1.The date of establishment, as referred to in the second and third subparagraph of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 609/2014, of the levies fixed by this Regulation shall be no later than 30 September 2018, except where Member States are prevented from respecting that deadline due to the application of national law on the recovery by economic operators of sums paid but not due.
2.The difference between the levies fixed by Regulations (EC) No 2267/2000 and (EC) No 1993/2001 and the levies provided for in Article 1 of this Regulation shall be reimbursed to those economic operators that paid levies in respect of the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 marketing years, on duly justified application of the latter.