Commission Regulation (EC) No 739/2007 of 28 June 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: 2007-06-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, production quota, regulation of agricultural production, sugar

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 739/2007

of 28 June 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

(4)

(5)

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

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

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 is hereby amended as
follows:

1. the following paragraph 3a is inserted:

(1)

(2)

(3)

of

Regulation

to Article

sector
is
September.

According
(EC)
1(2)
No 318/2006, the marketing year for products in the
to
sugar
year
30
2006/2007 begins on 1 July 2006 and ends on
30 September 2007. Consequently, unlike a normal
marketing year, it extends over 15 months rather than
12 months.

the period from 1 October
However,

the marketing

In view of the length of the marketing year 2006/2007,
Article 9(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
493/2006 (2) provides
isoglucose
quota so as to ensure an allocation which corresponds
to that of the preceding marketing year.

transitional

for

a

A number of Member States allocate sugar quotas to
undertakings specialising in the production of sugar by
extraction from molasses. As in the case of isoglucose,
this involves consistent levels of production throughout a
in accordance with
given marketing year. However,
Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006,
the
quantity allocated for the marketing year 2006/2007 is
equal to the quantity allocated for the marketing year
2005/2006. In the interests of fairness to the isoglucose
producers, these undertakings, too, should be allocated a
transitional quota taking into account the length of the
marketing year 2006/2007.

For

the marketing year 2006/2007,

‘3a
the Member
States shall allocate to all undertakings that are in receipt
of a sugar quota for the aforesaid marketing year, pursuant
to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, and that
have used that quota exclusively to produce sugar by
to
extraction from molasses, a transitional quota equal
25 % of
the said quota. This transitional quota may be
used only for the production of sugar by extraction from
molasses.’;

2.

in paragraph 4, the introductory words are replaced by the
following:

‘The transitional quotas laid down in paragraphs 1, 2, 3
and 3a.’;

3. paragraph 6 is replaced by the following paragraphs 6 and 7:

‘6. Member States
information to the Commission:

shall

communicate

the

following

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

Regulation (EC) No 247/2007 (OJ L 69, 9.3.2007, p. 3).

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

(EC) No 119/2007 (OJ L 37, 9.2.2007, p. 3).

(a) before 15 July 2006, a breakdown by undertaking of the
transitional quotas allocated under paragraphs 1, 2
and 3;

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(b) before 30 June 2007, a breakdown by undertaking of
the transitional quotas allocated under paragraph 3a.

The Member States shall

7.
introduce a control system
and shall take all the necessary steps to verify the production
of the products referred to in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 3a,
ensuring in particular that the sugar corresponds to sugar
beet sown before 1 January 2006.

The Member States shall notify the Commission, before
31 December 2007, of the control measures taken and the
results thereof.’

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, 28 June 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission