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ProSunergy conducts strategic analysis in sugar and renewable fuels, world-wide.

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Response to Further reciprocal tariff liberalisation under Art. 29 of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

29 Sept 2024

Any volume of Ukrainian sugar that gains access to the EU at preferential, or zero, import duties will negatively affect prior interests in the EU sugar market, since such additional supply will enter a market where demand is basically stable and current domestic and preferential origins are sufficient to satisfy domestic demand. In particular, many ACP countries depend on the EU market, to which they have Duty-Free & Quota-Free access under their Economic Partnership Agreements, for the very viability of their sugar industries. Also, under Economic Partnership Agreements, the EU is obligated (ex. article 42 of the EC-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement) to conduct prior consultations with the parties to these EPAs and, if the balance of concessions and obligations is to be changed by the EU, they would be entitled to review concessions made to the EU party. At this time, no such consultations have taken place. The way forward - the way to support Ukraine without damaging prior EU trade commitments - is to obtain a balanced supply and demand sugar market in Ukraine prior to trade liberalisation. This is feasible without constraining Ukrainian production: as in India, a country which lost a WTO Dispute Settlement over its subsidised sugar exports, the solution to prevent exports is to distil excess sugar into anyhydrous ethanol, which than can be directly mixed with petrol (gasoline) in the current fleet of Otto-cycle engines, thus reducing pollution, maintaining Ukrainian rural employment, and saving hard currency on fossil energy imports.
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Response to Application of EU health and environmental standards to imported agricultural and agri-food products

12 Mar 2022

The submission is made on behalf of the ACP/LDC Sugar Industry Group (transparency register number 669663515953-77). Our Group is open to sugar industries in countries that are eligible to supply quota free and tariff free to the EU and the UK and who are listed in Annex 1 to EU Regulation 2015/1550, plus South Africa. Please find attached our evidence in relation to this consultation.
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Meeting with Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development) and ASSUC- European Association of Sugar Traders

27 Jan 2017 ยท Sugar user representatives and ACP ambassadors