Commission Regulation (EC) No 1436/1999 of 30 June 1999 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 1999 to 29 February 2000
Date: 1999-06-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, import, raw sugar, sugar industry, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1436/1999

of 30 June 1999

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 1999 to 29
February 2000

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Member State for the period 1 July 1999 to 29
February 2000;

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 Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular Articles 14(2)
and 37(6) thereof,

(3) Whereas the above agreements lay down that the
refiners in question must pay a minimum purchase
price equal to the guaranteed price for raw sugar,
minus the adjustment aid fixed for the marketing
year in question; whereas this minimum price must
therefore be fixed by taking account of the factors
applying in the 1999/2000 marketing year;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Sugar,

(1) 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 arrangements
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;

the special

(2) Whereas the quantities of special preferential sugar
to be imported are calculated in accordance with
the said Article 37 on the basis of a Community
forecast supply balance; whereas the balance indi-
cates the need to import raw sugar and to open at
this stage for the 1999/2000 marketing year a tariff
quota at
reduced rate of duty as
provided for in the above agreements so that the
Community refineries’ supply needs can be met for
part of the year; whereas the forecast for raw cane
sugar production are now available for the 1999/
2000 marketing year; whereas a quota should be
opened at this stage for part of that year; whereas
because of the presumed maximum refining needs
fixed by Member State and the shortfall resulting
from the forecast supply balance, provision should
be made to authorise imports for each refining

(1) OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 181, 1.8.1995, p. 22.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following tariff quotas are opened for the period 1
July 1999 to 29 February 2000 under Decision 95/
284/EC in respect of
imports of raw cane sugar for
refining;

(a) 260 500 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in
the ACP States covered by that Decision, bearing the
serial number 09.4098;

and

(b) 10 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in
the Republic of India, bearing the serial number
09.4099.

Article 2

1.
A special reduced duty of EUR 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 EUR 49,68 per 100 kg of
standard-quality raw sugar.

(4) OJ L 184, 3.8.1995, p. 18.

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Article 3

The following Member States are authorised 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:

(a) Finland: 45 500 tonnes;

(b) metropolitan France: 20 000 tonnes;

(c) mainland Portugal: 190 000 tonnes;

(d) United Kingdom: 15 000 tonnes.

Article 4

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

It shall apply from 1 July 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission