# COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 478/2006

of 23 March 2006

fixing the unit amounts of the advances on production levies in the sugar sector for the 2005/06 marketing year

## Preamble

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

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 15(8) thereof,

Whereas:

**(1)** Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 314/2002 of 20 February 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of the quota system in the sugar sector [^2] provides for the fixing before 1 April of the unit amounts to be paid by sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup producers as advance payments of the production levies for the current marketing year.

**(2)** The estimate of the levies gives an amount which is more than 60 % of the maximum indicated in Article 15(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 in the case of the basic levy and an amount below 60 % of the maximum indicated in Article 15(5) in the case of the B levy. In accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 314/2002, the advances on the basic levies should be fixed at 50 % of the maximum amount for sugar and inulin syrup, and the advances on the B levies should be fixed at 80 % of the amount of the B levy estimate for sugar and inulin syrup. The advance payment for isoglucose is fixed at 40 % of the unit amount of the basic production levy estimated for sugar, in accordance with Article 7(3) of that Regulation.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

## **Article 1**

The unit amounts referred to in Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 314/2002 for the 2005/06 marketing year are hereby fixed as follows:

(a) EUR 6,32 per tonne of white sugar as the advance payment on the basic production levy for A sugar and B sugar;

(b) EUR 42,83 per tonne of white sugar as the advance payment on the B levy for B sugar;

(c) EUR 5,06 per tonne of dry matter as the advance payment on the basic production levy for A isoglucose and B isoglucose;

(d) EUR 6,32 per tonne of dry matter sugar/isoglucose equivalent as the advance payment on the basic production levy for A inulin syrup and B inulin syrup;

(e) EUR 42,83 per tonne of dry matter sugar/isoglucose equivalent as the advance payment on the B levy for B inulin syrup.

## **Article 2**

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the *Official Journal of the European Union* .

## Final provisions

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 23 March 2006. *For the Commission* Mariann FISCHER BOEL *Member of the Commission*

[^1] [OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2001_178_R_TOC) . Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 39/2004 ( [OJ L 6, 10.1.2004, p. 16](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2004_006_R_TOC) ).

[^2] [OJ L 50, 21.2.2002, p. 40](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2002_050_R_TOC) . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1665/2005 ( [OJ L 268, 13.10.2005, p. 3](http://publications.europa.eu/resource/oj/JOL_2005_268_R_TOC) ).

[^1]: . Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 39/2004 ().
[^2]: . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1665/2005 ().