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The sugar quota is in principle fixed per country by Community legislation. Under the current sugar market organisation, the quotas are allocated by the Member States to the sugar manufacturing undertakings and are actually not allocated directly to the beet growers. This principle will remain unchanged after the reform and Poland is no exception to this rule.
The restructuring fund will be set up in order to facilitate the necessary restructuring measures that should lead to lower sugar production in the less competitive regions within the European Union.
Undertakings which renounce their sugar quota will be eligible for restructuring aid over a transitional period of four years. However, this payment will be linked to a series of conditions, including obligatory consultation with the beet growers and the submission of a restructuring plan to be agreed between the government and the industry. Member States will have significant flexibility to lay down detailed rules for the implementation of the restructuring aid, as long as they comply with the general rules of future Community legislation. Therefore – and this is very important and I underline it at every opportunity – the restructuring money
by the industry. This is very important and it is the whole idea behind this restructuring fund.
Besides the undertakings, beet growers and machinery contractors will also be able to benefit from this restructuring fund. An amount of at least 10% of the restructuring fund, amounting to EUR 730 per tonne, should be reserved for the farmers, to compensate in particular for investment in the specialised machinery needed to produce sugar beet. It is quite clear, with this wording of ‘at least 10%’, that Member States can decide that a higher percentage should be allocated to the sugar beet producers, the farmers.
It should also be emphasised that, independently of the restructuring fund that we have just talked about, sugar beet growers will receive direct aid as compensation for their loss of revenue due to the reduction in prices. They will receive this direct aid even if they stop producing sugar beet. This is very important.
For the new Member States specifically, there will clearly be no phasing-in of the direct payment for the sugar beet compensation. The sugar beet producers in the new Member States will receive exactly the same amount per hectare in compensation as the EU-15, which means that there is no phasing-in as there is for cereals. The compensation will be 100% right from when the new sugar reform is first implemented."@en1
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