Council Decision of 20 November 2001 on the conclusion of the Agreements in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Community and, of the one part, Barbados, Belize, the Republic of the Congo, Fiji, the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Jamaica, the Republic of Kenya, the Republic of Madagascar, the Republic of Malawi, the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Suriname, Saint Christopher and Nevis, the Kingdom of Swaziland, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the Republic of Uganda, the Republic of Zambia and the Republic of Zimbabwe and, of the other part, the Republic of India on the guaranteed prices for cane sugar for the 2000/2001 delivery period (2002/749/EC)
Date: 2001-11-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: ACP countries, India, agreement (EU), cane sugar, guaranteed price, import policy

12.9.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 244/29

II

(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COUNCIL

COUNCIL DECISION

of 20 November 2001

on the conclusion of the Agreements in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European
Community and, of the one part, Barbados, Belize, the Republic of the Congo, Fiji, the Cooperative
Republic of Guyana, the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Jamaica, the Republic of Kenya, the Republic of
Madagascar, the Republic of Malawi, the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Suriname, Saint
Christopher and Nevis, the Kingdom of Swaziland, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic
of Trinidad and Tobago, the Republic of Uganda, the Republic of Zambia and the Republic of
Zimbabwe and, of the other part, the Republic of India on the guaranteed prices for cane sugar for
the 2000/2001 delivery period

(2002/749/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity, and in particular Article 133, in conjunction with the first
sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Implementation of Protocol 3 on ACP Sugar attached to
Annex V to the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement (1) and
of
the Agreement between the European Economic
Community and the Republic of India on cane sugar (2)
is carried out, in accordance with Article 1(2) of each,
within the framework of
the
common organisation of the sugar market.

the management of

It is appropriate to approve the Agreements in the form
of an Exchange of Letters between the Community and,
of the one part, the States referred to in the Protocol
and, of the other part, the Republic of India on the guar-
anteed prices for cane sugar for the 2000/2001 delivery
period,

the Congo, Fiji,

the Republic of

Belize,
the Cooperative
Republic of Guyana, the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Jamaica, the
Republic of Kenya, the Republic of Madagascar, the Republic of
Malawi, the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Suriname,
Saint Christopher and Nevis, the Kingdom of Swaziland, the
United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago, the Republic of Uganda, the Republic of Zambia and
the Republic of Zimbabwe and, of the other part, the Republic
of India on the guaranteed prices for cane sugar for the 2000/
2001 delivery period are hereby approved on behalf of the
Community.

The text of the Agreements is attached to this Decision.

Article 2

The President of the Council is hereby authorised to designate
the person(s) empowered to sign the Agreements referred to in
Article 1 in order to bind the Community.

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Done at Brussels, 20 November 2001.

Article 1

The Agreements in the form of an Exchange of Letters between
the one part, Barbados,
the European Community and, of

For the Council

The President

A. NEYTS-UYTTEBROECK

(1) OJ L 195, 1.8.2000, p. 46.
(2) OJ L 190, 23.7.1975, p. 36.