Commission Regulation (EC) No 1442/2002 of 7 August 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 as regards marketing sugar produced in the French overseas departments and equalising the price conditions with preferential raw sugar
Date: 2002-08-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: French overseas department and region, preferential price, raw sugar, sales aid, sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1442/2002

of 7 August 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 as regards marketing sugar produced in the French overseas depart-
ments and equalising the price conditions with preferential raw 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), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
680/2002 (2), and in particular Article 7(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides
for flat-rate Community aid for sugar produced in the
French overseas departments to be marketed in the
European regions of the Community. The aid is for raw
sugar produced in the French overseas departments to be
refined in a refinery situated in the European regions of
the Community and to be transported to the European
regions of the Community or, where necessary, to be
stored in those departments.

That aid for the 2001/02 marketing year is fixed in
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 (3). The aid
for transport from the ex-factory stage to the fob port
stage and for storage in the French overseas departments
for the 2001/02 marketing year is fixed in Article 2(1)(a)
and (c) of that Regulation. Now that the Commission has
obtained information on the appropriate level of this aid,
the aid amounts should be fixed for the 2002/03 to
2005/06 marketing years, i.e. the period for which Regu-
lation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides for intervention
prices and production and refining quotas to be fixed.
The grant of aid towards the cost of sea transport and
the aid for refining should also be continued for the
same period.

(3)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

On application to the competent French authorities,
‘1.
for the 2002/03 to 2005/06 marketing years producers of
the sugar referred to in Article 1 and delivered to European
ports in the Community shall be granted aid made up of
the following components:

(a) a flat-rate amount per tonne of sugar expressed as
white sugar to cover the transport costs from the ex-
factory stage to the fob port stage, fixed at:

— EUR 17 per tonne for Réunion and Martinique,

— EUR 24 per tonne for Guadeloupe;

(b) a uniform flat-rate amount to cover the sea transport
costs from the fob port in overseas department stage to
the cif European ports in the Community stage and the
related insurance costs;

(c) a flat-rate amount per 100 kilograms of raw sugar
expressed as white sugar held in storage by producers
at
fixed at EUR 0,45 for
Guadeloupe and at EUR 0,35 for Réunion.’

the end of each month,

Article 2

Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 is replaced by
the following:

‘1.
In the case of sugar as referred to in Article 1 which
has been refined in a refinery in the European regions of
the Community in the 2002/03 to 2005/06 marketing
years, aid shall be granted to the refineries concerned for
every tenth of a percent of yield in excess of 92 %, of an
amount equal to 0,0387 % of the intervention price for raw
sugar fixed for that period.’

Article 1

Article 3

Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 is replaced by
the following:

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

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 104, 20.4.2002, p. 26.
(3) OJ L 205, 31.7.2001, p. 18.

It shall apply from 1 July 2002.

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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