EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

On 24 September 2012 the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States and the Republic of Croatia, with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in order to conclude a Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union.

These negotiations started on 18 December 2012, following prior technical consultations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on the issue. Further negotiating rounds took place on 25 January and 10 April 1013. The Government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia confirmed its agreement with the protocol on 25 October 2013. The Protocol is updated to reflect the 2013 EU Customs Tariff and the gradual abolition of duties under the SAA. The text of the Protocol is attached.

The Commission proposes that the Council decides on the signature and provisional application of the Protocol on behalf of the European Union and concludes the Protocol on the behalf of the European Union and its Member States. For the conclusion of a Protocol on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community, the Commission proposes that the Council gives its approval, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 101 of the Treaty establishing the EAEC.

The attached proposal is for a Council Decision on the signature and provisional application of the Protocol. The Commission proposes that the Council:

– decides on the signature and provisional application of the Protocol on behalf of the European Union;

2013/0385 (NLE)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL DECISION

on the signing and provisional application of a Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 217 in conjunction with Article 218(5) and the second subparagraph of Article 218(8) thereof,

Having regard to the Act on the conditions of accession of the Republic of Croatia annexed to the Treaty of Accession, and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission[1],

Whereas:

(1)       On 24 September 2012 the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the Union and its Member States and the Republic of Croatia, with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in order to conclude a Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union.

(2)       These negotiations have been successfully completed and subject to its possible conclusion at a later date, the Protocol should be signed on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.

(3)       The conclusion of the Protocol is subject to a separate procedure as regards matters falling within the competence the European Atomic Energy Community.

(4)       The Protocol should be applied on a provisional basis with effect from 1 July 2013.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The signing of the Protocol to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union (the "Protocol") is hereby approved on behalf of the Union and its Member States, subject to the conclusion of the said Agreement.

The text of the Protocol is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The Council Secretariat General shall establish the instrument of full powers to sign the Protocol, subject to its conclusion, for the person(s) indicated by the negotiator of the Protocol.

Article 3

Pending its entry into force, the Protocol shall be applied on a provisional basis from 1 July 2013.

Done at Brussels,

                                                                       For the Council

                                                                       The President

PROTOCOL

to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,

THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA,

THE CZECH REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA,

IRELAND,

THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA,

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS,

THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

HUNGARY,

THE REPUBLIC OF MALTA,

THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,

THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND,

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

ROMANIA,

THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,

THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,

THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Contracting Parties to the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, hereinafter referred to as the 'Member States', and

THE EUROPEAN UNION and THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY,

hereinafter referred to as 'the European Union',

of the one part, and

THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

of the other part,

Having regard to the accession of the Republic of Croatia (hereinafter referred to as 'Croatia') to the European Union on 1 July 2013,

Whereas:

The Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, (hereinafter referred to as 'the SAA') was signed in Luxemburg on 9 April 2001 and entered into force on 1 April 2004.

The Treaty concerning the accession of Croatia to the European Union (hereinafter referred to as 'the Treaty of Accession') was signed in Brussels on 9 December 2011.

Croatia acceded to the European Union on 1 July 2013.

Pursuant to Article 6(2) of the Act of Accession of Croatia, the accession of Croatia to the SAA shall be agreed by the conclusion of a protocol to the SAA.

Consultations pursuant to Article 35(3) of the SAA have taken place so as to ensure that account is taken of the mutual interests of the European Union and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia stated in this Agreement,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Section I

Contracting Parties

Article 1

Croatia shall be Party to the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part, signed in Luxemburg on 9 April 2001 and shall respectively adopt and take note, in the same manner as the other Member States of the European Union, of the texts of the Agreement, as well as of the Joint Declarations, and the Unilateral Declarations annexed to the Final Act signed on the same date.

ADJUSTMENTS TO THE TEXT OF THE SAA INCLUDING ITS ANNEXES AND PROTOCOLS

Section II

AGricultural Products

Article 2

Agricultural Products sensu stricto

1. Annex IV(a) to the SAA shall be replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Protocol.

2. Annex IV(b) to the SAA shall be replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Protocol.

3. Annex IV(c) to the SAA shall be replaced by the text set out in Annex III to this Protocol.

4. Article 27 of the SAA shall be replaced by the following:

'Article 27

Agricultural products

1. The European Union shall abolish the customs duties and charges having equivalent effect on imports of agricultural products originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, other than those of heading Nos 0102, 0201, 0202, 1701, 1702 and 2204 of the Combined Nomenclature.

For the products covered by Chapter 7 and 8 of the Combined Nomenclature, for which the Common Custom Tariff provides for the application of the ad valorem customs duties and a specific customs duty, the elimination applies only to the ad valorem part of the duty.

2. From the date of entry into force of this Agreement, the European Union shall fix the customs duties applicable to imports into the European Union of ‘baby-beef’ products defined in Annex III and originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, at 20 % of the ad valorem duty and 20 % of the specific duty as laid down in the Common Customs Tariff of the European Communities, within the limit of an annual tariff quota of 1 650 tonnes expressed in carcass weight.

The European Union shall apply duty-free access on imports into the European Union for products originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, under headings 1701 and 1702 of the Combined Nomenclature, within the limit of an annual tariff quota of 7,000 tonnes (net weight).

3. From the date of entry into force of this Agreement, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia shall:

(a) abolish the customs duties applicable on imports of certain agricultural products originating in the European Union, listed in Annex IV(a);

(b) abolish the customs duties applicable on imports of certain agricultural products originating in the European Union, listed in Annex IV(b) within the limits of tariff quotas indicated for each product in that Annex;

(c) apply the customs duties applicable on imports of certain agricultural products originating in the European Union, listed in Annex IV(c) within the limits of tariff quotas;.

4. The trade arrangements to apply to wine and spirit products will be defined in a separate wine and spirit agreement.

5. Annex IV(d) to the SAA shall be deleted.

Article 3

Fisheries products

1. Article 28 (2) of the SAA shall be replaced by the following:

2'         The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia shall abolish all charges having an equivalent effect to a customs duty and abolish the customs duties applicable on imports of fish and fisheries products originating in the European Union with the exception of products listed in Annex V(b) and Annex V(c), which shall lay down the tariff reductions for the products listed therein.’

2. The text of Annex IV to this Protocol shall be added to the SAA as Annex V (c).

Article 4

Processed agricultural products

1. Annex II to Protocol 3 to the SAA shall be replaced by the text set out in Annex V to this Protocol.

2. Annex III to Protocol 3 to the SAA shall be replaced by the text set out in Annex VI to this Protocol.

Article 5

Wine and Spirit Agreement

Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 3 of the Annex I (Agreement between the European Community and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on reciprocal preferential trade concessions for certain wines, referred to in Article 27(4) of the SAA) to the Additional Protocol adjusting the trade aspects of the SAA, to take account of the outcome of the negotiations between the parties on reciprocal preferential concessions for certain wines, the reciprocal recognition, protection and control of wine names and the reciprocal recognition, protection and control of designations for spirits and aromatised drinks, shall be replaced by the text set out in Annex VII to this Protocol.

Section III

Rules of Origin

Article 6

Annex IV to Protocol 4 to the SAA shall be replaced by the text set out in Annex VIII to this Protocol.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Section IV

Article 7

WTO

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia undertakes that it shall not make any claim, request or referral nor modify or withdraw any concession pursuant to GATT 1994 Articles XXIV.6 and XXVIII in relation to this enlargement of the European Union.

Article 8

Proof of origin and administrative cooperation

1. Proofs of origin properly issued by either the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or Croatia in the framework of preferential agreements or autonomous arrangements applied between them shall be accepted in the respective countries, provided that:

(a)        the acquisition of such origin confers preferential tariff treatment on the basis of the preferential tariff measures contained in the SAA;

(b)        the proof of origin and the transport documents were issued no later than the day before the date of accession;

(c)        the proof of origin is submitted to the customs authorities within the period of four months from the date of accession.

Where goods were declared for importation in either the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or Croatia, prior to the date of accession, under preferential agreements or autonomous arrangements applied between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Croatia at that time, proof of origin issued retrospectively under those agreements or arrangements may also be accepted provided that it is submitted to the customs authorities within a period of four months from the date of accession.

2. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Croatia are authorised to retain the authorisations with which the status of “approved exporters” has been granted in the framework of preferential agreements or autonomous arrangements applied between them, provided that:

(a)        such a provision is also provided for in the agreement concluded prior to the date of Croatia's accession between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the European Union; and

(b)        the approved exporters apply the rules of origin in force under that agreement.

These authorisations shall be replaced, no later than one year after the date of accession of Croatia, by new authorisations issued under the conditions of the SAA.

3. Requests for subsequent verification of proof of origin issued under the preferential agreements or autonomous arrangements referred to in paragraph 1 shall be accepted by the competent customs authorities of either the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or Croatia for a period of three years after the issue of the proof of origin concerned and may be made by those authorities for a period of three years after acceptance of the proof of origin submitted to those authorities in support of an import declaration.

Article 9

Goods in transit

1. The provisions of the SAA may be applied to goods exported from either the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to Croatia or from Croatia to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which comply with the provisions of Protocol 4 to the SAA and that on the date of accession of Croatia are either en route or in temporary storage, in a customs warehouse or in a free zone in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or in Croatia.

2. Preferential treatment may be granted in such cases, subject to the submission to the customs authorities of the importing country, within four months from the date of accession of Croatia, of a proof of origin issued retrospectively by the customs authorities of the exporting country.

Article 10

Quotas in 2013

For the year 2013, the volumes of the new tariff quotas and the increases of the volumes of existing tariff quotas shall be calculated as a pro rata of the basic volumes, taking into account the part of the period elapsed before 1 July 2013.

GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Section V

Article 11

This Protocol and the Annexes thereto shall form an integral part of the SAA.

Article 12

1. This Protocol shall be approved by the European Union and its Member States [and Croatia] and by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in accordance with their own procedures.

2. The Parties shall notify each other of the completion of the corresponding procedures referred to in paragraph 1. The instruments of approval shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.

Article 13

1. This Protocol shall enter into force on the first day of the first month following the date of the deposit of the last instrument of approval.

2. If not all the instruments of approval of this Protocol have been deposited before 1 July 2013, this Protocol shall apply provisionally with effect from 1 July 2013.

Article 14

This Protocol is drawn up in duplicate in each of the official languages of the Parties, each of these texts being equally authentic.

Article 15

The text of the SAA, including the Annexes and Protocols which form an integral part thereof, and the Final Act together with the declarations annexed thereto shall be drawn up in the Croatian language, and these texts shall be authentic in the same way as the original texts. The Stabilisation and Association Council shall approve these texts.

ANNEX I

'ANNEX IV(a)

IMPORTS INTO THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

(Zero-duty tariff)

(referred to in Article 27(3)(a))

CN Code || Description

0101 || Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies:

|| - Horses:

0101 21 00 || - - Pure-bred breeding animals

0101 29 || - - Other:

0101 29 90 || - - - Other

0101 30 00 || - Asses

0101 90 00 || - Other

0102 || Live bovine animals:

|| - Cattle:

0102 29 || - - Other:

0102 29 05 || - - - Of the sub-genus Bibos or of the sub-genus Poephagus

|| - - - Other:

|| - - - - Of a weight exceeding 80 kg but not exceeding 160 kg:

0102 29 21 || - - - - - For slaughter

0102 29 29 || - - - - - Other

|| - - - - Of a weight exceeding 160 kg but not exceeding 300 kg:

0102 29 41 || - - - - - For slaughter

0102 29 49 || - - - - - Other

|| - - - - Of a weight exceeding 300 kg:

|| - - - - - Heifers (female bovines that have never calved):

0102 29 51 || - - - - - - For slaughter

0102 29 59 || - - - - - - Other

|| - - - - - Cows:

0102 29 61 || - - - - - - For slaughter

0102 29 69 || - - - - - - Other

|| - - - - - Other:

0102 29 91 || - - - - - - For slaughter

0102 29 99 || - - - - - - Other

|| - Buffalo:

0102 39 || - - Other:

0102 39 10 || - - - Domestic species

0102 39 90 || - - - Other

0102 90 || - Other:

|| - - Other:

0102 90 91 || - - - Domestic species

0102 90 99 || - - - Other

0103 || Live swine:

0103 10 00 || - Pure-bred breeding animals

|| - Other:

0103 91 || - - Weighing less than 50 kg

0104 || Live sheep and goats:

0104 10 || - Sheep:

0104 10 10 || - - Pure-bred breeding animals

0104 20 || - Goats:

0104 20 10 || - - Pure-bred breeding animals

0105 || Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls:

|| - Weighing not more than 185 g:

0105 11 || - - Fowls of the species Gallus domesticus:

|| - - - Grandparent and parent female chicks:

0105 11 11 || - - - - Laying stocks

0105 11 19 || - - - - Other

|| - - - Other:

0105 11 99 || - - - - Other

0105 12 00 || - - Turkeys

0105 13 00 || - - Ducks

0105 14 00 || - - Geese

0105 15 00 || - - Guinea fowls

|| - Other:

0105 94 00 || - - Fowls of the species Gallus domesticus

0105 99 || - - Other:

0105 99 10 || - - - Ducks

0105 99 20 || - - - Geese

0105 99 30 || - - - Turkeys

0105 99 50 || - - - Guinea fowls

0106 || Other live animals

0201 || Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled

0202 || Meat of bovine animals, frozen

0205 00 || Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen

0206 || Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen

0207 || Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen

0208 || Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen

0209 || Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked:

0209 10 || - Of pigs:

0209 10 90 || - - Pig fat, other than that of subheading 0209 10 11 or 0209 10 19

0209 90 00 || - Other

0210 || Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal

0402 || Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

0402 10 || - In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1,5 %:

|| - - Not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

0402 10 19 || - - - Other

|| - - Other:

0402 10 91 || - - - In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 2,5 kg

0402 10 99 || - - - Other

|| - In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1,5 %:

0402 21 || - - Not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

0402 29 || - - Other

|| - Other:

0402 91 || - - Not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

0402 99 || - - 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

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

0405 10 || - Butter

0405 20 || - Dairy spreads:

0405 20 90 || - - Of a fat content, by weight, of more than 75 % but less than 80 %

0405 90 || - Other

0408 || 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 sweetening matter

0410 00 00 || Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

0601 || Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading 1212

0602 || Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn:

0602 10 || - Unrooted cuttings and slips

0602 20 || - Trees, shrubs and bushes, grafted or not, of kinds which bear edible fruit or nuts

0602 30 00 || - Rhododendrons and azaleas, grafted or not

0602 40 00 || - Roses, grafted or not

0602 90 || - Other:

0602 90 10 || - - Mushroom spawn

0602 90 30 || - - Vegetable and strawberry plants

|| - - Other:

|| - - - Outdoor plants:

|| - - - - Trees, shrubs and bushes:

0602 90 41 || - - - - - Forest trees

|| - - - - - Other:

0602 90 45 || - - - - - - Rooted cuttings and young plants

0602 90 49 || - - - - - - Other

0602 90 50 || - - - - Other outdoor plants

|| - - - Indoor plants:

0602 90 70 || - - - - Rooted cuttings and young plants, excluding cacti

|| - - - - Other:

0602 90 91 || - - - - - Flowering plants with buds or flowers, excluding cacti

0602 90 99 || - - - - - Other

0603 || Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared

0604 || Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, mosses and lichens, being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared

0701 || Potatoes, fresh or chilled:

0701 10 00 || - Seed

0703 || Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled:

0703 10 00 || - Onions and shallots

|| - - Onions:

0703 10 19 || - - - Other:

0703 10 19 10 || - - - - For sowing

0703 10 19 30 || - - - - Arpadzik

0703 90 00 || - Leeks and other alliaceous vegetables:

0703 90 00 10 || - - For sowing

0709 || Other vegetables, fresh or chilled:

|| - Other:

0709 99 || - - Other:

0709 99 60 || - - - Sweetcorn

0710 || Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen:

0710 80 || - Other vegetables:

0710 80 10 || - - Olives

0710 80 80 || - - Globe artichokes

0710 80 85 || - - Asparagus

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 20 || - Olives

0712 || Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared:

0712 20 00 || - Onions

|| - Mushrooms, wood ears (Auricularia spp.), jelly fungi (Tremella spp.) and truffles:

0712 31 00 || - - Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus

0712 32 00 || - - Wood ears (Auricularia spp.)

0712 33 00 || - - Jelly fungi (Tremella spp.)

0712 39 00 || - - Other

0712 90 || - Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

0712 90 05 || - - Potatoes, whether or not cut or sliced but not further prepared

|| - - Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata):

0712 90 19 || - - - Other

0712 90 30 || - - Tomatoes

0712 90 50 || - - Carrots

0712 90 90 || - - Other

0713 || Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split:

0713 10 || - Peas (Pisum sativum):

0713 10 10 || - - For sowing

0713 20 00 || - Chickpeas (garbanzos):

0713 20 00 10 || - - Seed

|| - Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.):

0713 31 00 || - - Beans of the species Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper or Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek:

0713 31 00 10 || - - - Seed

0713 32 00 || - - Small red (Adzuki) beans (Phaseolus or Vigna angularis):

0713 32 00 10 || - - - Seed

0713 33 || - - Kidney beans, including white pea beans (Phaseolus vulgaris):

0713 33 10 || - - - For sowing

0713 34 00 || - - Bambara beans (Vigna subterranea or Voandzeia subterranea):

0713 34 00 10 || - - - For sowing

0713 35 00 || - - Cow peas (Vigna unguiculata):

0713 35 00 10 || - - - For sowing

0713 39 00 || - - Other:

0713 39 00 10 || - - - For sowing

0713 40 00 || - Lentils:

0713 40 00 10 || - - For sowing

0713 50 00 || - Broad beans (Vicia faba var. major) and horse beans (Vicia faba var. equina, Vicia faba var. minor):

0713 50 00 10 || - - For sowing

0713 60 00 || - Pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan):

0713 60 00 10 || - - For sowing

0713 90 00 || - Other:

0713 90 00 10 || - - For sowing

0714 || 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

0801 || Coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled

0802 || Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled

0803 || Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried

0804 || Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried

0805 || Citrus fruit, fresh or dried

0810 || Other fruit, fresh:

0810 20 || - Raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberries

0810 30 || - Black-, white- or redcurrants and gooseberries

0810 40 || - Cranberries, bilberries and other fruits of the genus Vaccinium

0810 50 00 || - Kiwifruit

0810 60 00 || - Durians

0810 70 00 || - Persimmons

0810 90 || - Other

0811 || Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

0812 || Fruit and nuts, 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

0813 || Fruit, dried, other than that of headings 0801 to 0806; mixtures of nuts or dried fruits of this chapter

0814 00 00 || Peel of citrus fruit or melons (including watermelons), fresh, frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions

0901 || Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion

0902 || Tea, whether or not flavoured

0904 || Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta:

|| - Pepper:

0904 11 00 || - - Neither crushed nor ground

0904 12 00 || - - Crushed or ground

0905 || Vanilla

0906 || Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers

0907 || Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems)

0908 || Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms

0909 || Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway; juniper berries

0910 || Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices

1001 || Wheat and meslin:

|| - Durum wheat:

1001 11 00 || - - Seed

1002 || Rye

1003 || Barley:

1003 10 00 || - Seed

1003 90 00 || - Other:

1003 90 00 10 || - - For beer

1003 90 00 20 || - - For livestock

1003 90 00 90 || - - Other

1004 || Oats

1005 || Maize (corn):

1005 10 || - Seed

1006 || Rice:

1006 10 || - Rice in the husk (paddy or rough):

1006 10 10 || - - For sowing

1007 || Grain sorghum

1008 || Buckwheat, millet and canary seed; other cereals

1102 || Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin

1103 || Cereal groats, meal and pellets

1104 || Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading 1006; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground

1105 || Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes

1106 || Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 0714 or of the products of Chapter 8

1107 || Malt, whether or not roasted

1108 || Starches; inulin

1201 || Soya beans, whether or not broken

1202 || Groundnuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken

1203 00 00 || Copra

1204 || Linseed, whether or not broken

1207 || Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken

1208 || Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard

1209 || Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing

1211 || Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered

1212 || 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

1213 00 00 || Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets

1214 || Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets

1301 || Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for example, balsams)

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 11 00 || - - Opium

1501 || Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading 0209 or 1503

1502 || Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 1503

1503 || Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared

1504 || Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1508 || Groundnut oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1509 || Olive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1510 || Other oils and their fractions, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including blends of these oils or fractions with oils or fractions of heading 1509

1511 || Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1512 || Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:

|| - Cotton-seed oil and its fractions:

1512 21 || - - Crude oil, whether or not gossypol has been removed

1512 29 || - - Other

1513 || Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1514 || Rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:

|| - Other:

1514 99 || - - Other

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

|| - Linseed oil and its fractions:

1515 11 00 || - - Crude oil

1515 19 || - - Other

1515 30 || - Castor oil and its fractions

1515 50 || - Sesame oil and its fractions

1515 90 || - Other:

|| - - Tobacco-seed oil and its fractions:

|| - - - Crude oil:

1515 90 21 || - - - - For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption

1515 90 29 || - - - - Other

|| - - - Other:

1515 90 31 || - - - - For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption

1515 90 39 || - - - - Other

|| - - Other oils and their fractions:

|| - - - Crude oils:

1515 90 40 || - - - - For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption

|| - - - - Other:

1515 90 51 || - - - - - Solid, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg

1515 90 59 || - - - - - Solid, other; fluid

|| - - - Other:

1515 90 60 || - - - - For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption

|| - - - - Other:

1515 90 91 || - - - - - Solid, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg

1515 90 99 || - - - - - Solid, other; fluid

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 10 || - Animal fats and oils and their fractions

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 1516:

1517 90 || - Other:

|| - - Other:

1517 90 99 || - - - Other

1603 || Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates

1701 || Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form:

|| - Raw sugar not containing added flavouring or colouring matter:

1701 12 || - - Beet sugar

|| - Other:

1701 91 00 || - - Containing added flavouring or colouring matter

1701 99 || - - Other:

1701 99 90 || - - - Other

1702 || 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:

|| - Lactose and lactose syrup:

1702 11 00 || - - Containing by weight 99 % or more lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose, calculated on the dry matter

1702 19 00 || - - Other

1702 20 || - Maple sugar and maple syrup

1702 30 || - Glucose and glucose syrup, not containing fructose or containing in the dry state less than 20 % by weight of fructose

1702 40 || - Glucose and glucose syrup, containing in the dry state at least 20 % but less than 50 % by weight of fructose, excluding invert sugar

1702 60 || - Other fructose and fructose syrup, containing in the dry state more than 50 % by weight of fructose, excluding invert sugar

1703 || Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar

2005 || Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 2006:

2005 10 00 || - Homogenised vegetables

||

2005 70 00 || - Olives

2007 || Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

2301 || Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves:

2301 10 00 || - Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal; greaves

2302 || Bran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants

2303 || 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

2304 00 00 || Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil

2305 00 00 || Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of groundnut oil

2306 || Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, other than those of heading 2304 or 2305

2307 || Wine lees; argol

2308 || Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products, whether or not in the form of pellets, of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included

2309 || Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding

2401 || Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse

4301 || Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers' use), other than raw hides and skins of heading 4101, 4102 or 4103

" ANNEX II

'ANNEX IV(b)

IMPORTS INTO THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

(Zero-duty tariff within tariff quotas)

(referred to in Article 27(3)(b)):

CN Code || Description || Annual tariff quota (tonnes) || Applicable duty for exceeding quantities (% of MFN)

0401 || Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: || 800 || 100

0401 10 || - Of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1 %:

0401 10 10 || - - In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding two litres

0401 || Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter: || 2400 || 100

0401 20 || - Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1 % but not exceeding 6 %

0403 || Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, 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: || 1300 || 100

0403 10 || - Yogurt:

|| - - Not flavoured nor containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

|| - - - Not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, of a fat content, by weight:

0403 10 11 || - - - - Not exceeding 3 %

0403 10 13 || - - - - Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 %

0403 90 || - Other:

|| - - Not flavoured nor containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

|| - - - Other:

|| - - - - Not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, of a fat content, by weight:

0403 90 51 || - - - - - Not exceeding 3 %

0403 90 53 || - - - - - Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 %

0403 90 59 || - - - - - Exceeding 6 %

0406 || Cheese and curd: || 40 || 100

0406 10 || - Fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese, including whey cheese, and curd

0406 || Cheese and curd: || 310 || 70

0406 20 || - Grated or powdered cheese, of all kinds

0406 30 || - Processed cheese, not grated or powdered

0406 || Cheese and curd: || 650 || 100

0406 90 || - Other cheese

0701 || Potatoes, fresh or chilled: || 450 || 100

0701 90 || - Other:

|| - - Other:

0701 90 90 || - - - Other

0703 || Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled: || 300 || 100

0703 10 || - Onions and shallots:

|| - - Onions:

0703 10 19 || - - - Other

1512 || Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified: || 100 || 100

|| - Sunflower-seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof:

1512 19 || - - Other:

1512 19 90 || - - - Other

1601 00 || Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products || 3400 || 70

1602 || Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood || 2050 || 70

2001 || Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid: || 40 || 100

2001 10 00 || - Cucumbers and gherkins

2003 || Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid: || 50 || 100

2003 10 || - Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus:

2003 10 20 || - - Provisionally preserved, completely cooked

2003 10 30 || - - Other

2003 90 || - Other:

2003 90 10 || - - Truffles

2005 || Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 2006: || 150 || 100

2005 20 || - Potatoes:

|| - - Other:

2005 20 20 || - - - Thin slices, fried or baked, whether or not salted or flavoured, in airtight packings, suitable for immediate consumption

2005 20 80 || - - - Other

2005 || Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 2006: || 60 || 100

2005 40 00 || - Peas (Pisum sativum)

2009 || Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter || 300 || 100

"

ANNEX III

'ANNEX IV(c)

IMPORTS INTO THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (CONCESSIONS WITHIN TARIFF QUOTAS)

(referred to in Article 27(3)(c))

CN Code || Description || Annual tariff quota (tonnes) || Applicable duty (% of MFN)

0203 || Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen || 2000 || 70

0203 || Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen || 200 || 50

0406 || Cheese and curd || 600 || 70

0701 || Potatoes, fresh or chilled: || 100 || 50

0701 90 || - Other

" ANNEX IV

'ANNEX V(c)

IMPORTS INTO THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA OF FISH AND FISHERIES PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

(ZERO-DUTY TARIFF WITHIN TARIFF QUOTAS)

(referred to in Article 28(2))

CN Code[2] || Description || Annual Duty free Quota

0301 93 00 || Carp live || 75 tonness

“

ANNEX V

'ANNEX II

DUTIES APPLICABLE TO GOODS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ON IMPORT INTO THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

CN Code || Description || Applicable duty (% of MFN)

0403 || Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, 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 || - Yogurt: ||

|| - - Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa: ||

|| - - - In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milkfat content, by weight: ||

0403 10 51 || - - - - Not exceeding 1,5 % || 50

0403 10 53 || - - - - Exceeding 1,5 % but not exceeding 27 % || 50

0403 10 59 || - - - - Exceeding 27 % || 50

|| - - - Other, of a milkfat content, by weight: ||

0403 10 91 || - - - - Not exceeding 3 % || 50

0403 10 93 || - - - - Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 % || 50

0403 10 99 || - - - - Exceeding 6 % || 50

0403 90 || - Other: ||

|| - - Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa: ||

|| - - - In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milkfat content, by weight: ||

0403 90 71 || - - - - Not exceeding 1,5 % || 50

0403 90 73 || - - - - Exceeding 1,5 % but not exceeding 27 % || 50

0403 90 79 || - - - - Exceeding 27 % || 50

|| - - - Other, of a milkfat content, by weight: ||

0403 90 91 || - - - - Not exceeding 3 % || 50

0403 90 93 || - - - - Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 % || 50

0403 90 99 || - - - - Exceeding 6 % || 50

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 % || 0

0405 20 30 || - - Of a fat content, by weight, of 60 % or more but not exceeding 75 % || 0

0501 00 00 || Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair || 0

0502 || Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair || 0

0505 || 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 || 0

0506 || Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products || 0

0507 || Ivory, tortoiseshell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products || 0

0508 00 00 || Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof || 0

0510 00 00 || Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved || 0

0511 || Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption: ||

|| - Other: ||

0511 99 || - - Other: ||

|| - - - Natural sponges of animal origin: ||

0511 99 31 || - - - - Raw || 0

0511 99 39 || - - - - Other || 0

0710 || Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen: ||

0710 40 00 || - Sweetcorn || 0

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 || - - - Sweetcorn || 0

0903 00 00 || Maté || 0

1212 || 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: ||

|| - Seaweeds and other algae: ||

1212 29 00 || - - Other || 0

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 || 0

1302 13 00 || - - Of hops || 0

1302 19 || - - Other: ||

1302 19 20 || - - - Of plants of the genus Ephedra || 0

1302 19 70 || - - - Other || 0

1302 20 || - Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates || 100

|| - Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products: ||

1302 31 00 || - - Agar-agar || 0

1302 32 || - - Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds: ||

1302 32 10 || - - - Of locust beans or locust bean seeds || 0

1401 || Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark) || 0

1404 || Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included || 0

1505 00 || Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin) || 0

1506 00 00 || Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified || 0

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

1515 90 || - Other: ||

1515 90 11 || - - Tung oil; jojoba and oiticica oils; myrtle wax and Japan wax; their fractions || 0

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' || 0

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 1516: ||

1517 10 || - Margarine, excluding liquid margarine || 100

1517 90 || - Other: ||

1517 90 10 || - - Containing, by weight, more than 10 % but not more than 15 % of milkfats || 100

|| - - Other: ||

1517 90 93 || - - - Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould-release preparations || 0

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 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 || 0

1520 00 00 || Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes || 0

1521 || Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured || 0

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

1522 00 10 || - Degras || 0

1702 || 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: ||

1702 50 00 || - Chemically pure fructose || 0

1702 90 || - Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50 % by weight of fructose: ||

1702 90 10 || - - Chemically pure maltose || 100

1704 || Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa || 50

1803 || Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted || 0

1804 00 00 || Cocoa butter, fat and oil || 0

1805 00 00 || Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter || 0

1806 || Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa: ||

1806 10 || - Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter || 0

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 || 50

|| - Other, in blocks, slabs or bars: ||

1806 31 00 || - - Filled || 50

1806 32 || - - Not filled || 50

1806 90 || - Other || 50

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 || 0

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 || 50

1902 19 || - - Other || 50

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

1902 20 10 || - - Containing more than 20 % by weight of fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates || 0

1902 20 30 || - - Containing more than 20 % by weight of sausages and the like, of meat and meat offal of any kind, including fats of any kind or origin || 100

|| - - Other: ||

1902 20 91 || - - - Cooked || 50

1902 20 99 || - - - Other || 50

1902 30 || - Other pasta || 50

1902 40 || - Couscous || 50

1903 00 00 || Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar forms || 0

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, groats and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included || 100

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 || 50

2001 || Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid: ||

2001 90 || - Other: ||

2001 90 30 || - - Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata) || 0

2001 90 40 || - - Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch || 0

2001 90 92 || - - Tropical fruit and tropical nuts; palm hearts || 0

2004 || Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading 2006: ||

2004 10 || - Potatoes: ||

|| - - Other: ||

2004 10 91 || - - - In the form of flour, meal or flakes || 0

2004 90 || - Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables: ||

2004 90 10 || - - Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata) || 0

2005 || Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 2006: ||

2005 20 || - Potatoes: ||

2005 20 10 || - - In the form of flour, meal or flakes || 0

2005 80 00 || - Sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata) || 0

2008 || 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: ||

|| - Nuts, groundnuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together: ||

2008 11 || - - Groundnuts: ||

2008 11 10 || - - - Peanut butter || 0

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

2008 91 00 || - - Palm hearts || 0

2008 99 || - - Other: ||

|| - - - Not containing added spirit: ||

|| - - - - Not containing added sugar: ||

2008 99 85 || - - - - - Maize (corn), other than sweetcorn (Zea mays var. saccharata) || 0

2008 99 91 || - - - - - Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5 % or more by weight of starch || 0

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 || 0

2102 || Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading 3002); prepared baking powders || 100

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

2103 10 00 || - Soya sauce || 0

2103 20 00 || - Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces || 100

2103 30 || - Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard || 0

2103 90 || - Other: ||

2103 90 10 || - - Mango chutney, liquid || 0

2103 90 30 || - - Aromatic bitters of an alcoholic strength by volume of 44,2 to 49,2 % vol containing from 1,5 to 6 % by weight of gentian, spices and various ingredients and from 4 to 10 % of sugar, in containers holding 0,5 litre or less || 0

2103 90 90 || - - Other: ||

2103 90 90 10 || - - - Combined herbs pepper based || 0

2103 90 90 50 || - - - Mayonnaise || 100

2103 90 90 90 || - - - Other || 0

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

2104 10 00 || - Soups and broths and preparations therefor || 50

2104 20 00 || - Homogenised composite food preparations || 0

2105 00 || Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa || 0

2106 || Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included: ||

2106 10 || - Protein concentrates and textured protein substances || 0

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 || 0

|| - - Other: ||

2106 90 92 || - - - 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 || 0

2106 90 98 || - - - Other || 0

2201 || Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow || 50

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 2009 || 50

2203 00 || Beer made from malt || 0

2205 || Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances || 0

2207 || Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength || 0

2208 || Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages || 0

2402 || Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes || 70

2403 || Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; 'homogenised' or 'reconstituted' tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences || 100

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

|| - Other polyhydric alcohols: ||

2905 43 00 || - - Mannitol || 0

2905 44 || - - D-glucitol (sorbitol) || 0

2905 45 00 || - - Glycerol || 0

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 || 0

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 || - Of a kind used in the food or drink industries: ||

|| - - Of a kind used in the drink industries: ||

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

3302 10 10 || - - - - Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0,5 % || 0

|| - - - - 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 || 0

3302 10 29 || - - - - - Other || 0

3501 || Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues: ||

3501 10 || - Casein || 0

3501 90 || - Other: ||

3501 90 90 || - - Other || 0

3505 || Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pregelatinised or esterified starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches || 0

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 || 0

3823 || Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols || 0

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: ||

3824 60 || - Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44 || 0

" ANNEX VI

'ANNEX III

DUTIES APPLICABLE TO GOODS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ON IMPORT INTO THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (ZERO-DUTY TARIFF WITHIN TARIFF QUOTAS)

CN Code || Description || Annual tariff quota (tonnes) || Applicable duty (% of MFN)

0403 || Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, 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: || 370 || 0

0403 10 || - Yogurt: || ||

|| - - Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

|| - - - In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milkfat content, by weight:

0403 10 51 || - - - - Not exceeding 1,5 %

0403 10 53 || - - - - Exceeding 1,5 % but not exceeding 27 %

|| - - - Other, of a milkfat content, by weight:

0403 10 91 || - - - - Not exceeding 3 %

0403 10 93 || - - - - Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 %

0403 10 99 || - - - - Exceeding 6 %

0403 90 || - Other:

|| - - Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

|| - - - Other, of a milkfat content, by weight:

0403 90 91 || - - - - Not exceeding 3 %

0403 90 93 || - - - - Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 % || ||

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 1516: || 450 || 0

1517 10 || - Margarine, excluding liquid margarine

1704 || Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa: || 385 || 0

1704 90 || - Other

1806 || Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa: || 1150 || 0

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 || ||

|| - Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00 || - - Filled

1806 32 || - - Not filled || ||

1806 90 || - 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 || 215 || 0

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 || 1435 || 0

2102 || Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading 3002); prepared baking powders: || 850 || 0

2102 10 || - Active yeasts

2102 || Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading 3002); prepared baking powders: || 35 || 0

2102 30 00 || - Prepared baking powders

2103 || Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard: || 100 || 0

2104 || Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations: || 450 || 0

2104 10 00 || - Soups and broths and preparations therefor

2201 || Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow || 1050 || 0

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 2009 || 1670 || 0

2402 || Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes: || 100 || 0

2402 20 || - Cigarettes containing tobacco

DUTIES APPLICABLE TO GOODS ORIGINATING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ON IMPORT INTO THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (CONCESSIONS WITHIN TARIFF QUOTAS) 2

CN Code || Description || Annual tariff quota (tonnes) || Applicable duty

2201 || Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow || 150 || 12 %

2402 || Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes: || 270 || 27 %

2402 20 || - Cigarettes containing tobacco

ANNEX VII

‘1. Imports into the European Union of the following products originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia shall be subject to the concessions set out below:

‘CN code || Description || Applicable duty || Year 2013 quantities (hl) || Yearly adjustments as of 2014 (hl) || Special provisions

ex 2204 10 ex 2204 21 || Quality sparkling wine Wine of fresh grapes || Exemption || 85 000 || + 6 000 || (1)

ex 2204 29 || Wine of fresh grapes || Exemption || 395 000 || - 6000 || (1)

(1) Consultations at the request of one of the Contracting Parties may be held to adapt the quotas by transferring quantities above 6000 hl from the quota applying to position ex 2204 29 to the quota applying to positions ex 2204 10 and ex 2204 21.”

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“3. Imports into the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia of the following products originating in the European Union shall be subject to the concessions set out below:

CN code || Description || Applicable duty || Year 2013 quantities (hl) || Yearly adjustments as of 2014 (hl) || Special provisions

ex 2204 10 ex 2204 21 || Quality sparkling wine Wine of fresh grapes || Exemption || 13 800 || + 300 ||

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ANNEX VIII

‘PROTOCOL 4

ANNEX IV

Text of the invoice declaration

The invoice declaration, the text of which is given below, must be made out in accordance with the footnotes. However, the footnotes do not have to be reproduced.

Bulgarian version

Износителят на продуктите, обхванати от този документ (митническо разрешение № … (1)) декларира, че освен където ясно е отбелязано друго, тези продукти са с ….(2)преференциален произход

Spanish version

El exportador de los productos incluidos en el presente documento (autorización aduanera n° …(1)) declara que, salvo indicación en sentido contrario, estos productos gozan de un origen preferencial ...().

Czech version

Vývozce výrobků uvedených v tomto dokumentu (číslo povolení …(1)) prohlašuje, že kromě zřetelně označených, mají tyto výrobky preferenční původ v …(2).

Danish version

Eksportøren af varer, der er omfattet af nærværende dokument, (toldmyndighedernes tilladelse nr. ...(1)), erklærer, at varerne, medmindre andet tydeligt er angivet, har præferenceoprindelse i ...(2).

German version

Der Ausführer (Ermächtigter Ausführer; Bewilligungs-Nr. ...(1)) der Waren, auf die sich dieses Handelspapier bezieht, erklärt, dass diese Waren, soweit nicht anderes angegeben, präferenzbegünstigte ...(2) Ursprungswaren sind.

Estonian version

Käesoleva dokumendiga hõlmatud toodete eksportija (tolliameti kinnitus nr. ...(1)) deklareerib, et need tooted on ...(2) sooduspäritoluga, välja arvatud juhul kui on selgelt näidatud teisiti.

Greek version

Ο εξαγωγέας των προϊόντων που καλύπτονται από το παρόν έγγραφο (άδεια τελωνείου υπ΄αριθ. ...(1)) δηλώνει ότι, εκτός εάν δηλώνεται σαφώς άλλως, τα προϊόντα αυτά είναι προτιμησιακής καταγωγής ...(2).

English version

The exporter of the products covered by this document (customs authorization No ...(1)) declares that, except where otherwise clearly indicated, these products are of ...(2) preferential origin.

French version

L'exportateur des produits couverts par le présent document (autorisation douanière n° ...(1)) déclare que, sauf indication claire du contraire, ces produits ont l'origine préférentielle ...(2).

Croatian version

Izvoznik proizvoda obuhvaćenih ovom ispravom (carinsko ovlaštenje br. ..........(1)) izjavljuje da su, osim ako je drukčije izričito navedeno, ovi proizvodi ..........(2) preferencijalnog podrijetla.

Italian version

L'esportatore delle merci contemplate nel presente documento (autorizzazione doganale n. …(1)), dichiara che, salvo indicazione contraria, le merci sono di origine preferenziale …(2).

Latvian version

Eksportētājs produktiem, kuri ietverti šajā dokumentā (muitas pilnvara Nr. …(1)), deklarē, ka, iznemot tur, kur ir citādi skaidri noteikts, šiem produktiem ir priekšrocību izcelsme no …(2).

Lithuanian version

Šiame dokumente išvardintų prekių eksportuotojas (muitinès liudijimo Nr …(1)) deklaruoja, kad, jeigu kitaip nenurodyta, tai yra …(2) preferencinès kilmés prekés.

Hungarian version

A jelen okmányban szereplő áruk exportőre (vámfelhatalmazási szám: …(1)) kijelentem, hogy eltérő jelzés hianyában az áruk kedvezményes …(2) származásúak.

Maltese version

L-esportatur tal-prodotti koperti b’dan id-dokument (awtorizzazzjoni tad-dwana nru. …(1)) jiddikjara li, ħlief fejn indikat b’mod ċar li mhux hekk, dawn il-prodotti huma ta’ oriġini preferenzjali …(2).

Dutch version

De exporteur van de goederen waarop dit document van toepassing is (douanevergunning nr. ...(1)), verklaart dat, behoudens uitdrukkelijke andersluidende vermelding, deze goederen van preferentiële ... oorsprong zijn (2).

Polish version

Eksporter produktów objętych tym dokumentem (upoważnienie władz celnych nr …(1)) deklaruje, że z wyjątkiem gdzie jest to wyraźnie określone, produkty te mają …(2) preferencyjne pochodzenie.

Portuguese version

O abaixo assinado, exportador dos produtos cobertos pelo presente documento (autorização aduaneira n°. ...(1)), declara que, salvo expressamente indicado em contrário, estes produtos são de origem preferencial ...(2).

Romanian version

Exportatorul produselor ce fac ojiectul acestui document (autorizaţia vamalâ nr. …(1)) declará cá, exceptând cazul în care în mod expres este indicat altfel, aceste produse sunt de origine preferenţialā …(2).

Slovak version

Vývozca výrobkov uvedených v tomto dokumente (číslo povolenia …(1)) vyhlasuje, že okrem zreteľne označených, majú tieto výrobky preferenčný pôvod v …(2).

Slovenian version

Izvoznik blaga, zajetega s tem dokumentom (pooblastilo carinskih organov št …(1)) izjavlja, da, razen če ni drugače jasno navedeno, ima to blago preferencialno …(2) poreklo.

Finnish version

Tässä asiakirjassa mainittujen tuotteiden viejä (tullin lupa n:o ...(1)) ilmoittaa, että nämä tuotteet ovat, ellei toisin ole selvästi merkitty, etuuskohteluun oikeutettuja ... alkuperätuotteita (2).

Swedish version

Exportören av de varor som omfattas av detta dokument (tullmyndighetens tillstånd nr. ...(1)) försäkrar att dessa varor, om inte annat tydligt markerats, har förmånsberättigande ... ursprung (2).

Version of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Извозникот на производите што ги покрива овоj документ (царинскo одобрение бр. …… (1)) изjавува дека, освен ако тоа не е jасно поинаку назначено, овие производи се со .........………….(2) преференциjaлно потекло.

……………………………………………………………............................................. (3)

(Place and date)

...…………………………………………………………………….............................. (4)

(Signature of the exporter, in addition the name of the person signing the declaration has to be indicated in clear script)"

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([1]) When the invoice declaration is made out by an approved exporter, the authorization number of the approved exporter must be entered in this space. When the invoice declaration is not made out by an approved exporter, the words in brackets shall be omitted or the space left blank.

(2) Origin of products to be indicated. When the invoice declaration relates, in whole or in part, to products originating in Ceuta and Mellila, the exporter must clearly indicate them in the document on which the declaration is made out by means of the symbol "CM".

(3) These indications may be omitted if the information is contained on the document itself.

(4) In cases where the exporter is not required to sign, the exemption of signature also implies the exemption of the name of the signatory.

[1]               OJ C […], […], p.[…].

[2]               As defined in the Customs Tariff Law – Official Gazette No 23/03, 69/04, 10/08, 35/10 and 11/12 of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Decision on Harmonization and Changing of Customs Tariff – Official Gazette No 169/12 of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

2               The applicable duty for exceeding quantities is laid down in Annex II