of 25 June 2007

amending the trade concessions for processed agricultural products covered by Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council on implementing the final phase of the Customs Union and by Decision No 1/97 on the arrangements applicable to certain processed agricultural products and repealing Decision No 1/97

(2008/625/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

Having regard to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Turkey

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and in particular Article 22(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Section V of Chapter I of Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of 22 December 1995 on implementing the final phase of the Customs Union

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establishes the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products.

(2) Decision No 1/97 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of 29 April 1997 on the arrangements applicable to certain processed agricultural products

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establishes annual quotas in respect of certain goods.

(3) New trade improvements have recently been negotiated which aim to deepen and widen the customs union and to improve economic convergence as a result of the enlargement of the Community on 1 May 2004. These improvements include concessions in the form of duty free tariff quotas (in particular for the goods covered by Decision No 1/97). That Decision should therefore be repealed.

(4) For imports outside of the quotas the current trade provisions set out in Decision 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council should continue to apply,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The tariff quotas set out in Annex I and in Annex II shall be opened from 1 January 2007 and from 1 January to 31 December of the following years under the conditions laid down therein.

Article 2

Section V of Chapter I of Decision No 1/95 of the EC-Turkey Association Council shall continue to apply to imports exceeding the duty free tariff quotas set out in Annex I and in Annex II.

Article 3

Decision No 1/97 of the EC Turkey Association Council shall be repealed.

Article 4

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

It shall apply as from 1 January 2007.

Done at Brussels, 25 June 2007.

For the Association Council

The President

GÜL

(1)

OJ 217, 29.12.1964, p. 3687/64

(2)

OJ L 35, 13.2.1996, p. 1

(3)

OJ L 126, 17.5.1997, p. 26

ANNEX I

Duty-free tariff quotas applicable upon imports into the EU of processed agricultural products from Turkey

CN code	Product description	Annual duty-free tariff quota (in tonnes net weight)
(1)	(2)	(3)
1704	Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:	5 000
1704 10	– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:
1704 10	– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
1704 10 11	– – – Gum in strips
1704 10 19	– – – Other
1704 10 19	– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
1704 10 91	– – – Gum in strips
1704 10 99	– – – Other
1704 90	– Other:	10 000 (1)
1704 90 30	– – White chocolate
1704 90 30	– – Other:
1704 90 51	– – – Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or more
1704 90 55	– – – Throat pastilles and cough drops
1704 90 61	– – – Sugar-coated (panned) goods
1704 90 61	– – – Other:
1704 90 65	– – – – Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery, including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery
1704 90 71	– – – – Boiled sweets whether or not filled
1704 90 75	– – – – Toffees, caramels and similar sweets
1704 90 75	– – – – Other:
1704 90 81	– – – – – Compressed tablets
1704 90 99	– – – – – Other
1806	Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:	5 000 (2)
1806 10	– Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
1806 10 20	– – Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
1806 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:
1806 20 10	– – Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milkfat
1806 20 30	– – Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa butter and milkfat
1806 20 30	– – Other:
1806 20 50	– – – Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter
1806 20 70	– – – Chocolate milk crumb
1806 20 80	– – – Chocolate flavour coating
1806 20 95	– – – Other
1806 20 95	– Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:
1806 31 00	– – Filled
1806 32	– – Not filled
1806 32 10	– – – With added cereal, fruit or nuts
1806 32 90	– – – Other
1806 90	– Other:
	– – Chocolate and chocolate products:
	– – – Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled:
1806 90 11	– – – – Containing alcohol
1806 90 19	– – – – Other
1806 90 19	– – – Other:
1806 90 31	– – – – Filled
1806 90 39	– – – – Not filled
1806 90 50	– – Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefore made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa
1806 90 60	– – Spreads containing cocoa
1806 90 70	– – Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages
1806 90 90	– – Other
1901	Malt extract; food preparations of flour, 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:	900
1901 20 00	– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers’ wares of heading 1905	900
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:	20 000
1902	– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:
1902 11 00	– – Containing eggs
1902 19	– – Other:
1902 19 10	– – – Containing no common wheat flour or meal
1902 19 90	– – – Other
1902 20	– Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
1902 20	– – Other:
1902 20 91	– – – Cooked
1902 20 99	– – – Other
1902 30	– Other pasta:
1902 30 10	– – Dried
1902 30 90	– – Other
1902 40	– Couscous:
1902 40 10	– – Unprepared
1902 40 90	– – Other
1904	Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, cornflakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)), in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included:	500
1904 10	– Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:
1904 10 10	– – Obtained from maize
1904 10 30	– – Obtained from rice
1904 10 90	– – Other
1904 20	– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:	100
1904 20 10	– – Preparation of the muesli-type based on unroasted cereal flakes
1904 20 10	– – Other:
1904 20 91	– – – Obtained from maize
1904 20 95	– – – Obtained from rice
1904 20 99	– – – Other
1904 30 00	– Bulgur wheat	10 000
1904 90	– Other:	2 500
1904 90 10	– – Rice
1904 90 80	– – Other
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, ricepaper and similar products:	10 000
1905	– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
1905 31	– – Sweet biscuits:
1905 31	– – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:
1905 31 11	– – – – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g
1905 31 19	– – – – Other
1905 31 19	– – – Other:
1905 31 30	– – – – Containing 8 % or more by weight of milk fats
1905 31 30	– – – – Other:
1905 31 91	– – – – – Sandwich biscuits
1905 31 99	– – – – – Other
1905 32	– – Waffles and wafers:	3 000
1905 32 05	– – – With a water content exceeding 10 % by weight
	– – – Other
	– – – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:
1905 32 11	– – – – – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g
1905 32 19	– – – – – Other
1905 32 19	– – – – Other:
1905 32 91	– – – – – Salted, whether or not filled
1905 32 99	– – – – – Other
1905 40	– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:	120
1905 40 10	– – Rusks
1905 40 90	– – Other
1905 90	– Other:	10 000
1905 90 10	– – Matzos
1905 90 20	– – Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, ricepaper and similar products
1905 90 20	– – Other:
1905 90 30	– – – Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not more than 5 % of fat
1905 90 45	– – – Biscuits
1905 90 55	– – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
1905 90 55	– – – Other:
1905 90 60	– – – – With added sweetening matter
2105 00	Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa:	3 000 (3)
2105 00 10	– Containing no milk fats or containing less than 3 % by weight of such fats
2105 00 10	– Containing by weight of milk fats:
2105 00 91	– – 3 % or more but less than 7 %
2105 00 99	– – 7 % or more
2106	Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:	4 000
2106 10	– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:
2106 10 80	– – Other
2106 90	– Other:
2106 90 98	– – – Other

(1) Products, which are excluded from the duty-free quota: 1704 90 99 9080, but including Halva and Lokoum.

(2) Products, which are excluded from the duty-free quota: 1806 20 80 9080, 1806 20 95 9080, 1806 90 90 1980, 1806 90 90 9980.

(3) Application delayed till the problems regarding imports into EU of milk and milk products originating in Turkey will be solved.

ANNEX II

Duty-free tariff quotas applicable upon imports into Turkey of processed agricultural products from the EU

CN code	Product description	Annual duty-free tariff quota (in tonnes net weight)
(1)	(2)	(3)
1704	Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:	1 000
1704 10	– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:
1704 10	– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
1704 10 11	– – – Gum in strips
1704 10 19	– – – Other
1704 10 19	– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose):
1704 10 91	– – – Gum in strips
1704 10 99	– – – Other
1704 90	– Other:	2 500
1704 90 30	– – – White chocolate
1704 90 30	– – Other:
1704 90 51	– – – Pastes, including marzipan, in immediate packings of a net content of 1 kg or more
1704 90 55	– – – Throat pastilles and cough drops
1704 90 61	– – – Sugar-coated (panned) goods
1704 90 61	– – – Other:
1704 90 65	– – – – Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery, including fruit pastes in the form of sugar confectionery
1704 90 71	– – – – Boiled sweets whether or not filled
1704 90 75	– – – – Toffees, caramels and similar sweets
1704 90 75	– – – Other:
1704 90 81	– – – – – Compressed tablets
1704 90 99	– – – – – Other
1806	Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:	7 000
1806 10	– Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
1806 10 20	– – Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
1806 10 30	– – Containing 65 % or more but less than 80 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
1806 10 90	– – Containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose
1806 20	– Other preparations in 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:
1806 20 10	– – Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a combined weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milk fat
1806 20 30	– – Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa butter and milk fat
1806 20 30	– – Other:
1806 20 50	– – – Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter
1806 20 70	– – – Chocolate milk crumb
1806 20 80	– – – Chocolate flavour coating
1806 20 95	– – – Other
1806 20 95	– Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:
1806 31 00	– – Filled
1806 32	– – Not filled
1806 32 10	– – – With added cereal, fruit or nuts
1806 32 90	– – – Other
1806 90	– Other:
	– – Chocolate and chocolate products:
	– – – Chocolates (including pralines), whether or not filled:
1806 90 11	– – – – Containing alcohol
1806 90 19	– – – – Other
1806 90 19	– – – Other:
1806 90 31	– – – – Filled
1806 90 39	– – – – Not filled
1806 90 50	– – Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products, containing cocoa
1806 90 60	– – Spreads containing cocoa
1806 90 70	– – Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages
1806 90 90	– – Other
1901	Malt extract; food preparations of flour, 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:	500
1901 10 00	– Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale	500
1901 20	– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905	300
1901 90	– Other:	2 000
1901 90	– – Malt extract:
1901 90 11	– – – With a dry extract content of 90 % or more by weight
1901 90 19	– – – Other
1901 90 19	– – Other:
1901 90 99	– – – Other
1902	Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:	20 000
1902	– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared:
1902 11 00	– – Containing eggs
1902 19	– – Other:
1902 19 10	– – – Containing no common wheat flour or meal
1902 19 90	– – – Other
1902 20	– Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:
1902 20	– – Other:
1902 20 91	– – – Cooked
1902 20 99	– – – Other
1902 30	– Other pasta:
1902 30 10	– – Dried
1902 30 90	– – Other
1902 40	– Couscous:
1902 40 10	– – Unprepared
1902 40 90	– – Other
1904	Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, cornflakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)), in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included:	5 000
1904 10	– Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products:
1904 10 10	– – Obtained from maize
1904 10 30	– – Obtained from rice
1904 10 90	– – Other
1904 20	– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:	500
1904 20 10	– – Preparation of the muesli-type based on unroasted cereal flakes
1904 20 10	– – Other:
1904 20 91	– – – Obtained from maize
1904 20 95	– – – Obtained from rice
1904 20 99	– – – Other
1904 90	– Other:	300
1904 90 10	– – Rice
1904 90 80	– – Other
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, ricepaper and similar products:	1 000
1905	– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
1905 31	– – Sweet biscuits:
1905 31	– – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:
1905 31 11	– – – – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g
1905 31 19	– – – – Other
1905 31 19	– – – Other:
1905 31 30	– – – – Containing 8 % or more by weight of milk fats
1905 31 30	– – – – Other:
1905 31 91	– – – – – Sandwich biscuits
1905 31 99	– – – – – Other
1905 32	– – Waffles and wafers:	600
1905 32 05	– – – With a water content exceeding 10 % by weight
	– – – Other
	– – – – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other preparations containing cocoa:
1905 32 11	– – – – – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g
1905 32 19	– – – – – Other
1905 32 19	– – – – Other:
1905 32 91	– – – – – Salted, whether or not filled
1905 32 99	– – – – – Other
1905 40	– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:	200
1905 40 10	– – Rusks
1905 40 90	– – Other
1905 90	– Other:	1 500
1905 90 10	– – Matzos
1905 90 20	– – Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, ricepaper and similar products
1905 90 20	– – Other:
1905 90 30	– – – Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing by weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not more than 5 % of fat
1905 90 45	– – – Biscuits
1905 90 55	– – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
1905 90 55	– – – Other:
1905 90 60	– – – – With added sweetening matter
1905 90 90	– – – – Other
2105 00	Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa:	3 000 (1)
2105 00 10	– Containing no milk fats or containing less than 3 % by weight of such fats
2105 00 10	– Containing by weight of milk fats:
2105 00 91	– – 3 % or more but less than 7 %
2105 00 99	– – 7 % or more
2106	Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:	4 000
2106 10	– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:
2106 10 80	– – Other
2106 90	– Other:
2106 90 98	– – – Other

(1) Application delayed until the problems regarding imports into EU of milk and milk products originating in Turkey are solved.