25The eighth recital in the preamble to the contested regulation indicates that the Commission decided on that quota of 4848 tonnes taking into account ‘that figure representing the sum of the highest annual volumes of imports of the products in question recorded in the three years preceding 1999, the year in which imports recorded a sharp rise. In determining the quantities of sugar to be taken into consideration, the Commission takes note of the position adopted by the President of the Court of First Instance in his rulings of 12 July and 8 August 2000 in Cases T-94/00 R, T-110/00 R and T-159/00 R, without, however, recognising it as justified. Consequently, in order to avoid unnecessary procedures and solely for the purposes of adopting these safeguard measures, the Commission, for sugar falling within CN code 1701 and for 1997, bases itself on the figure of 10372.2 tonnes for the total imports of sugar from the OCT with ECOCT and ACPOCT cumulation of origin, as recorded by Eurostat’.
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