Commission Regulation (EC) No 1115/2003 of 26 June 2003 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 2003 to 29 February 2004
Date: 2003-06-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, raw sugar, sugar industry, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1115/2003

of 26 June 2003

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 2003 to 29 February 2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 39(1) 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
arrangements on preferential
terms. At present such
agreements have been concluded by Council Decision
2001/870/EC (3) with the ACP States referred to in
Protocol No 3 on ACP sugar (4) attached to Annex V to
the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement, and with the
Republic of India.

The agreements in the form of an exchange of letters
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
applying in the 2003/04
marketing year.

factors

the

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 2003/04 marketing year tariff
quotas at the special reduced rate of duty as provided for
in the above agreements so that the Community refi-
neries' 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 2003/04 marketing year
and as a result of the presumed maximum refining needs
fixed by Member 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 2003 to 29 February 2004.

The following quotas are hereby opened for the period 1 July
2003 to 29 February 2004 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 146 070 tonnes expressed as white sugar
originating in the ACP States parties to the agreements in
the form of an exchange of letters approved by Decision
2001/870/EC, bearing the serial number 09.4322; and

(b) a tariff quota of 10 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar
originating in India, bearing the serial number 09.4322.

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.

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
imported by the Member States under the quotas referred to in
Article 1 and on the terms laid down in Article 2(1):

(a) Finland 24 000 tonnes;

(b) mainland Portugal 131 000 tonnes;

(c) United Kingdom 1 070 tonnes.

Article 4

(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. 3.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 July 2003.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 June 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission