Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch
Date: 2001-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, agricultural quota, marketing year, minimum price, potato, starch

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Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 establishing a quota
system in relation to the production of potato starch

(2002/C 51 E/26)

COM(2001) 677 final (cid:151) 2001/0273(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 16 November 2001)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Articles 36 and 37 thereof,

Article 1

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Whereas:

(1) Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 (1) fixes the
potato starch quotas for producer Member States for the
2000/01 and 2001/02 marketing years.

(2) Under Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 the
quota must be allocated between producer Member States
at three-yearly intervals on the basis of the report from the
Commission to the Council. The quotas currently fixed for
the 2001/02 marketing year should therefore be extended
for three years.

(3) The Commission reserves the right to make other appro-
priate proposals for the potato starch quota system in the
light of the report from the Court of Auditors on the starch
sector and the ongoing evaluation study.

(4) Producer Member States should allocate their quotas for a
three years between all potato starch manu-
the quotas for the 2001/02

period of
facturers on the basis of
marketing year.

(5) Quantities used in excess of the sub-quotas available in the
2001/02 marketing year must be deducted in the 2002/03
marketing year in accordance with Article 6(2) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1868/94.

(6) The amendment of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 (2)
by Regulation (EC) No 1253/1999 (3) involved changes to
terminology in Article 8. This Regulation
the payment
should therefore be brought
termi-
nology,

into line with that

(1) OJ L 197, 30.7.1994, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1252/1999 (OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 15).

(2) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1666/2000 (OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 18.

Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 2

1.
The following potato starch producer Member States
are hereby allocated the following quotas for the 2002/03,
2003/04 and 2004/05 marketing years:

Denmark: 168 215 tonnes

Germany: 656 298 tonnes

Spain: 1 943 tonnes

France: 265 354 tonnes

Netherlands: 507 403 tonnes

Austria: 47 691 tonnes

Finland: 53 178 tonnes

Sweden: 62 066 tonnes

Total: 1 762 148 tonnes

Each producer Member State shall allocate the quota
2.
referred to in paragraph 1 between potato starch manu-
facturers for use in the 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05
marketing years in proportion to the sub-quotas available
to each manufacturer for the 2001/02 marketing year before
application of a possible correction under Article 6(2).

The sub-quotas available for each manufacturer for the
2002/03 marketing year shall be adjusted to take account
of any amount used in excess of quota during the 2001/02
marketing year in accordance with Article 6(2).(cid:146)

2. Article 3 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 3

1.
On or before 30 September 2004, and thereafter at
three-yearly intervals, the Commission shall present to the
Council a report on the allocation of quotas within the
Community, accompanied by appropriate proposals. This
report
in the
payments to potato producers and of developments on
the potato starch and cereal starch markets.

take account of possible changes

shall

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On or before 31 December 2004, and thereafter at
2.
three-yearly intervals, the Council, acting on the basis of
Article 37 of the Treaty, shall allocate the quota between
Member States on the basis of the report referred to in
paragraph 1, for use in the following three marketing years.

3.
On or before 31 January 2005, and thereafter at three-
yearly intervals, Member States shall notify those concerned
of the details of quota allocations for the following three
marketing years.(cid:146)

3. Article 7 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 7

potatoes which have benefited from the payment referred
to in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 nor benefit
from the refund referred to in Article 7 of that Regulation.(cid:146)

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2002.

The provisions of this Regulation shall not cover production
of potato starch by undertakings which neither purchase

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