Commission Decision of 14 July 2008 fixing for the marketing year 2008/09 the amounts of the aid for diversification and the additional aid for diversification to be granted under the temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry of the Community (notified under document number C(2008) 3498) (Only the Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic) (2008/600/EC) (c. 600)

Commission Decision

of 14 July 2008

fixing for the marketing year 2008/09 the amounts of the aid for diversification and the additional aid for diversification to be granted under the temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry of the Community

(notified under document number C(2008) 3498)

(Only the Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish texts are authentic)

(2008/600/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(1),

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 Community(2), and in particular Article 13(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) By 31 May 2008, 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 and the additional aid for diversification provided for in Article 7 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 2008/09 marketing year in the Member State concerned, as provided for in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 968/2006,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The amounts per Member State concerned of the aid for diversification and the additional aid for diversification provided for in Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 respectively, as fixed in respect of the quotas renounced in the 2008/09 marketing year, are set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, Romania, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 14 July 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Amounts per Member State of the aid for diversification and the additional aid for diversification 2008/2009 marketing year

(EUR)
Member State	Aid for diversification	Additional aid for diversification
Belgium	19 328 990,8	—
Bulgaria	445 737,6	445 737,6
Denmark	7 511 785,4	—
Germany	71 025 341,24	—
Spain	24 066 969,5	—
France	64 126 854,01	—
Italy	23 024 757,7	11 512 378,85
Lithuania	1 947 100,4	—
Hungary	18 119 439,8	22 466 717,48
The Netherlands	11 870 108,6	—
Austria	5 138 833,0	—
Poland	34 412 304,98	—
Portugal	1 407 000,0	2 904 905,25
Romania	419 772,35	—
Slovakia	3 150 179,2	5 414 871,35
Finland	844 293,8	—
Sweden	4 712 136,8	—
United Kingdom	15 477 000,0	—

(1)

OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 42. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1261/2007 (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 8).

(2)

OJ L 176, 30.6.2006, p. 32. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1264/2007 (OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 16).