Commission Regulation (EC) No 1440/2002 of 7 August 2002 revising the maximum amount for the B production levy and amending the minimum price for B beet in the sugar sector for the 2002/03 marketing year
Date: 2002-08-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: intervention price, marketing, minimum price, sugar beet, sugar levy, white sugar

8.8.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 212/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1440/2002

of 7 August 2002

revising the maximum amount for the B production levy and amending the minimum price for B
beet in the sugar sector for the 2002/03 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
680/2002 (2), and in particular the second and third indents of
Article 15(8) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 15(3) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
provide that the losses resulting from the obligation to
export surpluses of Community sugar are to be covered
by production levies on the production of A and B sugar,
of A and B isoglucose and of inulin syrup A and B
within certain limits.

Article 15(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides
that, where the receipts expected from the basic produc-
tion levy and the B levy, which must not exceed 2 % and
30 % respectively of the intervention price for white
sugar for that marketing year, may well fail to cover the
foreseeable total loss for the current marketing year, the
maximum percentage of the B levy is to be adjusted to
loss but
the extent necessary to cover the said total
without exceeding 37,5 %.

The foreseeable receipts, before adjustment, of the levies
to be collected in respect of the 2002/03 marketing year
are likely to be below the equivalent of the average loss
multiplied by the exportable surplus. Therefore, in the
light of
the maximum
amount of the B levy for 2002/03 should be raised to
37,5 % of the intervention price for the white sugar
concerned.

the data at present available,

Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
provides that, subject to Article 15(5) of that Regulation,
the minimum price for B beet is fixed at EUR 32,42 per
tonne. Article 15(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
provides that the revised maximum percentage for the B
levy should be fixed for the current marketing year
before 15 September of the marketing year, together
with the corresponding adjustment of
the minimum
price for B beet set for the 2002/03 marketing year by
Article 4(1)(b) of that Regulation.

(5)

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

For the 2002/03 marketing year, the maximum amount of the
B levy referred to in the first indent of Article 15(4) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1260/2001 shall be increased to 37,5 % of the
intervention price for white sugar.

Article 2

For the 2002/03 marketing year, the minimum price for B beet
referred to in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
shall be fixed, in accordance with Article 15(5) of that Regula-
tion, at EUR 28,84 per tonne.

Article 3

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, 7 August 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 104, 20.4.2002, p. 26.