Commission Regulation (EC) No 516/2005 of 31 March 2005 fixing the unit amounts in respect of the production levies in the sugar sector for the 2004/05 marketing year
Date: 2005-03-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: isoglucose, production, production quota, sugar, sugar levy, sugar product

L 83/44

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

1.4.2005

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 516/2005

of 31 March 2005

fixing the unit amounts in respect of the production levies in the sugar sector for the 2004/05
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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), and in particular Article 15(8)
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

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
the unit
amounts to be paid by sugar,
isoglucose and inulin
syrup producers as advance payments of the production
levies for the current marketing year.

the fixing before 1 April of

for

The estimate of
the basic levy and the B levy gives
amounts which are more than 60 % of the maximum
amounts indicated in Article 15(3) and (5) of Regulation
(EC) No 1260/2001. In accordance with Article 7(1) and
(2) of Regulation (EC) No 314/2002,
the advance
payments on the basic levy and the B levy for sugar
and inulin syrup should therefore be fixed at 50 % of
the maximum amounts concerned. In accordance with
Article 7(3) of that Regulation, the advance payment of
the basic levy for isoglucose should 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 2004/05 marketing year
are hereby fixed as follows:

(a)

the advance payment on the basic production levy for A
sugar and B sugar shall be EUR 6,32 per tonne of white
sugar;

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

EUR 118,48 per tonne of white sugar;

(c)

the advance payment on the basic production levy for A
isoglucose and B isoglucose shall be EUR 5,06 per tonne of
dry matter;

(d) the advance payment on the basic production levy for A
inulin syrup and B inulin syrup shall be EUR 6,32 per
tonne of dry matter sugar/isoglucose equivalent;

(e)

the advance payment on the B levy for B inulin syrup shall
be EUR 118,48 per tonne of dry matter sugar/isoglucose
equivalent.

Article 2

(3)

The Management Committee for Sugar has not delivered
an opinion within the time limit set by its Chairman,

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, 31 March 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.Regulation as last amended by Commission

Regulation (EC) No 39/2004 (OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 16).

(2) OJ L 50, 21.2.2002, p. 40. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 38/2004 (OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 13).