Commission Regulation (EC) No 1096/2002 of 24 June 2002 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 2002 to 28 February 2003
Date: 2002-06-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, CCT duties, India, cane sugar, import, raw sugar, sugar industry, supply, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1096/2002

of 24 June 2002

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 2002 to 28 February 2003

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in ac-
cordance with the opinion of the Management Commit-
tee for Sugar,

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), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
680/2002 (2), and in particular Article 23(2) and Article 39(6)
thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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 im-
ports 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 2001/870/EC (3) with the
ACP States party to Protocol No 3 on ACP sugar (4) at-
tached to Annex V to the ACP-EC Partnership Agree-
ment, and with the Republic of India.

The quantities of special preferential sugar to be im-
ported 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 2002/03 marketing year tariff quotas at
the special reduced rate of duty as provided for in the
above agreements so that the Community refineries’ sup-
ply 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 2002/03 marketing year and as a result
of the presumed maximum refining needs fixed by Mem-
ber State and the shortfall resulting from the forecast
supply balance, provision should be made to authorise
imports for each refining Member State for the period 1
July 2002 to 28 February 2003.

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 su-
gar, 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
2002/03 marketing year.

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 104, 20.4.2002, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 325, 8.12.2001, p. 21.
(4) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 267.

The following quotas are opened for the period 1 July 2002 to
28 February 2003 pursuant to Decision 2001/870/EC in re-
spect of imports of raw cane sugar for refining falling within
CN code 1701 11 10:

(a) a tariff quota of 173 200 tonnes expressed as white sugar
originating in the ACP States covered by that Decision,
bearing the serial number 09.4097, and

(b) a tariff quota of 10 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar
originating in India, bearing the serial number 09.4097.

Article 2

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

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.

Article 3

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

(a) France 3 000 tonnes;

(b) Finland 35 000 tonnes;

(c) mainland Portugal 125 000 tonnes;

(d) United Kingdom 20 200 tonnes.

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 2002.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 June 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission