Proposal for a Council Regulation adopting autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain processed agricultural products originating in Malta and the exportation of certain processed agricultural products to Malta
Date: 2003-08-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Malta, agricultural product, export, import, originating product, processed foodstuff

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 22.08.2003
COM(2003) 511 final

2003/0203 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

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

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Council  guidelines  authorised  the  Commission  to  enter  into  negotiations  with  Malta  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  Malta,  which  is  scheduled  to  enter  into  force  on  1  October  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  the  Association
Agreement  between  the  European  Economic  Community  and  Malta  will  continue  to  apply.
The  Community  concessions  are  granted  subject  to  the  adoption  of  Malta  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 Malta.

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2003/0203 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

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

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)

(4)

(5)

The Association Agreement between the European Economic Community and Malta,
approved by Council Regulation No 492/71 (EEC)1 provides for tariff concessions for
processed agricultural products originating in Malta.

A  trade  agreement  has  been  concluded,  which  amends  the  Association  Agreement.
The  agreement  aims  to  improve  economic  convergence  in  preparation  for  the
accession of Malta to the European Union and is scheduled to enter into force no later
than 1 October 2003. On the Community side that agreement lays down concessions in
the form of complete 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 the Association Agreement continue to apply.

The procedure for adopting a  decision  to amend the Association Agreement will not
be  completed  in  time  for  it  to  entry  into  force  on  1  October  2003.  It  is  therefore
necessary to provide for the application of the tariff concessions made to Malta on an
autonomous basis as from 1 October 2003.

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

Certain 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

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OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 1

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goods not covered by Annex I to the Treaty, and the criteria for fixing the amount of
such refunds2.

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

Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  3010/95  of  18  December  1995  totally  or  partially
suspending the customs duties applicable to certain products falling within Chapters 1
to 24 of the  Combined Nomenclature originating in  Malta3  should  continue  to  apply
for certain  goods covered by it but not listed in this Regulation and for certain other
goods  covered  by  it,  for  which    the  tariff  quotas  opened  by  this  Regulation  will  be
exhausted.

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  Code4  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 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.5

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

From  1 October  2003  imports  into  the  Community  of  processed  agricultural  products
originating  in  Malta  and  listed  in  Annex  I  shall  be  exempted  from  customs  duties  and
equivalent charges.

1.

2.

2

3

4

5

Article 2

Imports into the Community of processed agricultural products originating in Malta
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.

OJ  L  177,  15.7.2000,  p.  1,  Regulation  as  last  amended  by  Regulation  (EC)  No  740/2003  (OJ  L  106,
29.4.2003, p. 12.)
OJ  L  314,  28.12.1995,  p.  1,  Regulation  as  last  amended  by  Regulation  (EC)  No  779/98  (OJ  L  113,
15.4.1998, p. 1).
OJ  L 253,  11.10.1993, p. 1,  Regulation  as  last  amended  by  Regulation  (EC)  No 881/2003  (OJ  L 134,
29.5.2003, p. 1).
OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23

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Processed agricultural products listed in Annex III shall not be eligible for export refunds to
Malta 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  tariff  quotas  referred  to  in  Annex  II  are  exhausted,  the  provisions  set  out  in  the
Association Agreement shall apply.

Article 5

1.

2.

Regulation (EC) No 3010/95 shall continue to apply for the tariff concessions for the
following products not covered by Annex I or II:

a)  Other  sugar  confectionery  containing  70  %  or  more  by  weight  of  sucrose
(including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) of subheading ex 1704 90 99;

b)  Other  food  preparations,  not  containing  cocoa  powder  of  subheadings
ex 1901 90 91 and ex 1901 90 99.

After the  exhaustion  of  the  tariff  quotas  covered  by  Annex  II,  Regulation  (EC)  No
3010/95 shall continue to apply for the tariff concessions for the following products:

a)  Mixes  and  doughs  for  the  preparation  of  bakers’  wares  of  heading  No  1905  of
subheading 1901 20 00;

b) Crispbread of subheading 1905 10 00;

c) 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 of
subheading 1905 90 30.

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  Malta  in  accordance  with  the  procedure
referred to in Article 8 (2).

The tariff quotas referred to 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

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Article 8

1.

2.

3.

The  Commission  shall  be  assisted  by  the  Committee  referred  to  in  Article  16  of
Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/936, 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.

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 October 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

CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

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:

0502 10 00

-Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof

0502 90 00

-Other

0503 00 00

Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material

0505

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:

0505 10

-Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:

0505 10 10

--Raw

0505 10 90

--Other

0505 90 00

-Other

0506

Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or
degelatinised; powder and waste of these products:

0506 10 00

-Ossein and bones treated with acid

0506 90 00

-Other

0507

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:

0507 10 00

-Ivory; ivory powder and waste

0507 90 00

-Other

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

0509 00

Natural sponges of animal origin:

0509 00 10

-Raw

0509 00 90

-Other

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

0710

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

0710 40 00

-Sweet corn

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CN Code
(1)

0711

Description
(2)

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

0711 90

-Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

--Vegetables:

0711 90 30

---Sweet corn

0903 00 00

Maté

1302

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:

1302 12 00

--Of liquorice

1302 13 00

--Of hops

1302 14 00

--Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone

1302 19

--Other:

1302 19 30

---Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations

---Other:

1302 19 91

----Medicinal

1302 20

-Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

1302 20 10

--Dry

1302 20 90

--Other

-Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

1302 31 00

--Agar-agar

1302 32

--Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or
guar seeds:

1302 32 10

---Of locust beans or locust bean seeds

1401

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):

1401 10 00

-Bamboos

1401 20 00

-Rattans

1401 90 00

-Other

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:

8

CN Code
(1)

1403 00 00

Description
(2)

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

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:

1404 10 00

-Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning

1404 20 00

-Cotton linters

1404 90 00

-Other

1505

Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):

1505 00 10

-Wool grease, crude

1505 00 90

-Other

1506 00 00

Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1515

Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but
not chemically modified:

1515 90 15

-- Jojoba and oiticica oils; myrtle wax and Japan Wax; their fractions

1516

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:

1516 20

-Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:

1516 20 10

--Hydrogenated castor oil, so called "opal-wax"

1518 00

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 No 1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of
different fats or oils of this chapter, not elsewhere specified or included:

1518 00 10

-Linoxyn

-Other:

1518 00 91

--Animal  or  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and  their  fractions,  boiled,  oxidized,  dehydrated,  sulphurized,
blown,  polymerized  by  heat  in  vacuum  or  in  inert  gas  or  otherwise  chemically  modified,  excluding
those of heading No1516

--Other:

1518 00 95

---Inedible  mixtures  or  preparations  of  animal  or  of  animal  and  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and  their
fractions

1518 00 99

---Other

1520 00 00

Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes

9

CN Code
(1)

1521

Description
(2)

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

1521 10 00

- Vegetable waxes

1521 90

-Other:

1521 90 10

--Spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured

--Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured:

1521 90 91

---Raw

1521 90 99

---Other

1522 00

Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:

1522 00 10

-Degras

1702

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

1702 50 00

-Chemically pure fructose

1702 90

-Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50 %
by weight of fructose

1702 90 10

--Chemically pure maltose

1704

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

1704 10

-Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

--Containing less than 60% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 11

---Gum in strips

1704 10 19

---Other

--Containing 60% or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 91

---Gum in strips

1704 10 99

---Other

1704 90

-Other:

1704 90 10

--Liquorice  extract  containing  more  than  10%  by  weight  of  sucrose  but  not  containing  other  added
substances

1704 90 30

--White chocolate

--Other:

10

CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

1704 90 51

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

1704 90 55

---Throat pastilles and cough drops

1704 90 61

---Sugar coated (panned) goods

---Other:

1704 90 65

----Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery

1704 90 71

----Boiled sweets whether or not filled

1704 90 75

----Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

----Other:

1704 90 81

-----Compressed tablets

Ex  1704  90  99
(TARIC  code  1704
90 99 10)

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

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:

1803 10 00

-Not defatted

1803 20 00

-Wholly or partly defatted

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10

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

1806 10 15

1806 10 20

1806 10 30

1806 20

1806 20 10

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

--Containing 31% or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31% or more
of cocoa butter and milk fat

1806 20 30

--Containing a combined weight of 25% or more, but less than 31% of cocoa butter and milk fat

--Other:

1806 20 50

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

1806 20 70

---Chocolate milk crumb

11

CN Code
(1)

Ex  1806  20  80
(TARIC  code  1806
20 80 10)

Ex  1806  20  95
(TARIC  code  1806
20 95 10)

Description
(2)

----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:

1806 31 00

--Filled

1806 32

--Not filled

1806 32 10

---With added cereal, fruit or nuts

1806 32 90

---Other

1806 90

-Other:

--Chocolate and chocolate products:

---Chocolates, whether or not filled:

1806 90 11

----Containing alcohol

1806 90 19

----Other

---Other:

1806 90 31

----Filled

1806 90 39

----Not filled

1806 90 50

--Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa

1806 90 60

--Spreads containing cocoa

1806 90 70

--Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages

Ex  1806  90  90
(TARIC  code  1806
90  90  11  and  1806
90 90 91)

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

12

CN Code
(1)

1901

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 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:

1901 10 00

-Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 90

-Other:

--Malt extract:

1901 90 11

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

1901 90 19

---Other

1902

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:

1902 11 00

--Containing eggs

1902 20

-Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

--Other:

1902 20 91

---Cooked

1902 20 99

---Other

1902 40

-Couscous:

1902 40 10

--Unprepared

1902 40 90

--Other

1903 00 00

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

13

CN Code
(1)

1904

Description
(2)

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

1904 10

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

1904 10 10

--Obtained from maize

1904 10 30

--Obtained from rice

1904 10 90

--Other:

1904 20

-Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and
roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

1904 20 10

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

--Other:

1904 20 91

---Obtained from maize

1904 20 95

---Obtained from rice

1904 20 99

---Other

1904 30 00

 - Bulgur wheat

1904 90

-Other:

1904 90 10

--Rice

1904 90 80

--Other

1905

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:

1905 20

-Gingerbread and the like:

1905 20 10

--Containing by weight less than 30% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

1905 20 30

--Containing by weight 30% or more but less than 50% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as
sucrose)

1905 20 90

--Containing by weight 50% or more of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

-Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

14

CN Code
(1)

1905 32

--Waffles and wafers:

Description
(2)

---Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:

1905 32 11

----In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g

1905 32 19

----Other

---Other:

1905 32 91

----Salted, whether or not filled

1905 40

-Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:

1905 40 10

--Rusks

1905 40 90

--Other

1905 90

-Other:

1905 90 10

--Matzos

1905 90 20

--Communion  wafers,  empty  cachets  of  a  kind  suitable  for  pharmaceutical  use,  sealing  wafers,  rice
paper and similar products

2001

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

2001 90

-Other:

2001 90 30

--Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2001 90 40

--Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5% or more by weight of starch

2001 90 60

--Palm hearts

2004

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

2004 10

-Potatoes:

--Other

2004 10 91

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

2004 90

-Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004 90 10

--Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

15

CN Code
(1)

2005

Description
(2)

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

2005 20

-Potatoes:

2005 20 10

--In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 80 00

-Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

2008

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

-Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

2008 11

--Ground-nuts:

2008 11 10

---Peanut butter

-Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:

2008 91 00

--Palm hearts

2008 99

--Other:

---Not containing added spirit:

----Not containing added sugar:

2008 99 85

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

2008 99 91

-----Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5% or more by weight of starch

2101

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

-Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences
or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101 11

--Extracts, essences or concentrates:

2101 11 11

---With a coffee-based dry matter content of 95% or more by weight

2101 11 19

---Other

2101 12

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

2101 12 92

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

2101 12 98

---Other

16

CN Code
(1)

2101 20

Description
(2)

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

2101 20 20

--Extracts, essences or concentrates

--Preparations:

2101 20 92

---With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or maté

2101 20 98

---Other

2101 30

-Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

--Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 11

---Roasted chicory

2101 30 19

---Other

--Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 91

---Of roasted chicory

2101 30 99

---Other

2102

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

2102 10

-Active yeasts:

2102 10 10

--Culture yeast

--Baker's yeast:

2102 10 31

---Dried

2102 10 39

---Other

2102 10 90

--Other

2102 20

-Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:

--Inactive yeasts:

2102 20 11

---In tablet, cube or similar form, or in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg.

2102 20 19

---Other

2102 20 90

--Other

2102 30 00

-Prepared baking powders

17

CN Code
(1)

2103

Description
(2)

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

2103 10 00

-Soya sauce

2103 30

-Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 30 10

--Mustard flour

2103 30 90

--Prepared mustard

2103 90

-Other:

2103 90 10

--Mango chutney, liquid

2103 90 30

--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

2104

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

2104 20 00

-Homogenised composite food preparations

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10

-Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:

2106 10 20

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

2106 10 80

--Other

2106 90

-Other:

2106 90 20

--Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used
for the manufacture of beverages

--Other:

2106 90 92

---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

2201 10

-Mineral waters and aerated waters:

--Natural mineral waters:

2201 10 11

---Not carbonated

2201 10 19

---Other

2201 10 90

--Other:

2201 90 00

-Other

18

CN Code
(1)

2202

Description
(2)

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

2202 10 00

-Waters  including  mineral  waters  and  aerated  waters,  containing  added  sugar  or  other  sweetening
matter or flavoured

2202 90

-Other:

2202 90 10

--Not containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of heading Nos
0401 to 0404

2205

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

2205 10

-In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2205 10 10

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less

2205 10 90

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol

2205 90

-Other:

2205 90 10

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less

2205 90 90

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol

2207

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

2207 10 00

-Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher

2207 20 00

-Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

2208

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

2208 20

-Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc:

--In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2208 20 12

---Cognac

2208 20 14

---Armagnac

2208 20 26

---Grappa

19

CN Code
(1)

2208 20 27

---Brandy de Jerez

2208 20 29

---Other

Description
(2)

--In containers holding more than 2 litres:

2208 20 40

---Raw distillate

---Other:

2208 20 62

----Cognac:

2208 20 64

----Armagnac

2208 20 86

----Grappa

2208 20 87

----Brandy de Jerez

2208 20 89

----Other

2208 30

-Whiskies:

--Bourbon whiskey, in containers holding:

2208 30 11

---2 litres or less

2208 30 19

---More than 2 litres

--Scotch whisky:

---Malt whisky, in containers holding:

2208 30 32

----2 litres or less

2208 30 38

----More than 2 litres

---Blended whisky, in containers holding:

2208 30 52

----2 litres or less

2208 30 58

----More than 2 litres

---Other, in containers holding:

2208 30 72

----2 litres or less

2208 30 78

----More than 2 litres

--Other in containers holding:

2208 30 82

---2 litres or less

2208 30 88

---More than 2 litres

20

CN Code
(1)

2208 40

-Rum and taffia:

Description
(2)

--In containers holding 2 litres or less

2208 40 11

---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:

2208 40 31

----Of a value exceeding 7.9 € per litre of pure alcohol

2208 40 39

----Other

--In containers holding more than 2 litres:

2208 40 51

---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:

2208 40 91

----Of a value exceeding 2 € per litre of pure alcohol

2208 40 99

----Other

2208 50

-Gin and Geneva:

--Gin, in containers holding:

2208 50 11

---2 litres or less

2208 50 19

---More than 2 litres

--Geneva, in containers holding:

2208 50 91

---2 litres or less

2208 50 99

---More than 2 litres

2208 60

-Vodka:

--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45.4% vol or less in containers holding:

2208 60 11

---2 litres or less

2208 60 19

---more than 2 litres

--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 45.4% vol in containers holding:

2208 60 91

---2 litres or less

2208 60 99

---more than 2 litres

2208 70

-Liqueurs and cordials:

2208 70 10

--In containers holding 2 litres or less

2208 70 90

--In containers holding more than 2 litres

21

Description
(2)

CN Code
(1)

2208 90

-Other:

--Arrack, in containers holding:

2208 90 11

---2 litres or less

2208 90 19

---More than 2 litres

--Plum, pear or cherry spirit (excluding liqueurs), in containers holding:

2208 90 33

---2 litres or less:

2208 90 38

---More than 2 litres:

--Other spirits and other spirituous beverages, in containers holding:

---2 litres or less:

2208 90 41

----Ouzo

----Other:

-----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

------Distilled from fruit:

2208 90 45

-------Calvados

2208 90 48

-------Other

------Other:

2208 90 52

-------Corn

2208 90 54

-------Tequilla

2208 90 56

-------Other

2208 90 69

-----Other spirituous beverages

---More than 2 litres:

----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

2208 90 71

-----Distilled from fruit

2208 90 75

-----Tequilla

2208 90 77

-----Other

2208 90 78

----Other spirituous beverages

--Undernatured  ethyl  alcohol  of  an  alcoholic  strength  by  volume  of  less  than  80%  volume,  in
containers holding:

2208 90 91

---2 litres or less

2208 90 99

---More than 2 litres

22

CN Code
(1)

3301

Description
(2)

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:

3301 90

-Other:

3301 90 10

--Terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils

--Extracted oleoresins:

3301 90 21

--- Of liquorice and hops

3301 90 30

--- Other

3301 90 90

-- Other

3302

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

3302 10

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

--Of the type used in the drink industries:

---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterizing a beverage:

3302 10 10

----Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0.5%

----Other:

3302 10 21

-----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

3302 10 29

-----Other

3501

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues:

3501 10

-Casein:

3501 10 10

--For the manufacture of regenerated textile fibres

3501 10 50

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

3501 10 90

--Other

3501 90

-Other:

3501 90 90

--Other

23

CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

3823

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

-Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining:

3823 11 00

--Stearic acid

3823 12 00

--Oleic acid

3823 13 00

--Tall oil fatty acids

3823 19

--Other:

3823 19 10

---Distilled fatty acids

3823 19 30

---Fatty acid distillate

3823 19 90

---Other

3823 70 00

-Industrial fatty alcohols

24

ANNEX II

Duty Free Quotas of imports into theCommunity originating in Malta

Order-
numbers
(1)

CN Code

(2)

09.1452

ex 1901

Description

(3)

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:

Duty free
quota
(4)

1,000 t

1901 20 00

-Mixes  and  doughs  for  the  preparation  of  bakers'  wares  of
heading No 1905

09.1453

ex 1902

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:

1,800 t

1902 19

1902 19 10

1902 19 90

1902 30 10

09.1454

ex 1905

1905 10 00

1905 31

1905 31 11

1905 31 19

-Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:

--Other:

---Containing no common wheat flour or meal

---Other

--- Cooked dried pasta, not stuffed

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:

5,000 t

-Crispbread

--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:

1905 31 30

----Containing 8% or more by weight of milk fats

1905 31 91

1905 31 99

----Other:

-----Sandwich biscuits

-----Other

25

Order-
numbers
(1)

CN Code

(2)

Description

(3)

Duty free
quota
(4)

1905 32

1905 32 99

1905 90 30

1905 90 40

1905 90 45

1905 90 55

--Waffles and wafers:

----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:

1905 90 60

----With added sweetening matter

09.1455

ex 2104

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

2,000 t

2104 10

2104 10 10

2104 10 90

-Soups and broths and preparation therefore:

--Dried

--Other

09.1456

2105 00

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

800 t

2105 00 10

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

2105 00 91

2105 00 99

-Containing by weight of milk fats:

--3% or more but less than 7%

--7% or more

09.1457

2106 90 98

Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included

6,500 t

26

Order-
numbers
(1)

CN Code

(2)

09.1458

ex 2202

Description

(3)

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

Duty free
quota
(4)

12,000
hectolitres

2202 90

2202 90 91

2202 90 95

2202 90 99

-Other:

---Less than 0.2%

---0.2% or more but less than 2%

---2% or more

27

ANNEX III

Processed agricultural products for which not eligible for export refunds under
Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000

CN Code

(1)

0403

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:

0403 10

-Yoghurt:

--Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

---In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milk fat content, by weight:

0403 10 51

----Not exceeding 1,5%

0403 10 53

----Exceeding 1,5% but not exceeding 27%

0403 10 59

----Exceeding 27%

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

0403 10 91

----Not exceeding 3%

0403 10 93

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

0403 10 99

----Exceeding 6%

0403 90

-Other:

--Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

---In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milkfat content, by weight:

0403 90 71

----Not exceeding 1,5%

0403 90 73

----Exceeding 1,5% but not exceeding 27%

0403 90 79

----Exceeding 27%

---Other, of a milkfat content, by weight:

0403 90 91

----Not exceeding 3%

0403 90 93

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

0403 90 99

----Exceeding 6%

0405

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:

0405 20

-Dairy spreads:

0405 20 10

--Of a fat content, by weight, of 39% or more but less than 60%

0405 20 30

--Of a fat content, by weight, of 60% or more but not exceeding 75%

28

CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

0710

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

0710 40 00

-Sweet corn

0711

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

0711 90

-Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

--Vegetables:

0711 90 30

---Sweet corn

1517

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different
fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 1516:

1517 10

-Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

1517 10 10

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

1517 90

-Other:

1517 90 10

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

1702

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

1702 50 00

-Chemically pure fructose

1704

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

1704 10

-Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

--Containing less than 60% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 11

---Gum in strips

1704 10 19

---Other

--Containing 60% or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 91

---Gum in strips

1704 10 99

---Other

29

CN Code

(1)

1704 90

-Other:

1704 90 30

--White chocolate

--Other:

Description

(2)

1704 90 51

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

1704 90 55

---Throat pastilles and cough drops

1704 90 61

---Sugar coated (panned) goods

---Other:

1704 90 65

----Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery

1704 90 71

----Boiled sweets whether or not filled

1704 90 75

----Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

----Other:

1704 90 81

-----Compressed tablets

1704 90 99

-----Other

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10

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

1806 10 15

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

1806 10 20

--Containing 5% or more but less than 65% by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar  expressed  as
sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 30

--Containing 65% or more but less than 80% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as
sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 90

--Containing  80%  or  more  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar  expressed  as  sucrose)  or
isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 20

-Other preparations in 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:

1806 20 10

--Containing 31% or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31% or more of
cocoa butter and milk fat

1806 20 30

--Containing a combined weight of 25% or more, but less than 31% of cocoa butter and milk fat

--Other:

1806 20 50

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

1806 20 70

---Chocolate milk crumb

30

CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

1806 20 80

---Chocolate flavour coating

1806 20 95

---Other

-Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00

--Filled

1806 32

--Not filled:

1806 32 10

---With added cereal, fruit or nuts

1806 32 90

---Other

1806 90

-Other:

--Chocolate and chocolate products:

---Chocolates, whether or not filled:

1806 90 11

----Containing alcohol

1806 90 19

----Other

---Other:

1806 90 31

----Filled

1806 90 39

----Not filled

1806 90 50

--Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa

1806 90 60

--Spreads containing cocoa

1806 90 70

--Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages

1806 90 90

--Other

1901

Malt  extract;  food  preparations  of  flour,  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:

1901 10 00

-Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 20 00

-Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905

1901 90

-Other:

--Malt extract:

1901 90 11

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

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CN Code

(1)

1901 90 19

---Other

--Other:

1901 90 99

---Other

Description

(2)

1902

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:

1902 11 00

--Containing eggs

1902 19

--Other:

1902 19 10

---Containing no common wheat flour or meal

1902 19 90

---Other

1902 20

-Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

--Other:

1902 20 91

---Cooked

1902 20 99

---Other

1902 30

-Other pasta:

1902 30 10

--Dried

1902 30 90

--Other

1902 40

-Couscous:

1902 40 10

--Unprepared

1902 40 90

--Other

1903 00 00 Tapioca  and  substitutes  therefor  prepared  from  starch,  in  the  form  of  flakes,  grains,  pearls,  siftings  or

similar forms

1904

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:

1904 10

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

1904 10 10

--Obtained from maize

1904 10 30

--Obtained from rice

1904 10 90

--Other

32

CN Code

(1)

1904 20

Description

(2)

-Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from  mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes  and
roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

1904 20 10

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

--Other:

1904 20 91

---Obtained from maize

1904 20 95

---Obtained from rice

1904 20 99

---Other

1904 30 00

- Bulgur wheat

1904 90

-Other:

1904 90 10

--Rice

1904 90 80

--Other

1905

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:

1905 10 00

-Crispbread

1905 20

-Gingerbread and the like:

1905 20 10

--Containing by weight less than 30% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

1905 20 30

--Containing by weight 30% or more but less than 50% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as
sucrose)

1905 20 90

--Containing by weight 50% or more of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

-Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

1905 31

--Sweet biscuits:

---Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:

1905 31 11

----In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g

1905 31 19

----Other

---Other:

1905 31 30

----Containing 8% or more by weight of milk fats

----Other:

1905 31 91

-----Sandwich biscuits

1905 31 99

-----Other

33

CN Code

(1)

1905 32

---Waffles and wafers:

Description

(2)

--Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:

1905 32 11

----In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g

1905 32 19

----Other

---Other:

1905 32 91

----Salted, whether or not filled

1905 32 99

----Other

1905 40

-Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:

1905 40 10

--Rusks

1905 40 90

--Other

1905 90

-Other:

1905 90 10

--Matzos

1905 90 20

--Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper
and similar products

--Other:

1905 90 30

---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

1905 90 40

---Waffles and wafers with a water content exceeding 10% by weight

1905 90 45

---Biscuits

1905 90 55

---Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted

---Other:

1905 90 60

----With added sweetening matter

1905 90 90

----Other

2001

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

2001 90

-Other:

2001 90 30

--Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2001 90 40

--Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5% or more by weight of starch

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(1)

2004

Description

(2)

Other  vegetables  prepared  or  preserved  otherwise  than  by  vinegar  or  acetic  acid,  frozen,  other  than
products of heading 2006:

2004 10

-Potatoes:

--Other:

2004 10 91

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

2004 90

-Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004 90 10

--Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than
products of heading 2006:

2005 20

-Potatoes:

2005 20 10

--In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 80 00

-Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

2008

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:

2008 99 85

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

2008 99 91

-----Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5% or more by weight of starch

2101

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

2101 12 98

---Other

2101 20

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

2101 20 98

---Other

2101 30

-Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

--Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 19

---Other

--Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 99

---Other

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(1)

2102

Description

(2)

Yeasts  (active  or  inactive);  other  single-cell  micro-organisms,  dead  (but  not  including  vaccines  of
heading 3002); prepared baking powders:

2102 10

-Active yeasts:

2102 10 31

---Dried

2102 10 39

---Other

2105 00

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

2105 00 10

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

-Containing by weight of milk fats:

2105 00 91

--3% or more but less than 7%

2105 00 99

--7% or more

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 90

-Other:

2106 90 10

-- Cheese fondues

2106 90 20

--Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for
the manufacture of beverages

--Other:

2106 90 92

---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:

2106 90 98

---Other

2202

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 2009:

2202 10 00

-Waters including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
or flavoured

2202 90

-Other:

2202 90 10

--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:

2202 90 91

---Less than 0.2%

2202 90 95

---0.2% or more but less than 2%

2202 90 99

---2% or more

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CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

2205

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

2205 10

-In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2205 10 10

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less

2205 10 90

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol

2205 90

-Other:

2205 90 10

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less

2205 90 90

--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol

2208

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

2208 20

-Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc:

--In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2208 20 12

---Cognac

2208 20 14

---Armagnac

2208 20 26

---Grappa

2208 20 27

---Brandy de Jerez

2208 20 29

---Other

--In containers holding more than 2 litres:

2208 20 40

---Raw distillate

---Other:

2208 20 62

----Cognac

2208 20 64

----Armagnac

2208 20 86

----Grappa

2208 20 87

----Brandy de Jerez

2208 20 89

----Other

2208 30

-Whiskies:

--Scotch whisky:

---Malt whisky, in containers holding:

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(1)

2208 30 32

----2 litres or less

2208 30 38

----More than 2 litres

---Blended whisky, in containers holding:

Description

(2)

2208 30 52

----2 litres or less

2208 30 58

----More than 2 litres

---Other, in containers holding:

2208 30 72

----2 litres or less

2208 30 78

----More than 2 litres

--Other in containers holding:

2208 30 82

---2 litres or less

2208 30 88

---More than 2 litres

2208 50

-Gin and Geneva:

--Gin, in containers holding:

2208 50 11

---2 litres or less

2208 50 19

---More than 2 litres

--Geneva, in containers holding:

2208 50 91

---2 litres or less

2208 50 99

---More than 2 litres

2208 60

-Vodka:

--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45.4% vol or less in containers holding:

2208 60 11

---2 litres or less

2208 60 19

---More than 2 litres

--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 45.4% vol in containers holding:

2208 60 91

---2 litres or less

2208 60 99

---More than 2 litres

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CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

2208 70

-Liqueurs and cordials:

2208 70 10

--In containers holding 2 litres or less

2208 70 90

--In containers holding more than 2 litres

2208 90

-Other:

---2 litres or less:

2208 90 41

----Ouzo

----Other:

-----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

------Distilled from fruit:

2208 90 45

-------Calvados

2208 90 48

-------Other

------Other:

2208 90 52

-------Corn

2208 90 54

------- Tequila

2208 90 56

-------Other

2208 90 69

-----Other spirituous beverages

---More than 2 litres:

----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

2208 90 71

-----Distilled from fruit

2208 90 75

----- Tequila

2208 90 77

-----Other

2208 90 78

----Other spirituous beverages

2905

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

-Other polyhydric alcohols:

2905 43 00

--Mannitol

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(1)

2905 44

--D-glucitol (sorbitol):

---In aqueous solution:

Description

(2)

2905 44 11

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

2905 44 19

----Other

---Other:

2905 44 91

----Containing 2% or less by weight of D-mannitol, calcutated on the D-glucitol content

2905 44 99

----Other

3302

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

3302 10

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

--Of a kind used in the drink industries:

---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterizing a beverage:

3302 10 29

-----Other

3502

Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing weight more than 80% whey
proteins, calculated on the dry matter), albuminates and other albumin derivatives:

-Egg albumin

3502 11

-- Dried

3502 11 90

--- Other

3502 19 90

--- Other

3505

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

3505 10

-Dextrins and other modified starches:

3505 10 10

-- Dextrins

-- Other modified starches:

3505 10 50

--- Starches, esterified or etherified

3505 10 90

--- Other

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CN Code

(1)

3505 20

- Glues

Description

(2)

3505 20 10

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

3505 20 30

--Containing,  by  weight,  25%  or  more  but  less  than  55%  of  starches  or  dextrins  or  other  modified
starches

3505 20 50

--  Containing,  by  weight,  55%  or  more  but  less  than  80%  of  starches  or  dextrins  or  other  modified
starches

3505 20 90

-- Containing, by weight, 80 % or more of starches or dextrins or other modifies starches

3809

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

3809 10

-With a basis of amylaceouos substances:

3809 10 10

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

3809 10 30

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

3809 10 50

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

3809 10 90

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

3824

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

3824 60

-Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44:

--in aqueous solution:

3824 60 11

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

---Other

3824 60 19

--Other:

3824 60 91

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

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

DATE: 01.07.2003
APPROPRIATIONS:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 Malta and the exportation of certain
agricultural products to Malta
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

(EUR million )

1.5 M €

CURRENT
FINANCIAL
YEAR
[2003]
(EUR million)
 0. 5M €

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

5.0

EXPENDITURE
- CHARGED TO EC BUDGET

5.1

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

- NATIONAL

5.0.1 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
5.1.1 ESTIMATED REVENUE
5.2 METHOD OF CALCULATION:

0. 19 M €

 0.06 M €

 0.06 M €

[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 ca. 0.19 M € (including collection costs), the calculation of yearly savings on export
refunds amounts to 1.5 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?

NO

6.0

6.1

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

NO
NO
NO

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