ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL FATS AND OILS AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS > ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL FATS AND OILS AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS; PREPARED EDIBLE FATS; ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES > Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured
1. This chapter does not cover: (a) pig fat or poultry fat of heading 0209; (b) cocoa butter, fat or oil (heading 1804); (c) edible preparations containing by weight more than 15% of the products of heading 0405 (generally Chapter 21); (d) greaves (heading 2301) or residues of headings 2304 to 2306; (e) fatty acids, prepared waxes, medicaments, paints, varnishes, soap, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, sulfonated oils or other goods of Section VI; (f) factice derived from oils (heading 4002). 2. Heading 1509 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading 1510). 3. Heading 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 in heading 1522.
This Section does not cover: (a) pig fat or poultry fat of heading 0209; (b) cocoa butter, fat or oil (heading 1804); (c) edible preparations containing by weight more than 15 % of the products of heading 0405 (generally Chapter 21); (d) greaves (heading 2301) or residues of headings 2304 to 2306; (e) fatty acids, prepared waxes, medicaments, paints, varnishes, soap, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, sulphonated oils or other goods of Section VI; (f) factice derived from oils (heading 4002).
Source: European Commission - CN Explanatory Notes (CNEN) and HS legal notes.
C-197/20 and C-216/20
28 Oct 2021KAHL G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G. v Hauptzollamt Hannover and C.E. Roeper GmbH v Hauptzollamt Hamburg
On those grounds, the Court (Ninth Chamber) hereby rules: The Combined Nomenclature set out in Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, in the versions resulting from Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1101/2014 of 16 October 2014 and from Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1754 of 6 October 2015, must be interpreted as meaning that beeswax which has been melted down, and from which foreign bodies have been mechanically removed in part during the melting process, then solidified to form blocks or slabs, falls under subheading 15219099 of that nomenclature, which refers to ‘other’ waxes, and not under subheading 15219091 of that nomenclature, which refers to ‘raw’ waxes. [Signatures] ( *1 ) Language of the case: German.
jointes C-197/20 et C-216/20
28 Oct 2021KAHL G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G. contre Hauptzollamt Hannover et C. E. Roeper GmbH contre Hauptzollamt Hamburg
Arrêt de la Cour (neuvième chambre) du 28 octobre 2021.#KAHL G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G. contre Hauptzollamt Hannover et C. E. Roeper GmbH contre Hauptzollamt Hamburg.#Renvoi préjudiciel – Union douanière – Tarif douanier commun – Classement tarifaire – Nomenclature combinée – Sous-positions tarifaires 1521 90 91 et 1521 90 99 – Interprétation des notes explicatives relatives à la sous-position 1521 90 99 – Cires d’abeilles fondues et de nouveau solidifiées avant leur importation.#Affaire jointes C-197/20 et C-216/20.