1999/552/EC: Commission Decision of 5 August 1999 providing for the release of the minimum stocks held by the sugar undertaking established in Greece in order to ensure supplies to its regions during the period 1 August to 30 September 1999 (notified under document number C(1999) 2585) (Only the Greek text is authentic)
Date: 1999-08-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greece, minimum stock, sugar, sugar industry, supply

L 209/50

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

7. 8. 1999

COMMISSION DECISION

of 5 August 1999

providing for the release of the minimum stocks held by the sugar undertaking established in
Greece in order to ensure supplies to its regions during the period 1 August to 30 September 1999

(notified under document number C(1999) 2585)

(Only the Greek text is authentic)

(1999/552/EC)

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 Regulation (EC) No 1148/
98 (2), and in particular Article 12(3) thereof,

(1) Whereas,

in order to ensure normal supplies to the
Community as a whole or to one of its areas, there is a
standing obligation in the European territorites of the
Community for minimum stocks to be maintained by
each sugar-producing undertaking or sugar refinery;

(2) Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
1789/81 of 30 June 1981 laying down general rules
concerning the system of minimum stocks in the sugar
sector (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 725/
97 (4), fixes the level of minimum stocks to be held, as
the case may be, at 5 % of actual production within the
A quota or 5 % of the quantity of sugar refined during
the 12 months preceding the month in question;

(3) Whereas, under Article 12(1) of Regulation (EEC) No
1785/81,
this percentage may be reduced; whereas
Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1789/81 lays down
that, where the supplies of sugar
required by the
Community can no longer be ensured under normal
conditions provision may be made for the undertaking
concerned to be released, in whole or in part, from the
obligation to stock the sugar in question; whereas this
percentage has already been brought down to 3 % by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1436/96 (5);

(4) Whereas the sugarbeet production regions of Greece
have been affected by adverse weather conditions which
have delayed the harvest
in the new 1999/2000
marketing year; whereas a temporary deficit therefore
exists in those regions for supplies during the carryover
period of August and September 1999;

(5) Whereas in order to ensure supplies under normal
conditions and in view of the urgency, the minimum
stocks maintained by the sugar undertaking established
in Greece should be released by reducing to zero the
percentage applicable to that undertaking for the period
pending the new production for
the 1999/2000
marketing year;

(6) Whereas the Management Committee for Sugar has not
set by its

delivered an opinion within the limit
Chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.
By derogation from Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1436/96, for the period 1 August to 30 September 1999 the
percentages referred to in Article 1 of that Regulation are
hereby reduced to 0 % for the sugar undertaking established in
Greece.

2.
From 1 October 1999, the percentages referred to in
points (a) and (b) of Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1789/81
are hereby reduced to 3 % for the sugar undertaking established
in Greece.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.

Done at Brussels, 5 August 1999.

For the Commission

Monika WULF-MATHIES

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 177, 1.7.1981, p. 39.
(4) OJ L 108, 25.4.1997, p. 13.
(5) OJ L 184, 24.7.1996, p. 27.