L 343)2 Official Journal of the European Union 19.12.2013 (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 1360/2013 of 2 December 2013 fixing the production levies in the sugar sector for the 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 marketing years, the coefficient required for calculating the additional levy for the 2001/2002 and 2004/2005 marketing years and the amount to be paid by sugar manufacturers to beet sellers in respect of the difference between the maximum levy and the levy to be charged for the 2002/2003, 2003/2004 and 2005/2006 marketing years THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 43(3) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, Whereas: (1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 (!), and in particular the first indent of Article 15(8), Article 16(5), and Article 18(5), empowered the Commission to adopt detailed rules on the basic production levy and the B levy to be collected from quota holders operating in the framework of the common organisation of markets in the sugar sector, the coefficient for the calculation of an additional levy, and the repayment or recovery of part of the levies from beet sellers. (2)  The Commission established the production levies for the 2001/2002 (), 2002/2003 (%, 2003/2004 (4, 2004/2005 (°) and 2005/2006 (°) marketing years. (") Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 of 19 June 2001 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (O] L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 1). () Commission Regulation (EC) No 1837/2002 (O] L 278, 16.10.2002, p. 13). (*) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1762/2003 (OJ L 254, 8.10.2003, . 4). * }éommission Regulation (EC) No 1775/2004 (O] L 316, 15.10.2004, p. 64). (°) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1686/2005 (O] L 271, 15.10.2005, p. 12). (°) Commission Regulation (EC) No 164/2007 (O] L 51, 20.2.2007, p. 17). (3)  Article 18(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 provided that when a basic production levy was lower than the maximum amount referred to in Article 15(3) or when the B levy referred to in that Article was lower than the maximum amount referred to in Article 15(4) of that Regulation, adjusted, where necessary, in accordance with Article 15(5), sugar manufacturers were to pay back beet sellers 60 % of the difference between the maximum amount of the levy concerned and the levy to be charged. (4)  In accordance with Article 9(1) of Commission Regu- lation (EC) No 314/2002 (7), the amount to be paid by sugar manufacturers to beet sellers in respect of the difference between the maximum basic production levy and the B levy and the chargeable levy, were set for the 2002/2003 (¥, 2003/2004 () and  2005/2006 (°) marketing years. (5)  In the framework of the reform of the common market organisation for the sugar sector, Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 (') repealed and replaced Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 as of the 2006/2007 marketing year. Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, which was subsequently repealed and incorporated into Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 ('?), replaced the variable sugar production levy system of self-financing the production quota regime by a new production charge aimed at () Commission Regulation (EC) No 314/2002 of 20 February 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of the quota system in the sugar sector (O] L 50, 21.2.2002, p. 40). (% OJ L 254, 8.10.2003, p. 5. () OJ L 316, 15.10.2004, p. 65. (19 O] L 51, 20.2.2007, p. 16. () Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (O] L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1). (*») Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 estab- lishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (O] L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1).