Commission Regulation (EC) No 163/2007 of 19 February 2007 fixing, for the 2005/06 marketing year, the amounts to be paid by sugar manufacturers to beet sellers in respect of the difference between the maximum amount of the base levy and the amount of that levy to be charged
Date: 2007-02-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: marketing, sugar beet, sugar levy

L 51/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

20.2.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 163/2007

of 19 February 2007

fixing, for the 2005/06 marketing year, the amounts to be paid by sugar manufacturers to beet
sellers in respect of the difference between the maximum amount of the base levy and the amount
of that levy to be charged

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

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 18(5) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20
February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in
the sugar sector (2), and in particular Article 44(a) thereof,

Whereas:

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1296/2005 (4) of 5
August 2005 revising the maximum amount for the B
production levy and amending the minimum price for B
beet in the sugar sector for the 2005/06 marketing year
increased the maximum amount of the B levy to 37,5 %
of the intervention price for white sugar. Commission
Regulation (EC) No 164/2007 (5) of 19 February 2007
fixing the amounts of production levies for the sugar
sector for the 2005/06 marketing year fixed the base
fix a B levy. Due to
levy at 1,0022 % and did not
in accordance with
is necessary,
these differences it
Article 18(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001, to fix
the amounts to be paid by sugar manufacturers to beet
sellers per tonne of A and B standard quality beet.

(1)

Article 18(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provides
that when the amount of the base levy or the amount of
the B levy is less than the maximum amount referred to
that Regulation, revised
in Articles 15(3) and (4) of
where necessary in accordance with paragraph 5 of
that Article, sugar manufacturers must pay beet sellers
60 % of the difference between the maximum amount
of the levy in question and the amount of the base levy
charged. Article 9(1) of
or
Commission Regulation (EC) No 314/2002 of 20
February 2002 laying down detailed rules for the appli-
cation of the quota system in the sugar sector (3) which
still applies to the production of the 2005/06 marketing
year, provides that the aforementioned amounts to be
paid shall be fixed at the same time as the production
levies and in accordance with the same procedure.

the B levy

actually

(3)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2005/06 marketing year,
the amounts specified in
Article 18(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 to be paid by
sugar manufacturers to beet sellers shall be fixed, per tonne of
standard quality beet, at EUR 0,492 for A levy beet and at EUR
18,372 for B levy beet.

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, 19 February 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation repealed by Regulation (EC)

No 318/2006.

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

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

(3) OJ L 50, 21.2.2002, p. 40. Regulation repealed by Regulation (EC)

No 952/2006 (OJ L 178, 1.7.2006, p. 39).

(4) OJ L 205, 6.8.2005, p. 20.
(5) See p. 17 of this Official Journal.