Commission Regulation (EC) No 509/2008 of 6 June 2008 fixing the final complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India for supply to refineries for the marketing year 2007/08
Date: 2008-06-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ACP countries, India, cane sugar, originating product, quantitative restriction, sugar industry, supply

7.6.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 509/2008

of 6 June 2008

fixing the final complementary quantity of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States and India
for supply to refineries for the marketing year 2007/08

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 2006/07, 2007/08 and 2008/09
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
detailed rules of application for the 2006/07, 2007/08
and 2008/09 marketing years for the import and refining
of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and prefer-
ential agreements (2), on the basis of an exhaustive
Community forecast supply balance for raw sugar.

can be met. This
an estimation of

For the 2007/08 marketing year, the balance indicates
the need to import a complementary quantity of raw
sugar for refining of 286 597 tonnes in white sugar
the Community refineries’ supply
equivalent so that
complementary quantity
needs
import
applications
includes
licences in the final months of the 2007/08 marketing
year, concerning imports referred to in Article 3(2) of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006 of 17 July
2006 laying down, for the marketing years 2006/07,
2007/08 and 2008/09, detailed rules for the opening

for

and administration of tariff quotas for raw cane sugar for
refining, originating in least developed countries, as well
as detailed rules applying to the importation of products
of
tariff heading 1701 originating in least developed
countries (3).

(EC) No

1545/2007

Commission Regulation
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 (4) and Commission Regu-
lation (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 200708 (5)
already fixed com-
plementary quantities of
respectively 80 000 tonnes
and 120 000 tonnes. It is therefore appropriate to fix
the final quantity of complementary sugar of 86 597
tonnes for the marketing year 2007/08.

Adequate supply of the refineries can only be guaranteed
if the traditional export agreements between the ben-
eficiary 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
the
the
opened which brings
marketing year 2007/08 for India to 20 000 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
In order to
with the beneficiary countries and trade.
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.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

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

(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 196, 18.7.2006, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 337, 21.12.2007, p. 67.
(5) OJ L 29, 2.2.2008, p. 3.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In addition to the quantities laid down in Regulations (EC) No 1545/2007 and (EC) No 97/2008, a final
quantity of 86 597 tonnes of complementary raw cane sugar in white sugar equivalent is fixed for the
marketing year 2007/08:

(a) 80 597 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in the States listed in Annex VI to Regulation (EC)

No 318/2006 except India;

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

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication 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 June 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission