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COMMISSION OF THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 
COM(83) 312 final 
Brussels,  30 May 1983 
Proposal  for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION  (EEC) 
revising  the maximum  amount for the  production levy  on 
B sugar and the minimum  price for B beet for the 
1983/84  marketing year 
(submitted  to the  Council by the Commission) 
COM(83) 312 final 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 
The essential characteristic  of the  production  quota  regime in the  sugar sector 
is that it provides that  sugar  producers,  beet producers  and to  some extent 
isoglucose  producers should  bear  full financial  responsibility  for losses due 
to the cost of disposing  of Community  sugar  surpluses  not required  for consumption 
within the Community. 
This financial  responsibility  is provided  for by means of four instruments,  the 
basic production levy  on A and B  sugar and isoglucose  of up to  2 % of the  inter­
vention price  for white sugar, and,  when the first levy is insufficient,  a B levy 
on B sugar and B isoglucose  of up to  30% of the  intervention price. 
If these two instruments  are not  sufffcient,  the quantity remaining  is automatically 
carried  forward  and the  upper limit for the B levy in respect of the  following 
marketing year  is raised by up to  7.5%. 
According  to the  information available  at present the Commission  is obliged,  in 
accordance  with the  first subparagraph  of Article  28(5) of Regulation  (EEC) 
No. 1785/81,  to propose  to the  Council that  it revise the maximum  limit for the 
B levy and in  view of this information  it considers  it necessary  to raise this 
limit from 30 % to 37.5 % for the 1983/84  marketing year. 
According  to this information  the sum of the  basic production levies  and the 
B levy will be 516 million  ECU for the 1982/83  marketing year  whereas  the 
overall  loss for the same marketing year, increased  by the  negative balance  in 
1981/82,  will be 738 million  ECU. 
This means  that the minimum  price for B beet will be equal to 60,5  X of the  basic 
price for beet in 1983/84  instead  of 68 X. 

Proposal  for a 
COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) 
revising  the maximum  amount for the  production  levy on B sugar 
and the minimum  price for B  beet for the  1983/84  marketing year 
THE COUNCIL  OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard  to the  Treaty  establishing  the European Economic Community, 
Having regard  to Council Regulation  (EEC) No  1785/81  of 30 June 1981 on the 
common organization  of the  markets  in the  ...ugar sector  (1), as last amended 
by Regulation  (EEC) No  606/82 (2),  and in  particular  Articles  5 (5)  and 
28 (5) thereof. 
Having regard  to the  proposal from  the Commission, 
Whereas  Article  28 (3)  and (4) of Regulation  (EEC) No  1785/81  provides  that the 
losses resulting  from the obligation  to export surpluses  of Community  sugar are 
to be covered  by production  levies  on the A and B  sugar  and the A and B iso-
glucose  produced,  within  certain  limits; 
Whereas,  when the total sum of the  levies  provided  for does not  fully cover 
the overall  loss due to  these  obligations,  paragraph  5 of that Article  requires 
that an adjustment  be made in the  maximum  amount  fixed for the B  levy for the 
marketing year immediately  following  the marketing year  in which the balance  of 
uncovered  losses  was recorded; 
Whereas the sum of the  levies  to be  raised  for the  1982/83  marketing year  is 
less than the sum  resulting  from the multiplication  of the  exportable surplus 
by the average  loss; whereas it is  therefore necessary, according  to the 
information  available,  to increase,  for the  1983/84  marketing year,  the maximum 
amount of the B  levy to 37.5 %  and also to adjust accordingly  the minimum  price 
for B beet fixed for that marketing year  by Council Regulation  (EEC) No ,../83  (3); 
(1) 0J No L  177, 1.7.1981,  p.4 
(2) 0J No L  74, 18.3.1982,  p.1 
(3) 0J No L 1983, p.1 

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HAS ADOPTED  THIS REGULATION: 
Article  1 
1. For the 1983/84  marketing year,  the maximum  amount  referred  to in 
the first indent  of the  second  subparagraph  of Article  28(4) of 
Regulation  (EEC) No 1785/81  shall be increased  to 37,5% of the  inter­
vention price  for white sugar. 
2. For the 1983/84  marketing year,  the minimum  price for B beet referred 
to in the  second  subparagraph  of Article  5 (2) of  Regulation  (EEC) 
No 1785/81  shall be equal to 60,5% of the  basic price  for beet. 
Article 2 
Article 3(2) of  Regulation  (EEC) No /83  is hereby  replaced  by the 
following: 
" 2. The minimum  price for B beet shall be fixed at 24,74 ECU per  tonne 
Article 3 
This Regulation  shall enter  into force on the day of  its publication  in 
the Official  Journal  of the  European  Communities. 
This Regulation  shall be binding  in its entirety  and directly  applicable 
in all Member  States. 
Done at For the  Council 

FINANCIAL  STATEMENT 
Date : 19.4.19C3 
1. BUDGET  HEADING  : Chap.11  Art. 110 and 112 APPROPRIATIONS  : 1*83:  542,6 Mio JCU  
1v84: 
2. TITLE Revision  of the maximum  amount  of the production  Levy on  r-ugar 
for 1983/84 
3. LEGAL  BASIS 
Reg. (EEC) No  1785/01  Art. 28 (5) 
AIMS  OF  PROJECT  : 
To cover  a negative balance  in accordance  with the principl  > of the  full 
financial  responsibility  of producers  for sales of .urplusei  of Community  sugar 
5. FINANCIAL  IMPLICATIONS 
5.0-~£J<PENOITURE 
-CFtASfiED  TO  THS^-fTf  BUDGET 
( REFUNÎT/INTER VENTION S) 
- NATipwrfL  ADMINIÎTSAXION 
-XflTfHER 
5.1 RECEIPTS 
- OWN RESOURCES OF THE EC 
iLCVICS.'CUSTOMS  DUTICS) 
nATioNAi production  levies 
- sugar;  ~ isoglucose PERIOD  OF 12  MONTHS 
77 Mio ECU CURREÎJ.  FINANCIAL  YEAR 
( 83 ?  FOLLOWING  FINANCIAL  YEAR 
_____£ ) 84 
38 Mio ECU 
.1935. 
5.0.1  ESTIMATED  EXPENDITURE 
5.1.1 ESTIMATED  RECEIPTS 39 Mio ECU 
5.2 METHOD  OF  CALCULATION 
Present levy  B = 
Revised levy  B = 
Difference  = 16.04 ECU/100 kg 
20.05 ECU/100 kg 
4,01 ECU/100 kg 
40,1 ECU/t x 1,920,000  (estimated  83/84  production  B ) = 
77 Mio ECU 
6i0 CAN THE PRUEtT BE FINANCED  FPOM-n fhTrnrn  TN THF RFI  TVANT  CHAPTER  OF THE  CURRENT  BUDG ET ? 
YES/NO 
6.1 CAN THC PROJCCT DC riHANCCD  OY THANSFEn  BETWCCN CHAPTERS OF TMC CURRENT BUDGET  ? 
*YES/NO* 
Ö.2 Uli L A MjPI'i FMFNTARY  BUDGET  BE NECESSARY  ? 
:/NO 
6.3 WILL FUIURE  BUDGET  APPROPRIATIONS  BE NECESSARY  ? 
rES/« 
OBSERVATIONS  : 
This increase  has been already taken  into account  in the  estimations  for 
the 1984 preliminary draft  budget