Potato starch quotas: 1998/1999, 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 marketing years

OBJECTIVE: allocation of the three-year quota between starch producer Member States for the 1998/99, 1999/2000 and 2000/01 marketing years, on the basis of the Commission's report to the Council on the quota system for potato starch, by amending, to this end, Regulation 1868/94/EC. SUBSTANCE: the proposal for a Regulation renews the existing quotas for three years, taking account of the definitive inclusion in the quota for Germany of the reserve of 104 554 tonnes referred to in the original Article 2(1) of Regulation 1868/94/EC. Where necessary, any amounts utilised in excess of quota by starch producers in the Member States under the flexibility clause during the 1997/98 marketing year will be taken into account. �