Commission Regulation (EC) No 645/2007 of 12 June 2007 fixing the final complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for supply to refineries for the 2006/2007 marketing year
Date: 2007-06-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, originating product, raw sugar, sugar industry, supply

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 645/2007

of 12 June 2007

fixing the final complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India
for supply to refineries for the 2006/2007 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

marketing year, concerning imports referred to in Article
3(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006 of
for the marketing years
17 July 2006 laying down,
2006/2007, 2007/08 and 2008/2009, detailed rules
for the opening and administration of tariff quotas for
raw cane-sugar for refining, originating in least developed
countries, as well as detailed rules applying to the impor-
tation of products of tariff heading 1701 originating in
least developed countries (3).

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),

(4)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 29(4) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 lays down
that, during the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009
marketing years and in order to ensure adequate supply
to Community refineries,
import duties on a comple-
mentary quantity of imports of raw cane sugar origi-
nating 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
the 2006/2007,
application for
2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years for the
import and refining of sugar products under certain
tariff quotas and preferential agreements (2), on the
basis of an exhaustive Community forecast
supply
balance for raw sugar.

For the 2006/2007 marketing year, the balance indicates
the need to import a complementary quantity of raw
sugar for refining of 334 025 tonnes in white sugar
the Community refineries’ supply
equivalent so that
complementary quantity
needs
includes
import
applications
the 2006/2007
licences

can be met. This
an estimation of
in the

final months of

for

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

last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 247/2007 (OJ L 69, 9.3.2007,
p. 3).

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

(EC) No 371/2007 (OJ L 92, 3.4.2007, p. 6).

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 (4) and Commission Regulation (EC) No
92/2007 of 30 January 2007 fixing a complementary
raw cane sugar originating in the ACP
quantity of
the
supply to refineries
States
marketing year 2006/2007 (5) already fixed comple-
mentary quantities of respectively 82 500 tonnes and
120 000 tonnes.
It is therefore appropriate to fix the
final quantity of complementary sugar of 131 525
tonnes for the marketing year 2006/2007.

and India

for

for

(5)

(6)

Adequate supply of the refineries can only be guaranteed
if the traditional export agreements between the bene-
ficiary countries are respected. Therefore a breakdown
between the beneficiary countries or group of countries
is needed. For India, a quantity of 6 000 tonnes is
opened which brings
the
the
2006/2007 marketing year for India to 22 000 tonnes
which is considered an economically viable shipping
quantity. The remaining quantities should be fixed for
the ACP States, which have collectively undertaken to
implement between themselves procedures for the allo-
cation of the quantities in order to ensure the appropriate
supply of the refineries.

total quantity

for

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
licences in due time,
it is appropriate to provide for
the entry into force of this Regulation as from the date
of its publication.

(3) OJ L 196, 18.7.2006, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 227, 19.8.2006, p. 22.
(5) OJ L 22, 31.1.2007, p. 10.

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(7)

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

(a) 125 525 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in the
States listed in Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006
except India;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(b) 6 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in India.

In addition to the quantities laid down in Regulations (EC) No
1249/2006 and (EC) No 92/2007, a final quantity of 131 525
tonnes of complementary raw cane sugar
in white sugar
equivalent is fixed for the marketing year 2006/2007:

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, 12 June 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission