Commission Regulation (EC) No 1878/2001 of 26 September 2001 laying down transitional measures in connection with the compensation system for storage costs for sugar
Date: 2001-09-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: financial equalisation, storage cost, sugar, transitional period (EU)

27.9.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1878/2001

of 26 September 2001

laying down transitional measures in connection with the compensation system for 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 1260/2001 of 19
June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the
sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 50 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 8 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 of
13 September 1999 on the common organisation of the
markets in the sugar sector (2), as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 906/2001 (3), Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 of 20 June 1977 laying
down general rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar
and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3042/78 (5), and
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1998/78 of 18
August 1978 laying down detailed rules for the offset-
ting of storage costs for sugar (6), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1758/93 (7), provided for
a
compensation system for storage costs for sugar.

Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 authorised
each producer undertaking to carry forward, under
certain conditions, part of its sugar production to the
next marketing year to be treated as part of that year's
production, subject
to an undertaking to store such
quantity or quantities for a compulsory storage period of
12 consecutive months for which storage costs were
reimbursed in accordance with Article 8 of that Regula-
tion.

Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 does not provide for a
compensation system for storage costs from the 2001/
02 marketing year onwards. Despite the abolition of the
compensation system for storage costs from the 2001/
02 year, sugar carried over in accordance with Article
32 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 must be stored for
a 12-month period. To ensure a harmonious transition
to the new arrangements, transitional measures should
be laid down allowing the continued reimbursement of

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 252, 25.9.1999, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 127, 9.5.2001, p. 28.
(4) OJ L 156, 25.6.1977, p. 4.
(5) OJ L 361, 23.12.1978, p. 8.
(6) OJ L 231, 23.8.1978, p. 5.
(7) OJ L 161, 2.7.1993, p. 58.

storage costs after 30 June 2001 for sugar carried over
from the 2000/01 marketing year to the 2001/02
marketing year, until the end of the compulsory storage
period in question.

To ensure that the sugar sector is self-financing, provi-
sion should be made for the reimbursements granted
after 30 June 2001 under this Regulation to be taken
into account in the balance remaining form the applica-
tion of
the compensation system for storage costs
referred to in the first paragraph of Article 48 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1260/2001.

the fact

the termination of
costs
storage

In view of
that
the
sugar
compensation system for
provided for in the first paragraph of Article 48 of
Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 has resulted in a large,
positive balance sufficient to cover the reimbursement of
storage costs under this Regulation, there is no need to
fix a storage levy.

for

These measures should be applied with effect from 1
July 2001 so as not to disrupt the proper working of the
common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector.

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

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999, Regulation
(EEC) No 1358/77 and Regulation (EEC) No 1998/78 shall
continue to apply to sugar carried over by producer undertak-
ings in the 2000/01 marketing year to the 2001/02 marketing
year pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999.

The reimbursement for this sugar shall be EUR 0,33 per

2.
100 kilograms of white sugar per month.

3.
The reimbursement shall be paid for each month that the
sugar remains in storage, until the end of the consecutive
12-month compulsory storage period referred to in Article
32(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999.

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Article 2

Article 3

The reimbursements granted under this Regulation shall be
taken into account in establishing the balance remaining from
the application of the compensation system for storage costs
referred to in the first paragraph of Article 48 of Regulation
(EC) No 1260/2001.

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

It shall apply from 1 July 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 September 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission