The Special payment shall not be reduced in respect of any exporting Party to the Agreement: (a) whose average annual export tonnage of sugar under International Sugar Agreement quotas in the three-year period 1968-70 was less than 20 per cent of its Negotiated Price Quota; or (b) whose total sugar production, as published by the International Sugar Organization, in the calendar year preceding the price year in question was less than 85 per cent of the average annual production in any three consecutive calendar years during the period 1966–70 inclusive. The Sugar Board constituted under the Sugar Act, 1956, meets the U.K. commitment for the purchase of negotiated price quota sugar by purchasing at the negotiated price and selling at the world price in the country of origin. In addition to the United Kingdom commitment to buy specified quantities at reasonable prices the agreement provides for the orderly marketing in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada of supplies in excess of the negotiated price quotas from the exporting countries and in normal times limits the total amounts which can be sold in these markets (including the negotiated price quotas). These totals are the overall agreement quotas. Although the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement is now of indefinite duration the U.K. is not, because of accession to the European Economic Community, committed to continue its contractual obligations under the Agreement beyond 31 December, 1974. (ii) Excluding dependencies. Population of South Georgia at the end of 1970 was 22 persons; the other islands are uninhabited. (iii) The other islands in the group, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno are uninhabited and have an area of approximately 43 km'. (iv) Excluding dependencies. Ascension, 88km,' population 1146 (mid 1972 estimates). and Tristan da Cunha, 99km2; population 294 (mid 1972 estimates). |