Judgment_paragraph 16 · Saint Louis Sucre, formerly Saint Louis Sucre SA, formerly Saint Louis Sucre SNC v Directeur général des douanes et droits indirects (C-96/15)

16Recital 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 493/2006 of 27 March 2006 laying down transitional measures within the framework of the reform of the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector, and amending Regulations (EC) No 1265/2001 and (EC) No 314/2002 (OJ 2006 L 89, p. 11) provided:‘To carry out the calculation, fixing and collecting of production levies in the 2005/2006 marketing year, certain provisions of 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 and of Commission Regulation (EC) No 779/96 of 29 April 1996 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 as regards communications in the sugar sector [(OJ 1996 L 106, p. 9)] should continue to apply beyond 30 June 2006. The levies are calculated on the basis of statistical data which are regularly updated. As it is the last time that levies are to be fixed for the entire period between the 2001/2002 marketing year and the 2005/2006 marketing year, without a subsequent possibility, as in previous years, to adjust the calculations on the basis of updated figures, the calculations should be deferred and the levies should be fixed on 15 February 2007 to guarantee the reliability of the calculations and the relevance of the statistical data used.’