Commission Regulation (EC) No 1545/2007 of 20 December 2007 fixing the complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for supply to refineries in the period from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008
Date: 2007-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, originating product, raw sugar, sugar industry, supply, white sugar

21.12.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 337/67

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1545/2007

of 20 December 2007

fixing the complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for
supply to refineries in the period from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008

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) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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 products of
the sugar sector
under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements (2),
on the basis of a Community forecast supply balance of
raw sugar. For
the
balance indicates the need to import a complementary
quantity of raw sugar so that the Community refineries'
supply needs can be met.

the 2007/2008 marketing year,

supply needs,
the complementary quantity should be
allocated between the third countries concerned in a
it is considered
way to ensure full delivery. For India,
appropriate to maintain an initial quantity of 10 000
tonnes. As regards the remaining supply need, a global
quantity should be fixed for the ACP 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.

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the period from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008,
the complementary quantity of raw cane sugar for refining
falling within CN code 1701 11 10, as referred to in Article
29(4) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, shall be:

(a) 70 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in the
States listed in Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006
except India;

(b) 10 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in India.

Article 2

(3)

To ensure that refineries within the Community have a
sufficient supply of raw sugar to fulfil their traditional

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, 20 December 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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

(EC) No 1260/2007 (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 1).

(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).