Potatoe starch: quota system for the production, 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 marketing years

PURPOSE: to establish a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation 941/2005/EC amending Regulation 1868/94/EC establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch.

CONTENT: the purpose of the Regulation is to renew the existing potato starch quotas for a period limited to two years (2005/2006 and 2006/2007 marketing years), including for the six new producing Member States (Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Slovakia).

The current potato starch quotas, fixed by Council Regulation 1868/94/EC and since amended, expire in June 2005, at the end of the 2004/2005 marketing year. The Council must allocate the quota, which up till now has been for three years, between the Member States as from July 2005.

Following the CAP reform in June 2003, 40% of the current payment is disbursed in the form of a payment to the holding, with the remaining 60% maintained as aid to farmers who produce starch potatoes.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 29.06.2005.

DATE OF APPLICATION: 01.07.2005.