Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/390 of 5 March 2015 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff

In Chapter 20 of Part Two of the Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, point (a) of Additional note 2 is replaced by the following: ‘(a) The content of various sugars expressed as sucrose (sugar content) of products classified in this Chapter corresponds to the figure indicated by a refractometer (used in accordance with the method prescribed in the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 974/2014) at a temperature of 20 °C and multiplied by one of the following factors: 0,93 in respect of products of subheadings 200820 to 200880, 200893, 200897 and 200899; 0,95 in respect of products of the other headings. However, the content of various sugars expressed as sucrose (sugar content) of the following products classified in this Chapter: products manufactured on the basis of seaweed and other algae prepared or preserved by processes not provided for in Chapter 12; products manufactured on the basis of manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content of heading 0714; products manufactured on the basis of vine leaves; corresponds to the figure resulting from a calculation carried out on the basis of measurements which have been obtained applying the high performance liquid chromatography method (the “HPLC method”), using the following formula: S + (G + F) × 0,95; where: “S” is the sucrose content determined by the HPLC method; “F” is the fructose content determined by the HPLC method; “G” is the glucose content determined by the HPLC method.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.