Commission Regulation (EC) No 2491/98 of 18 November 1998 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products
L 309/28 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 11. 98 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2491/98 of 18 November 1998 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 laying down the trade arrange- ments applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Nomenclature) had been amended; whereas the Annexes to the Regulation should therefore be updated, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1097/98 (2), and in particular Article 12(3) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 is hereby replaced by the Annex to this Regulation. Article 2 Whereas, since this Regulation was adopted, the Com- munity’s Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature (Combined This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 18 November 1998. For the Commission Martin BANGEMANN Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 318, 20. 12. 1993, p. 18. (2) OJ L 157, 30. 5. 1998, p. 1. 19. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 309/29 ANNEX ‘ANNEX B TABLE 1 Description Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa: – Yoghurt, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa – Other, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa Dairy spreads of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more but not exceeding 75 % CN code ex 0403 0403 10 51 to 0403 10 99 0403 90 71 to 0403 90 99 0405 20 10 to 0405 20 30 0710 40 00 Sweet corn (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen 0711 90 30 Sweet corn provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for imme- diate consumption ex 1517 Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading No 1516: 1517 10 10 – Margarine, excluding liquid margarine, containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats 1517 90 10 – Other, containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats 1702 50 00 Chemically pure fructose ex 1704 Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa, excluding liquor- ice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing other added substances, falling within CN code 1704 90 10 1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa ex 1901 ex 1902 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, excluding goods falling within CN code 1901 90 91 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni, excluding stuffed pasta falling within CN codes 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30; couscous, whether or not prepared 1903 00 00 Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar forms 1904 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals, (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included L 309/30 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 11. 98 CN code 1905 Description 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 2001 90 30 Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid 2001 90 40 2004 10 91 2004 90 10 2005 20 10 2005 80 00 2008 99 85 2008 99 91 Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading No 2006 Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading No 2006 Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading No 2006 Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading No 2006 Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit or added sugar Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch, otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit or added sugar 2101 12 98 Preparations with a basis of coffee 2101 20 98 Preparations with a basis of tea or maté 2101 30 19 Roasted coffee substitutes excluding roasted chicory 2101 30 99 2102 10 31 and 2102 10 39 Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted coffee substitutes excluding those of roasted chicory Bakers’ yeast, dried or not 2105 00 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa ex 2106 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included other than those falling within CN codes 2106 10 20, 2106 90 20 and 2106 90 92, and other than flavoured or coloured sugar syrups 2202 90 91 and 2202 90 95 and 2202 90 99 Waters, including mineral and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweet- ening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No 2009, containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 2905 43 00 Mannitol 2905 44 d-Glucitol (sorbitol) ex 3302 Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages: 3302 10 29 Other, of a kind used in the drink industries, containing all flavouring agents character- ising a beverage, other than of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 0,5 %, other than those of CN code 3302 10 21 19. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 309/31 CN code Description ex 3501 ex 3505 10 3505 20 3809 10 Caseins, caseinates and other casein derivatives Dextrins and other modified starches, excluding esterified or etherified starches of CN code 3505 10 50 Glues based on starches, dextrins or other modified starches Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile paper, leather or like industries, with a basis of amylaceous substances, not elsewhere specified or included 3824 60 Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44 L 309/32 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 11. 98 CN code ex 0505 TABLE 2 Description 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: 0505 10 90 – Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down, other than raw 0505 90 – Other 0509 00 90 Natural sponges of animal origin, other than raw 1212 20 00 Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground ex 1302 Vegetable saps and extracts of liquorice, hops, pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone 1302 19 30 Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food prepara- tions 1302 19 91 Other, medicinal ex 1302 20 Pectates 1302 31 00 Agar-agar, whether or not modified 1302 32 10 Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans or locust bean seeds 1505 1506 Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin) Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified 1515 60 Jojoba oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified 1516 20 10 Hydrogenated castor oil, so called “opal-wax” 1517 90 93 Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould release preparations ex 1518 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chem- ically 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; excluding the oils of CN codes 1518 00 31 and 1518 00 39 1520 00 00 Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes 1521 Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured 1522 00 10 Degras 1702 90 10 Chemically pure maltose 1704 90 10 Liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing other added substances 1803 Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted 1804 00 00 Cocoa butter, fat and oil 1805 00 00 Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 2001 90 60 Palm hearts, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid 19. 11. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 309/33 CN code ex 2008 Description Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included: 2008 11 10 – Peanut butter 2008 91 00 – Palm hearts ex 2101 Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products; roasted chicory, extracts, essences or concentrates thereof other than preparations of CN codes 2101 12 98, 2101 20 98, 2101 30 19 and 2101 30 99 2102 10 Active yeasts: 2102 10 10 – Culture yeast 2102 10 90 – Other, excluding bakers’ yeast 2102 20 Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead 2102 30 00 Prepared baking powders 2103 2104 Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations ex 2106 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included: 2106 10 – Protein concentrates and textured protein substances: 2106 10 20 –– 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 2106 90 – Other: 2106 90 20 –– Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages 2106 90 92 2201 10 2202 10 00 2202 90 10 –– Other preparations containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing by weight less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured Other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No 2009, not containing products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404 2203 00 Beer made from malt 2205 Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances ex 2207 ex 2208 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength other than obtained from agricultural products listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol, not obtained from agricultural products listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages 2402 Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes L 309/34 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 19. 11. 98 CN code 2403 Description Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; “homogenised” or “reconstituted” tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences 3301 90 21 Extracted oleoresins of liquorice and hops 3301 90 29 Extracted oleoresins of pyrethrum or of roots of plants containing rotenone; intermix- tures of vegetables extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations 3301 90 31 Other extracted oleoresins: medicinal ex 3302 3302 10 21 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 material in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages: Of a kind used in the food and drink industries containing all flavouring agents caracterising a beverage other than of an alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 0,5 %, containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch 3823 Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols'