Commission Regulation (EC) No 1398/1999 of 28 June 1999 fixing for the 1999/2000 marketing year the levy in connection with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar
Date: 1999-06-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: marketing, storage cost, sugar levy, white sugar

29. 6. 1999

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1398/1999

of 28 June 1999

fixing for the 1999/2000 marketing year the levy in connection with the offsetting
of storage costs for sugar

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 organisation of the
markets
last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in
particular Article 8(5) thereof,

in the sugar

sector (1), as

(1) Whereas Article

8(1)

(EEC)
No 1785/81 provides that
the storage costs for
sugar and syrups shall be reimbursed at a flat rate
by the Member States;

of Regulation

that

3042/78 (4), provides

(2) Whereas Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
1358/77 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No
for
Community sugar shall be calculated by dividing
the total estimated reimbursed by the estimated
quantity of sugar which will be marketed during
the sugar marketing year in question; whereas the
total estimated reimbursed is to be increased or
decreased, as the case may be, by the amounts
carried forward from previous marketing years;

levy

the

(3) Whereas Article

8(4)

of Regulation

(EEC)
No 1785/81 provides that the monthly reimburse-
ment shall be fixed by the Council simultaneously
with the derived intervention prices; whereas the
reimbursement laid down for 1999/2000 should be
used to calculate the levy;

(4) 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 in store at the beginning and end of the
month in question; whereas,
for the 1999/2000
marketing year, the quantities of Community sugar
in store each month may be estimated on the basis

(1) OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 156, 25.6.1977, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 361, 23.12.1978, p. 8.

the beginning of

of estimated stocks at
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
1999/2000 marketing year can be estimated at
approximately 95 million tonnes of sugar expressed
as white sugar; whereas the total reimbursement for
Community sugar can thus be estimated at approx-
imately EUR 314 million for
the 1999/2000
marketing year; whereas the balance of previous
marketing years can be estimated at a positive
amount of EUR 27 million; whereas the detailed
rules for the application of the system for 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 1999/2000 marketing year for
domestic consumption or for export may be esti-
mated at approximately 14 million tonnes of sugar
expressed as white sugar; whereas the levy for
Community sugar should therefore be EUR 2,00
per 100 kilograms of white sugar;

(5) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Sugar,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 1999/2000 marketing year, the levy referred to in
the second subparagraph of Article 8(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1785/81 shall be EUR 2,00 per 100 kilograms
of white sugar.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission