Common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector

IMPLEMENTING ACT: Commission Regulation (EC) No 247/2007 amending Annex III to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 for the 2007/2008 marketing year.

CONTENT: Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 lays down the national and regional quotas for the production of sugar, isoglucose and insulin syrup. For the 2007/2008 marketing year those quotas must be adjusted by the end of February 2007 at the latest.

Adjustments take account of communications sent to the Commission by the Member States before 31 January 2007. They relate, in particular to the additional and supplementary quotas already allocated on the date on which the communications were drawn up.

Undertakings may also request additional sugar quotas up until 30 September 2007. Supplementary isoglucose quotas are allocated in accordance with the conditions laid down by the Member States. The additional and supplementary quotas which are to be allocated for the 2007/2008 marketing year, but which do not appear in the communications sent before 31 January 2007, will be taken into account in the next adjustment of quotas before the end of February 2008.

The purpose of this Commission Regulation, therefore, is to replace Annex III with a new Annex that takes account of revised yearly quotas. The replaced Annex also takes account of the quotas renounced for the 2007/2008 marketing year under the restructuring scheme.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 12 March 2007.