Commission Regulation (EC) No 508/2002 of 21 March 2002 on fixing advance payments in respect of the production levies in the sugar sector for the 2001/02 marketing year
Date: 2002-03-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: production quota, sugar, sugar levy, sugar product

L 79/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

22.3.2002

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 508/2002

of 21 March 2002

on fixing advance payments in respect of the production levies in the sugar sector for the 2001/02
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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 15(8) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 314/2002
of 20 February 2002 laying down detailed rules for the
application of the quota system in the sugar sector (2),
provides for the fixing before 1 April and the collection
before the following 1 June, of the unit amounts to be
paid by sugar producers, isoglucose producers and inulin
syrup producers as advance payments of the production
levies for the current marketing year. The estimate of the
basic production levy and of the B levy, referred to in
Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 314/2002, gives an
amount which is more than 60 % of the maximum
amounts indicated in Article 15(3), (4) and (5) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1260/2001. In accordance with Article 7
of Regulation (EC) No 314/2002, the unit amounts for
sugar and inulin syrup should therefore be fixed at 50 %
of the maximum amounts concerned and for isoglucose
the unit amount of the advance payment should there-
fore be fixed at 40 % of the unit amount of the basic
production levy estimated for sugar.

Article 1

The unit amounts referred to in Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation
(EC) No 314/2002 in respect of the 2001/02 marketing year
are hereby fixed as follows:

(a) the advance payment of the basic production levy for A
sugar and B sugar shall be EUR 0,632 per 100 kilograms
of white sugar;

(b) the advance payment of the B levy for B sugar shall be

EUR 11,848 per 100 kilograms of white sugar;

(c) the advance payment of the basic production levy for A
isoglucose and B isoglucose shall be EUR 0,506 per 100
kilograms of dry matter;

(d) the advance payment of the basic production levy for A
inulin syrup and B inulin syrup shall be EUR 0,632 per
100 kilograms of dry matter equivalent sugar/isoglucose;

(e) the advance payment of the B levy for B inulin syrup shall
be EUR 11,848 per 100 kilograms of dry matter equiva-
lent sugar/isoglucose.

Article 2

(2)

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

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
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, 21 March 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 50, 21.2.2002, p. 40.