Commission Regulation (EC) No 407/2001 of 28 February 2001 opening a preferential tariff quota in respect of imports of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States for supply to refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2001
Date: 2001-02-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, cane sugar, raw sugar, sugar industry, tariff preference, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 407/2001

of 28 February 2001

opening a preferential tariff quota in respect of imports of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP
States for supply to refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2001

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

authorise imports for each refining Member State for the
period 1 March to 30 June 2001.

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), as amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1527/2000 (2) 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/EC (3), 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 annual
supply balance. The balance has indicated the need to
import raw sugar and to open at this stage for the
2000/01 marketing year tariff quotas at
the special
reduced rate of duty as provided for in the above agree-
ments so that the Community refineries' supply needs
can be met for part of the year. Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1469/2000 (4) opened quotas for the period 1
July 2000 to 28 February 2001. The forecasts for raw
cane sugar production are now available for the 2000/
2001 marketing year. The necessary quotas should
therefore be opened for the second part of that year. In
view of the presumed maximum refining needs fixed by
Member State and the shortfall resulting from the fore-
supply balance, provision should be made to
cast

(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 59.
(3) OJ L 181, 1.8.1995, p. 22.
(4) OJ L 165, 6.7.2000, p. 14.

(3)

(4)

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
factors applying in the 2000/01
the
marketing year.

In order to avoid disruption of supplies, it should be laid
down that,
for the quantities to be imported under
Regulation (EC) No 1469/2000 for which no licences
have been applied for by 28 February 2001, the Member
states concerned shall be authorised to issue those
licences after that date in the course of the 2000/2001
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

For the period 1 March to 30 June 2001, a tariff quota of
84 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in the ACP
States covered by Decision 95/284/EC is opened in respect of
imports of raw cane sugar for refining falling with CN code
1701 11 10.

This tariff quota shall bear the serial number 09.4097.

Article 2

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

2.
Notwithstanding Article 7 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1916/95 (5), 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.

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

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Article 3

Article 4

The following Member States are authorised to issue import
licences, under the quota fixed in Article 1 and on the terms
laid down in Article 2, for the following quantities expressed as
white sugar:

(a) Finland: 15 900 tonnes;

(b) metropolitan France: 15 500 tonnes;

(c) mainland Portugal: 47 600 tonnes;

(d) United Kingdom: 5 000 tonnes.

The Member States referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC)
No 1469/2000 shall be authorised, for the quantities listed in
that Article for which no applications for import licences have
been submitted by 1 March 2001, to issue licences for the
import and refining of those quantities up until 30 June 2001.

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 February 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission