Value-Added Tax (Amendment) Act, 1978

“Annex A activities” and “Annex B services”.

28.—The following Schedule shall be substituted for the Fifth Schedule to the Principal Act:

“FIFTH SCHEDULE

Section 8 of Principal Act.

PART I

Annex A of Council Directive No. 77/388/EEC of 17 May, 1977

LIST OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES

I. CROP PRODUCTION

1. General agriculture, including viticulture

2. Growing of fruit (including olives) and of vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants, both in the open and under glass

3. Production of mushrooms, spices, seeds and propagating materials; nurseries

II. STOCK FARMING TOGETHER WITH CULTIVATION

1. General stock farming

2. Poultry farming

3. Rabbit farming

4. Beekeeping

5. Silkworm farming

6. Snail farming

III. FORESTRY

IV. FISHERIES

1. Fresh-water fishing

2. Fish farming

3. Breeding of mussels, oysters and other molluscs and crustaceans

4. Frog farming

V. Where a farmer processes, using means normally employed in an agricultural, forestry or fisheries undertaking, products deriving essentially from his agricultural production, such processing shall also be regarded as agricultural production.

PART II

Annex B of Council Directive No. 77/388/EEC of 17 May, 1977

LIST OF AGRICULTURAL SERVICES

Supplies of agricultural services which normally play a part in agricultural production shall be considered the supply of agricultural services, and include the following in particular:

—field work, reaping and mowing, threshing, baling, collecting, harvesting, sowing and planting

—packing and preparation for market, for example drying, cleaning, grinding, disinfecting and ensilage of agricultural products

—storage of agricultural products

—stock minding, rearing and fattening

—hiring out, for agricultural purposes, of equipment normally used in agricultural, forestry or fisheries undertakings

—technical assistance

—destruction of weeds and pests, dusting and spraying of crops and land

—operation of irrigation and drainage equipment

—lopping, tree felling and other forestry services.”.