Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Malta concerning the improvements of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products
Date: 2004-02-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, Malta, agricultural product, agro-industry, association agreement (EU), export refund, tariff quota, trading operation

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 11.2.2004
COM(2004) 84 final

2004/0034 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by
the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Malta concerning the
improvements of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products

(presented by the Commission)

EN

  EN

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and
Malta,  (hereinafter  referred  to  as  the  “Association  Agreement”),  approved  by  Council  -
Regulation (EEC) No 492/71 of 1 March 19711 provides for tariff concessions for agricultural
products originating in Malta.

Council  directives  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.

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  the
Association 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 refunds2.

The Council has authorised the implementation of this agreement in the form of autonomous
and transitional  measures,  which have been  in  force  since 1 November  2003.  It  is  therefore
proposed to the Council to adopt this proposal for  a Decision of  the Association Council to
amend the Association Agreement.

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2

OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 1
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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2004/0034 (ACC)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by
the Agreement between the European Economic Community and Malta concerning the
improvements of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products

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  Agreement  establishing  an  Association  between  the  European  Economic
Community  and  Malta,  (hereinafter  referred  to  as  the  “Association  Agreement”),
approved  by  Council  -  Regulation  (EEC)  No  492/71  of  1  March  19713  provides  for
tariff concessions for agricultural products originating in Malta.

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  processed  agricultural  products
and  duty  free  quotas  for  others.  For  imports  outside  of  the  quotas  the  current
provisions continue to apply.

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

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  to  be  granted  by  the  European  Union  entered  into  force  on
1 November  2003  in  accordance  with  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  1890/20034  of
27 October  2003  adopting  autonomous  and  transitional  measures  concerning  the
importation  of  certain  processed  agricultural  products  originating  in  Malta  and  the
to  Malta.  Regulation
exportation  of  certain  processed  agricultural  products 
No 1890/2003  will  be  redundant  and  should  therefore  be  repealed  as  soon  as  the
decision of the Association Council enters into force.

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OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 1
OJ L 278, 29.10.2003, p. 1

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Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for
the  implementation  of  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2913/92  establishing  the
Community Customs Code5 provide 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
Association Agreement concerning bilateral trade of processed agricultural products, shall be
based on a draft Decision of the Association Council attached to this Decision.

Regulation  (EC)  No  1890/2003  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

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OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2286/2003 (OJ L 343, 31.12.2003,
p. 1)

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ANNEX

Proposal for an

EC-Malta ASSOCIATION COUNCIL DECISION No... /2003

concerning the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural
products provided for in the Association Agreement

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to Article 12 of the Association Agreement between the European  Economic
Community and Malta,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

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7

8

The  Agreement  establishing  an  Association  between  the  European  Economic
Community  and  Malta,  (hereinafter  referred  to  as  the  “Association  Agreement”),
approved by Council - Regulation (EEC) No 492/71 of 1 March 19716 provides for
tariff concessions for agricultural products originating in Malta.

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 processed agricultural products
and  duty  free  quotas  for  others.  For  imports  outside  of  the  quotas  the  current
provisions 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  Malta7  should  continue  to
apply for certain goods covered by it  but  not  listed  in  this  Decision  and  for  certain
other  goods  covered  by  it,  for  which  the  tariff  quotas  opened  by  this  Decision  are
exhausted.

For the importation of certain goods no customs duties should be applied. For certain
other  goods  tariff  quotas  should  be  opened;  those  quotas  should  be  reduced  by  the
quantities  of  goods  subject  to  the  tariff  quotas  from  1  November  2003  used  in
accordance  with  Council  Regulation  (EC)  No  1890/2003  adopting  autonomous
measures  concerning  the  importation  of  certain  processed  agricultural  products
originating in Malta and the exportation of certain processed agricultural products to
Malta8.

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

OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 1
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 278, 29.10.2003, p. 1

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(7)

(8)

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 refunds9.
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 199910.

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

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

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

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

From  1  November  2003  on  imports  of  processed  agricultural  products  into  Malta  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  Malta  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  Malta  and
exported to the European Union shall not be eligible for export refunds in Malta.

1.

2.

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Article 3

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

For  certain  products  the  preferential  duties  listed  in  Annex  III  shall  be  applicable
under the conditions laid down therein.

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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Article 4

The quantities of goods subject to tariff quotas opened under Regulation (EC) No 1890/2003,
and  put  in  free  circulation  from  1  November  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  the
Association Agreement shall continue to apply.

Article 6

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 CN Code ex 1704 90 99;

b) Other food preparations, not containing cocoa powder of CN Codes 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 CN
Code 1901 20 00;

b) Crispbread of CN Code 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
CN Code 1905 90 30.

Article 7

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 AND
EQUIVALENT CHARGES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND IN MALTA

CN Code
(1)
0501 00 00
0502

0502 10 00
0502 90 00
0503 00 00
0505

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

0506 10 00
0506 90 00
0507

0507 10 00
0507 90 00
0508 00 00

0509 00
0509 00 10
0509 00 90
0510 00 00

0710
0710 40 00
0711

0711 90

0711 90 30
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

Description
(2)

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,  tortoise-shell,  whalebone  and  whalebone  hair,  horns,  antlers,  hooves,  nails,  claws  and  beaks,
unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products:
-Ivory; ivory powder and waste
-Other
Coral  and  similar  materials,  unworked  or  simply  prepared  but  not  otherwise  worked;  shells  of
molluscs,  crustaceans  or  echinoderms  and  cuttle-bone,  unworked  or  simply  prepared  but  not  cut  to
shape, powder and waste thereof
Natural sponges of animal origin:
-Raw
-Other
Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal
products  used  in  the  preparation  of  pharmaceutical  products,  fresh  chilled,  frozen  or  otherwise
provisionally preserved
Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:
-Sweet corn
Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or
in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption:
-Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:
--Vegetables:
---Sweet corn
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

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CN Code
(1)

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
1518 00

1518 00 10

1518 00 91

1518 00 95

1518 00 99
1520 00 00

Description
(2)
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"
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:
-Linoxyn
-Other:
--Animal  or  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and  their  fractions,  boiled,  oxidized,  dehydrated,  sulphurized,
blown,  polymerized  by  heat  in  vacuum  or  in  inert  gas  or  otherwise  chemically  modified,  excluding
those of heading No1516
--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

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CN Code
(1)

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

1704 90 81
Ex 1704 90 99
(TARIC code
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

Description
(2)
Vegetable  waxes  (other  than  triglycerides),  beeswax,  other  insect  waxes  and  spermaceti,  whether  or
not refined or coloured:
- Vegetable waxes
-Other:
--Spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured
--Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured:
---Raw
---Other
Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:
-Degras
Other  sugars,  including  chemically  pure  lactose,  maltose,  glucose  and  fructose,  in  solid  form;  sugar
syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with
natural honey; caramel:
-Chemically pure fructose
-Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50 %
by weight of fructose
--Chemically pure maltose
Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:
-Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:
--Containing less than 60% by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
---Gum in strips
---Other
--Containing 60% or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
---Gum in strips
---Other
-Other:
--Liquorice  extract  containing  more  than  10%  by  weight  of  sucrose  but  not  containing  other  added
substances
--White chocolate
--Other:
---Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or more
---Throat pastilles and cough drops
---Sugar coated (panned) goods
---Other:
----Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery
----Boiled sweets whether or not filled
----Toffees, caramels and similar sweets
----Other:
-----Compressed tablets
-----Other (excluding products containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar
expressed as sucrose))

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  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
--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

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CN Code
(1)

Ex 1806 20 80
(TARIC code
1806 20 80 10)
Ex 1806 20 95
(TARIC code
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
(TARIC code
1806 90 90 11 and
1806 90 90 91)
1901

1901 10 00
1901 90

1901 90 11
1901 90 19
1902

1902 11 00
1902 20

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

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

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing  cocoa or
containing  less  than  40%  by  weight  of  cocoa  calculated  on  a  totally  defatted  basis,  not  elsewhere
specified or included; food preparations of goods of 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:
-Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale
-Other:
--Malt extract:
---With a dry extract content of 90% or more by weight
---Other
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
-Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
--Other:
---Cooked
---Other
-Couscous:
--Unprepared
--Other
Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or
similar forms

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CN Code
(1)

1904

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

1904 20 10

1904 20 91
1904 20 95
1904 20 99
1904 30 00
1904 90
1904 90 10
1904 90 80
1905

1905 20
1905 20 10
1905 20 30

1905 20 90

1905 32

1905 32 11
1905 32 19

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

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)
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:
-Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:
--Obtained from maize
--Obtained from rice
--Other:
-Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and
roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:
--Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal flakes
--Other:
---Obtained from maize
---Obtained from rice
---Other
-Bulgur wheat
-Other:
--Rice
--Other
Bread,  pastry,  cakes,  biscuits  and  other  bakers'  wares,  whether  or  not  containing  cocoa;  communion
wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar
products:
-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:
--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
-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
Vegetables, fruits, 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 No 2006:
-Potatoes:
--Other
---In the form of flour, meal or flakes
-Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:
--Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)

12

 
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 No 2006:
-Potatoes:
--In the form of flour, meal or flakes
-Sweet corn(Zea mays var. saccharata)
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:
--Ground-nuts:
---Peanut butter
-Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:
--Palm hearts
--Other:
---Not containing added spirit:
----Not containing added sugar:
-----Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)
-----Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5% or more by weight of starch
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 or concentrates:
---With a coffee-based dry matter content of 95% or more by weight
---Other
--Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:
---Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates of coffee
---Other
-Extracts,  essences  and  concentrates,  of  tea  or  maté,  and  preparations  with  a  basis  of  these  extracts,
essences and concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté:
--Extracts, essences or concentrates
--Preparations:
---With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or maté
---Other
-Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:
--Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:
---Roasted chicory
---Other
--Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:
---Of roasted chicory
---Other
Yeasts  (active  or  inactive);  other  single-cell  micro-organisms,  dead  (but  not  including  vaccines  of
heading No 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

13

 
CN Code
(1)

2103

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

2104
2104 20 00
2106
2106 10
2106 10 20

2106 10 80
2106 90
2106 90 20

2106 90 92

2201 10

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

2202 10 00

2202 90
2202 90 10

2205
2205 10
2205 10 10
2205 10 90
2205 90
2205 90 10
2205 90 90
2207

2207 10 00
2207 20 00
2208

2208 20

2208 20 12
2208 20 14
2208 20 26

Description
(2)
Sauces  and  preparations  therefor;  mixed  condiments  and  mixed  seasonings;  mustard  flour  and  meal
and prepared mustard:
-Soya sauce
-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
Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:
-Homogenised composite food preparations
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
-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 No 2009:
-Waters  including  mineral  waters  and  aerated  waters,  containing  added  sugar  or  other  sweetening
matter or flavoured
-Other:
--Not containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of heading Nos
0401 to 0404
Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances:
-In containers holding 2 litres or less:
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol
-Other:
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18% vol or less
--Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18% vol
Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and
other spirits, denatured, of any strength:
-Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol or higher
-Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength
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

14

 
CN Code
(1)
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
2208 60

2208 60 11
2208 60 19

2208 60 91
2208 60 99
2208 70
2208 70 10
2208 70 90

Description
(2)

---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
--Other in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
-Rum and taffia:
--In containers holding 2 litres or less
---Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl and methyl alcohol equal to or exceeding
225 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol (with a 10 % tolerance)
---Other:
----Of a value exceeding 7.9 € per litre of pure alcohol
----Other
--In containers holding more than 2 litres:
---Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl and methyl alcohol equal to or exceeding
225 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol (with a 10 % tolerance)
---Other:
----Of a value exceeding 2 € per litre of pure alcohol
----Other
-Gin and Geneva:
--Gin, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
--Geneva, in containers holding:
---2 litres or less
---More than 2 litres
-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
-Liqueurs and cordials:
--In containers holding 2 litres or less
--In containers holding more than 2 litres

15

 
CN Code
(1)

Description
(2)

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 54
2208 90 56
2208 90 69

2208 90 71
2208 90 75
2208 90 77
2208 90 78

2208 90 91
2208 90 99
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

-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
-------Tequilla
-------Other
-----Other spirituous beverages
---More than 2 litres:
----Spirits (excluding liqueurs):
-----Distilled from fruit
-----Tequilla
-----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
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 type used in the drink industries:
---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterizing a beverage:
----Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0.5%
----Other:
-----Containing no milkfats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose, or starch or containing, by weight, less than
1.5% milkfat, 5%sucrose or isoglucose, 5% glucose or starch
-----Other
Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues:
-Casein:
--For the manufacture of regenerated textile fibres
--For industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs or fodder
--Other
-Other:
--Other

16

 
CN Code
(1)

3823

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

Description
(2)

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

17

 
ANNEX II

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

Order-
numbers
(1)
09.1452

ex 1901

CN Code

(2)

1901 20 00

09.1453

ex 1902

09.1454

1902 19
1902 19 10
1902 19 90
1902 30 10
ex 1905

1905 10 00
1905 31

1905 31 11
1905 31 19

1905 31 30

1905 31 91
1905 31 99

Duty free
quota
(4)
1,000 t

1,800 t

5,000 t

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:
-Mixes  and  doughs  for  the  preparation  of  bakers'  wares  of
heading No 1905
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:
--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:
-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:
----Containing 8% or more by weight of milk fats
----Other:
-----Sandwich biscuits
-----Other

18

 
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

1905 90 60
ex 2104

2104 10
2104 10 10
2104 10 90
2105 00

2105 00 10

2105 00 91
2105 00 99
2106 90 98
ex 2202

2202 90
2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99

09.1455

09.1456

09.1457
09.1458

--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:
----With added sweetening matter
Soups  and  broths  and  preparations  therefore;  homogenised
composite food preparations:
-Soups and broths and preparation therefore:
--Dried
--Other
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
Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
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:
-Other:
---Less than 0.2%
---0.2% or more but less than 2%
---2% or more

2,000 t

800 t

6,500 t
12,000
hectolitres

19

 
ANNEX III

REDUCTION OF 15 % ON EXISTING IMPORT LEVY RATE APPLICABLE IN JULY
2003 ON IMPORTS INTO MALTA OF IDENTIFIED PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN
THE EUROPEAN UNION

CN Code

 CN Product Description

(1)
ex 1901

1901 20 00

ex 1902

1902 19
1902 19 10
1902 30 10
1902 19 90
ex 1905

1905 10 00
1905 31

1905 31 11
1905 31 19

1905 31 30

1905 31 91
1905 31 99
1905 32
1905 32 99
1905 90 30

(2)
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:

-Mixes  and  doughs  for  the  preparation  of  bakers'  wares  of  heading
No 1905
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:
--Other:
---Containing no common wheat flour or meal
--- Cooked dried pasta, not staffed
---Other
Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not
containing  cocoa;  communion  wafers,  empty  cachets  of  a  kind
suitable  for  pharmaceutical  use,  sealing  wafers,  rice  paper  and
similar products:

-Crispbread
--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:
----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

Import Levy
Rate

15%
Reduction
on Levy
Rate

(5)

(6)

H.S. Code as
per Maltese
Legislation

(3)

H.S.
Product
Description
as per
Maltese
Legislation
(4)
Mixes 
doughs 
the
preparation
bakers’
of 
wares 
of
heading  no.
1905

and
for

1901.20.00.00

76c per kg

65c per kg

Uncooked
pasta, 
stuffed 
otherwise
prepared

not
or

1902.19.10.00

1902.19.90.00

36c per kg
0
36c per kg

31c per kg

31c per kg

Pastry;
cakes;
biscuits  and
other
bakers’
wares

0

1905.31.11.00
1905.31.19.00

76c per kg
76c per kg

65c per kg
65c per kg

1905.31.30.00

76c per kg

65c per kg

1905.31.91.00
1905.31.99.00

76c per kg
76c per kg

65c per kg
65c per kg

1905.32.99.00
1905.90.30.00 Bread

76c per kg
7c2 per kg but
not less than
1c3 per unit

65c per kg
6c1 per kg
but not
less than
1c1 per
unit

20

 
CN Code

(1)

1905 90 40

1905 90 45
1905 90 55

1905 90 60
ex 2104

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

 CN Product Description

H.S. Code as
per Maltese
Legislation

H.S.
Product
Description
as per
Maltese
Legislation
(4)
---Waffles and wafers with a water content exceeding 10% by weight 1905.90.40.90 Pastry;
cakes;
biscuits  and
other
bakers’
wares

(3)

(2)

Import Levy
Rate

15%
Reduction
on Levy
Rate

(5)
76c per kg

(6)
65c per kg

---Biscuits
---Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
---Other:
----With added sweetening matter
Soups and broths and preparations therefore; homogenised composite
food preparations:

-Soups and broths and preparation therefore:
--Dried
--Other
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

2105 00 91

-Containing by weight of milk fats:
--3% or more but less than 7%

2105 00 99

--7% or more

1905.90.45.00
1905.90.55.00

76c per kg
76c per kg

65c per kg
65c per kg

1905.90.60.90

76c per kg

65c per kg

Meat,
chicken  or
fish cubes

2104.10.10.10
2104.10.90.10

108c per kg
108c per kg

92c per kg
92c per kg

Ice-creams

2105.00.10.11

56c per kg

48c per kg

2105.00.10.19

56c per kg

48c per kg

2105.00.91.11
2105.00.91.19
2105.00.99.11
2105.00.99.19

56c per kg
56c per kg
56c per kg
56c per kg

48c per kg
48c per kg
48c per kg
48c per kg

2106
Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:
ex 2106 90 98 --- Jelly pots containing less than 30 % sugar and not containing milk

2106.90.98.10 Jellies

fat, milk proteins or starches
--  Other  food  preparations  containing  any  percentage  by  weight  of
sucrose in packings not > 1kg

0

0

31c per
litre

2106.90.98.91 Food

36c per litre

preparations
,  other  than
in 
powder
form,
containing
any  amount
of 
any
product
falling under
H.S. 0403

--- Instant Flavoured Drinks

2106.90.98.42 Fruit

0

0

flavoured
squashes

21

 
CN Code

 CN Product Description

H.S. Code as
per Maltese
Legislation

(1)

(2)

(3)

H.S.
Product
Description
as per
Maltese
Legislation
(4)

2106.90.98.46 Concentrate
and

s 
syrups,
intended  for
instant
the 
production
of  beverages
in 
catering
establishme
nts

Import Levy
Rate

15%
Reduction
on Levy
Rate

(5)
0

(6)

--- Custard and Blancmange powder

2106.90.98.20 Cream

37c per kg

31c per kg

--- Crème Caramel
--- Other

2106.90.98.30 Dairy spread

0
20c per kg

17c per kg

or

powder 
custard
powder

and/or
sandwich
spread

ex 2202

2202 90
2202 90 91

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:
-Other:
---Less than 0.2%

36c per litre

31c per
litre

2202.90.91.12 Foods 

in
liquid  form,
containing
products  or
fat  obtained
from
products  of
H.S.  Code
0401 to H.S.
Code  0404,
other 
than
foods
intended  for
enteral
nutrition  or
for 
other
clinical
condition
and 
so
indicated  on
the
packaging,
beverages
with  a  basis
tea,
of 
coffee 
or
mate

2202 90 95

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

2202.90.91.90

2202.90.95.19

2202.90.95.90

36c per litre

36c per litre

36c per litre

31c per
litre
31c per
litre
31c per
litre

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CN Code

 CN Product Description

(1)

2202 90 99

---2% or more

(2)

H.S. Code as
per Maltese
Legislation

(3)
2202.90.99.19

H.S.
Product
Description
as per
Maltese
Legislation
(4)

Import Levy
Rate

15%
Reduction
on Levy
Rate

(5)
36c per litre

(6)
31c per
litre
34c per
litre

2202.90.99.90 Non-

40c per litre

alcoholic
beverages
with  a  basis
milk,
of 
other 
than
those
prepared  for
infant use

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2.

3.

4.

5.

5.0

5.1

6.0

6.1

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

ENTR F 4

DATE: 4.12.2003
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 Agreement
between the European Economic Community and Malta, concerning the improvements of the trade
arrangements for processed agricultural products provided for in the Association Agreement
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)
+ 1,5 M €

CURRENT
FINANCIAL
YEAR
2003
(EUR million)
+ 0,5 M €

FOLLOWING
FINANCIAL
YEAR
2004
(EUR million)
+ 0,5 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:

- 0,19 M €

- 0,06 M €

- 0,06 M €

n+2

n+3

n+4

n+5

These financial implications have already been considered when the autonomous measures
(Reg. (EC) No. 1890/2003 (OJ L 278, 29.10.2003, p.1)) 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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