Article 4

The reduction or suspension of import duties shall apply only to products intended for human consumption.

The tariff quotas shall not be available for those products whose processing is carried out at retail or catering level.

The tariff quotas shall not be available for products intended solely for one or more of the following operations:

• cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading;

• cutting;

• repacking of frozen IQF (individually quick frozen) fillets;

• sampling, sorting;

• labelling;

• packing;

• chilling;

• freezing;

• deep freezing;

• glazing;

• thawing;

• separation.

Notwithstanding paragraph 3, the tariff quotas shall be available for products intended for one or more of the following operations:

• dicing;

• cutting into rings and cutting into strips for materials under CN codes 0307 43 91, 0307 43 92, 0307 43 99;

• filleting;

• production of flaps;

• cutting of frozen blocks;

• splitting of frozen interleaved fillet blocks to obtain individual fillets;

• slicing for materials under CN codes ex 0303 66 11, 0303 66 12, 0303 66 13, 0303 66 19, 0303 89 70, 0303 89 90;

• subjecting products under CN codes 0306 16 99 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30), 0306 17 92 (TARIC subdivision 20), 0306 17 99 (TARIC subdivision 10), 0306 35 90 (TARIC subdivisions 12, 14, 92 and 93), 0306 36 90 (TARIC subdivisions 20 and 30), 1605 21 90 (TARIC subdivisions 45, 55 and 62) and 1605 29 00 (TARIC subdivisions 50, 55 and 60) to processing treatment by packaging gases as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1;

• dividing the frozen product or subjecting the frozen product to heat treatment to enable the removal of internal waste material for materials under CN codes 0306 11 10 (TARIC subdivision 10), 0306 11 90 (TARIC subdivision 20) and 0306 31 00 (TARIC subdivision 10).