CELEX: 32000R0463
Language: en
Date: 2000-02-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 463/2000 of 29 February 2000 opening import quotas in respect of special preferential raw cane sugar from the ACP States for supply to Community refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2000

1. 3. 2000            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 56/35
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 463/2000
                                                         of 29 February 2000
               opening import quotas in respect of special preferential raw cane sugar from the ACP States for
                           supply to Community refineries in the period 1 March to 30 June 2000
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                     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 1999/2000
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                           marketing year.
Community,
                                                                        (4)     In order to avoid a rupture of supplies, provision should
                                                                                be made in respect of the quantities to be imported
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13                     under Regulation (EC) No 1436/1999 for which the
September 1999 on the common organisation of the market in                      licences have not been requested up to 29 February
sugar (1), and in particular Articles 14(2) and 44(6) thereof,                  2000, for the Member States concerned to be authorised
                                                                                to issue the said licences after that date during the
                                                                                1999/2000 marketing year.
Whereas:
                                                                        (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/EG (2) only with the ACP States party to
        Protocol 8 on ACP sugar annexed to the Fourth                                                Article 1
        ACP-EEC Lomé Convention, and with the Republic of
        India.                                                          A tariff quota is hereby opened for the period 1 March to 30
                                                                        June 2000 under Decision 95/284/EC, in respect of imports of
                                                                        raw cane sugar for refining, amounting to 8 500 tonnes
(2)     The quantities of special preferential sugar to be              expressed as white sugar originating in the ACP States covered
        imported are calculated in accordance with the said             by that Decision.
        Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 on the
        basis of a Community forecast supply balance. The               This tariff quota shall bear the serial number 09.4097.
        balance has indicated the need to import raw sugar and
        to open at this stage for the 1999/2000 marketing year
        a tariff quota at the special reduced rate of duty as
        provided for in the abovementioned agreements so that                                        Article 2
        the Community refineries' supply need can be met for
        part of the year. Tariff quotas have in this way been           1.     A special reduced duty of EUR 5,41 per 100 kg of
        opened by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1436/                   standard quality raw sugar shall apply to imports of the
        1999 (3) for the period 1 July 1999 to 29 February              quantity referred to in Article 1.
        2000. The production forecasts for raw cane sugar are
        now available for the 1999/2000 marketing year. The
        necessary tariff quotas should consequently be opened           2.     Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1916/95 (4)
        for the second part of the marketing year. Because of the       notwithstanding, the minimum purchase price to be paid by
        presumed maximum refining needs fixed by Member                 the Community refiners shall be fixed for the period referred to
        States and the shortfall resulting from the forecast            in Article 1 at EUR 49,68 per 100 kg of standard quality raw
        supply balance, provision should be made to authorise           sugar.
        imports for each refining Member State, for the period
        March to 30 June 2000.
                                                                                                     Article 3
(3)     The above agreements lay down that the refiners in
        question must pay a minimum purchase price equal to             The following Member States are hereby authorised to import
        the guaranteed price for raw sugar, minus the adjust-           under the quota referred to in Article 1 and on the terms laid
                                                                        down in Article 2(1) the following shortfall expressed as white
                                                                        sugar:
(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 181, 1.8.1995, p. 22.
(3) OJ L 166, 1.7.1999, p. 62.                                          (4) OJ L 184, 3.8.1995, p. 18.
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(a) Finland: 0 tonnes.                                                 been lodged before 1 March 2000, to issue such licences to
(b) metropolitan France: 2 500 tonnes.                                 allow import and refining to take place until 30 June 2000.
(c) mainland Portugal: 6 000 tonnes.
(d) United Kingdom: 0 tonnes.
                           Article 4                                                               Article 5
The Member States referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC)
No 1436/1999 are authorised, for the quantities in the said
Article for which the applications for import licences have not        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 2000.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                    Done at Brussels, 29 February 2000.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                                               Member of the Commission