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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-602/annex-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-602/annex-II.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1998/602",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 602/98 of 9 March 1998 extending the coverage of Regulations (EC) No 3281/94 and No 1256/96 concerning Community schemes of generalised tariff preferences for the benefit of the least-developed countries",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-602",
  "path": "annex/II",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2",
  "text": "PART 1\nVery sensitive products\nEntry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions.\nCN code\nDecription\nLive swine:\n– Other:\n– – Weighing less than 50 kg:\n0103 91 10\n– – – Domestic species\n– – Weighing 50 kg or more:\n– – – Domestic species:\n0103 92 11\n– – – – Sows having farrowed at least once, of a weight of not less than 160 kg\n0103 92 19\n– – – – Other\n0105\nLive poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls\nPig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked:\n0209 00 90\n– Poultry fat\nMeat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:\n– Other, including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:\n– – Offal:\n– – – Other:\n– – – – Poultry liver:\n0210 90 71\n– – – – – Fatty livers of geese or ducks, salted or in brine\n0210 90 79\n– – – – – Other\nMilk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:\n0401 10\n– Of a fat content, by weight, not exceeding 1 %\n0401 20\n– Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 1 % but not exceeding 6 %\n0401 30\n– Of a fat content, by weight, exceeding 6 %\nButtermilk, 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:\n– Yoghurt:\n0403 10 11\n0403 10 13\n0403 10 19\n0403 10 31\n0403 10 33\n0403 10 39\n– – Not flavoured nor containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa\n– Other:\n– – Not flavoured nor containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:\n0403 90 11\n0403 90 13\n0403 90 19\n0403 90 31\n0403 90 33\n0403 90 39\n– – – In powder, granules or other solid forms\n0403 90 51\n0403 90 53\n0403 90 59\n0403 90 61\n0403 90 63\n0403 90 69\n– – – Other\n0404\nWhey, 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\nButter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:\n0405 10\n– Butter\n– Dairy spreads:\n0405 20 90\n– – Of a fat content, by weight, of more than 75 % but less than 80 %\n0405 90\n– Other\nBirds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked:\n– Of poultry:\n0407 00 11\n0407 00 19\n– – For hatching\n0407 00 30\n– – Other\nBirds' 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\n– Egg yolks:\n– – Dried:\n0408 11 80\n– – – Other\n– – Other:\n– – – Other:\n0408 19 81\n– – – – Liquid\n0408 19 89\n– – – – Other, including frozen\n– Other:\n– – Dried:\n0408 91 80\n– – – Other\n– – Other:\n0408 99 80\n– – – Other\nOnions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other vegetables, fresh or chilled:\nex 0703 20 00\n– Garlic\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 June to 31 January\nCucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled:\nex 0707 00 05\n– Cucumbers with a length of more than 15 cm\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 November to 15 May\n0707 00 90\n– Gherkins\nOther vegetables, fresh or chilled:\nex 0709 10 00\n– Globe artichokes\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 January to 30 June\n– Mushrooms and truffles:\n0709 52 00\n– – Truffles\nApricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh:\nex 0809 10 00\n– Apricots\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 June to 31 July\nex 0809 30\n– Peaches, including nectarines:\nThe reduction is applicable from 11 June to 30 September\n– Plums and sloes:\nex 0809 40 05\n– – Plums\nThe reduction is applicable from 11 June to 30 September\nWheat or meslin flour:\n– Wheat flour:\n1101 00 11\n– – Of durum wheat\n1101 00 15\n– – Of common wheat and spelt\n1101 00 90\n– Meslin flour\nCereal groats, meal and pellets:\n1102 10 00\n– Rye flour\nCereal groats, meal and pellets:\n– Groats and meal:\n1103 11\n– – Of wheat\n– Pellets:\n1103 21 00\n– – Of wheat\nLocust 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:\n– Other:\n1212 91\n– – Sugar beet\n1212 92 00\n– – Sugar cane\nPig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading No 0209 or 1503:\n– Pig fat (including lard):\n1501 00 19\n– – Other\nOther prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood:\n– Homogenized preparations:\nex 1602 10 00\n– – Of swine, of bovine animals, of sheep and goats\n– Of liver of any animal:\n– – Other\nex 1602 20 90\n– – – Of swine, of bovine animals, of sheep and goats\n– Of swine:\n– – Ham and cuts thereof:\n1602 41 10\n– – – Of domestic swine\n– – Shoulders and cuts thereof:\n1602 42 10\n– – – Of domestic swine\n– – Other including mixtures:\n1602 49 11\n1602 49 13\n1602 49 15\n1602 49 19\n1602 49 30\n1602 49 50\n– – – Of domestic swine\n– Other, including preparations of blood of any animal:\n– – Preparations of blood of any animal:\nex 1602 90 10\n– – – Preparations of blood of bovine animals and of swine\n– – Other:\n– – – Other:\n1602 90 51\n– – – – Containing meat or meat offal of domestic swine\nOther 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:\n1702 11 00\n1702 19 00\n– Lactose and lactose syrup\n– Maple sugar and maple syrup:\n1702 20 10\n– – Maple sugar in solid form, containing added flavouring or colouring matter\n1702 20 90\n– – Other\n– Glucose and glucose syrup, not containing fructose or containing in the dry state less than 20 % by weight of fructose:\n1702 30 10\n– – Isoglucose\n– Glucose and glucose syrup, containing in the dry state at least 20 % but less than 50 % by weight of fructose:\n1702 40 10\n– – Isoglucose\n1702 60\n– Other fructose and fructose syrup, containing in the dry state more than 50 % by weight of fructose:\n– Other, including invert sugar:\n1702 90 30\n– – Isoglucose\n1702 90 60\n– – Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey\n– – Caramel:\n1702 90 71\n– – – Containing 50 % or more by weight of sucrose in the dry matter\n– – – Other:\n1702 90 75\n– – – – In the form of powder, whether or not agglomerated\n1702 90 80\n– – Inulin syrup\n1702 90 99\n– – Other\nFood preparations not elsewhere specified or included:\n– Other:\n– – Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups:\n2106 90 30\n– – – Isoglucose syrups\n– – – Other:\n2106 90 51\n– – – – Lactose syrup\n2106 90 59\n– – – – Other:\nPreparations of a kind used in animal feeding:\n– Dog or cat food, put up for retail sale:\n– – Containing starch, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup falling within subheadings 1702 30 51 to 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90, 1702 90 50 and 2106 90 55 or milk products:\n– – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup:\n– – – – Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch:\n2309 10 15\n– – – – – Containing not less than 50 % but less than 75 % by weight of milk products\n2309 10 19\n– – – – – Containing not less than 75 % by weight of milk products\n– – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 30 % by weight of starch:\n2309 10 39\n– – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products\n– – – – Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch:\n2309 10 59\n– – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products\n2309 10 70\n– – – Containing no starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup but containing milk products:\n– Other:\n– – Other:\n– – – Containing starch, glucose glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup falling within subheadings 1702 30 51 to 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90, 1702 90 50 and 2106 90 55, or milk products:\n– – – – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine syrup:\n– – – – – Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch:\n2309 90 35\n– – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % but less than 75 % by weight of milk products\n2309 90 39\n– – – – – – Containing not less than 75 % by weight of milk products\n– – – – – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 30 % by weight of starch:\n2309 90 49\n– – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products\n– – – – – Containing more than 30 % by weight of starch:\n2309 90 59\n– – – – – – Containing not less than 50 % by weight of milk products\n2309 90 70\n– – – – Containing no starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup but containin milk products\nPART 2\nSensitive products\nWhere, in the course of a year, imports of beef and veal falling within CN codes 0201 and 0202, originating in one of the countries mentioned in Annex IV of Regulation (EC) No 1256/96, exceed the greatest quantity of Community imports recorded for one year between 1969 and 1974 inclusive for the origin in question, plus an annual growth rate of 7 %, exemption from customs duties on the products of that origin shall be partially or totally suspended.\nCN code\nDescription\nLive bovine animals:\n0102 90\n– Other\n0201\nMeat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled:\n0202\nMeat of bovine animals, frozen\nMeat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:\n0210 20\n– Meat of bovine animals:\nStarches; inulin:\n1108 14 00\n– – Manioc (cassava) starch\n– – Other starches:\n– – – Other:\nex 1108 19 90\n– – – – Other than starches of arrowroot\n1109 00 00\nWheat gluten, whether or not dried\nOther 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:\n– Other, including invert sugar:\n– – Caramel:\n– – – Other:\n1702 90 79\n– – – – Other\nFood preparations not elsewhere specified or included:\n– Other:\n– – Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups:\n– – – Other:\n2106 90 55\n– – – – Glucose syrup and maltodextrine syrup\nResidues 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:\n– Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues:\n– – Residues from the manufacture of starch from maize (excluding concentrated steeping liquors), of a protein content, calculated on the dry product:\n2303 10 11\n– – – Exceeding 40 % by weight\nPreparations of a kind used in animal feeding:\n– Other:\n– – Other:\n– – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup falling within subheadings 1702 30 51 to 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90, 1702 90 50 and 2106 90 55 or milk products:\n– – – – Containing starch, glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup:\n– – – – – Containing no starch or containing 10 % or less by weight of starch:\n2309 90 31\n– – – – – – Containing no milk products or containing less than 10 % by weight of such products\nPART 3\nSemi-sensitive products\nCN code\nDescription\nCitrus fruit, fresh or dried:\n0805 10\n– Oranges\nex 0805 20\n– Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); clementines, wilkings and similar citrus hybrids\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 November to the end of February\nPART 4\nNon-sensitive products\nThe reduction is applicable on the specific duties.\nThe reduction is applicable on the ad valorem duties.\nThe reduction is applicable on the specific duties and on the ad valorem duties.\nEntry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions.\nCN code\nDescription\nMeat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen:\n0204 10 00\n– Carcases and half-carcases of lamb, fresh or chilled\n0204 21 00\n0204 22\n0204 23 00\n– Other meat of sheep, fresh or chilled\n0204 30 00\n– Carcases and half-carcases of lamb, frozen\n0204 41 00\n0204 42\n0204 43\n– Other meat of sheep, frozen\n0204 50\n– Meat of goats\nEdible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen:\n– Of bovine animals, fresh or chilled:\n– – Other:\n0206 10 95\n– – – Thick skirt and thin skirt\n– Of bovine animals, frozen:\n– – Other:\n– – – Other:\n0206 29 91\n– – – – Thick skirt and thin skirt\nOther meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen:\n– Other:\n0208 90 50\n– – Whale and seal meat\nMeat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:\n– Meat of swine:\n– – Bellies (streaky) and cuts thereof:\n0210 12 90\n– – – Other\n– Other including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:\n– – Offal:\n– – – Of bovine animals:\n0210 90 41\n– – – – Thick skirt and thin skirt\n0210 90 90\n– – Edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal\nOnions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled:\nex 0703 20 00\n– Garlic\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 February to 31 May\nCucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled:\nex 0707 00 05\n– Cucumbers with a length not exceeding 15 cm\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 November to 15 May\nOther vegetables, fresh or chilled:\nex 0709 10 00\n– Globe artichokes\nThe reduction is applicable from 1 November to 31 December\nManioc, 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:\n– Manioc (cassava):\n– – Other:\n0714 10 91\n– – – Of a kind used for human consumption, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 28 kg, either fresh and whole or without skin and frozen, whether or not sliced\n– Other:\n– – Arrowroot, salep and similar roots and tubers with high starch content:\n– – – Of a kind used for human consumption, in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 28 kg, either fresh and whole or without skin and frozen, whether or not sliced:\nex 0714 90 11\n– – – – Arrowroot\n– – – Other:\nex 0714 90 19\n– – – – Arrowroot\nGrapes, fresh or dried:\n– Dried:\n– – Other:\n0806 20 92\n– – – Sultanas\nWheat and meslin:\n– Other:\n1001 90 10\n– – Spelt for sowing\nFlour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No 0714 or of the products of Chapter 8:\n– Of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No 0714:\n– – Denatured:\nex 1106 20 10\n– – – Of flour and meal of arrowroot\n– – Other:\nex 1106 20 90\n– – – Of flour and meal of arrowroot\nStarches; inulin:\n– Starches:\n– – Other starches:\n– – – Other:\nex 1108 19 90\n– – – – Starches of arrowroot\nFats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:\n– Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals:\n– – Solid fractions:\n1504 30 11\n– – – Whale oil and sperm oil\nOther prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood:\n– Other, including preparations of blood of any animal:\n– – Other.\n– – – Other:\n– – – – Other\n– – – – – Other:\n– – – – – – Of sheep or goats:\n– – – – – – – Uncooked; mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked meat or offal:\n1602 90 72\n– – – – – – – – Of sheep",
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      "text": "Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description together."
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      "text": "The reduction is applicable on the specific duties."
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      "text": "The reduction is applicable on the ad valorem duties."
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      "text": "Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions."
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      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The reduction is applicable on the specific duties and on the ad valorem duties."
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      "text": "Where, in the course of a year, imports of beef and veal falling within CN codes 0201 and 0202, originating in one of the countries mentioned in Annex IV of Regulation (EC) No 1256/96, exceed the greatest quantity of Community imports recorded for one year between 1969 and 1974 inclusive for the origin in question, plus an annual growth rate of 7 %, exemption from customs duties on the products of that origin shall be partially or totally suspended."
    },
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      "type": "footnote",
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      "text": "Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions."
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