Commission Regulation (EC) No 863/2006 of  13 June 2006  adjusting the delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the 2005/06 delivery period
Date: 2006-06-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, preferential agreement, tariff quota

L 160/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

14.6.2006

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 863/2006

of 13 June 2006

adjusting the delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the
Agreement with India for the 2005/06 delivery period

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

in full and that they do not wish to have the additional
period for delivery.

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,

(5)

(6)

Whereas:

After consultation with the ACP States concerned, a re-
allocation of the shortfall must therefore be carried out
for delivery during the 2005/06 delivery period.

Regulation (EC) No 180/2006 should therefore be
repealed, and the delivery obligations for the 2005/06
delivery period should be adjusted in accordance with
Article 9(1) and (2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003.

(1)

Article 9 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003
of 30 June 2003 laying down detailed rules of appli-
cation 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)
setting
lays down the detailed rules
delivery obligations at zero duty for products falling
expressed in white-sugar
within CN code 1701,
equivalent, for imports originating in the countries that
are
and to the
to the ACP Protocol
signatories
Agreement with India.

for

(2)

These quantities were set,
the 2005/06 delivery
period, by Commission Regulation (EC) No 180/2006 (3).

for

(3)

(4)

Article 7(1) and (2) of the ACP Protocol lays down rules
for cases where an ACP State fails to deliver its agreed
quantity.

The competent authorities of Saint Kitts and Nevis and of
Trinidad and Tobago have informed the Commission
that they will be unable to deliver their agreed quantities

(7)

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,
in the 2005/06 delivery
expressed in white-sugar equivalent,
period for each exporting country concerned, set out in the
Annex to Regulation (EC) No 180/2006, are hereby adjusted
as shown in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Regulation (EC) No 180/2006 is hereby repealed.

(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).

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

Article 3

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

14.6.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 160/15

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

Done at Brussels, 13 June 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

L 160/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

14.6.2006

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/India Agreement signatory country

Delivery obligations 2005/06

Barbados

Belize

Congo
Côte-d’Ivoire
Fiji

Guyana

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

Uganda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Zambia

Zimbabwe

32 638,29

42 013,37

10 225,97

10 772,81

167 600,53

161 497,20

10 781,10

120 692,78

6 413,05

14 217,02

22 510,23

499 321,82

7 390,93

0,00

785,00

0,00

118 464,53

10 298,66

40 000,00

8 470,78

31 870,71

Total

1 315 964,78