) of the said Agreement provides that the
provisions on the free movement of goods shall not
preclude the separate specification by the Republic of
Tunisia of an agricultural component
in the import
duties in force on the products listed in Annex 2 to the
the
abovementioned
Community;

Agreement

originating

in

the joint declaration relating to Article 10 of the said
Agreement provides for the Parties to establish jointly
the separate specification by the Republic of Tunisia of
such agricultural component;

the joint establishment of this separation should be the
subject of a Decision by the Association Council,

Article 1

The Republic of Tunisia shall apply the duties listed in Annexes
I and II to this Decision to imports of processed agricultural
products originating in the Community.

The Republic of Tunisia shall eliminate the industrial compo-
nent of the duties in accordance with the provisions of Article
10(4) of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an
association between the European Communities and their
Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of
the other part.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force the day after its adoption
by the Association Council.

Done at Brussels, 25 October 1999.

For the Association Council

The President

Ben Saïd MUSTAPHA

(1) OJ L 97, 30.3.1998, p. 2.

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ANNEX I

CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

0710

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

0710 40 00

– Sweet corn

0711

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

0711 90 30

– – – Sweet corn

1702

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

1702 50 00

– Chemically pure fructose

1903

1904

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

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 otherwiese
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

43

43

29

29

30

42

10

10

1904 20 10

– – Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal flakes

43

10

2001

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

2001 90

– Other

2001 90 30

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2001 90 40

– – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more

by weight of starch

2004

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

2004 10

– Potatoes:

– – Other

2004 10 91

– – – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2004 90

– Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004 90 10

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2005

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

2005 20

– Potatoes:

2005 20 10

– – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 80 00

– Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

43

43

43

43

43

43

27

15

10

19

12

21

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CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

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:

2008 99

– – Other

– – – Not containing added spirit:

– – – – Not containing added sugar:

2008 99 85

– – – – – Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2008 99 91

– – – – – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5 % or

more by weight of starch

43

43

2101

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

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

extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101 12

– – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a

basis of coffee:

2101 12 92

– – – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates of coffee

43

2101 20

– Extracts, essences and concentrates of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of

these extracts, essences and concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté:

2101 20 20

– – Extracts, essences or concentrates

2101 30

– Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substistutes and extracts, essences and

concentrates thereof:

– – Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 19

– – Other than roasted chicory

– – Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee

substitutes:

2101 30 99

– – – Other than of roasted chicory

2905

Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, suophonated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitro-
sated derivatives:

– Other polyhydric alcohols:

2905 43 00

– – Mannitol

2905 44

– – D-glucitol (sorbitol):

– – – In aqueous solution:

2905 44 11

– – – – Containing 2 % or less by weight of D-mannitol, calculated on the D-glucitol

content

2905 44 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other

2905 44 91

– – – – Containing 2 % or less by weight of D-mannitol, calculated on the D-glucitol

content

2905 44 99

– – – – Other

ex 3501

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives.

3501 10

3501 90

– Casein

– Other

3501 90 90

– – Other

43

43

43

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

10

15

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

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CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

3824

Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations
of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural
products), not elsewhere specified or included; residual products of the chemical or
allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included:

3824 60

– Sorbitol other than that of subheading No 2905 44:

– – In aqueous solution:

3824 60 11

– – – Containing 2 % or less by weight of D-mannitol, calculated on the D-glucitol

content

3824 60 19

– – – Other

– – Other:

3824 60 91

– – – Containing 2 % or less by weight of D-mannitol, calculated on the D-glucitol

content

3824 60 99

– – – Other

23

23

23

23

10

10

10

10

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ANNEX II

CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

ex 1517

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

1517 10

– Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

1517 10 10

– – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1517 90

– Other:

1517 90 10

– – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1520 00 00

Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol

lyes

1704

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

1704 10

– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed

as sucrose):

1704 10 11

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 19

– – – Other

– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed

as sucrose):

1704 10 91

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 99

– – – Other

1704 90

– – Other:

1704 90 10

– – Liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not

containing other added substances

1704 90 30

– – White chocolate

– – Other:

1704 90 51

– – – Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or

more

1704 90 55

– – – Throat pastilles and cough drops

1704 90 61

– – – Sugar coated (panned) goods

1704 90 65

– – – – Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the form

of sugar confectionery

1704 90 71

– – – – Boiled sweets whether or not filled

1704 90 75

– – – – Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

1704 90 81

– – – – – Compressed tablets

1704 90 99

– – – – – Other

43

43

20

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

32

32

10

23

23

23

23

10

17

23

23

24

24

23

23

23

23

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CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:

1803 10 00

– Not defatted

1803 20 00

– Wholly or partly defatted

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806

Chocolate and other food preparation containing cocoa:

1806 10

– Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

1806 10 15

– – Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5 % by weight of sucrose
(including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 20

– – Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including

invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 30

– – Containing 65 % or more but less than 80 % by weight of sucrose (including

invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 90

– – Containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed

as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 20

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

1806 20 10

– – Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined

weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milk fat

1806 20 30

– – Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa

butter and milk fat

– – Other:

1806 20 50

– – – Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter

1806 20 70

– – – Chocolate milk crumb

1806 20 80

– – – Chocolate flavour coating

1806 20 95

– – – Other

– Other,

in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00

– – Filled

1806 32 10

– – – With added cereal, fruit or nuts

1806 32 90

– – – Other

1806 90

– Other:

– – Chocolate and chocolate products:

– – – Chocolates, whether or not filled:

33

33

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

40

43

43

43

43

43

43

18

18

18

15

15

15

15

17

17

17

17

17

17

22

20

20

1806 90 11

– – – – Containing alcohol

43

17

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CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

1806 90 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

1806 90 31

– – – – Filled

1806 90 39

– – – – Not filled

1806 90 50

– – Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution prod-

ucts, containing cocoa

1806 90 60

– – Spreads containing cocoa

1806 90 70

– – Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages

1806 90 90

– – Other

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 10 00

– Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 10 00

Malted milk containing cocoa

1901 10 00

Malted milk not containing cocoa

1901 10 00

Milk for invalids and infants

1901 10 00

Other food preparations for infants

1901 20 00

– Mixes and doughs for the preparations of bakers' wares of No 1905

1901 90

– Other:

– – Malt extract:

1901 90 11

– – – With a dry extract content of 90 % or more by weight

1901 90 19

– – – Other

– – Other:

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 of starch, excluding food preparations in powder form of goods of
heading Nos 0401 to 0404

1901 90 99

– – – Other

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 10

– Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

20

15

43

43

29

29

29

29

17

17

17

17

17

17

17

19

19

10

19

21

10

10

10

10

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CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

1904 10 10

– – Obtained from maize

1904 10 30

– – Obtained from rice

1904 10 90

– – Other

1904 90

– Other:

1904 90 10

– – Rice

1904 90 90

– – Other

2105

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

2105 00 10

– Containing no milk fats or containing less than 3 % by weight of such fats

– Containing by weight of milk fats:

2105 00 91

– – 3 % or more but less than 7 %

2105 00 99

– – 7 % or more

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10

– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:

2106 10 20

– – Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less

than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

2106 10 80

– – Other

2106 90

– Other:

2106 90 10

– – Cheese fondues

– – Other

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

2106 90 98

– – – Other

2202

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

2202 90

– Other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading

No 2009:

– – Other, containing by weight of fat obtained from the products of heading Nos

0401 to 0404:

2202 90 91

– – – Less than 0,2 %

2202 90 95

– – – 0,2 % or more but less than 2 %

2202 90 99

– – – 2 % or more

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

15

15

15

15

15

19

19

19

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

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CN code

Description

2203 00

Beer made from malt

2208

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol;
spirits,

liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

2208 20

– Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc:

2208 30

– Whiskies:

2208 40

– Rum and taffia:

2208 50

– Gin and Geneva

2208 60

– Vodka:

– – Of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45,4 % vol or less in containers holding:

2208 60 11

– – – 2 litres or less

– – Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 45,4 % vol

in containers

holding:

2208 60 91

– – – 2 litres or less

2208 60 99

– – – More than 2 litres

2208 70

– Liqueurs and cordials

2208 70 10

– – In containers holding 2 litres or less

2208 70 90

– – In containers holding more than 2 litres

2208 90

– Other:

– – Arrack,

in containers holding:

2208 90 19

– – – More than 2 litres

– – Plum, pear or cherry spirit (excluding liqueurs),

in containers holding:

2208 90 33

– – – 2 litres or less:

– – Other spirits and other spirituous beverages,

in containers holding:

– – – 2 litres or less:

2208 90 41

– – – – Ouzo

– – – – Other:

– – – – – Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

– – – – – – Distilled from fruit:

2208 90 45

– – – – – – – Calvados

2208 90 48

– – – – – – – Other

– – – – – – Other:

2208 90 52

– – – – – – – Korn

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

43

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

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CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

2208 90 57

– – – – – – – Other

2208 90 69

– – – – – Other spirituous beverages

– – – More than 2 litres:

– – – – Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

2208 90 74

– – – – – Other

2208 90 78

– – – – Other spirituous beverages

2402

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

2402 10 00

– Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco

2402 20

– Cigarettes containing tobacco:

2402 20 10

– – Containing cloves

2402 20 90

– – Other

2402 90 00

– Other

2905 45 00

– – Glycerol

2915

Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and
peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:

2915 90

– Other

3505

Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pregelatinised or esterified
starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches:

3505 10

– Dextrins and other modified starches:

3505 10 10

– – Dextrins

– – Other modified starches:

3505 10 90

– – – Other modified starches, other than esterified or etherified

3505 20

– Glues:

3505 20 10

– – Containing, by weight, less than 25 % of starches or dextrins or other modified

starches

3505 20 30

– – Containing, by weight, 25 % or more but less than 55 % of starches or dextrins

or other modified starches

3505 20 50

– – Containing, by weight 55 % or more but less than 80 % of starches or dextrins or

other modified starches

3505 20 90

– – Containing by weight 80 % or more of starches or dextrins or other modified

starches

3809

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

43

43

43

43

34

34

34

34

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

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CN code

Description

DD 1.1.1995
(in %)

Agricultural
component
(in %)

3809 10

– With a basis of amylaceouos substances:

3809 10 10

– – Containing by weight of such substances less than 55 %

3809 10 30

– – Containing by weight of such substances 55 % or more but less than 70 %

3809 10 50

– – Containing by weight of such substances 70 % or more but less than 83 %

3809 10 90

– – Containing by weight of such substances 83 % or more

3823

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining;
alcohols:

industrial

fatty

– Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining

3823 11 00

– – Stearic acid

3823 12 00

– – Oleic acid

3823 13 00

– – Tall oil fatty acids

3823 19

– – Other:

3823 19 10

– – – Distilled fatty acids

3823 19 30

– – – Fatty acid distillate

3823 19 90

– – – Other:

3823 70 00

– Industrial fatty alcohols

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10