Commission Regulation (EC) No 403/2008 of 6 May 2008 provisionally setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and the Agreement with India for the 2008/2009 delivery period
Date: 2008-05-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, import, preferential agreement, tariff quota

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Official Journal of the European Union

7.5.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 403/2008

of 6 May 2008

provisionally setting delivery obligations for cane sugar to be imported under the ACP Protocol and
the Agreement with India for the 2008/2009 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
the
20 February 2006 on the common organisation of
markets in the sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 31
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

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
are
and to the
to the ACP Protocol
signatories
Agreement with India.

for detailed rules

(2)

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 calcu-

lating delivery obligations for each exporting country for
the 2008/2009 delivery period, on the basis of the infor-
mation currently available.

(3)

(4)

It is therefore necessary to provisionally determine the
delivery obligations
the period 2008/2009 in
accordance with point (a) of Article 12(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 950/2006.

for

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

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 2008/2009 delivery
period for each exporting country concerned, are provisionally
determined 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, 6 May 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).

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Delivery obligations for imports of preferential sugar, expressed in white-sugar equivalent, originating in countries which
are signatories to the ACP Protocol and to the Agreement with India for the 2008/2009 delivery period.

ANNEX

ACP Protocol/Agreement with India signatory country

Delivery obligations 2008/2009

Barbados

Belize

Congo

Fiji

Guyana

India
Côte d’Ivoire

Jamaica

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Mozambique

St Kitts and Nevis

Suriname

Swaziland

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

32 097,40

46 680,10

10 186,10

165 348,30

165 131,40

10 000,00

10 186,10

122 234,30

5 000,00

10 760,00

20 824,40

491 030,50

6 000,00

0,00

0,00

117 844,50

10 186,10

43 751,00

0,00

7 215,00

30 224,80

Total

1 304 700,00