Proposal for a Council Regulation adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Lithuania and the exportation of certain processed agricultural products to Lithuania
Date: 2003-05-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Lithuania, common tariff policy, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU), trading operation

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 12.5.2003
COM(2003) 247 final

2003/0098 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

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

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Council guidelines authorised the Commission to enter into negotiations with the Republic of
Lithuania with a view to improving the trade arrangement for processed agricultural products
in  preparation  for  accession.  After  these  negotiations  a  trade  agreement  was  concluded
between the European Commission and  Lithuania  which is scheduled to enter  into  force  on
1 June  2003.  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
Lithuania  will  continue  to  apply.  The  Community  concessions  are  granted  subject  to  the
adoption of Lithuania of reciprocal measures. In order to give effect to this agreement, on the
Community  side,  it  is  necessary  to  adopt  certain  autonomous  measures  concerning  the
importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Lithuania.

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2003/0098 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing  the  European  Community  and  in  particular
Article 133 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Protocol  2  to  the  Europe  Agreement  between  the  European  Communities  and
Lithuania, approved by Decision 98/150/EC,  ECSC, Euratom of the Council and  the
Commission  of  19  December  1997  on  the  conclusion  of  the  Europe  Agreement
establishing  an  association  between  the  European  Communities  and  their  Member
States, of the one part, and the Republic of Lithuania, of the other part1, provides for
tariff  concessions  for  processed  agricultural  products  originating  in  Lithuania.
Protocol 2 was amended by the Protocol adjusting the Europe Agreement, hereinafter
referred  to  as  the  "Adjusting  Protocol",  approved  by  Council  Decision  98/677/EC2,
and by Decision No 5/2001 of the EU-Lithuania Association Council.3

A trade agreement has recently been concluded which amends the Adjusting Protocol.
The  agreement  aims  to  improve  economic  convergence  in  preparation  for  the
accession of Lithuania to the European Union and is scheduled to enter into force not
later than 1 June 2003. On the Community side that 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  those  quotas  the
provisions laid down in Protocol 2 continue to apply.

The  procedure  for  adopting  a  decision  to  amend  the  Adjusting  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  tariff  concessions  made  to  Lithuania  on  an
autonomous basis as from 1 June 2003.

(4)

For  the  imports  of  certain  agricultural  products  no  duties  should  be  applied  and  for
others duty free quotas should be opened.

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2

3

OJ L 51, 20.2.1998, p. 1.
OJ L 321, 30.11.1998, p. 1.
OJ L 300, 5.11.2002, p. 18.

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(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

On  processed  agricultural  products  covered  by  Protocol  2  but  not  listed  in  this
regulation or for which the quotas opened by this Regulation are exhausted the trade
provision laid down in Protocol 2 should continue to apply.

Processed  agricultural  products  not  covered  by  Annex  I  to  the  Treaty  should  not  be
eligible  for  export  refunds  under  Commission  Regulation  (EC)  No  1520/2000  of
13 July 2000 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of
granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods
not covered by  Annex  I to the Treaty,  and the criteria  for  fixing the amount of  such
refunds4.

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  Code5  provides  for  a  system  for  managing  tariff  quotas.  The
tariff  quotas  opened  by  this  Regulation  should  be  managed  by  the  Community
authorities and the Member States in accordance with that system.

The  measures  necessary  for  the  implement  of  this  Regulation  should  be  adopted  in
accordance  with  Council  Decision  1999/468/EC  of  28  June  1999  laying  down  the
procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission.6

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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

Article 1

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

Article 2

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5

6

OJ L 177, 15.7.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1052/2002 (OJ L 160,
18.6.2002, p. 16.).
OJ  L  253,  11.10.1993, p.  1.  Regulation  as  last  amended  by  Regulation  (EC)  No  444/2002  (OJ  L  68,
12.3.2002, p. 11).
OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

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Processed  agricultural  products  not  listed  in  Annex  I  to  the  Treaty  which  are  exported  to
Lithuania shall not be eligible for export refunds under Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000.

Article 3

Article 4

For  processed  agricultural  products  which  are  not  covered  by  Annex  I  and  Annex  II  or  for
which the quotas referred to in Annex II are exhausted, the provisions laid down in Protocol 2
shall apply.

Article 5

The Commission may suspend the measures provided for in Articles 1, 2 and 3 in case of non-
application  of  the  reciprocal  preferences  agreed  by  Lithuania,  in  accordance  with  the
procedure referred to in Article 7(2).

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

Article 6

Article 7

1.

2.

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.

3.

The Committee shall adopt its Rules of Procedure.

7

OJ L 318, 20.12.1993, p. 18.

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Article 8

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

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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Annex I
Processed Agricultural products for the imports of which no customs duties and Export
Refunds are applied

CN Code
(1)

0403

0403 10

0403 10 51
0403 10 53
0403 10 59

0403 90

0403 90 71
0403 90 73
0403 90 79

0403 90 91
0403 90 93
0403 90 99
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
0510 00 00

0710
0710 40 00
0711

0711 90

0711 90 30

Description
(2)
Buttermilk,  curdled  milk  and  cream,  yoghurt,  kephir  and  other  fermented  or  acidified  milk  and  cream,
whether  or  not  concentrated  or  containing  added  sugar  or  other  sweetening  matter  or  flavoured  or
containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
-Yoghurt:
--Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
---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:
-Other:
---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%
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,  disinfected  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 treated with acid
-Other
Ivory,  tortoiseshell,  whalebone  and  whalebone  hair,  horns,  antlers,  hooves,  nails,  claws  and  beaks,
unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products:
-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
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

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CN Code
(1)

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
1516

1516 20
1516 20 10
1517

1517 10
1517 10 10
1517 90
1517 90 10

1517 90 93

Description
(2)

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 guar
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
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

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CN Code
(1)

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
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

Description
(2)
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
--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
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:

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Description
(2)

-----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))

---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))

CN Code
(1)

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)
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 taric
1806 90 90 11
and
1806 90 90 91)

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CN Code
(1)

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
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

Description
(2)
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
-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

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CN Code
(1)

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
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

Description
(2)
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
---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)

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CN Code
(1)

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
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

Description
(2)
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
--Palm hearts
--Other:
-----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:
-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
or 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

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CN Code
(1)

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
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

Description
(2)
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
Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:
-Soups and broths and preparation therefor:
--Dried
--Other
-Homogenised composite food preparations
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 headings 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

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CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

2205
2205 10
2205 10 10
2205 10 90
2205 90
2205 90 10
2205 90 90
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
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

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
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;  "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 the kind used in the drink industries:
---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising 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 of imports into the European Community originating in
Lithuania

Order number

CN Code

Description

(1)

(2)

09.6567

0403 1091

--Yoghurt, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa.

Tariff quota
(tonnes)

(3)

1500

to

--- Other, of a milk fat content, by weight:

0403 10 99

---- Not exceeding 3%

----Exceeding 3% but not exceeding 6%

----Exceeding 6%

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1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

5.1

5.0.1
5.1.1
5.2

6.0

6.1

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

DATE: 20.03.2003
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 Lithuania and the exportation of
certain processed agricultural products to Lithuania
LEGAL BASIS:
Article 133, paragraph 2 and 4
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€

5.0

EXPENDITURE
- CHARGED TO EC BUDGET

(EUR million )

+ 1.2 M€

(REFUNDS/INTERVENTION)
- NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
- OTHER
REVENUE
- OWN RESOURCES OF THE EC
(LEVIES/CUSTOMS DUTIES)

- NATIONAL

-0.5 M€

-0.25M€

-0.25 M€

[n+2]

[n+3]

[n+4]

[n+5]

ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
ESTIMATED REVENUE
METHOD OF CALCULATION:
Based on average imports and exports during 1999-2001, the calculation of loss of revenues through
abolition of customs duties is ca. 0,5 M€ (including collection costs), the calculation of yearly savings on
export refunds amounts to ca. 1,2 M€.

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?
WILL FUTURE BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS BE NECESSARY?

NO

NO
NO
NO

6.2
6.3
OBSERVATIONS: ---

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