Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the European Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in Protocol 2 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and the Republic of Estonia
Date: 2001-02-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Association Council (EU), Estonia, agricultural product, processed foodstuff, trade policy

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 21.02.2001
COM(2001) 103 final

2001/0050 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by
the European Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States,
of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, concerning the
improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in
Protocol 2 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and the
Republic of Estonia

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Article 18 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member
States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, approved by Decision of
the Council and the Commission (98/180/EC,ECSC,Euratom) of 19 December 19971,
provides that Protocol 2 lays down the trade arrangements for the processed agricultural
products which are listed therein. Pursuant to Article 2(1) of the Protocol adjusting trade
aspects of the Europe Agreement to take into account 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 agreements, approved by Council Decision (1999/86/EC) of 18 May
19982, Protocol 2 to the Europe Agreement has been replaced by the text contained in Annex
A to that Protocol.

During the debate on the mandate proposed by the Commission for the improvement of the
agricultural chapter of the Europe Agreements, Member States asked the Commission to
negotiate in parallel improvement of the market access for processed agricultural products.
This negotiation has as a legal basis the relevant provisions of the Protocol 2 mentioned
above.

Following this request of the Council, the services of the Commission started negotiations
with a delegation of the Republic of Estonia.

In accordance with the Europe Agreement the processed agricultural products originating
from the Community are not subject to any import duty in Estonia.

During the month of April 2000, the two parties reached a technical agreement which
envisages the elimination of import duties for the products under quota, the increase of the
amount of the quota taking account of the traditional trade flow as well as concessions for
new products.

It is therefore proposed to the Council to adopt this Proposal for a Decision of the Association
Council, aiming to adapt Protocol 2.

1

2

OJ L 68, 9.3.1998, p. 1.
OJ L 29, 3.2.1999, p. 9.

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2001/0050 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by
the European Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States,
of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, concerning the
improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in
Protocol 2 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and the
Republic of Estonia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The European Agreement3 establishes an association between the European
Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of
the other part.

Protocol 2, as amended by the Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe
Agreement4 to take into account 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 lays down the trade arrangements in
processed agricultural products between the Community and Estonia.

Under Article 1(3) of this Protocol the Association Council decides in particular on
any amendment of the duties mentioned in the annexes to Protocol 2 and on the
increase or abolition of tariff quotas.

Under Article 2, second indent of this Protocol, the Association Council also decides
that the duties applied may be reduced in response to reductions resulting from mutual
concessions relating to processed agricultural products,

3

4

OJ L 68, 9.3.1998, p. 3.
OJ L 29, 3.2.1999, p. 11.

3

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

The position to be taken by the Community within the Association Council established by the
European Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of one
part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the
Protocol 2 on the bilateral trade on processed agricultural products, shall be based on the draft
decision of the Association Council annexed to this Decision.

Done at Brussels,

For the Council
The President

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Annex

Proposal for

DECISION No…/2001 OF THE EC-ESTONIA ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

on improvements to the trade arrangements provided for processed agricultural products in
Protocol 2 to the Europe Agreement

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European
Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Estonia, of the
other part, and in particular Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 2,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Protocol 2 lays down the trade arrangements in processed agricultural products
between the Community and Estonia.

Under Article 1(3) the Association Council decides in particular on any amendment of
the duties mentioned in the annexes to Protocol 2 and on the increase or abolition of
tariff quotas.

Under Article 2, second indent, the Association Council also decides that the duties
applied may be reduced in response to reductions resulting from mutual concessions
relating to processed agricultural products.

The annual quotas provided for in Annex I of this Decision should be opened for the
year 2001. In view of the fact that these annual quotas can only be opened after the 1st
January 2001, on a date to be fixed, they should be reduced on a pro rata basis
according to the period already elapsed,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Annex I to Protocol 2 on trade between the Community and Estonia in processed agricultural
products shall be replaced by Annex I of this Decision.

The annual quotas for the year 2001 provided for in Annex I of this decision will be reduced
on a pro rata basis taking into account the period, based on whole months, already elapsed.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following its
adoption.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, […]

For the Association Council

The President

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ANNEX I

Table 1: Quotas applicable upon import into the Community of goods originating in
Estonia

Exemption of duty within the quota.

CN Code

Description

(1)

0403 10 51 to
0403 10 99
1518 00

1518 00 91

1518 00 95 to
1518 00 99
1704
ex 1806

1901

1901 20 00

1901 90
1905

2102

2102 10
2102 30 00
2103

2103 20 00
2103 90 90
2104

2105 00
2106
2106 10
2106 90
2106 90 20

Yogurt, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

(2)

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidized,
dehydrated, sulphurized, blow, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in
inert gas or other wise chemically modified, excluding those of head
No 1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats
or oils or fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter not elsewhere
specified or included:
-Other:
--Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidized,
dehydrated, sulphurized, blow, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in
inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of head No
1516
--Other

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa
Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa, excluding CN
code 1806 10 15
Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract,
not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa
calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or
included; food preparations of goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not
containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa
calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or
included:
-Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No
1905
-Other
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
Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead
(but not including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking
powders:
-Active yeasts
-Prepared baking powders
Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed
seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:
-Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces
--Other
Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite
food preparations
Ice cream
Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:
-Protein concentrates and textured protein substances
-Other:
--Compound alcoholic preparations, other
odoriferous substances, of a kind used for
beverages
--Other:

than those based on
the manufacture of

6

Annual quota
(1000 kg)

2001

2002

2003

(3)

200

600

(4)

200

600

(5)

200

600

420
800

640
900

860
1000

150

500
300

150

500
450

150

500
600

650

950

1250

500
150
150

100

10
600

600
200
150

150

15
600

700
250
150

200

25
600

2106 90 92

2106 90 98
2202 90 91 to
2202 90 99
2402 20
2402 20 10
2402 20 90

---Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or
less than 1.5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or
containing,by weight,
isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch
---Other
Waters containing milk fat

-Cigarettes containing tobacco:
--Containing cloves
--Other

800

100

800

100

800

100

7

Note:

CN Code

(1)

0403

0403 10

0403 10 51
0403 10 53
0403 10 59

0403 10 91
0403 10 93
0403 10 99
0403 90

0403 90 71
0403 90 73
0403 90 79

0403 90 91
0403 90 93
0403 90 99

0405

0405 20
0405 20 10

0405 20 30

Table 2: Duties applicable upon import into the Community of goods originating in
Estonia

The duties set out in this table are subject to a reduction by 10 %. The amounts taken into
consideration in calculating the reduced agricultural components (EAR) and additional duties
(AD S/ZR and AD F/MR), applicable on importation into the Community of goods listed in
this Table are those set out in table 2 (b) (from 1.7.2000) of Annex 1 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2204/1999 of 12 October 1999 (pages 775 to 787 of OJ L 278 of 28
October 1999).

Description

(2)

Duty

(3)

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other
fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not
concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening
matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
-Yoghurt:
--Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
---In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milk fat
content, by weight:
----Not exceeding 1,5 %
----Exceeding 1,5 % but not exceeding 27 %
----Exceeding 27 %
---Other, of a milk fat content, by weight:
----Not exceeding 3 %
----Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 %
----Exceeding 6 %
-Other:
--Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
---In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milkfat
content, by weight:
----Not exceeding 1,5 %
----Exceeding 1,5 % but not exceeding 27 %
----Exceeding 27 %
---Other, of a milkfat content, by weight:
----Not exceeding 3 %
----Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 %
----Exceeding 6 %

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy
spreads:
-Dairy spreads:
--Of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more but less than
60 %
--Of a fat content, by weight, of 60 % or more but not
exceeding 75 %

8,3 % + 95 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 130,4 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 168,8 EUR/100 kg

8,3 % + 12,4 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 17,1 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 26,6 EUR/100 kg

8,3 % + 95 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 130,4 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 168,8 EUR/100 kg

8,3 % + 12,4 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 17,1 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 26,6 EUR/100 kg

9 % + EAR

9 % + EAR

5,1 %

0509 00
0509 00 90

Natural sponges of animal origin:
-Other

0710

0710 40 00

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

5,1 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

0711

0711 90

0711 90 30

Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur
dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative
solutions), but unsuitable in that
immediate
consumption:
-Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:
--Vegetables
---Sweet corn

state for

5,1 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

8

1302

1302 12 00
1302 13 00
1302 20
1302 20 10
1302 20 90

1505

1505 10 00

1516

1516 20
1516 20 10

1517

1517 10
1517 10 10

1517 90
1517 90 10

1517 90 93

1518 00

1518 00 10

1518 00 91

1518 00 95

1518 00 99

1521

1521 90

1521 90 99

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:
--Of liquorice
--Of hops
-Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:
--Dry
--Other

and fatty substances derived therefrom

Wool grease
(including lanolin):
-Wool grease, crude

hydrogenated,

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or
or
wholly
elaidinized, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:
-Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:
--Hydrogenated castor oil, so called "opal-wax"

inter-esterified,

re-esterified

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or
vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of
this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of
heading No 1516:
-Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:
--Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by
weight of milk fats
-Other:
--Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by
weight of milk fats
--Other
---Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould
release preparations

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled,
oxidized, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerized by
in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically
heat
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:
-Linoxyn
-Other:
--Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled,
oxidized, dehydrated, sulphurized, blown, polymerized by
heat
in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically
modified, excluding those of heading No1516
--Other:
---Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or of animal
and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions
---Other

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

1522 00

1522 00 10

residues resulting from the treatment of

Degras;
substances or animal or vegetable waxes:
-Degras

fatty

9

0 %
0 %

19,2 %
11,2 %

3,2 %

3,4 %

8,3 % + 28,4 EUR/100 kg

8,3 % + 28,4 EUR/100 kg

2,9 %

7,7 %

7,7 %

2 %

7,7 %

0 %

3,8 %

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

16 % + 50,7 EUR/100 kg net mas

12,8 %

1702

1702 50 00
1702 90
1702 90 10

1704

1704 10

1704 10 11
1704 10 19

1704 10 91
1704 10 99
1704 90
1704 90 10

1704 90 30

1704 90 51

1704 90 55
1704 90 61

1704 90 65

1704 90 71
1704 90 75

1704 90 81
1704 90 99

not

chocolate),

confectionery (including white

Sugar
containing cocoa:
-Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:
--Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
---Gum in strips
---Other
--Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
---Gum in strips
---Other
-Other:
--Liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of
sucrose but not containing other added substances
--White chocolate

--Other:
---Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net
content of 1 kg or more
---Throat pastilles and cough drops
---Sugar coated (panned) goods
---Other:
----Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit
pastes in the form of sugar confectionery
----Boiled sweets whether or not filled
----Toffees, caramels and similar sweets
----Other
-----Compressed tablets
-----Other

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00

1806
1806 10

1806 10 15

1806 10 20

1806 10 30

1806 10 90

1806 20

1806 20 10

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:
-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
--Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of
sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or
isoglucose expressed as sucrose
--Containing 65 % or more but less than 80 % by weight of
sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or
isoglucose expressed as sucrose
--Containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as
sucrose
-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:
--Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or
containing a combined weight of 31 % or more of cocoa
butter and milk fat

10

0 % + 27,1 EUR/100 kg MAX 17,9 %
0 % + 27,1 EUR/100 kg MAX 17,9 %

6,3 % + 30,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 18,2 %
6,3 % + 30,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 18,2 %

13,4 %

9,1 % + 45,1 MAX 18,9 % +
16,5 EUR/100 kg

9 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

9 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
9 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

9 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

9 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
9 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

9,6 %

7,7 %

0 %

0 %

0 % + 25,2 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 31,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 41,9 EUR/100 kg

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

1806 20 30

1806 20 50
1806 20 70
1806 20 80
1806 20 95

1806 31 00
1806 32
1806 32 10
1806 32 90
1806 90

1806 90 11
1806 90 19

1806 90 31
1806 90 39
1806 90 50

1806 90 60
1806 90 70
1806 90 90

1901

1901 10 00
1901 20 00

1901 90

1901 90 11
1901 90 19

1901 90 91

1901 90 99

1902

1902 11 00
1902 19
1902 19 10
1902 19 90
1902 20

1902 20 91
1902 20 99
1902 30
1902 30 10
1902 30 90
1902 40
1902 40 10
1902 40 90

--Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less
than 31 % of cocoa butter and milk fat
--Other:
---Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter
---Chocolate milk crumb
---Chocolate flavour coating
---Other
-Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:
--Filled
--Not filled
---With added cereal, fruit or nuts
---Other
-Other:
--Chocolate and chocolate products:
---Chocolates, whether or not filled:
----Containing alcohol
----Other
---Other:
----Filled
----Not filled
--Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from
sugar substitution products, containing cocoa
--Spreads containing cocoa
--Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages
--Other

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt
extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by
weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not
elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods
of heading Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or
containing less than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a
totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:
-Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale
-Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of
heading No 1905
-Other:
--Malt extract:
---With a dry extract content of 90 % or more by weight
---Other
--Other:
---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
---Other

lasagne, gnocchi,

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other
spaghetti,
substances) or otherwise prepared such as
macaroni, noodles,
ravioli, cannelloni;
couscous, whether or not prepared:
-Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:
--Containing eggs
--Other
---Containing no common wheat flour or meal
---Other
-Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
--Other
---Cooked
---Other
-Other pasta
--Dried
--Other
-Couscous:
--Unprepared
--Other

11

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

7,6 % + EAR
7,6 % + EAR

5,1 % + 18 EUR/100 kg
5,1 % + 14,7 EUR/100 kg

12,8 %

7,6 % + EAR

7,7 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg

7,7 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg
7,7 % + 21,1 EUR/100 kg

8,3 % + 6,1 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 17,1 EUR/100 kg

6,4 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg
6,4 % + 9,7 EUR/100 kg

7,7 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg
6,4 % + 9,7 EUR/100 kg

1903 00 00

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

6,4 % + 15,1 EUR/100 kg

1904

1904 10

1904 10 10
1904 10 30
1904 10 90
1904 20

1904 20 10

1904 20 91
1904 20 95
1904 20 99
1904 90
1904 90 10
1904 90 90

1905

1905 10 00
1905 20
1905 20 10

1905 20 30

1905 20 90

1905 30

1905 30 11
1905 30 19

1905 30 30

1905 30 51
1905 30 59

1905 30 91
1905 30 99
1905 40
1905 40 10
1905 40 90
1905 90
1905 90 10
1905 90 20

1905 90 30

1905 90 40

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

-Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of
cereals or cereal products:
--Obtained from maize
--Obtained from rice
--Other:
-Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or
from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal
flakes or swelled cereals:
--Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal
flakes
--Other:
---Obtained from maize
---Obtained from rice
---Other
-Other:
--Rice
--Other

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:

-Crispbread
-Gingerbread and the like
--Containing by weight of sucrose less than 30 % (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
--Containing by weight of sucrose 30 % or more but less than
50 % (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
--Containing by weight of sucrose 50 % or more (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
-Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
--Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or
other preparations containing cocoa:
---In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g
---Other
--Other:
---Sweet biscuits:
----Containing 8 % or more by weight of milk fats
----Other:
-----Sandwich biscuits
-----Other
---Waffles and wafers:
----Salted, whether or not filled
----Other
-Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:
--Rusks
--Other
-Other:
--Matzos
--Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for
pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar
products
--Other:
---Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit,
and containing by weight in the dry matter state not more
than 5 % of sugars and not more than 5 % of fat
---Waffles and wafers with a water content exceeding 10 %
by weight

12

3,8 % + 20 EUR/100 kg
5,1 % + 46 EUR/100 kg
5,1 % + 33,6 EUR/100 kg

9 % + EAR

3,8 % + 20 EUR/100 kg
5,1 % + 46 EUR/100 kg
5,1 % + 33,6 EUR/100 kg

8,3 % + 46 EUR/100 kg
8,3 % + 25,7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 13 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 18,3 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 31,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR
0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR
0 % + EAR

0 % + 15,9 EUR/100 kg
0 % + 60,5 EUR/100 kg

0 % + EAR

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

1905 90 45
1905 90 55

1905 90 60
1905 90 90

2001

2001 90
2001 90 30
2001 90 40

2001 90 60

2004

2004 10

2004 10 91
2004 90
2004 90 10

2005

---Biscuits
---Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
---Other:
----With added sweetening matter
----Other

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR
0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR
0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

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

-Other:
--Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)
--Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants
containing 5 % or more by weight of starch
--Palm hearts

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

-Potatoes:
--Other
---In the form of flour, meal or flakes
-Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:
--Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

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

5,1 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda
8,3 % + 3,8 EUR/100 kg net eda

10 %

7,6 % + EAR

5,1 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

2005 20
2005 20 10
2005 80 00

-Potatoes:
--In the form of flour, meal or flakes
-Sweet corn(ZEA mays var. saccharata)

8,8 % + EAR
5,1 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

2008

2008 11
2008 11 10

2008 91 00
2008 99

2008 99 85

2008 99 91

2101

2101 11
2101 11 11

2101 11 19
2101 12

2101 12 92

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

-Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed
together:
--Ground-nuts
---Peanut butter
-Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading
2008 19:
--Palm hearts
--Other
---Not containing added spirit:
----Not containing added sugar:
-----Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var.
saccharata)
-----Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants,
containing 5 % or more by weight of starch

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:

of

and

coffee,

essences

concentrates

-Extracts,
and
preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or
concentrates or with a basis of coffee:
--Extracts; essences or concentrates:
---With a coffee-based dry matter content of 95 % or more by
weight
---Other
--Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or
concentrates or with a basis of coffee:
---Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or
concentrates of coffee

13

12,8 %

10 %

5,1 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

8,3 % + 3,8 EUR/100 kg net eda

9 %

9 %

11,5 %

2101 12 98
2101 20

2101 20 20

2101 20 92

2101 20 98
2101 30

2101 30 11
2101 30 19

2101 30 91
2101 30 99

2102

2102 10
2102 10 10

2102 10 31
2102 10 39
2102 10 90
2102 20

2102 20 11

2102 20 19
2102 30 00

2103

2103 10 00
2103 20 00
2103 30
2103 30 90
2103 90
2103 90 90

2104

---Other
-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:
--Extracts, essences or concentrates:
--Preparations
---With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or
maté
---Other
-Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and
extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:
--Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:
---Roasted chicory
---Other
--Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and
other roasted coffee substitutes:
---Of roasted chicory
---Other

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

-Active yeast:
--Culture yeasts
--Baker's yeasts:
---Dried
---Other
--Other
-Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:
--Inactive yeasts:
---In tablet, cube or similar form, or in immediate packings of
a net content not exceeding 1 kg.
---Other
-Prepared baking powders

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

-Soya sauce
-Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces
-Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:
--Prepared mustard
--Other:
--Other

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

2104 10
2104 10 10
2104 10 90
2104 20 00

-Soups and broths and preparation therefor:
--Dried
--Other
-Homogenised composite food preparetions

2105 00

2105 00 10

2105 00 91

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

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

14

9 % + EAR

6 %

6 %

6,5 % + EAR

11,5 %
5,1 % + 12,7 EUR/100 kg

14,1 %
10,8 % + 22,7 EUR/100 kg

10,9 %

12 %
0 %
14,7 %

8,3 %

5,1 %
6,1 %

7,7 %
10,2 %

9 %

3,2 %

4,5 %
4,5 %
5,5 %

0 % + 20,2 EUR/100 kg MAX19,4 % +
9,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 38,5 EUR/100 kg MAX18,1 % +
7 EUR/100 kg
0 % + 54 EUR/100 kg MAX17,8 % +
6,9 EUR/100 kg

2106 10 20

2106 10 80
2106 90
2106 90 10
2106 90 20

2106 90 92

2106 90 98

2202

2202 10 00

2202 90
2202 90 10

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99

--Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or
starch or containing, by weight, less than 1.5 % milk fat, 5 %
sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch
--Other
-Other:
--Cheese fondues (1)
--Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based
on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture
of beverages
--Other:
---Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or
starch or containing,by weight, less than 1.5 % milk fat, 5 %
sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch:
---Other

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:
-Waters
including mineral waters and aerated waters,
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or
flavoured
-Other:
--Not containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat
obtained from products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404
--Other, containing by weight of fat obtained from the
products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404:
---Less than 0.2 %
---0.2 % or more but less than 2 %
---2 % or more

2203 00

Beer made from malt

2205

2205 10
2205 10 10

2205 10 90

2205 90
2205 90 10

2205 90 90

2207

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

-In containers holding 2 litres or less:
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18 % vol or
less
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18 %
vol
-Other:
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18 % vol or
less
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18 %
vol

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

12,8 %

9 % + EAR

35 EUR/100 kg
17,3 % MIN 1 EUR/%vol/hl

12,8 %

9,7 % + EAR

0 %

9,6 %

0 % + 13,7 EUR/100 kg
0 % + 12,1 EUR/100 kg
0 % + 21,2 EUR/100 kg

0 %

10,9 EUR/hl

0,9 EUR/% vol/hl + 6,4 EUR/hl

9 EUR/hl

0,9 EUR/% vol/hl

2207 10 00

2207 20 00

-Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by
volume of 80 % vol or higher
-Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

19,2 EUR/hl

10,2 EUR/hl

2208

2208 40

2208 40 11

2208 40 31
2208 40 39

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

-Rum and taffia:
--In containers holding 2 litres or less
---Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl
and methyl alcohol equal to or exceeding 225 grams per
hectolitre of pure alcohol (with a 10 % tolerance)
---Other:
----Of a value exceeding 7.9
----Other
--In containers holding more than 2 litres:

per litre of pure alcohol

€

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl + 3,2 EUR/hl

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl + 3,2 EUR/hl
0,6 EUR/% vol/hl + 3,2 EUR/hl

15

2208 40 51

2208 40 91
2208 40 99
2208 90

2208 90 91
2208 90 99

2402

2402 10 00
2402 20
2402 20 10
2402 20 90
2402 90 00

2403

2403 10

2403 10 10
2403 10 90

2403 91 00
2403 99
2403 99 10
2403 99 90

2905

2905 43 00
2905 44

2905 44 11

2905 44 19

2905 44 91

2905 44 99
2905 45 00

3301

€

---Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl
and methyl alcohol equal to or exceeding 225 grams per
hectolitre of pure alcohol (with a 10 % tolerance)
---Other:
----Of a value exceeding 2
----Other
-Other:
--Undernatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by
volume of less than 80 % volume, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres

per litre of pure alcohol

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

-Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco
-Cigarettes containing tobacco:
--Containing cloves
--Other
-Other

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco
substitues;
tobacco;
tobacco extracts and essences:

"homogenized"

"reconstituted"

or

-Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco
substitutes in any proportion:
--In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 500 g
--Other
-Other
--"Homogenized" or "reconstituted" tobacco
--Other:
---Chewing tobacco and snuff
---Other

Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated
or nitrosated derivatives:

-Other polyhydric alcohols:
--Mannitol
--D-glucitol (sorbitol):
---In aqueous solution:
----Containing 2 % or
calculated on the D-glucitol content
----Other
---Other
----Containing 2 % or
calcutated on the D-glucitol content
----Other
--Glycerol

less by weight of D-mannitol,

less by weight of D-mannitol,

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

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl
0,6 EUR/% vol/hl

1 EUR/% vol/hl + 6,4 EUR/hl
1 EUR/% vol/hl

26 %

10 %
28,8 %
57,6 %

74,9 %
74,9 %

16,6 %

41,6 %
16,6 %

0 % + 125,8 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 16,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 37,8 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 23 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 53,7 EUR/100 kg
0 %

3301 90
3301 90 21

-Other:
---Extracted oleoresins of liquorice and hops

3,2 %

3302

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

3302 10

-Of a kind used in the food or drink industries
--Of the type used in the drink industries:

16

---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterizing
a beverage:
----Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding
0.5 %
----Other:
-----Containing no milkfats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose, or
less than 1.5 % milkfat,
starch or containing, by weight,
5 %sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch
-----Other

3302 10 10

3302 10 21

3302 10 29

3501

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues:

3501 10
3501 10 50

3501 10 90
3501 90
3501 90 90

3505

3505 10
3505 10 10

3505 10 90
3505 20
3505 20 10

3505 20 30

3505 20 50

3505 20 90

3809

3809 10
3809 10 10
3809 10 30

3809 10 50

3809 10 90

3823

3823 11 00
3823 12 00
3823 13 00
3823 19
3823 19 10
3823 19 30
3823 19 90
3823 70 00

-Casein:
--For industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs
or fodder
--Other
--Other:
--Other

and other modified starches

Dextrins
example,
pregelatinized or esterified starches); glues based on starches,
or on dextrins or other modified starches:

(for

-Dextrins and other modified starches:
--Dextrins
--Other modified starches:
---Other
-Glues:
--Containing, by weight,
dextrins or other modified starches
--Containing, by weight, 25 % or more but less than 55 % of
starches or dextrins or other modified starches
--Containing, by weight, 55 % or more but less than 80 % of
starches or dextrins or other modified starches
--Containing by weight 80 % or more of starches or dextrins
or other modified starches

less than 25 % of starches or

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

leather or

-With a basis of amylaceouos substances:
--Containing by weight of such substances less than 55 %
--Containing by weight of such substances 55 % or more but
less than 70 %
--Containing by weight of such substances 70 % or more but
less than 83 %
--Containing by weight of such substances 83 % or more

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

-Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining
--Stearic acid
--Oleic acid
--Tall oil fatty acids
--Other:
---Distilled fatty acids
---Fatty acid distillate
---Other:
-Industrial fatty alcohols

17

17,3 % MIN 1 EUR/% vol/hl

12,8 %

0 % + EAR

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 % + 17,7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 17,7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 4,5 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 %

0 % + 8,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 %

0 % + 14,2 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 %

0 % + 17,7 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 %

0 % + 8,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %
0 % + 12,4 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %

0 % + 15,1 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %

0 % +17,7 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %

5,1 %
4,5 %
2,9 %

2,9 %
2,9 %
2,9 %
3,8 %

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

3824 60 11

3824 60 19

3824 60 91

3824 60 99

-Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44:
--in aqueous solution:
---Containing 2 % or less by weight of D-mannitol, calculated
on the D-glucitol content
---Other
--Other:
---Containing 2 % or less by weight of D-mannitol, calculated
on the D-glucitol content
---Other

0 % + 16,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 37,8 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 23 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 53,7 EUR/100 kg

(1) Eligibility to benefit from this preference is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions.

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Table 3: Basic amounts taken into consideration in calculating the reduced agricultural
components (EAR) and additional duties applicable on importation into the Community

of goods listed in Table 2

Basic Product

(1)

Common wheat

Durum wheat

Rye

Barley

Maize

Long-grain husked rice

Skimmed-milk powder

Whole-milk powder

Butter

White sugar

MFN rate on 1.7.2000
€
/100 kg)

(

(2)

9.504

14.752

9.261

9.261

9.395

26.432

118.800

130.432

189.562

41.928

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1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

5.0

5.1

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

BUDGET HEADING:
Article 120 Chapter 10

DATE:
APPROPRIATIONS:

TITLE: Proposal for Decision no…/2001 of the EC-ESTONIA Association Council on improvements to
the trade arrangements provided for processed agricultural products in Protocol 2 to the Europe
Agreement

LEGAL BASIS:
Article 133
AIMS:
Improvement of the bilateral trade on processed agricultural product according to the Protocol 2 of the
Europe Agreement.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

12 MONTH
PERIOD

(EUR million)

CURRENT
FINANCIAL
YEAR
2001
(EUR million)

FOLLOWING
FINANCIAL
YEAR
2002
(EUR million)

CHARGED TO THE EC BUDGET

NATIONAL AUTHORITIES
OTHER

EXPENDITURE
-
(REFUNDS/INTERVENTIONS)
-
-
REVENUE
-
(LEVIES/CUSTOMS DUTIES)
NATIONAL
-

OWN RESOURCES OF THE EC

-0.3

-0.3

-0.3

2003

2004

2005

2006

5.0.1 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
5.1.1 ESTIMATED REVENUE
5.2 METHOD OF CALCULATION: The calculation of the Estonian annual importation –10 % for the

-0.3

-0.3

-0.3

-0.3

concessions granted within the scope of improvements of exchange regime with EU.

6.0

6.1

CAN THE PROJECT BE FINANCED FROM APPROPRIATIONS ENTERED IN THE
RELEVANT CHAPTER OF THE CURRENT BUDGET?
CAN THE PROJECT BE FINANCED BY TRANSFER BETWEEN CHAPTERS OF
THE CURRENT BUDGET?

6.2 WILL A SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET BE NECESSARY?
6.3 WILL APPROPRIATIONS NEED TO BE ENTERED IN FUTURE BUDGETS?
OBSERVATIONS:
The financial incidence of this measure granted under the form of a reduction of duties applicable on imports of
products originated from Estonia is weak taking into account the poor commercial trade with EU.

NO

NO
NO
NO

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