
Article 1 
The delivery obligations for imports originating in the countries that are signatories to the ACP Protocol and to the Agreement with India are provisionally determined as set out in the Annex. The amounts are fixed for each exporting country concerned in respect of products falling within CN code 1701, expressed in white-sugar equivalent, in the delivery period beginning on 1 July 2009.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from the second subparagraph of Article 4(5) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006, the first period of submission for import licence applications shall start on 4 May 2009. However, where the limit for the 2008/09 delivery period as set by Regulation (EC) No 403/2008 is reached in relation to one of the exporting countries, the first period for submission of import licence applications for that country shall start on the Monday following the Commission’s information to the Member States referred to in Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006.
Article 3 
For the delivery obligations of the delivery period beginning on 1 July 2009 and by way of derogation from Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 950/2006, all applicants fulfilling the conditions of Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1301/2006 may submit applications for import licences for sugar for refining in the Member State in which they are registered for VAT purposes.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following 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, 5 November 2008.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

Delivery obligations for imports of preferential sugar, expressed in tonnes white-sugar equivalent, originating in countries which are signatories to the ACP Protocol and to the Agreement with India for the delivery period beginning on 1 July 2009.

ACP Protocol/Agreement with India signatory country Delivery obligations for the period beginning on 1 July 2009
Barbados 8 024,35
Belize 11 670,03
Congo 2 546,53
Fiji 41 337,08
Guyana 41 282,85
India 2 500,0
Côte d’Ivoire 2 546,53
Jamaica 30 558,58
Kenya 1 250,0
Madagascar 2 690,0
Malawi 5 206,1
Mauritius 122 757,63
Mozambique 1 500,0
St Kitts and Nevis 0,0
Suriname 0,0
Swaziland 29 461,13
Tanzania 2 546,53
Trinidad and Tobago 10 937,75
Uganda 0,0
Zambia 1 803,75
Zimbabwe 7 556,2
Total 326 175,04