Commission Regulation (EC) No 1442/2002 of 7 August 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 as regards marketing sugar produced in the French overseas departments and equalising the price conditions with preferential raw sugar

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 1442/2002
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 is replaced by the following: "1. On application to the competent French authorities, for the 2002/03 to 2005/06 marketing years producers of the sugar referred to in Article 1 and delivered to European ports in the Community shall be granted aid made up of the following components:

(a) a flat-rate amount per tonne of sugar expressed as white sugar to cover the transport costs from the ex-factory stage to the fob port stage, fixed at:

- EUR 17 per tonne for Réunion and Martinique,

- EUR 24 per tonne for Guadeloupe;

(b) a uniform flat-rate amount to cover the sea transport costs from the fob port in overseas department stage to the cif European ports in the Community stage and the related insurance costs;

(c) a flat-rate amount per 100 kilograms of raw sugar expressed as white sugar held in storage by producers at the end of each month, fixed at EUR 0,45 for Guadeloupe and at EUR 0,35 for Réunion."

Article 2

Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1554/2001 is replaced by the following: "1. In the case of sugar as referred to in Article 1 which has been refined in a refinery in the European regions of the Community in the 2002/03 to 2005/06 marketing years, aid shall be granted to the refineries concerned for every tenth of a percent of yield in excess of 92 %, of an amount equal to 0,0387 % of the intervention price for raw sugar fixed for that period."

Article 3

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2002.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 August 2002.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 104, 20.4.2002, p. 26.

(3) OJ L 205, 31.7.2001, p. 18.