Article 5 Measures adopted by the Commission

After consultation with the Sugar Protocol country concerned, the multiannual adaptation strategy shall be adopted under the procedure referred to in Article 7(2) and in accordance with Article 4.

Special account will be taken of the individual situation of each Sugar Protocol country. For countries finding themselves in a political crisis, unrelated to the evolution of the sugar sector, the delivery of assistance under this Regulation will be assessed by the Commission on a case-by-case basis.

Assistance to Sugar Protocol countries without a multiannual adaptation strategy shall be subject in 2006 to an annual work programme, adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 7(2).

The assistance provided for under this Regulation shall be complementary but additional to assistance provided under other instruments of development cooperation.