Commission Regulation (EC) No 1462/2004 of 17 August 2004 revising the maximum amount for the B production levy and amending the minimum price for B beet in the sugar sector for the 2004/05 marketing year
Date: 2004-08-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: marketing year, minimum price, sugar

L 270/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

18.8.2004

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1462/2004

of 17 August 2004

revising the maximum amount for the B production levy and amending the minimum price for B
beet in the sugar sector for the 2004/05 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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
39/2004 (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,
within certain limits, by production levies on the
production of A and B sugar, of A and B isoglucose
and of inulin syrup A and B.

the

receipts

Article 15(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides
that, where
expected from the basic
production 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
current
total
cover
marketing year, the maximum percentage of the B levy
is to be adjusted to the extent necessary to cover the said
total loss but without exceeding 37,5 %.

foreseeable

loss

the

the

for

According to the provisional data currently available, the
receipts, before adjustment, of the levies to be collected
in respect of the 2004/05 marketing year are likely to be
below the equivalent of the average loss multiplied by the

exportable surplus. The maximum amount of the B levy
for 2004/05 should therefore be raised to 37,5 % of the
intervention price for the white sugar concerned.

Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 fixes
the minimum price for B beet at EUR 32,42 per tonne,
subject
that Regulation, which
provides for the corresponding adjustment of the price
for B beet in the event of adjustment of the maximum
amount of the B levy.

to Article 15(5) of

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

(4)

(5)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2004/05 marketing year, the maximum amount of the
B levy referred to in the first indent of Article 15(4) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1260/2001 shall be increased to 37,5 % of the
intervention price for white sugar.

Article 2

For the 2004/05 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 Regu-
lation, 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 Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 August 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 16.