Commission Regulation (EC) No 222/2006 of  8 February 2006  on granting of import licences for cane sugar for the purposes of certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements
Date: 2006-02-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cane sugar, import licence, preferential agreement, tariff quota, third country

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Official Journal of the European Union

9.2.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 222/2006

of 8 February 2006

on granting of import licences for cane sugar for the purposes of certain tariff quotas and
preferential agreements

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(2)

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 Council Regulation (EC) No 1095/96 of 18
June 1996 on the implementation of the concessions set out in
Schedule CXL drawn up in the wake of the conclusion of the
GATT XXIV.6 negotiations (2),

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 (3), and in particular Article 5(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 lays down
detailed rules on determining the delivery obligations at
zero duty for products falling within CN code 1701
expressed as white sugar equivalent for imports origi-

nating in countries which are parties to the ACP Protocol
and the India Agreement.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 180/2006 of 1 February
2006 fixing the quantities of the delivery obligations for
sugar cane to be imported under the ACP Protocol and
the India Agreement for the 2005/06 delivery period (4)
fixed a delivery obligation for Congo, India, Mozambique,
Tanzania and Zimbabwe higher than all
the import
licence applications submitted to date for the 2005/06
delivery period.

(3)

Under these circumstances, and in the interests of clarity,
it should be indicated that the limits concerned have not
been reached,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In the case of import licence applications presented from 30
January to 3 February 2006 in line with Article 5(1) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1159/2003 licences shall be issued for the quan-
tities indicated in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 February 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 February 2006.

For the Commission

J. L. DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development

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

Regulation (EC) No 987/2005 (OJ L 167, 29.6.2005, p. 12).

(2) OJ L 146, 20.6.1996, p. 1.
(3) 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).

(4) OJ L 29, 2.2.2006, p. 28.

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ANNEX

ACP–INDIA preferential sugar

Title II of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003

2005/06 marketing year

Country

Week of 30.1.2006-3.2.2006: percentage
of requested quantity to be granted

Limit

Barbados

Belize

Congo

Fiji

Guyana

India

Côte d'Ivoire

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Zambia

Zimbabwe

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

0

100

100

100

100

Special preferential sugar

Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003

2005/06 marketing year

Country

Week of 30.1.2006-3.2.2006: percentage
of requested quantity to be granted

India

ACP

0

0

CXL concessions sugar

Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003

2005/06 marketing year

Country

Week of 30.1.2006-3.2.2006: percentage
of requested quantity to be granted

Brazil

Cuba

Other third countries

0

100

0

reached

Limit

reached

reached

Limit

reached

reached