2008/445/EC: Commission Decision of 11 June 2008 fixing the amounts per Member State of retroactive restructuring aid for growers and undertakings having restructured in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 marketing year in the framework of the temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry of the Community (notified under document number C(2008) 2557)
Date: 2008-06-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU financing arrangements, aid for restructuring, product diversification, sugar industry

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Official Journal of the European Union

14.6.2008

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 June 2008

fixing the amounts per Member State of retroactive restructuring aid for growers and undertakings
having restructured in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 marketing year in the framework of the temporary
scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry of the Community

(notified under document number C(2008) 2557)

(Only the Spanish, Czech, Greek, French, English, Italian, Latvian, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese, Slovak,
Slovenian, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

(2008/445/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 of
20 February 2006 establishing a temporary scheme for the
restructuring of
the sugar industry in the Community and
amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 on the financing of
the common agricultural policy (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 968/2006 of
27 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implemen-
tation of Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 establishing a
temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry in
the Community (2), and in particular Article 16a(1) thereof,

Whereas:

paid
to

temporary

increase of

the
undertakings

the payment of a retroactive
under
certain

Article 3(8) of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 provides
for
the
restructuring
amounts
scheme
growers.
Article 16a of Regulation (EC) No 968/2006 lays down
the details concerning the calculation of that increase.
According to the third subparagraph of paragraph 1 of
that provision, the Commission has to fix the amounts
per Member State concerned in view of putting the
Member States in a position to make these payments
to the beneficiaries in June 2008.

and

(1)

(2)

The amounts fixed for France and Belgium take into
account the cross-borders deliveries of chicory and the
payment, by the French authorities, of
the French
growers having supplied the Belgian inulin syrup
producers as well as the payment, by the Belgian autho-
rities, of the Belgian growers having supplied the French
inulin syrup producer,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The amounts to be fixed per Member State concerned in
accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 16a(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 968/2006 shall be as set out
in the
Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

the French Republic,

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the
Czech Republic,
Ireland, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom
the
of Spain,
Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Hungary, the Kingdom of
the Netherlands,
the Republic of
the Portuguese Republic,
Slovenia, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Finland and the
Kingdom of Sweden.

the Italian Republic,

The retroactive payments concerns the amounts which
make up the positive difference between the aid granted
to undertakings and growers
in the 2006/07 and
2007/08 marketing years and the aid which would
have been granted under the conditions valid for the
2008/09 marketing year.

Done at Brussels, 11 June 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 42. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1261/2007 (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 8).

(2) OJ L 176, 30.6.2006, p. 32. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1264/2007 (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 16).

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ANNEX

Amounts per Member State for the retroactive restructuring aid for growers and undertakings having
restructured in the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 marketing year

(in EUR)

Member State

Belgium

Czech Republic

Ireland

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Latvia

Hungary

Netherlands

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

Finland

Sweden

Amount

35 884 374,90

13 577 645,07

41 334 494,40

30 378 440,00

23 481 854,41

11 213 211,52

182 416 677,67

10 241 770,00

14 322 322,50

16 642 510,50

12 149 844,94

12 024 871,00

10 800 482,00

9 865 703,30

8 884 817,50