Commission Regulation (EC) No 95/2002 of 18 January 2002 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2670/81 laying down detailed implementing rules in respect of sugar production in excess of the quota
Date: 2002-01-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural production, production quota, sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 95/2002

of 18 January 2002

amending Regulation (EEC) No 2670/81 laying down detailed implementing rules in respect of
sugar production in excess of the quota

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

98 (7), apply during the period laid down in Article
10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(3)

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

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 13(3) thereof,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

Council Regulations (EC) No 1453/2001 of 28 June
2001 introducing specific measures for certain agricul-
tural products for the Azores and Madeira and repealing
Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 (Poseima) (2) and (EC) No
1454/2001 of 28 June 2001 introducing specific meas-
ures for certain agricultural products for the Canary
Islands and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92
(Poseican) (3) lay down new arrangements to remedy the
remoteness, insularity and outermost location of these
regions.

The detailed rules for implementing the specific supply
arrangements for the outermost regions introduced by
Council Regulations (EC) No 1452/2001 (4),
(EC) No
1453/2001 and (EC) No 1454/2001 laid down by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 20/2002 (5), provide,
among others, for the continuation of specific provisions
relating to traditional trade flows with the rest of the
Community, in particular as regards deliveries of C white
sugar and C raw sugar within the meaning of Article 13
of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001. To ensure a standar-
dised period of application of this Regulation and Regu-
lation (EC) No 1260/2001, it should be specified that
in Article 1(1a) of
the specific provisions set out
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2670/81 of 14
September 1981 laying down detailed implementing
rules in respect of sugar production in excess of the
quota (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1148/

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 45.
(4) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 11.
(5) OJ L 8, 11.1.2002, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 262, 16.9.1981, p. 14.

The text of Article 1(1a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2670/81 is
hereby replaced by the following:

‘1a.
During the period referred to in Article 10(1) of
Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 (*), notwith-
standing paragraph 1(a),
(b) and (d), where C sugar is
imported into the Canary Islands or into Madeira in the
form of white sugar falling within CN code 1701 or into
the Azores in the form of raw sugar falling within CN code
1701 12 10 under the scheme of exemption from import
duties provided for in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC)
No 1453/2001 (**) or Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC)
No 1454/2001 (***), it shall be regarded as being exported
to a third country within the meaning of Article 13(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 and originating in that
third country for the purposes of the application of the said
scheme.

(*) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(**) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 26.
(***) OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 45.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communi-
ties.

It shall apply from 1 January 2002.

(7) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 January 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission