Commission Regulation (EC) No 1375/98 of 29 June 1998 opening import quotas in respect of special preferential raw cane sugar from the ACP States and India for supply to refineries in the period 1 July 1998 to 28 February 1999
Date: 1998-06-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, sugar industry, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1375/98

of 29 June 1998

opening import quotas in respect of special preferential raw cane sugar from the
ACP States and India for supply to refineries in the period 1 July 1998 to 28
February 1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organisation of the
market in sugar (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1599/96 (2), and in particular Articles 14(2) and 37(6)
thereof,

Whereas Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 lays
down that, during the marketing years 1995/96 to
2000/01 and in order to ensure adequate supplies to
Community refineries, a special reduced duty is to be
levied on imports of raw cane sugar originating in States
with which the Community has concluded supply ar-
rangements on preferential terms; whereas at present such
agreements have been concluded by Council Decision
95/284/EC (3) only with the ACP States party to Protocol
8 on ACP sugar annexed to the Fourth ACP-EEC Lom(cid:130)
Convention, and with the Republic of India;

Whereas the quantities of special preferential sugar to be
imported are calculated in accordance with the said
Article 37 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the basis
of a Community forecast supply balance; whereas the
balance indicates the need to import raw sugar and to
open at this stage for the 1998/99 marketing year a tariff
quota at the special reduced rate of duty as provided for
in the abovementioned agreements so that
the Com-
munity refineries’ supply need can be met for part of the
year; whereas the production forecasts for raw cane sugar
are now available for the 1998/99 marketing year; whereas
a tariff quota should be opened at this stage for part of the
marketing year; whereas, because of
the presumed
maximum refining needs fixed by Member State and the
shortfall resulting from the forecast supply balance, provi-
sion should be made to authorise imports for each refin-
ing Member State,
for the period 1 July 1998 to 28
February 1999;

Whereas the above agreements lay down that the refiners
in question must pay a minimum purchase price equal to

(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 181, 1. 8. 1995, p. 22.

the guaranteed price for raw sugar, minus the adjustment
aid fixed for the marketing year in question; whereas this
minimum price must accordingly be fixed by taking
account of the factors applying in the 1998/99 marketing
year;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sugar,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following tariff quotas are hereby opened for the
period 1 July 1998 to 28 February 1999 under Decision
95/284/EC in respect of imports of raw cane sugar for
refining:

(a) 255 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in
the ACP States covered by that Decision, bearing the
order No 09.4098;

and

(b) 10 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in
the Republic of India, bearing the order No 09.4099.

Article 2

1.
A special reduced duty of ECU 5,41 per 100 kg of
standard quality raw sugar shall apply to imports of the
quantities referred to in Article 1.

2.
Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1916/95 (4) notwithstanding, the minimum purchase price
to be paid by the Community refiners shall be fixed for
the period referred to in Article 1 at ECU 49,68 per 100
kg of standard quality raw sugar.

Article 3

The following Member States are hereby authorized to
import under the quotas referred to in Article 1 and on
the terms laid down in Article 2(1) the following shortfall
expressed as white sugar:

(4) OJ L 184, 3. 8. 1995, p. 18.

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(a) Finland: 45 000 tonnes;

(b) metropolitan France: 15 000 tonnes;

(c) mainland Portugal: 190 000 tonnes;

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

(d) United Kingdom: 15 000 tonnes.

It shall apply from 1 July 1998.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission