2001/656/EC: Commission Decision of 3 August 2001 laying down provisional measures for imports into Portugal and Finland of special raw cane sugar for refining at the start of the 2001/02 marketing year (notified under document number C(2001) 2479)
Date: 2001-08-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Finland, Portugal, cane sugar, import, raw sugar, tariff quota

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 August 2001

laying down provisional measures for imports into Portugal and Finland of special raw cane sugar
for refining at the start of the 2001/02 marketing year

(notified under document number C(2001) 2479)

(Only the Finnish, Portuguese and Swedish texts are authentic)

(2001/656/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

production of other available sugars and the fixing of
contracts relating thereto, an alternative source of supply
is not feasible. In the absence of an agreement with the
ACP countries, a break in supply to these Member States
is thus inevitable.

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19
June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the
sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 39(6) thereof,

(4)

Whereas:

(1) With a view to supplying Community refineries, Article
39(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides for
imports of raw cane sugar at a reduced rate of duty in
accordance with the agreements concluded with certain
supplier countries and subject to the conditions laid
down therein. These sugars are called ‘special preferential
sugar’.

The quantities imported under these conditions are
intended to cover
the Member States' presumed
maximum supply needs, as fixed in Article 39(2), that
cannot be met by alternative supplies of raw sugar for
refining.

(2)

(3)

The agreements on imports of special preferential cane
sugar, applicable in the 1995/96 to 2000/01 marketing
years, expired on 30 June 2001. Negotiation of the
agreements to cover the period referred to in Article
38(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 has not yet
begun. In order to avoid a break in supply to refineries
in certain Community regions, in accordance with the
Council
invitation and having consulted the supplier
countries concerned, imports of cane sugar should be
authorised under the conditions applying until 30 June
2001 in those Community regions where a supply need
has been noted in the forecast supply balance. This
measure should cover the supply needs of Portugal and
Finland for three months. So as not to prejudice the
negotiations mentioned
should
currently be made only for sugar of ACP origin.

provision

above,

A forecast supply balance for the 2001/02 marketing
year indicates such a need that is not covered. This
is being felt notably in the Member
supply shortfall
States listed in the said Article 39(2) and in which sugar
refinery activity depends to a great extent on imports of
these special preferential sugars. In view of the staggered

(5)

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 (2) should apply for the purposes of
fixing the import duty and the minimum purchase price.

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 60, 1.3.2001, p. 22.

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(6)

(7)

(8)

The rules laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No
1916/95 of 2 August 1995 laying down detailed rules
for application for the importation under preferential
agreements on tariff quotas of raw cane sugar for
refining (1) should apply to the tariff quota opened by
this Decision.

This measure adopted by this Decision applies irrespec-
tive of any decisions taken subsequently by the Council
as regards the agreements covering the period 2001-06,
including any adjustments applicable from 1 July 2001.

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

(EC) No 1260/2001 in the first three months of the 2001/02
marketing year.

This tariff quota shall bear the serial number 09.4097.

2.
The import duty and the minimum purchase price applic-
able under the tariff quota referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
those laid down in Regulation (EC) No 407/2001. The relevant
provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1916/95 shall
apply.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Portugal and the
Republic of Finland.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

Portugal and Finland are hereby authorised to import
1.
respectively 60 000 and 30 000 tonnes of raw cane sugar
originating in the ACP States listed in Annex VI to Regulation

Done at Brussels, 3 August 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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