Commission Regulation (EC) No 1434/2000 of 30 June 2000 fixing for the 2000/01 marketing year the levy in connection with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar
Date: 2000-06-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: storage, storage cost, sugar, sugar levy

1.7.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 161/59

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1434/2000

of 30 June 2000

fixing for the 2000/01 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 (EC) No 2038/1999 of 13
September 1999 on the common organisation of the markets
in the sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 8(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides
that the storage costs for sugar and syrups shall be
reimbursed at a flat rate by the Member States.

Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 (2), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3042/78 (3),
provides that the 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.
The total estimated reimbursement is to be increased or
decreased, as the case may be, by the amounts carried
forward from previous marketing years.

Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides
that the monthly reimbursement shall be fixed by the
Council simultaneously with the derived intervention
laid down for 2000/01
prices. The reimbursement
should be used to calculate the levy.

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. For the
2000/01 marketing year, the quantities of Community
sugar in store each month may be estimated on the basis
of estimated stocks at the beginning of the marketing

year, estimated monthly production and the quantities
likely to be marketed for domestic consumption or
exported during the same month. Total average monthly
stocks during the 2000/01 marketing year can be esti-
mated at approximately 86 million tonnes of sugar
expressed as white sugar. The total reimbursement for
Community sugar can thus be estimated at approxi-
mately EUR 283 million for the 2000/01 marketing
year. The balance of previous marketing years can be
estimated at a positive amount of EUR 3 million. The
detailed rules for the application of the system for offset-
ting storage costs for sugar provide that the levy is to be
fixed per 100 kilograms of white sugar. The quantity of
Community sugar which will be marketed during the
2000/01 marketing year for domestic consumption or
for export may be estimated at approximately 14
million tonnes of sugar expressed as white sugar. The
levy
should therefore be
sugar
EUR 2,00 per 100 kilograms of white sugar.

for Community

(5)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2000/01 marketing year, the levy referred to in the
second subparagraph of Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No
2038/1999 shall be EUR 2,00 per 100 kilograms of white
sugar.

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 2000.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 156, 25.6.1977, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 361, 23.12.1978, p. 8.