52001PC0804

Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in Protocol 3 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and the Slovak Republic

(presented by the Commission)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Article 20 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, approved by Decision of the Council and the Commission (94/909/EC, ECSC, Euratom) of 19 December 1994 [1], provides that Protocol 3 lays down the trade arrangements for the processed agricultural products which are listed therein. Pursuant to Article 2(1) of the Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement to take into account the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture, including improvements to the existing preferential agreements, approved by Council Decision (98/638/EC) of 5 October 1998 [2], Protocol 3 to the Europe Agreement has been replaced by the text contained in Annex F to that Protocol.

[1] OJ L 359, 31.12.1994, p. 1.

[2] OJ L 306, 16.11.1998, p. 1.

During the debate on the mandate proposed by the Commission allowing the improvement of the agricultural part of the Europe Agreements, Member States asked the Commission to negotiate in parallel improvement of the access to the markets for processed agricultural products. This negotiation would have as a legal basis the relevant provisions of the Protocol 3 mentioned above.

During the first term 2000, the Commission services began negotiations with a Slovak delegation in order to improve access to the markets for processed agricultural products on a reciprocal base.

In October 2000, the two parties have reached a technical agreement, which has been confirmed by the Slovak side in April 2001. It envisages, as far as the Community import regime is concerned, the abolition of import duties for products imported within the value quota, an annual increase of this quota, the introduction of an additional zero-duty quota and a general reduction of 10 % of all import duties on processed agricultural products. For the Slovak side, the agreement foresees a reduction of import duty rates by 10 % for new products, by 20 % for products covered by the value quota, by 50 % for certain spirituous beverages and by 100 % for certain other products. Furthermore, the agreement foresees an extension to the trade in all of the processed agricultural products.

It is therefore proposed to the Council to adopt this Proposal for a Decision of the Association Council, aiming to adapt Protocol 3.

2001/0312 (ACC)

Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be taken by the Community in the Association Council established by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in Protocol 3 of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and the Slovak Republic

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 133, in conjunction with the first sentence of Article 300(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1) The Europe Agreement [3] establishes an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part.

[3] OJ L 359, 31.12.1994, p. 2.

(2) Protocol 3, as amended by the Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement [4] to take into account the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture, lays down the trade arrangements in processed agricultural products between the Community and the Slovak Republic.

[4] OJ L 306, 16.11.1998, p. 3.

(3) Under Article 1(2) of Protocol 3 the Association Council decides in particular on any amendment of the duties mentioned in the annexes to this Protocol and on the increase or abolition of tariff quotas.

(4) Under Article 2, second indent of this Protocol, 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,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

The position to be taken by the Community within the Association Council established by the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, concerning the improvement of the Protocol 3 on the bilateral trade of processed agricultural products, shall be based on the draft decision of the Association Council annexed to this Decision.

Done at Brussels,

For the Council

The President

ANNEX

Proposal for a

EC-SLOVAKIA ASSOCIATION COUNCIL DECISION No .../2001

on the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in Protocol 3 of the Europe Agreement

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Europe Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part and in particular Article 1(2) of Protocol 3 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Protocol 3, as amended by the Protocol adjusting trade aspects of the Europe Agreement to take into account the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and the outcome of the Uruguay Round negotiations on agriculture, lays down the trade arrangements in processed agricultural products between the Community and the Slovak Republic.

(2) Under Article 1(2) of this Protocol the Association Council decides in particular on any amendment of the duties mentioned in the annexes to Protocol 3 and on the increase or abolition of tariff quotas.

(3) Under Article 2, second indent of this Protocol, 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.

(4) The annual quotas provided for in Annex I of this Decision should be opened for the year 2001. In view of the fact that these annual quotas can only be opened after the 1st January 2001, on a date to be fixed, they should be reduced on a pro rata basis according to the period already elapsed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Annexes I and II of Protocol 3 on the trade in processed agricultural products between the Community and the Slovak Republic are replaced by Annexes I and II of this Decision.

Article 2

The annual quotas for the year 2001 provided for in Annex I of this decision will be reduced on a pro rata basis taking into account the period, based on whole months, already elapsed.

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels,

For the Association Council

The President

ANNEX I

Table 1: Goods originating in the Slovak Republic that are exempt from duty upon import into the Community

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

1302 // 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:

1302 12 00 // --Of liquorice

1302 13 00 // --Of hops

1505 // Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):

1505 10 00 // -Wool grease, crude

1516 // Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:

1516 20 // -Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:

1516 20 10 // --Hydrogenated castor oil, so called "opal-wax"

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 90 // -Other:

// --Other:

1517 90 93 // ---Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould release preparations

1521 // Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured:

1521 90 // -Other:

// --Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured:

1521 90 99 // ---Other

1522 00 // Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:

1522 00 10 // -Degras

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

1806 // Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10 // -Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

1806 10 15 // --Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1901 // 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:

1901 90 // -Other:

// --Other:

1901 90 91 // ---Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose (including invert sugar) or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch, excluding food preparations in powder form of goods of heading Nos 0401 to 0404

ex2005 90 80 // Preparations based on flour of leguminous vegetables in the form of sun-dried discs or dough, known as "papad"

2101 // 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:

2101 20 // -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:

2101 20 20 // --Extracts, essences or concentrates

// --Preparations:

2101 20 92 // ---With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or maté

ex2101 20 98 // ---Other:

// ----Containing no milkfats, milk proteins, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less than 1,5 % milkfat, 2.5 % milk proteins, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

2101 30 // -Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

// --Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 11 // ---Roasted chicory

2102 // Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:

2102 10 // -Active yeasts:

2102 10 10 // --Culture yeast

2102 10 31 to 2102 10 39 // --Baker's yeast

2102 20 // -Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:

// --Inactive yeasts:

2102 20 11 // ---In tablet, cube or similar form, or in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg

2102 20 19 // ---Other

2102 30 00 // -Prepared baking powders

2103 // Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 10 00 // -Soya sauce

2103 20 00 // -Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

2103 30 // -Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 30 90 // --Prepared mustard

2103 90 // -Other:

2103 90 90 // --Other

2104 // Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:

2104 10 // -Soups and broths and preparation therefor

2106 // Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 90 // -Other:

// --Other:

2106 90 92 // ---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

2202 // 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:

2202 10 00 // -Waters including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured

2202 90 // -Other:

2202 90 10 // --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

2905 // Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:

// -Other polyhydric alcohols:

2905 45 00 // --Glycerol

3301 // 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:

3301 90 // -Other:

// --Extracted oleoresins:

3301 90 21 // ---Of liquorice and hops

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 a raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

3302 10 // -Of a kind used in the food or drink industries:

// --Of the type used in the drink industries:

// ---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage:

// ----Other:

3302 10 21 // -----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

3501 // Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues:

3501 10 // -Casein:

3501 10 50 // --For industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs or fodder

3501 10 90 // --Other

3501 90 // -Other:

3501 90 90 // --Other

3823 // Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols:

// -Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining:

3823 11 00 // --Stearic acid

3823 12 00 // --Oleic acid

3823 13 00 // --Tall oil fatty acids

3823 19 // --Other:

3823 19 10 // ---Distilled fatty acids

3823 19 30 // ---Fatty acid distillate

3823 19 90 // ---Other

3823 70 00 // -Industrial fatty alcohols

Table 2a: Goods originating in the Slovak Republic exempt from duty upon import into the Community within a value quota

Note: Value quota for 2001: 3 300 000 EUR. From 2002 on, this quota is increased by 330 000 EUR annually.

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

0403 // 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:

0403 10 // -Yoghurt:

0403 10 51 to 0403 10 99 // --Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa

0403 90 // -Other:

0403 90 71 to 0403 90 99 // --Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

0405 // Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:

0405 20 // -Dairy spreads:

0405 20 10 // --Of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more but less than 60 %

0405 20 30 // --Of a fat content, by weight, of 60 % or more but not exceeding 75 %

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 // -Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

1517 10 10 // --Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1517 90 // -Other:

1517 90 10 // --Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1704 // Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:

1704 10 // -Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

1704 10 11 to 1704 10 19 // --Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

1704 10 91 to 1704 10 99 // --Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

1704 90 // -Other:

1704 90 30 // --White chocolate

1704 90 51 to 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

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

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 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:

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 90 // -Other:

1806 90 11 to 1806 90 39 // --Chocolate and chocolate products

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, 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:

1901 10 00 // -Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 20 00 // -Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No 1905

1901 90 // -Other:

// --Malt extract:

1901 90 11 // ---With a dry extract content of 90 % or more by weight

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 such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:

// -Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:

1902 11 00 // --Containing eggs

1902 19 // --Other

1902 20 // -Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

1902 20 91 to 1902 20 99 // --Other

1902 30 // -Other pasta

1902 40 // -Couscous

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, cornflakes); 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

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, rice paper and similar products

2101 // 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:

2101 12 // --Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101 12 98 // ---Other

2101 20 // -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:

// --Preparations:

ex2101 20 98 // ---Other:

// ----Other than containing no milkfats, milk proteins, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less than 1,5 % milkfat, 2.5 % milk proteins, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

2101 30 // -Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

// --Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 19 // ---Other

// --Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 99 // ---Other

2105 00 // Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

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 10 // --Cheese fondues (1)

2106 90 98 // ---Other

2202 // 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:

2202 90 // -Other:

2202 90 91 to 2202 90 99 // --Other

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 a raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

3302 10 // -Of a kind used in the food or drink industries

// --Of the type used in the drink industries:

// ---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage:

3302 10 29 // -----Other

(1) Eligibility to benefit from this preference is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions

Table 2b: Duties applicable upon import into the Community of goods originating in the Slovak Republic

Note: The duties set out in this table are subject to a reduction by 10 %. The amounts taken into consideration in calculating the reduced agricultural components (EAR) and additional duties (AD S/ZR and AD F/MR), applicable on importation into the Community of goods listed in this Table are those set out in table 2(b) (from 1.7.2000) of Annex 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2204/1999 of 12 October 1999 (pages 775 to 787 of OJ L 278 of 28 October 1999) (1).

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Table 3: Basic amounts taken into consideration in calculating the reduced agricultural components (EAR) and additional duties applicable on importation into the Community of goods listed in Table 2b

Basic Product // MFN rate on 1.7.2000 (EUR/100Kg)

(1) // (2)

Common wheat // 9,504

Durum wheat // 14,752

Rye // 9,261

Barley // 9,261

Maize // 9,395

Long-grain husked rice // 26,432

Skimmed-milk powder // 118,800

Whole-milk powder // 130,432

Butter // 189,562

White sugar // 41,928

Table 4: Annual zero duty quota for goods originating in the Slovak Republic imported into the Community

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ANNEX II

Table 1: Goods originating in the Community that are exempt from duty upon import into the Slovak Republic

CN Code // Description

(1) // (2)

0405 // Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:

0405 20 // -Dairy spreads:

0405 20 10 // --Of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more but less than 60 %

0405 20 30 // --Of a fat content, by weight, of 60 % or more but not exceeding 75 %

0711 // 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:

0711 90 // -Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

// --Vegetables:

0711 90 30 // ---Sweet corn

1302 // Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

1302 20 // -Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates

1515 // Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:

1515 60 // -Jojoba oil and its fractions:

1515 60 90 // --Other

1518 00 // 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 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:

1518 00 10 // -Linoxyn

// -Other:

1518 00 91 // --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 chemically modified, excluding those of heading No1516

// --Other:

1518 00 95 // ---Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or of animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions

1518 00 99 // ---Other

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

1901 // 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:

1901 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 and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included

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, rice paper and similar products:

1905 10 00 // -Crispbread

1905 20 // -Gingerbread and the like

1905 30 // -Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

// --Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:

1905 30 11 // ---In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85g

1905 30 19 // ---Other

// --Other:

// ---Sweet biscuits:

// ----Other:

1905 30 59 // -----Other

// ---Waffles and wafers:

1905 30 91 // ----Salted, whether or not filled

1905 30 99 // ----Other

1905 40 // -Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products

1905 90 // -Other

2008 // 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:

// -Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:

2008 99 // --Other:

// ---Not containing added spirit:

// ----Not containing added sugar:

2008 99 85 // -----Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2101 // 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:

2101 11 // --Extracts; essences or concentrates

2101 12 // --Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee

2101 20 // -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

2102 // Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:

2102 30 00 // -Prepared baking powders

2103 // Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 20 00 // -Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

2103 30 // -Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 30 90 // --Prepared mustard

2103 90 // -Other

2104 // Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations

2106 // Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10 // -Protein concentrates and textured protein substances

2106 90 // -Other:

2106 90 10 // --Cheese fondues

// --Other:

2106 90 92 // ---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 98 // ---Other

2202 // 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

2205 // Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances

2208 // Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol.; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

2208 20 // -Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape marc

2208 30 // -Whiskies

2208 40 // -Rum and taffia

2905 // Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:

// -Other polyhydric alcohols:

2905 43 00 // --Mannitol

2905 44 // --D-glucitol (sorbitol)

3301 // 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:

3301 90 // -Other:

// --Extracted oleoresins:

3301 90 21 // ---Of liquorice and hops

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 a raw materials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

3302 10 // -Of a kind used in the food or drink industries

// --Of the type used in the drink industries:

// ---Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage:

// ----Other:

3302 10 21 // -----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

3302 10 29 // -----Other

3501 // Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues

3505 // Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pregelatinised or esterified starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches:

3505 10 // -Dextrins and other modified starches:

3505 10 10 // --Dextrins

// --Other modified starches:

3505 10 90 // ---Other

3505 20 // -Glues

3809 // 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, not elsewhere specified or included:

3809 10 // -With a basis of amylaceous substances

3823 // Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols

3824 // Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included; residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included:

3824 60 // -Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44

Table 2: Duties applicable to goods originating in the Community on import into the Slovak Republic

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