Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 4 – point 31 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
Article 182 – paragraph 3
(31a) Article 182(3) is replaced by the following text: "3. Member States which reduce their sugar quota by more than 50% of the sugar quota laid down on 20 February 2006 in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 may grant temporary state aid up to the 2013/2014 marketing year. Depending on the application by the Member States concerned the Commission shall take a decision on the total amount of state aid available for such a measure. In the case of Italy the temporary aid referred to in the first sub-paragraph shall not exceed a total of EUR 11 per marketing year and per tonne of sugar beet, to be allocated to sugar-beet growers and to the transport of sugar beet. Finland may grant sugar-beet growers up to EUR 350 per hectare and per marketing year. Within thirty days of the end of each marketing year the Member States concerned shall inform the Commission of the amount of state aid actually granted in the course of that year."