Commission Regulation (EC) No 463/2000 of 29 February 2000 opening import quotas in respect of special preferential raw cane sugar from the ACP States for supply to Community refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2000
Date: 2000-02-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, cane sugar, import, raw sugar, tariff preference, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 463/2000

of 29 February 2000

opening import quotas in respect of special preferential raw cane sugar from the ACP States for
supply to Community refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2000

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13
September 1999 on the common organisation of the market in
sugar (1), and in particular Articles 14(2) and 44(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 lays down
that, during the marketing years 1995/1996 to 2000/
2001 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. At present such
agreements have been concluded by Council Decision
95/284/EG (2) only with the ACP States party to
Protocol 8 on ACP sugar annexed to the Fourth
ACP-EEC Lomé Convention, and with the Republic of
India.

sugar

special preferential

to be
The quantities of
imported are calculated in accordance with the said
Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 on the
basis of a Community forecast supply balance. The
balance has indicated the need to import raw sugar and
to open at this stage for the 1999/2000 marketing year
a tariff quota at the special reduced rate of duty as
provided for in the abovementioned agreements so that
the Community refineries' supply need can be met for
part of the year. Tariff quotas have in this way been
opened by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1436/
1999 (3) for the period 1 July 1999 to 29 February
2000. The production forecasts for raw cane sugar are
now available for the 1999/2000 marketing year. The
necessary tariff quotas should consequently be opened
for the second part of the marketing year. Because of the
presumed maximum refining needs fixed by Member
States and the shortfall
resulting from the forecast
supply balance, provision should be made to authorise
imports for each refining Member State, for the period
March to 30 June 2000.

ment aid fixed for the marketing year in question. This
minimum price must
therefore be fixed by taking
the factors applying in the 1999/2000
account of
marketing year.

(4)

In order to avoid a rupture of supplies, provision should
be made in respect of the quantities to be imported
under Regulation (EC) No 1436/1999 for which the
licences have not been requested up to 29 February
2000, for the Member States concerned to be authorised
to issue the said licences after that date during the
1999/2000 marketing year.

(5)

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

A tariff quota is hereby opened for the period 1 March to 30
June 2000 under Decision 95/284/EC, in respect of imports of
raw cane sugar for refining, amounting to 8 500 tonnes
expressed as white sugar originating in the ACP States covered
by that Decision.

This tariff quota shall bear the serial number 09.4097.

Article 2

A special reduced duty of EUR 5,41 per 100 kg of
the

1.
standard quality raw sugar shall apply to imports of
quantity 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.

(3)

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 adjust-

(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 181, 1.8.1995, p. 22.
(3) OJ L 166, 1.7.1999, p. 62.

Article 3

The following Member States are hereby authorised to import
under the quota 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: 0 tonnes.
(b) metropolitan France: 2 500 tonnes.
(c) mainland Portugal: 6 000 tonnes.
(d) United Kingdom: 0 tonnes.

Article 4

been lodged before 1 March 2000, to issue such licences to
allow import and refining to take place until 30 June 2000.

Article 5

The Member States referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC)
No 1436/1999 are authorised, for the quantities in the said
Article for which the applications for import licences have not

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 February 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission