Commission Regulation (EC) No 1469/2000 of 5 July 2000 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 2000 to 28 February 2001
Date: 2000-07-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, tariff preference, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Communities

6.7.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1469/2000

of 5 July 2000

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 2000 to 28 February 2001

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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

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 markets
in the sugar sector (1), and in particular Articles 14(2) and
44(6) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 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 arrange-
ments on preferential terms. At present such Agree-
ments have been concluded by Council Decision 95/
284/EC (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

The quantities of
to be
imported are calculated in accordance with the said
Article 44 on the basis of a Community forecast supply
balance. The balance indicates the need to import raw
sugar and to open at this stage for the 2000/2001
marketing year a tariff quota at the special 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. The forecasts for raw cane sugar
the 2000/2001
production are now available for
marketing year. A quota should be opened at this stage
for part of that year. 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
Member State for the period 1 July 2000 to 28 February
2001.

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-
ment aid fixed for the marketing year in question. This
therefore be fixed by taking
minimum price must
account of
the factors applying in the 2000/2001
marketing year.

(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 181, 1.8.1995, p. 22.

The following tariff quotas are opened for the period 1 July
2000 to 28 February 2001 pursuant to Decision 95/284/EC in
respect of imports of raw cane sugar for refining:

(a) 200 000 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

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

Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1916/95 (3)
2.
notwithstanding, the minimum purchase price to be paid by
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.

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: 44 000 tonnes;

(b) metropolitan France: 3 000 tonnes;

(c) mainland Portugal: 158 000 tonnes;

(d) United Kingdom: 5 000 tonnes.

Article 4

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 July 2000.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 5 July 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission