Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Agreement: 1. Coffee means the beans and cherries of the coffee tree, whether parchment, green or roasted, and includes ground, decaffeinated, liquid and soluble coffee. The Council shall, as soon as possible after this Agreement enters into force, and again at intervals of three years, review the conversion factors for the types of coffee listed in subparagraphs (d), (e), (f) and (g) below. Following such reviews the Council shall determine and publish appropriate conversion factors. Prior to the initial review, and should the Council be unable to reach a decision on this matter, the conversion factors will be those used in the International Coffee Agreement 2001, which are listed in the Annex to this Agreement. Subject to these provisions, the terms listed below shall have the following meaning: (a) green coffee means all coffee in the naked bean form before roasting; (b) dried coffee cherry means the dried fruit of the coffee tree; to find the equivalent of dried coffee cherry to green coffee, multiply the net weight of the dried coffee cherry by 0,50; (c) parchment coffee means the green coffee bean contained in the parchment skin; to find the equivalent of parchment coffee to green coffee, multiply the net weight of the parchment coffee by 0,80; (d) roasted coffee means green coffee roasted to any degree and includes ground coffee; (e) decaffeinated coffee means green, roasted or soluble coffee from which caffeine has been extracted; (f) liquid coffee means the water-soluble solids derived from roasted coffee and put into liquid form; and (g) soluble coffee means the dried water-soluble solids derived from roasted coffee. 2. Bag means 60 kilogrammes or 132,276 pounds of green coffee; tonne means a mass of 1 000 kilogrammes or 2 204,6 pounds; and pound means 453,597 grammes. 3. Coffee year means the period of one year, from 1 October to 30 September. 4. Organisation and Council mean, respectively, the International Coffee Organisation and the International Coffee Council. 5. Contracting Party means a Government, the European Community or any intergovernmental organisation referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 4 which has deposited an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or notification of provisional application of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of Articles 40, 41 and 42 or has acceded thereto in accordance with the provisions of Article 43. 6. Member means a Contracting Party. 7. Exporting Member or exporting country means a Member or country, respectively, which is a net exporter of coffee; that is, a Member or country whose exports exceed its imports. 8. Importing Member or importing country means a Member or country, respectively, which is a net importer of coffee; that is, a Member or country whose imports exceed its exports. 9. Distributed majority vote means a vote requiring 70 % or more of the votes of exporting Members present and voting and 70 % or more of the votes of importing Members present and voting, counted separately. 10. Depositary means the intergovernmental organisation or Contracting Party to the International Coffee Agreement 2001 designated by decision of the Council under the International Coffee Agreement 2001, to be taken by consensus before 31 January 2008. Such decision shall form an integral part of this Agreement.