Commission Regulation (EC) No 1642/1999 of 27 July 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93 establishing special detailed rules for applying the agricultural conversion rate in the sugar sector
Date: 1999-07-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: minimum price, representative rate, sugar, sugar beet, sugar levy

28. 7. 1999

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1642/1999

of 27 July 1999

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93 establishing special detailed rules for applying the agricul-
tural conversion rate in the sugar sector

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 in the
sugar sector (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1148/98 (2), and in particular Article 6(3), Article
28(8) and Article 28a(5) thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
1713/93 of 30 June 1993 establishing special detailed
rules for applying the agricultural conversion rate in the
sugar sector (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
624/1999 (4), states that the minimum sugar beet prices
referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
and the production levy and additional levy referred to,
respectively, in Articles 28 and 28a of that Regulation
are to be converted into national currency using a
specific agricultural conversion rate equal to the average,
calculated pro rata temporis, of the agricultural conversion
rates applicable during the marketing year in question;

(2) Whereas during the period from 1 July to 31 December
1998 the applicable rate was that calculated using the
method laid down in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
1713/93, while from 1 January 1999, by virtue of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December
1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the
euro (5),
the only conversion rate applicable is that
between the euro and the currencies of those Member
States adopting the euro as fixed by Council Regulation
(EC) No 2866/98 (6); whereas, therefore, application of
the euro conversion rate throughout the 1998/1999
marketing year would result in the retroactive applica-
tion of a different rate from that which would be fixed if
the method established by Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93
were applied to the participating Member States, and
would fail to recognise the legitimate expectations oper-
ators have concerning the calculation method for
conversion rates applicable to certain payments in the
sugar sector;

(3) Whereas,

therefore,

two conversion rates should be
applied to the 1998/1999 marketing year, one for the
period 1 July to 31 December 1998 equivalent to the
average, pro rata temporis, of the agrimonetary conver-
sion rates and the euro conversion rate during that

(1) OJ L 177, 1.7.1981, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 159, 3.6.1998, p. 38.
(3) OJ L 159, 1.7.1993, p. 94.
(4) OJ L 78, 24.3.1999, p. 9.
(5) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 359, 31.12.1998, p. 1.

marketing year, and, for the period 1 January to 30 June
1999, the euro exchange rate fixed by Regulation (EC)
No 2866/98;

(4) Whereas, to permit application to those payments of the
rate resulting from the average pro rata temporis of the
above conversion rates, special operative events for the
amounts due under the minimum sugar beet prices and
the production and additional
levies should also be
fixed;

(5) 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

Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93 is amended as follows:

1. the following Article 1a is added:

‘Article 1a

For the 1998/1999 marketing year and for participating
Member States within the meaning of Article 1 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2799/98,

1. the following rates are applicable for the conversion of
the minimum sugar beet prices referred to in Article 5 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and the production levies
and additional levy referred to, respectively, in Articles
28 and 28a of that Regulation:

— the special agricultural conversion rate indicated in
Annex II for the period 1 July to 31 December 1998,

— the conversion rate fixed by Regulation (EC) No
2866/98 for the period 1 January to 30 June 1999;

2. the following operative events shall be established for the

application of the rates referred to in point 1:

— for the amounts due as payment of the minimum
sugar beet prices referred to in Article 5 of Regula-
tion (EEC) No 1785/81: the first day of the marketing
year,

— for the amounts due as payment of the production
levy and the additional levy referred to, respectively,
in Articles 28 and 28a of that Regulation: the first
day of the marketing year.'

2. the Annex to this Regulation is added as Annex II.

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Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

It shall apply to the amounts due as minimum sugar beet and production and additional levies during the
1998/1999 marketing year.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

Special agrimonetary conversion rate to be applied in the Member States adopting the euro to the amounts due as
minimum sugar beet prices and production and additional levies in the sugar sector during the period 1 July to 31
December 1998

1 EUR =

40,6384

Belgian or Luxembourg francs

1,96999

German marks

167,369

Spanish pesetas

6,62416

French francs

0,792079

Irish pounds

1955,25

Italian lire

2,21995

Dutch guilders

13,8598

Austrian schillings

201,844

Portuguese escudos

5,98726

Finnish markkaa'