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of19June2001
onthecommonorganisationofthemarketsinthesugarsector
(OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1)
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Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia,the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of
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COUNCILREGULATION(EC)No1260/2001
of19June2001
onthecommonorganisationofthemarketsinthesugarsector
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and
in particular Articles 36 and 37 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),
Whereas:
(1)In order to work properly, the common agricultural policy
requires a common organisation of the markets in the sugarsector covering, in particular, sugar and isoglucose and►
C1inulin◄syrup, which are liquid substitutes for sugar.
(2)In order to achieve the objectives of the common agricultural
policy, and in particular to ensure that Community growers of
sugar beet and sugar cane continue to benefit from the necessaryguarantees in respect of employment and standards of living, themarket in sugar should be stabilised. This objective can beattained by allowing intervention agencies to buy in sugar. For
this purpose, an intervention price for white sugar should be
fixed for areas having no deficit, as well as an intervention pricefor raw sugar, and, every year for eachof th e deficit areas, aderived intervention price for white sugar and, if necessary, forraw sugar. The intervention price must be fixed at a level whichwill ensure a fair income for sugar-beet and sugar-cane produ-
cers while taking account of the interests of consumers. Such
price guarantees for sugar also benefit sugar syrups, isoglucoseand►
C1inulin◄syrup, the prices of which are based on
sugar prices. In view of the financial perspective and thebudgetary rules adopted by the European Council in Berlin inMarch 1999, the support prices in the sugar sector should be
fixed for the whole duration of the new arrangements.
(3)The intervention price must be fixed for standard qualities of
white sugar and raw sugar which should be defined. Such stan-dard qualities should be average qualities representative of sugarproduced in the Community and should be determined on thebasis of criteria used by the sugar trade. It must also be possible
to review the standard qualities to take account, in particular, of
commercial requirements and developments in analysis techni-ques.
(4)The geographical situation of the French overseas departmentscalls for appropriate measures for the sugar produced in thosedepartments.
(5)So as not to interfere withth e prices referred to above, interven-tion agencies must sell sugar at a price higher than the
intervention price unless it is to be exported either without
further processing or in the form of processed products, or usedas animal feed. One consequence of this rule is that sugar cannotbe made available to charitable organisations for use for humanconsumption in the Community. It should nevertheless be
possible to dispose of sugar in this fashion through individual
emergency aid operations intended to ensure the availability ofsupplies and thus representing at the same time a humanitarian2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 2
(1) OJ C 29 E, 30.1.2001, p. 315.
(2) Opinion delivered on 13 March 2001 (not yet published in the Official
Journal).
(3) OJ C 116, 20.4.2001, p. 113.
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operation. Suchoperations are effective only if rapidly imple-
mented. The most appropriate procedure should therefore beused in suchinstances.
(6)Like starchproducts, sugar is a commodity wh ichcan be usedby the chemical industry for the manufacture of similar products.A harmonious development of the use of such commoditiesshould be ensured. A system of production refunds should be
adopted which makes it possible to expand sugar outlets beyond
traditional quantities; to that end, it should henceforth bepossible to make the products in question available to thatindustry at a reduced price.
(7)These rules should ensure fair treatment for both manufacturersand producers of the basic products. In addition to the basicprice derived from the intervention price for white sugar, under-takings' receipts from sales of molasses, which can be estimatedat EUR 7,61 per 100 kg derived from the price of molasses esti-mated at EUR 8,21 per 100 kg, as well as the cost incurred in
processing and delivering beet to factories, and on the basis of
a yield which for the Community can be estimated at 130 kg ofwhite sugar per tonne of standard-quality beet, minimum pricesshould therefore be fixed for A beet intended for processing intoA sugar and for B beet intended for processing into B sugar, to
be paid by sugar manufacturers buying beet.
(8)Specific instruments are needed to ensure a fair balance of rights
and obligations between manufacturers and growers, in particularstandard Community provisions should be laid down to govern
the contractual relations between buyers and sellers of beet and
adequate measures adopted for the same purpose for sugar cane.The provisions relating to the normal duration and staggering ofdeliveries, collection centres and transport costs, reception pointsand the taking of samples, the return of pulp or the payment ofequivalent compensation and time limits for advance payments
all affect the actual price of beet received by the seller. The
diversity of natural, economic and technical situations makes itvery difficult to have uniform purchase terms for beet throughoutthe Community. Agreements within the trade exist betweenmanufacturers or manufacturers' organisations and planters' orga-nisations. Framework provisions should simply define the
minimum guarantees required by bothbeet planters and th e
industry to ensure the smooth functioning of the sugar economyand the possibility of derogating from some rules referred to inAnnex III should be kept for agreements within the trade.
(9)The reasons which have hitherto led the Community to adopt aproduction quota system for sugar, isoglucose and►
C1inulin◄syrup currently remain valid. However, that
system has been adjusted to take account of recent developmentsin production, to provide the Community with the instruments
necessary to ensure, in a fair yet efficient way, that the producers
themselves meet in full the cost of disposing of the surpluses ofCommunity production over consumption and to comply withthe Community's obligations under the Agreements resultingfrom the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, here-inafter referred to as ‘GATT’, approved by Decision 94/800/
EC (
1).
(10)The agreement on agriculture concluded under the GATT agree-
ments (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’) in particularrequires the Community to gradually reduce its export support
for agricultural products and in particular for sugar under guar-
antee of production quotas. The Agreement provides for exportsupport to be reduced, in terms of bothth e quantities coveredand the level of the subsidies involved, over a transitionalperiod. As a first step in adjusting the guarantees, the differencerecorded for a given marketing year between the Community's2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 3
(1) OJ L 336, 23.12.1994, p. 1.
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exportable volume and the amount set in the Agreement should
be apportioned between sugar, isoglucose and ►C1inulin◄
syrup according to the percentages which the quotas of each
represent in the total quota set for all three products for the
Community. However, sucha system sh ould apply for a limitedperiod only and should be regarded as transitional. In view, inparticular, of the financial perspective and the budgetary rulesadopted by the European Council in Berlin in March 1999 and
the need to take account of the progress of negotiations under
the WTO, the quota system should be maintained for the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years.
(11)The common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector isbased, firstly, on the principle that producers should bear fullfinancial responsibility for the losses incurred each marketingyear from disposing of that part of Community production under
quota which is surplus to the Community's internal consumption
and, secondly, on a differentiation of price guarantees fordisposal reflecting the production quota allocated to each under-taking. A sugar production quota is allocated to eachundertakingon the basis of its actual production during a particular reference
period.
(12)Since commitments to reduce export support were implementedduring the transitional period, the basic quantities of sugar and
isoglucose and the quotas for ►
C1inulin◄syrup should be
kept at their present levels, but it must be possible for the rele-vant guarantees to be adjusted as necessary to enable theCommunity to comply withits commitments under th e Agree-
ment, while taking account of the fundamental factors affecting
the situation of its sugar sector. The sector's system of self-finan-cing through production levies and the production quota regimeshould be maintained.
(13)The producers should thus continue to assume financial respon-sibility by paying a basic production levy charged on allproduction of A and B sugar, which is however limited to 2 %
of the intervention price for white sugar, and a B levy charged
on the production of B sugar up to a limit of 37,5 % of thatprice. In certain circumstances, producers of isoglucose and►
C1inulin◄syrup also pay a proportion of those contribu-
tions. Capping the levies in the manner described above meansthat in some marketing years sugar production is not fully self-
financing. An additional levy should be charged in those cases.
(14)In the interests of equal treatment, the additional levy should be
calculated for each undertaking on the basis of its share in therevenue generated by the production levies which it has paidfor the marketing year in question. A coefficient should thereforebe fixed for the Community as a whole representing the ratio forthat marketing year between the total loss recorded and the total
revenue generated by the production levies concerned. It is
necessary to specify the conditions under which beet and canesellers are to contribute to eliminating the outstanding loss forthe marketing year concerned.
(15)In any given marketing year, the consumption, production,importation, stock and carryover levels, and the average loss
likely to be borne under the self-financing scheme, may be such
that the production quotas allocated to each undertaking in thesugar sector result in an export volume exceeding that set in theAgreement. The guarantees linked to the quotas should thereforebe adjusted each marketing year so that the Community canmeet its commitments.
(16)The breakdown between sugar, isoglucose and ►C1inulin◄
syrup should be followed by a further breakdown between the
Member States to take account of the guarantees linked to thequotas assigned to producing undertakings in eachMember Stateso that those guarantees can be adjusted in a way that does notaffect the existing balance of quotas and burden-sharing. Areduction coefficient for the A and B guarantees should therefore2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 4
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be fixed for eachMember State based on th e maximum contri-
butions pertaining to those guarantees. Each Member Stateconcerned should then make an allocation among undertakings
which takes account of the guarantees arising for each under-
taking from its own quotas.
(17)The A and B quotas are affected, following a merger or transferof undertakings, the transfer by an undertaking of one of itsfactories or the cessation of activities of an undertaking or ofone of its factories. The conditions for adjustment by theMember States of the quotas of the undertakings in question
should be established while ensuring that changes to the quotas
of sugar-producing undertakings are not detrimental to the inter-ests of the beet producers or cane producers concerned.
(18)Given the need to allow for a certain structural adjustment of theprocessing industry and of beet and cane growing during theperiod in which these quotas are to be applied, Member Statesshould be allowed to alter the quotas of undertakings by amaximum of 10 %. However, in view of the particular situation
of the sugar sector in Spain, Italy and the French overseas
departments, this limit should not be applied in those regionswhile restructuring plans are being implemented.
(19)Since allocating production quotas to undertakings is a way ofensuring that producers are paid Community prices and have anoutlet for their production, the interests of all the partiesconcerned, in particular beet and cane producers, should be
taken into consideration when quotas are transferred inside
production regions.
(20)To expand the outlets for sugar and isoglucose on the Commu-nity's internal market, it should be possible to put all sugar orisoglucose intended for manufacture in the Community ofproducts other than foodstuffs out of production, within themeaning of the quota system, under conditions to be laid down.
(21)A Community market for sugar as for isoglucose and►
C1inulin◄syrup requires a common trading system at the
external frontiers of the Community. A trading system including
import levies and export refunds will stabilise the Community
market, in particular, by preventing prices inside the Communityfrom being affected by price fluctuations on the world market. Alevy should therefore be charged on imports from third countriesand a refund paid on exports to suchcountries to compensate for
the difference between prices on the sugar market inside and
outside the Community when world market prices are lowerthan the Community prices, and to provide a certain measure ofprotection for the Community industry processing isoglucose and►
C1inulin◄syrup.
(22)To ensure that these trading arrangements can function properly,
it must be possible to regulate or prohibit the use of inward-processing arrangements when the situation on the market so
requires.
(23)Should a shortage on the world market result in higher prices onthe world market than in the Community, or should all or part of
the Community be unable to obtain normal supplies, it must bepossible to act in good time to avoid a situation where regionalsurpluses are exported to third countries while an abnormal risein Community prices makes it impossible to continue to supply
consumers at reasonable prices.
(24)The competent authorities must be in a position to constantlymonitor movements in trade withth ird countries so as to assess
trends and apply such of the measures provided for in this Regu-lation as may prove necessary. To this end, there should be asystem of import and export licences, to be issued only after asecurity has been lodged to ensure that the operation coveredby a licence application is actually carried out.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 5
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(25)The system of customs duties makes it possible to dispense with
all other forms of protection at the external frontiers of the
Community. However, in exceptional circumstances the pricesand customs duties machinery could break down. So as not toleave the Community market unprotected against disturbanceswhich may ensue in such cases, the Community should be ableto take whatever measures are necessary without delay. Such
measures must comply withth e Community's obligations under
the GATT Agreements. Moreover, in order to avert problems ofsupply to the Community market, it must be possible to suspendcustoms duties on certain sugar products.
(26)The Community has made an overall examination of its refiningindustry. This examination has shown that if a steadier and more
even flow of supplies to refineries throughout the Community is
to be achieved, a clear estimate is needed of the traditionalpresumed maximum requirements of raw sugar for refining intowhite sugar in each of the Member States concerned, namelyFinland, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, using objec-tive reference data and taking into account the quantities of
sugar going for direct consumption recorded for the 1994/1995
marketing year. A special preferential arrangement for access tothe Community market should therefore be introduced, allowingthe refining industry to import on special terms certain quantitiesof raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States party to Protocol
No 3 to Annex IV to the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement and in
India and other States under agreements with those States. Thosequantities are to be determined within the limits of the tradi-tional presumed maximum requirements referred to above onthe basis of forecast supply balances once all available rawcane and beet sugar of Community origin and preferential raw
sugar and raw sugar originating in countries benefiting from
tariff quotas under trade concessions granted by the Communityhave been refined. In order to counterbalance the Community'scommitments to reduce export support, the quantities importedto cover the traditional requirements of the refining industry
should be reduced.
(27)Under Article 1 of the said Protocol and Article 1 of the Agree-
ment between the European Economic Community and theRepublic of India on cane sugar, these preferential importarrangements must be implemented within the framework of thecommon organisation of the market in sugar.
(28)It is necessary to create the means for ensuring that raw cane
sugar imported under the said preferential arrangements is
refined under the fairest possible conditions of competition.
(29)Sugar refining is an important activity bothat world level and inthe Community, particularly in refineries converting raw sugarinto white sugar. From a technical point of view, refining turnssugar cane into high-quality products that can meet market
requirements. Moreover, these refineries are located in areas of
high consumption. The Community's port-related refiningindustry is therefore a valuable complement to the beet-proces-sing industry, especially in Finland, mainland Portugal, theUnited Kingdom and southern and western France.
(30)Examination of supplies to port refineries throughout the
Community, suggests that special priority access should be given
to raw cane sugar originating in the ACP States party to ProtocolNo 3 and India, under special agreements negotiated between theCommunity and the countries referred to in Protocol No 3 and/orother countries and based on an estimate of the Community'srequirements once all available raw cane and beet sugar in the
Community, preferential raw sugar and raw sugar originating in
countries benefiting from tariff quotas under trade concessionsgranted by the Community have been refined.
(31)Until the 2000/2001 marketing year, the refining industryreceived Community adjustment aid for refining preferentialraw cane sugar and raw sugar from cane and beet harvested in2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 6
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the Community. In the light of experience, this aid should
continue and provision should be made for it to be adjusted totake account of economic trends in the sugar sector, particularly
manufacturing and refining margins.
(32)Some transitional measures may prove necessary and this need
may arise at each changeover from one marketing year to thenext or during a single marketing year. It should therefore bepossible to adopt the appropriate measures.
(33)To facilitate implementation of this Regulation, a procedure is
needed for close cooperation between Member States and the
Commission within a Management Committee for Sugar.
(34)Owing to its specific characteristics and the size of agriculturalholdings, the beet industry in the south of Italy faces persistentdifficulties. Beet growing in that area is essential in order to
regenerate soils witha particularly h ighlevel of clay and th us
to avoid a return to single-crop farming; Italy should thereforebe authorised to grant the southern regions national aid over thenext five marketing years in respect of the same amount andunder the same conditions as for the 2000/2001 marketing year.Sugar cane production in Spain is encountering specific
problems in keeping up with other crops; to enable this parti-
cular production to be maintained, Spain should be authorisedto grant national aid for sugar cane production over the nextfive marketing years in respect of the same amount and underthe same conditions as for the 2000/2001 marketing year. Beet
production in Portugal, having regard to the fact that this is a
new industry, faces persistent difficulties; sugar beet producersneed to be encouraged to increase production in view of thesedifficulties; Portugal should therefore be authorised to grantnational aid for beet production over the next five marketingyears in respect of the same amount and under the same condi-
tions as for the 2000/2001 marketing year. Climatic conditions
make it very difficult to grow beet in Finland, which leads toconsiderable variability in production; consequently, Finlandshould be authorised to grant a flat-rate reimbursement ofstorage costs for carried-over C sugar and the detailed rules forsuchreimbursement sh ould be determined.
(35)In order to take account of environmental objectives, MemberStates should draw up and implement suitable environmentalmeasures they consider to be appropriate concerning the use ofagricultural land for the production of the products referred toin Article 1. In future, Member States may introduce measures
to promote production in accordance withobjective environ-
mental criteria and remind producers of the need to complywith the legislation in force. The Member States must submit areport on the impact of national environmental measures on theagricultural production sector of the sugar sector.
(36)Under Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1258/1999 of
17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural
policy (1), the expenses incurred by the Member States in
meeting obligations arising from the application of this Regula-tion are to be borne by the Community.
(37)The measures necessary for the implementation of this Regula-tion should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision
1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for
the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commis-sion(
2).
(38)The support arrangements introduced by this Regulation replacethe arrangements provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No2038/1999 of 13 September 1999 on the common organisation2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 7
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.
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of the markets in the sugar sector (1), which must be repealed
along withRegulations (EEC) No 206/68 (2), (EEC) No 431/
68(3), (EEC) No 447/68 (4), (EEC) No 2049/69(5), (EEC) No
793/72 (6), (EEC) No 741/75 (7), (EEC) No 1358/77(8), (EEC)
No 1789/81 (9), (EEC) No 193/82 (10), (EEC) No 1010/86 (11)
and (EEC) No 2225/86(12) laying down the general rules for its
implementation.
(39)Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provided for a system forcompensating storage costs. Since the regime to be introducedby this Regulation does not include such a system, transitionalprovisions should be adopted to ease the transition from the old
system to the new one. To that end, firstly, the balance of the
old compensation system for storage costs should be charged, ifnegative, or credited, if positive, to the system for financing thedisposal of surplus Community production in the sugar sectorand, secondly, the date of disposal for the purposes of payingthe storage levy for sugar in storage at the date of entry into
application of this Regulation should be deemed to be the last
day of the 2000/2001 marketing year.
(40)It should be possible to adopt transitional rules to ease the tran-
sition from the regime provided for by Regulation (EC) No
2038/1999 to the new arrangements introduced by this Regula-tion,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Scopeanddefinitions
1. The common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector
established by this Regulation shall cover the following products:2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 8
(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) Council Regulation (EEC) No 206/68 of 20 February 1968 laying down
outline provisions for contracts and inter-trade agreements on the purchase
of beet (OJ L 47, 23.2.1968, p. 1).
(3) Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/68 of 9 April 1968 determining the stan-
dard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier crossing point
for calculating cif prices for sugar (OJ L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3).
(4) Council Regulation (EEC) No 447/68 of 9 April 1968 laying down general
rules for intervention buying of sugar (OJ L 91, 12.4.1968, p. 5). Regulation
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1359/77 (OJ L 156, 25.6.1977, p.
7).
(5) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2049/69 of 17 October 1969 laying down
general rules on the denaturing of sugar for animal feed (OJ L 263,
21.10.1969, p. 1).
(6) Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972 fixing the standard
quality for white sugar (OJ L 94, 21.4.1972, p. 1).
(7) Council Regulation (EEC) No 741/75 of 18 March1975 laying down
special rules for the purchase of sugar beet (OJ L 74, 22.3.1975, p. 2).
(8) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 of 20 June 1977 laying down general
rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar and repealing Regulation (EEC)
No 750/68 (OJ L 156, 25.6.1977, p. 4).
(9) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1789/81 of 30 June 1981 laying down general
rules concerning the system of minimum stocks in the sugar sector (OJ L
177, 1.7.1981, p. 39). Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
725/97 (OJ L 108, 25.4.1997, p. 13).
(10) Council Regulation (EEC) No 193/82 of 26 January 1982 laying down
general rules for transfers of quotas in the sugar sector (OJ L 21,
29.1.1982, p. 3).
(11) Council Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 of 25 March1986 laying down
general rules for the production refund on certain sugar products used inthe chemical industry (OJ L 94, 9.4.1986, p. 9).
(
12) Council Regulation (EEC) No 2225/86 of 15 July 1986 laying down
measures for the marketing of sugar produced in the French overseas
departments and for the equalisation of the price conditions with preferen-
tial raw sugar (OJ L 194, 17.7.1986, p. 7).
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CN Code Description
(a) 1701 Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid
form
(b) 121291 Sugar beet
12129200 Sugar cane
(c) 1703 Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar
(d) 170220 Maple sugar and maple syrup
17026095
17029099Other sugars in solid form and sugar syrups, not containing
added flavouring or colouring matter, but not including
lactose, glucose, maltodextrine and isoglucose
17029060 Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey
17029071 Caramel containing 50 % or more by weight of sucrose in
the dry matter
21069059 Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups, other than isoglucose,
lactose, glucose and maltodextrine syrups
(e) 230320 Beet pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture(f) 17023010
17024010
17026010
17029030Isoglucose
(g) 21069030 Flavoured or coloured isoglucose syrups
(h) 17026080
17029080►
C1Inulin◄syrup
2. For the purposes of this Regulation:
(a) ‘white sugars’ means sugars, not flavoured or coloured or
containing any other added substances, containing, in the dry state,
99,5 % or more by weight of sucrose, determined by the polari-
metric method;
(b) ‘raw sugars’ means sugars, not flavoured or coloured or containing
any other added substances, containing, in the dry state, less than99,5 % by weight of sucrose, determined by the polarimetricmethod;
(c) ‘isoglucose’ means the product obtained from glucose or its poly-
mers with a content by weight in the dry state of at least 10 %
fructose;
(d) ‘►
C1inulin◄syrup’ means the immediate product obtained by
hydrolysis of ►C1inulin◄or oligofructoses, containing in the
dry state at least 10 % fructose in free form or as sucrose;
(e) ‘A sugar’ and ‘A isoglucose’ means any quantity of sugar or
isoglucose production attributed to a specific marketing year under
the A quota of the undertaking concerned;
(f) ‘B sugar’ and ‘B isoglucose’ means any quantity of sugar or
isoglucose production attributed to a specific marketing year in
excess of the A quota but within the sum of the A and B quotasof the undertaking concerned;
(g) ‘C sugar’ and ‘C isoglucose’ means any quantity of sugar or
isoglucose production attributed to a specific marketing year eitherover and above the sum of the A and B quotas of the undertakingconcerned or by an undertaking which has no quota;
(h) ‘A beet’ means all beet processed into A sugar;
(i) ‘B beet’ means all beet processed into B sugar;2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 9
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(j) ‘A►C1inulin◄syrup’ means any quantity of ►C1inulin◄
syrup production, expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalent, attrib-uted to a specific marketing year under the A quota of the
undertaking concerned;
(k) ‘B►
C1inulin◄syrup’ means any quantity of ►C1inulin◄
syrup production, expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalent, attrib-
uted to a specific marketing year in excess of the A quota butwithin the sum of the A and B quotas of the undertakingconcerned;
(l) ‘C►
C1inulin◄syrup’ means any quantity of ►C1inulin◄
syrup production, expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalent, attrib-uted to a specific marketing year either over and above the sum of
the A and B quotas of the undertaking concerned or by an under-
taking which has no quota;
(m) for all the products listed in paragraph 1, ‘marketing year’ means
the period beginning on 1 July and ending on 30 June of thefollowing year.
TITLE I
INTERNALMARKET
CHAPTER 1
Prices
Article 2
1. For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, for white sugar:
(a) the intervention price shall be EUR 63,19/100 kg,
(b) a derived intervention price sh all be fixed eachyear for eachof th e
deficit areas.
2. For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, the intervention
price for raw sugar shall be EUR 52,37/100 kg.
Where it is necessary to market raw sugar produced in a deficit area, a
derived intervention price may be fixed for suchsugar.
3. The intervention prices referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall
apply to unpacked sugar, ex-factory, loaded on to a means of transport
chosen by the purchaser.
They shall be valid for white sugar and raw sugar of the standard
quality described in Annex I.
4. Acting in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article
42(2), the Commission shall fix derived intervention prices for whitesugar eachyear, and for raw sugar wh en necessary.
Derived intervention prices shall be fixed taking account of the costs of
transporting sugar from surplus areas to deficit areas.
The Commission may amend Annex I in accordance with the same
procedure.
Article 3
1. For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, the basic price
for beet of the standard quality shall be EUR 47,67 per tonne deliveredto the collection centre.
The standard quality for beet shall be as described in Annex II.
2. The Commission may amend Annex II in accordance with the
procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 4
1. For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years:
(a) the minimum price for A beet shall be EUR 46,72 per tonne;2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 10
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(b) subject to Article 15(5), the minimum price for B beet shall be
EUR 32,42 per tonne.
2. For areas for which a derived intervention price is fixed for white
sugar, the minimum prices for A beet and B beet shall be increased byan amount equal to the difference between the derived interventionprice for the area concerned and the intervention price, such amountbeing adjusted by the coefficient 1.30.
Article 5
1. Without prejudice to Article 21 and the provisions adopted under
Article 14, sugar manufacturers buying beet:
(a) suitable for processing into sugar,
and
(b) intended for processing into sugar,
shall be required to pay at least a minimum price, adjusted by price
increases or reductions to allow for deviations from the standard
quality.
2. The minimum price referred to in paragraph 1 shall correspond:
(a) in non-deficit areas, to:
— the minimum price for A beet, in the case of beet to be
processed into A sugar,
— the minimum price for B beet, in the case of beet to be
processed into B sugar;
(b) in deficit areas:
— the minimum price for A beet adjusted in accordance with
Article 4(2), in the case of beet to be processed into A sugar,
— the minimum price for B beet adjusted in accordance with
Article 4(2), in the case of beet to be processed into B sugar.
3. Detailed rules for applying this Article, as well as the price
increases and reductions, shall be adopted in accordance with theprocedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 6
1. Agreements within the trade and contracts concluded between
buyers and sellers of beet must conform to the standard provisions set
out in Annex III hereto, in particular as regards the conditionsgoverning the purchase, delivery, taking over and payment of beet.
2. The terms for buying sugar cane shall be governed by agreements
within the trade concluded between Community sugar-cane producers
and Community sugar manufacturers.
The terms for buying the agricultural raw materials for the manufacture
of►
C1inulin◄syrup shall be governed by agreements within the
trade between Community growers of those raw materials and►
C1inulin◄syrup producers.
3. If necessary, detailed rules for applying paragraphs 1 and 2 shall
be adopted in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article
42(2).
4. If no agreements within the trade exist, the Member State
concerned may take the necessary steps under this Regulation toprotect the interests of the parties concerned.
The Member State concerned shall inform the Commission without
delay of measures taken under the first subparagraph.
Article 7
1. Throughout the marketing year, and subject to conditions to be
determined in accordance with paragraphs 5 and 6, the interventionagency designated by eachsugar-producing Member State sh all be2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 11
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required to buy in any white and raw sugar produced under quota
offered to it which has been manufactured from beet and caneharvested in the Community, provided a storage contract has first
been concluded between the seller and the intervention agency for the
sugar concerned.
Intervention agencies shall buy in at the intervention price or the
derived intervention price, as the case may be, valid for the area inwhich the sugar is located at the time of buying in. If the quality ofthe sugar differs from the standard quality for which the interventionprice was fixed, then this price shall be increased or reduced accord-
ingly.
2. It may be decided to grant premiums for sugar in one of the situa-
tions referred to in Article 23(2) of the Treaty which is rendered unfit
for human consumption.
3. It has been decided to grant production refunds on the products
listed in Article 1(1)(a) and (f) and on the syrups listed in Article
1(1)(d), and on chemically pure fructose (levulose) falling within CNCode 1702 5000 as an intermediate product, where these fall withinone of the situations referred to in Article 23(2) of the Treaty and areused to manufacture certain products of the chemical industry.
The refund shall be fixed taking account in particular of the costs
arising from the use of imported sugar which the chemical industry
would have to bear in the event of supply on the world market.
4. Flat-rate Community aid shall be granted for the disposal, in the
European regions of the Community, of sugar produced in the French
overseas departments. This aid shall concern:
— the refining in refineries in the European regions of the Community
of sugar produced in these departments, in particular in accordancewithth eir yield;
— the transport of sugar produced in the French overseas departments
to the European regions of the Community and where appropriate,its storage in these departments;
the flat-rate amounts for the transport costs from each department to
the European regions of the Community shall include in particular:
— a flat-rate amount representing the transport costs ex-factory to
FOB;
— a flat-rate amount representing the shipping costs from FOB to cif
ship's hold European ports of the Community and the insurancecosts involved.
If the supply of refineries so requires, raw sugar manufactured from
beet harvested in the Community may qualify for measures as referred
to in the first subparagraph.
For the purposes of this Article, ‘refinery’ means a production unit
whose sole activity consists in refining either raw sugar or syrups
produced prior to the crystallising stage.
5. Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accor-
dance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2), covering in
particular:
— the minimum quality and quantity requirements for intervention,
— the price increases and reductions applicable on intervention,
— the procedures and requirements for taking over by the intervention
agencies,
— the conditions for granting premiums and the amounts of such
premiums,
— the conditions for granting production refunds and the amounts of
suchrefunds,
— the possibility, if necessary, of limiting the granting of production
refunds for levulose to an overall quantity of that product, to be
determined for the Community,
— the possibility of granting production refunds for the products
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— the measures referred to in paragraph 4.
Article 8
Where Article 31 is applied to help ensure supplies to the Community
or one of its regions, the Commission shall adopt special interventionmeasures in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Suchmeasures may not result in Community sugar manufacturers
being obliged to sell sugar to intervention agencies.
Article 9
1. Intervention agencies may sell sugar only at a price which is
higher than the intervention price.
It may, however, be decided that intervention agencies may sell sugar
at a price equal to or lower than the intervention price if the sugar isintended:
— for use as animal feed, or
— for export, either without further processing or after processing into
the products listed in Annex I to the Treaty or into the goods listed
in Annex V to this Regulation.
2. However, notwithstanding paragraph 1, it may be decided that
intervention agencies are to make unprocessed sugar held by themavailable, for human consumption on the internal market of theCommunity, to charitable organisations — recognised by the MemberState concerned or by the Commission in cases where a Member Statehas not recognised any such organisations — at a price which is lower
than the intervention price, or free of charge, for free distribution as
part of individual emergency aid operations.
3. Detailed rules for applying this Article and decisions to make
sugar available under paragraph2 sh all be adopted in accordance withthe procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
CHAPTER 2
Quotas
Article 10
1. Chapter 2 shall apply to the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing
years.
2. The basic quantities for the production of A and B sugar, isoglu-
cose and ►C1inulin◄syrup shall be those fixed in Article 11(2).
3. The guarantees for the disposal of sugar, isoglucose and
►C1inulin◄syrup produced under quota may be reduced for one
or more marketing years in order to comply withth e Community'scommitments under the Agricultural Agreement concluded under
Article 300(2) of the Treaty.
4. For the purposes of applying paragraph 3, the guaranteed quantity
under quotas shall be fixed before 1 October for each marketing yearon the basis of forecasts relating to production, imports, consumption,storage, carryovers, the exportable balance and the average loss likelyto be borne by the self-financing scheme within the meaning of Article
15(1)(d). If these forecasts show that the exportable balance for the
marketing year in question is greater than the maximum laid down inthe Agreement, then the guaranteed quantity shall be reduced by thedifference in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article42(2). This difference shall be split between sugar, isoglucose and►
C1inulin◄syrup according to the percentage represented by the
sum of eachproduct's A and B quotas for th e entire Community. It
shall then be further broken down by Member State and by productby applying the relevant coefficient as set out in the table below:2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 13
RegionsCoefficient applicable to sugar expressed
as white sugarCoefficient applicable to isoglucose in
dry matterCoefficient applicable to inulin syrup as
sugar/isoglucose equivalent
Sugar A Sugar B Isoglucose A Isoglucose B Inulin syrup A Inulin syrup B
BLEU (1) 0,042563 0,009139 0,159218 0,043784 0,556265 0,130955
CzechRepublic 0,010082 0,000312 — — — —
Denmark 0,025064 0,007384 — — — —
Germany 0,207111 0,063728 0,073589 0,017331 — —Estonia — — — — — —
Greece 0,011379 0,001138 0,026809 0,006314 — —
Spain 0,024376 0,001015 0,117280 0,012510 — —
France (metropolitan) (
2) 0,196442 0,058260 0,043118 0,011223 0,058922 0,013847
France (overseas depart-
ments) (2)0,017779 0,001901 — — — —
Ireland 0,007142 0,000714 — — — —
Italy 0,075996 0,014293 0,042216 0,009941 — —
Cyprus — — — — — —
Latvia 0,001000 0,000002 — — — —
Lithuania 0,001506 — — — — —
Hungary 0,006192 0,000019 0,169295 0,013265 — —
Malta — — — — — —
Netherlands 0,049189 0,012974 0,018921 0,004456 0,194365 0,045646
Austria 0,020888 0,004875 — — — —
Poland 0,046920 0,002730 0,032301 0,002425 — —
Portugal (mainland) 0,002140 0,000214 0,020622 0,004857 — —
Portugal (the autonomous
region of the Azores)0,000357 0,000036 — — — —
Slovakia 0,007207 0,000671 0,067725 0,009070 — —
Slovenia 0,001904 0,000190 — — — —
Finland 0,005236 0,000523 0,016343 0,001635 — —
Sweden 0,013199 0,001320 — — — —▼M22001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 14
RegionsCoefficient applicable to sugar expressed
as white sugarCoefficient applicable to isoglucose in
dry matterCoefficient applicable to inulin syrup as
sugar/isoglucose equivalent
Sugar A Sugar B Isoglucose A Isoglucose B Inulin syrup A Inulin syrup B
United Kingdom 0,040809 0,004081 0,059801 0,015951 — —
(1) Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union.
(2) Under the second subparagraph of Article 12(3).▼M22001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 15
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The table with the relevant coefficients in the preceding subparagraph
shall be adapted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article42(2), taking into account the basic quantities laid down in Article
11(2).
5. The Member State shall then allocate the difference corre-
sponding to it among the producer undertakings established in its
territory on the basis of the ratio between their A and B quotas for
the product in question and the basic quantity A and the basic quantityB for the Member State for that product.
Sugar, isoglucose and ►
C1inulin◄syrup produced in excess of the
quantity guaranteed shall be treated as C sugar, C isoglucose and C
►C1inulin◄syrup.
6. Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular for reducing
the guaranteed quantity and, where applicable, adjusting that quantitywith a view to fixing the guaranteed quantity for the followingmarketing year, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 11
1. Under the terms of this Chapter, the Member States shall allocate
an A and B quota to eachundertaking producing sugar, eachunder-taking producing isoglucose and eachundertaking producing►
C1inulin◄syrup established in its territory and provided with an
A and B quota during the 2000/2001 marketing year. ►A1For the
CzechRepublic, Latvia, Lith uania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia andSlovakia, the marketing year shall be that of 2003-2004. ◄
2. For the purposes of allocating the A and B quotas referred to in
paragraph 1, the basic quantities shall be fixed as follows:
1.BasicquantitiesA
Regions(a) Basic quantity A for
sugar (1)(b) Basic quantity A for
isoglucose (2)(c) Basic quantity A for
►C1inulin◄syrup (3)
►A1CzechRepublic ◄► A1441209◄► A1—◄► A1—◄
Denmark 325000,0 — —
Germany 2 612913,3 28643,3 —
Greece 288638,0 10435,0 —
Spain 957082,4 74619,6 —
France (metropolitan) 2 506487,4 15747,1 19847,1
Frenchoverseas departments 463872,0 — —
Ireland 181145,2 — —
Italy 1 310903,9 16432,1 —
►A1Latvia◄► A166400◄► A1—◄► A1—◄
►A1Lithuania ◄► A1103010◄► A1—◄► A1—◄
►A1Hungary ◄► A1400454◄►A1127627◄► A1—◄
Netherlands 684112,4 7 364,6 65519,4
Austria 314028,9 — —
►A1Poland◄► A11 580000 ◄► A124911◄► A1—◄
Portugal (mainland) 63380,2 8 027,0 —
The autonomous region of the Azores 9 048,2 — —
►A1Slovenia ◄► A148157◄► A1—◄► A1—◄
►A1Slovakia ◄► A1189760◄► A137522◄► A1—◄
Finland 132806,3 10792,0 —
Sweden 334784,2 — —
Belgium/Luxembourg Economic
Union674905,5 56150,6 174218,62001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 16
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▼B
Regions(a) Basic quantity A for
sugar (1)(b) Basic quantity A for
isoglucose (2)(c) Basic quantity A for
►C1inulin◄syrup (3)
United Kingdom 1 035115,4 21502,0 —
(1) In tonnes of white sugar.
(2) In tonnes of dry matter.
(3) In tonnes of dry matter white sugar/isoglucose equivalent.
2.BasicquantitiesB
Regions(a) Basic quantity B for
sugar (1)(b) Basic quantity B for
isoglucose (2)(c) Basic quantity B for
►C1inulin◄syrup (3)
►A1CzechRepublic ◄► A113653◄► A1—◄► A1—◄
Denmark 95745,5 — —
Germany 803982,2 6 745,5 —
Greece 28863,8 2 457,5 —
Spain 39878,5 7 959,4 —
France 752259,5 4 098,6 4 674,2
France overseas departments 46372,5 — —
Ireland 18114,5 — —
Italy 246539,3 3 869,8 —
►A1Latvia◄► A1105◄► A1—◄► A1—◄
►A1Hungary ◄► A11 230◄► A110000◄► A1—◄
Netherlands 180447,1 1 734,5 15430,5
Austria 73297,5 — —
►A1Poland◄► A191926◄► A11 870◄► A1—◄
Portugal (mainland) 6 338,0 1 890,3 —
The autonomous region of the Azores 904,8 — —
►A1Slovenia ◄► A14 816◄► A1—◄► A1—◄
►A1Slovakia ◄► A117672◄► A15 025◄► A1—◄
Finland 13280,4 1 079,7 —
Sweden 33478,0 — —Belgium/Luxembourg Economic
Union144906,1 15441,0 41028,2
United Kingdom 103511,5 5 735,3 —
(1) In tonnes of white sugar.
(2) In tonnes of dry matter.
(3) In tonnes of dry matter white sugar/isoglucose equivalent.
3. Without prejudice to Article 10(3), (4), (5) and (6) and Article 12,
the A and B quotas of undertakings producing sugar, undertakingsproducing isoglucose and undertakings producing ►
C1inulin◄
syrup shall be those assigned by the Member States for the 2000/2001
marketing year before application of Article 26(5) of Regulation (EC)No 2038/1999, adjusted according to the basic quantities fixed in para-graph2 in accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 10(5).►
A1For the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, the marketing year shall be that of 2003-
2004.◄
4. Detailed rules for implementing this Article shall be adopted, as
the need arises, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article42(2).2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 17
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Article 12
1. Member States may transfer A and B quotas between undertak-
ings in accordance with this Article and taking into consideration theinterests of eachof th e parties concerned, particularly sugar beet andcane producers.
The first subparagraph shall not apply to ►
C1inulin◄syrup.
2. Member States may reduce the A and B quotas of each sugar-
producing undertaking or isoglucose-producing undertaking established
in their territories by no more than 10 % of the A quota or the B quota,
as the case may be, fixed for each undertaking under Article 11.
The 10 % limit referred to in the first subparagraph shall not apply in
Italy, Spain and the French overseas departments in cases where quotas
are transferred under restructuring plans in the beet, cane and sugar
sectors in the region concerned and to the extent necessary to permitsuchplans to be implemented.
Restructuring plans and the ensuing measures affecting the A and B
quotas shall be communicated to the Commission without delay.
3. The quantities of A quotas and B quotas thus withdrawn shall be
allocated by the Member States to one or more other undertakings,
whether or not in possession of a quota, situated in the same region,
within the meaning of Article 11(2), as the undertakings from whichthose quantities were withdrawn.
Nevertheless, France may reduce the A quotas of undertakings estab-
lished in its overseas departments, as fixed under Article 11, by not
more than 30 000 tonnes of white sugar and may reallocate the quanti-ties thus withdrawn to one or more other undertakings established inmetropolitan France. The A quota of each undertaking concerned maynot be less after reduction than the average quantity of sugar itproduced under its quota as recorded in eachof th e 1977/1978, 1978/
1979 and 1979/1980 marketing years.
4. Annex IV lays down detailed rules on adjusting quotas in the
event of mergers and transfers of undertakings.
5. Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accor-
dance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 13
1. C sugar not carried forward under Article 14, C isoglucose and C
►
C1inulin◄syrup may not be disposed of on the Community's
internal market and must be exported without further processing before1 January following the end of the marketing year concerned.
Articles 7, 27 and 33 shall not apply to C sugar, C isoglucose and C
►
C1inulin◄syrup.
2. Exceptionally, and to the extent necessary to guarantee the
Community's sugar supplies, it may be decided that Article 33 shallapply to C sugar. In that event, it shall be decided at the same timethat the entire quantity of C sugar concerned may be definitivelydisposed of on the internal market without the amount provided for inparagraph3 of th is Article being levied.
3. Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accor-
dance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
These rules shall provide in particular for a charge to be levied on C
sugar, C isoglucose and C ►
C1inulin◄syrup as referred to in para-
graph 1 for which no proof has been supplied, by a date to bedetermined, that it has been exported without further processing withinthe time laid down.
Article 14
1. Eachundertaking may decide to carry forward all or part of th e
sugar it has produced in excess of its quota to the next marketing year2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 18
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to be treated as part of that year's production. That decision shall be
irrevocable.
Eachundertaking may decide to carry forward all or part of its produc-
tion of A sugar and B sugar which has become C sugar after
application of Article 10(3), (4), (5) and (6) to the next marketingyear to be treated as part of that year's production. That decision shallalso be irrevocable. Furthermore, it shall not be subject to any limitthat may be laid down under paragraph 4 of this Article.
2. Undertakings which take the decision referred to in paragraph 1
shall:
— inform the Member State concerned, before 1 February, of the
quantity or quantities of sugar being carried forward, and
— undertake to store suchquantity or quantities for a period of 12
consecutive months from a date to be determined.
However, the date of 1 February referred to in the first indent of the
first subparagraphsh all be replaced:
(a) for undertakings established in Spain, by 15 April in the case of
beet-sugar production and 20 June in the case of cane-sugarproduction;
(b) for undertakings established in the United Kingdom, by 15
February.
(c) for undertakings established in the French overseas departments of
Guadeloupe and Martinique, by 1 May.
If an undertaking's definitive production in the marketing year
concerned was less than the estimate made when the decision to carry
forward was taken, then the quantity carried forward may be adjustedretroactively before 1 August of the following marketing year.
3. Should a natural disaster such as drought or flooding strike a
Community region, it may be decided, in accordance withth e proce-dure referred to in Article 42(2), to reduce the period of compulsorystorage referred to in the second indent of the first subparagraph of
paragraph2 for a quantity of sugar sufficient to ensure th e normal
supply of the affected region.
4. Detailed rules for applying this Article, which may restrict the
quantities of sugar which may be carried forward, shall be adopted inaccordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
These rules shall provide, in particular, for a charge to be levied on any
sugar from the quantity to be stored under the second indent of the first
subparagraph of paragraph 2 which is disposed of during the compul-sory storage period.
Article 15
1. Before the end of each marketing year, the following shall be
recorded:
(a) a forecast of the production of A and B sugar, A and B isoglucose
and A and B ►
C1inulin◄syrup attributable to the marketing
year concerned;
(b) a forecast of the quantities of sugar, isoglucose and
►C1inulin◄syrup disposed of for consumption within the
Community during the marketing year concerned;
(c) the exportable surplus obtained by subtracting the quantity referred
to in (b) from the quantity referred to in (a);
(d) an estimate of the average loss or revenue per tonne of sugar for
export obligations to be fulfilled during the current marketing year.
This average loss or revenue shall be equal to the difference
between the total amount of refunds and the total amount of levieson the total tonnage of export obligations in question;2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 19
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(e) an estimate of overall loss or revenue, obtained by multiplying the
surplus referred to in (c) by the average loss or revenue referred toin (d).
2. Before the end of the 2005/2006 marketing year and without
prejudice to Article 10(3), (4), (5) and (6), the following shall be
recorded cumulatively for the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketingyears:
(a) the exportable surplus established on the basis of the definitive
production of A and B sugar, A and B isoglucose and A and B►
C1inulin◄syrup and the definitive quantity of sugar, isoglu-
cose and ►C1inulin◄syrup disposed of for consumption within
the Community;
(b) the average loss or revenue per tonne of sugar resulting from the
total export obligations concerned, calculated using the methoddescribed in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1(d) above;
(c) the overall loss or revenue, obtained by multiplying the surplus
referred to in (a) by the average loss or revenue referred to in (b);
(d) the sum total of the basic production levies and the B levies
charged.
The estimate of overall loss or revenue referred to in paragraph 1(e)
shall be adjusted by the difference between the amounts referred to in(c) and (d).
3. Without prejudice to Article 18(1), should the figures recorded
under paragraph1 and adjusted under paragraph2 result in a foresee-able overall loss, then that loss shall be divided by the estimatedproduction of A and B sugar, A and B isoglucose and A and B
►
C1inulin◄syrup attributable to the current marketing year. The
resulting amount shall be charged to manufacturers as a basic produc-tion levy on their production of A and B sugar, A and B isoglucose andA and B ►
C1inulin◄syrup.
However, this levy shall not exceed:
— for sugar, 2 % of the intervention price for white sugar,
— for►C1inulin◄syrup, expressed as sugar/isoglucose equivalent
by applying a coefficient of 1,9, the maximum amount payable on
white sugar, and
— for isoglucose, the share of the basic production levy borne by
sugar manufacturers.
4. Should the maximum permitted basic production levy not fully
cover the overall loss referred to in the first subparagraph of paragraph3, the balance not covered shall be divided by the estimated productionof B sugar, B isoglucose and B ►
C1inulin◄syrup attributable to
the marketing year in question. The resulting amount shall be chargedto manufacturers as a B levy on their production of B sugar, B isoglu-
cose and B ►
C1inulin◄syrup.
However, subject to paragraph 5, this levy shall not exceed:
— for B sugar, 30 % of the intervention price for white sugar,
— for B ►C1inulin◄syrup, expressed as sugar/isoglucose equiva-
lent by applying a coefficient of 1,9, the maximum amount payableon B white sugar, and
— for B isoglucose, the share of the B levy borne by sugar manufac-
turers.
5. Where the figures recorded under paragraph 1 suggest that the
foreseeable overall loss for the current marketing year is unlikely tobe covered by the expected proceeds from the levies because of the
ceilings on the basic production levy and the B levy fixed in para-
graphs 3 and 4, then the maximum percentage referred to in the firstindent of paragraph 4 shall be adjusted to the extent necessary to coverthe overall loss, without exceeding 37,5 %.
The revised maximum percentage for the B levy shall be fixed for the
current marketing year before 15 September. The minimum price for Bbeet referred to in Article 4(1)(b) shall be adjusted accordingly.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 20
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6. All the losses resulting from the grant of production refunds
under Article 7(3) shall be taken into account when calculating theoverall loss referred to in paragraph1(e).
7. The levies referred to in this Article shall be collected by the
Member States.
8. Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accor-
dance with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2), and shall cover inparticular:
— the amounts of the levies to be collected,
— the revised maximum percentage for the B levy,
— the adjusted minimum price for B beet corresponding to the revised
maximum percentage for the B levy.
Article 16
1. Where the overall loss recorded for a particular marketing year
under Article 15(1) and (2) is not fully covered by the proceeds fromthe production levies for that marketing year after application ofArticle 15(3), (4) and (5), an additional levy shall be charged to manu-facturers, without prejudice to Article 4, to cover the outstandingbalance of the overall loss.
2. The additional levy shall be determined for each sugar-producing
undertaking, eachisoglucose-producing undertaking and each
►
C1inulin◄syrup-producing undertaking by multiplying the total
sum due from the undertaking by way of production levies for themarketing year concerned by a coefficient to be determined. That coef-ficient shall be the ratio for the entire Community, reduced by 1,
between the overall loss recorded under Article 15(1) and (2) for the
marketing year concerned and the proceeds from the basic productionlevies and B levies due from manufacturers of sugar, isoglucose and►
C1inulin◄syrup, respectively, for that marketing year.
3. The manufacturers concerned shall pay the additional levy before
15 December following the marketing year for which it is due.
Sugar manufacturers may recover part of the additional levy thus
charged to them from sellers of Community-produced cane or beet, as
the case may be. The amount thus recovered may not exceed themaximum amount contributed by the beet and cane sellers towards thebasic production levy and the B levy, provided for in Article 15, for themarketing year in question multiplied by the coefficient referred to in
paragraph2 of th is Article.
The amount referred to in the second subparagraph shall be recovered
on beet delivered during the marketing year in question. However, theparties concerned may agree that the refund shall be recovered on beetdelivered during the following marketing year.
4. The proceeds from the additional levy referred to in paragraph 1
of this Article shall be included for the purposes of the information
recorded under Article 15(2).
5. Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular the coeffi-
cient referred to in paragraph2, sh all be adopted in accordance withthe procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 17
1. Manufacturers of ►
C1inulin◄syrup may recover part of the
basic production levies, B levies and additional levies charged to themfrom the sellers of the agricultural raw material used to manufacture
such►
C1inulin◄syrup. The amount thus recovered may not
exceed the amount borne by the beet growers for the marketing yearconcerned; it shall be fixed by agreements within the trade or bycontracts on the basis of the purchase price of the agricultural rawmaterial delivered for the manufacture of ►
C1inulin◄syrup during
the marketing year in question.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 21
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2. Detailed rules for applying paragraph1 sh all be adopted as neces-
sary, in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 18
1. If, after Articles 15 and 16 have been applied to the 2000/2001
marketing year, it is found that the actual overall loss for thatmarketing year:
(a) is not fully covered by the proceeds of the production levy and, if
applicable, the additional levy, the resulting financial burden shallbe added to the estimate of overall loss referred to in Article
15(1)(e) for the marketing year concerned;
(b) is less than the proceeds of the production levies and, if applicable,
the additional levy, the difference shall be deducted from the esti-
mate of overall loss or added to the estimate of overall revenue, as
the case may be, resulting from applying Articles 15 and 16 to themarketing year concerned.
2. When the basic production levy is lower than the maximum
amount referred to in Article 15(3) or when the B levy is lower thanthe maximum amount referred to in Article 14(4), adjusted, where
necessary, in accordance withArticle 15(4), sugar manufacturers sh all
be required to pay the beet sellers 60 % of the difference between themaximum amount of the levy concerned and the amount actuallycharged.
The amount to be paid per tonne of beet shall be fixed for the standard
quality.
The price increases and reductions referred to in Article 5 shall apply
to this amount.
3. Community sugar manufacturers may recover 60 % of the levy
concerned from the sellers of cane produced in the Community on the
quantity of sugar for which the levy was charged.
4. Member States shall ensure from the information provided by the
sugar manufacturers that the payment for the beet complies with therelevant Community rules.
5. Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accor-
dance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 19
1. In contracts for the delivery of beet for the manufacture of sugar,
a distinction shall be made according to whether the quantities of sugarto be manufactured from the beet are:
(a) A sugar,
(b) B sugar,
(c) sugar other than A and B sugar.
Each sugar-manufacturing undertaking shall provide the Member State
in which it produces sugar with the following information:
— the quantities of beet referred to at (a) for which they have
concluded pre-sowing contracts and the sugar content on which
those contracts are based, and
— the corresponding estimated yield.
The Member States may require additional information.2. Notwithstanding Article 5(2)(b), sugar manufacturers who have
not signed pre-sowing delivery contracts for a quantity of beet equalto their A quota at the minimum price for A beet shall be required to
pay at least this minimum price for all the beet they process into sugar.
3. Agreements within the trade may derogate from paragraphs 1 and
2 provided the Member State concerned agrees.
4. The general rules for applying this Article are set out in Annex
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5. Detailed rules for applying this Article and, if necessary, the
criteria to be applied by manufacturers when allocating among beetsellers the quantities of beet to be covered by pre-sowing contracts
within the meaning of paragraph 1 shall be adopted in accordance
withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 20
1. It may be decided that sugar or isoglucose used for the manufac-
ture of certain products shall not be considered as production within the
meaning of this Chapter.
2. Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular the excep-
tions referred to in paragraph1, sh all be adopted in accordance withthe procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 21
1. Sugar manufacturers may buy beet withwh ichto manufacture C
sugar or the sugar referred to in Article 20 at a price lower than the
minimum prices for beet fixed in Article 4(1).
2. For the quantity of beet purchased corresponding to the quantity
of sugar:
— disposed of on the internal market under Article 13(3), or
— carried forward to the following marketing year under Article 14,
the sugar manufacturers concerned shall, where appropriate, adjust the
purchase price so that it is at least equal to the minimum price for A
beet.
3. Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted as neces-
sary in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
TITLE II
TRADEWITHTHIRDCOUNTRIES
CHAPTER 1
General rules
Article 22
1. Imports into and exports from the Community of any of the
products listed in Article 1(1)(a),(b),(c),(d),(f),(g) and (h) shall besubject to presentation of an import or export licence.
The Member States shall issue licences to all applicants, irrespective of
where they are established in the Community and without prejudice to
measures taken to apply Articles 26 and 27, and Article 6(5) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 2820/98 (
1).
Import and export licences shall be valid throughout the Community.
Suchlicences sh all be issued provided a security is lodged to guaranteethat the products are imported or exported during the term of validityof the licence; except in cases of force majeure, the security shall beforfeit in whole or in part if import or export is not carried out, or iscarried out only partially, within that period.
2. In accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2):
(a) the arrangements provided for in paragraph 1 may be extended to
cover the products listed in Article 1(1)(e);
(b) detailed rules shall be adopted for applying this Article, including
in particular the term of validity of licences and, if necessary, atime limit for the issue of licences.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 23
(1) OJ L 357, 30.12.1998. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
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Article 23
1. Unless this Regulation provides otherwise, the rates of duty in the
common customs tariff shall apply to the products listed in Article 1.
2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, to ensure that the Community
market is adequately supplied withraw sugar for refining falling with inCN codes 1701 1110 and 1701 12 10 molasses falling within CN code1703 by means of imports from third countries, the Commission maysuspend in whole or in part the application of import duties on theseproducts and lay down the detailed rules for any such suspension in
accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 42(2).
Suspension may apply during periods when the price on the world
market plus the import duty in the common customs tariff:
— is higher than the intervention price for the product, in the case of
raw sugar,
— in the case of molasses, is higher than the price of molasses used to
calculate revenue from sales of molasses by sugar manufacturers forthe purposes of fixing the basic price for beet for the marketingyear concerned.
Article 24
1. In order to prevent or counteract any adverse effects on the
Community market caused by imports of certain agricultural products,
imports of one or more of suchproducts at th e rate of duty laid down
in the common customs tariff shall be subject to payment of an addi-tional import duty if the conditions in Article 5 of the Agreement onAgriculture concluded under Article 300 of the Treaty in the frame-work of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations are met,
unless suchimports are unlikely to disturb th e Community market, or
where the effects would be disproportionate to the intended objective.
2. The trigger prices below which an additional duty may be
imposed shall be those forwarded by the Community to the WorldTrade Organisation.
The trigger volumes which must be exceeded in order for an additional
import duty to be imposed shall be determined in particular on the
basis of imports into the Community during the three years preceding
the year in which the adverse effects referred to in paragraph 1 arise orare likely to arise.
3. The import prices to be taken into consideration for imposing an
additional import duty shall be determined on the basis of the cif
import prices of the consignment concerned.
The cif import prices shall be checked for this purpose against the
representative prices for the product in question on the world marketor on the Community import market for the product.
4. The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for applying this
Article in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Suchdetailed rules sh all specify in particular:
(a) the products to which additional import duties may be applied
under the terms of Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture;
(b) the other trigger criteria necessary to ensure that paragraph 1 is
correctly applied in accordance withArticle 5 of th at Agreement.
Article 25
For molasses:
— the world market price referred to in Article 23(2), and
and
— the representative price referred to in Article 24(3),
shall apply to a standard quality.The standard quality may be laid down in accordance with the proce-
dure referred to in Article 42(2).2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 24
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Article 26
1. Tariff quotas for the products listed in Article 1 resulting from
agreements concluded in the framework of the Uruguay Round ofmultilateral trade negotiations shall be opened and administered underdetailed rules adopted in accordance withth e procedure referred to inArticle 42(2).
2. Quotas shall be administered by one or more of the following
methods:
— a method based on the chronological order in which applications
are lodged (‘first come, first served’),
— a method of distribution in proportion to the quantities requested
when the applications are lodged (the ‘simultaneous examination’
method),
— a method whereby traditional trade patterns are taken into account
(the ‘traditional/new arrivals’ method).
Other appropriate methods may be adopted.
They must avoid any discrimination between the importers concerned.
3. Whichever administration method is adopted shall give due
weight to the Community's supply requirements and the need to safe-guard market equilibrium, but may also draw on methods used toadminister quotas in the past such as those referred to in paragraph 1,without prejudice to the rights arising from agreements concluded in
the framework of the Uruguay Round negotiations.
4. The detailed rules referred to in paragraph 1 shall provide for
annual quotas, if necessary suitably staggered over the year, shall
specify the administrative method to be used and, where appropriate,
shall include:
(a) guarantees covering the nature, provenance and origin of the
product,
(b) recognition of the document used for verifying the guarantees
referred to in (a), and
(c) the conditions under which import licences are issued and their
term of validity.
Article 27
1. To the extent necessary to enable the products listed in Article
1(1)(a),(c) and (d) to be exported without further processing or in the
form of goods listed in Annex V, on the basis of world market quota-tions or prices in the case of products listed in Article 1(1)(a), (c) and(d), and within the limits resulting from agreements concluded inaccordance with Article 300 of the Treaty, the difference betweensuchquotations or prices and prices in th e Community may be covered
by export refunds.
The export refund for raw sugar may not exceed that granted for white
sugar.
2. Provision may be made for export refunds to be granted on the
products listed in Article 1(1)(f), (g) and (h) and exported withoutfurther processing or in the form of goods listed in Annex V.
The amount of the refund per 100 kg of dry matter shall be fixed
taking particular account of:
(a) the refund applicable to exports of products falling within CN code
1702 3091,
(b) the refund applicable to exports of the products listed in Article
1(1)(d),
(c) the economic aspects of the planned exports.
3. Refunds on the products listed in Article 1 exported in the form
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4. The method adopted for allocating the quantities which may be
exported with a refund shall be the one which:
(a) is most suited to the type of product and market situation
concerned, allowing the most efficient possible use of the resourcesavailable in view of the efficiency and structure of Communityexports but without discriminating between large and small expor-
ters;
(b) is least cumbersome administratively for exporters without
neglecting administrative requirements;
(c) does not discriminate between exporters.
5. Refunds shall be the same for the whole Community. They may
vary according to destination, where the world market situation or thespecific requirements of certain markets make this necessary.
Refunds shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure referred to in
Article 42(2). Refunds may be fixed:
(a) at regular intervals;
(b) by tendering procedure for products for which that procedure has
been used in the past.
Refunds fixed at regular intervals may, where necessary, be adjusted in
the intervening period by the Commission at the request of a Member
State or on its own initiative.
Tenders submitted in response to an invitation shall not be considered
unless a security is lodged. Except in cases of force majeure, the secu-rities shall be forfeit in whole or in part if tenderers have not fulfilled,
or have only partially fulfilled, their obligations under the tendering
procedure.
In the case of undenatured products listed in Article 1(1)(a),(c) and (d)
exported without further processing, Articles 28, 29 and 30 shall also
apply.
6. When fixing the amount of the refund, account shall be taken in
particular of the need to strike a balance between the use of Commu-nity basic products for export as processed goods to third countries and
the use of products from these countries admitted for inward proces-
sing.
7. Refunds shall be granted on the products referred to in paragraph
1 exported without further processing only on application and on
presentation of the relevant export licence.
8. The refund applicable to exports of products listed in Article 1
exported without further processing shall be that applicable on the day
the licence application is lodged and, in the case of a differentiated
refund, that applicable on the same day:
(a) for the destination indicated on the licence,
or
(b) for the actual destination, if it differs from the destination indicated
on the licence. In that case the amount applicable may not exceedthe amount applicable to the destination indicated on the licence.
Appropriate measures may be taken to prevent abuse of the flexibility
provided for in this paragraph.
9. Paragraphs 7 and 8 may be extended to cover products listed in
Article 1 and exported in the form of goods listed in Annex V in accor-dance withth e procedure laid down in Article 16 of Regulation (EC)No 3448/93.
10. Paragraphs 7 and 8 may be waived in the case of products listed
in Article 1 on which refunds are paid under food-aid operations, inaccordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
11. The refund shall be paid upon proof that:
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and
— in the case of a differentiated refund, the products have reached the
destination indicated on the licence or another destination for which
a refund has been fixed, without prejudice to point (b) in the firstsubparagraphof paragraph8. Exceptions may be made to th is rulein accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2),provided conditions are laid down which offer equivalent guaran-
tees.
Additional rules may be laid down in accordance withth e procedure
referred to in Article 42(2).
12. No refund shall be granted on undenatured products as referred
to in Article 1(1)(a) exported without further processing unless, as thecase may be, they have been:
(a) obtained from sugar beet or sugar cane harvested within the
Community,
(b) imported into the Community under Article 35,
(c) obtained from one of the products imported under Article 35.
13. No refund shall be granted on undenatured products as referred
to in Article 1(c) and (d) exported without further processing which are
not of Community origin or which have not been obtained from sugarimported into the Community under paragraph 12(b) or from theproducts referred to in paragraph12(c).
14. Compliance withth e restrictions on volume resulting from
agreements concluded under Article 300 of the Treaty shall be ensuredby means of export licences issued for the reference periods providedfor in suchagreements and applying to th e products concerned.
15. The detailed rules for applying this Article, including the
arrangements for redistributing unallocated or unused exportable quan-tities and for amending Annex V, shall be adopted in accordance withthe procedure referred to in Article 42(2). However, the detailed rulesfor applying paragraph6 in th e case of products as referred to in
Article 1 exported in the form of goods listed in Annex V shall be
adopted in accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 16 ofRegulation (EC) No 3448/93.
Article 28
1. This Article shall apply to the fixing of refunds on undenatured
products as referred to in Article 1(1)(a) exported without furtherprocessing.
2. Where refunds for products as referred to in Article 1(1)(a) are
fixed at regular intervals:
(a) the refunds shall be fixed every two weeks.
However, suchfixing may be discontinued in accordance withth e
procedure referred to in Article 42(2) if it is found that no surplus
sugar is available in the Community for export at world marketprices. In that event, no refund shall be granted;
(b) when fixing the refund, account shall be taken of the situation on
the Community and world markets in sugar, and in particular thefollowing:
— the intervention price for white sugar for the Community area
with the largest surplus or the intervention price for raw sugar
for the Community area which is considered to be representa-
tive for the exportation of such sugar,
— the costs of transporting sugar from the areas referred to in the
first indent to ports or other points of export in the Community,
— trade expenses and any transhipment, transport and packaging
charges incurred in marketing sugar on the world market,
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— limits resulting from agreements concluded under Article 300 of
the Treaty.
3. Where the refund for the products referred to in Article 1(1)(a) is
fixed by tendering procedure:
(a) the purpose of the tender shall be to determine the amount of the
refund;
(b) the competent authorities of the Member States shall invite tenders
in accordance withan instrument legally binding in all Member
States. This instrument shall lay down the terms of the tenderingprocedure, which must guarantee equal access for all persons estab-lished within the Community;
(c) the terms of the tendering procedure shall include a time limit for
the submission of tenders. Within three working days following theexpiry of the time limit, the maximum amount of the refund towhich the tendering procedure relates shall be fixed in accordancewith the procedure referred to in Article 42(2) in the light of the
tenders received. When calculating the maximum amount, account
shall be taken of the supply situation and prices within the Commu-nity, prices and potential outlets on the world market and the costsincurred in exporting sugar.
A maximum tonnage may be fixed in accordance withth e same
procedure;
(d) where exports can be effected with a refund which is lower than
that which would result from taking account of the difference
between prices within the Community and prices on the world
market and where exports are for a specific destination, the compe-tent authorities of the Member States may be required to issue aspecial invitation to tender stipulating:
— that tenders may be submitted at any time until the tendering
procedure is terminated, and
— a maximum amount of the refund, calculated in the light of
requirements for the exports in question;
(e) if the amount of the refund offered in a tender:
— exceeds the maximum fixed, the competent authorities of the
Member States shall reject that tender,
— does not exceed the maximum, those authorities shall fix the
refund at an amount equal to the refund offered in the tenderconcerned.
4. In the case of raw sugar:
(a) the refund shall be fixed for the standard quality defined in Annex
I;
(b) refunds fixed at regular intervals under paragraph2(a):
— may not exceed 92 % of the refund for white sugar for the same
period. However, this limit shall not apply to refunds to befixed for candy sugar,
— shall be multiplied, for each exporting operation concerned, by
a conversion factor obtained by dividing the yield of the rawsugar exported, calculated in accordance withAnnex I, by 92;
(c) the maximum amount as provided for in paragraph 3(c) fixed under
a tendering procedure may not exceed 92 % of the maximumamount fixed at the same time for white sugar under that para-
graph.
Article 29
1. The refund on undenatured products as listed in Article 1(1)(c)
exported without further processing shall be fixed each month takingaccount of:
(a) the price of molasses used to calculate revenue from sales of
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(b) prices and potential outlets for molasses on the Community market;
(c) quotations or prices recorded for molasses on the world market,
and
(d) the economic aspect of the proposed exports.
However, fixing at regular intervals may be discontinued in accordance
with the procedure referred to in Article 42(2) if it is found that nosurplus molasses is available within the Community for export at world
market prices. In this event, no refund shall be granted.
2. In special circumstances the amount of the refund may be fixed
by tendering procedure for specific quantities and specific areas of the
Community. The purpose of the tendering procedure shall be to deter-
mine the amount of the refund.
The competent authorities of the Member States concerned shall orga-
nise a tendering procedure under an authorisation laying down the rules
to be followed, which must guarantee equal access for all personsestablished within the Community.
Article 30
1. The basic amount of the refund shall be fixed each month for
undenatured products as listed in Article 1(1)(d) exported withoutfurther processing. However, fixing at regular intervals may be discon-
tinued in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2) if
the regular fixing of the refund on white sugar without further proces-sing is suspended. In this event, no refund shall be granted.
2. The basic amount of the refund on the products referred to in
paragraph 1, with the exception of sorbose, shall be equal to one-hundredth of an amount obtained by taking account of:
(a) the difference between the intervention price for white sugar for the
Community area with the largest surplus for the month for whichthe basic amount is fixed, and the quotations or prices for whitesugar recorded on the world market;
(b) the need to strike a balance between:
— the use of Community basic products in the manufacture of
processed goods for export to third countries, and
— the use of third-country products brought in under inward-
processing arrangements.
3. In the case of sorbose, the basic amount of the refund shall be
equal to the basic amount of the refund less one-hundredth of theproduction refund in force.
4. Application of the basic amount of the refund may be restricted to
specific products listed in Article 1(1)(d).
Article 31
To the extent necessary for the proper functioning of the common orga-
nisation of the markets in the sugar sector, the Commission may fullyor partially prohibit the use of inward-processing arrangements for theproducts listed in Article 1(1) in accordance withth e procedure
referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 32
1. The general rules for interpreting the combined nomenclature and
the special rules for its application shall apply to the tariff classificationof products covered by this Regulation; the tariff nomenclatureresulting from applying this Regulation shall be included in thecommon customs tariff.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 29
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2. Save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation or by a rule
adopted pursuant thereto, the following shall be prohibited in tradewithth ird countries:
(a) the levying of any charge having equivalent effect to a customs
duty;
(b) the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having
equivalent effect.
Article 33
1. Where the price of sugar on the world market is higher than the
intervention price, an export levy may be applied to the sugar
concerned. Such a levy shall be compulsory when the cif price of whiteor raw sugar is higher than the intervention price plus 10 %.
The export levy may be determined by tendering procedure. Otherwise,
the levy to be charged shall be that applicable on the day of export.
2. Where the cif price of white or raw sugar is higher than the inter-
vention price plus 10 %, the Council may decide, acting on a proposalfrom the Commission in accordance with the voting procedure laiddown in Article 37(2) of the Treaty, to grant an import subsidy for
the product in question.
Where it is established that supplies available within the Community
are not sufficient to:
(a) meet requirements within the Community
or
(b) meet the requirements of a major consumption region in the
Community,
then the Council shall decide, acting on a proposal from the Commis-
sion in accordance withth e voting procedure laid down in Article 37(2)of the Treaty, to grant the import subsidy and lay down rules for imple-menting it. Those rules shall determine in particular the quantity of
white or raw sugar to be covered by the subsidy, the duration of the
subsidy and, where appropriate, the importing regions.
3. The following shall be laid down in accordance with the proce-
dure referred to in Article 42(2):
(a) the cif prices referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2,
(b) export levies fixed by tendering procedure,
(c) the other detailed rules for applying this Article.
In the case of the products referred to in Article 1(1)(b),(c),(d),(f),(g)
and (h), provisions similar to those in paragraphs 1 and 2 may beadopted in accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
4. The amounts, other than those referred to in paragraph 3,
resulting from the application of this Article shall be fixed by theCommission.
Article 34
1. If imports or exports create or threaten to create a serious distur-
bance on the Community market in one or more of the products listedin Article 1 which is likely to jeopardise the achievement of the objec-tives set out in Article 33 of the Treaty, appropriate measures may be
applied in trade with third countries until such disturbance or threat of
disturbance has ceased.
The Council, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 37(2) of the Treaty, shall adopt the general rules for imple-menting this paragraph and shall define the cases and limits withinwhich the Member States may take protective measures.
2. Should the situation referred to in paragraph 1 arise, the Commis-
sion shall decide upon the necessary measures, either at the request of aMember State or on its own initiative; the Member States shall be noti-2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 30
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fied of the measures, which shall be immediately applicable. The
Commission shall take a decision on any request from a Member Statewithin three working days of receiving it.
3. Measures decided upon by the Commission may be referred to
the Council by any Member State within three working days of the
day on which they were notified. The Council shall meet withoutdelay. Acting by a qualified majority, it may amend or repeal themeasures in question.
4. This Article shall be applied in compliance with the Community's
obligations resulting from agreements concluded under Article 300(2)of the Treaty.
CHAPTER 2
Preferential importarrangements
Article 35
Articles 36, 37 and 38 shall apply to cane sugar, hereinafter called
‘preferential sugar’, falling within CN code 1701, originating in theStates listed in Annex VI and imported into the Community under:
(a) Protocol 3 to Annex IV to the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement;
(b) the Agreement on sugar cane between the European Community
and the Republic of India.
Article 36
Where the quality of preferential sugar imported under Article 35 and
purchased by intervention agencies or other agents appointed by the
Community deviates from the standard quality, the guaranteed prices
shall be adjusted by means of price increases and reductions.
Article 37
1. No import duty shall apply to imports of preferential sugar under
Article 35.
2. Preferential sugar shall enjoy no derogations from the prohibitions
referred to in Article 32(2).
Article 38
1. For the 2001/2002 to 2005/2006 marketing years, adjustment aid
shall be granted as an intervention measure to the industry refiningpreferential raw cane sugar imported into the Community for that
purpose under Article 35.
2. The aid referred to in paragraph 1 may be granted only for quan-
tities eligible under Article 35, which are refined into white sugar atrefineries as referred to in Article 7(4). The aid for producing the whitesugar concerned shall be EUR 0,10 per 100 kilograms, expressed inwhite sugar.
3. During the period specified in paragraph 1, additional basic aid of
EUR 0,10 per 100 kilograms, expressed as white sugar, shall begranted to enable refineries as referred to in Article 7(4) to refine raw
cane sugar produced in the French overseas departments, with a view
to restoring the price balance between that sugar and preferential sugar.
4. The adjustment aid and the additional aid may be adjusted to take
account of economic trends in the sugar sector, particularly manufac-turing and refining margins.
5. Under the second subparagraph of Article 7(4) and on terms to be
determined, the aid scheme provided for in paragraphs 1 to 3 of thisArticle may be extended to raw sugar produced from beet harvestedin the Community and refined in refineries as referred to in Article 7.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 31
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6. Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular the adjust-
ments referred to in paragraph4, sh all be adopted in accordance withthe procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 39
1. During the period referred to in Article 38(1), in order to ensure
adequate supplies to Community refineries as referred to in Article7(4), a reduced rate of duty, hereinafter called ‘special duty’, shall belevied on imports of raw cane sugar, hereinafter called ‘special prefer-ential sugar’, originating in the States referred to in Article 35 and
other States with whom agreements have been concluded, and subject
to the conditions laid down therein, in particular the minimum purchaseprice to be paid by refiners.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1 and without prejudice to para-
graph5, th e presumed maximum supply needs per marketing year,expressed in white sugar, of the refining industries in:
(a) Finland shall be 59 925 tonnes,
(b) metropolitan France, shall be 296627 tonnes,
(c) mainland Portugal, shall be 291633 tonnes,(d) the United Kingdom shall be 1 128581 tonnes.
By way of derogation from Article 7(4), the presumed maximum
supply need for the sugar-producing undertaking in Slovenia shall be19 585 tonnes.
3. Without prejudice to paragraph 5, the quantities of raw cane sugar
and raw beet sugar harvested in the Community available to the
refining industry, with or without distinction of origin, shall be deter-
mined on the basis of an exhaustive Community forecast supplybalance for raw sugar for eachmarketing year or part of a marketingyear. This balance may be revised during the marketing year.
For the purposes of determining these quantities, the quantities of sugar
from the French overseas departments and preferential sugar intendedfor direct consumption to be included in each balance shall be thosedetermined for the 1994/1995 marketing year, less forecast local
consumption in the French overseas departments during the marketing
year concerned. If the balance shows that the amounts available will beinsufficient to meet the maximum needs laid down in paragraph 2, thenecessary measures shall be laid down to enable the Member Statesconcerned to import the shortfall as special preferential sugar underthe arrangements for imports at a special rate of duty provided for in
the agreements referred to in paragraph 1.
4. Except in cases of force majeure , where the presumed maximum
needs for a Member State as laid down in paragraph2 or after revision
under paragraph5 are exceeded, an amount corresponding to th e full
rate of duty in force for the marketing year concerned shall be chargedon a quantity equivalent to the excess, increased by the aid referred toin Article 38 and, where appropriate, by the highest additional rate ofduty recorded during that marketing year.
However, in the case of preferential raw sugar and where a review has
been carried out under paragraph 5, the quantities in excess of therevised presumed maximum needs, within the limit of the quantities
laid down in paragraph2, may be sold to intervention agencies on th e
terms stipulated in Article 36 if they cannot be marketed in theCommunity.
5. Where Article 10(3), (4), (5) and (6) apply, the sum of the
presumed maximum needs referred to in paragraph2 of th is Articleshall be reduced for the marketing year concerned by a quantity equalto the sum of the special preferential sugars needed to cover thepresumed maximum needs determined under paragraph3 of th isArticle, and reduced by the same percentage reduction as was applied2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 32
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to the sum of the basic quantities A for Community sugar under Article
10(5).
This reduction in the maximum needs shall be apportioned between the
Member States concerned to reflect the ratio between the quantity fixed
for each in paragraph 2 and the sum of the quantities fixed in that para-
graph.
6. Detailed rules for applying this Article, in particular for imple-
menting and administering the agreements referred to in paragraph 1,shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article42(2).
TITLE III
GENERALPROVISIONS
Article 40
Any measures needed to prevent the market in sugar being disturbed by
changes in price levels at the changeover from one marketing year tothe next or during a single marketing year may be adopted in accor-
dance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
Article 41
Member States and the Commission shall communicate to each other
the information necessary for implementing this Regulation.
Rules for the communication and dissemination of such information
shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article42(2).
Article 42
1. The Commission shall be assisted by a Management Committee
for Sugar (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Committee’).
2. Where reference is made to this Article, Articles 4 and 7 of Deci-
sion 1999/468/EC shall apply. The period laid down in Article 4(3) ofDecision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.
3. The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.
Article 43
The Committee may consider any other question referred to it by its
chair on his or her own initiative or at the request of the representativeof a Member State.
Article 44
Goods listed in Article 1(1) which are manufactured or obtained from
products not covered by Article 23(2) and Article 24 of the Treaty shallnot be admitted to free circulation within the Community.
Article 45
Save as otherwise provided in this Regulation, Articles 87, 88 and 89
of the Treaty shall apply to the production of and trade in the products
listed in Article 1(1).
Article 46
1. Italy shall be authorised to grant adjustment aid, which may not
exceed EUR 5,43 per 100 kilogrammes of white sugar to sugar beet
producers and, where appropriate, to sugar producers for the production
of the corresponding quantity of sugar effected within the A and Bquotas of eachsugar-producing undertaking, in th e following regions:Abruzzi, Molise, Apulia, Sardinia, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria andSicily.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 33
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2. However, where this is necessitated by exceptional requirements
connected withth e sugar industry restructuring plans under way inthese regions, Italy may, according to the marketing year in question,
adjust the aid referred to in paragraph 1. In the application of Articles
87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty, the Commission shall in particular deter-mine whether such aid is in conformity with the restructuring plans.
3. Spain shall be authorised to grant adjustment aid, which may not
exceed EUR 7,25 per 100 kilogrammes of white sugar to sugar caneproducers located in its territory for the production of the corre-
sponding quantity of sugar effected within the A and B quotas of each
undertaking producing sugar from cane.
4. Portugal shall be authorised to grant adjustment aid. Which may
not exceed EUR 3,11 per 100 kilograms of white sugar to sugar beetproducers located in its mainland territory for the production of thecorresponding quantity of sugar effected within the A and B quotas of
eachsugar-producing undertaking.
5. Finland shall be authorised to grant a flat-rate reimbursement of
storage costs for C sugar carried over in accordance withArticle 14.The detailed rules for implementing this paragraph shall be adopted inaccordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2).
6. The Member States concerned shall submit to the Commission
the measures taken for each marketing year pursuant to paragraphs 1
to 5.
7. This Article shall apply for the marketing years 2001/2002 to
2005/2006.
Article 47
1. Where agricultural activity within the scope of this Regulation is
concerned, Member States shall adopt the environmental measures theyconsider to be appropriate in view of the situation of the agriculturalland used and which reflect the potential environmental effects of thoseactivities. Suchmeasures sh all be laid down in accordance withenvir-
onmental requirements taking account of the topographical and soil and
climate conditions in the areas in question, the management of irriga-tion water and rotation systems and cultivation methods likely toimprove the environment. If necessary, Member States shall, whilerespecting Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty, support agriculturalproducers in the sugar sector by means of research programmes
intended to develop more environment-friendly cultivation methods,
and by means of the publication of the results of such researchprogrammes.
2. Member States shall lay down suitable penalties proportionate to
the gravity of the environmental consequences of failure to complywithth e environmental requirements referred to in paragraph1.
3. Member States shall submit to the Commission, by 30 June 2002,
a report on the environmental situation of agricultural production in the
sugar sector and the impact of national measures adopted under para-graphs 1 and 2.
TITLE IV
TRANSITIONALANDFINALPROVISIONS
Article 48
The balance remaining from the compensation system for storage costs
applied during the 2000/2001 marketing year under Regulation (EC)No 2038/1999 shall be charged, if negative, or credited, if positive,under the system referred to in Articles 15 and 16 of this Regulationfor the 2001/2002 marketing year.
In the case of sugar in storage at 30 June 2001 under the compensation
system for storage costs provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2038/99,2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 34
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the date of disposal for the purposes of collecting the storage levy shall
be 30 June 2001.
Article 49
Regulations (EC) No 2038/1999, (EEC) No 206/68, (EEC) No 431/68,
(EEC) No 447/68, (EEC) No 2049/69, (EEC) No 793/72, (EEC) No
741/75, (EEC) No 1358/77, (EEC) No 1789/81, (EEC) No 193/82,
(EEC) No 1010/86 and (EEC) No 2225/86 are hereby repealed.
References to Regulations (EC) No 2038/1999, (EEC) No 206/68,
(EEC) No 431/68, (EEC) No 793/72, (EEC) No 741/75 and (EEC) No193/82 shall be understood as references to this Regulation and are tobe read in conjunction withth e correlation table in Annex VII.
Article 50
1. The Commission may adopt any transitional measures required to
ensure a smooth changeover from the arrangements in force for the
2000/2001 marketing year to those introduced by this Regulation in
accordance withth e procedure referred to in Article 42(2). Suchmeasures may derogate from this Regulation.
2. On the basis of Commission studies on the market situation, all
aspects of the quota system, prices, relations within the trade and ananalysis of the increase in competition resulting from the EuropeanUnion's international commitments, the Commission shall submit a
report at the beginning of 2003, together with any appropriate propo-
sals.
Article 51
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publica-
tion inthe Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply from the 2001/2002 marketing year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 35
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ANNEX I
PointI
STANDARDQUALITYFORWHITESUGAR
1. White sugar of the standard quality shall have the following characteristics:
(a) be of sound, genuine and merchantable quality; dry, in homogeneous
granulated crystals, free-flowing,
(b) minimum polarisation 99,7º,
(c) maximum moisture content 0,06 %,
(d) maximum invert sugar content: 0,04 %,
(e) the number of points determined under paragraph 2 shall not exceed a
total of 22, nor:
— 15 for the ash content,
— 9 for the colour type, determined using the method of the Brunswick
Institute of Agricultural Technology, hereinafter called the ‘Bruns-
wick method’,
— 6 for the colouring of the solution, determined using the method of
the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar
Analysis, hereinafter called the ‘ICUMSA method’.
2. One point shall correspond to:
(a) 0,0018 % of ash content determined using the ICUMSA method at 28º
Brix,
(b) 0,5 units of colour type determined using the Brunswick method,
(c) 7,5 units of colouring of the solution determined using the ICUMSA
method.
3. The methods for determining the factors referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
those used for determining those factors under the intervention measures.
PointII
STANDARDQUALITYFORRAWSUGAR
1. Raw sugar of the standard quality shall be sugar with a yield of 92 %.
2. The yield of raw beet sugar shall be calculated by subtracting from the
degree of polarisation of that sugar:
(a) its percentage ashcontent multiplied by four,
(b) its percentage invert sugar content multiplied by two,
(c) the number 1.
3. The yield of raw cane sugar shall be calculated by subtracting 100 from the
degree of polarisation of that sugar multiplied by two.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 36
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ANNEX II
STANDARDQUALITYFORSUGARBEET
Standard quality beet shall:
(a) be of sound and fair merchantable quality;
(b) have a sugar content of 16 % at the reception point.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 37
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ANNEX III
PURCHASETERMSFORBEET
PointI
For the purposes of this Annex:
1. Contracting Parties means:
(a) sugar manufacturers, hereinafter called ‘manufacturers’,
(b) beet sellers, hereinafter called ‘sellers’;
2. contract means a contract concluded between a seller and a manufacturer for
the delivery of beet for the manufacture of sugar;
3. agreement within the trade means:
(a) an agreement concluded at Community level, prior to the conclusion of
any contract, between a group of national manufacturers' organisations on
the one hand and a group of national sellers' organisations on the other;
(b) an agreement concluded, prior to the conclusion of any contract, between
manufacturers or a manufacturers' organisation recognised by the
Member State concerned on the one hand and a sellers' association
recognised by the Member State concerned on the other;
(c) the law on companies and the law on cooperatives, in so far as they
govern the delivery of sugar beet by the share holders or members of a
company or cooperative manufacturing sugar;
(d) in the absence of any agreement as referred to in (a) or (b), the arrange-
ments existing before the conclusion of any contract between
manufacturers and sellers, provided the sellers accepting the arrangement
supply at least 60 % of the total beet bought by the manufacturer for the
manufacture of sugar in one or more factories.
PointII
1. Contracts shall be made in writing for a specified quantity of beet.
2. Contracts shall specify whether an additional quantity of beet may be
supplied, and under what terms.
PointIII
1. This Point shall apply only where Article 19 of this Regulation applies.
2. Contracts shall indicate the purchase prices for the quantities of beet referred
to in the first part of Article 19(1) of this Regulation. In the case of the quan-
tities referred to at (a) and (b) of Article 19(1), those prices may not be lower
than the minimum price for beet referred to in Article 4 of this Regulation
applicable in the production area concerned.
3. Contracts shall lay down a fixed sugar content for beet. They shall include a
conversion scale showing the different sugar contents and factors for
converting the quantities of beet supplied into quantities corresponding to
the sugar content shown in the contract.
The scale shall be based on the yields corresponding to the different sugar
contents.
4. Where a seller has signed a contract with a manufacturer for the delivery of
beet as referred to in the first part of Article 19(1) of this Regulation and in
(a) thereof, all deliveries by that seller, converted under paragraph 3 above,
shall be considered to be deliveries within the meaning of the first part of the
abovementioned Article 19(1) and (a) thereof up to the quantity of beet
specified in the contract.
5. Manufacturers producing a quantity of sugar lower than their basic quota
from beet for which they have signed pre-sowing delivery contracts under
the first part of Article 19(1) and (a) thereof shall distribute the quantity of
beet corresponding to any additional production up to the amount of their
basic quota among the sellers with whom they have signed pre-sowing
delivery contracts within the meaning of the first part of the abovementioned
Article 19(1) and (a) and (b) thereof.
Agreements within the trade may derogate from this provision.
6. In no case may a manufacturer require a seller to reimburse the production
levy for beet delivered by the seller under a contract concluded under the
first part of Article 19(1) of this Regulation and (a) thereof.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 38
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PointIV
1. Contracts shall contain provisions concerning the staggering and normal
duration of beet deliveries.
2. Such provisions shall be those applicable during the 2000/2001 marketing
year, taking account of the level of actual production; agreements within the
trade may derogate therefrom. ►A1For the Czech Republic, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, the relevant marketing
year shall be that of 2003-2004. ◄
PointV
1. Contracts shall provide for beet collection centres.2. Where sellers and manufacturers have already signed a contract for the 2000/
2001 marketing year, the collection centres agreed upon by them for deliv-
eries during that marketing year shall remain in operation; agreements
within the trade may derogate from this provision. ►
A1For the Czech
Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, the
relevant marketing year shall be that of 2003-2004. ◄
3. Contracts shall provide that transport costs from the collection centres are to
be borne by the manufacturer subject to special agreements based on local
rules or usages in operation before the 2001/2002 marketing year. ►A1For
the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia, the relevant marketing year shall be that of 2003-2004. ◄
4. However, in Denmark, Spain, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and the
United Kingdom, where beet is delivered free-at-factory, contracts shall
require manufacturers to contribute to transport costs and shall stipulate the
percentage or amounts.
PointVI
1. Contracts shall provide for reception points for beet.
2. Where sellers and manufacturers have already signed a contract for the 2000/
2001 marketing year, the reception points agreed upon by them for deliveries
during that marketing year shall remain in operation; agreements within the
trade may derogate from this provision. ►A1For the Czech Republic,
Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, the relevant
marketing year shall be that of 2003-2004. ◄
PointVII
1. Contracts shall provide for the sugar content to be determined using the
polarimetric method. A sample of the beet shall be drawn at the time of
reception.
2. Agreements within the trade may provide for samples to be drawn at another
stage.
In such cases, the contract shall provide for a correction to compensate for
any drop in the sugar content between the reception and the drawing of the
sample.
PointVIII
Contracts shall provide for gross weight, tare and sugar content to be determined
using one of the following procedures:
(a) jointly, by the manufacturer and the beet producers' trade organisation, if an
agreement within the trade so provides;
(b) by the manufacturer, under the supervision of the beet producers' trade orga-
nisation;
(c) by the manufacturer, under the supervision of an expert recognised by the
Member State concerned, provided the seller defrays the costs thereof;
(d) by the manufacturer, if local rules or usages in force before the 2000/2001
marketing year so provide. ►A1For the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania,
Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, the relevant marketing year shall
be that of 2003-2004. ◄
PointIX
1. Contracts shall provide for an additional price to be paid to the seller where:
(a) there is an increase in the price for beet at the changeover from one
marketing year to the next, and2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 39
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(b) the increase in the intervention price for sugar resulting from the increase
in the price for beet is not made subject to a levy for stocks held at the
time of the changeover.
The additional price shall be calculated per 100 kilograms of white sugar by
multiplying the increase referred to in the first subparagraph under (b) by a
coefficient equal to the ratio of
— the quantities of sugar produced within the A and B quota not carried
forward under Article 14 of this Regulation in stock at the time of transi-
tion
and
— the quantities of sugar produced by manufacturer during the previous
marketing year within their maximum quota not carried forward under
Article 14 of this Regulation.
2. Agreements within the trade may derogate from paragraph 1.
Contracts shall mention the possibility of such derogation.
PointX
1. Contracts shall require manufacturers to do one or more of the following for
the whole quantity of beet delivered; when parts of that quantity are subject
to different treatment, the contract shall impose more than one such obliga-
tion:
(a) to return the fresh pulp from the tonnage of beet delivered free of charge
to the seller, ex factory;
(b) to return part of that pulp dried or dried and molassed, free of charge to
the seller, ex factory;
(c) to return the pulp, dried, to the seller, ex factory; in this case, the manu-
facturer may require the seller to pay the drying costs;
(d) to pay the seller compensation which takes account of the possibilities of
selling the pulp concerned.
2. Agreements within the trade may provide for pulp to be delivered at a stage
other than that referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c).
PointXI
1. Contracts shall fix the time limits for any advance payments and for payment
of the purchase price for beet.
2. Such time limits shall be those valid during the 2000/2001 marketing year;
agreements within the trade may derogate from this provision. ►A1For
the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia, the relevant marketing year shall be that of 2003-2004. ◄
PointXII
Where contracts lay down rules covering matters which are dealt with in this
Annex, or where they contain provisions governing other matters, their provi-
sions and effects must not conflict withth is Annex.
PointXIII
1. Agreements within the trade as described in Point I(3)(b) shall contain arbi-
tration clauses.
2. Where agreements within the trade at Community, regional or local level lay
down rules covering matters which are dealt with in this Regulation, or
where they contain provisions governing other matters, their provisions and
effects must not conflict withth is Annex.
3. Suchagreements may lay down, in particular:
(a) rules on the distribution to sellers of quantities of beet which the manu-
facturer decides to buy prior to sowing, for the manufacture of sugar
within the limits of the basic quota;
(b) rules on distribution as referred to in Point III(5);
(c) the conversion scale referred to in Point III(3);
(d) rules on the choice and supply of seeds of the varieties of beet to be
produced;
(e) the minimum sugar content of beet to be delivered;
(f) a requirement for consultation between the manufacturer and the sellers'
representatives before the starting date of beet deliveries is fixed;2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 40
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(g) the payment of premiums to sellers for early or late deliveries;
(h) details of:
— the part of the pulp referred to in Point X(1)(b),
— the costs referred to in Point X(1)(c),— the compensation referred to in Point X(1)(d);
(i) the removal of pulp by the seller;
(j) rules on how any difference between the intervention price and the actual
selling price of the sugar is to be allocated between the manufacturer and
sellers.
PointXIV
Where there is no set agreement within the trade as to how the quantities of beet
intended for the manufacture of sugar within the basic quota limits which the
manufacturer offers to buy before sowing should be allocated among the sellers,
the Member State concerned may itself lay down rules for such allocation.
These rules may also grant to traditional sellers of beet to cooperatives delivery
rights other than those which they would enjoy if they belonged to such coop-
eratives.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 41
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ANNEX IV
DETAILEDRULESONTRANSFERSOFQUOTASBETWEENFIRMS
PointI
Member States shall adopt such measures as they deem necessary to take
account of the interests of sugar beet and cane producers when quotas are allo-
cated to a sugar-producing undertaking which has more than one factory.
PointII
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, in the event of the merger or transfer of
sugar-producing undertakings or the transfer of sugar factories, the A and B
quotas shall be adjusted as follows:
(a) in the event of the merger of sugar-producing undertakings, the Member
States shall allocate to the undertaking resulting from the merger an A
quota and a B quota equal respectively to the sum of the A quotas and
the sum of the B quotas allocated prior to the merger to the sugar-produ-
cing undertakings concerned;
(b) in the event of the transfer of a sugar-producing undertaking, the
Member State shall allocate the A quota and the B quota of the trans-
ferred undertaking to the transferee undertaking for the production of
sugar or, if there is more than one transferee undertaking, the allocation
shall be made in proportion to the sugar production absorbed by each of
them;
(c) in the event of the transfer of a sugar factory, the Member State shall
reduce the A quota and the B quota of the undertaking transferring
ownership of the factory and shall increase the A quota and the B quota
of the sugar-producing undertaking or undertakings purchasing the
factory in question by the quantity deducted in proportion to the produc-
tion absorbed.
2. Where a number of the sugar-beet or cane producers directly affected by one
of the operations referred to in paragraph 1 expressly show their willingness
to supply their beet or cane to a sugar-producing undertaking which is not
party to those operations, the Member State may make the allocation on the
basis of the production absorbed by the undertaking to which they intend to
supply their beet or cane.
3. In the event of closure, in circumstances other than those referred to in para-
graph1, of:
(a) a sugar-producing undertaking,
(b) one or more factories of a sugar-producing undertaking,
the Member State may allocate the part of the quotas involved in such
closure to one or more sugar-producing undertakings.
Also in the case referred to in (b) in the preceding subparagraph, where some
of the producers concerned expressly show their willingness to supply their
beet or cane to a given sugar-producing undertaking, the Member State may
allocate the proportion of the quotas corresponding to the beet or cane
concerned to the undertaking which they intend to supply with those
products.
4. Where the derogation referred to in Article 19(3) of this Regulation is
invoked, the Member State concerned may require the beet producers and
sugar manufacturers concerned by that derogation to include in their agree-
ments within the trade special clauses enabling the Member State to apply
paragraphs 2 and 3, where applicable.
5. In the event of the lease of a factory belonging to a sugar-producing under-
taking, the Member State may reduce the quotas of the undertaking offering
the factory for rent and allocate the portion by which the quota was reduced
to the undertaking which rents the factory in order to produce sugar in it.
If the lease is terminated during the period of three marketing years referred
to in Point V(d), the adjustment of quotas under the preceding subparagraphshall be cancelled retroactively by the Member State as at the date on which
the lease took effect. However, if the lease is terminated by reason of force
majeure, the Member State shall not be bound to cancel the adjustment.
6. Where a sugar-producing undertaking can no longer ensure that it meets its
obligations under Community regulations towards the sugar-beet or cane
producers concerned, and where that situation has been ascertained by the
competent authorities of the Member State concerned, the latter may allocate2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 42
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for one or more marketing years the part of the quotas involved to one or
more sugar-producing undertakings in proportion to the production absorbed.
7. Where a Member State grants a sugar-producing undertaking price and outlet
guarantees for processing sugar beet into ethyl alcohol, the Member State
may, in agreement with that undertaking and the beet producers concerned,
allocate all or part of the sugar-production quotas to one or more other
undertakings for one or more marketing years.
PointIII
In the event of the merger or transfer of isoglucose-producing undertakings, the
transfer of an isoglucose-producing factory or the closure of one or more isoglu-
cose-producing undertakings or one or more factories belonging to suchan
undertaking, the Member State may allocate the quotas involved for the produc-
tion of isoglucose to one or more other undertakings, whether or not they have a
production quota.
PointIV
The measures taken pursuant to Points II and III may take effect only if:
(a) the interests of each of the parties concerned are taken into consideration
and
(b) the Member State concerned considers that they are likely to improve the
structure of the beet, cane and sugar-manufacturing sectors
and
(c) they concern undertakings established in the same region within the
meaning of Article 11(2) of this Regulation.
PointV
For the purposes of this Annex:
(a) ‘merger of undertakings’ means the consolidation of two or more undertak-
ings into a single undertaking;
(b) ‘transfer of an undertaking’ means the transfer or absorption of the assets of
an undertaking having quotas to one or more undertakings;
(c) ‘transfer of a factory’ means the transfer of ownership of a technical unit,
including all the plant required to manufacture the product concerned, to
one or more undertakings, resulting in the partial or total absorption of the
production of the undertaking making the transfer;
(d) ‘lease of a factory’ means the leasehold contract of a technical unit
including all the plant required for the manufacture of sugar, with a view
to its operation, concluded for a period of at least three consecutive
marketing years, which the parties agree not to terminate before the end of
the third marketing year, with an undertaking which is established in the
same region, within the meaning of Article 11(2) of this Regulation, as the
factory concerned, if, after the lease takes effect, the undertaking which
rents the factory can be considered a solely sugar-producing undertaking
for its entire production.
PointVI
The measures referred to in Points II and III shall take effect when the closure
of the undertaking or factory, the merger or transfer occurs:
(a) between 1 July and 31 January of the following year, for the marketing year
current during that period;
(b) between 1 February and 30 June of the same year, for the marketing year
following that period.
PointVII
Where a Member State applies Article 12(2) of this Regulation, it shall allocate
the adjusted quotas before 1 March with a view to applying them in the
following marketing year.
PointVIII
Where Points II and III are applied, Member States shall inform the Commis-
sion of the adjusted A and B quotas not later than 15 days after expiry of the
periods referred to in Point VI.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 43
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PointIX
For the purposes of transfers of quotas in Italy, Spain and the French overseas
departments under restructuring plans as referred to in the second subparagraph
of Article 12(2) of this Regulation, a group of sugar-producing undertakings
having technical, economic and structural links and jointly and severally liable
for their obligations under Community rules, particularly in respect of beet or
cane growers, may be regarded as a sugar-producing undertaking.2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 44
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ANNEX V
CN Code Description
ex 0403 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir and
other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or
not concentrated or containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added
fruit, nuts or cocoa:
040310 – Yoghurt;04031051 to
04031099Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa
040390 – Other;
04039071 to
04039099– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa
ex 0710 – Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or by
boiling in water), frozen:
07104000 – Sweetcorn
ex 0711 – Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by
sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in
other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state
for immediate consumption:
071190 – Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:
– – Vegetables:
07119030 – Sweetcorn
17025000 Chemically pure fructose
ex 1704 Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not
containing cocoa, except liquorice extract of subheading
No 17049010
1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa
ex 1901 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starchor
malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less
than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally
defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included;
food preparations of goods of heading Nos 0401 to
0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 %
by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis,
not elsewhere specified or included:
19011000 – Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale
19012000 – Mixes and doughs for the preparations of bakers'
wares of heading No 1905
190190 – Other:
– – Other:
19019099 – – – Other
ex 1902 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or
other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as
spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli,
cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:
190220 – Stuffed pasta, (whether or not cooked or otherwise
prepared):
– – Other
19022091 – – – Cooked
19022099 – – – Other
190230 – Other pasta
190240 – Couscous:
19024090 – – Other2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 45
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CN Code Description
1904 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of
cereals or cereal products (for example, cornflakes);
cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the
form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and
meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere
specified or included:
ex 1905 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares,
whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers,
empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical
use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:
19051000 – Crispbread
190520 – Gingerbread and the like
– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
190531 – – Sweet biscuits
190532 – – Waffles and wafers
190540 – Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products
190590 – Other:
– – Other:
19059040 – – – Waffles and wafers witha water content
exceeding 10 %
19059045 – – – Biscuits
19059055 – – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted
19059060 ––––Withadded sweetening matter
19059090 ––––O t he r
ex 2001 Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants,
prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:
200190 – Other:
20019030 – – Sweetcorn ( Zea mays var. saccharata )
20019040 – – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of
plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch
ex 2004 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of
heading No 2006):
200410 – Potatoes:
– – Other:
20041091 –––I nt he form of flour, meal or flakes
200490 – Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:
20049010 – – Sweetcorn ( Zea mays var. saccharata )
ex 2005 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products
of heading No 2006):
200520 – Potatoes:
20052010 – – In the form of flour, meal or flakes
20058000 – Sweetcorn ( Zea mays var. Saccharata )
ex 2101 Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, tea or
maté and preparations witha basis of th ese products or
witha basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted ch icory and
other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences
and concentrates thereof:
– Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee and
preparations witha basis of th ese extracts, essences or
concentrates or witha basis of coffee:
– – Preparations witha basis of th ese extracts, essences
or concentrates or witha basis of coffee:
21011298 – – – Other:2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 46
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– Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté,
and preparations witha basis of th ese extracts, essences
or concentrates, or witha basis of tea or maté:
– – Preparations
21012098 – – – Other
– Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes,
and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:
– – Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:
21013019 – – – Other
– – Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted
chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:
21013099 – – – Other
210500 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not
containing cocoa:
ex 2106 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:
210690 – Other:
21069010 – – Cheese fondues
– – Other:
21069092 ––––– Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose,
glucose or starch or containing, by weight, less than
1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose
or starch
21069098 –––––O t he r
2202 Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters,
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or
flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not
including fruit or vegetable juices of heading No 2009
2205 Vermouthand oth er wine of freshgrapes flavoured with
plants or aromatic substances:
ex 2208 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by
volume of less than 80 % vol.; spirits, liqueurs and other
spirituous beverages:
220820 – Spirits obtained by distilling grape wine or grape
marc:
22085091 to
22085099Geneva
220870 Liqueurs and cordials:
22089041 to
22089078– Other spirits and spirituous beverages:
29054300 Mannitol
290544 D-glucitol (sorbitol)
ex 3302 Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures
(including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or
more of these substances, of a kind used as raw mate-
rials in industry; other preparations based on odoriferous
substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of
beverages:
330210 – Of a kind used in the food or drink industries:
– – Of a kind used in the drink industries:
– – – Preparations containing all flavouring agents char-
acterising a beverage:
– – – – – Other (of an actual alcoholic strengh by
volume not exceeding 0,5 %):
33021029 Other2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 47
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ex Chapter 38 Miscellaneous chemical products:
382460 Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 442001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 48
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ANNEX VI
STATES, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES REFERRED TO IN
ARTICLE35
Barbados
Belize
Côte d'Ivoire
FijiGuyanaMauritius
India
JamaicaKenyaMadagascar
Malawi
UgandaDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Saint Kitts and Nevis — Anguilla
SurinameSwazilandTanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
ZambiaZimbabwe2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 49
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ANNEX VII
CORRELATIONTABLE
Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 This Regulation
Article 1 Article 1
Article 2(1) Article 1(2)(m)
Article 2(2) and (3) DeletedArticle 3 Article 2Article 4 Article 3
Article 5 Article 4
Article 6 Article 5Article 7 Article 6Article 8 Deleted
Article 9 Article 7
Article 10 Article 8Article 11 Article 9Article 12 DeletedArticle 13 Article 22
Article 14 Article 23
Article 15 Article 24Article 16 Article 25Article 17 Article 26
Article 18 Article 27
Article 19 Article 28Article 20 Article 29Article 21 Article 30
1st indent of Article 22(1) Article 31
Article 22(2) and (3) DeletedArticle 23 Article 32Article 24 Article 33
Article 25 Article 34
Article 26(1) Article 10(1)Article 26(2) Article 11(3)Article 26(3) Article 10(2)Article 26(4) Article 11(3)2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 50
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Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 This Regulation
1st subparagraphof Article 26(5) Article 10(3)
2nd subparagraphof Article 26(5) Article 10(4)3rd subparagraphof Article 26(5) Article 10(5)
5thsubparagraphof Article 26(5) Article 10(6)
Article 26(6) Deleted1st indent of Article 27(1) Article 11(1)Article 27(2) Deleted
Article 27(3) Article 11(2)
Article 27(4) DeletedArticle 27(5) DeletedArticle 27(6) Article 11(4)
Article 28 Deleted
Article 29 DeletedArticle 30 Article 12Article 31 Article 13Article 32 Article 14
Article 33 Article 15
Article 34 Article 16Article 35 Article 17Article 36 Article 18
Article 37 Article 19
Article 38 Article 20Article 39 Article 21Article 40 Article 35
Article 41 Article 36
Article 42 Article 37Article 43 Article 38Article 44 Article 39
Article 45 Article 40
Article 46 Article 41Article 47 Article 42(1)Article 48 Article 42(2) and (3)Article 49 Article 432001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 51
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Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 This Regulation
Article 50 Article 44
Article 51 Article 45Article 52 Deleted
Article 53 Article 46
Article 54 DeletedArticle 55 Article 49Article 56 Article 51
Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 This Regulation
Article 1 Annex I, Point IRegulation (EEC) No 431/68 This RegulationArticle 1 Annex I, Point II
Regulation (EEC) No 206/68 This Regulation
Article 1 Annex III, Point IArticle 2 Annex III, Point IIArticle 3 Annex III, Point IIIArticle 4 Annex III, Point IV
Article 5 Annex III, Point V
Article 6(1) Annex III, Point VIArticle 6(2) DeletedArticle 7 Annex III, Point VII
Article 8 Annex III, Point VIII
Article 8a DeletedArticle 8b Annex III, Point IXArticle 9 Annex III, Point X
Article 10 Annex III, Point XI
Article 11 DeletedArticle 12 Annex III, Point XIIArticle 13 Annex III, Point XIII
Regulation (EEC) No 741/75 This Regulation
Article 1 Annex III, Point XIVRegulation (EEC) No 193/82 This RegulationArticle 1 Annex IV, Point IArticle 2 Annex IV, Point II2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 52
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Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 This Regulation
Article 3 Annex IV, Point III
Article 4 Annex IV, Point IVArticle 5 Annex IV, Point V
Article 6 Annex IV, Point VI
Article 7 Annex IV, Point VIIArticle 8 Annex IV, Point VIIIArticle 9 Annex IV, Point IX
Annex I Annex V
Annex II Annex VIAnnex III Annex VII2001R1260 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 003.001 — 53