CELEX: 32001R0407
Language: en
Date: 2001-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 407/2001 of 28 February 2001 opening a preferential tariff quota in respect of imports of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States for supply to refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2001

L 60/22                EN                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                        1.3.2001
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 407/2001
                                                         of 28 February 2001
               opening a preferential tariff quota in respect of imports of raw cane sugar originating in the ACP
                             States for supply to refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2001
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     authorise imports for each refining Member State for the
                                                                                period 1 March to 30 June 2001.
                                                                        (3)     The above agreements lay down that the refiners in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           question must pay a minimum purchase price equal to
Community,                                                                      the guaranteed price for raw sugar, minus the adjust-
                                                                                ment aid fixed for the marketing year in question. This
                                                                                minimum price must therefore be fixed by taking
                                                                                account of the factors applying in the 2000/01
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                     marketing year.
September 1999 on the common organisation of the markets
in the sugar sector (1), as amended by Commission Regulation            (4)     In order to avoid disruption of supplies, it should be laid
(EC) No 1527/2000 (2) and in particular Articles 14(2) and                      down that, for the quantities to be imported under
44(6) thereof,                                                                  Regulation (EC) No 1469/2000 for which no licences
                                                                                have been applied for by 28 February 2001, the Member
                                                                                states concerned shall be authorised to issue those
                                                                                licences after that date in the course of the 2000/2001
Whereas:                                                                        marketing year.
                                                                        (5)     The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
                                                                                accordance with the opinion of the Management
(1)     Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 lays down                    Committee for Sugar,
        that, during the marketing years 1995/1996 to 2000/
        2001 and in order to ensure adequate supplies to
        Community refineries, a special reduced duty is to be
        levied on imports of raw cane sugar originating in States
        with which the Community has concluded supply
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        arrangements on preferential terms. At present such
        agreements have been concluded, by Council Decision
        95/284/EC (3), only with the ACP States party to
        Protocol 8 on ACP sugar annexed to the fourth
        ACP-EEC Lomé Convention and with the Republic of                                              Article 1
        India.
                                                                        For the period 1 March to 30 June 2001, a tariff quota of
                                                                        84 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar originating in the ACP
                                                                        States covered by Decision 95/284/EC is opened in respect of
(2)     The quantities of special preferential sugar to be              imports of raw cane sugar for refining falling with CN code
        imported are calculated in accordance with the said             1701 11 10.
        Article 44 on the basis of a Community forecast annual
        supply balance. The balance has indicated the need to           This tariff quota shall bear the serial number 09.4097.
        import raw sugar and to open at this stage for the
        2000/01 marketing year tariff quotas at the special
        reduced rate of duty as provided for in the above agree-
        ments so that the Community refineries' supply needs                                          Article 2
        can be met for part of the year. Commission Regulation
        (EC) No 1469/2000 (4) opened quotas for the period 1
        July 2000 to 28 February 2001. The forecasts for raw            1.     A reduced duty of EUR 5,41 per 100 kg of standard
        cane sugar production are now available for the 2000/           quality raw sugar shall apply to imports of the quantity referred
        2001 marketing year. The necessary quotas should                to in Article 1.
        therefore be opened for the second part of that year. In
        view of the presumed maximum refining needs fixed by            2.     Notwithstanding Article 7 of Commission Regulation
        Member State and the shortfall resulting from the fore-         (EC) No 1916/95 (5), the minimum purchase price to be paid
        cast supply balance, provision should be made to                by Community refiners shall be fixed for the period referred to
                                                                        in Article 1 at EUR 49,68 per 100 kg of standard-quality raw
(1) OJ L  252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.                                         sugar.
(2) OJ L  175, 14.7.2000, p. 59.
(3) OJ L  181, 1.8.1995, p. 22.
(4) OJ L  165, 6.7.2000, p. 14.                                         (5) OJ L 184, 3.8.1995, p. 18.
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                             Article 3                                                             Article 4
The following Member States are authorised to issue import             The Member States referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC)
licences, under the quota fixed in Article 1 and on the terms          No 1469/2000 shall be authorised, for the quantities listed in
laid down in Article 2, for the following quantities expressed as      that Article for which no applications for import licences have
white sugar:                                                           been submitted by 1 March 2001, to issue licences for the
(a) Finland: 15 900 tonnes;                                            import and refining of those quantities up until 30 June 2001.
(b) metropolitan France: 15 500 tonnes;
(c) mainland Portugal: 47 600 tonnes;                                                              Article 5
(d) United Kingdom: 5 000 tonnes.                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 2001.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                    Done at Brussels, 28 February 2001.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                               Member of the Commission