CELEX: 61999TJ0217
Language: en
Date: 2006-09-13
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 13 September 2006.#Sociedade de Indústrias Agricolas Açoreanas (Sinaga) SA v Commission of the European Communities.#Sugar - Poseima Programme - Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 - Sugar forecast supply balance for the Azores - Action for annulment - Admissibility - Definition of traditional shipment to the rest of the Community - Statement of reasons - Compliance with essential procedural requirements.#Joined cases T-217/99, T-321/00, T-222/01.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 13 September 2006 – Sinaga v Commission
      (Joined Cases T-217/99, T-321/00 and T-222/01)
      Sugar – Poseima Programme – Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 – Sugar forecast supply balance for the Azores – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Definition of traditional shipment to the rest of the Community – Statement of reasons – Compliance with essential procedural requirements
      1.                     Acts of the institutions – Statement of reasons – Obligation – Scope (Art. 253 EC) (see paras 75-86)
      2.                     Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Sugar – Specific measures for certain agricultural products in favour of
            the Azores and Madeira (Art. 299(2) EC; Council Regulation No 1600/92, Art. 3(3) and (4); Commission Regulation No 1481/2000;
            Council Decision 1999/468, Art. 4) (see paras 90-96, 109-128, 136-137, 143-147)
      Re: 
      
         ACTION for annulment, firstly, of the annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1434/1999 of 30 June 1999 establishing the sugar
                  forecast supply balance for the 1999/2000 marketing year for the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands provided for in Council
                  Regulations (EEC) No 1600/92 and (EEC) No 1601/92 (OJ 1999 L 166, p. 58); secondly, of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1481/2000
                  of 6 July 2000 establishing the sugar forecast supply balance for 2000/2001 for the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands
                  provided for in Council Regulations No 1600/92 and No 1601/92 (OJ 2000 L 167, p. 6) and also of the annex thereto and, thirdly,
                  of the annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1281/2001 of 28 June 2001 establishing the forecast supply balance for sugar
                  for the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands provided for in Council Regulations No 1600/92 and No 1601/92 for the period
                  1 July 2001 to 31 December 2001 (OJ 2001 L 176, p. 12), inasmuch as they set the quantities of sugar considered necessary
                  for supplying the Azores.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the applicant to pay the costs.