Commission Regulation (EC) No 443/2004 of 10 March 2004 setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the 2003/2004 delivery period
Date: 2004-03-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cane sugar, export restriction, international agreement, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 443/2004

of 10 March 2004

setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the
Agreement with India for the 2003/2004 delivery period

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

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),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003
of 30 June 2003 laying down detailed rules of application for
the 2003/2004, 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 marketing years
for the import of cane sugar under certain tariff quotas and
preferential agreements and amending Regulations (EC) No
1464/95 and (EC) No 779/96 (2), and in particular Article 9(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 sets out the
detailed rules for setting delivery obligations at zero duty
in respect of products falling within CN code 1701,
expressed in white-sugar equivalent, for imports origin-
ating in the countries that are signatories to the ACP
Protocol and in India.

Application of Articles 3 and 7 of the ACP Protocol,
Articles 3 and 7 of the Agreement with India and Arti-
cles 11 and 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 has
resulted in the Commission setting delivery obligations
for 2003/2004, by calculating in particular the differ-
ence for each country between the amount of such
delivery obligations and the quantities actually imported
during past delivery periods,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The delivery obligations for imports originating in the countries
that are signatories to the ACP Protocol and in India in respect
of products falling within CN code 1701, expressed in white-
sugar equivalent,
in the 2003/2004 delivery period for each
exporting country concerned, are hereby fixed as shown in the
Annex hereto.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 10 March 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Commission

Regulation (EC) No 39/2004 (OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 16).

(2) OJ L 162, 1.7.2003, p. 25.

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ANNEX

The quantities of the delivery obligations for imports of preferential sugar originating in the countries that are signatories
of the ACP Protocol and in India for the 2003/2004 delivery period, expressed in tonnes of white-sugar equivalent, shall
be:

ACP Protocol/India Agreement
signatory country

Delivery obligations 2003/2004

Barbados

Belize

Congo

Fiji

Guyana

India

Côte d'Ivoire

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

St Kitts and Nevis

Surinam

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

50 641,21

38 977,79

10 186,10

161 123,25

153 799,11

10 000,00

10 186,10

118 695,13

0,00

18 815,50

20 564,84

484 278,72

8 804,51

0,00

111 298,16

10 189,35

42 054,47

0,00

0,00

29 799,89

Total

1 279 414,12