Commission Regulation (EC) No 2534/2001 of 21 December 2001 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 2001 to 28 February 2002
Date: 2001-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, originating product, raw sugar, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2534/2001

of 21 December 2001

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 2001 to 28 February 2002

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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 23(2) and Article 39(6)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 lays down
that, during the 2001/02 to 2005/06 marketing years
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 agreements
have been concluded by Council Decision 2001/
870/EC (2) with the ACP States party to Protocol 3 on
ACP sugar (3) attached to Annex V to the ACP-EC Part-
nership Agreement, and with the Republic of India.

sugar

special preferential

The quantities of
to be
imported are calculated in accordance with the said
Article 39 on the basis of a Community forecast supply
balance. The balance indicates the need to import raw
sugar and to open for the 2001/02 marketing year tariff
quotas at the special reduced rate of duty as provided for
in the above agreements so that the Community refiner-
ies' supply needs can be met for part of the year. In view
of the forecasts for raw cane sugar production which are
now available for the 2001/02 marketing year and as a
result of the presumed maximum refining needs fixed by
Member State and the shortfall resulting from the fore-
cast
supply balance, provision should be made to
authorise imports for each refining Member State for the
period 1 July 2001 to 28 February 2002.

start of
the 2001/02 marketing year (4) and 2001/
787/EC of 9 November 2001 laying down provisional
measures for imports into Portugal of special preferential
raw cane sugar
refining during the 2001/02
marketing year (5).

for

(4)

(5)

(6)

The agreements concluded by Decision 2001/870/EC lay
down that the refiners in question must pay a minimum
purchase price equal to the guaranteed price for raw
sugar, minus the adjustment aid fixed for the marketing
year in question. This minimum price must therefore be
fixed by taking account of the factors applying in the
2001/02 marketing year.

Since those agreements cover the period 1 July 2001 to
30 June 2006, the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion should apply retroactively from 1 July 2001.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following quotas are opened for the period 1 July 2001 to
28 February 2002 pursuant
to Decision 2001/870/EC in
respect of imports of raw cane sugar for refining falling within
CN code 1701 11 10:

(a) a tariff quota of 161 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar
originating in the ACP States covered by that Decision,
bearing the serial No 09.4097;

and

(b) a tariff quota of 10 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar
originating in India, bearing the serial No 09.4097.

(3)

Those authorisations must take account of the quantities
already authorised by Commission Decisions 2001/
656/EC of 3 August 2001 laying down provisional
measures for imports into Portugal and Finland of
special preferential raw cane sugar for refining at the

Article 2

The special reduced duty per 100 kg of standard quality
1.
raw sugar applying to imports of the quantities referred to in
Article 1 shall be EUR 0.

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 325, 8.12.2001, p. 21.
(3) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 267.

(4) OJ L 231, 29.8.2001, p. 11.
(5) OJ L 295, 13.11.2001, p. 22.

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The minimum purchase price to be paid by Community
the period referred to in Article 1 shall be

2.
refiners for
EUR 49,68 per 100 kg of standard quality raw sugar.

(a) Finland 30 000 tonnes;

(b) mainland Portugal 141 000 tonnes.

3.
The import duties paid on quantities already imported
under Decisions 2001/656/EC and 2001/787/EC shall be reim-
bursed.

Article 3

The following quantities expressed as white sugar may be
imported by the Member States under the quotas referred to in
Article 1 and on the terms laid down in Article 2(1):

These quantities include the quantities authorised for import by
Decisions 2001/656/EC and 2001/787/EC.

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 from 1 July 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission