Sugar segment
Sugar market
The EU sugar policy
- Aim: to secure a competitive sugar beet industry in the EU
- Long-term planning security till September 2015
- Reform 2006/07 till 2009/10 including Price reductions
- Minimum sugar price down by 36 % (reference price), no compensation
- Minimum beet price down by 39 %, compensation for 60 % of the price reduction
- Production of industrial sugar in addition to quotas
- Reduction of EU sugar production by 5.8 million tonnes, with a substantial halt to EU sugar exports
- Restructuring fund as an incentive to surrender sugar quotas from 2006 to 2009, funded by levies on the sugar industry
- No more intervention from 2011
- External protection remains, limiting the rise in imports from AKP-countries and LDCs by protective clauses
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National Quotas in the EU *
* Sugar, from sugar marketing year 2009/10 ** incl. oversea departments *** incl. Azores
Source: WVZ
