Commission Regulation (EC) No 1915/95 of 2 August 1995 laying down transitional measures for imports of special preferential raw cane sugar for refining

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 1915/95
• Articles: 4

Article 1

1. Portugal is hereby authorized to import up to 70 000 tonnes of raw cane sugar expressed as white sugar from the ACP States Contracting Parties to the Fourth Lomé Convention, subject to the duty laid down in paragraph 2.

2. The import duty on the quantity laid down in paragraph 1 shall be ECU 6,9 per 100 kilograms raw sugar of the standard quality defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 431/68 (8).

3. Without prejudice to Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1916/95 (1), the minimum purchase price to be paid by refiners for the quantity laid down in paragraph 1 shall be ECU 51,17 per 100 kilograms raw sugar of the standard quality referred to in paragraph 2.

Article 2

The detailed implementing rules laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1916/95 on special imports shall supply to raw sugar imported under this Regulation.

Article 3

1. In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 9 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81, the adjustment aid fixed for the 1994/95 marketing year shall continue to apply, pursuant to Commission Decision 95/46/EC (2) and Article 3 (3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 3300/94 (3), to raw sugar imported during the 1994/95 marketing year from third countries for refining in Portugal and Finland respectively which is still in stock on 30 June 1995 in those Member States and which is refined during the period 1 July to 30 Sepember 1995.

The quantities of sugar thus refined shall count against the quantities determined in the abovementioned Decision and Regulation.

2. The aid for refining provided for in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2225/86 and the additional aid provided for in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1543/94 in force for the 1994/95 marketing year shall continue to apply to raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments up to the quantities laid down in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 359/95 which is still in stock in the Community on 30 June 1995 and which is refined during the period 1 July to 30 September 1995.

The quantities of sugar thus refined shall count against the quantities respectively determined by Regulations (EC) No 1459/94 and (EC) No 359/95.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 July 1995.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 2 August 1995.

For the Commission Hans VAN DEN BROEK Member of the Commission