Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2505/92 of 14 July 1992 amending Annexes I and II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2505/92 of 14 July 1992 amending Annexes I and II to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (01)(), and in particular Articles 9 and 12 thereof,

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 established a goods nomenclature, hereinafter called the 'combined nomenclature', to meet, at one and the same time, the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and of the external trade statistics of the Community;

Whereas it is necessary to amend the combined nomenclature to take account of :

• changes in requirements relating to statistics or commercial policy,

• changes in the harmonized system nomenclature,

• the need to align or clarify texts;

Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 provides for the Commission to adopt each year by means of a Regulation, to apply from 1 January of the following year, a complete version of the combined nomenclature together with the corresponding autonomous and conventional rates of duty of the Common Customs Tariff, as it results from measures adopted by the Council or by the Commission (02)();

Whereas it is necessary to update the list at Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 concerning the specific Community measures referred to in Article 2 of that Regulation in order to take account of the evolution of Community measures liable to affect Taric;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Nomenclature Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Article 1

Annexes I and II to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 are hereby replaced by the Annexes to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1993.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 14 July 1992.

For the Commission Christiane SCRIVENER Member of the Commission

ANNEX I

PART ONE

PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS

SECTION I

GENERAL RULES A. General rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature Classification of goods in the combined nomenclature shall be governed by the following principles :

(b) Any reference in a heading to a material or substance shall be taken to include a reference to mixtures or combinations of that material or substance with other materials or substances. Any reference to goods of a given material or substance shall be taken to include a reference to goods consisting wholly or partly of such material or substance. The classification of goods consisting of more than one material or substance shall be according to the principles of rule 3.

(a) The heading which provides the most specific description shall be preferred to headings providing a more general description. However, when two or more headings each refer to part only of the materials or substances contained in mixed or composite goods or to part only of the items in a set put up for retail sale, those headings are to be regarded as equally specific in relation to those goods, even if one of them gives a more complete or precise description of the goods.

(b) Mixtures, composite goods consisting of different materials or made up of different components, and goods put up in sets for retail sale, which cannot be classified by reference to 3 (a), shall be classified as if they consisted of the material or component which gives them their essential character in so far as this criterion is applicable.

(c) When goods cannot be classified by reference to 3 (a) or (b), they shall be classified under the heading which occurs last in numerical order among those which equally merit consideration.

(a) Camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, drawing-instrument cases, necklace cases and similar containers, specially shaped or fitted to contain a specific article or set of articles, suitable for long-term use and presented with the articles for which they are intended, shall be classified with such articles when of a kind normally sold therewith. This rule does not, however, apply to containers which give the whole its essential character.

(b) Subject to the provisions of rule 5 (a) above, packing materials and packing containers (01)() presented with the goods therein shall be classified with the goods if they are of a kind normally used for packing such goods. However, this provision is not binding when such packing materials or packing containers are clearly suitable for repetitive use.

B. General rules concerning duties 1. The customs duties applicable to imported goods originating in countries which are Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or with which the European Economic Community has concluded agreements containing the most-favoured-nation tariff clause shall be the conventional duties shown in column 4 of the schedule of duties. Unless the context otherwise requires, these conventional duties are applicable to goods, other than those referred to above, imported from any third country.

The autonomous duties shown in column 3 are applicable :

when they are less than the conventional duties,

or

when no conventional duty exists, in which case a dash is shown in column 4.

When the customs duty is followed by the sign '+' and the symbol 'AGR' for example '16 + AGR', the goods are subject to both duty and levy.

When the customs duty is followed by the symbol '(AGR)', for example '20 (AGR)', the figure 20 refers to a rate of duty made obsolete by the introduction of the levy system.

• 1 Ecu/% vol/hl = 1 ECU × 40, giving a duty of ECU 40 per hectolitre, or

• 1 Ecu/% vol/hl + 5 Ecu/hl = 1 ECU × 40 plus ECU 5, giving a duty of ECU 45 per hectolitre.

Where, in addition, a minimum (MIN) value is shown, for example 1,6 Ecu/% vol/hl MIN 9 Ecu/hl, it means that the duty, calculated on the basis of the abovementioned rule, is to be compared with the minimum duty, for example ECU 9 per hectolitre, and the higher of the two is to be applied.

C. General rules applicable both to nomenclature and to duties 1. Unless provided otherwise, the provisions relating to customs value shall be applied to determine, in addition to the value for the assessment of ad valorem customs duties, the values by reference to which the scope of certain headings or subheadings is defined.

(a) in the case of a reference to 'gross weight', the aggregate weight of the goods and of all the packing materials and packing containers;

(b) in the case of a reference to 'net weight' or simply to 'weight' without qualification, the weight of the goods themselves without packing materials and packing containers of any kind.

However, where a change in the bilateral central rate of one or more national currencies occurs the provisions of Article 2 (3) of the abovementioned Regulation shall apply.

SECTION II

SPECIAL PROVISIONS A. Goods for certain categories of ships, boats and other vessels and for drilling or production platforms 1. Customs duties shall be suspended in respect of goods intended for incorporation in the ships, boats or other vessels listed in the following schedule, for the purposes of their construction, repair, maintenance or conversion, and in respect of goods intended for fitting to or equipping such ships, boats or other vessels.

(a) goods intended for incorporation in drilling or production platforms :

(1) fixed, subheading ex 8430 49 00 operating in the territorial sea of Member States,

(2) or floating or submersible, subheading 8905 20 00, for the purposes of their construction, repair, maintenance or conversion, and in respect of goods intended for equipping the said platforms.

Those goods such as motor fuel, lubricants and gas, which are necessary for the operation of machines and apparatus which do not affect permanently, and are not integral parts of the platforms and which are used on board for the construction, repair, maintenance, conversion or equipping of these platforms are regarded also as being used for incorporation in drilling or production platforms;

(b) tubes, pipes, cables and their connection pieces, linking these drilling or production platforms to the mainland.

Code number Description

8901 Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods :

8901 10 Cruise ships, excursion boats and similar vessels principally designed for the transport of persons; ferry-boats of all kinds :

8901 10 10 Sea-going

8901 20 Tankers :

8901 20 10 Sea-going

8901 30 Refrigerated vessels, other than those of subheading 8901 20 :

8901 30 10 Sea-going

8901 90 Other vessels for the transport of goods and other vessels for the transport of both persons and goods :

8901 90 10 Sea-going

8902 00 Fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for processing or preserving fishery products : Sea-going :

8902 00 11 Of a gross tonnage exceeding 250 tons (GRT)

8902 00 19 Of a gross tonnage not exceeding 250 tons (GRT)

8903 Yachts and other vessels for pleasure or sports; rowing boats and canoes : Other

8903 91 Sailboats, with or without auxiliary motor :

8903 91 10 Sea-going

8903 92 Motorboats, other than outboard motorboats :

8903 92 10 Sea-going

8904 00 Tugs and pusher craft :

8904 00 10 Tugs Pusher craft :

8904 00 91 Sea-going

8905 Light-vessels, fire-floats, dredgers, floating cranes, and other vessels the navigability of which is subsidiary to their main function; floating docks; floating or submersible drilling or production platforms :

8905 10 Dredgers :

8905 10 10 Sea-going

8905 90 Other :

8905 90 10 Sea-going

8906 00 Other vessels, including warships and lifeboats other than rowing boats :

8906 00 10 Warships Other :

8906 00 91 Sea-going

B. Civil aircraft and goods for use in civil aircraft 1. Relief from customs duty is provided for :

civil aircraft,

certain goods for use in civil aircraft and for incorporation therein in the course of their manufacture, repair, maintenance, rebuilding, modification or conversion,

ground flying-trainers and their parts, for civil use.

These goods are covered by subheading (03)() with a footnote reference in the following terms :

Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions. See also Section II, paragraph B, of the Preliminary Provisions.

C. Standard rate of duty 1. Customs duty shall be charged at the flat rate of 10 % ad valorem on goods :

contained in consignments sent by one private individual to another,

or

contained in travellers' personal luggage,

provided that such importations are not of a commercial nature.

This flat rate 10 % customs duty shall apply provided that the value of the goods subject to import duty does not exceed ECU 200 per consignment or per traveller.

Such flat rate assessment shall not apply to goods falling within Chapter 24 which are contained in a consignment or in travellers' personal luggage in amounts exceeding those laid down in Article 31 or in Article 46 of Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 (04)(), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1315/88 (05)().

(a) in the case of goods contained in consignments sent by one private individual to another, such consignments :

are of an occasional nature,

contain goods exclusively for the personal use of the consignee or his family; which do not by their nature or quantity reflect any commercial interest,

are sent to the consignee by the consignor free of payment of any kind;

(b) in the case of goods contained in travellers' personal luggage, they :

are of an occasional nature,

and

consist exclusively of goods for the personal use of the travellers or their families, or of goods intended as presents; the nature and quantity of such goods must not be such as might indicate that they are being imported for commercial reasons.

For the purposes of the first subparagraph, import duties shall mean both customs duties and charges having equivalent effect and agricultural levies and other import charges provided for under the common agricultural policy or under specific arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products.

D. Containers and packing materials The following provisions are applicable to the containers and packing materials referred to in general interpretative rule 5 (a) and (b) and put into free circulation at the same time as the goods which they contain or with which they are presented.

(a) chargeable at the same rate of customs duty as the goods :

where such goods are subject to an ad valorem customs duty, or

where they are to be included in the dutiable weight of the goods;

(b) admitted free of customs duties :

where the goods are free of customs duty, or

where the goods are dutiable otherwise than by reference to weight or value, or

where the weight of the containers and packing materials is not to be included in the dutiable weight of the goods.

SIGNS, ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

Refers to new code numbers © Refers to code numbers used the previous year but with differing coverage AD F/M Additional duty on flour AD S/Z Additional duty on sugar AGR Levy b/f Bottle flask Kbit 1 024 bits kg/br Kilogram, gross kg/net Kilogram, net MAX Maximum Mbit 1 048 576 bits MIN Minimum MOB Variable component

SUPPLEMENTARY UNITS

BRT Gross registered tonne (2 8316 m3)

c/k Carats (1 metric carat=2×10 4 kg)

ce/el Number of cells

ct/l Carrying capacity in tonnes (01)()

g Gram

gi F/S Gram of fissile isotopes

kg H2O2 Kilogram of hydrogen peroxide

kg K2O Kilogram of potassium oxide

kg KOH Kilogram of potassium hydroxide (caustic potash)

kg N Kilogram of nitrogen

kg NaOH Kilogram of sodium hydroxide (caustic soda)

kg P2O5 Kilogram of phosphorus pentoxide (phosphoric anhydride)

kg 90 % sdt Kilogram of substance 90 % dry

kg U Kilogram of uranium

1 000 kWh 1 000 kilowatt hours

l Litre

l alc. 100 % Litre pure (100 %) alcohol

m Metre

m2 Square metre

m3 Cubic metre

1 000 m3 1 000 cubic metres

pa Number of pairs

p/st Number of items

100 p/st Hundred items

1 000 p/st Thousand items

TJ Terajoule (gross calorific value)

PART TWO SCHEDULE OF CUSTOMS DUTIES

SECTION I LIVE ANIMALS; ANIMAL PRODUCTS

Notes 1. Any reference in this section to a particular genus or species of an animal, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reference to the young of that genus or species. 2. Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the nomenclature any reference to 'dried' products also covers products which have been dehydrated, evaporated or freeze-dried. CHAPTER 1 LIVE ANIMALS Note 1. This chapter covers all live animals except : (a) fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, of heading No 0301, 0306 or 0307; (b) cultures of micro-organisms and other products of heading No 3002; and (c) animals of heading No 9508.

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CHAPTER 2 MEAT AND EDIBLE MEAT OFFAL Note 1. This chapter does not cover : (a) products of the kinds described in heading Nos 0201 to 0208 or 0210, unfit or unsuitable for human consumption; (b) guts, bladders or stomachs of animals (heading No 0504) or animal blood (heading No 0511 or 3002); or (c) animal fat, other than products of heading No 0209 (Chapter 15). Additional notes 1. A. The following expressions shall have the meanings hereunder assigned to them : (a) 'Carcases of bovine animals', for the purposes of subheadings 0201 10 and 0202 10, whole carcases of the slaughtered animals after having been bled, eviscerated and skinned, imported with or without the heads, with or without the feet and with or without the other offals attached. Where carcases are imported without the heads, the latter must have been separated from the carcase at the atloido-occipital joint. When imported without the feet, the latter must have been cut off at the carpo-metacarpal or tarso-metatarsal joints; 'carcase' shall include the front part of the carcase comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder having more than 10 pairs of ribs. (b) 'Half-carcases of bovine animals', for the purposes of subheadings 0201 10 and 0202 10, the product resulting from the symmetrical division of the whole carcase through the centre of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the centre of the sternum and of the ischio-pubeic symphysis; 'half-carcase' shall include the front part of the half-carcase comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder having more than 10 ribs. (c) 'Compensated quarters', for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 20 and 0202 20 10 : portions composed of either : - forequarters comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, and cut at the tenth rib; and hindquarters comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, and cut at the third rib, or - forequarters comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, and cut at the fifth rib, with the whole of the flank and breast attached; and hindquarters comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, and cut at the eighth cut rib. The forequarters and the hindquarters constituting 'compensated quarters' must be imported at the same time and in equal numbers, and the total weight of the forequarters must be the same as that of the hindquarters; however, a difference between the weights of the two parts of the consignment is allowed provided that this does not exceed 5 % of the weight of the heavier part (forequarters or hindquarters). (d) 'Unseparated forequarters', for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 30 and 0202 20 30 : the front part of a carcase comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, with a minimum of four pairs of ribs and a maximum of 10 pairs of ribs (the first four pairs of ribs must be whole, the others may be cut) with or without the thin flank. (e) 'Separated forequarters', for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 30 and 0202 20 30 : the front part of a half-carcase comprising all the bones and the scrag, neck and shoulder, with a minimum of four ribs and a maximum of 10 ribs (the first four ribs must be whole, the others may be cut) with or without the thin flank. (f) 'Unseparated hindquarters', for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 50 and 0202 20 50 : the rear part of a carcase comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, including the fillet, with a minimum of three pairs of whole or cut ribs, with or without the shank and with or without the thin flank. (g) 'Separated hindquarters', for the purposes of subheadings 0201 20 50 and 0202 20 50 : the rear part of a half-carcase comprising all the bones and the thigh and sirloin, including the fillet, with a minimum of three whole or cut ribs, with or without the shank and with or without the thin flank. (h) 11. 'Crop' and 'chuck and blade' cuts, for the purposes of subheading 0202 30 50 : the dorsal part of the forequarter, including the upper part of the shoulder, obtained from a forequarter with a minimum of four ribs and a maximum of 10 ribs by a cut along a straight line through the point where the first rib joins the first sternal segment to the point of reflection of the diaphragm on the tenth rib. 22. 'Brisket' cut, for the purposes of subheading 0202 30 50 : the lower part of the forequarter comprising the brisket navel end and the brisket point end. B. In determining the number of whole or cut ribs referred to in paragraph 1 A, only those attached to the backbone shall be taken into consideration. 2. A. The following expressions shall have the meanings hereunder assigned to them : (a) 'Carcases or half-carcases', for the purposes of subheadings 0203 11 10 and 0203 21 10 : slaughtered pigs in the form of carcases of domestic swine which have been bled and eviscerated and from which the bristles and hooves have been removed. Half-carcases are derived from whole carcases by division through the centre of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the centre of the sternum and the ischio-pubic symphysis. These carcases and half-carcases may be with or without head, feet, flare fat, kidneys, tail or diaphragm. Half-carcases may be with or without spinal cord, brain or tongue. Carcases and half-carcases of sows may be with or without udders (mammary glands). (b) 'Hams' (legs), for the purposes of subheadings 0203 12 11, 0203 22 11, 0210 11 11 and 0210 11 31 : the posterior (caudal) part of the half-carcase including bones, with or without foot, shank, rind or subcutaneous fat. The ham (leg) is separated from the rest of the half-carcase so that it includes, at most, the last lumbar vertebra. (c) 'Fore-ends', for the purposes of subheadings 0203 19 11, 0203 29 11, 0210 19 30 and 0210 19 60 : the anterior (cranial) part of the half-carcase without the head, including bones, with or without foot, shank, rind or subcutaneous fat. The fore-end is separated from the rest of the half-carcase so that it includes, at most, the fifth dorsal vertebra. The upper (dorsal) part of the fore-end, whether or not containing the blade-bone and attached muscles, (neck-end in fresh or collar in salted condition), is considered a cut of the loin, when it is separated from the lower (ventral) part of the fore-end, at most by a cut just below the vertebral column. (d) 'Shoulders', for the purposes of subheadings 0203 12 19, 0203 22 19, 0210 11 19 and 0210 11 39 : the lower part of the fore-end whether or not containing the blade-bone and attached muscles, including bones, with or without foot, shank, rind or subcutaneous fat. The blade-bone and attached muscles presented separately shall remain classified in this subheading as a part of the shoulder. (e) 'Loins', for the purposes of subheadings 0203 19 13, 0203 29 13, 0210 19 40 and 0210 19 70 : the upper part of the half-carcase, extending from the first cervical vertebra to the caudal vertebrae, including bones, with or without the tenderloin, blade-bone, subcutaneous fat or rind. The loin is separated from the lower part of the half-carcase by a cut just below the vertebral column. (f) 'Bellies', for the purposes of subheadings 0203 19 15, 0203 29 15, 0210 12 11 and 0210 12 19 : the lower part of the half-carcase situated between the ham (leg) and the shoulder, commonly known as 'streaky', with or without bones, but with the rind and the subcutaneous fat. (g) 'Bacon sides', for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 10 : the pig half-carcase without the head, cheek, chap, feet, tail, flare fat, kidney, tenderloin, blade bone, sternum, vertebral column, pelvic bone and diaphragm. (h) 'Spencers', for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 10 : the bacon side without the ham, whether or not boned. (ij) 'Three-quarter sides', for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 20 : the bacon side without the fore-end, whether or not boned. (k) 'Middles', for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 20 : the bacon side without the ham and the fore-end, whether or not boned. The subheading also includes cuts of middles containing tissue of loin and belly in natural proportion to the entire middles. B. The parts of the cuts defined in paragraph 2 A (f) fall within the same subheadings only if they contain rind and subcutaneous fat. If the cuts falling within subheadings 0210 11 11 and 0210 11 19 as well as 0210 11 31, 0210 11 39, 0210 19 30 and 0210 19 60 are derived from a bacon side from which the bones indicated under paragraph 2 A (g) have already been removed, the lines of cutting shall follow those defined under paragraph 2 A (b), (c) and (d) accordingly; in any case, these cuts or parts thereof shall contain bones. C. Subheadings 0206 30 31, 0206 49 91 and 0210 90 39, shall include, in particular, heads or halves of heads of domestic swine, with or without the brains, cheeks or tongues, and parts thereof. The head is separated from the rest of the half-carcase by a straight cut parallel to the cranium. The cheeks, snouts and ears as well as the meat attached to the head, particularly to the rear part (including the chaps), are considered parts of heads. The boneless meat of the fore-end (including the jowl) fall within subheading 0203 19 55, 0203 29 55, 0210 19 51 or 0210 19 81 as the case may be. D. For the purposes of subheadings 0209 00 11 and 0209 00 19, 'subcutaneous pig fat' shall have the meaning of the fatty tissue which accumulates under the rind of the pig and adheres to it, irrespective of the part of the pig from which it comes; in any case, the weight of the fatty tissue shall exceed the weight of the rind. Those subheadings also include subcutaneous pig fat from which the rind has been removed. E. For the purposes of subheadings 0210 11 31, 0210 11 39, 0210 12 19 and 0210 19 60 to 0210 19 89, products in which the water/protein ratio in the meat (nitrogen content ×6,25) is 2,8 or less shall be considered as 'dried or smoked'. The nitrogen content shall be determined according to ISO method 937-1978. 3. A. For the purposes of heading No 0204, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereunder assigned to them : (a) 'Carcases', for the purposes of subheadings 0204 10, 0204 21, 0204 30, 0204 41, 0204 50 11 and 0204 50 51 : whole carcases of the slaughtered animals after having been bled, eviscerated and skinned, imported with or without the heads, with or without the feet and with or without the other offals attached. Where carcases are imported without the heads, the latter must have been separated from the carcase at the atloido-occipital joint. When imported without the feet, the latter must have been cut off at the carpo-metacarpal or tarso-metatarsal joints. (b) 'Half-carcases', for the purposes of subheadings 0204 10, 0204 21, 0204 30, 0204 41 , 0204 50 11 and 0204 50 51 : the product resulting from the symmetrical division of the whole carcase through the centre of each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra and through the centre of the sternum and of the ischio-pubic symphysis. (c) 'Short-forequarters', for the purposes of the subheadings 0204 22 10, 0204 42 10, 0204 50 13 and 0204 50 53 : the anterior part of the carcase with or without the breast including all the bones and the shoulders, scrag and middle neck, cut at right angles to the backbone with a minimum of five and a maximum of seven pairs of whole or cut ribs. (d) 'Short-forequarters', for the purposes of subheadings 0204 22 10, 0204 42 10, 0204 50 13 ans 0204 50 53 : the anterior part of the half-carcase with or without the breast including all the bones and the shoulder, scrag and middle neck, cut at right-angles to the backbone with a minimum of five and a maximum of seven whole or cut ribs. (e) 'Chines and/or best ends', for the purposes of subheadings 0204 22 30, 0204 42 30, 0204 50 15 and 0204 50 55 : the remaining part of the carcase after the legs and short forequarters have been removed with or without the kidneys; the chines when separated from the best ends must include a minimum of five lumbar vertebrae; the best ends when separated from the chines must include a minimum of five pairs of whole or cut ribs. (f) 'Chine and/or best end', for the purposes of subheadings 0204 22 30, 0204 42 30, 0204 50 15 and 0204 50 55 : the remaining part of the half-carcase after the legs and short forequarters have been removed with or without the kidney; the chine when separated from the best end must include a minimum of five lumbar vertebrae; the best end when separated from the chine must include a minimum of five whole or cut ribs. (g) 'Legs', for the purposes of subheadings 0204 22 50, 0204 42 50, 0204 50 19 and 0204 50 59 : the rear part of the carcase comprising all the bones and the legs and cut at right-angles to the backbone at the sixth lumbar vertebra just under the ilium or at the fourth sacral vertebra through the ilium anterior to the ischio-pubic symphysis. (h) 'Legs', for the purposes of subheadings 0204 22 50, 0204 42 50, 0204 50 19 and 0204 50 59 : the rear part of the half-carcase comprising all the bones and the leg cut at right-angles to the backbone at the sixth lumbar vertebra just under the ilium or at the fourth sacral vertebra through the ilium anterior to the ischio-pubic symphysis. B. In determining the number of whole or cut ribs referred to in paragraph 3 A, only those attached to the backbone shall be taken into consideration. 4. For the purposes of subheadings 0207 39 81 and 0207 43 71, 'goose or duck paletots' shall be taken to mean geese or ducks plucked and completely drawn, without heads or feet, with carcase bones (breastbone, ribs, backbone and sacrum) removed but with the femurs, tibias and humeri. 5. In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 3324/80, the import duty applicable to mixtures falling within this chapter shall be calculated as follows : (a) In mixtures where one of the components represents at least 90 % by weight, the rate applicable to that component applies. (b) In other mixtures, the rate applicable shall be that of the component which results in the highest amount of import duty. 6. (a) Uncooked seasoned meats fall within Chapter 16. 'Seasoned meat' shall be uncooked meat that has been seasoned either in depth or over the whole surface of the product with seasoning either visible to the naked eye or clearly distinguishable by taste. (b) Products falling within heading No 0210 to which seasoning has been added during the process of preparation remain classified therein provided that the addition of seasoning has not changed their character. 7. (a) For the purposes of subheadings 0207 39 13 to 0207 39 23, 0207 39 33 to 0207 39 45, 0207 39 57 to 0207 39 77, 0207 41 11 to 0207 41 51, 0207 42 11 to 0207 42 59 and 0207 43 21 to 0207 43 63, 'poultry cuts, unboned (bone-in)', shall be taken to mean the cuts specified therein, including all bones. (b) Poultry cuts as referred to in (a) which have been partly boned shall fall within subheading 0207 39 25, 0207 39 47, 0207 39 83, 0207 41 71, 0207 42 71 or 0207 43 81.

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CHAPTER 3 FISH AND CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS AND OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES Notes 1. This chapter does not cover : (a) marine mammals (heading No 0106) or meat thereof (heading No 0208 or 0210); (b) fish (including livers and roes thereof) or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition (Chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption (heading No 2301); or (c) caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading No 1604). 2. In this chapter the term 'pellets' means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a small quantity of binder.

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CHAPTER 4 DAIRY PRODUCE; BIRDS' EGGS; NATURAL HONEY; EDIBLE PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED Notes 1. The expression 'milk' means full cream milk or partially or completely skimmed milk. 2. Products obtained by the concentration of whey and with the addition of milk or milkfat are to be classified as cheese in heading No 0406 provided that they have the three following characteristics : (a) a milkfat content, by weight of the dry matter, of 5 % or more; (b) a dry matter content, by weight, of at least 70 % but not exceeding 85 %; and (c) they are moulded or capable of being moulded. 3. This chapter does not cover : (a) products obtained from whey, containing by weight more than 95 % lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose calculated on the dry matter (heading No 1702); or (b) albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80 % whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter) (heading No 3502) or globulins (heading No 3504). Subheading note 1. For the purposes of subheading 0404 10, the expression 'modified whey' means products consisting of whey constituents, i.e., whey from which all or part of the lactose, proteins or minerals have been removed, whey to which natural whey constituents have been added, and products obtained by mixing natural whey constituents. Additional note 1. The levy applicable to mixtures falling within this chapter and composed of products classified within subheading 0401 30, heading No 0402, subheading 0403 10 02 to 0403 10 36, 0403 90 11 to 0403 90 69, heading No 0404, 0405, 0406, subheading 1702 10 or 2106 90 51 shall be that applicable to the ingredient which involves the higher or highest levy and which also forms at least 10 % by weight of the mixture concerned. Where this method of assessing the levy cannot be applied, the levy to be applied to such mixtures shall be that determined by the tariff classification of the mixtures.

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CHAPTER 5 PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED Notes 1. This chapter does not cover : (a) edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried); (b) hides or skins (including furskins) other than goods of heading No 0505 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading No 0511 (Chapter 41 or 43); (c) animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or (d) prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading No 9603). 2. For the purposes of heading No 0501, the sorting of hair by length (provided the root ends and tip ends respectively are not arranged together) shall be deemed not to constitute working. 3. Throughout the nomenclature, elephant, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as 'ivory'. 4. Throughout the nomenclature, the expression 'horsehair' means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals.

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SECTION II VEGETABLE PRODUCTS

Note 1. In this section the term 'pellets' means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 % by weight. CHAPTER 6 LIVE TREES AND OTHER PLANTS; BULBS, ROOTS AND THE LIKE; CUT FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE Notes 1. Subject to the second part of heading No 0601, this chapter covers only live trees and goods (including seedling vegetables) of a kind commonly supplied by nursery gardeners or florists for planting or for ornamental use; nevertheless it does not include potatoes, onions, shallots, garlic or other products of Chapter 7. 2. Any reference in heading No 0603 or 0604 to goods of any kind shall be construed as including a reference to bouquets, floral baskets, wreaths and similar articles made wholly or partly of goods of that kind, account not being taken of accessories of other materials. However, these headings do not include collages or similar decorative plaques of heading No 9701.

CHAPTER 7 EDIBLE VEGETABLES AND CERTAIN ROOTS AND TUBERS Notes 1. This chapter does not cover forage products of heading No 1214. 2. In heading Nos 0709 to 0712 the word 'vegetables' includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives, capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, fennel, parsley, chervil, tarragon, cress and sweet marjoram (Majorana hortensis or Origanum majorana). 3. Heading No 0712 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling within heading Nos 0701 to 0711, other than : (a) dried leguminous vegetables, shelled (heading No 0713); (b) sweet corn in the forms specified in heading Nos 1102 to 1104; (c) flour, meal, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading No 1105); (d) flour and meal of dried leguminous vegetables of heading No 0713 (heading No 1106). 4. However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta are excluded from this chapter (heading No 0904). Additional notes 1. The expression 'cultivated mushrooms', as used in subheading 0709 51 10 shall be taken to apply only to the following cultivated mushrooms of the Psalliota (Agaricus) species : hortensis, alba or bispora and subedulis. Other species, including those cultivated artificially, (for example Rhodopaxillus nudus and Polypurus tuberaster), fall within subheading 0709 51 90. 2. For the purposes of subheading 0714 10 10 the expression 'pellets of flour and meal' means pellets of which, when dispersed in water, at least 95 % by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm, calculated on the dry matter.

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CHAPTER 8 EDIBLE FRUIT AND NUTS; PEEL OF CITRUS FRUITS OR MELONS Notes 1. This chapter does not cover inedible nuts or fruits. 2. Chilled fruits and nuts are to be classified under the same headings as the corresponding fresh fruits and nuts. 3. Dried fruit or dried nuts of this chapter may be partially rehydrated, or treated for the following purposes : (a) for additional preservation or stabilisation (e.g., by moderate heat treatment, sulphuring, the addition of sorbic acid or potassium sorbate), (b) to improve or maintain their appearance (e.g., by the addition of vegetable oil or small quantities of glucose syrup), provided that they retain the character of dried fruit or dried nuts. Additional note 1. The content of various sugars expressed as sucrose (sugar content) of the products classified within this chapter corresponds to the figure indicated by a refractometer (used in accordance with the method prescribed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 543/86) at a temperature of 20 oC and multiplied by the factor 0,95.

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CHAPTER 9 COFFEE, TEA, MATÉ AND SPICES Notes 1. Mixtures of the products of heading Nos 0904 to 0910 are to be classified as follows : (a) mixtures of two or more of the products of the same heading are to be classified within that heading; (b) mixtures of two or more of the products of different headings are to be classified within heading No 0910. The addition of other substances to the products of heading Nos 0904 to 0910 (or to the mixtures referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) above) shall not affect their classification provided the resulting mixtures retain the essential character of the goods of those headings. Otherwise such mixtures are not classified within this chapter; those constituting mixed condiments or mixed seasonings are classified within heading No 2103. 2. This chapter does not cover cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) or other products of heading No 1211. Additional note 1. The rate of duty applicable to mixtures referred to in note 1 (a) above shall be the one applicable to the component having the highest rate.

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CHAPTER 10 CEREALS Notes 1. (a) The products specified in the headings of this chapter are to be classified within those headings only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk. (b) The chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified within heading No 1006. 2. Heading No 1005 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7). Subheading note 1. The term 'durum wheat' means wheat of the species Triticum durum and the hybrids derived from the inter-specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species. Additional notes 1. The following terms shall have the meanings hereunder assigned to them : (a) 'round grain rice' (subheadings 1006 10 21, 1006 10 92, 1006 20 11, 1006 20 92, 1006 30 21, 1006 30 42, 1006 30 61 and 1006 30 92) : rice, the grains of which are of a length not exceeding 5,2 mm and of a length/width ratio of less than 2; (b) 'medium grain rice' (subheadings 1006 10 23, 1006 10 94, 1006 20 13, 1006 20 94, 1006 30 23, 1006 30 44, 1006 30 63 and 1006 30 94) : rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding 5,2 mm but not exceeding 6,0 mm and of a length/width ratio of less than 3; (c) 'long grain rice' (subheadings 1006 10 25, 1006 10 27, 1006 10 96, 1006 10 98, 1006 20 15, 1006 20 17, 1006 20 96, 1006 20 98, 1006 30 25, 1006 30 27, 1006 30 46, 1006 30 48, 1006 30 65, 1006 30 67, 1006 30 96 and 1006 30 98) : rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding 6,0 mm; (d) 'paddy rice' (subheadings 1006 10 21, 1006 10 23, 1006 10 25, 1006 10 27, 1006 10 92, 1006 10 94, 1006 10 96, 1006 10 98) : rice which has retained its husk after threshing; (e) 'husked rice' (subheadings 1006 20 11, 1006 20 13, 1006 20 15, 1006 20 17, 1006 20 92, 1006 20 94, 1006 20 96 and 1006 20 98) : rice from which only the husk has been removed. Examples of rice falling within this definition are those with the commercial descriptions 'brown rice', 'cargo rice', 'loonzain' and 'riso sbramato'; (f) 'semi-milled rice' (subheadings 1006 30 21, 1006 30 23, 1006 30 25, 1006 30 27, 1006 30 42, 1006 30 44, 1006 30 46 and 1006 30 48) : rice from which the husk, part of the germ and the whole or part of the outer layers of the pericarp, but not the inner layers, have been removed; (g) 'wholly milled rice' (subheadings 1006 30 61, 1006 30 63, 1006 30 65, 1006 30 67, 1006 30 92, 1006 30 94, 1006 30 96 and 1006 30 98) : rice from which the husk, the whole of the outer and inner layers of the pericarp, the whole of the germ in the case of long or medium grain rice, and at least part thereof in the case of round grain rice, have been removed, but in which longitudinal white striations may remain on not more than 10 % of the grains; (h) 'broken rice' (subheading 1006 40 00) : grain fragments the length of which does not exceed three-quarters of the average length of the whole grain. 2. Levies applicable to mixtures of cereals : A. The levy applicable to mixtures composed of two of the cereals falling within heading Nos 1001 to 1005 and 1007 and 1008 shall be that applicable : (a) to the component cereal predominating by weight, when that cereal represents at least 90 % of the weight of the mixture; (b) to the component cereal liable to the higher levy, when neither of the two component cereals represents at least 90 % of the weight of the mixture. B. Where a mixture is composed of more than two of the cereals falling within heading Nos 1001 to 1005 and 1007 and 1008, and where several cereals each represent more than 10 % of the weight of the mixture, the levy applicable to the mixture shall be the highest of the levies applicable to such cereals, even when the amount of the levy is the same for two or more of the cereals. Where a single cereal represents more than 10 % of the weight of the mixture, the levy to be applied shall be that applicable to such cereal. C. The levy applicable to mixtures composed of the cereals falling within heading Nos 1001 to 1005, 1007 and 1008 and not governed by the above rules shall be the higher or highest of the levies applicable to the cereals composing the mixture concerned, even when the amount of the levy is the same for two or more of the cereals. D. The levy applicable to mixtures composed of one or more of the cereals falling within heading Nos 1001 to 1005, 1007 and 1008 and of one or more of the products falling within subheadings 1006 10 21, 1006 10 23, 1006 10 25, 1006 10 27, 1006 10 92, 1006 10 94, 1006 10 96, 1006 10 98, 1006 20, 1006 30 and 1006 40 00 shall be that applicable to the component cereal or product liable to the higher or highest levy. E. The levy applicable to mixtures composed of rice of subheadings 1006 10 21, 1006 10 23, 1006 10 25, 1006 10 27, 1006 10 92, 1006 10 94, 1006 10 96, 1006 10 98, 1006 20 and 1006 30, classifiable under several different processing groups or stages, or of rice classifiable under one or more different processing groups or stages and of broken rice, shall be that applicable : (a) to the component predominating by weight, when that component represents at least 90 % of the weight of the mixture; (b) to the component liable to the higher or highest levy, when no component represents at least 90 % of the weight of the mixture. F. Where this method of assessing the levy cannot be applied, the levy to be applied to such mixtures shall be that determined by the tariff classification of the mixtures.

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CHAPTER 11 PRODUCTS OF THE MILLING INDUSTRY; MALT; STARCHES; INULIN; WHEAT GLUTEN Notes 1. This chapter does not cover : (a) roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading No 0901 or 2101); (b) prepared flours, meals or starches of heading No 1901; (c) corn flakes and other products of heading No 1904; (d) vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading No 2001, 2004 or 2005; (e) pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or (f) starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33). 2. (A) Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall within this chapter if they have, by weight on the dry product : (a) a starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding that indicated in column (2); and (b) an ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not exceeding that indicated in column (3). Otherwise, they fall within heading No 2302. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground, falls in all cases within heading No 1104. (B) Products falling within this chapter under the above provisions shall be classified within heading No 1101 or 1102 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in column (4) or (5) is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned. Otherwise, they fall within heading No 1103 or 1104.

Cereal Starch content Ash content Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of 315 micrometres (microns) 500 micrometres (microns)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Wheat and rye 45 % 2,5 % 80 % -

Barley 45 % 3 % 80 % -

Oats 45 % 5 % 80 % -

Maize (corn) and grain sorghum 45 % 2 % - 90 %

Rice 45 % 1,6 % 80 % -

Buckwheat 45 % 4 % 80 % -

Other cereals 45 % 2 % 50 % -

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CHAPTER 12 OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER Notes 1. Heading No 1207 applies inter alia to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading No 0801 or 0802 or to olives (Chapter 7 or 20). 2. Heading No 1208 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of heading Nos 2304 to 2306. 3. For the purposes of heading No 1209, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as 'seeds of a kind used for sowing'. Heading No 1209 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing : (a) leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7); (b) spices or other products of Chapter 9; (c) cereals (Chapter 10); or (d) products of heading Nos 1201 to 1207 or 1211. 4. Heading No 1211 applies inter alia to the following plants or parts thereof : basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood. Heading No 1211 does not, however, apply to : (a) medicaments of Chapter 30; (b) perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or (c) insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading No 3808. 5. For the purposes of heading No 1212, the term 'seaweeds and other algae' does not include : (a) dead single-cell micro-organisms of heading No 2102; (b) cultures of micro-organisms of heading No 3002; or55 (c) fertilizers of heading No 3101 or 3105.

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CHAPTER 13 LAC; GUMS, RESINS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTS Note 1. Heading No 1302 applies inter alia to liquorice extract and extract of pyrethrum, extract of hops, extract of aloes and opium. The heading does not apply to : (a) liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading No 1704); (b) malt extract (heading No 1901); (c) extracts of coffee, tea or maté (heading No 2101); (d) vegetable saps or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages or compound alcoholic preparations of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages (Chapter 22); (e) camphor, glycyrrhizin or other products of heading No 2914 or 2938; (f) medicaments of heading No 3003 or 3004 or blood-grouping reagents (heading No 3006); (g) tanning or dyeing extracts (heading No 3201 or 3203); (h) essential oils, concretes, absolutes resinoids or aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils (Chapter 33); or (ij) natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle or similar natural gums (heading No 4001).

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CHAPTER 14 VEGETABLE PLAITING MATERIALS; VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED Notes 1. This chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified within Section XI : vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials. 2. Heading No 1401 applies inter alia to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading No 4404). 3. Heading No 1402 does not apply to wood wool (heading No 4405). 4. Heading No 1403 does not apply to prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading No 9603).

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SECTION III ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS; PREPARED EDIBLE FATS; ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES

CHAPTER 15 ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS; PREPARED EDIBLE FATS; ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES Notes 1. This chapter does not cover : (a) pig fat or poultry fat of heading No 0209; (b) cocoa butter, fat and oil (heading No 1804); (c) edible preparations containing by weight more than 15 % of the products of heading No 0405 (generally Chapter 21); (d) greaves (heading No 2301) and residues of heading Nos 2304 to 2306; (e) fatty acids in an isolated state, prepared waxes, medicaments, paints, varnishes, soap, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, sulphonated oils or other goods of Section VI; or (f) factice derived from oils (heading No 4002). 2. Heading No 1509 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading No 1510). 3. Heading No 1518 does not cover fats or oils or their fractions, merely denatured, which are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the corresponding undenatured fats and oils and their fractions. 4. Soap-stocks, oil foots and dregs, stearin pitch, glycerol pitch and wool grease residues fall within heading No 1522. Additional notes 1. For the purposes of subheadings 1507 10, 1508 10, 1510 00 10, 1511 10, 1512 11, 1512 21, 1513 11, 1513 21, 1514 10, 1515 11, 1515 21, 1515 50 11, 1515 50 19, 1515 60 10, 1515 90 21, 1515 90 29, 1515 90 40 to 1515 90 59 and 1518 00 31 : (a) Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, obtained by pressure, shall be considered as 'crude' if they have undergone no other processing than : - decantation within the normal time limits; - centrifugation or filtration, provided that, in order to separate the oils from their solid constituents, only mechanical force, such as gravity, pressure or centrifugal force, has been employed (excluding any adsorption filtering process or any other physical or chemical process). (b) Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, obtained by extraction shall continue to be considered as 'crude' when they cannot be distinguished, by their colour, odour or taste, nor by recognized special analytical properties, from vegetable oils and fats obtained by pressure. (c) The expression 'crude oils' shall be taken to extend to de-gummed soya bean oil and to cotton seed oil from which the gossypol has been removed. 2. A. For the purposes of heading Nos 1509 and 1510, 'olive oil' means oils derived solely from the treatment of olives, excluding re-esterified olive oil and mixtures of olive oil with other oils. The presence of re-esterified olive oil or other oils is ascertained using the methods set out in Annexes V, VII, IX, X and XII. The analytical characteristics of the sterol and acidic composition of all olive oils under heading Nos 1509 and 1510 are set out in the tables below. Table I Acidic composition

Acids Percentages

Myristic acid M 0,1

Linolenic acid M 0,9

Arachidic acid M 0,7

Eicosenoic acid M 0,5

Behenic acid M 0,3

Lignoceric acid M 0,5

M = maximum.

Table II Sterol composition

Sterols Percentages

Cholesterol M 0,5

Brassicasterol M 0,2

Campesterol M 4,0

Stigmasterol <= Campesterol

Betasitosterol (1) m 93,0

D7-Stigmasterol M 0,5

m = minimum. M = maximum. (1) Delta-5-23 stigmasterol + chlerosterol + betasitosterol + sitostanol + delta-5-avenasterol + delta-5-24-stigmostadienol.

B. 'Virgin olive oil' means oils derived solely from olives using mechanical or other physical means under conditions, and particularly thermal conditions, that do not lead to deterioration of the oil, and which have undergone no treatment other than washing, decantation, centrifugation or filtration, but excluding oils extracted from olives using solvents (heading No 1510) and defined in Sections I and II below. I. For the purposes of subheading 1509 10 10, 'virgin lampante olive oil', whatever its acidity, means olive oil with : (a) an aliphatic alcohols content not exceeding 400 mg/kg; (b) an erythrodiol + uvaol content not exceeding 4,5 %; (c) a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 1,3 %; (d) and/or one of the following characteristics : - (d1) a peroxide number exceeding 20 meq O2/kg; - (d2) a content in volatile halogenated solvents exceeding 0,2 mg/kg overall or exceeding 0,1 mg/kg for any one solvent; - (d3) a K270 extinction coefficient higher than 0,25 and, after treatment of the oil with activated alumina, not higher than 0,11. Some oils having a free fatty acid content, expressed as oleic acid, of more than 3,3 g per 100 g after passage through activated alumina, in accordance with the method set out in Annex XV, may have a K270 extinction coefficient higher than 0,11. If so, after neutralization and decolourization in the laboratory, they must have the following characteristics : - a K270 extinction coefficient not higher than 1,20; - an extinction coefficient variation (DK) (1007)() in the 270 nm region, higher than 0,01 but not higher than 0,16; - (d4) organoleptic characteristics which include detectable defects exceeding the limits of acceptability and a Panel Test score lower than 3,5. II. For the purposes of subheading 1509 10 90, 'virgin oil' means olive oil having the following characteristics : (a) an acid content, expressed as oleic acid, not exceeding 3,3 g per 100 g; (b) a peroxide number not exceeding 20 meq O2/kg; (c) an aliphatic alcohols content not exceeding 300 mg/kg; (d) a content in volatile halogenated solvents not exceeding 0,2 mg/kg overall and not exceeding 0,1 mg/kg for each solvent; (e) a K270 extinction coefficient not higher than 0,25 and, after treatment of the oil with activated alumina, not higher than 0,10 (1005)(); (f) an extinction coefficient variation (DK), in the 270 nm region, not higher than 0,01; (g) organoleptic characteristics which may include detectable defects within the limits of acceptability and a Panel Test score higher than 3,5; (h) an erythrodiol + uvaol content not exceeding 4,5 %; (ij) a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 1,3 %. C. Subheading 1509 90 00 covers olive oil obtained by the treatment of olive oils falling within subheading 1509 10 10 and/or 1509 10 90, whether or not blended with virgin olive oil, having the following characteristics : (a) an acid content, expressed as oleic acid, not exceeding 3,3 g per 100 g; (b) an aliphatic alcohols content not exceeding 350 mg/kg; (c) a K270 extinction coefficient higher than 0,25 and not higher than 1,20 and, after treatment of the sample with activated alumina, higher than 0,10; (d) an extinction coefficient variation (DK), in the 270 nm region, higher than 0,01 and not higher than 0,16; (e) an erythrodiol + uvaol content not exceeding 4,5 %; (f) a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position not exceeding 1,5 %. D. For the purposes of subheading 1510 00 10, 'crude oils' means oils, particularly olive residue oils, with the following characteristics : (a) an acid content, expressed as oleic acid, greater than 2 g per 100 g; (b) an erythrodiol + uvaol content exceeding 12 %; (c) a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 1,8 %. E. Oils under subheading 1510 00 90 include oils obtained by the treatment of oils falling within subheading 1510 00 10, whether or not blended with virgin olive oil, not having the characteristics of the oils referred to in Section B provided they have a content in saturated fatty acids at the 2-position in the triglycerides not exceeding 2 %. 3. Subheadings 1522 00 31 and 1522 00 39 do not cover : (a) residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances containing oil having an iodine index, determined in accordance with the method laid down in Annex XVI, lower than 70 or higher than 100; (b) residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances containing oil having an iodine index not lower than 70 or higher than 100, of which the peak area representing the retention volume of Betasitosterol, determined in accordance with Annex V to the Regulation mentioned in additional note 4 below, is less than 93 % of the total sterol peak areas. 4. The analytical methods for the determination of the characteristics of the products referred to above are those laid down in the Annexes to Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91. D