Commission Regulation (EC) No 97/2008 of 1 February 2008 fixing a complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for supply to refineries for the marketing year 2007/2008
Date: 2008-02-01
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 97/2008

of 1 February 2008

fixing a complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for
supply to refineries for the marketing year 2007/2008

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),

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 com-
plementary 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
the 2006/2007,
application for
detailed rules of
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
supply
basis of an exhaustive Community forecast
balance for raw sugar. For the 2007/2008 marketing
year, the balance indicated the need to import a com-
plementary quantity of raw sugar so that the Community
refineries' supply needs can be met.

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 (3)
fixed a first com-
the
plementary quantity of 80 000 tonnes to meet

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Council
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 337, 21.12.2007, p. 67.

most urgent supply needs for the first months of the
2007/2008 marketing year. Within the framework of
the additional
the Economic Partnership Agreements,
market access of sugar will be for
the 2008/2009
marketing year only. Adequate supply of raw sugar for
refining for the refining industry for the 2007/2008
marketing year therefore depends on the availability of
it is
complementary quantities. To ensure this supply,
appropriate to open a supplementary quantity of comple-
mentary sugar of 120 000 tonnes for the marketing year
2007/2008.

(4)

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, a quantity of 4 000
tonnes is opened. This brings India's complementary
in line
quantity for
with its share of the total complementary quantity of
the 2006/2007 marketing year. The remaining quantities
should be fixed for the ACP States, which have collec-
tively undertaken to implement between themselves
procedures for the allocation of the quantities in order
to ensure the appropriate supply of the refineries.

the 2007/2008 marketing year

(5)

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

In addition to the quantities laid down in Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1545/2007, a complementary quantity of
120 000 tonnes of complementary raw cane sugar in white
sugar equivalent is fixed for the marketing year 2007/2008:

(a) 116 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in the
States listed in Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006
except India;

(b) 4 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in India.

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 1 February 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission