Commission Regulation (EC) No 1667/2005 of 13 October 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 60/2004 laying down transitional measures in the sugar sector by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia
Date: 2005-10-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, sugar, transitional period (EU)

14.10.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 269/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1667/2005

of 13 October 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 60/2004 laying down transitional measures in the sugar sector by
reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

(3)

(4)

amended
Regulation (EC) No 60/2004 should be
this amendment must precede the
accordingly. As
fixing of the production levies for the marketing year
2004/05, this Regulation should enter into force imme-
diately.

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

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular the first paragraph of
Article 41 thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 60/2004 is replaced by the
following:

(1)

(2)

Under Article 7(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
60/2004 of 14 January 2004 laying down transitional
measures in the sugar sector by reason of the accession
of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania,
Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (1),
the
amount
to be charged to those Member States for
surplus quantities not eliminated is to be taken into
account for the calculation of the production levies for
the marketing year 2004/05.

The amount to be charged will not be known when the
2004/05 production levies are calculated in September
2005, as the deadline for providing proof of elimination
of surplus quantities was deferred to 31 March 2006 by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 651/2005. Provision
should therefore be made for that amount to be taken
into account for the calculation of the production levies
for the marketing year 2005/06, in September 2006.

If proof of elimination from the market

‘2.
is not
provided in accordance with paragraph 1, for all or part of
the surplus quantity, the new Member State shall be charged
an amount equal to the quantity not eliminated multiplied
by the highest export refunds applicable to white sugar
falling within CN code 1701 99 10 during the period from
1 May 2004 to 30 November 2005. A share equal
to 25 % of
the total amount shall be assigned to the
Community budget by 31 December at the latest of each
of the years 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The total amount
the
will be taken into account
production levies for the marketing year 2005/06.’

the calculation of

for

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation 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, 13 October 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 9, 15.1.2004, p. 8. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 651/2005 (OJ L 108, 29.4.2005, p. 3).