CELEX: 31995R1101
Language: en
Date: 1995-04-24 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EC) No 1101/95 of 24 April 1995 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common organization of the market in the sugar sector and Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 laying down general rules for the production refund on certain sugar products used in the chemical industry

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31995R1101

Council Regulation (EC) No 1101/95 of 24 April 1995 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common organization of the market in the sugar sector and Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 laying down general rules for the production refund on certain sugar products used in the chemical industry  

Official Journal L 110 , 17/05/1995 P. 0001 - 0008

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1101/95 of 24 April 1995 amending Regulation  (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common organization of the market in the sugar sector and Regulation (EEC)  No 1010/86 laying down general rules for the production refund on certain sugar products used in  the chemical industryTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 42 and  43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament  (1), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee  (2), Whereas Article 23 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81  (3) states that the Council is to adopt, in  accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, the arrangements to apply  from 1 July 1995 to the production of sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup; Whereas the agreements resulting from the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations were  approved by Decision 94/800/EC  (4); whereas the agreement on agriculture (hereinafter referred to  as 'the Agreement`) provides, in particular, for the gradual reduction of the level of the  Community's export support for agricultural products and in particular for sugar under guarantee of  production quotas; whereas the Agreement provides for the reduction of export support, in terms of  both quantities and appropriations, over a transitional period; Whereas it should be recalled that, since the 1986/87 marketing year, the common organization of  the sugar sector markets has been based, first, on the principle of full financial responsibility  on the part of producers for the losses incurred in each marketing year due to the disposal of that  part of Community production under quota which is surplus to the Community's internal consumption  and, secondly, on a differentiation of the price and disposal guarantees in line with the  production quota allocated to each undertaking; whereas, since commitments to reduce export support  are to be implemented over a transitional period, the present basic sugar and isoglucose quantities  and inulin syrup quotas should be maintained unchanged but with provision made for the guarantees  pertaining thereto to be adjusted as appropriate to permit compliance with the commitments made  under the Agreement, while taking into account the fundamental factors affecting the situation of  this sector in the Community; whereas it is accordingly desirable to maintain the sector's  self-financing arrangements and production quotas for a period corresponding to the abovementioned  transitional period, namely six marketing years; Whereas the production quotas allocated to each sugar sector undertaking may, in any marketing  year, give rise, as a result of the relevant consumption, production, importation, stock and  carryover levels, and the average loss likely to be borne under the self-financing scheme, to an  export volume exceeding that set in the Agreement; whereas provision should therefore be made for  adjustments over one or more marketing years in the guarantees linked to quotas so that the  Community's commitments can be met; Whereas, as the first step in implementing adjustments to the guarantees, the difference recorded  for a given marketing year between the Community's exportable volume and the amount set in the  Agreement should be apportioned between sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup according to the  percentages which the quotas of each represent in the total of the quotas set for these products  and for the Community; Whereas this initial breakdown by product should then be followed by a breakdown between the Member  States which adjusts the guarantees linked to the quotas assigned to producing undertakings located  in each Member State in a way that does not affect the existing balance of quotas and  burden-sharing; whereas, to this end, a reduction coefficient should be determined for each Member  State in respect of the A and B guarantees which is in line with the maximum contributions  pertaining to these guarantees; whereas it should then be up to each Member State concerned to make  an allocation among undertakings which takes account of the guarantees arising for each undertaking  from its own quotas; Whereas the common organization of the market in sugar established a compensation system for  storage costs; whereas it is appropriate to make it clear that sugar which formed the subject of  the reduction of guarantees under obligations arising from undertakings given in the context of the  Agreement may continue to be eligible for reimbursement of storage costs under the said system; Whereas Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal provided for preferential  arrangements, applying for seven years following accession, to ensure adequate supply of Portuguese  refineries with raw sugar; whereas the preferential arrangement consisted of a reduced import levy  on sugar imported to this end from certain ACP and other third countries, the use of available raw  sugar from cane and beet harvested in the Community covered by the arrangements provided for by  Council Regulation (EEC) No 2225/86 of 15 July 1986 laying down measures for the marketing of sugar  produced in the French overseas departments and for equalization of the price conditions with  preferential raw sugar  (1), and the use of available preferential raw sugar as defined in Article  33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81; whereas these supply arrangements for Portuguese refineries have  been continued and incorporated in Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 as Article 16a, which also applies  to Finland; Whereas, moreover, in the Declaration by the European Economic Community on supplies to the sugar  refining industry in Portugal annexed to the Final Act of the Treaty of Accession of Spain and  Portugal, the Community stated that it was prepared to make an overall examination of the refining  industry in the Community and in Portugal in particular; whereas, under the terms of paragraph 2a  of Article 16a of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 such an examination is also to apply to Finland; Whereas this examination has shown the need, in particular with the aim of achieving a steadier and  more even flow of supplies to refineries throughout the Community, to estimate clearly the expected  maximum traditional requirement of raw sugar for refining into white sugar in each of the Member  States concerned, namely Finland, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, using objective  reference data and taking into account the quantities of sugar going for direct consumption  recorded for the 1994/95 marketing year; whereas, to achieve this aim, the possibility should be  opened to the refining industry, within the limit of its anticipated needs, of gaining access on  certain terms to all raw sugar originating in the Community, the ACP States and/or in certain other  traditional suppliers to be specified, on the basis of a forward balance and in a particular order  of priority, namely Community sugar, preferential sugar covered by Protocol No 8 annexed to the  fourth ACP-EEC Lomé Convention  (2), and sugar imported from ACP States and/or other traditional  suppliers; whereas, for raw sugar imported from the ACP States listed in Protocol No 8 and from  India other than preferential sugar in the strict sense, a special preferential arrangement for  access to the Community refining market should be introduced; Whereas refining is an important activity both in the sugar sector in general and in the Community,  and in particular in refineries for conversion of raw sugar into white sugar; whereas, from a  technical point of view, refining produces high-quality products from sugar cane that can meet  market requirements; whereas, moreover, these refineries are located in areas of high consumption;  whereas the port-related refining industry is accordingly, for the Community, a valuable complement  to the beet processing industry, in particular in Finland, mainland Portugal, the United Kingdom  and southern and western France; Whereas, in a joint declaration on the Portuguese sugar market annexed to the Final Act of the  Fourth ACP-EEC Lomé Convention, the ACP States and the Community agreed to continue, under the  relevant provisions of the Convention and in particular Article 168 (2) thereof, the examination of  requests from the ACP States for increased preferential access to the Portuguese market for ACP  sugar; whereas examination of these requests, which concern supplies to port refineries in the  Community as a whole, leads to the conclusion that special priority access should be given to raw  cane sugar originating in the ACP States party to Protocol No 8 and in India, under special  agreements negotiated between the Community and the countries referred to in Protocol No 8 and/or  other countries and on the basis of a Community estimate of requirements after utilization for  refining of all available raw cane and beet sugar in the Community and preferential sugar as  defined in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81; Whereas, up to the 1994/95 marketing year, Community adjustment aid has been granted for refining  of preferential raw cane sugar and of raw sugar from cane and beet harvested in the Community;  whereas hitherto it has been possible to adjust this aid for any given marketing year in line with  the storage levy set for that year and/or any change in the refining margin resulting from the  prices set for the marketing year in question; whereas, in the light of experience, this aid should  continue; whereas, given the direct impact on the refining margin of changes in the storage levy,  it should henceforth be made compulsory for the adjustment aid to be altered in line with that levy  in the case of refining of raw sugar covered by Community price guarantees or imported from the ACP  States as preferential sugar covered by Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81; Whereas, for reasons already indicated in the past, beet production in Italy, in view of its  particular characteristics and the dimensions of holdings, is facing, in the northern region,  although less and less so, and in the central region, difficulties in particular concerning the  application of modern production methods; whereas, for structural reasons, these difficulties  persist in the southern region, which is, moreover, recognized as lagging behind in development and  structural adjustment; whereas beet growing there is indispensable in order to regenerate soils  with a particularly high level of clay and thus to avoid a return to monoculture; whereas Italy  should therefore be authorized to grant, on the one hand, in its northern and central regions  national aid the downward sliding scale of which shall be extended over five marketing years, and  to grant, on the other hand, in its southern region such aid progressively reduced over six  marketing years from the level granted for the 1994/95 marketing year; Whereas it has proved impossible to implement the structural adjustments of the Spanish sugar  industry provided for by Regulation (EEC) No 3814/92  (1), which amended Regulation (EEC) No  1785/81, in accordance with the timetable anticipated; whereas it is therefore appropriate to  prolong, by one marketing year, the possibility for granting this aid to the undertakings  concerned; Whereas, by virtue of Article 110 of the 1985 Act of Accession, the Kingdom of Spain is authorized  to grant national adjustment aid to producers of A and B beet until 31 December 1995; whereas, in  order to take account of certain difficulties which still exist, it is appropriate to maintain the  authorization for national aid beyond 31 December 1995 for a limited period and on a downward  sliding basis; Whereas the cane sugar production process in Spain is faced with specific difficulties in its  effort to maintain itself as compared with that of other crops; whereas, in order to enable this  limited production to be maintained, a national aid of ECU 6 should be authorized per 100 kilograms  of white sugar obtained from cane sugar; Whereas this Regulation should be applied under the best possible conditions; whereas, to this end,  certain transitional measures may prove necessary; whereas the procedure laid down in Article 41 of  Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 should apply to adoption of such transitional measures, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is amended as follows: 1.  Article 23 (1) is replaced by the following: '1.  Articles 24 to 32 shall apply in respect of the marketing years 1995/96 to 2000/01.`; 2.  Article 23 (2) is replaced by the following: '2.  For the period referred to in paragraph 1 and without prejudice to paragraph 4a, Article 24  (2), Article 25 and, as appropriate, Article 24a (5), the A and B quotas of undertakings producing  sugar or isoglucose shall be those assigned by the Member States for the 1994/95 marketing year.`; 3.  Article 23 (4) is replaced by the following: '4.  For the period referred to in paragraph 1 and without prejudice to paragraph 4a, the A and B  quotas of undertakings producing inulin syrup shall be those definitively assigned by the Member  States pursuant to Article 24b for the 1994/95 marketing year. Articles 24 and 25 shall not apply  to such undertakings.`; 4.  the following paragraph shall be inserted in Article 23: '4a.  In order to comply with the commitments entered into by the Community under the agricultural  agreement concluded pursuant to Article 228 (2) of the Treaty, the guarantees for the disposal of  sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup produced under quota may be reduced for one or more designated  marketing years. For the purposes of applying the first subparagraph, for each marketing year the guaranteed  quantity under quotas shall be laid down before 1 October on the basis of forecasts of production,  imports, consumption, storage, carryover, exportable balance and average loss likely to be borne  under the self-financing scheme within the meaning of point (d) of Article 28 (1). If these  forecasts show an exportable balance for the marketing year in question greater than the maximum  laid down by the Agreement, the guaranteed quantity shall be reduced by the difference in  accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 41. This difference shall be divided up between  sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup in accordance with the percentage representing the total of the  A and B quotas of each product in the Community. It shall then be broken down by Member State and  by product by applying the corresponding coefficient set out in the table below: >TABLE> The Member State shall then allocate the difference to which it is subject among the producer  undertakings established on its territory on the basis of the existing ratio between their A quota  and their B quota for the product in question and the basic quantity A and the basic quantity B for  the Member State or, as appropriate, the sum of the A quotas and the sum of the B quotas for this  product assigned to the producer undertakings. Sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup produced beyond the quantity guaranteed shall be considered as C  sugar, C isoglucose and C inulin syrup within the meaning of either point (c) in the second  subparagraph of Article 24 (1) or point (c) of Article 24b (5), as appropriate. The arrangements for the application of the first subparagraph, the reduction in the guaranteed  quantity and, where appropriate, any change in that quantity as regards the fixing of the  guaranteed quantity for the following marketing year shall be adopted in accordance with the  procedure laid down in Article 41.`; 5.  in Article 23 (5), the dates '1 January 1995` and '1 July 1995` shall be replaced by '1 January  2001` and '1 July 2001` respectively; 6.  in the first indent of the first subparagraph of Article 24 (1), the date '1993/94` shall be  replaced by '1994/95`; 7.  in Article 24 (3), the date '1993/94` shall be replaced by '1994/95`; 8.  the following shall be added to Article 27 (1): 'Each undertaking shall be free to decide to carry forward the whole or part of its production of A  sugar and B sugar which has become production of C sugar after application of Article 23 (4a) to  the next marketing year to be treated as part of that year's production. That decision shall also  be irrevocable. Furthermore, it shall not be subject to any limit that may be laid down under  paragraph 3.`; 9.  the second indent of Article 27 (2), shall be replaced by the following: '-  undertake to store such quantity or quantities for a period of 12 consecutive months from a  date to be determined. For this period, storage costs for C sugar carried forward and for A sugar  and B sugar which have become carried forward C sugar after application of Article 23 (4a) shall  also be reimbursed under Article 8.` 10.  in Article 28 (2), the introductory phrase shall be replaced by the following: 'Before the end of the 2000/01 marketing year and without prejudice to Article 23 (4a), there shall  be recorded cumulatively for the 1995/96 to 2000/01 marketing year:`; 11.  in Article 29 (1), the date '1990/91` shall be replaced by '1994/95`; 12.  Title IV is hereby replaced by the following: 'TITLE IV System of preferential imports Article 33 Articles 34, 35 and 36 shall apply to cane sugar, hereinafter referred to as "preferential sugar",  falling within CN code 1701, which originates in the States listed in Annex II and which is  imported into the Community under: (a)  Protocol No 8 on ACP sugar annexed to the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention of Lomé  (1); (b)  the agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of India on cane sugar   (2). Article 34 Where the quality of preferential sugar imported pursuant to Article 33 and purchased by  intervention agencies or by other agents appointed by the Community deviates from the standard  quality, the guaranteed prices shall be adjusted by means of price increases and reductions. Article 35 1.  No import duty shall apply to imports of preferential sugar pursuant to Article 33. 2.  Preferential sugar shall enjoy no derogations from the prohibitions referred to in Article 19  (2). Article 36 1.  For marketing years 1995/96 to 2000/01, adjustment aid shall, as an intervention measure, be  granted to the industry engaged in refining preferential raw cane sugar imported for that purpose  into the Community pursuant to Article 33. 2.  The aid referred to in paragraph 1 may be granted only in respect of the quantities eligible  under Article 33, which are refined into white sugar at the refineries referred to in Article 9  (4). The aid for the white sugar in question shall be ECU 0,10 per 100 kilograms, expressed in  white sugar. 3.  During the period specified in paragraph 1, additional basic aid of ECU 0,10 per 100 kilograms,  expressed as white sugar, shall be granted for the refining, at the refineries referred to in  Article 9 (4), of raw cane sugar produced in the French overseas departments, in order to restore  the price balance between the sugar and preferential sugar. 4.  For a particular marketing year, adjustment aid and additional aid shall be adjusted in the  light of the storage levy fixed for that year and previous adjustments. 5.  Pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 9 (4), the aid arrangements provided for in  paragraphs 1 to 4 may be extended under conditions to be determined, to raw sugar from beet  harvested in the Community and refined in the refineries defined in Article 9. 6.  Detailed rules for the application of this Article, and in particular concerning the  adjustments, referred to in paragraph 4, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid  down in Article 41. Article 37 1.  During the period referred to in Article 36, in order to ensure adequate supplies to the  Community refineries referred to in Article 9 (4), a reduced rate of duty, hereinafter referred to  as "special duty", shall be levied on imports of raw cane sugar originating in the States referred  to in Article 33 and other States pursuant to agreements with those States, hereinafter referred to  as "special preferential sugar" and subject to the conditions laid down therein, and in particular  the minimum purchasing price to be paid by refiners. 2.  For the purposes of paragraph 1 and without prejudice to paragraph 5, the presumed maximum  supply needs per marketing year, expressed in white sugar, of the refining industries in: (a)  Finland, amount to 60  000 tonnes, (b)  metropolitan France, amount to 297  000 tonnes, (c)  continental Portugal, amount to 292  000 tonnes, (d)  the United Kingdom, amount to 1  130  000 tonnes. However, in the case of Finland, these needs amount: -  for the period from 1 July 1995 to 31 December 1995, to the balance of the quantities of raw  sugar remaining to be refined subject to the limit laid down in Article 16a, as amended by the Act  of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden; -  for the period from 1 January 1996 to 30 June 1996, to 30  000 tonnes. 3.  Without prejudice to paragraph 5, on the basis of a Community forecast suply balance for raw  sugar for each marketing year or part of a marketing year, the quantities of raw cane sugar and raw  beet sugar harvested in the Community with or without distinction of origin available to the  refining industry shall be determined. This balance may be revised during the marketing year. For the purposes of determining these quantities, the quantities of sugar from the French overseas  departments and of preferential sugar for direct consumption to be used in each balance shall be  those determined for the 1994/95 marketing year less forecast local consumption in those  departments during the marketing year in question. If the balance shows that the amounts available  will be insufficient to meet the maximum needs laid down in paragraph 2, the necessary measures  shall be laid down to enable the Member States concerned to import the shortfall as special  preferential sugar under the arrangements for imports at a special rate of duty provided for in the  agreements referred to in paragraph 1. 4.  Except in the event of force majeure, where the maximum presumed needs for a Member State, as  laid down in paragraph 2 or after revision within the meaning of paragraph 5, are exceeded, a  quantity equivalent to the excess shall be subject to the payment of an amount corresponding to the  full rate of duty in force for the marketing year in question, increased by the aid referred to in  Article 36 and, where appropriate, by the highest additional rate of duty recorded during that  marketing year. However, as regards preferential raw sugar and in the event of revision within the meaning of  paragraph 5, the quantities in excess of the revised maximum presumed needs, within the limit of  the quantities laid down in paragraph 2, may be sold to intervention bodies on the terms stipulated  in Article 34 if they cannot be marketed in the Community. 5.  Where Article 23 (4a) applies, the sum of the preferential maximum needs referred to in  paragraph 2 shall be reduced for the marketing year concerned by a quantity equal to the sum of the  special preferential sugars needed to cover the presumed maximum needs determined under the  conditions referred to in paragraph 3, and reduced by the same percentage reduction as was applied  to the sum of the basic quantities A for Community sugar pursuant to the said paragraph 4a. The reduction of the maximum needs shall be apportioned between the Member States concerned on the  basis of the relationship existing between the quantity fixed for each one of them in paragraph 2  and the sum of the quantities fixed in that paragraph. 6.  Detailed rules for the application of this Article, and in particular concerning the  implementation and management of the agreements referred to in paragraph 1, shall be adopted in  accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 41.`; 13.  Article 46, shall be replaced by the following: 'Article 46 1.  Italy shall be authorized, under the conditions set out in paragraphs 2 and 3, to grant  adjustment aid in the case referred to in paragraph 2 (a) and (b) to producers of sugar beet and in  the case referred to in paragraph 2 (c) to producers of sugar beet as well as, where appropriate,  to sugar producers in the region in question. 2.  The aid referred to in paragraph 1 may be granted only in respect of the corresponding quantity  of sugar produced within the limit of the A and B quotas of each sugar-producing undertaking. (a)  For the production referred to in the first subparagraph in northern Italy, the unit amount of  aid may not exceed: -  in the 1995/96 marketing year: ECU 8,15 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1996/97 marketing year: ECU 5,43 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1997/98 marketing year: ECU 3,80 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1998/99 marketing year: ECU 2,17 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1999/2000 marketing year: ECU 1,09 per 100 kilograms of white sugar. (b)  For the production referred to in the first subparagraph in central Italy, the unit amount of  aid may not exceed: -  in the 1995/96 marketing year: ECU 8,15 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1996/97 marketing year: ECU 5,43 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1997/98 marketing year: ECU 4,35 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1998/99 marketing year: ECU 3,26 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1999/2000 marketing year: ECU 2,17 per 100 kilograms of white sugar. (c)  For the production referred to in the first subparagraph in southern Italy, the unit of amount  of aid may not exceed: -  in the 1995/96 marketing year: ECU 8,15 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1996/97 marketing year: ECU 7,61 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1997/98 marketing year: ECU 7,06 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1998/99 marketing year: ECU 6,52 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1999/2000 marketing year: ECU 5,98 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 2000/01 marketing year: ECU 5,43 per 100 kilograms of white sugar. 3.  However, as regards southern Italy only, Italy may, depending on the marketing year in  question, adjust the aid referred to in point (c) of paragraph 2 where this is necessitated by  exceptional requirements connected with restructuring the sugar sector in that part of Italy.  Pursuant to Articles 92, 93 and 94 of the Treaty, the Commission shall assess in particular whether  such aid is consistent with the restructuring plans. 4.  For the purposes of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3: (a)  northern Italy means Italy other than the production regions listed under (b) and (c); (b)  central Italy means Tuscany, Umbria, Latium and the Marches; (c)  southern Italy means Abruzzi, Molise, Apulia, Sardinia, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and  Sicily. 5.  Italy shall notify the Council, in respect of each marketing year, of the measures taken in  application of paragraphs 1 to 3 and, in particular, of the distribution of the aid by region and  between producers of sugar beet and producers of sugar in southern Italy. 6.  Spain shall be authorized, under the conditions set out below, to grant adjustment aid to  sugar-producing undertakings during the 1993/94 to 1996/97 marketing years. The aid shall be granted only for A and B sugars as defined in Article 24 (1a), as part of  restructuring plans aimed at rationalizing the Spanish sugar industry. These plans shall be  forwarded to the Commission. The aid shall be limited to ECU 45,65 million for the period referred  to in the first subparagraph. As an intervention measure, 50  % of the aid granted per marketing year shall be paid by the  Community. 7.  Spain shall be authorized, under the conditions set out in paragraph 8, to grant adjustment aid  in the case referred to in paragraph 8 (a) to producers of sugar beet and in the case referred to  in paragraph 8 (b) to producers of sugar cane in its territory. 8.  The aid referred to in paragraph 7 may be granted only in respect of the corresponding quantity  of sugar produced within the limit of the A and B quotas of each sugar-producing undertaking. (a)  For the production referred to in the first paragraph from beet, the unit amount of aid may  not exceed: -  in the 1995/96 marketing year: ECU 8,67 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1996/97 marketing year: ECU 5,43 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1997/98 marketing year: ECU 4,35 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1998/99 marketing year: ECU 3,26 per 100 kilograms of white sugar, -  in the 1999/2000 marketing year: ECU 2,17 per 100 kilograms of white sugar. (b)  For the production referred to in the first paragraph from cane, the unit amount of aid may  not exceed ECU 7,25 per 100 kilograms of white sugar in the 1995/96 to 2000/01 marketing years. 9.  Spain shall notify the Council, in respect of each marketing year, of the measures taken in  application of paragraphs 7 and 8 and, in particular, of the distribution of the aid between  producers of sugar beet and producers of sugar cane. 10.  During the 1995/96 to 2000/01 marketing years, the United Kingdom shall be authorized to  grant, to the extent that it deems necessary, adjustment aid for the refining of preferential  unrefined cane sugar. The granting of the aid referred to in the first subparagraph may take place only within the limit  of the quantities agreed pursuant to the provisions referred to by Article 33, such quantities  being refined into white sugar in the United Kingdom. For this production of white sugar, the maximum amount of aid shall be set at ECU 0,54 per 100  kilograms of sugar expressed as white sugar.`; 14.  in Article 48, '30 June 1995`, shall be replaced by '30 June 1996`. Article 2 The following paragraph shall be inserted in Article 4a of Regulation (EEC) No  1010/86: '1a.  The standard amount of ECU 8,45 per 100 kilograms of white sugar referred to in paragraph 1  may be reduced to as low as ECU 2,42 per 100 kilograms in accordance with the procedure laid down  in Article 41 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81.` Article 3 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the  Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from 1 July 1995. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all  Member States. Done at Brussels, 24 April 1995. For the Council The President J. PUECH (1)    (2)  OJ No C 110, 2. 5. 1995.  (3)    (4)  OJ No L 336, 23. 12. 1994, p. 1.  (1)  OJ No L 194, 17. 7. 1986, p. 7.  (2)  OJ No L 229, 17. 8. 1991, p. 1.  (1)  OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 7.  (1)  OJ No L 229, 17. 8. 1991, p. 1.  (2)  OJ No L 190, 22. 7. 1975, p. 35.