Commission Implementing Regulation (EU No 589/2011
of 20 June 2011
amending Implementing Regulation (EU No 302/2011 opening an exceptional
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation [1], and in particular Article 187, in conjunction with Article 4, thereof,
Whereas:
? The world market prices for sugar have been at a constant high level during the first months of the 2010/11 marketing year, which has slowed down the pace of
? Confronted with this situation, the Commission recently adopted a series of measures with the purpose to bring additional supply to the union market. Those measures included Commission Regulation (EU No 222/2011 of 3 March 2011 laying down exceptional measures as regards the release of out-of-quota sugar and isoglucose on the union market at reduced surplus levy during marketing year 2010/2011 [2], which increased the combined availability of sugar and isoglucose on the union market by 526000 tonnes, and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU No 302/2011 of 28 March 2011 opening an exceptional
?
? The high prices on the world market for sugar therefore threaten the availability of supply on the union market. For that reason it is necessary to increase, by a quantity of 200000 tonnes, the quantity of 300000 tonnes set out in Implementing Regulation (EU No 302/2011, for which the
? In accordance with Article 11 of Commission Regulation (EC No 891/2009 of 25 September 2009 opening and providing for the administration of certain Community tariff quotas in the sugar sector [5] the opening of the tariff quotas for
? Implementing Regulation (EU No 302/2011 should be amended accordingly.
? The Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its Chair,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
In the first paragraph of Article 1 of Implementing Regulation (EU No 302/2011, the following sentence is added:
"The
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall expire on 30 September 2011.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 June 2011.
For the Commission
The President
Jos Manuel Barroso
[1] OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
[2] OJ L 60, 5.3.2011, p. 6.
[3] OJ L 81, 29.3.2011, p. 8.
[4] OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1.
[5] OJ L 254, 26.9.2009, p. 82.