1.7.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L1781 (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 950/2006 of 28 June 2006 laying down detailed rules of application for the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years for the import and refining of sugar products under certain tariff quotas and preferential agreements THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com- munity, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (!), and in particular Articles 40(1)(e)(iii) and (f) and 44 thereof, Whereas: Pursuant to Article 1(1) of Protocol 3 on ACP sugar (hereinafter referred to as the ACP Protocol) attached to Annex V to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (3 (hereinafter referred to as the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement), and Article 1(1) of the Agreement between the European Economic Com- munity and the Republic of India on cane sugar () (here- inafter referred to as the Agreement with India), the Community undertakes to purchase and import, at guar- anteed prices, specific quantities of cane sugar which originate in the ACP States and India respectively and which those States undertake to deliver to it. Pursuant to Article 29(4) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2001, during the 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 marketing years, in order to ensure adequate supplies to Community refineries, the application of import duties on cane sugar for refining falling within CN code 1701 11 10 originating in the States referred to in Annex VI to that Regulation is suspended for the complementary quantity. () OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. () OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3. () OJ L 190, 23.7.1975, p. 36. G) Pursuant to Article 4(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 of 18 September 2000, introducing excep- tional trade measures for countries and territories partici- pating in or linked to the European Union’s Stabilisation and Association process, amending Regulation (EC) No 2820/98 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 1763/1999 and (EC) No 6/2000 (%), imports of sugar products falling within CN codes 1701 and 1702 origin- ating in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and Kosovo () are subject to annual duty- free tariff quotas. The rules for the opening and adminis- tration of those tariff quotas are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1004/2005 of 30 June 2005, laying down detailed rules for the opening and administration of the tariff quotas for sugar products originating in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Monte- negro and Kosovo, as provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2000 (°). In the interests of rationality, Regulation (EC) No 1004/2005 should be repealed and all the detailed rules of application for the import and refining of sugar products should be brought together in a single text. Pursuant to Article 27(2) of the Stabilisation and Asso- ciation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, of the other part (), which entered into force on 1 January 2006, the Com- munity is to allow duty-free access for imports into the Community of products originating in the former Yugo- slav Republic of Macedonia falling within CN codes 1701 and 1702, within the limit of an annual tariff quota of 7 000 tonnes (net weight). Commission Regu- lation (EC) No 2151/2005 of 23 December 2005, laying down detailed rules for the opening and administration of the tariff quota for sugar products originating in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as provided for in the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between (*) OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1946/2005 (OJ L 312, 29.11.2005, p. 1). () As defined in UN Security Council Resolution 1244. () 0J L 170, 1.7.2005, p. 18. () OJ L 84, 20.3.2004, p. 13.