Commission Regulation (EC) No 1065/2007 of 17 September 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: 2007-09-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, production quota, regulation of agricultural production, sugar

L 243/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

18.9.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1065/2007

of 17 September 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 thereof,

(3)

(4)

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

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 493/2006
of 27 March 2006 laying down transitional measures
within the framework of the reform of the common
organisation of
the markets in the sugar sector, and
amending Regulations (EC) No 1265/2001 and (EC) No
314/2002 (2), provides for preventive withdrawal. As a
result, above a certain threshold, the production under
quota of each undertaking is considered withdrawn
within the meaning of Article 19 of Regulation (EC)
No 318/2006 or,
if so requested by the undertaking
before 31 January 2007, as produced in excess of the
quota within the meaning of Article 12 of that Regu-
lation.

sugar producers,

On the deadline of 31 January 2007 isoglucose
producers were not, unlike
in a
position to make such a request due to the continuous,
year-round nature of their production. In the interests of
fairness this deadline should, for isoglucose producers, be
postponed to the end of the 2006/2007 marketing year
to enable them to take their decision and make their
request in full knowledge of the facts.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 493/2006, paragraph 1 is
replaced by the following:

isoglucose or

‘1.
For each undertaking, the share of the production of
inulin syrup in the 2006/2007
sugar,
the quota
marketing year which is produced under
allocated in accordance with the quotas
laid down in
Annex IV and which exceeds the threshold established in
accordance with paragraph 2 of
this Article shall be
considered withdrawn within the meaning of Article 19 of
Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 or, at
the
undertaking concerned submitted before 31 January 2007
for sugar and before 30 September 2007 for isoglucose,
shall be
to have been
produced in excess of
the quota within the meaning of
Article 12 of that Regulation.’

considered fully or partially

the request of

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 17 September 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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

lation (EC) No 739/2007 (OJ L 169, 29.6.2007, p. 22).