Commission Regulation (EC) No 2223/2000 of 6 October 2000 amending Regulation (EEC) No 65/82 laying down detailed rules for carrying forward sugar to the following marketing year
Date: 2000-10-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, marketing year, production quota, quantitative restriction, sugar

7.10.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 253/15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2223/2000

of 6 October 2000

amending Regulation (EEC) No 65/82 laying down detailed rules for carrying forward sugar to the
following marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

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 amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1527/2000 (2), and in particular Article 32(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The second subparagraph of Article 32(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 2038/1999 allows a sugar-producing under-
taking to carry forward to the following marketing year,
for treatment as part of that year's production, all or
part of its production of A and B sugar which has
become C sugar following the application of the reduc-
tion mechanism laid down in Article 26(5) of that Regu-
lation.

The detailed rules of application laid down in Commis-
sion Regulation (EEC) No 65/82 (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 260/96 (4), govern the carry-forward
referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 32(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999. While the rules cover
the conditions applying to the new option of carrying
forward C sugar, some clarifications are nonetheless
needed to take account of
this carry-
forward is not subject to the quantity restriction to in
Article 32(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999. Regula-
tion (EEC) No 65/82 must be amended accordingly.

the fact

that

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 65/82 is amended as follows:

1. The second subparagraph of Article 2(1) is replaced by the

following text:

‘In the case of the carry-forward referred to in the first
subparagraph of Article 32(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/
1999, this decision by the undertaking may apply only up
to a maximum quantity not exceeding 20 % of its A quota
applicable in the marketing year during which the sugar in
question was produced.’

2. Article 4(1)(b) is replaced by the following text:

‘(b) the quantity, expressed as white sugar, of B or C sugar
to be carried forward, allocated as appropriate between:

— the carry-forward under the first subparagraph of
Article 32(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999,
— the carry-forward under the second subparagraph of
Article 32(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999.’

Article 2

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, 6 October 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 9, 14.1.1982, p. 14.
(4) OJ L 34, 13.2.1996, p. 16.