Proposal for a Council Regulation adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in the Czech Republic and the exportation of certain processed agricultural products to the Czech Republic
Date: 2003-05-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, common commercial policy, export (EU), import (EU), liberalisation of trade, tariff quota, trade agreement (EU)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 21.05.2003
COM(2003) 268 final

2003/0101 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

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

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Council  guidelines  authorised  the  Commission  to  enter  into  negotiations  with  the  Czech
Republic 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 the Czech Republic, which is scheduled to enter into
force on 1 June 2003. On the Community side this agreement introduces concessions in 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 No 3 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and the
Czech Republic will continue to apply. The Community concessions are granted subject to the
adoption  of  the  Czech  Republic  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 the Czech
Republic.

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2003/0101 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

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

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  3  to  the  Europe  Agreement  between  the  European  Communities  and  the
Czech Republic, approved by Decision 94/910/EC, ECSC, Euratom of the Council and
of  the  Commission  of  19  December  1994  concerning  the  conclusion  of  a  Europe
Agreement  establishing an  association between  the  European  Communities  and  their
Member States, of the one part, and the Czech Republic on  the other part1,  provides
for  tariff  concessions  for  processed  agricultural  products  originating  in  the  Czech
Republic. Protocol 3 was amended by the Protocol2 of the adaptation of trade aspects
of  the  Europe  Agreement  with  the  Czech  Republic,  hereinafter  referred  to  as  the
“Adaptation Protocol”, which was approved by Council Decision 98/707/EC3.

A trade agreement has recently been concluded  which amends  Protocol 3.  It  aims to
improve economic convergence in preparation for accession of the Czech Republic 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  tariff  concessions  in  the  form  of  a
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 3 continue to apply.

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 therefore necessary to
provide for the application of the tariff concessions made to the Czech Republic on an
autonomous basis as from 1 June 2003.

1

2

3

OJ L 360, 31.12.1994, p. 1.
OJ L 341, 16.12.1998, p. 3
OJ L 341, 16.12.1998, p. 1.

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(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

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

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2359/2002 of 27 December 2002 on the opening of
tariff  quotas  for  the  year  2003  for  imports  into  the  European  Community  of  certain
processed  agricultural  products  originating  in  the  Czech  Republic,  Romania  and
Slovakia  4 should  continue  to  apply  for  certain  goods  covered  by  Protocol  3  but  not
listed in this Regulation.

On  processed  agricultural  products  covered  by  Protocol  3  but  not  listed  in  this
Regulation or for which the quotas opened by this Regulation are exhausted the trade
provision laid down by Protocol 3 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
refunds5

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  Code6  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 this system.

The measures necessary for the implementation 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.7

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

From 1 June 2003, imports into the Community of processed agricultural products originating
in  the  Czech  Republic  and  listed  in  Annex  I  shall  be  exempted  from  customs  duties  and
charges having equivalent effect.

4

5

6

7

OJ L 351, 28.12.2002, p. 51,
OJ L 177, 15.7.2000, p. 1, Regulation as last amended by Commission 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  (EC)  No 444/2002  (OJ  L 68,  12.3.2002,
p. 11)
OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23

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Article 2

1.

2.

Imports  into  the  Community  of  processed  agricultural  products  originating  in  the
Czech Republic and  listed  in  Annex  II  shall  be  exempted  from  customs  duties  and
charges  having  equivalent  effect,  at  the  levels  and  within  the  limits  of  the  annual
Community tariff quotas set out in that Annex.

For 2003, the volume of the quotas set out in Annex II shall be reduced in proportion
to the number of months already elapsed in that year.

Processed  agricultural  products  not  listed  in  Annex  I  to  the  Treaty  shall  not  be  eligible  for
export refunds to the Czech Republic 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  set  out  in  Annex  II  are  exhausted,  the  provisions  laid  down  in  Protocol  3
shall continue to apply.

Regulation (EC) No 2359/2002 shall continue to apply for the tariff quota opened under Order
No 09.5417 for products not covered by Annex I or Annex II.

Article 5

Article 6

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 the Czech Republic in accordance with the
procedure set out in Article 8.

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

Article 7

1.

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Article 8

The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee referred to in Article 16 (1) of
Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/938, hereinafter referred to as “the Committee” ….

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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2.

3.

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.

Article 9

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 of which the imports into the Community are exempted
from customs duties and equivalent charges

0403

0403 10

0403 90

CN Code
(1)

0403 10 53
0403 10 59

Description
(2)
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:
----Exceeding 1,5% but not exceeding 27%
----Exceeding 27%
---Other, of a milk fat content, by weight:
-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%
0403 90 91
----Exceeding 3% but not exceeding 6%
0403 90 93
----Exceeding 6%
0403 90 99
Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:
0405
-Dairy spreads:
0405 20
0405 20 10
--Of a fat content, by weight, of 39% or more but less than 60%
0501 00 00 Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair
0502

Pigs',  hogs'  or  boars'  bristles  and  hair; badger  hair  and  other brush  making  hair;  waste  of  such
bristles or hair:
-Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof
-Other

0502 10 00
0502 90 00
0503 00 00 Horsehair  and  horsehair  waste,  whether  or  not  put  up  as  a  layer  with  or  without  supporting

0403 90 71
0403 90 73
0403 90 79

0505

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

0506 10 00
0506 90 00
0507

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 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

0507 10 00
0507 90 00
0508 00 00 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

0509 00
0509 00 10
0509 00 90
0510 00 00 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

0710
0710 40 00
0711

0711 90 30

0711 90

7

CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

0903 00 00 Maté
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

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

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

1403 00 00 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

1404
1404 10 00
1404 20 00
1404 90 00
1505
1505 00 10
1505 00 90
1506 00 00 Other  animal  fats  and  oils  and  their  fractions,  whether  or  not  refined,  but  not  chemically

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

1515

1515 90 15
1516

1516 20
1516 20 10
1517

1517 10
1517 10 10
1517 90
1517 90 10

1517 90 93

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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1518 00 99
1520 00 00 Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
1521

CN Code
(1)
1518 00

1518 00 10

1518 00 91

1518 00 95

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
-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

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:
-----Compressed tablets
-----Other (excluding products containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert
sugar expressed as sucrose))

1704 90 81
Ex  1704  90
99 
(Code
Taric  1704
90 99 10)
1803
1803 10 00
1803 20 00
1804 00 00 Cocoa butter, fat and oil

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:
-Not defatted
-Wholly or partly defatted

9

CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

1806 10 30

1806 10 20

1805 00 00 Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:
1806
-Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
1806 10
--Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar
1806 10 15
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))

1806 20 10

1806 20 30

1806 20

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
(Code
90 
Taric  1806
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

---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

10

CN Code
(1)

1902

1902 20

Description
(2)
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:
-Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
--Other:
---Other
-Other pasta:
--Dried
--Other
-Couscous:
--Unprepared
--Other

1902 20 99
1902 30
1902 30 10
1902 30 90
1902 40
1902 40 10
1902 40 90
1903 00 00 Tapioca  and  substitutes  therefor  prepared  from  starch,  in  the  form  of  flakes,  grains,  pearls,

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

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:

1905 31 11
1905 31 19

1905 31 30

1905 31 91
1905 31 99

----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

11

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

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

2105 00 91
2105 00 99

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
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

13

CN Code
(1)

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
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

Description
(2)

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
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  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

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CN Code
(1)
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
2208 50

2208 50 11
2208 50 19

2208 50 91
2208 50 99
3302

3302 10

3302 10 10

3302 10 21

3302 10 29

Description
(2)

-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
-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
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

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ANNEX II –

Duty Free Quotas of imports into the European Community originating in the Czech
Republic

Order
number
(1)

CN Code

(2)

1806
1806 20

09.5665 Ex  1806  20
95
09.5666 Ex  1806  90
90
1901

1901 90

09.5667 1901 90 99

1905

1905 90

09.5668 1905 90 90

2106
2106 90

09.5669 2106 90 98

3505

3505 10
3505 10 10

09.5670 3505 10 90

Description

(3)

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:
-Other preparations in block, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste,
powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content
exceeding 2 kg:
---Other,  containing  70  %  or  more  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar
expressed as sucrose)
--Other,  containing  70  %  or  more  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar
expressed as sucrose)
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:
-Other:
--Malt extract:
---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:
-Other:
----Other
Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:
-Other:
---Other
Dextrins  and  other  modified  starches  (for  example,  pregelatinized  or  esterified
starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches:
-Dextrins and other modified starches
--Dextrins
-- Other modified starches:
--- Other

Duty free
quota
(4)

100 t

400 t

1000 t

400 t

600 t

300 t

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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: 1.4.2003
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 the Czech Republic and the
exportation of certain agricultural products to the Czech Republic
LEGAL BASIS:
Article 133, (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)
+ 3.5 M €

FOLLOWING
FINANCIAL
YEAR
[2004]
(EUR million)
+ 5.0 M €

5.0

EXPENDITURE
- CHARGED TO EC BUDGET

(EUR million )

+ 9.2 M €

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

- NATIONAL

- 11.1 M €

- 4.2 M €

- 6.0 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 duties is ca. 11.1 M € (including collection costs), the calculation of yearly savings on export
refunds amounts is ca. 9,2M €.
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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