Commission Regulation (EC) No 119/2007 of 8 February 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 laying down transitional measures within the framework of the reform of the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector
Date: 2007-02-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, regulation of agricultural production, sugar

9.2.2007

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 119/2007

of 8 February 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 laying down transitional measures within the framework of
the reform of the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20
February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in
the sugar sector (1), and in particular Article 44(a) thereof,

Whereas:

for

supply contracts

conclusion of
the 2006/2007
marketing year. Such contracts should in practice be
concluded before beet is sown, i.e. before the previous
March. The measures provided for in this Regulation
should provide greater flexibility in the management of
production in excess of the quota and ensure supplies of
sugar to the chemical industry at world prices. Producers
should be allowed to replace quantities of industrial sugar
with sugar produced under quota. However, that possi-
bility should be granted only on condition that additional
checks on the quantities delivered and actually used by
the industry are carried out correctly. The decision to
grant
to the
discretion of the competent authorities of the Member
States.

that possibility must

therefore be left

Commission Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 (2) lays down
certain special transitional measures, applicable for the
2006/2007 marketing year, the first year of implemen-
tation of the reform of the common organisation of the
markets in the sugar sector.

(4)

The provisions on the delivery and use of industrial sugar
laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 967/2006
of 29 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the
application of Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 as
regards sugar production in excess of the quota (3) must
apply to quantities delivered under
the transitional
measures laid down in this Regulation.

The 2006/2007 marketing year has seen an imbalance
on the Community markets for sugar under quota and
for non-quota sugar. While the surplus of sugar under
quota is likely to increase, there could be insufficient
industry
supplies of non-quota sugar for the chemical
during the second half of
the 2006/2007 marketing
year in view of the quantities being produced, stocks
and the increase in demand for
for
bioethanol production.

raw materials

Special transitional measures, limited to the 2006/2007
marketing year, should therefore be laid down to re-
establish balance on the markets for sugar under quota
and for non-quota sugar and to facilitate the transition in
the chemical and pharmaceutical industries between the
old arrangements for the supply of sugar under quota in
force during the 2005/2006 marketing year and the new
arrangements for the supply of non-quota sugar laid
down by Regulation (EC) No 318/2006. The reform of
the sector was fully implemented only at the end of June
2006, which led to uncertainty, seriously hampering the

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 should therefore be
amended.

(6)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following Article 3a is inserted in Regulation (EC) No
493/2006:

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC)

No 2011/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 89, 28.3.2006, p. 11. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(3) OJ L 176, 30.6.2006, p. 22. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1542/2006 (OJ L 283, 14.10.2006, p. 24).

(EC) No 1913/2006 (OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52).

(1)

(2)

(3)

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‘Article 3a

Use of sugar under quota

For deliveries of

1.
sugar made until 30
industrial
September 2007 under the contracts referred to in Article
6 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 967/2006 (*),
the
the Member States may allow
competent authorities of
producers, at
they have
including sugar withdrawn under
produced under quota,
Article 3 of this Regulation,
industrial sugar
produced in excess of the quota.

in place of

to deliver

request,

sugar

their

(a) of

point
Regulation
marketing year.

the second subparagraph of Article 4(1) of
the 2007/2008
(EC) No 967/2006 for

The communications provided for in Article 8 and
3.
10 of Regulation (EC) No 967/2006 shall indicate sepa-
rately the quantity delivered in accordance with paragraph
1 of this Article.
___________
(*) OJ L 176, 30.6.2006, p. 22.’

Article 2

Quantities of

2.
sugar delivered in accordance with
paragraph 1 shall be entered in the accounts as industrial
raw material delivered to a processor as provided for in

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, 8 February 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission