Proposal for a Council Regulation adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Estonia and the exportation of certain agricultural products to Estonia
Date: 2003-04-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Estonia, export (EU), import (EU), liberalisation of trade, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 24.4.2003
COM(2003) 205 final

2003/0083 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain
processed agricultural products originating in Estonia and the exportation of certain
agricultural products to Estonia

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Council guidelines authorised the Commission to enter into negotiations with the Republic of
Estonia with a view to improving the trade arrangement for processed agricultural products in
preparation for accession.

After these negotiations the terms of an agreement between the European Community and
Estonia was initialled by both parties. On the Community side this agreement introduces
concessions in the form of complete liberalisation of trade for certain processed agricultural
products and duty free quotas for others – for imports outside of these quotas the current trade
provisions as laid down by Protocol 2 of the European Agreement between the European
Communities and Estonia will continue to apply. A swift implementation of the terms of this
new agreement was an essential part of the negotiations. Therefore, given that the procedure
for adopting a decision to amend the Adaptation Protocol will not be completed in time for it
to enter into force on 1 June 2003, it is necessary to provide for the application of the
concessions made to Estonia on an autonomous basis from 1 June 2003.

The Community concessions are granted subject to the adoption of Estonia of reciprocal
measures.

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2003/0083 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain
processed agricultural products originating in Estonia and the exportation of certain
agricultural products to Estonia

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community and in particular Article
133, (2) and (4) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

Protocol No 2 to the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their
Member  States,  of  the  one  part,  and  the  Republic  of  Estonia,  of  the  other  part,
hereinafter referred to as "Europe Agreement with Estonia" and approved by Decision
98/180/EC,  ECSC,  Euratom  of  the  Council  and  of  the  Commission 1,  provides  for
tariff  concessions for  processed  agricultural products originating in  Estonia.  Protocol
No 2 was amended by the Adaptation Protocol2 adjusting trade aspects of the Europe
Agreement  with Estonia.  It  was improved by Decision No  6/2001  of  the  EC-Estonia
Association Council3

A  trade  agreement  has  recently  been  concluded  which  amends  the  Adaptation
Protocol.  It  aims  to  improve  economic  convergence  in  preparation  for  accession  and
should  enter  into  force  not  later  than  1  June  2003.  On  the  Community  side  this
agreement lays down concessions in the form of completed liberalisation of trade for
certain  processed  agricultural  products  and  duty  free  quotas  for  others.  For  imports
outside of these quotas the current provisions continue to apply.

The  procedure  for  adopting  a  decision  to  amend  Adaptation  Protocol  will  not  be
completed in time for it to enter into force on 1 June 2003. It is therefore necessary to
provide for the application of the concessions made to Estonia on an autonomous basis
from 1 June 2003.

(4)

On  processed  agricultural  products  covered  by  Protocol  No  2,  but  not  listed  in  the
present regulation, the trade provisions laid down by Protocol No 2 should apply.

1

2

3

OJ L 68, 9.3.1998, p. 3.
OJ L 29, 3.2.1999, p. 11.
OJ L 283, 27.10.2001, p. 49

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(5)

(6)

(7)

For the importation of certain goods no duties should be applied; those goods should
not be eligible for export refunds.

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for
the  implementation  of  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2913/92  establishing  the
Community  Customs  Code 4  provides  for  a  system  for  managing  tariff  quotas.  The
duty  free  quotas  opened  by  this  Regulation  should  be  managed  by  the  Community
authorities and the Member States in accordance with this system.

The measures necessary to implement this Regulation should be adopted in accordance
with Council Decision No 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures
for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission.5

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

From 1 June 2003, on imports of processed agricultural products originating in Estonia listed
in the Annex I no duties shall be applied.

Article 1

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

Article 2

Processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I to the Treaty shall not be eligible for
export refunds under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1520/20006.

Article 3

For processed agricultural products, which are not covered by Annex I and Annex II, the
provisions set out in Protocol No 2 shall apply.

Article 4

Article 5

The Commission may suspend the measures provided for in Articles 1, 2 and in case of non-
application of the reciprocal preferences agreed by Estonia in accordance with the procedure
set out in Article 7.

The duty free quotas referred to in Annex II shall be managed by the Commission in
accordance with Articles 308 a, 308b and 308c of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/ 93.

Article 6

4

5

6

OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation last amended by (EC) No 444/2002 (OJ L 68, 12.3.2002, p. 11).
OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23
OJ L 117, 15.7.2000, p. 1, Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1052/2002 (OJ L 160,
18.6.2002, p. 16)

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Article 7

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

The  Commission  shall  be  assisted  by  the  Committee  referred  to  in  Article  16  of
Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/937, hereinafter referred to as “the Committee”.

Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 4 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC
shall apply.

The  period  laid  down  in  Article  4  (3)  of  Decision  1999/468/EC  shall  be  set  at  one
month.

The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 8

It shall apply as from 1 June 2003.

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

Done at Brussels,

For the Council
The President
[…]

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OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18, Regulation as last amended by (EC) No 2580/2000 (OJ L 298,
25.11.2000, p. 5)

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ANNEX I – MUTUAL LIBERALISATION

CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

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
0501 00 00
0502

0502 10 00
0502 90 00
0503 00 00
0505

0505 10
0505 10 10
0505 10 90
0505 90 00
0506

0506 10 00
0506 90 00
0507

0507 10 00
0507 90 00
0508 00 00

0509 00
0509 00 10
0509 00 90

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%
Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair
Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles
or hair:
-Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof
-Other
Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material
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, disinfeccted or treated for
preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers:
-Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:
--Raw
--Other
-Other
Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or
degelatinised; powder and waste of these products:
-Ossein and bones treates with acid
-Other
Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks,
unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products:
-Ivory; ivory powder and waste
-Other
Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of
molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to
shape, powder and waste thereof
Natural sponges of animal origin:
-Raw
-Other

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CN Code
(1)
0510 00 00

0710
0710 40 00
0711

0711 90

0711 90 30
0903 00 00
1302

1302 12 00
1302 13 00
1302 14 00
1302 19
1302 19 30

1302 19 91
1302 20
1302 20 10
1302 20 90

1302 31 00
1302 32

1302 32 10
1401

1401 10 00
1401 20 00
1401 90 00
1402 00 00

1403 00 00

1404
1404 10 00
1404 20 00
1404 90 00
1505
1505 00 10
1505 00 90
1506 00 00

1515

1515 90 15

Description
(2)

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
Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:
-Sweet corn
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:
-Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:
--Vegetables:
---Sweet corn
Maté
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
--Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone
--Other:
---Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food
preparations
---Other:
----Medicinal
-Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:
--Dry
--Other
-Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:
--Agar-agar
--Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean
seeds or sugar seeds:
---Of locust beans or locust bean seeds
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):
-Bamboos
-Rattans
-Other
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

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

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:
-Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning
-Cotton linters
-Other
Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):
-Wool grease, crude
-Other
Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically
modified
Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not
refined, but not chemically modified:
-- Jojoba and oiticica oils; myrtle wax and Japan wax; their fractions

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CN Code
(1)

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
1520 00 00
1521

1521 10 00
1521 90
1521 90 10

1521 90 91
1521 90 99
1522 00

1522 00 10
1702

1702 50 00
1702 90

1702 90 10

Description
(2)

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-
esterified, re-esterified or elaidinized, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:
-Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:
--Hydrogenated castor oil, so called "opal-wax"
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 1516:
-Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:
--Containing, by weight more than 10% but not more than 15% of milk fats
-Other:
--Containing, by weight more than 10% but not more than 15% 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 heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically
modified, excluding those of heading 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 1516
--Other:
---Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or of animal and vegetable fats and oils and
their fractions
---Other
Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti,
whether or not refined or coloured:
- Vegetable waxes
-Other:
--Spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured
--Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured:
---Raw
---Other
Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable
waxes:
-Degras
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:
-Chemically pure fructose
-Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry
state 50% by weight of fructose:
--Chemically pure maltose

8

CN Code
(1)

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
Ex 1704 90 99
(Code Taric 1704
90 99 10)
1803
1803 10 00
1803 20 00
1804 00 00
1805 00 00
1806
1806 10
1806 10 15

1806 10 20

1806 10 30

1806 20

1806 20 10

1806 20 30

1806 20 50
1806 20 70
Ex 1806 20 80
(Code Taric 1806
20 80 10)

Description
(2)

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not 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 (excluding products containing 70% or more by weight of sucrose (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose))

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:
-Not defatted
-Wholly or partly defatted
Cocoa butter, fat and oil
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
-Other preparations in blocks, 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
--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 (excluding products containing 70% or more by weight of
sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose))

9

CN Code
(1)

Ex 1806 20 95
(Code Taric 1806
20 95 10)

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
Ex 1806 90 90
(Code Taric1806
90 90 11 and 1806
90 90 91)
1901

1901 10 00
1901 20 00
1901 90

1901 90 11
1901 90 19

1901 90 91

1902

1902 11 00
1902 19
1902 19 10
1902 19 90

Description
(2)
---Other, (excluding products containing 70% or more by weight of sucrose (including invert
sugar expressed as sucrose))

-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, (excluding products containing 70% or more by weight of sucrose (including invert
sugar expressed as sucrose))

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing
cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis,
not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 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 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 headings 0401 to 0404
Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise
prepared such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni,
couscous, whether or not prepared:
-Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:
--Containing eggs
--Other:
---Containing no common wheat flour or meal
---Other

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CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

1902 20

1902 20 91
1902 20 99
1902 30
1902 30 10
1902 30 90
1902 40
1902 40 10
1902 40 90
1903 00 00

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 30 00
1904 90
1904 90 10
1904 90 80
1905

1905 10 00
1905 20
1905 20 10

1905 20 30

1905 20 90

1905 31

1905 31 11
1905 31 19

1905 31 30

1905 31 91
1905 31 99

-Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
--Other:
---Cooked
---Other
-Other pasta:
--Dried
--Other
-Couscous:
--Unprepared
--Other
Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls,
siftings or similar forms
Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for
example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes
or other worked grains (except flour, groats 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
- Bulgur wheat
-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 less than 30% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as
sucrose)
--Containing by weight 30% or more but less than 50% of sucrose (including invert sugar
expressed as sucrose)
--Containing by weight 50% or more of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
-Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
--Sweet biscuits:
---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:
----Containing 8% or more by weight of milk fats
----Other:
-----Sandwich biscuits
-----Other

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CN Code
(1)

1905 32

1905 32 11
1905 32 19

1905 32 91
1905 32 99
1905 40
1905 40 10
1905 40 90
1905 90
1905 90 10
1905 90 20

1905 90 30

1905 90 40
1905 90 45
1905 90 55

1905 90 60
2001

2001 90
2001 90 30
2001 90 40

2001 90 60
2004

2004 10

2004 10 91
2004 90
2004 90 10
2005

2005 20
2005 20 10
2005 80 00
2008

2008 11
2008 11 10

2008 91 00
2008 99

2008 99 85
2008 99 91

Description
(2)

--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:
----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
---Biscuits
---Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
---Other:
----With added sweetening matter
Vegetables, fruit, 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 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 2006:
-Potatoes:
--In the form of flour, meal or flakes
-Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)
Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or
included:
-Nuts, groundnuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:
--Groundnuts:
---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

12

CN Code
(1)

2101

2101 11
2101 11 11
2101 11 19
2101 12

2101 12 92
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 20 90
2102 30 00
2103

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

2103 90 90

Description
(2)
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:
--Extracts; essences and 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
---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 3002); prepared baking powders:
-Active yeasts:
--Culture yeast
--Baker's yeast:
---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
--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:
--Mustard flour
--Prepared mustard
-Other:
--Mango chutney, liquid
--Aromatic bitters of an alcoholic strength by volume of 44,2 to 49,2% vol containing from
1,5 to 6% by weight of gentian, spices and various ingredients and from 4 to 10% of sugar, in
containers holding 0,5 litre or less
--Other

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CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

2104
2104 10
2104 10 10
2104 10 90
2104 20 00
2105 00
2105 00 10

2105 00 91
2105 00 99
2106
2106 10
2106 10 20

2106 10 80
2106 90
2106 90 20

2106 90 92

2201

2201 10

2201 10 11
2201 10 19
2201 10 90
2201 90 00
2202

2202 10 00

2202 90
2202 90 10

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99
2203 00

2203 00 01
2203 00 09
2203 00 10
2205
2205 10
2205 10 10
2205 10 90
2205 90
2205 90 10
2205 90 90

Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:
-Soups and broths and preparation therefor:
--Dried
--Other
-Homogenised composite food preparetions
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%
--7% or more
Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:
-Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:
--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:
--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:
Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing
added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow:
-Mineral waters and aerated waters:
--Natural mineral waters:
---Not carbonated
---Other
--Other
-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 2009:
-Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter or flavoured
-Other:
--Not containing products of heading 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of headings
0401 to 0404
--Other, containing by weight of fat obtained from the products of headings 0401 to 0404:
---Less than 0,2%
---0,2% or more but less than 2%
---2% or more
Beer made from malt:
-In containers holding 10 litres or less:
--In bottles
--Other
-In containers holding more than 10 litres
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

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CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

2207

2207 10 00
2207 20 00
2208

2208 20

2208 20 12
2208 20 14
2208 20 26
2208 20 27
2208 20 29

2208 20 40

2208 20 62
2208 20 64
2208 20 86
2208 20 87
2208 20 89
2208 30

2208 30 11
2208 30 19

2208 30 32
2208 30 38

2208 30 52
2208 30 58

2208 30 72
2208 30 78

2208 30 82
2208 30 88
2208 40

2208 40 11

2208 40 31
2208 40 39

2208 40 51

2208 40 91
2208 40 99

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher; ethyl
alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength:
-Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher
-Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength
Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol; spirits,
liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:
-Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc:
--In containers holding 2 litres or less:
---Cognac
---Armagnac
---Grappa
---Brandy de Jerez
---Other
--In containers holding more than 2 litres:
---Raw distillate
---Other:
----Cognac
----Armagnac
----Grappa
----Brandy de Jerez
----Other
-Whiskies:
--Bourbon whiskey, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
--Scotch whisky:
---Malt whisky, in containers holding:
----2 litres or less
----More than 2 litres
---Blended whisky, in containers holding:
----2 litres or less
----More than 2 litres
---Other, in containers holding:
----2 litres or less
----More than 2 litres
--Other in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
-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 per litre of pure alcohol
----Other
--In containers holding more than 2 litres:
---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 per litre of pure alcohol
----Other

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CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

2208 50

2208 50 11
2208 50 19

2208 50 91
2208 50 99
2208 60

2208 60 11
2208 60 19

2208 60 91
2208 60 99
2208 70
2208 70 10
2208 70 90
2208 90

2208 90 11
2208 90 19

2208 90 33
2208 90 38

2208 90 41

2208 90 45
2208 90 48

2208 90 52
2208 90 54
2208 90 56
2208 90 69

2208 90 71
2208 90 75
2208 90 77
2208 90 78

2208 90 91
2208 90 99
2402
2402 10 00
2402 20
2402 20 10
2402 20 90
2402 90 00

-Gin and Geneva:
--Gin, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
--Geneva, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
-Vodka:
--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45,4% vol or less in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 45,4% vol in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
-Liqueurs and cordials:
--In containers holding 2 litres or less
--In containers holding more than 2 litres
-Other:
--Arrack, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
--Plum, pear or cherry spirit (excluding liqueurs), in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
--Other spirits and other spirituous beverages, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less:
----Ouzo
----Other:
-----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):
------Distilled from fruit:
-------Calvados
-------Other
------Other:
-------Korn
------- Tequila
-------Other
-----Other spirituous beverages
---More than 2 litres:
----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):
-----Distilled from fruit
 ----- Tequila
 -----Other
---- Other spirituous beverages
--Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% volume, in
containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes:
-Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco
-Cigarettes containing tobacco:
--Containing cloves
--Other
-Other

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CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

2403

2403 10
2403 10 10
2403 10 90

2403 91 00
2403 99
2403 99 10
2403 99 90
3301

3301 90
3301 90 10

3301 90 21
3301 90 30
3301 90 90
3302

3302 10

3302 10 10

3302 10 21

3302 10 29
3501
3501 10
3501 10 10
3501 10 50
3501 10 90
3501 90
3501 90 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

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitues; "homogenized" or
"reconstituted" tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences:
-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
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:
-Other:
--Terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils
--Extracted oleoresins
--- Of liquorice and hops
--- Other
-- Other
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:
-Of a kind used in the food or drink industries:
--Of a kind used in the drink industries:
---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 starch or containing, by weight,
less than 1,5% milkfat, 5%sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch
-----Other
Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues:
-Casein:
--For the manufacture of regenerated textile fibres
--For industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs or fodder
--Other
-Other:
--Other
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

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ANNEX II – DUTY FREE QUOTAS FOR PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN ESTONIA

Order number

CN code

Description

09.6564

Ex1704 90 99
(code taric 1704 90
99 90

Sugar confectionery (including white
chocolate), not containing cocoa . Other,
containing 70% or more by weight of sucrose
(including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

Tariff
quota
(tonnes)
300

09.6565

2106 90 98

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or
included, other

600

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1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

5.0

5.1

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

DATE: 11.02.2003
APPROPRIATIONS:

BUDGET HEADING:
Chapter 10 – Article 100, Chapter 12 - Article 120
TITLE:
Proposal for a Council Regulation adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the
importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Estonia and the exportation of
certain agricultural products to Estonia.
LEGAL BASIS:
Article 133
AIMS OF PROJECT:
To apply newly negotiated autonomous measures based on the double profit agreement pending formal
adoption of the agreement.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

PERIOD OF 12
MONTHS

CURRENT
FINANCIAL
YEAR
[2003]
(EUR million)
+0,6 M€

FOLLOWING
FINANCIAL
YEAR
[2004]
(EUR million)
+0,6 M€

EXPENDITURE
-

CHARGED TO EC BUDGET

(REFUNDS/INTERVENTION)

(EUR million )

+ 1,2 M€

-
-
REVENUE
-

NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
OTHER

OWN RESOURCES OF THE EC

(LEVIES/CUSTOMS DUTIES)

-

NATIONAL

5.0.1 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
5.1.1 ESTIMATED REVENUE
5.2 METHOD OF CALCULATION:

neglectable

neglectable

neglectable

[n+2]

[n+3]

[n+4]

[n+5]

Based on average imports and exports during 1999-2001, the calculation of loss of revenues through
abolition of duties is neglectable, the calculation of yearly savings on export refunds amounts to ca. 1,3
M€.

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?
IS A SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET NECESSARY?

6.2
6.3 WILL FUTURE BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS BE NECESSARY?
OBSERVATIONS: ---

NO

NO
NO
NO

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