Translation of "Régime volontaire de réduction des livraisons " (French → English) :

In addition a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme, the Carbon Reduction Commitment, which will cover large non-energy intensive sectors, and the private and the public sector, will be implemented.

The Commission reform proposals include a two-step cut totalling 39% in the price for white sugar; compensation to farmers for 60 percent of the price cut through a decoupled payment - which would be linked to the respect of environmental and land management standards and added to the Single Farm Payment; a voluntary restructuring scheme lasting four years to encourage less competitive producers to leave the sector; and the abolition of intervention.

These cuts would vary depending on how much each Member State and each company had renounced under the voluntary restructuring scheme.

The formula for the final quota cut proposes a high deduction of quota renounced at company level with a view to further incite companies to participate in the voluntary restructuring scheme.

Under Article 39(1)(d) and (e) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, the financial resources available in a Member State on 1 January 2007 following reductions in or cancellations of the amounts of payments which that Member State has made voluntarily, in accordance with Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1655/2004 of 22 September 2004 laying down rules for the transition from the optional modulation system established by Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 to the mandatory modulation system established by Council Reg ...[+++]ulation (EC) No 1782/2003 or by way of a penalty, under Articles 3, 4 and 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy , must be used by that Member State to finance rural development measures.

Accordingly, THE COMMISSION IS PROPOSING THAT FORMULA B BE DISCONTINUED AND THAT THE QUOTA SCHEME SHOULD APPLY IN ALL CASES TO EACH INDIVIDUAL PRODUCER. 4. Rate of the superlevy In view, in particular, of the improvement of the price relationship between milk and animal feed, THE COMMISSION IS PROPOSING THAT THE RATE OF THE LEVY APPLICABLE TO SURPLUS DELIVERIES SHOULD BE INCREASED TO 100% OF THE TARGET PRICE INSTEAD OF THE 75% NOW LAID DOWN FOR CASES OF APPLICATION OF FORMULA A. 5. Reduction in total guaranteed quantities Since the volume of deliveries should decline by 4.5 million tonnes under the impact of the measures proposed under ...[+++]points 2, 3 and 4, and by 3 million tonnes following the implementation of the decisions already adopted as to the introduction of the Community programme for cessation of production, a further reduction of at least 2 million tonnes in the reference quantities is needed if the total reduction in deliveries from present levels is to reach 9.5 million tonnes.