Commission Regulation (EC) No 737/2004 of 21 April 2004 amending the delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the India Agreement for the 2003/2004 delivery period
Date: 2004-04-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cane sugar, import restriction, international agreement, third country

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 737/2004

of 21 April 2004

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

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),

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(2)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 443/2004 (3) set the
delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under
the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the
2003/2004 delivery period.

The United Kingdom has submitted an application to
transfer delivery obligations between the 2003/2004 and
2004/2005 delivery periods for Zimbabwe in order to
correct an administrative error made when the import
licence applications for that country were encoded. That
error
resulted in licences being actually issued for
6 858,11 tonnes more than the delivery obligation fixed
for Zimbabwe for the 2003/2004 delivery period.

(3)

(4)

Since transferring 6 858,11 tonnes from Zimbabwe's
delivery obligation for 2004/2005 to its obligation for
2003/2004 will not disturb the supply arrangement
referred to in Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/
2001, the delivery obligation set for Zimbabwe for the
2003/2004 delivery period should be amended.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The delivery obligations for imports of products falling within
CN code 1701, expressed as white sugar equivalent, originating
in countries which are parties to the ACP Protocol and the
India Agreement for the 2003/2004 delivery period for each
exporting country as set out in the Annex to Regulation (EC)
No 443/2004 are hereby amended as shown in the Annex to
this Regulation.

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, 21 April 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commis-

sion Regulation (EC) No 39/2004 (OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 162, 1.7.2003, p. 25.
(3) OJ L 72, 11.3.2004, p. 52.

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Delivery obligations for imports of preferential sugar, expressed as white sugar equivalent, originating in
countries which are parties to the ACP Protocol and the India Agreement for the 2003/2004 delivery period

ANNEX

ACP Protocol/India Agreement signatory country

Delivery obligations
2003/2004

Barbados

Belize

Congo

Côte d’Ivoire

Fiji

Guyana

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Uganda

Saint-Kitts-and-Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad-and-Tobago

Zambia

Zimbabwe

50 641,21

38 977,79

10 186,10

10 186,10

161 123,25

153 799,11

10 000,00

118 695,13

0,00

18 815,50

20 564,84

484 278,72

0,00

8 804,51

0,00

111 298,16

10 189,35

42 054,47

0,00

36 658,00

Total

1 286 272,24