Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/1999 of 30 March 1999 fixing advance payments in respect of the production levies in the sugar sector for the 1998/99 marketing year
Date: 1999-03-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: isoglucose, marketing, production aid, sugar, sugar levy, syrup

31. 3. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 87/7

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 690/1999

of 30 March 1999

fixing advance payments in respect of the production levies in the sugar sector
for the 1998/99 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organisation of the
last amended by
markets
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in
particular Article 28(8) thereof,

in the sugar

sector (1), as

Whereas Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
1443/82 of 8 June 1982 laying down detailed rules for the
application of the quota system in the sugar sector (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 392/94 (4), provides
for the fixing before 1 April and the collection before the
following 1 June, of the unit amounts to be paid by sugar
producers, isoglucose producers and inulin syrup produ-
cers as advance payments of the production levies for the
current marketing year; whereas the estimate of the basic
production levy and of the B levy, referred to in Article 6
of Regulation (EEC) No 1443/82, gives an amount which
is more than 60 % of the maximum amounts indicated in
Article 28(3), (4) and (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81;
whereas, in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EEC)
No 1443/82, the unit amounts for sugar and inulin syrup
the maximum
should therefore be fixed at 50 % of
amounts concerned and for isoglucose the unit amount of
the advance payment should therefore be fixed at 40 % of
the unit amount of the basic production levy estimated
for sugar;

The unit amounts referred to in Article 5(1)(b) of Regula-
the 1998/99
tion (EEC) No 1443/82 in respect of
marketing year are hereby fixed as follows:

(a) the advance payment of the basic production levy for
A sugar and B sugar shall be EUR 0,632 per 100
kilograms of white sugar;

(b) the advance payment of the B levy for B sugar shall be
EUR 11,848 per 100 kilograms of white sugar;

(c) the advance payment of the basic production levy for
A isoglucose and B isoglucose shall be EUR 0,506 per
100 kilograms of dry matter;

(d) the advance payment of the basic production levy for
A inulin syrup and B inulin syrup shall be EUR 0,632
per 100 kilograms of dry matter equivalent sugar/
isoglucose;

(e) the advance payment of the B levy for B inulin syrup
shall be EUR 11,848 per 100 kilograms of dry matter
equivalent sugar/isoglucose.

Article 2

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

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
following 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 Brussels, 30 March 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3. 6. 1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 158, 9. 6. 1982, p. 17.
(4) OJ L 53, 24. 2. 1994, p. 7.