Commission Regulation (EC) No 642/2006 of  27 April 2006  setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the 2006/07 delivery period
Date: 2006-04-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, preferential agreement, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Union

28.4.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 642/2006

of 27 April 2006

setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the
Agreement with India for the 2006/07 delivery period

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),

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:

(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 2006/07 taking account, on the basis of
the difference
the information currently available, of
between the amount of such delivery obligations and
the quantities actually imported during past delivery
periods.

(3)

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 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 2006/07 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, 27 April 2006.

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

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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 2006/07 delivery period:

ACP Protocol/Agreement with India signatory country

Delivery obligations 2006/07

Barbados
Belize

Congo

Fiji
Guyana

India
Côte d’Ivoire
Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar
Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique
St Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland
Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda
Zambia

Zimbabwe

32 097,40
40 348,80

10 186,10

165 348,30
159 410,10

10 000,00

10 186,10
118 696,00

5 000,00

13 324,40
20 824,40

491 030,50

6 000,00
15 590,90

0,00

117 844,50
10 186,10

47 717,60

0,00
7 215,00

30 224,80

Total

1 311 231,00