{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1159/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eur/2003/1159",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 of 30 June 2003 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06 marketing years for the import of cane sugar under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements and amending Regulations (EC) No 1464/95 and (EC) No 779/96",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1159",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The Commission shall determine, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001, the quantities of the delivery obligations for each exporting country concerned, in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 of the ACP Protocol, Articles 3 and 7 of the Agreement with India, and Articles 11 and 12 of this Regulation.\n2. The quantities of the delivery obligations for a delivery period:\n(a) shall be determined provisionally before 1 May preceding the period in question;\n(b) shall be adopted before 1 February of the period in question;\n(c) shall occasionally be adjusted during the period in question if necessary as a result of new information, in particular to resolve duly justified specific cases.\nThe delivery obligations taken into account for the issue of licences as referred to in Article 4 shall be equal to the quantities determined under the first paragraph hereto, adjusted, if necessary, in line with the decisions taken under Articles 3 and 7 of the ACP Protocol and of the Agreement with India.\n3. The quantities of delivery obligations shall be determined in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 of the ACP Protocol, Articles 3 and 7 of the Agreement with India, and Articles 11 and 12 of this Regulation, taking into account in particular:\n(a) the deliveries actually recorded over the preceding delivery periods;\n(b) the quantities declared as quantities which could not be delivered, in accordance with Article 7 of the ACP Protocol and of the Agreement with India.\nWhere the nominal quantities for which import licences have been issued exceed the quantities of deliveries actually recorded in the previous delivery periods, without prejudice to the results of the investigations to be carried out by the competent authorities, the nominal quantities of the licences for which it has not been possible to establish the actual import into the Community shall be added to the quantities referred to in point (a) of the first paragraph.\n4. The adjustments referred to in paragraph 2(c) may comprise transfers of quantities between two consecutive delivery periods provided that this does not disrupt the supply arrangements referred to in Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.\n5. The total for each delivery period of the quantities of the delivery obligations for the different exporting countries concerned shall be imported as preferential ACP-India sugar under the delivery obligations at zero duty.\nThe delivery obligation for the 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06 marketing years shall bear the following serial number: ‘ ACP-India preferential sugar ’ : No 09.4321.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 568/2005 of 14 April 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1159/2003 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06 marketing years for the import of cane sugar under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements and amending Regulations (EC) No 1464/95 and (EC) No 779/96."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1159/article/9",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}