CHAPTER IRELIEF FROM IMPORT DUTY

TITLE IXPRODUCTS OBTAINED BY COMMUNITY FARMERS ON PROPERTIES LOCATED IN A THIRD COUNTRY

Article 39

1

Subject to Articles 40 and 41, agricultural, stock-farming, bee-keeping, horticultural and forestry products from properties located in a third country adjoining the customs territory of the Community, which are operated by agricultural producers having their principal undertaking within the said customs territory and adjacent to the third country concerned shall be admitted free of import duties.

2

To benefit from the provisions of paragraph 1, stock-farming products must be derived from animals which originated in the Community or have entered into free circulation therein.

Article 40

Relief shall be limited to products which have not undergone any treatment other than that which normally follows their harvest or production.

Article 41

Relief shall be granted only for products brought into the customs territory of the Community by the agricultural producer or on his behalf.

Article 42

Articles 39 to 41 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the products of fishing or fish-farming activities carried out in the lakes or waterways bordering a Member State and a third country by Community fishermen and to the products of hunting activities carried out on such lakes or waterways by Community sportsmen.