Processed agricultural products
Article 5
1. The products with a sucrose or isoglucose content of 70 % or more listed below are subject to a special monitoring mechanism: CN code ( 2 6 9 ) Description ( 3 7 10 ) ex 1704 90 99 Other confectionery, not containing cocoa, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose ex 1806 10 30 Cocoa powder containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, containing between 70 % and 80 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose 1806 10 90 Cocoa powder containing added sugar or other sweetening matte, containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose ex 1806 20 95 Other food preparations containing cocoa 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, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose ex 1901 90 99 Other food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose ex 2101 12 98 Coffee-based preparations containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose ex 2101 20 98 Tea or maté-based preparations containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose ex 2106 90 59 Other flavoured or coloured sugar syrups, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose ex 2106 90 98 Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose ex 3302 10 29 Other mixtures and preparations based on odoriferous substances of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages, containing 70 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose 2. If there is a cumulative increase of over 20 % in quantity in imports of the products from Morocco listed in paragraph 1 during the current calendar year compared with the average annual imports for the previous three calendar years, the European Union will suspend the granting of preferential treatment for the current calendar year. 3. Paragraph 2 shall not apply if the total quantity imported since the beginning of the current calendar year for all the products listed in paragraph 1 is less than 5 000 tonnes. 4. In the five working days following the date of entry into force of the suspension of preferential treatment, the parties shall hold consultations with a view to jointly evaluating the market situation in terms of the quantities and the customs duties of the products in question, in order to reach an agreement on the conditions for reintroducing the preferential treatment. 5. As soon the conditions set out in paragraph 4 are met, within 15 working days the European Union will adopt all the measures required to lift the suspension with immediate effect. In any case, the preferential treatment should be re-established no later than: — the beginning of the following year, if the suspension takes effect before 30 June, — six months after the suspension enters into force, if the suspension takes effect after 30 June. 6. The Parties must jointly examine the working of this monitoring mechanism within three years of this Protocol entering into force.