Sugar industry during the first years of Slovak membership in the EU and the first sugar reform of 2006
2013
Misik, M., Univerzita Komenskeho, Bratislava (Slovak Republic). Katedra Politologie
The objective of the 2006 EU reform of the Common Market Organization for Sugar was to decrease the amount of produced sugar in the member states and to concentrate the production in the most effective facilities. The decrease of 6 mil. tonnes of sugar quotas was supposed to reduce the amount of subsidized exports and ease the access of the least developed countries to the EU common market. Producers had the possibility in the first (voluntary) phase to decrease their production and to return the sugar production quota in order to get restructuring support. In the second phase of the process that started in 2007, sugar beet producers were also included in the restructuring scheme to speed up the process of production reduction that was according to the Commission too slow during the first phase. The European Commission proclaimed in May 2009 that the reform was successful. The Slovak Republic decreased its sugar quota from 207 432 t that was negotiated during the accession talks to 112 319,5 t starting marketing year 2008/2009. In the first phase Slovakia lost 70 133 t of quota when sugar factory in Dunajska Streda returned its production quota and closed down. In the second phase the quota was further decreased also for the two remaining sugar producers in cooperation with sugar beet producers. These changes negatively influenced processing capacity, amount of processed sugar beet and sugar production as well as the total area where sugar beet is grown.
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