14.6.2014   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 175/14

(1)

Article 139(1)(a) of of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides that the products referred to in Article 140(2) of that Regulation may be manufactured by using sugar produced in excess of the quotas referred to in Article 136 of that Regulation. However, those products may also be manufactured by using sugar imported in the Union. To guarantee the supply necessary for this production it is appropriate to suspend import duties for certain quantities of industrial sugar.

(2)

The experience of recent marketing years shows that the suspension of import duties on a quantity of 400 000 tonnes of sugar per marketing year intended for the production of products referred to in Article 140(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 has been sufficient to guarantee the supply necessary for the manufacture of such products in the Union during the marketing year in question.

(3)

In order to give the stakeholders the certainty that supply necessary for the manufacturing of products referred to in Article 140(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 will be constantly available each marketing year until the end of the quota system, it is appropriate to provide for the suspension of import duties for a certain quantity of sugar for each of the three following marketing years, from 2014/2015 until 2016/2017.

(4)

Furthermore, Article 11 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 891/2009 (2) provides for the administration of the tariff quota for industrial import sugar with order number 09.4390.

(5)

It is therefore necessary to determine the quantity of industrial sugar for which no import duties should apply for the 2014/2015 until 2016/2017 marketing year.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,