Commission Regulation (EC) No 180/2006 of  1 February 2006  setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the 2005/06 delivery period and derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003
Date: 2006-02-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, preferential agreement, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 180/2006

of 1 February 2006

setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the
Agreement with India for the 2005/06 delivery period and derogating from Regulation (EC)
No 1159/2003

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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), and in particular Article 39(6)
thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003
of 30 June 2003 laying down detailed rules of application for
the 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06 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:

and the

tities delivered are 6,7 %, 7,6 % and 6,7 % respectively
below the delivery obligations. Given that the quantities
concerned are minimal
impact on the
Community sugar market and the supply of raw sugar
to Community refineries for that delivery period was
negligible, Article
(EC) No
1159/2003 should not be applied to India, Côte
d’Ivoire or Madagascar and the quantities not delivered
should be added to the delivery obligations for those
countries for the 2005/06 delivery period, in accordance
with Article 12(4) of that Regulation.

of Regulation

12(1)

(4)

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

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 lays down
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.

Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 notwith-
that Article shall not apply as
standing, paragraph 1 of
the
regards
registered as not delivered for
2004/05 delivery period in the case of Côte d’Ivoire,
India
and Madagascar.

the quantities

Application of Articles 3 and 7 of the ACP Protocol,
Articles 3 and 7 of
the Agreement with India and
Article 9(3) and Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation (EC)
No 1159/2003 has resulted in the Commission setting
delivery obligations for each exporting country for the
2005/06 delivery period, on the basis of the information
currently available.

Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 provides
that paragraph 1 of that Article does not apply where the
difference between the quantity of delivery obligations
and the total quantity of ACP-India preferential sugar
counted is 5 % or less than the delivery obligations. In
the case of Côte d’Ivoire, India and Madagascar, the quan-

The quantities not delivered referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
added to the delivery obligations referred to in Article 2.

Article 2

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,
in the 2005/06 delivery
expressed in white-sugar equivalent,
period for each exporting country concerned, shall be as set
out in the Annex.

(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 568/2005 (OJ L 97, 15.4.2005, p. 9).

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 1 February 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Delivery obligations for imports of preferential sugar originating in countries which are signatories to the ACP Protocol
and to the Agreement with India for the 2005/06 delivery period, expressed in white-sugar equivalent.

ACP Protocol/Agreement with India signatory country

Delivery obligations 2005/06

Barbados

Belize

Congo
Côte d’Ivoire
Fiji

Guyana

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

32 638,29

40 306,70

10 225,97

10 772,81

165 305,43

159 259,91

10 781,10

118 851,82

5 050,48

14 217,02

20 993,62

493 856,36

6 018,62

15 689,30

0,00

116 631,85

10 298,66

47 717,60

0,00

7 086,65

30 262,59

Total

1 315 964,78