Commission Regulation (EC) No 1930/2000 of 12 September 2000 revising the maximum amount for the B production levy and amending the minimum price for B beet in the sugar sector for the 2000/01 marketing year
Date: 2000-09-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: intervention price, minimum price, prices policy, sugar, sugar beet, sugar levy

L 231/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

13.9.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1930/2000

of 12 September 2000

revising the maximum amount for the B production levy and amending the minimum price for B
beet in the sugar sector for the 2000/01 marketing year

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), as last amended by Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 1527/2000 (2), and in particular the second and
third indents of Article 33(8) thereof,

Whereas:

Article 33(3) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999
provides that the losses resulting from the obligation to
export surpluses of Community sugar are to be covered
by production levies on the production of A and B
sugar, of A and B isoglucose and of inulin syrup A and
B within certain limits.

Article 33(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provides
that, where the receipts expected from the basic produc-
tion levy and the B levy, which must not exceed 2 % and
30 % respectively of the intervention price for white
sugar for that marketing year, may well fail to cover the
foreseeable total loss for the current marketing year, the
maximum percentage of the B levy is to be adjusted to
the extent necessary to cover the said total
loss but
without exceeding 37,5 %.

The foreseeable receipts, before adjustment, of the levies
to be collected in respect of the 2000/01 marketing year
are below the equivalent of the average loss multiplied
by the exportable surplus. Therefore, in the light of the
data at present available, the maximum amount of the B
levy for 2000/01 should be raised to 37,5 % of the
intervention price for the white sugar concerned.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

the

that

provides

68 % of the basic price for beet. Article 33(5) of the
Regulation
revised maximum
percentage for the B levy should be fixed for the current
marketing year before 15 September of the marketing
year, together with the corresponding adjustment of the
minimum price for B beet
the 2000/01
marketing year by way of Council Regulation (EC) No
1364/2000 (3).

for

set

(5)

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

1.
For the 2000/01 marketing year the maximum amount
referred to in the first indent of Article 33(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 2038/1999 shall be increased to 37,5 % of the intervention
price for white sugar for that marketing year.

2.
For the 2000/01 marketing year, the minimum price for
B beet referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 5(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 shall be 60,5 % of the basic
price for beet for the marketing year.

Article 2

For the 2000/01 marketing year the minimum price for B beet,
revised in accordance with Article 33(5) of Regulation (EC) No
2038/1999, shall be EUR 28,84 per tonne.

Article 3

The second subparagraph of Article 5(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 2038/1999 provides that, subject to Article 33
of that Regulation, the minimum price for B beet is

into force on the third day
This Regulation shall enter
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, 12 September 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 175, 14.7.2000, p. 59.

(3) OJ L 156, 29.6.2000, p. 3.