Commission Regulation (EC) No 221/2005 of 10 February 2005 setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the 2004/2005 delivery period
Date: 2005-02-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP-EU Convention, EU relations, India, cane sugar, import, international agreement

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 221/2005

of 10 February 2005

setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the
Agreement with India for the 2004/2005 delivery period

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(3)

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
(EC)
No 1464/95 and (EC) No 779/96 (2), and in particular Article
9(1) thereof,

amending Regulations

agreements

and

between the amount of such delivery obligations and the
quantities actually imported during past delivery periods.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 919/2004 (3) amended
the delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported
under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India
for the 2003/2004 delivery period set by Commission
(EC) No 443/2004 (4)
Regulation
by
transferring
from Mauritius’s
25 376 tonnes of preferential sugar
delivery obligation for 2004/2005 following the loss of
an import licence. As ex-post checks have confirmed that
the lost licence has not been used, the 25 376 tonnes in
question should be entered in respect of the delivery
obligation set for Mauritius for the 2004/2005 delivery
period,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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

Application of Articles 3 and 7 of the ACP Protocol,
Articles 3 and 7 of
the Agreement with India and
Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003
has resulted in the Commission setting delivery obli-
gations for 2004/2005 taking account, on the basis of
the difference
the information currently available, of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The delivery obligations for imports originating in the countries
that are signatories to the ACP Protocol and to the Agreement
with India in respect of products falling within CN code 1701,
expressed in white-sugar equivalent, in the 2004/2005 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 publi-
cation 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 February 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation as

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. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1409/2004 (OJ L 256, 3.8.2004, p. 11).

(3) OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 90.
(4) OJ L 72, 11.3.2004, p. 52.

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ANNEX

Delivery obligations for imports of preferential sugar, expressed in white-sugar equivalent, originating in
countries which are signatories to the ACP Protocol and to the Agreement with India for the 2004/2005
delivery period

ACP Protocol/Agreement with India
signatory country

Delivery obligations 2004/2005

Barbados
Belize
Congo
Fiji
Guyana
India
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
St Kitts and Nevis
Suriname
Swaziland
Tanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

32 978,65
39 930,96
10 225,97
167 681,64
154 998,65
9 942,00
10 186,10
118 603,50
10 000,00
10 760,00
20 824,40
491 030,50
12 000,00
15 590,80
0,00
118 152,46
10 058,92
44 184,72
0,00
14 430,00
23 366,69

Total

1 314 945,95