Council Regulation (EC) No 602/98 of 9 March 1998 extending the coverage of Regulations (EC) No 3281/94 and No 1256/96 concerning Community schemes of generalised tariff preferences for the benefit of the least-developed countries
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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 3281/94 of 19 December 1994 applying a four-year scheme of generalised tariff preferences (1995 to 1998) in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries provides for more favourable tariff treatment for the least-developed countries;
Whereas Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1256/96 of 20 June 1996 applying multiannual schemes of generalised tariff preferences from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1999 in respect of certain agricultural products originating in developing countries likewise provides for more favourable tariff treatment for the least-developed countries;
Whereas at the Singapore ministerial conference in December 1996 the World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries pledged to carry out an action plan to improve access to their markets for products originating in the least-developed countries;
Whereas on 2 June 1997 the Council, on the basis of a Commission communication of 16 April 1997, adopted conclusions calling for the implementation of the Singapore conclusions in particular by granting least-developed countries not party to the Fourth ACP-EC Convention preferences equivalent to those enjoyed by signatories to that Convention;
Whereas equivalent treatment for industrial products means including the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme all products currently excluded from it but exempt from customs duties under the Fourth ACP-EC Convention;
Whereas agricultural products subject under the Fourth ACP-EC Convention to a tariff reduction but not to a tariff quota should be included in the scheme for the benefit of least-developed countries by applying one of the preferential rates of duty provided for in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1256/96, in line with the reduction accorded by the Fourth ACP-EC Convention,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Access to the arrangements provided for in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 3281/94 is hereby extended to the products listed in Annex I to this Regulation.
Article 2
The arrangements laid down in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1256/96 shall be supplemented by applying to the products listed in Annex II to this Regulation one of the preferential rates of duty specified in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1256/96, according to product sensitivity.
Article 3
The list of least-developed countries in Annex IV to Regulations (EC) Nos 3281/94 and 1256/96 is hereby amended as follows:
in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 3281/94, 330 Angola shall be inserted after 328 Burundi and 391 Botswana and 817 Tonga shall be deleted,
in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1256/96, 391 Botswana and 817 Tonga shall be deleted.
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 January 1998.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 9 March 1998. For the Council The President G. Brown
ANNEX
ANNEX I LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1 —————————
CN code Description (1) (2) Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water: 25010031 for chemical transformation (separation of Na from Cl) for the manufacture of other products, 25010051 denatured or for industrial uses (including refining) other than the preservation or preparation of foodstuffs for human or animal consumption, 25010091 salt suitable for human consumption, 25010099 other 25030090 Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur, except crude or unrefined sulphur 25161210 Granite merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape, of a thickness not exceeding 25 cm 25162210 Sandstone merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (incuding square) shape, of a thickness not exceeding 25 cm 25169010 Porphyry, syenite, lava, basalt, gneiss, trachyte and other similar hard rocks, merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape, of a thickness not exceeding 25 cm 25182000 Calcined dolomite 25183000 Agglomerated dolomite, including tarred dolomite 25304000 Natural micaceous iron oxides 28046100 28046900 Silicon 28051100 28051900 Alkali metals 28052100 28052200 Alkaline-earth metals 280530 Rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not intermixed or interalloyed 28054010 Mercury in flasks of a net content of 34,5 kg (standard weight), of a fob value per flask not exceeding ECU 224 28182000 Aluminium oxide other than artificial corundum 28183000 Aluminium hydroxide ex28443011 Crude cermets, waste and scrap of uranium depleted in U 235 28443019 Uranium depleted in U 235; alloys, dispersions, ceramic products and mixtures, containing uranium depleted in U 235 or compounds of this product (excluding cermets) ex28443051 Crude cermets, waste and scrap of thorium 28451000 Heavy water (deuterium oxide) 28459010 Deuterium and compounds thereof; hydrogen and compounds thereof, enriched in deuterium; mixtures and solutions containing these products 29054300 Mannitol 290544 D-glucitol (sorbitol) 32012000 Wattle extract 32019020 Sumach, valonea, oak or chestnut extract ex32019090 Tanning extracts of eucalyptus ex32019090 Tanning extracts derived from gambier and myrobalan fruits ex32019090 Other tanning extracts of vegetable origin 35021190 Egg albumin, dried (e.g. in sheets, scales, flakes, powder) 35021990 Other (egg albumin) 35022091 Milk albumin (lactalbumin), dried (e.g. in sheets, scales, flakes, powder) 35022099 Other (milk albumin) 35029070 Other albumins 35051010 Dextrins 35051090 Other modified starches, other than esterified or etherified 350520 Glues 380910 Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations, of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included; with a basis of amylaceous substances 382460 Sorbitol other than that of subheading 290544 41041091 Other skin leather, not further prepared than tanned 41051191 Other skin leather, not split 41051199 Other skin leather, split 410512 Sheep or lamb skin leather, without wool on, other than leather of heading No 4108 or 4109, tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split, otherwise pre-tanned 410519 Other sheep or lamb skin leather, without wool on 41061190 Other goat or kid skin leather, without hair on, other than leather of heading No 4108 or 4109, tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split, vegetable pre-tanned, other than of Indian goat or kid 41061200 Other goat or kid skin leather, without hair on, other than leather of heading No 4108 or 4109, tanned or retanned but not further prepared, whether or not split, otherwise pre-tanned 41061900 Other goat or kid skin leather, without hair on 41071010 Leather of swine, without hair on, other than leather of heading No 4108 or 4109, not further prepared than tanned 41072910 Reptile skin leather, other than vegetable pre-tanned, not further prepared than tanned 41079010 Leather of other animals, without hair on, not further than tanned 44031010 Poles of coniferous wood, injected or otherwise impregnated to any degree, not less than 6 m or more than 18 m in length and with a circumference at the butt end of more than 45 cm but not more than 90 cm 4501 Natural cork, raw or simply prepared; waste cork; crushed, granulated or ground cork 50010000 Silkworm cocoons suitable for reeling 50020000 Raw silk (not thrown) 5105 Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed (including combed wool in fragments) 52030000 Cotton, carded or combed Non-alloy pig iron containing by weight 0,5 % or less of phosphorus 72011011 containing by weight not less than 0,4 % of manganese and 1 % or less of silicon (ECSC) 72011019 containing by weight not less than 0,4 % of manganese and more than 1 % of silicon (ECSC) 72011030 containing by weight not less than 0,1 % but less than 0,4 % of manganese 72012000 Non-alloy pig iron containing by weight more than 0,5 % of phosphorus 72015090 Alloy pig iron; spiegeleisen: other than containing by weight not less than 0,3 % but not more than 1 % of titanium and not less than 0,5 % but not more than 1 % of vanadium 7203 Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore and other spongy ferrous products, in lumps, pellets or similar forms; iron having a minimum purity by weight of 99,94 %, in lumps, pellets or similar forms 72045090 Remelting scrap ingots, other than of alloy steel 7206 Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms, excluding iron of heading No 7203 72181000 Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms (ECSC) 72241000 Other alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (ECSC) 7601 Unwrought aluminium: not alloyed 76020019 Other aluminium waste and scrap (including factory rejects) Unwrought lead: 78011000 Refined lead 78019100 Lead, other than refined, containing by weight antimony as the principal other element 78019991 Lead alloys 78019999 Other 7901 Unwrought zinc 7903 Zinc dust, powders and flakes 81011000 Tungsten powders 810191 Unwrought tungsten, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering, wate and seval 81021000 Molybdenum powders 810291 Unwrought molybdenum, including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering; waste and scrap 810310 Unwrought tantalum including bars and rods obtained simply by sintering; waste and scrap, powders 81041100 Unwrought magnesium, containing at least 99,8 % by weight of magnesium 81041900 Other 810710 Unwrought cadmium; waste and scrap; powders 810810 Unwrought titanium; waste and scrap; powders 810910 Unwrought zirconium; waste and scrap; powders 81100011 Unwrought antimony; powders 81100019 Waste and scrap 81110011 Unwrought manganese; powders 81110019 Waste and scrap 81122031 Unwrought chromium; powders other than chromium alloys containing more than 10% by weight of nickel 81122039 Waste and scrap 81123020 Unwrought germanium; powders 81123040 Waste and scrap 81124011 Unwrought vanadium; powders 81124019 Waste and scrap 81129110 Hafnium (celtium) 81129131 Unwrought niobium (columbium), unwrought rhenium; powders 81129139 Waste and scrap 81129150 Waste and scrap 81129181 Indium 81129189 Gallium, thallium Cermets: 81130020 unwrought cermets 81130040 waste and scrap
ANNEX II PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2 Very sensitive products Sensitive products Semi-sensitive products Non-sensitive products
CN code Decription Live swine: – Other: – – Weighing less than 50 kg: 01039110 – – – Domestic species – – Weighing 50 kg or more: – – – Domestic species: 01039211 – – – – Sows having farrowed at least once, of a weight of not less than 160 kg 01039219 – – – – Other 0105 Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked: 02090090 – Poultry fat Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal: – Other, including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal: – – Offal: – – – Other: – – – – Poultry liver: 02109071 – – – – – Fatty livers of geese or ducks, salted or in brine 02109079 – – – – – Other Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: 040110 – Of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1 % 040120 – Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1 % but not exceeding 6 % 040130 – Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 6 % 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: 04031011 04031013 04031019 04031031 04031033 04031039 – – Not flavoured nor containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa – Other: – – Not flavoured nor containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa: 04039011 04039013 04039019 04039031 04039033 04039039 – – – In powder, granules or other solid forms 04039051 04039053 04039059 04039061 04039063 04039069 – – – Other 0404 Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, not elsewhere specified or included Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads: 040510 – Butter – Dairy spreads: 04052090 – – Of a fat content, by weight, of more than 75 % but less than 80 % 040590 – Other Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked: – Of poultry: 04070011 04070019 – – For hatching 04070030 – – Other Birds' eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other – Egg yolks: – – Dried: 04081180 – – – Other – – Other: – – – Other: 04081981 – – – – Liquid 04081989 – – – – Other, including frozen – Other: – – Dried: 04089180 – – – Other – – Other: 04089980 – – – Other Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other vegetables, fresh or chilled: ex07032000 – Garlic The reduction is applicable from 1 June to 31 January Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled: ex07070005 – Cucumbers with a length of more than 15 cm The reduction is applicable from 1 November to 15 May 07070090 – Gherkins Other vegetables, fresh or chilled: ex07091000 – Globe artichokes The reduction is applicable from 1 January to 30 June – Mushrooms and truffles: 07095200 – – Truffles Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh: ex08091000 – Apricots The reduction is applicable from 1 June to 31 July ex080930 – Peaches, including nectarines: The reduction is applicable from 11 June to 30 September – Plums and sloes: ex08094005 – – Plums The reduction is applicable from 11 June to 30 September Wheat or meslin flour: – Wheat flour: 11010011 – – Of durum wheat 11010015 – – Of common wheat and spelt 11010090 – Meslin flour Cereal groats, meal and pellets: 11021000 – Rye flour Cereal groats, meal and pellets: – Groats and meal: 110311 – – Of wheat – Pellets: 11032100 – – Of wheat Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included: – Other: 121291 – – Sugar beet 12129200 – – Sugar cane Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading No 0209 or 1503: – Pig fat (including lard): 15010019 – – Other Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood: – Homogenized preparations: ex16021000 – – Of swine, of bovine animals, of sheep and goats – Of liver of any animal: – – Other ex16022090 – – – Of swine, of bovine animals, of sheep and goats – Of swine: – – Ham and cuts thereof: 16024110 – – – Of domestic swine – – Shoulders and cuts thereof: 16024210 – – – Of domestic swine – – Other including mixtures: 16024911 16024913 16024915 16024919 16024930 16024950 – – – Of domestic swine – Other, including preparations of blood of any animal: – – Preparations of blood of any animal: ex16029010 – – – Preparations of blood of bovine animals and of swine – – Other: – – – Other: 16029051 – – – – Containing meat or meat offal of domestic swine 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: 17021100 17021900 – Lactose and lactose syrup – Maple sugar and maple syrup: 17022010 – – Maple sugar in solid form, containing added flavouring or colouring matter 17022090 – – Other – Glucose and glucose syrup, not containing fructose or containing in the dry state less than 20 % by weight of fructose: 17023010 – – Isoglucose – Glucose and glucose syrup, containing in the dry state at least 20 % but less than 50 % by weight of fructose: 17024010 – – Isoglucose 170260 – Other fructose and fructose syrup, containing in the dry state more than 50 % by weight of fructose: – Other, including invert sugar: 17029030 – – Isoglucose 17029060 – – Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey – – Caramel: 17029071 – – – Containing 50 % or more by weight of sucrose in the dry matter – – – Other: 17029075 – – – – In the form of powder, whether or not agglomerated 17029080 – – Inulin syrup 17029099 – – Other Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included: – Other: – – Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups: 21069030 – – – Isoglucose syrups – – – Other: 21069051 – – – – Lactose syrup 21069059 – – – – Other: Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding: – Dog or cat food, put up for retail sale: – – Containing starch, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup falling within subheadings 17023051 to 17023099, 17024090, 17029050 and 21069055 or milk products: – – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup: – – – – Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch: 23091015 – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % but less than 75 % by weight of milk products 23091019 – – – – – Containing not less than 75 % by weight of milk products – – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 30 % by weight of starch: 23091039 – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products – – – – Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch: 23091059 – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products 23091070 – – – Containing no starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup but containing milk products: – Other: – – Other: – – – Containing starch, glucose glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup falling within subheadings 17023051 to 17023099, 17024090, 17029050 and 21069055, or milk products: – – – – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine syrup: – – – – – Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch: 23099035 – – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % but less than 75 % by weight of milk products 23099039 – – – – – – Containing not less than 75 % by weight of milk products – – – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 30 % by weight of starch: 23099049 – – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products – – – – – Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch: 23099059 – – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products 23099070 – – – – Containing no starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup but containin milk products CN code Description Live bovine animals: 010290 – Other 0201 Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled: 0202 Meat of bovine animals, frozen Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal: 021020 – Meat of bovine animals: Starches; inulin: 11081400 – – Manioc (cassava) starch – – Other starches: – – – Other: ex11081990 – – – – Other than starches of arrowroot 11090000 Wheat gluten, whether or not dried 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: – Other, including invert sugar: – – Caramel: – – – Other: 17029079 – – – – Other Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included: – Other: – – Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups: – – – Other: 21069055 – – – – Glucose syrup and maltodextrine syrup Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues, beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets: – Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues: – – Residues from the manufacture of starch from maize (excluding concentrated steeping liquors), of a protein content, calculated on the dry product: 23031011 – – – Exceeding 40 % by weight Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding: – Other: – – Other: – – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup falling within subheadings 17023051 to 17023099, 17024090, 17029050 and 21069055 or milk products: – – – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup: – – – – – Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch: 23099031 – – – – – – Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of such products CN code Description Citrus fruit, fresh or dried: 080510 – Oranges ex080520 – Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and similar citrus hybrids The reduction is applicable from 1 November to the end of February CN code Description Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen: 02041000 – Carcases and half-carcases of lamb, fresh or chilled 02042100 020422 02042300 – Other meat of sheep, fresh or chilled 02043000 – Carcases and half-carcases of lamb, frozen 02044100 020442 020443 – Other meat of sheep, frozen 020450 – Meat of goats Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen: – Of bovine animals, fresh or chilled: – – Other: 02061095 – – – Thick skirt and thin skirt – Of bovine animals, frozen: – – Other: – – – Other: 02062991 – – – – Thick skirt and thin skirt Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen: – Other: 02089050 – – Whale and seal meat Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal: – Meat of swine: – – Bellies (streaky) and cuts thereof: 02101290 – – – Other – Other including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal: – – Offal: – – – Of bovine animals: 02109041 – – – – Thick skirt and thin skirt 02109090 – – Edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled: ex07032000 – Garlic The reduction is applicable from 1 February to 31 May Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled: ex07070005 – Cucumbers with a length not exceeding 15 cm The reduction is applicable from 1 November to 15 May Other vegetables, fresh or chilled: ex07091000 – Globe artichokes The reduction is applicable from 1 November to 31 December Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith: – Manioc (cassava): – – Other: 07141091 – – – Of a kind used for human consumption, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 28 kg, either fresh and whole or without skin and frozen, whether or not sliced – Other: – – Arrowroot, salep and similar roots and tubers with high starch content: – – – Of a kind used for human consumption, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 28 kg, either fresh and whole or without skin and frozen, whether or not sliced: ex07149011 – – – – Arrowroot – – – Other: ex07149019 – – – – Arrowroot Grapes, fresh or dried: – Dried: – – Other: 08062092 – – – Sultanas Wheat and meslin: – Other: 10019010 – – Spelt for sowing Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No 0714 or of the products of Chapter 8: – Of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No 0714: – – Denatured: ex11062010 – – – Of flour and meal of arrowroot – – Other: ex11062090 – – – Of flour and meal of arrowroot Starches; inulin: – Starches: – – Other starches: – – – Other: ex11081990 – – – – Starches of arrowroot Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified: – Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals: – – Solid fractions: 15043011 – – – Whale oil and sperm oil Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood: – Other, including preparations of blood of any animal: – – Other. – – – Other: – – – – Other – – – – – Other: – – – – – – Of sheep or goats: – – – – – – – Uncooked; mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked meat or offal: 16029072 – – – – – – – – Of sheep