L 189/32 Official Journal of the European Union 21.7.2005 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1180/2005 of 20 July 2005 fixing for the 2004/2005 marketing year the specific agricultural conversion rate applicable to the minimum sugarbeet prices and the production levy and additional levy in the sugar sector for the currencies of those Member States which have not adopted the single currency THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (1), Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93 of 30 June 1993 establishing special detailed rules for applying the agricultural conversion rate in the sugar sector (3, and in particular Article 1(3) thereof, Whereas: (1) Pursuant to Article 1(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1713/93, the minimum sugarbeet prices referred to in Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 and the production levy and additional levy referred to, respec- tively, in Articles 15 and 16 of that Regulation are to be converted into national currency using a specific agri- cultural conversion rate equal to the average, calculated pro rata temporis, of the agricultural conversion rates applicable during the marketing year in question. (2)  Since 1 January 1999, pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the euro (), the fixing of conversion rates should be restricted to the specific agricultural conversion rates between the euro and the national currencies of those Member States which have not adopted the single currency. (3)  The specific agricultural conversion rate for the minimum sugarbeet prices and the production levy and the additional levy for the 2004/2005 marketing year should therefore be fixed in the various national currencies, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The specific agricultural conversion rate to be used for the conversion of the minimum sugarbeet prices as referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001, and of the production levy and, where appropriate, the additional levy referred to in Articles 15 and 16 respectively of that Regulation, into each of the national currencies of the Member States which have not adopted the single currency shall be fixed, for the 2004/2005 marketing year, as set out in the Annex hereto. Atticle 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July 2005. It shall apply from 1 July 2004. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 20 July 2005. () O) L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 987/2005 (O] L 167, 29.6.2005, p. 12). (®» OJ L 159, 1.7.1993, p. 94. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1509/2001 (O] L 200, 25.7.2001, p. 19). () O] L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1. For the Commission J. M. SILVA RODRIGUEZ Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development