Commission Regulation (EC) No 77/2008 of 28 January 2008 setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the 2007/2008 delivery period
Date: 2008-01-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, preferential agreement, tariff quota

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 77/2008

of 28 January 2008

setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the
Agreement with India for the 2007/2008 delivery period

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 Article 31 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 12 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/2006
of 28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules of appli-
cation for the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009
marketing years for the import and refining of sugar
products under certain tariff quotas and preferential
agreements (2) provides
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
and to the
to the ACP Protocol
signatories
are
Agreement with India.

for detailed rules

Application of Articles 3 and 7 of the ACP Protocol,
Articles 3 and 7 of
the Agreement with India and
Article 12(3) and Articles 14 and 15 of Regulation
(EC) No 950/2006 has resulted in the Commission
setting delivery obligations for each exporting country
for the 2007/2008 delivery period, on the basis of the
information currently available.

(3)

(4)

(5)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 505/2007 (3) has
determined provisionally the delivery obligations
for
cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and
the Agreement with India for the 2007/2008 delivery
period.

It is therefore necessary to set the delivery obligations for
the period 2007/2008 in accordance with point (b) of
Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006.

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 2007/2008 delivery
period for each exporting country concerned, shall be as set out
in the Annex.

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, 28 January 2008.

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).

(3) OJ L 119, 9.5.2007, p. 22.

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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 2007/2008 delivery period, expressed in white-sugar equivalent:

(tonnes)

ACP Protocol/Agreement with India signatory country

Delivery obligations 2007/2008

Barbados

Belize

Congo
Côte-d’Ivoire

Fiji

Guyana

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

St Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

32 864,83

53 741,88

10 186,10

10 123,12

162 656,25

170 203,57

9 999,83

132 129,06

5 017,07

9 905,00

19 898,32

476 789,70

5 965,92

0,00

0,00

117 368,72

9 672,60

47 513,60

0,00

8 179,91

37 660,14

Total

1 319 875,62