Sugar - Poseima Programme - Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 - Sugar forecast supply balance for the Azores - Action for annulment - Admissibility - Definition of traditional shipment to the rest of the Community - Statement of reasons - Compliance with essential procedural requirements.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 13 September 2006 – Sinaga v Commission (Joined Cases T-217/99, T-321/00 and T-222/01) Sugar – Poseima Programme – Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 – Sugar forecast supply balance for the Azores – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Definition of traditional shipment to the rest of the Community – Statement of reasons – Compliance with essential procedural requirements 1.                     Acts of the institutions – Statement of reasons – Obligation – Scope (Art. 253 EC) (see paras 75-86) 2.                     Agriculture – Common organisation of the markets – Sugar – Specific measures for certain agricultural products in favour of the Azores and Madeira (Art. 299(2) EC; Council Regulation No 1600/92, Art. 3(3) and (4); Commission Regulation No 1481/2000; Council Decision 1999/468, Art. 4) (see paras 90-96, 109-128, 136-137, 143-147) Re: ACTION for annulment, firstly, of the annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1434/1999 of 30 June 1999 establishing the sugar forecast supply balance for the 1999/2000 marketing year for the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands provided for in Council Regulations (EEC) No 1600/92 and (EEC) No 1601/92 (OJ 1999 L 166, p. 58); secondly, of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1481/2000 of 6 July 2000 establishing the sugar forecast supply balance for 2000/2001 for the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands provided for in Council Regulations No 1600/92 and No 1601/92 (OJ 2000 L 167, p. 6) and also of the annex thereto and, thirdly, of the annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1281/2001 of 28 June 2001 establishing the forecast supply balance for sugar for the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands provided for in Council Regulations No 1600/92 and No 1601/92 for the period 1 July 2001 to 31 December 2001 (OJ 2001 L 176, p. 12), inasmuch as they set the quantities of sugar considered necessary for supplying the Azores. Operative part The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders the applicant to pay the costs.