2008/625/EC: Decision No 1/2007 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of 25 June 2007 amending the trade concessions for processed agricultural products covered by Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council on implementing the final phase of the Customs Union and by Decision No 1/97 on the arrangements applicable to certain processed agricultural products and repealing Decision No 1/97
Date: 2008-07-25
Institutions: EC–Turkey Association Council
Subjects: Türkiye, agricultural product, import, industrial product, originating product, tariff exemption, tariff quota

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DECISIONS

COUNCIL

DECISION No 1/2007 OF THE EC-TURKEY ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

of 25 June 2007

amending the trade concessions for processed agricultural products covered by Decision No 1/95 of
the EC-Turkey Association Council on implementing the final phase of the Customs Union and by
Decision No 1/97 on the arrangements applicable to certain processed agricultural products and
repealing Decision No 1/97

(2008/625/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Having regard to the Agreement establishing an association
between the European Economic Community and Turkey (1)
and in particular Article 22(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Section V of Chapter I of Decision No 1/95 of the EC-
Turkey Association Council of 22 December 1995 on
implementing the final phase of the Customs Union (2)
establishes the trade arrangements for processed agri­
cultural products.

Decision No 1/97 of the EC-Turkey Association Council
of 29 April 1997 on the arrangements applicable to
certain processed agricultural products (3)
establishes
annual quotas in respect of certain goods.

New trade improvements have recently been negotiated
which aim to deepen and widen the customs union and
to improve economic convergence as a result of
the
enlargement of the Community on 1 May 2004. These
improvements include concessions in the form of duty
free tariff quotas (in particular for the goods covered by
Decision No 1/97). That Decision should therefore be
repealed.

(4)

For imports outside of
trade
provisions set out in Decision 1/95 of the EC-Turkey
Association Council should continue to apply,

the quotas the current

(1) OJ 217, 29.12.1964, p. 3687/64.
(2) OJ L 35, 13.2.1996, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 126, 17.5.1997, p. 26.

Article 1

The tariff quotas set out in Annex I and in Annex II shall be
opened from 1 January 2007 and from 1 January to 31
the following years under the conditions laid
December of
down therein.

Article 2

Section V of Chapter I of Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey
to apply to imports
Association Council
exceeding the duty free tariff quotas set out in Annex I and
in Annex II.

continue

shall

Article 3

Decision No 1/97 of the EC Turkey Association Council shall
be repealed.

Article 4

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

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It shall apply as from 1 January 2007.

Done at Brussels, 25 June 2007.

For the Association Council
The President

A. GÜL

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ANNEX I

Duty-free tariff quotas applicable upon imports into the EU of processed agricultural products from Turkey

CN code

(1)

Product description

(2)

1704

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

1704 10

– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 11

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 19

– – – Other

– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose):

Annual duty-free
tariff quota
(in tonnes net
weight)

(3)

5 000

1704 10 91

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 99

– – – Other

1704 90

– Other:

1704 90 30

– – White chocolate

– – Other:

1704 90 51

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

more

1704 90 55

– – – Throat pastilles and cough drops

1704 90 61

– – – Sugar-coated (panned) goods

– – – Other:

10 000 (1)

1704 90 65

– – – – Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery, including fruit pastes in the form

of sugar confectionery

1704 90 71

– – – – Boiled sweets whether or not filled

1704 90 75

– – – – Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

– – – – Other:

1704 90 81

– – – – – Compressed tablets

1704 90 99

– – – – – Other

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10

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

1806 10 20

– – Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including

invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

5 000 (2)

1806 20

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

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(3)

1806 20 10

– – Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined

weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milkfat

1806 20 30

– – Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa

butter and milkfat

– – Other:

1806 20 50

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

1806 20 70

– – – Chocolate milk crumb

1806 20 80

– – – Chocolate flavour coating

1806 20 95

– – – Other

– Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00

– – Filled

1806 32

– – Not filled

1806 32 10

– – – With added cereal, fruit or nuts

1806 32 90

– – – Other

1806 90

– Other:

– – Chocolate and chocolate products:

– – – Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled:

1806 90 11

– – – – Containing alcohol

1806 90 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

1806 90 31

– – – – Filled

1806 90 39

– – – – Not filled

1806 90 50

– – Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefore made from sugar substitution

products, containing cocoa

1806 90 60

– – Spreads containing cocoa

1806 90 70

– – Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages

1806 90 90

– – Other

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not
containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a
totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of
goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than
5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere
specified or included:

1901 20 00

– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers’ wares of heading 1905

1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or
otherwise prepared,
lasagne, gnocchi,
ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:

spaghetti, macaroni, noodles,

such as

– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:

900

20 000

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(3)

1902 11 00

– – Containing eggs

1902 19

– – Other:

1902 19 10

– – – Containing no common wheat flour or meal

1902 19 90

– – – Other

1902 20

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

– – Other:

1902 20 91

– – – Cooked

1902 20 99

– – – Other

1902 30

– Other pasta:

1902 30 10

– – Dried

1902 30 90

– – Other

1902 40

– Couscous:

1902 40 10

– – Unprepared

1902 40 90

– – Other

1904

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

1904 10

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

500

1904 10 10

– – Obtained from maize

1904 10 30

– – Obtained from rice

1904 10 90

– – Other

1904 20

– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal

flakes or from mixtures of

unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

1904 20 10

– – Preparation of the muesli-type based on unroasted cereal flakes

– – Other:

1904 20 91

– – – Obtained from maize

1904 20 95

– – – Obtained from rice

1904 20 99

– – – Other

1904 30 00

– Bulgur wheat

1904 90

– Other:

1904 90 10

– – Rice

1904 90 80

– – Other

1905

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers’ wares, whether or not containing
cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical
use, sealing wafers, ricepaper and similar products:

– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

100

10 000

2 500

10 000

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– – Sweet biscuits:

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(3)

– – – Completely or partially coated or

covered with chocolate or other

preparations containing cocoa:

1905 31 11

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

1905 31 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

1905 31 30

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

– – – – Other:

1905 31 91

– – – – – Sandwich biscuits

1905 31 99

– – – – – Other

1905 32

– – Waffles and wafers:

1905 32 05

– – – With a water content exceeding 10 % by weight

– – – Other

– – – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other

preparations containing cocoa:

1905 32 11

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

1905 32 19

– – – – – Other

– – – – Other:

1905 32 91

– – – – – Salted, whether or not filled

1905 32 99

– – – – – Other

1905 40

– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:

1905 40 10

– – Rusks

1905 40 90

– – Other

1905 90

– Other:

1905 90 10

– – Matzos

3 000

120

1905 90 20

– – Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use,

sealing wafers, ricepaper and similar products

– – Other:

1905 90 30

– – – Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by
weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not more
than 5 % of fat

10 000

1905 90 45

– – – Biscuits

1905 90 55

– – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted

– – – Other:

1905 90 60

– – – – With added sweetening matter

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(3)

2105 00

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

2105 00 10

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

– Containing by weight of milk fats:

3 000 (3)

2105 00 91

– – 3 % or more but less than 7 %

2105 00 99

– – 7 % or more

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10

– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:

2106 10 80

– – Other

2106 90

– Other:

2106 90 98

– – – Other

4 000

(1) Products, which are excluded from the duty-free quota: 1704 90 99 9080, but including Halva and Lokoum.
(2) Products, which are excluded from the duty-free quota: 1806 20 80 9080, 1806 20 95 9080, 1806 90 90 1980, 1806 90 90 9980.
(3) Application delayed till the problems regarding imports into EU of milk and milk products originating in Turkey will be solved.

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Duty-free tariff quotas applicable upon imports into Turkey of processed agricultural products from the EU

CN code

(1)

Product description

(2)

1704

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

1704 10

– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 11

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 19

– – – Other

– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose):

Annual duty-free
tariff quota
(in tonnes net
weight)

(3)

1 000

1704 10 91

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 99

– – – Other

1704 90

– Other:

1704 90 30

– – – White chocolate

– – Other:

1704 90 51

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

more

1704 90 55

– – – Throat pastilles and cough drops

1704 90 61

– – – Sugar-coated (panned) goods

– – – Other:

2 500

1704 90 65

– – – – Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery, including fruit pastes in the form

of sugar confectionery

1704 90 71

– – – – Boiled sweets whether or not filled

1704 90 75

– – – – Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

– – – Other:

1704 90 81

– – – – – Compressed tablets

1704 90 99

– – – – – Other

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10

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

1806 10 20

– – Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including

7 000

invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 10 30

– – Containing 65 % or more but less than 80 % by weight of sucrose (including

invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

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(3)

1806 10 90

– – Containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 20

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

1806 20 10

– – Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined

weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milk fat

1806 20 30

– – Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa

butter and milk fat

– – Other:

1806 20 50

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

1806 20 70

– – – Chocolate milk crumb

1806 20 80

– – – Chocolate flavour coating

1806 20 95

– – – Other

– Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00

– – Filled

1806 32

– – Not filled

1806 32 10

– – – With added cereal, fruit or nuts

1806 32 90

– – – Other

1806 90

– Other:

– – Chocolate and chocolate products:

– – – Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled:

1806 90 11

– – – – Containing alcohol

1806 90 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

1806 90 31

– – – – Filled

1806 90 39

– – – – Not filled

1806 90 50

– – Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution

products, containing cocoa

1806 90 60

– – Spreads containing cocoa

1806 90 70

– – Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages

1806 90 90

– – Other

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not
containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a
totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of
goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than
5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere
specified or included:

500

1901 10 00

– Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 20

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

300

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– Other:

– – Malt extract:

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1901 90 11

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

2 000

1901 90 19

– – – Other

– – Other:

1901 90 99

– – – Other

1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or
otherwise prepared,
lasagne, gnocchi,
ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:

spaghetti, macaroni, noodles,

such as

– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:

1902 11 00

– – Containing eggs

1902 19

– – Other:

1902 19 10

– – – Containing no common wheat flour or meal

1902 19 90

– – – Other

1902 20

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

– – Other:

1902 20 91

– – – Cooked

1902 20 99

– – – Other

1902 30

– Other pasta:

1902 30 10

– – Dried

1902 30 90

– – Other

1902 40

– Couscous:

1902 40 10

– – Unprepared

1902 40 90

– – Other

1904

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

1904 10

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

1904 10 10

– – Obtained from maize

1904 10 30

– – Obtained from rice

1904 10 90

– – Other

1904 20

– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal

flakes or from mixtures of

unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

1904 20 10

– – Preparation of the muesli-type based on unroasted cereal flakes

– – Other:

1904 20 91

– – – Obtained from maize

20 000

5 000

500

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1904 20 95

– – – Obtained from rice

1904 20 99

– – – Other

1904 90

– Other:

1904 90 10

– – Rice

1904 90 80

– – Other

(2)

(3)

300

1905

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing
cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical
use, sealing wafers, ricepaper and similar products:

– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

1905 31

– – Sweet biscuits:

– – – Completely or partially coated or

covered with chocolate or other

preparations containing cocoa:

1905 31 11

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

1 000

1905 31 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

1905 31 30

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

– – – – Other:

1905 31 91

– – – – – Sandwich biscuits

1905 31 99

– – – – – Other

1905 32

– – Waffles and wafers:

1905 32 05

– – – With a water content exceeding 10 % by weight

– – – Other

– – – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other

preparations containing cocoa:

1905 32 11

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

600

1905 32 19

– – – – – Other

– – – – Other:

1905 32 91

– – – – – Salted, whether or not filled

1905 32 99

– – – – – Other

1905 40

– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:

1905 40 10

– – Rusks

1905 40 90

– – Other

1905 90

– Other:

1905 90 10

– – Matzos

200

1 500

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1905 90 20

– – Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use,

sealing wafers, ricepaper and similar products

– – Other:

1905 90 30

– – – Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by
weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not more
than 5 % of fat

1905 90 45

– – – Biscuits

1905 90 55

– – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted

– – – Other:

1905 90 60

– – – – With added sweetening matter

1905 90 90

– – – – Other

2105 00

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

2105 00 10

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

– Containing by weight of milk fats:

3 000 (1)

2105 00 91

– – 3 % or more but less than 7 %

2105 00 99

– – 7 % or more

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10

– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:

2106 10 80

– – Other

2106 90

– Other:

2106 90 98

– – – Other

4 000

(1) Application delayed until the problems regarding imports into EU of milk and milk products originating in Turkey are solved.