Commission Regulation (EC) No 2344/2003 of 30 December 2003 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2003-12-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: committee (EU), common customs tariff, statistical nomenclature, tariff nomenclature, tariff preference

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2344/2003

of 30 December 2003

amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomencla-
ture and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23
July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the
Common Customs Tariff (1), and in particular Article 9(1)(a)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The Combined Nomenclature appearing as Annex I to
Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 was replaced by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1789/2003 of 11 September
2003 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and
on the Common Customs Tariff (2), to apply from 1
January 2004.

The Commission adopted Regulations (EC) No 1871/
(EC) No 1949/2003 (4) and (EC) No 2205/
2003 (3),
2003 (5) amending Annex I
to Regulation (EEC) No
2658/87, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1832/2002 (6).

(3)

(4)

To ensure that the Combined Nomenclature to apply
from 1 January 2004 includes the amendments made by
is necessary to make the
it
these three Regulations,
corresponding amendments to Annex I to Regulation
(EEC) No 2658/87, as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1789/2003.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Customs Code
Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, as amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1789/2003, is hereby amended in accord-
ance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 December 2003.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No

2205/2003 (OJ L 330, 18.12.2003, p. 10).

(2) OJ L 281, 30.10.2003, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 287, 5.11.2003, p. 15.
(5) OJ L 330, 18.12.2003, p. 10.
(6) OJ L 290, 28.10.2002, p. 1.

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ANNEX

1. Additional note 7 to Chapter 2 of the Combined Nomenclature shall be replaced by the following:

‘7. For the purposes of heading 0210, the terms “meat and edible meat offal, salted or in brine” mean meat and
edible meat offal deeply and homogeneously impregnated with salt in all parts and having a total salt content by
weight of 1,2 % or more, provided that it is the salting which ensures the long-term preservation.’

2. Additional note 2 to Chapter 15 of the Combined Nomenclature shall be amended as follows:

1.

in additional note 2(A), Table I shall be replaced by the following:

‘Table I

Fatty-acid composition as percentage of total fatty acids

Fatty acid

myristic acid

palmitic acid

palmitoleic acid

heptadecanoic acid

heptadecenoic acid

stearic acid

oleic acid

linoleic acid

linolenic acid

arachidic acid

eicosenoic acid

behenic acid (1)

lignoceric acid

Percentage

≤ 0,05

7,5 – 20,0

0,3 – 3,5
≤ 0,3
≤ 0,3

0,5 – 5,0

55,0 – 83,0

3,5 – 21,0
≤ 1,0
≤ 0,6
≤ 0,4
≤ 0,3
≤ 0,2

(1) ≤ 0,2 for the oils of heading 1509.’

2. additional note 2(B) shall be amended as follows:

(a) the preliminary paragraph shall be replaced by the following:

‘Subheading 1509 10 covers only the olive oils defined in Sections I and II below, obtained solely by mechanical or other
physical means under conditions which do not lead to the modification of the oil, and which have not undergone any
treatment other than washing, decantation, centrifugation or filtration. Olive oils obtained using solvents, chemical or
biochemical reagents, or re-esterification processes, as well as any mixtures with oils of other kinds, are excluded from this
subheading.’

(b) additional note 2(B)(I) shall be amended as follows:

(i) the term ‘virgin lampante olive oil’ shall be replaced by the term ‘lampante olive oil’;

(ii) letter (c) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(c) a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 1,5 %;’

(iii) letter (g) shall be amended as follows:

— items 1 and 3 shall be deleted;

— item 4 shall be replaced by the following:

‘4. organoleptic characteristics showing a median of defects exceeding 2,5, in accordance with Annex XII to

Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91.’

(c) additional note 2(B)(II) shall be amended as follows:

(i) letter (a) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(a) an acid content, expressed as oleic acid, not exceeding 2,0 g/100 g;’

(ii) letter (e) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(e) a K270 extinction coefficient not exceeding 0,25;’

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(iii) letter (g) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(g) organoleptic characteristics showing a median of defects not exceeding 2,5, in accordance with Annex XII to

Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91;’
(iv) letter (ij) shall be replaced by the following:

‘ij)

a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 1,5 %;’

3. additional note 2(C) shall be amended as follows:
(a) letter (a) shall be replaced by the followng:

‘(a) an acid content, expressed as oleic acid, not exceeding 1,0 g/100 g;’

(b) letters (c) and (d) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(c) a K270 extinction coefficient not exceeding 0,90;
(d) an extinction-coefficient variation (K), in the 270-nm region, not exceeding 0,15;’

(c) letter (f) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(f) a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 1,8 %;’

4. additional note 2(D) shall be amended as follows:

(a) letter (a) shall be deleted;
(b) letter (c) shall be replaced by the following:

‘(c) a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 2,2 %;’

5.

in additional note 2(E), the second sentence shall be replaced by the following:

‘Oils of this subheading must have a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding
2,2 %, a sum of transoleic isomers of less than 0,40 %, a sum of (translinoleic + translinolenic) isomers of less than 0,35 %,
and a difference between the HPLC and the theoretical content of triglycerides with ECN42 not exceeding 0,5.’

3. Against CN code 1509 10 10, the description of goods in the second column shall be replaced by the following:

‘Lampante olive oil’

4. Additional note 1 to Chapter 21 of the Combined Nomenclature shall be deleted.