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Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)

(17 a) Conditions for the granting of aid with regard to white sugar: the Commission may, by means of implementing acts, taking into account the market situation, decide to grant aid for the storage of white sugar to undertakings which are allocated a sugar quota if the average price recorded in the Union for white sugar is below 115% of the reference price during a representative period and is likely to remain at that level.

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 84 a (new)

(84 a) To enable beet growers to complete their adaptation to the far-reaching reform carried out in the sugar sector in 2006 and to continue the efforts to become competitive undertaken since then, the present quota system should be extended until the end of the 2019-2020 marketing year. However, given the tensions on the European sugar market, there has to be an arrangement whereby, for as long as necessary, non-quota sugar can automatically be made available to the market, so as to enable the structural balance of the market to be preserved.

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 84 b (new)

(84 b) Before 1 July 2018, the Commission should submit a report to Parliament and the Council on the appropriate procedures for relinquishing the present quota system after 2020. This report should include any proposals needed to prepare the entire sector for the period after 2020.

2012/07/19
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 a (new)

Article 17a Conditions for granting aid for white sugar The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, taking into account the market situation, decide to grant aid for the storage of white sugar to undertakings which are allocated a sugar quota, if the average price recorded in the Union for white sugar is below 115% of the reference price during a representative period, and is likely to remain at that level.

2012/07/20
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 b (new)

Article 36b Producer groups in the fruit and vegetables sector 1. In Member States which acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004 or thereafter, or in the outermost regions of the Union as referred to in Article 349(2) of the Treaty, or in the smaller Aegean Islands as referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006, producer groups may be formed as a legal entity or clearly defined part of a legal entity, on the initiative of farmers who are growers of one or more products of the fruit and vegetables sector and/or of such products solely intended for processing, with a view to being recognised as a producer organisation. Such producer groups may be allowed a transitional period in which to meet the conditions for recognition as a producer organisation in accordance with Article 106. In order to qualify, those producer groups shall present a phased recognition plan to the relevant Member State, acceptance of which shall signal the start of the transitional period referred to in the second subparagraph and shall constitute a preliminary recognition. The transitional period shall be no more than five years long. 2. Before acceptance of the recognition plan, Member States shall inform the Commission of their intentions and the likely financial implications thereof.

2012/07/20
Committee: AGRI

Jarosław KALINOWSKI, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Artur ZASADA, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 b (new)

Article 36b Producer groups in the fruit and vegetables sector 1. In Member States which acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004 or thereafter, or in the outermost regions of the Union as referred to in Article 349(2) of the Treaty, or in the smaller Aegean Islands as referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006, producer groups may be formed as a legal entity or clearly defined part of a legal entity, on the initiative of farmers who are growers of one or more products of the fruit and vegetables sector and/or of such products solely intended for processing, with a view to being recognised as a producer organisation. Such producer groups may be allowed a transitional period in which to meet the conditions for recognition as a producer organisation in accordance with Article 106. In order to qualify, those producer groups shall present a phased recognition plan to the relevant Member State, acceptance of which shall signal the start of the transitional period referred to in the second subparagraph and shall constitute a preliminary recognition. The transitional period shall be no more than five years long. 2. Before acceptance of the recognition plan, Member States shall inform the Commission of their intentions and the likely financial implications thereof.

2012/07/20
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 c (new)

Article 36c Delegated powers In order to ensure an efficient and targeted use of support to producer groups in the fruit and vegetables sector, the Commission shall, by means of delegated acts, adopt rules on: (a) the thresholds and ceilings for aid and the degree of Union, Member State and beneficiary co-financing; (b) the basis for the calculation of the aid and value of the marketed production of a producer group; (c) the additional conditions relating to aid for investment; (d) the continuation of aid in the event of producer groups joining together.

2012/07/20
Committee: AGRI

Jarosław KALINOWSKI, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Artur ZASADA, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 c (new)

Article 36c Delegated powers In order to ensure an efficient and targeted use of support to producer groups in the fruit and vegetables sector, the Commission shall, by means of delegated acts, adopt rules on: (a) the thresholds and ceilings for aid and the degree of Union, Member State and beneficiary co-financing; (b) the basis for the calculation of the aid and value of the marketed production of a producer group; (c) the additional conditions relating to aid for investment; (d) the continuation of aid in the event of producer groups joining together.

2012/07/20
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 d (new)

Article 36d Implementing powers The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, adopt all necessary measures related to this subsection regarding: (a) the submission, content and approval of recognition plans; (b) aid applications, including payments of aid; (c) the implementation of recognition plans and changes to these plans; (d) the consequences that recognition has on aid payments.

2012/07/20
Committee: AGRI

Jarosław KALINOWSKI, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Artur ZASADA, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 d (new)

Article 36d Implementing powers The Commission may, by means of implementing acts, adopt all necessary measures related to this subsection regarding: (a) the submission, content and approval of recognition plans; (b) aid applications, including payments of aid; (c) the implementation of recognition plans and changes to these plans; (d) the consequences that recognition has on aid payments.

2012/07/20
Committee: AGRI

Jarosław KALINOWSKI, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Artur ZASADA, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. In order to prevent dual support being granted for distillation, the alcohol referred to in paragraph 3 shall not be subject to the preference referred to in Article 21(2) of Directive 2009/28/EC concerning biofuels produced from wastes and their contribution towards attaining the final consumption rate for energy from renewable sources in transport being considered to be twice that made by other biofuels.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 49 – paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. In order to prevent dual support being granted for distillation, the alcohol referred to in paragraph 3 shall not be subject to the preference referred to in Article 21(2) of Directive 2009/28/EC concerning biofuels produced from wastes and their contribution towards attaining the final consumption rate for energy from renewable sources in transport being considered to be twice that made by other biofuels.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Jarosław KALINOWSKI, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Artur ZASADA, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 2

2. The Union contribution to the apiculture programmes shall ~~not exceed~~be equivalent to 50 % of the expenditure borne by Member States.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 2

2. The Union contribution to the apiculture programmes shall ~~not exceed~~be equivalent to 50 % of the expenditure borne by Member States.

2012/07/23
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 100 a (new)

Article 100a Duration This section shall apply from the beginning of the 2015/2016 marketing year for sugar on 1 October 2015. With the exception of Article 101, paragraphs 1, subparagraph 1, 2b, 2d and 2e, and Article 101a, it shall apply until the end of the 2019/2020 marketing year for sugar on 30 September 2020.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 101 – paragraph 1

1. The terms for buying sugar beet and sugar cane, including pre-sowing delivery ~~agreemen~~contracts, shall be governed by written agreements within the trade concluded between Union growers of sugar beet and sugar cane ~~and Union sugar undertakings~~or organisations of which they are members and which are acting on their behalf and Union sugar undertakings or organisations of which they are members and which are acting on their behalf. They shall comply with the provisions of paragraph 2a, of Annex IIId and of Annex II, Part Ia, point 11 until the end of the 2019/2020 marketing year for sugar on 30 September 2020.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 101 d (new)

Article 101d Withdrawal of sugar 1. Given the need to remedy situations of surplus based on the forecast supply balance, and taking into account the commitments of the Union resulting from agreements concluded in accordance with Article 218 of the Treaty, the Commission may, by means of implementing acts, decide to withdraw from the market, for a given marketing year, those quantities of sugar or isoglucose or inulin sugar produced under quotas which exceed the threshold calculated in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article. In that case, white sugar and raw sugar imports from all sources shall be withdrawn from the market by the same proportion for the marketing year concerned. 2. The withdrawal threshold referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calculated, for each undertaking holding a quota, by multiplying its quota by a coefficient, which may be fixed by the Commission by means of implementing acts adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 162(2) no later than 28 February of the previous marketing year, on the basis of expected market trends. On the basis of updated market trends, the Commission may, by 31 October of the marketing year concerned, by means of implementing acts, decide either to adjust or, in the case where no coefficient has been fixed pursuant to the first subparagraph, to fix a coefficient. 3. Each undertaking provided with a quota or an import licence shall store at its own expense until the beginning of the following marketing year the sugar produced under quota beyond the threshold calculated in accordance with paragraph 2. The sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup quantities withdrawn during a marketing year shall be treated as the first quantities produced under quota for the following marketing year. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, taking into account the expected sugar market trends, the Commission may, by means of implementing acts, decide to consider, for the current and/or the following marketing year, all or part of the withdrawn sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup as: (a) surplus sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup available to become industrial sugar, industrial isoglucose or industrial inulin syrup; or (b) temporary quota production of which a part may be reserved for export respecting the commitments of the Union resulting from agreements concluded in accordance with Article 218 of the Treaty. 4. If sugar supply in the Union is inadequate, the Commission may, by means of implementing acts, decide that a certain quantity of withdrawn sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup may be sold on the Union market before the end of the period of withdrawal. 5. In the case where withdrawn sugar is treated as the first sugar production of the following marketing year, the minimum price of that marketing year shall be paid to beet growers. In the case where withdrawn sugar becomes industrial sugar or is exported in accordance with points (a) and (b) of paragraph 3 of this Article, the requirements of Article 101g on the minimum price shall not apply. In the case where withdrawn sugar is sold on the Union market before the end of the period of withdrawal in accordance with paragraph 4, the minimum price of the ongoing marketing year shall be paid to beet growers. 6. Implementing acts pursuant to this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 162(2).

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 101 h (new)

Article 101h Quota allocation 1. The quotas for the production of sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup at national or regional level are fixed in Annex IIIb. 2. The Member States shall allocate a quota to each undertaking producing sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup established in its territory and approved under Article 101i. For each undertaking, the allocated quota shall be equal to the quota under Annex IIIb which was allocated to the undertaking from the marketing year 2010/2011 onwards.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 101 l (new)

Article 101l Out-of-quota production 1. The sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup produced during a marketing year in excess of the quota referred to in Article 101h may be: (a) used for the processing of certain products as referred to in Article 101m; (b) carried forward to the quota production of the next marketing year, in accordance with Article 101n; (c) used for the specific supply regime for the outermost regions, in accordance with [Chapter III of Regulation [ex (EC) No 247/2006] of the European Parliament and of the Council; or (d) exported within the quantitative limit fixed by the Commission by means of implementing acts, respecting the commitments resulting from agreements concluded in accordance with Article 218 of the Treaty; or (e) automatically released onto the internal market on the basis of the forecast supply balance to preserve the structural balance of the market, in quantities and subject to arrangements determined by the Commission. The measures referred to in this Article shall be implemented before any activation of the measures to prevent market disturbance referred to in Article 154(1). Other quantities shall be subject to the surplus levy referred to in Article 101o. 2. Implementing acts pursuant to this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 162(2).

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Jarosław KALINOWSKI, Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI, Artur ZASADA, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 103 u (new)

Article 103u Special transfer measures 1. With a view to successfully restructuring milk production or improving the environment, Member States may, in accordance with detailed rules which they shall lay down, taking account of the legitimate interests of the parties concerned: (a) grant compensation in one or more annual instalments to producers who undertake to abandon permanently all or part of their milk production and place the individual quotas thus released in the national reserve; (b) determine on the basis of objective criteria the conditions on which producers may obtain, in return for payment, at the beginning of a twelve-month period, the re-allocation by the competent authority or a body designated by that authority of individual quotas released definitively at the end of the preceding twelve-month period by other producers in return for compensation in one or more annual instalments equal to the abovementioned payment; (c) centralise and supervise transfers of quotas without land; (d) provide, in the case of land transferred with a view to improving the environment, for the individual quota concerned to be allocated to a producer giving up the land but wishing to continue milk production; (e) determine, on the basis of objective criteria, the regions or collection areas within which the permanent transfer of quotas without transfer of the corresponding land is authorised, with the aim of improving the structure of milk production; (f) authorise, upon application by a producer to the competent authority or a body designated by that authority, the definitive transfer of quotas without transfer of the corresponding land, or vice versa, with the aim of improving the structure of milk production at the level of the holding or to allow for extensification of production. 2. Paragraph 1 may be implemented at national level, at the appropriate territorial level or in specified collection areas.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 103 u (new)

Article 103u Special transfer measures 1. With a view to successfully restructuring milk production or improving the environment, Member States may, in accordance with detailed rules which they shall lay down, taking account of the legitimate interests of the parties concerned: (a) grant compensation in one or more annual instalments to producers who undertake to abandon permanently all or part of their milk production and place the individual quotas thus released in the national reserve; (b) determine on the basis of objective criteria the conditions on which producers may obtain, in return for payment, at the beginning of a twelve-month period, the re-allocation by the competent authority or a body designated by that authority of individual quotas released definitively at the end of the preceding twelve-month period by other producers in return for compensation in one or more annual instalments equal to the abovementioned payment; (c) centralise and supervise transfers of quotas without land; (d) provide, in the case of land transferred with a view to improving the environment, for the individual quota concerned to be allocated to a producer giving up the land but wishing to continue milk production; (e) determine, on the basis of objective criteria, the regions or collection areas within which the permanent transfer of quotas without transfer of the corresponding land is authorised, with the aim of improving the structure of milk production; (f) authorise, upon application by a producer to the competent authority or a body designated by that authority, the definitive transfer of quotas without transfer of the corresponding land, or vice versa, with the aim of improving the structure of milk production at the level of the holding or to allow for extensification of production. 2. Paragraph 1 may be implemented at national level, at the appropriate territorial level or in specified collection areas.

2012/07/24
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 130 a (new)

Article 130a Full-time refiners – three-month exclusive rights to import raw cane sugar 1. From the beginning of the 2015/2016 marketing year for sugar on 1 October 2015 to the end of the 2019/2020 marketing year for sugar on 30 September 2020, for the first three months of each marketing year (from 1 October to 31 December), full-time refiners, as defined in Annex II, Part Ia, shall be granted exclusive rights to import raw cane sugar for refining in quantities covered by export licences, up to 2 489 735 tonnes, expressed in white sugar. 2. Taking into account the need to ensure that imported sugar for refining is refined in accordance with this section, the Commission may, by means of delegated acts in accordance with Article 160, adopt: (a) certain definitions for the operation of the import arrangements referred to in paragraph 1; (b) the conditions and eligibility requirements that an operator has to fulfil to lodge an application for an import licence, including the lodging of a security; (c) rules on administrative penalties to be charged. 3. The Commission may, by means of implementing acts in accordance with Article 162(2), adopt the necessary rules concerning the supporting documents to be supplied in connection with the requirements and obligations applicable to importers, and in particular to full-time refiners.

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 158 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(ba) by 1 July 2018 on the development of the market situation in the sugar sector, on appropriate means of discontinuing the current quota system and on the sector’s future after 2020, paying particular attention to the need to maintain a fair contractual system and a sugar price declaration system, together with any appropriate proposals;

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 163 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part

However, the following provisions of Regulation (EUC) No ~~[COM(2010)799]~~1234/2007 shall continue to apply:

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 163 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a

(a) as regards the ~~wine sector: as regards the sugar sector, Title I of Part II, Articles 248, 260 to 262 and Part II of Annex III~~sugar sector, all of the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and all related implementing provisions until the end of the 2014/2015 marketing year for sugar on 30 September 2015;

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 165 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3

However, ~~Articles 7, 16 and 101 and Annex I~~as regards the sugar sector: (a) Articles 7, 16 and 17a and Annex III shall apply only from the beginning of the 2015/2016 marketing year for sugar on 1 October 2015; (b) Articles 106 to 108, 113b and Section 3a of Chapter III of Title II of Part II, as regards the sugar sector, shall only apply after the end of the 20149/201520 marketing year for sugar on 1 October 201520, without prejudice to Article 158(bb).

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 165 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3

However, Articles 7~~, 16~~ and 1~~01 and Annex III, as regards the sugar sector,~~6 shall only apply after the end of the 2014/2015 marketing year for sugar on 1 October 2015.

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part I a (new)

Ia. DETAILED RULES ON TRANSFERS OF SUGAR OR ISOGLUCOSE QUOTAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 101K I For the purposes of this Annex: (a) “merger of undertakings” means the consolidation of two or more undertakings into a single undertaking; (b) "transfer of an undertaking" means the transfer or absorption of the assets of an undertaking having quota to one or more undertakings; (c) “transfer of a factory” means the transfer of ownership of a technical unit, including all the plant required to manufacture the product concerned, to one or more undertakings, resulting in the partial or total absorption of the production of the undertaking making the transfer; (d) "lease of a factory" means the leasehold contract of a technical unit including all the plant required for the manufacture of sugar, with a view to its operation, concluded for a period of at least three consecutive marketing years, which the parties agree not to terminate before the end of the third marketing year, with an undertaking which is established in the same Member State as the factory concerned, if, after the lease takes effect, the undertaking which rents the factory can be considered a solely sugar-producing undertaking for its entire production. II 1. In the event of the merger or transfer of sugar-producing undertakings or the transfer of sugar factories, the quota shall be adjusted as follows: (a) in the event of the merger of sugar- producing undertakings, the Member States shall allocate to the undertaking resulting from the merger a quota equal to the sum of the quotas allocated prior to the merger to the sugar-producing undertakings concerned; (b) in the event of the transfer of a sugar- producing undertaking, the Member State shall allocate the quota of the transferred undertaking to the transferee undertaking for the production of sugar or, if there is more than one transferee undertaking, the allocation shall be made in proportion to the sugar production absorbed by each of them; (c) in the event of the transfer of a sugar factory, the Member State shall reduce the quota of the undertaking transferring ownership of the factory and shall increase the quota of the sugar-producing undertaking or undertakings purchasing the factory in question by the quantity deducted in proportion to the production absorbed. 2. In the event of closure, in circumstances other than those referred to in point 1, of (a) a sugar-producing undertaking, the Member State may allocate the part of the quotas involved in such closure to one or more sugar- producing undertakings. 3. In the event of the lease of a factory belonging to a sugar-producing undertaking, the Member State may reduce the quota of the undertaking offering the factory for rent and allocate the portion by which the quota was reduced to the undertaking which rents the factory in order to produce sugar in it. If the lease is terminated during the period of three marketing years referred to in point I(d) the adjustment of quota under the first subparagraph of this point shall be cancelled retroactively by the Member State as at the date on which the lease took effect. However, if the lease is terminated by reason of force majeure, the Member State shall not be bound to cancel the adjustment. 4. Where a sugar-producing undertaking can no longer ensure that it meets its obligations under Union legislation towards the sugar-beet or cane producers concerned, and where that situation has been ascertained by the competent authorities of the Member State concerned, the latter may allocate for one or more marketing years the part of the quotas involved to one or more sugar- producing undertakings in proportion to the production absorbed. III In the event of the merger or transfer of isoglucose-producing undertakings or the transfer of an isoglucose-producing factory, the Member State may allocate the quotas involved for the production of isoglucose to one or more other undertakings, whether or not they have a production quota. IV The measures taken pursuant to Sections II and III may take effect only if the following conditions are met: (a) the interests of each of the parties concerned are taken into consideration; (b) the Member State concerned considers that they are likely to improve the structure of the beet, cane and sugar- manufacturing sectors; (c) they concern undertakings established in the same territory for which the quota is set in Annex IIIb. V When the merger or transfer occurs between 1 October and 30 April of the following year, the measures referred to in Sections II and III shall take effect for the current marketing year. When the merger or transfer occurs between 1 May and 30 September of the same year, the measures referred to in Sections II and III shall take effect for the following marketing year. VI Where Sections II and III are applied, Member States shall inform the Commission of the adjusted quotas not later than 15 days after the expiry of the periods referred to in Section V.

2012/07/25
Committee: AGRI

28 Amendments of Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI related to 2011/0281(COD)

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