Commission Regulation (EC) No 478/2006 of  23 March 2006  fixing the unit amounts of the advances on production levies in the sugar sector for the 2005/06 marketing year
Date: 2006-03-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: isoglucose, production quota, sugar, sugar levy, sugar product

24.3.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 86/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 478/2006

of 23 March 2006

fixing the unit amounts of the advances on production levies in the sugar sector for the 2005/06
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

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)
the unit
provides
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 levies gives an amount which is more
than 60 % of the maximum indicated in Article 15(3) of
Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 in the case of the basic
levy and an amount below 60 % of
the maximum
indicated in Article 15(5) in the case of the B levy. In
accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No
314/2002, the advances on the basic levies should be
fixed at 50 % of the maximum amount for sugar and
inulin syrup, and the advances on the B levies should be
fixed at 80 % of the amount of the B levy estimate for
sugar and inulin syrup. The advance payment
for
isoglucose is fixed at 40 % of the unit amount of the
basic production levy estimated for sugar, in accordance
with Article 7(3) of that Regulation.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The unit amounts referred to in Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation
(EC) No 314/2002 for the 2005/06 marketing year are hereby
fixed as follows:

(a) EUR 6,32 per tonne of white sugar as the advance payment
on the basic production levy for A sugar and B sugar;

(b) EUR 42,83 per

tonne of white sugar as the advance

payment on the B levy for B sugar;

(c) EUR 5,06 per tonne of dry matter as the advance payment
on the basic production levy for A isoglucose and B
isoglucose;

(d) EUR 6,32 per

sugar/isoglucose
tonne of dry matter
equivalent as the advance payment on the basic production
levy for A inulin syrup and B inulin syrup;

(e) EUR 42,83 per

sugar/isoglucose
tonne of dry matter
equivalent as the advance payment on the B levy for B
inulin syrup.

Article 2

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, 23 March 2006.

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 1665/2005 (OJ L 268, 13.10.2005, p. 3).