Introductory text
United Kingdom
Commission Decision
of 9 November 2006
fixing for the marketing year 2006/2007 the amounts of the aid for diversification, the additional aid for diversification and the transitional aid, to be granted under the temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry of the Community
(notified under document number C(2006) 5306)
(Only the Spanish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish texts are authentic)
(2006/760/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 of 20 February 2006 establishing a temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry in the Community and amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policyf1,
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 968/2006 of 27 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 establishing a temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry in the Communityf2, and in particular Article 13(1) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
By 31 October 2006, the Commission has to fix the amounts attributed to each Member State concerned for the aid for diversification provided for in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006, the additional aid for diversification provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation and the transitional aid to certain Member States as provided for in Article 9 of that Regulation.
(2)
The amounts of the aid for diversification and additional aid for diversification are calculated on the basis of the tonnes of sugar quota renounced in the 2006/2007 marketing year in the Member State concerned, as provided for in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 968/2006.
(3)
The full amounts of transitional aid to Austria and Sweden should be made available to those Member States as from the 2006/2007 marketing year,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: