(45) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation as regards imports, implementing powers should also be conferred on the Commission in respect of measures laying down fixed quantities of agricultural products considered to have been used in the manufacturing of the processed agricultural products for the purposes of the reduction or phasing out of import duties applicable in preferential trade and establishing the appropriate documentary requirements, the annual tariff quotas and the method of admin ...[+++]istration to be used for the import of processed agricultural products and certain agricultural products in accordance with the Union's international commitments, procedures for the application of specific provisions laid down in international agreements or acts adopting the import or export regime in particular on the guarantees covering the nature, provenance and origin of the product, recognition of the document used for verifying these guarantees , the presentation of a document issued by the exporting country and on the destination and use of the products , measures laying down the period of validity of import licences, the procedure for lodging a security and its amount, the use of those import licences and, where necessary, the specific measures relating to, in particular, the conditions under which applications for import are to be submitted and authorisation granted within the tariff quota and the appropriate documentary requirements.

In order to ensure the efficiency and smooth functioning of the trade arrangements, powers should also be conferred on the Commission to carry out certain administrative or management tasks in respect of: fixing the representative prices and trigger volumes for the purposes of import duties and fixing the level of the additional import duty, limiting, rejecting or suspending the issuing of import licences for ovalbumin and lactalbumin, ensuring that the available quantities of tariff quota are not exceeded and that the unused quantiti ...[+++]es of a tariff quota are reallocated, the management of the process to guarantee that the quantities available under the inward processing regime without prior examination of the economic conditions are not exceeded and the technical measures of adjustment of the refund certificate system for keeping the expenditure within available budget limits.

(44) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation as regards imports, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission in respect of measures determining the processed agricultural products to which additional import duties should apply in order to prevent or counteract adverse effects on the Union market, measures for the application of those additional import duties as regards time limits for proving the import price, for the submission of documentary evidence, and for determining the level of the additional import duties, measures fixing the representative prices and trigger volumes for the purposes of applying additional import duties , measures on the format and the content of the import lice ...[+++]nce for ovalbumin and lactalbumin, on the submission of applications and the issuing and use of those import licences, on their period of validity, on the procedure for lodging a security in respect of those licences and its amount, on the evidence needed to prove that the requirements for the use of those licences have been fulfilled, on the level of tolerance as regards compliance with the obligation to import the quantity mentioned in the import licence, and on the issuing of replacement and duplicate import licences, measures on the treatment of import licences by the Member States, as well as on the exchange of information needed for the management of the system of import licences for ovalbumin and lactalbumin, including the procedures relating to specific administrative assistance between Member States , to the calculation of import duties and to the fixing of the level of import duties for processed agricultural products in the implementation of international arrangements.

3. However, the security shall not be forfeited if the products were not imported within that period due to force majeure or if the quantity which was not imported within that period is within the level of tolerance.

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 (hereinafter referred to as the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement), and Article 1(1) of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of India on cane sugar (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement with India), the Community undertakes to purchase and import, at guaranteed prices, specific qu ...[+++]antities of cane sugar which originate in the ACP States and India respectively and which those States undertake to deliver to it.

C. whereas, under the preferential agreements with the ACP countries and India, the European Union is committed to importing a fixed quantity of sugar from those countries at guaranteed prices,