(1)

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 lays down that for each undertaking, the share of the production of sugar, isoglucose or inulin syrup in the 2006/07 marketing year which is produced under the quotas set in Annex IV to that Regulation and which exceeds a certain threshold shall be considered withdrawn within the meaning of Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 318/2006.

(2)

For the purposes of establishing the threshold in question, a coefficient must be fixed no later than 15 October 2006 by dividing the sum of the quotas renounced in the 2006/07 marketing year in the Member State concerned, under Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 of 20 February 2006 establishing a temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry in the Community and amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (3), by the sum of the quotas fixed for that Member State in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 493/2006.

(3)

In fixing that coefficient, account should be taken of the Commission Communication of 29 September 2006 on the estimated availability of financial resources for granting of restructuring aid for the 2006/07 marketing year, in the framework of the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 establishing a temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry in the Community (4), which was adopted in accordance with Article 10(2) of 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 (5).

(4)

The coefficient for establishing the withdrawal threshold for the 2006/07 marketing year should therefore be fixed,

(a)

Belgium: 0,1945;

(b)

Spain: 0,0863;

(c)

France (mainland): 0,0074;

(d)

Ireland: 1,0000;

(e)

Italy: 0,4936;

(f)

Netherlands: 0,0848;

(g)

Portugal: 0,4422;

(h)

Sweden: 0,1156;

(i)

other Member States: 0,0000.