Commission Regulation (EC) No 1389/98 of 30 June 1998 fixing for the 1998/1999 marketing year the amount of the levy in connection with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar
Date: 1998-06-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: marketing, storage cost, sugar levy, white sugar

1. 7. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 187/27

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1389/98

of 30 June 1998

fixing for the 1998/1999 marketing year the amount of the levy in connection
with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar

the

the

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amount of

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1599/96 (2), and in particular Article 8 (5)
thereof,
Whereas Article 8 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
provides that the storage costs for sugar and syrups shall
be reimbursed at a flat rate by the Member States;
Whereas Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1358/
77 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3042/
78 (4), provides
levy for
Community sugar shall be calculated by dividing the total
estimated reimbursement by the estimated quantity of
sugar which will be marketed during the sugar marketing
year in question; whereas the total estimated reimburse-
ment is to be increased or decreased, as the case may be,
by the amounts carried forward from previous marketing
years;
Whereas Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
provides that the monthly reimbursement amount shall
be fixed by the Council simultaneously with the derived
intervention prices; whereas that amount of reimburse-
ment envisaged for 1998/1999 should be used for the
purpose of calculating the amounts of the levy;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
1358/77, the quantity in store to be taken into account for
the reimbursement of any one month’s storage costs is
equal to the arithmetic mean of the quantities held in
store in the beginning and at the end of the month in
question; whereas, for the 1998/1999 marketing year, the
quantities of Community sugar in store each month may
the
be estimated by reference to estimated stocks at

beginning of
the marketing year, estimated monthly
production and the quantities likely to be marketed for
domestic consumption or exported during the same
month; whereas total average monthly stocks during the
1998/1999 marketing year can be estimated at approxi-
mately 97 million tonnes of sugar expressed as white
sugar; whereas the total reimbursement for Community
sugar can thus be estimated at approximately ECU 370
million for the 1998/1999 marketing year; whereas the
balance of previous sugar marketing years can be es-
timated at a positive amount of ECU 84 million; whereas
the detailed rules for the application of the system of
offsetting storage costs for sugar provide that the levy is to
be fixed per 100 kilograms of white sugar; whereas the
quantity of Community sugar which will be marketed
during the 1998/1999 marketing year for home consump-
tion or for export may be estimated at approximately 14
million tonnes of sugar expressed as white sugar; whereas
the amount of the levy for Community sugar should
therefore be ECU 2,00 per 100 kilograms of white sugar;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sugar,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 1998/1999 marketing year, the amount of the levy
referred to under the second subparagraph of Article 8 (2)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is hereby fixed at ECU
2,00 per 100 kilograms of white sugar.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1998.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 43.
(3) OJ L 156, 25. 6. 1977, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 361, 23. 12. 1978, p. 8.