Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Lithuania, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products provided for in Protocol 2 of the Europe Agreement between the European Community and Lithuania
Date: 2004-02-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Lithuania, agro-industry, association agreement (EU), export refund, tariff quota, trading operation

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 4.2.2004
COM(2004) 63 final

2004/0019 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by
the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and Lithuania, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the trade
arrangements for processed agricultural products provided for in Protocol 2 of the
Europe Agreement between the European Community and Lithuania

(presented by the Commission)

EN

  EN

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Under the terms of Article 19 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities
and  their  Member  States,  of  the  one  part,  and  the  Republic  of  Lithuania,  of  the  other  part,
approved  by  the  Decision  of  the  Council  and  of  the  Commission  (98/150/EC,  ECSC,
Euratom)  of  19  December  19971,  Protocol  2  lays  down  the  trade  arrangements  for  the
processed agricultural products which are listed therein. Protocol 2 was amended by Decision
5/2001 of the EU-Lithuania Association Council2.

Council directives authorised the Commission to enter into negotiations with Lithuania with a
view to improving the trade arrangement for processed agricultural products in preparation for
accession.

The two parties have reached a draft agreement, which envisages completed liberalisation of
trade for certain processed agricultural products and duty free quotas or a reduction of import
duties for others.

For imports outside of these quotas the current trade provisions as laid down by Protocol 2 of
the Europe Agreement will continue to apply.

Processed Agricultural Products, not covered by Annex I to the Treaty will 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 amounts of such refunds3.

The Council has authorised the implementation of this agreement in the form of autonomous
and transitional measures, which have been in force since 1 July 2003. It is therefore proposed
to the Council to adopt this joint position for a Decision of the Association Council to amend
the Annexes to Protocol 2.

1

2

3

OJ L 51, 20.2.1998, p. 1
OJ L 300, 5.11.2002, p. 18
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)

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2004/0019 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by
the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of
the one part, and Lithuania, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the trade
arrangements for processed agricultural products provided for in Protocol 2 of the
Europe Agreement between the European Community and Lithuania

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing  the  European  Community,  and  in  particular
Article 133 in conjunction with the second subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

The  Europe  Agreement4  establishes  an  association  between 
the  European
Communities  and  their  Member  States,  of  the  one  part,  and  Lithuania,  of  the  other
part. Its Protocol 2 on trade arrangements for processed agricultural products has last
been amended by Decision No 5/2001 of the EU-Lithuania Association Council5.

New  trade  improvements  have  recently  been  negotiated  which  aim  to  improve
economic  convergence in preparation  for accession  and  lay  down  concessions  in  the
form of completed liberalisation of trade for certain agricultural products and duty free
quotas for others. For imports outside of the quotas the current provisions continue to
apply.

Under  Protocol  2  the  Association  Council  has  to  decide  in  particular  on  any
amendment of the duties mentioned in the annexes to Protocol 2 and on the increase or
abolition of tariff quotas.

Under Article 2, second indent of that Protocol, the Association Council also decides
that the duties applied may be reduced in response to reductions resulting from mutual
concessions relating to processed agricultural products.

The concessions granted by the European Union entered into force on 1 July 2003 in
accordance  with  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  1088/20036  of  18  June  2003  adopting
autonomous and transitional measures concerning the importation of certain processed
agricultural products originating in Lithuania and the exportation of certain processed

4

5

6

OJ L 51 , 20.2.1998, p. 1
OJ L 300, 5.11.2002, p. 18
OJ L 163, 1.7.2003, p. 38

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agricultural  products  to  Lithuania.  Regulation  No  1088/2003  will  be  redundant  and
should therefore be repealed as soon as the decision of the Association Council enters
into force.

(6)

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 Code7 provides the procedures for managing the tariff quotas to
be  used  in  chronological  order  of  the  dates  of  the  customs  declarations.  These
procedures  should  be  applicable  for  imports  under  the  tariff  Association  Council
Decision.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The  position  to  be  taken  by  the  Community  in  the  Association  Council  established  by  the
Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one
part,  and  Lithuania,  of  the  other  part,  concerning  the  improvement  of  Protocol  2  on  the
bilateral  trade  of  processed  agricultural  products,  shall  be  based  on  a  draft  Decision  of  the
Association Council attached to this Decision.

Regulation  (EC)  No  1088/2003  shall  be  repealed  on  the  date  when  the  Decision  of  the
Association Council attached to this Decision enters into force.

Article 2

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, […]

For the Council
The President

7

OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1335/2003 (OJ L 187, 26.7.2003,
p. 16)

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ANNEX

Proposal for an

EC-Lithuania ASSOCIATION COUNCIL DECISION No... /2003
concerning the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural
products provided for in Protocol 2 of the Europe Agreement

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having  regard  to  the  Europe  Agreement  establishing  an  association  between  the  European
Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Lithuania, of the other part, and in
particular Article 1(3) of Protocol 2 thereto,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

8

9

10

11

12

Protocol  28  lays  down  the  trade  arrangements  for  processed  agricultural  products
between  the  Community  and  Lithuania.  Protocol  2  on  trade  arrangements  for
processed agricultural products has last been amended by Decision No 5/2001 of the
EU-Lithuania Association Council9.

New  trade  improvements  have  recently  been  negotiated  which  aim  to  improve
economic convergence in preparation for accession and lay down concessions in the
form  of  completed  liberalisation  of  trade  for  certain  agricultural  products  and  duty
free quotas for others. They should enter into force not later than 1 July 2003.

The tariff quotas have to be reduced by the quantities  of goods subject to the tariff
quotas  from  1  January  2003  used  in  accordance  with  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No
1088/2003  adopting  autonomous  measures  concerning  the  importation  of  certain
processed  agricultural  products  originating  in  Lithuania  and  the  exportation  of
certain processed agricultural products to Lithuania10.

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

For processed agricultural products not covered by Annex I to the Treaty no export
refunds  should  be  granted  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 refunds11.
This will be subject to a decision by the Commission under the procedure laid down
in Council Decision No 1999/468/EC of 28 June 199912.

OJ L 51, 20.2.1998, p. 1
OJ L 300, 5.11.2002, p. 18
OJ L 163, 1.7.2003, p. 38
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 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

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(6)

(7)

For  goods  originating  in  Lithuania  and  exported  to  the  European  Union  no  export
refunds should be granted.

The annual quotas provided for in Annex II to this Decision should be opened for the
period 1 July to 31 December 2003 and for 2004.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

From 1 July 2003 on imports of processed agricultural products into the European Union and
originating in Lithuania listed in Annex I no customs duties shall be applied.

From 1 July 2003 on imports of processed agricultural products into Lithuania and originating
in the European Union listed in Annex I no customs duties shall be applied.

Article 2

Processed agricultural products not listed in Annex I to the Treaty originating in the European
Union  and  exported  to  Lithuania  shall  not  be  eligible  for  export  refunds  granted  under
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1520/2000.

Processed  agricultural  products  not  listed  in  Annex  I  to  the  Treaty  originating  in  Lithuania
and exported to the European Union shall not be eligible for export refunds in Lithuania.

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

Article 3

Article 4

The quantities of goods subject to tariff quotas opened under Regulation (EC) No 1088/2003,
and put in free circulation from 1 January 2003, shall be fully counted against the quantities
provided in the corresponding tariff quotas set out in Annex II.

Article 5

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

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Article 6

This decision shall enter into force on the first day of the month following that of its adoption.

Done at Brussels, […]

For the Association Council
The President

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ANNEX I

MUTUALLY LIBERALISED GOODS – EXEMPTED FROM DUTIES IN THE
EUROPEAN UNION AND IN LITHUANIA

CN Code
(1)

0403

0403 10

0403 10 51
0403 10 53
0403 10 59
0403 90

0403 90 71
0403 90 73
0403 90 79

0403 90 91
0403 90 93
0403 90 99
0501 00 00
0502

0502 10 00
0502 90 00
0503 00 00

0505

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

0506 10 00
0506 90 00
0507

0507 10 00
0507 90 00
0508 00 00

0509 00
0509 00 10
0509 00 90
0510 00 00

0710
0710 40 00

Description
(2)
Buttermilk,  curdled  milk  and  cream,  yoghurt,  kephir  and  other  fermented  or  acidified  milk
and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
-Yoghurt:
--Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
---In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milk fat content, by weight:
----Not exceeding 1,5%
----Exceeding 1,5% but not exceeding 27%
----Exceeding 27%
-Other:
---In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milkfat content, by weight:
----Not exceeding 1,5%
----Exceeding 1,5% but not exceeding 27%
----Exceeding 27%
---Other, of a milkfat content, by weight:
----Not exceeding 3%
----Exceeding 3% but not exceeding 6%
----Exceeding 6%
Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair
Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such
bristles or hair:
-Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof
-Other
Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting
material
Skins  and  other  parts  of  birds,  with  their  feathers  or  down,  feathers  and  parts  of  feathers
(whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected
or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers:
-Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:
--Raw
--Other
-Other
Bones  and  horn-cores,  unworked,  defatted,  simply  prepared  (but  not  cut  to  shape),  treated
with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products:
-Ossein and bones treated with acid
-Other
Ivory, tortoiseshell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and
beaks,  unworked  or  simply  prepared  but  not  cut  to  shape;  powder  and  waste  of  these
products:
-Ivory; ivory powder and waste
-Other
Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise  worked; shells
of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but
not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof
Natural sponges of animal origin:
-Raw
-Other
Ambergris,  castoreum,  civet  and  musk;  cantharides;  bile,  whether  or  not  dried;  glands  and
other  animal  products  used  in  the  preparation  of  pharmaceutical  products,  fresh  chilled,
frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved
Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:
-Sweet corn

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CN Code
(1)

0711

0711 90

0711 90 30
0903 00 00
1302

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

1302 19 91
1302 20
1302 20 10
1302 20 90

1302 31 00
1302 32

1302 32 10
1401

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

1403 00 00

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

1515

1515 90 15
1516

1516 20
1516 20 10
1517

1517 10
1517 10 10
1517 90
1517 90 10

1517 90 93

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:
-Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:
--Vegetables:
---Sweet corn
Maté
Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other
mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:
-Vegetable saps and extracts:
--Of liquorice
--Of hops
--Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone
--Other:
---Intermixtures  of  vegetable  extracts,  for  the  manufacture  of  beverages  or  of  food
preparations
---Other:
----Medicinal
-Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:
--Dry
--Other
-Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:
--Agar-agar
--Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean
seeds or guar seeds:
---Of locust beans or locust bean seeds
Vegetable  materials  of  a  kind  used  primarily  for  plaiting  (for  example,  bamboos,  rattans,
reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark):
-Bamboos
-Rattans
-Other
Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for example, kapok,
vegetable  hair  and  eel-grass),  whether  or  not  put  up  as  a  layer  with  or  without  supporting
material
Vegetable  materials  of  a  kind  used  primarily  in  brooms  or  in  brushes  (for  example,
broomcorn piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles
Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:
-Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning
-Cotton linters
-Other
Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):
-Wool grease, crude
-Other
Other  animal  fats  and  oils  and  their  fractions,  whether  or  not  refined,  but  not  chemically
modified
Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not
refined, but not chemically modified:
-- Jojoba and oiticica oils; myrtle wax and Japan wax; their fractions
Animal  or  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and  their  fractions,  partly  or  wholly  hydrogenated,  inter-
esterified, re-esterified or elaidinized, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:
-Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:
--Hydrogenated castor oil, so called "opal-wax"
Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions
of  different  fats  or  oils  of  this  chapter,  other  than  edible  fats  or  oils  or  their  fractions  of
heading 1516:
-Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:
--Containing, by weight, more than 10% but not more than 15% of milk fats
-Other:
--Containing, by weight, more than 10% but not more than 15% of milk fats
--Other:
---Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould-release preparations

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CN Code
(1)

1518 00

1518 00 10
1518 00 91

1518 00 95

1518 00 99
1520 00 00
1521

1521 10 00
1521 90
1521 90 10

1521 90 91
1521 90 99
1522 00

1522 00 10
1702

1702 50 00
1702 90

1702 90 10
1704
1704 10

1704 10 11
1704 10 19

1704 10 91
1704 10 99
1704 90
1704 90 10

1704 90 30

1704 90 51
1704 90 55
1704 90 61

1704 90 65

1704 90 71
1704 90 75

Description
(2)
Animal  or  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and  their  fractions,  boiled,  oxidized,  dehydrated,
sulphurised, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically
modified,  excluding  those of  heading  1516;  inedible  mixtures  or  preparations  of  animal  or
vegetable  fats  or  oils  or  of  fractions  of  different  fats  or  oils  of  this  chapter,  not  elsewhere
specified or included:
-Linoxyn
--Animal  or  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and  their  fractions,  boiled,  oxidized,  dehydrated,
sulphurized, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically
modified, excluding those of heading 1516
--Other:
---Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or  of  animal  and  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and
their fractions
---Other
Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
Vegetable  waxes  (other  than  triglycerides),  beeswax,  other  insect  waxes  and  spermaceti,
whether or not refined or coloured:
- Vegetable waxes
-Other:
--Spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured
--Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured:
---Raw
---Other
Degras;  residues  resulting  from  the  treatment  of  fatty  substances  or  animal  or  vegetable
waxes:
-Degras
Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form;
sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or
not mixed with natural honey; caramel:
-Chemically pure fructose
-Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry
state 50% by weight of fructose:
--Chemically pure maltose
Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:
-Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:
--Containing  less  than  60%  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar  expressed  as
sucrose):
---Gum in strips
---Other
--Containing  60%  or  more  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar  expressed  as
sucrose):
---Gum in strips
---Other
-Other:
--Liquorice extract containing more than 10% by weight of sucrose but not containing other
added substances
--White chocolate
--Other:
---Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or more
---Throat pastilles and cough drops
---Sugar coated (panned) goods
---Other:
----Gum  confectionery  and  jelly  confectionery  including  fruit  pastes  in  the  form  of  sugar
confectionery
----Boiled sweets whether or not filled
----Toffees, caramels and similar sweets
----Other:

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Description
(2)

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

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:
-Not defatted
-Wholly or partly defatted
Cocoa butter, fat and oil
Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:
-Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
--Containing  no  sucrose  or  containing  less  than  5%  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert
sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
--Containing  5%  or  more  but  less  than  65%  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar
expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
--Containing  65%  or  more  but  less  than  80%  by  weight  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar
expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
-Other  preparations  in  blocks,  slabs  or  bars  weighing  more  than  2  kg  or  in  liquid,  paste,
powder,  granular  or  other  bulk  form  in  containers  or  immediate  packings,  of  a  content
exceeding 2 kg:
--Containing  31%  or  more  by  weight  of  cocoa  butter  or  containing  a  combined  weight  of
31% or more of cocoa butter and milk fat
--Containing a combined weight of 25% or more, but less than 31% of cocoa butter and milk
fat
--Other:
---Containing 18% or more by weight of cocoa butter
---Chocolate milk crumb
---Chocolate  flavour  coating,  excluding  products  containing  70%  or  more  by  weight  of
sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose))

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

-Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:
--Filled
--Not filled:
---With added cereal, fruit or nuts
---Other
-Other:
--Chocolate and chocolate products:
---Chocolates, whether or not filled:
----Containing alcohol
----Other
---Other:
----Filled
----Not filled
--Sugar  confectionery  and  substitutes  therefor  made  from  sugar  substitution  products,
containing cocoa
--Spreads containing cocoa
--Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages
--Other, (excluding products containing 70% or more by weight of sucrose (including invert
sugar expressed as sucrose))

CN Code
(1)

1704 90 81
Ex 1704 90 99
(Code taric
1704 90 99 10)
1803
1803 10 00
1803 20 00
1804 00 00
1805 00 00
1806
1806 10
1806 10 15

1806 10 20

1806 10 30

1806 20

1806 20 10

1806 20 30

1806 20 50
1806 20 70
Ex 1806 20 80
(Code taric
1806 20 80 10)
Ex 1806 20 95
(Code taric
1806 20 95 10)

1806 31 00
1806 32
1806 32 10
1806 32 90
1806 90

1806 90 11
1806 90 19

1806 90 31
1806 90 39
1806 90 50

1806 90 60
1806 90 70
Ex 1806 90 90
(Code taric
1806 90 90 11
and
1806 90 90 91)

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CN Code
(1)

1901

1901 10 00
1901 20 00
1901 90

1901 90 11
1901 90 19

1901 90 91

1902

1902 11 00
1902 19
1902 19 10
1902 19 90
1902 20

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

1904

1904 10
1904 10 10
1904 10 30
1904 10 90
1904 20

1904 20 10

1904 20 91
1904 20 95
1904 20 99
1904 30 00
1904 90
1904 90 10
1904 90 80

Description
(2)
Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing
cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis,
not elsewhere specified or  included;  food preparations  of  goods of  headings  0401 to  0404,
not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally
defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:
-Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale
-Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905
-Other:
--Malt extract:
---With a dry extract content of 90% or more by weight
---Other
--Other:
---Containing  no  milk  fats,  sucrose,  isoglucose,  glucose  or  starch  or  containing  less  than
1,5%  milk  fat,  5%  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar)  or  isoglucose,  5%  glucose  or  starch,
excluding food preparations in powder form of goods of headings 0401 to 0404
Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared
such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni, couscous, whether
or not prepared:
-Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:
--Containing eggs
--Other:
---Containing no common wheat flour or meal
---Other
-Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
--Other:
---Cooked
---Other
-Other pasta:
--Dried
--Other
-Couscous:
--Unprepared
--Other
Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared  from  starch,  in  the  form  of  flakes,  grains,  pearls,
siftings or similar forms
Prepared  foods  obtained  by  the  swelling  or  roasting  of  cereals  or  cereal  products  (for
example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes
or  other  worked  grains  (except  flour,  groats  and  meal),  pre-cooked,  or  otherwise  prepared,
not elsewhere specified or included:
-Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:
--Obtained from maize
--Obtained from rice
--Other
-Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal
flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:
--Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal flakes
--Other:
---Obtained from maize
---Obtained from rice
---Other
 - Bulgur wheat
-Other:
--Rice
--Other

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CN Code
(1)

1905

1905 10 00
1905 20
1905 20 10

1905 20 30

1905 20 90

1905 31

1905 31 11
1905 31 19

1905 31 30

1905 31 91
1905 31 99
1905 32

1905 32 11
1905 32 19

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

1905 90 30

1905 90 40
1905 90 45
1905 90 55

1905 90 60
2001

2001 90
2001 90 30
2001 90 40

2001 90 60
2004

2004 10

2004 10 91
2004 90
2004 90 10

Description
(2)
Bread,  pastry,  cakes,  biscuits  and  other  bakers'  wares,  whether  or  not  containing  cocoa;
communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers,
rice paper and similar products:
-Crispbread
-Gingerbread and the like:
--Containing  by  weight  less  than  30%  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar  expressed  as
sucrose)
--Containing  by  weight  30%  or  more  but  less  than  50%  of  sucrose  (including  invert  sugar
expressed as sucrose)
--Containing by weight 50% or more of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)
-Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
--Sweet biscuits:
---Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing
cocoa:

----In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g
----Other
---Other:
----Containing 8% or more by weight of milk fats
----Other:
-----Sandwich biscuits
-----Other
---Waffles and wafers
--Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing
cocoa:
----In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g
----Other
---Other:
----Salted, whether or not filled
----Other
-Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:
--Rusks
--Other
-Other:
--Matzos
--Communion  wafers,  empty  cachets  of  a  kind  suitable  for  pharmaceutical  use,  sealing
wafers, rice paper and similar products
--Other:
---Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by weight in the
dry matter state not more than 5% of sugars and not more than 5% of fat
---Waffles and wafers with a water content exceeding 10% by weight
---Biscuits
---Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
---Other:
----With added sweetening matter
Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or
acetic acid:
-Other:
--Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)
--Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5% or more by weight of
starch
--Palm hearts
Other  vegetables  prepared  or  preserved  otherwise  than  by  vinegar  or  acetic  acid,  frozen,
other than products of heading 2006:
-Potatoes:
--Other:
---In the form of flour, meal or flakes
-Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:
--Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

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CN Code
(1)

2005

2005 20
2005 20 10
2005 80 00
2008

2008 11
2008 11 10
2008 91 00
2008 99
2008 99 85
2008 99 91

2101

2101 11
2101 11 11
2101 11 19
2101 12

2101 12 92
2101 12 98
2101 20

2101 20 20

2101 20 92
2101 20 98
2101 30

2101 30 11
2101 30 19

2101 30 91
2101 30 99
2102

2102 10
2102 10 10

2102 10 31
2102 10 39
2102 10 90
2102 20

2102 20 11

2102 20 19
2102 20 90
2102 30 00

Description
(2)
Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen,
other than products of heading 2006:
-Potatoes:
--In the form of flour, meal or flakes
-Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)
Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not
containing  added  sugar  or  other  sweetening  matter  or  spirit,  not  elsewhere  specified  or
included:
-Nuts, groundnuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:
--Groundnuts:
---Peanut butter
--Palm hearts
--Other:
-----Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)
-----Yams,  sweet  potatoes  and  similar  edible  parts  of  plants,  containing  5%  or  more  by
weight of starch
Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté‚ and preparations with a basis of
these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee
substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:
-Extracts,  essences  and  concentrates,  of  coffee,  and  preparations  with  a  basis  of  these
extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:
--Extracts, essences and concentrates:
---With a coffee-based dry matter content of 95% or more by weight
---Other
--Preparations  with  a  basis  of  these  extracts,  essences  or  concentrates  or  with  a  basis  of
coffee:
---Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates of coffee
---Other
-Extracts, essences  and concentrates,  of  tea  or  maté,  and  preparations  with  a  basis of  these
extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté:
--Extracts, essences or concentrates
--Preparations:
---With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or maté
---Other
-Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates
thereof:
--Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:
---Roasted chicory
---Other
--Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:
---Of roasted chicory
---Other
Yeasts  (active  or  inactive);  other  single-cell  micro-organisms,  dead  (but  not  including
vaccines of heading 3002); prepared baking powders:
-Active yeasts:
--Culture yeast
--Baker's yeast:
---Dried
---Other
--Other
-Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:
--Inactive yeasts:
---In tablet, cube or similar form, or in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1
kg.
---Other
--Other
-Prepared baking powders

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CN Code
(1)

2103

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

2103 90 90
2104
2104 10
2104 10 10
2104 10 90
2104 20 00
2105 00
2105 00 10

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

2106 10 80
2106 90
2106 90 20

2106 90 92

2201

2201 10

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

2202 10 00

2202 90
2202 90 10

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99
2203 00

2203 00 01
2203 00 09
2203 00 10

Description
(2)
Sauces  and  preparations therefore;  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 therefore; homogenised composite food preparations:
-Soups and broths and preparation therefore:
--Dried
--Other
-Homogenised composite food preparations
Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa:
-Containing no milk fats or containing less than 3% by weight of such fats
-Containing by weight of milk fats:
--3% or more but less than 7%
--7% or more
Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:
-Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:
--Containing  no  milk  fats,  sucrose,  isoglucose,  glucose  or  starch  or  containing,  by  weight,
less than 1,5% milk fat, 5% sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch
--Other
-Other:
--Compound  alcoholic preparations, other  than  those based  on  odoriferous  substances, of  a
kind used for the manufacture of beverages
--Other:
---Containing  no  milk  fats,  sucrose,  isoglucose,  glucose  or  starch  or  containing,by  weight,
less than 1,5% milk fat, 5% sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch
Waters,  including  natural  or  artificial  mineral  waters  and  aerated  waters,  not  containing
added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow:
-Mineral waters and aerated waters:
--Natural mineral waters:
---Not carbonated
---Other
--Other
-Other
Waters,  including  mineral  waters  and  aerated  waters,  containing  added  sugar  or  other
sweetening  matter  or  flavoured,  and  other  non-alcoholic  beverages,  not  including  fruit  or
vegetable juices of heading 2009:
-Waters  including  mineral  waters  and  aerated  waters,  containing  added  sugar  or  other
sweetening matter or flavoured
-Other:
--Not  containing  products  of  headings  0401  to  0404  or  fat  obtained  from  products  of
headings 0401 to 0404
--Other, containing by weight of fat obtained from the products of headings 0401 to 0404:
---Less than 0,2%
---0,2% or more but less than 2%
---2% or more
Beer made from malt:
-In containers holding 10 litres or less:
--In bottles
--Other
-In containers holding more than 10 litres

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CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

2205
2205 10
2205 10 10
2205 10 90
2205 90
2205 90 10
2205 90 90
2402
2402 10 00
2402 20
2402 20 10
2402 20 90
2402 90 00
2403

2403 10
2403 10 10
2403 10 90

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

3301 90
3301 90 10

3301 90 21
3301 90 30
3301 90 90
3302

3302 10

3302 10 10

3302 10 21

3302 10 29
3501
3501 10
3501 10 10
3501 10 50
3501 10 90
3501 90
3501 90 90
3823

3823 11 00
3823 12 00
3823 13 00
3823 19
3823 19 10
3823 19 30
3823 19 90
3823 70 00

Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances:
-In containers holding 2 litres or less:
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol
-Other:
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol
Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes:
-Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco
-Cigarettes containing tobacco:
--Containing cloves
--Other
-Other
Other  manufactured  tobacco  and  manufactured  tobacco  substitues;  "homogenized"  or
"reconstituted" tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences:
-Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion:
--In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 500 g
--Other
-Other:
--"Homogenized" or "reconstituted" tobacco
--Other:
---Chewing tobacco and snuff
---Other
Essential  oils  (terpeneless  or  not),  including  concretes  and  absolutes;  resinoids;  extracted
oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, in waxes or the like, obtained
by  enfleurage  or  maceration;  terpenic  by  products  of  the  deterpenation  of  essential  oils;
aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils:
-Other:
--Terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils
--Extracted oleoresins:
--- Of liquorice and hops
--- Other
-- Other
Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis
of  one  or  more  of  these  substances,  of  a  kind  used  as  a  raw  materials  in  industry;  other
preparations  based  on  odoriferous  substances,  of  a  kind  used  for  the  manufacture  of
beverages:
-Of a kind used in the food or drink industries:
--Of the kind used in the drink industries:
---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage:
----Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0,5%
----Other:
-----Containing no milkfats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose, or starch or containing, by weight,
less than 1,5% milkfat, 5%sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch
-----Other
Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues:
-Casein:
--For the manufacture of regenerated textile fibres
--For industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs or fodder
--Other
-Other:
--Other
Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols:
-Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining:
--Stearic acid
--Oleic acid
--Tall oil fatty acids
--Other:
---Distilled fatty acids
---Fatty acid distillate
---Other
-Industrial fatty alcohols

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ANNEX II

DUTY FREE QUOTAS APPLICABLE UPON IMPORT INTO THE EUROPEAN
UNION OF GOODS ORIGINATING IN LITHUANIA

Order number

CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

Tariff quota
(tonnes)
(3)

09.6567

0403 1091

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

1500

to

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

0403 10 99

---- Not exceeding 3%

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

----Exceeding 6%

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ANNEX III

DUTY FREE QUOTAS APPLICABLE UPON IMPORT INTO LITHUANIA
OF GOODS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Duty free quota
(3)
260 ton

CN Code
(1)

2208

2208 20

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

2208 20 40

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

2208 30 11
2208 30 19

2208 30 32
2208 30 38

2208 30 52
2208 30 58

2208 30 72
2208 30 78
2208 30 82
2208 30 88
2208 40

2208 40 11

2208 40 31
2208 40 39

2208 40 51

2208 40 91
2208 40 99
2208 50

2208 50 11
2208 50 19

2208 50 91
2208 50 99

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

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CN Code
(1)
2208 70
2208 70 10
2208 70 90
2208 90

2208 90 11
2208 90 19

2208 90 33
2208 90 38

2208 90 41

2208 90 45
2208 90 48

2208 90 52
2208 90 57
2208 90 69

2208 90 71
2208 90 74
2208 90 78

2208 90 91
2208 90 99
2208 60

2208 60 11
2208 60 19

2208 60 91
2208 60 99

Description
(2)

Duty free quota
(3)

-Liqueurs and cordials:
--In containers holding 2 litres or less
--In containers holding more than 2 litres
-Other:
--Arrack, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
--Plum, pear or cherry spirit (excluding liqueurs), in containers holding:
---2 litres or less:
---More than 2 litres:
--Other spirits and other spirituous beverages, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less:
----Ouzo
----Other:
-----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):
------Distilled from fruit:
-------Calvados
-------Other
------Other:
-------Corn
-------Other
-----Other spirituous beverages
---More than 2 litres:
----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):
-----Distilled from fruit
-----Other
----Other spirituous beverages
--Undernatured  ethyl  alcohol  of  an  alcoholic  strength  by  volume  of  less  than  80%  volume,  in
containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
-Vodka:
--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of 45.4% vol or less in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---more than 2 litres
--Of an alcoholic strength by volume of more than 45.4% vol in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---more than 2 litres

40 ton

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1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

5.0

5.1

6.0

6.1

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

ENTR F4

DATE: 28.11.2003
APPROPRIATIONS:

BUDGET HEADING:
Chapter 10 – Article 100, Chapter 12 – Article 120
TITLE:
COUNCIL DECISION
on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Europe
Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and Lithuania,
of the other part, concerning the improvements of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural
products provided for in Protocol 2 of the Europe Agreement between the European Community and
Lithuania
LEGAL BASIS:
Article 133, (2) and (4)
AIMS:
To apply newly negotiated autonomous measures based on the double profit agreement pending formal
adoption of the agreement.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

12 MONTH
PERIOD

(EUR million)
+ 1,2 M €

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

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

CHARGED TO THE EC BUDGET

NATIONAL AUTHORITIES
OTHER

EXPENDITURE
-
(REFUNDS/INTERVENTIONS)
-
-
REVENUE
-
(LEVIES/CUSTOMS DUTIES)
NATIONAL
-

OWN RESOURCES OF THE EC

5.0.1 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
5.1.1 ESTIMATED REVENUE
5.2 METHOD OF CALCULATION:

-0,5 M €

- 0,25 M €

-0,25 M €

n+2

n+3

n+4

n+5

These financial implications have already been considered when the autonomous measures
Reg. (EC) No. 1088 / 2003 (OJ L 163, 1.7.2003, p. 38) were adopted.
Calculation of loss of revenue arising from the abolition of duties following the increase in zero duty
quotas and the abolition or selective reduction of duties on certain other processed agricultural products
(based on that country's imports to the EU in 1999 – 2001 and the exports to that country in average in
1999 - 2001).
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?

NO

NO
NO
NO

6.2 WILL A SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET BE NECESSARY?
6.3 WILL APPROPRIATIONS NEED TO BE ENTERED IN FUTURE BUDGETS?
OBSERVATIONS:

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