Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of the agricultural markets and laying down specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007) Article 61 (b) provides that the sugar produced in a given marketing year in excess of the production quota referred to in Article 56 may be transferred to the quota production of the following marketing year, as provided for in Article 63.

Article 63 (2) of that Regulation provides that undertakings which take the decision to carry out such a transfer shall communicate to the Member State, before a date to be fixed by the Member State, between 1 February and 15 April of the current marketing year, the quantities of sugar to be moved.

Royal Decree 461/2002 of 24 May 2002 on certain aspects of the Community rules in the sugar sector, in Article 14 (e) of the Treaty, provides that the sugar companies which decide to transfer sugar, the production of which has been previously established, must communicate the transfer decision before 15 April for the production of beet sugar.

On the other hand, Commission Regulation (EC) No 214/2012 of 13 March 2012 derogating from the provisions of Article 63 (2) (a) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 March 2012 on the marketing year 2011/2012 Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, as regards the dates for the communication of the transfer of surplus sugar, as set out in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, which, in the 2011/2012 marketing year, companies deciding to transfer quantities of sugar sugar as provided for in Article 63 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, inform the Member State concerned before a date to be fixed by that Member State between 1 February and 15 August 2011.

It is therefore necessary to amend the deadline for the sugar companies to report to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, the transfer of the quantities of sugar that exceed their quota in the marketing year. Marketing year 2011/2012 to the following marketing year, in order to take into account the sugar beet production of the summer campaign and to make it easier for companies to react to the unforeseen changes in demand in the last months of the campaign.

This Order is issued under the provisions of the final provision of Royal Decree 461/2002.

In its virtue, I resolve:

Article 1. Amendment of Article 14 of Royal Decree 461/2002 of 24 May 2002 on certain aspects of Community legislation in the sugar sector.

The e) is modified as follows:

" e) That the company communicates the decision of the shipment before April 15 for the production of beet sugar and June 20 for the production of cane sugar. In the case of companies producing cane and beet sugar, the communication of the shipment, between 15 April and 20 June, may not be carried out by a quantity of cane sugar higher than that produced in the marketing year. However, for the marketing year 2011/2012, the communication of the decision on the transfer of beet sugar production by the undertakings shall be made before 15 August 2012. '

Single end disposition. Entry into force.

This order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette" and shall apply from 1 October 2011.

Madrid, April 18, 2012. -Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete.