Only the TRQ for cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose is being truly utilised by Colombia and Peru, and to some extent the TRQ for sweetcorn by Peru, whereas the remaining TRQs are quite underutilised or not used at all.

(18) In order to ensure equitable market access for operators and equal treatment of operators, to take account of the supply requirements of the Union market and to preserve the equilibrium of that market, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the conditions to be fulfilled in order to submit an application within the tariff quota and the rules on the transfer of rights within the tariff quota, the making of participation in the tariff quota subject to the lodging of a security and the specific characteristics, requirements or restrictions applicable to the tariff ...[+++] quotas.

It appears, moreover, that the level of the wine quota allocated to Kosovo is set on the basis of past trade in that product, and as this is the method which is customarily followed to determine the levels of quotas, there appear to be no disproportional allocation of wine to Kosovo in comparison to the individual tariff quotas for wine allocated to the other Western Balkans under the Stabilisation and Association Agreements or Interim Agreements.

possession of a contingency plan (including action to be taken in the event of heavy snowfall) and an obligation to coordinate that system with the airport’s plan.

70. Takes note, with great concern for the affected population, that the military intervention in Afghanistan has not resulted in the building of a viable state with democratic structures, an improvement in living conditions for the majority – in particular for women and girls – or the substitution of narcotics production by other forms of agriculture, but has instead embroiled the country in an unprecedented level of corruption; calls on the EU and the Member States, in view of the accelerated withdrawal of European troops, to prepare, as a priority, a safety plan for those Afghans who have closely supported EU state building efforts, ...[+++]and whose existence could be threatened by the departure of European forces, notably women‘s activists; calls on the EEAS to make an honest evaluation of the EU’s and the Member States’ policy in Afghanistan since 2001 and to present, by the end of the year, a realistic plan of future EU activities in the region;

69. Takes note, with great concern for the affected population, that the military intervention in Afghanistan has not resulted in the building of a viable state with democratic structures, an improvement in living conditions for the majority – in particular for women and girls – or the substitution of narcotics production by other forms of agriculture, but has instead embroiled the country in an unprecedented level of corruption; calls on the EU and the Member States, in view of the accelerated withdrawal of European troops, to prepare, as a priority, a safety plan for those Afghans who have closely supported EU state building efforts, ...[+++]and whose existence could be threatened by the departure of European forces, notably women‘s activists; calls on the EEAS to make an honest evaluation of the EU’s and the Member States‘ policy in Afghanistan since 2001 and to present, by the end of the year, a realistic plan of future EU activities in the region;