Commission Regulation (EC) No 1609/2005 of 30 September 2005 reducing, for the 2005/06 marketing year, the guaranteed quantity under the production quotas scheme for the sugar sector and the presumed maximum supply needs of sugar refineries under the preferential import arrangements
Date: 2005-09-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, guarantee threshold, production quota, sugar industry, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1609/2005

of 30 September 2005

reducing, for the 2005/06 marketing year, the guaranteed quantity under the production quotas
scheme for the sugar sector and the presumed maximum supply needs of sugar refineries under the
preferential import arrangements

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(6)

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 Articles 10(6) and 39(6)
thereof,

In view of
the deadline imposed by Regulation (EC)
No 1260/2001, this Regulation must enter into force
on the day of its publication in the Official
Journal of
the European Union.

(7)

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

should be

Article 10(3) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
lay down that the guaranteed quantity under production
quotas
each
marketing year if the forecasts for the year in question
show an exportable balance (attracting a refund) greater
than the maximum laid down by the Agriculture
Agreement concluded under Article 300(2) of the Treaty.

reduced before 1 October

The forecasts for the 2005/06 marketing year indicate an
exportable balance exceeding the maximum laid down by
the Agriculture Agreement. It is therefore necessary to set
the overall reduction of
the guaranteed quantity and
divide it up between sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup
on the one hand and the production regions concerned
on the other, using the coefficients provided for in
Article 10(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.

In accordance with Article 10(5) of Regulation (EC)
No 1260/2001, each Member State must then allocate
the difference to which it is subject among the producer
undertakings established on its territory on the basis of
the existing ratio between their A and B quotas for the
product in question and the basic quantity A and the
basic quantity B for the Member State for this product.

Article 39(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 lays
down that a reduction in the guaranteed quantity
entails a reduction in the presumed maximum raw
sugar needs of Community refineries for the marketing
year in question. It is therefore necessary to set the corre-
sponding reduction for these needs and to allocate it
among the Member States concerned.

(5)

The time-limits by which the Member States must
establish the reductions applying to each undertaking
on their territory should be set.

Article 1

Pursuant

to Article
(EC)
of
1.
No 1260/2001,
the guaranteed quantity under production
quotas for the 2005/06 marketing year shall be reduced by
1 891 747,7 tonnes in white sugar equivalent.

Regulation

10(4)

2.
The reduction referred to in paragraph 1 and the basic
quantities used, once reduced, to allocate the production quotas
to producer undertakings for the 2005/06 marketing year shall
be those set out in part A of the Annex, broken down by
product and by region.

3.
The Member States shall establish before 1 November
2005 the specific reduction for each producer undertaking to
which a production quota for the 2005/06 marketing year has
been assigned, and its A and B quotas adjusted in accordance
with this reduction.

Article 2

Pursuant

to Article
(EC)
of
1.
No 1260/2001,
the presumed maximum supply needs of
Community refineries for the 2005/06 marketing year shall
be reduced by 14 676 tonnes in white sugar equivalent.

Regulation

39(5)

2.
The reduction referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allocated
among the Member States in accordance with Part B of the
Annex.

(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).

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 30 September 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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PART A: Breakdown by product and by region of the reductions in the guaranteed quantities and the basic quantities
used to allocate the A and B production quotas after reduction of the guaranteed quantity

1. For sugar (in tonnes of white sugar)

ANNEX

Regions

Reduction for sugar

Basic quantities for sugar

Czech Republic

Denmark
Germany

Greece

Spain
France (metropolitan) (1)
French (overseas departments) (1)
Ireland
Italy

Latvia

Lithuania
Hungary

Netherlands

Austria
Poland

Portugal (mainland)

Portugal (the autonomous region
of the Azores)

Slovenia
Slovakia

Finland

Sweden
BLEU (2)
United Kingdom

A

18 207,7

45 264,6
374 034,5

20 550,0

44 022,1
354 766,7

32 108,2

12 898,2
137 245,8

1 806,0

2 719,8
11 182,5

88 833,4

37 722,9
84 735,7

3 864,8

644,7

3 438,6
13 015,6

9 456,0

23 836,9
76 867,1

73 699,5

B

A

B

563,5

423 001,3

13 335,2
115 090,3

279 735,4
2 238 878,8

2 055,2

268 088,0

1 833,1
105 215,3

3 433,1

1 289,5
25 812,6

3,6
—

34,3

23 430,5

8 804,1
4 930,3

386,5

65,0

343,1
1 211,8

944,5

2 383,9
16 504,7

7 370,1

913 060,3
2 181 720,7

401 763,8

168 247,0
1 173 658,1

64 594,0

100 290,2
389 271,5

595 279,0

276 306,0
1 495 264,3

59 515,4

8 403,5

44 718,4
176 744,4

123 350,3

310 947,3
598 038,4

961 415,9

13 089,5

82 410,3
688 891,9

26 808,6

38 045,4
647 044,2

42 939,4

16 825,0
220 726,7

101,4
—

1 195,7

157 016,6

64 493,4
86 995,7

5 951,5

839,8

4 472,9
16 460,2

12 335,9

31 094,1
128 401,4

96 141,4

(1) Account has been taken of the second subparagraph of Article 12(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001.
(2) Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union.

2. For isoglucose (in tonnes of dry matter)

Regions

Reduction for isoglucose

Basic quantities for isoglucose

Germany
Greece

Spain

France (metropolitan)
Italy

Hungary

Netherlands
Poland

Portugal (mainland)

Slovakia
Finland
BLEU (1)
United Kingdom

(1) Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union.

A

3 868,6
1 409,4

6 165,4

2 266,7
2 219,3

8 899,9

994,7
1 698,1

1 084,1

3 560,3
859,2

8 370,1

3 143,7

B

911,1
331,9

657,7

590,0
522,6

697,3

234,3
127,5

255,3

476,8
86,0

2 301,7

838,5

A

24 774,7
9 025,6

68 454,2

13 480,4
14 212,8

118 727,1

6 369,9
23 212,9

6 942,9

33 961,7
9 932,8

47 780,5

18 358,3

B

5 834,4
2 125,6

7 301,7

3 508,6
3 347,2

9 302,7

1 500,2
1 742,5

1 635,0

4 548,2
993,7

13 139,3

4 896,8

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3. For inulin syrup (in tonnes of tonnes of dry matter expressed as white sugar/isoglucose equivalent)

Regions

France (metropolitan)

Netherlands
BLEU (1)

(1) Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union.

Reduction for inulin syrup

Basic quantities for inulin syrup

A

1 956,8

6 454,9

18 473,7

B

459,9

1 515,9

4 349,0

A

B

17 890,3

59 064,5

155 744,9

4 214,3

13 914,6

36 679,2

PART B: Breakdown by Member State of the reduction in the presumed maximum supply needs of refineries

Metropolitan France
Mainland Portugal

Slovenia

Finland
United Kingdom

Reduction

2 423
2 383

160

490
9 220

(Unit: tonnes of white sugar)

Maximum needs prior to application of the
reduction

294 204
289 250

19 425

59 435
1 119 361