Commission Regulation (EC) No 1509/2001 of 24 July 2001 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93 establishing special detailed rules for applying the agricultural conversion rate in the sugar sector
Date: 2001-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: minimum price, representative rate, sugar, sugar beet, sugar levy

25.7.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1509/2001

of 24 July 2001

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,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19
June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the
sugar sector (1), and in particular Articles 6(3), 15(8) and 16(5)
thereof,

(4)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1642/
the minimum sugarbeet prices
1999 (3), states that
referred to in Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No
2038/1999 (4), as last amended by Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 906/2001 (5), and the production levy and
additional levy referred to, respectively, in Articles 33
and 34 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.

During the period from 1 July 2000 to 31 December
2000 the applicable rate for Greece was that calculated
using the method laid down in Article 1 of Regulation
(EEC) No 1713/93 while from 1 January 2001, by virtue
of Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December
1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the
the only conversion rate applicable is that
euro (6),
between the euro and the currencies of those Member
States adopting the euro as fixed by Council Regulation
(EC) No 2866/98 (7), as amended by Regulation No
1478/2000 (8). Application of the euro conversion rate
throughout the 2000/01 marketing year would therefore
result in the retroactive application of a different rate
from that which would be fixed if the method estab-
lished by Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93 were applied to
Greece, and would fail to recognise the legitimate expec-
calculation
tations operators have
method for conversion rates applicable to certain
payments in the sugar sector.

concerning the

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 159, 1.7.1993, p. 94.
(3) OJ L 195, 28.7.1999, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 127, 9.5.2001, p. 28.
(6) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 359, 31.12.1998, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 167, 7.7.2000, p. 1.

Two conversion rates should therefore be applied to the
2000/01 marketing year in the case of Greece, one for
the period 1 July to 31 December 2000 equivalent to
the average, pro rata temporis, of
the agrimonetary
conversion rates and the euro conversion rate during
that marketing year, and, for the period 1 January to 30
June 2001, the euro exchange rate fixed by Regulation
(EC) No 2866/98.

To permit application to those payments of the rate
resulting from the average pro rata temporis of the above
conversion rates,
the
special operative
amounts due under the minimum sugarbeet prices and
the production and additional
levies should also be
fixed.

events

for

(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

The following Article 1b is inserted in Regulation (EEC) No
1713/93:

‘Article 1b

For the 2000/01 marketing year and for Greece,

1. the following rates are applicable for the conversion of
the minimum sugarbeet prices referred to in Article 5 of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 (*) and the
production levies and additional levy referred to, respec-
in Articles 33 and 34 of that Regulation:
tively,

— for the period 1 July to 31 December 2000 the
EUR 1 =

conversion rate:

agricultural

special
GRD 339,771,

— for the period 1 January to 30 June 2001 the
conversion rate fixed by Council Regulation (EC) No
2866/98 (**);

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
sugarbeet prices referred to in Article 5 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2038/1999:
the
marketing year,

the first day of

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— for the amounts due as payment of the production levy and the additional levy referred to,
in Articles 33 and 34 of that Regulation: the first day of the marketing year.

respectively,

(*) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(**) OJ L 359, 31.12.1998, p. 1.’

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 sugarbeet prices and production and additional levies
during the 2000/01 marketing year.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission