Commission Regulation (EC) No 1686/2005 of 14 October 2005 setting the production levies and the coefficient for the additional levy in the sugar sector for the 2004/05 marketing year
Date: 2005-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: isoglucose, production aid, sugar levy, syrup, white sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1686/2005

of 14 October 2005

setting the production levies and the coefficient for the additional levy 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), and in particular the first indent of Article
15(8) and Article 16(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 8 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 that the basic production levy and the B levy
if required, the coefficient referred to in
together with,
Article 16(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 for
sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup are to be set before
15 October in respect of the preceding marketing year.

for

For the 2004/05 marketing year, Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1462/2004 of 17 August 2004 revising the
maximum amount
the B production levy and
amending the minimum price for B beet in the sugar
sector for the 2004/05 marketing year (3) increases the
maximum amount of the B levy referred to in the first
indent of Article 15(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
to 37,5 % of the intervention price for white sugar.

For the 2004/05 marketing year, the estimate of the
loss recorded in accordance with Article 15(1)
overall
and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 requires,
in
accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5 of that Article, the
adoption of the maximum amounts of 2 % for the basic
levy and 37,5 % for the B levy, set in the first indent of
the second subparagraph of paragraph 3 of that Article
and in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1462/2004
respectively.

Article 16(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides
that an additional levy is to be charged where the overall
loss recorded in accordance with Article 15(1) and (2) of
that Regulation is not fully covered by the proceeds from
the
the basic production levy and the B levy. For

this uncovered overall

2004/05 marketing year,
loss
amounts to EUR 133 529 997. The coefficient referred
to in Article 16(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
should therefore be set. For the purposes of fixing that
coefficient, account should be taken of the levies set for
the 2003/04 marketing year for the Member States of
the Community as constituted on 30 April 2004.

(5)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The production levies in the sugar sector for the 2004/05
marketing year shall be as follows:

(a) EUR 12,638 per tonne of white sugar as the basic

production levy on A sugar and B sugar;

(b) EUR 236,963 per tonne of white sugar as the B levy

on B sugar;

(c) EUR 5,330 per tonne of dry matter as the basic
production levy on A isoglucose and B isoglucose;

(d) EUR 99,424 per tonne of dry matter as the B levy on

B isoglucose;

(e) EUR 12,638 per tonne of dry matter sugar/isoglucose
equivalent as the basic production levy on A inulin
syrup and B inulin syrup;

(f) EUR 236,963 per tonne of dry matter sugar/iso-
glucose equivalent as the B levy on B inulin syrup.

Article 2

(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).

(3) OJ L 270, 18.8.2004, p. 4.

For the 2004/05 marketing year, the coefficient provided
for in Article 16(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001
shall be 0,27033 for
the Czech Republic, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia and
0,15935 for the other Member States.

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

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 14 October 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission