Commission Regulation (EC) No 92/2007 of 30 January 2007 fixing a complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for supply to refineries for the marketing year 2006/07
Date: 2007-01-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, originating product, raw sugar, sugar industry, supply, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 92/2007

of 30 January 2007

fixing a complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for
supply to refineries for the marketing year 2006/07

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20
February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in
the sugar sector (1), and in particular the second subparagraph
of Article 29(4),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 29(4) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 lays down
that, during the 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09
marketing years and in order to ensure adequate supply
import duties on a comp-
to Community refineries,
lementary quantity of imports of raw cane sugar orig-
inating in the States referred to in Annex VI to that
Regulation are to be suspended.

That complementary quantity should be calculated in
accordance with Article 19 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 950/2006 of 28 June 2006 laying down
detailed rules of application for the 2006/07, 2007/08
and 2008/09 marketing years for the import and refining
of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and prefer-
ential agreements (2), on the basis of an exhaustive
Community forecast supply balance for raw sugar. For
the 2006/07 marketing year, the balance indicated the
need to import a complementary quantity of raw sugar
so that the Community refineries' supply needs can be
met.

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1249/2006 of 18
August 2006 fixing the complementary quantity of raw
cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for
supply to refineries in the period from 1 July 2006 to 30
September 2007 (3) fixed a first complementary quantity

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2011/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2031/2006 (OJ L 414, 30.12.2006, p. 43).

(3) OJ L 227, 19.8.2006, p. 22.

the traditional

supply need of sugar

of 82 500 tonnes to meet the most urgent supply needs
for the first months of the 2006/07 marketing year. As
there will be no withdrawal of sugar from the market in
accordance with Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No
318/2006,
for
refining, as referred to in Article 29(1) of that Regulation,
will not be reduced. Moreover,
the Portuguese sugar
quota has been reduced by more than 50 % in the
marketing year 2006/07. Therefore, in accordance with
Article 29(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, the
traditional supply need fixed for Portugal under Article
29(1) of that Regulation is to be increased by a supple-
mentary 35 000 tonnes.

(4)

(5)

(6)

To ensure an adequate supply of the refineries in the
is therefore appropriate to fix a sup-
Community,
plementary
of
complementary
of
120 000 tonnes for the marketing year 2006/07.

it
quantity

sugar

This adequate supply of
the refineries can only be
guaranteed if the traditional export agreements between
the beneficiary countries are respected. Therefore a
breakdown between the beneficiary countries or group
of countries is needed. For India, the quantities fixed in
Regulation (EC) No 1249/2006 correspond already to
import quantity. Therefore a limited
the traditional
India. The
quantity of 3 500 tonnes is opened for
the ACP
should be fixed for
remaining quantities
States, which have collectively undertaken to implement
between themselves procedures for the allocation of the
quantities in order to ensure the appropriate supply of
the refineries.

Prior to the import of this complementary sugar, the
refiners need to make supply and shipping arrangements
with the beneficiary countries and trade.
In order to
allow them to prepare for the application for import
it is appropriate to provide for
licences in due time,
the entry into force of this Regulation as from the date
of its publication.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sugar,

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In addition to the quantities laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1249/2006, a complementary quantity of
120 000 tonnes of complementary raw cane sugar in white-sugar equivalent is fixed for the marketing year
2006/07:

(a) 116 500 tonnes expressed as white-sugar originating in the States listed in Annex VI to Regulation (EC)

No 318/2006 except India;

(b) 3 500 tonnes expressed as white-sugar originating in India.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication 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, 30 January 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission