Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union
Date: 2018-01-31
Institutions: Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
Subjects: Combined Nomenclature, animal nutrition, common customs tariff








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31.1.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 34/26





Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union
(2018/C 34/09)
By notice published in the Official Journal C 180 of 8 June 2017 the explanatory note to heading ‘2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding’ was replaced by a new text. That text was not wholly accurate and must itself be replaced; it should not be relied on.
Pursuant to Article 9(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (1), the Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union (2) are hereby amended as follows:

On page 106, the explanatory note to heading ‘2309 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding’, as amended
 (3), is replaced by the following text:








‘2309




Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

See note 1 to this chapter.
As regards milk products, see additional note 4 to this chapter.
The content of milk products, the content of starch and the content of glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrin and maltodextrin syrup are regardless of their source calculated on the product as received.
As regards starch, the following applies:






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Where it is not evident whether any starch is present, a qualitative microscopic method or a qualitative colouration test with iodine solution may be used to verify the presence of starch.










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For the determination of starch content, the polarimetric method (also called the modified Ewers method) laid down in Annex III, part L, to Commission Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 (OJ L 54, 26.2.2009, p. 1) is to be applied.
Where the polarimetric method is not applicable, e. g. due to presence in significant amounts of materials such as those listed hereafter, the enzymatic analytical method for the determination of the starch content laid down in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 121/2008 (OJ L 37, 12.2.2008, p. 3) is to be applied.
The following specific materials are known to give rise to interferences by applying the polarimetric method:






(a)


(sugar) beet products such as (sugar) beet pulp, (sugar) beet molasses, (sugar) beet pulp-molassed, (sugar) beet vinasse, (beet) sugar;










(b)


citrus pulp;










(c)


linseed; linseed expeller; linseed extracted;










(d)


rape seed; rape seed expeller; rape seed extracted; rape-seed hulls;










(e)


sunflower seed; sunflower seed extracted; sunflower seed, partially decorticated, extracted;










(f)


copra expeller; copra extracted;










(g)


potato pulp;










(h)


dehydrated yeast;










(i)


products rich in inulin (for example, chips and meal of Jerusalem artichokes);










(j)


greaves;










(k)


soya products.














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Products with a content lower than 0,5 % by weight of starch should not be considered as containing starch.




As regards glucose, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) may be used for the determination of glucose (Commission Regulation (EC) No 904/2008 (OJ L 249, 18.9.2008, p. 9)).’







(1)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1).

(2)  OJ C 76, 4.3.2015, p. 1.

(3)  OJ C 180, 8.6.2017, p. 35.