Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 144: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the extent to which sugar beet growing for food or fuel production continues in such countries as Great Britain and France which were omitted from her reply to a previous parliamentary question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30452/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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In my reply to the Deputy's previous question, I outlined the position concerning those Member States where restructuring applications, involving sugar quota reduction, had been submitted in the first two years of the restructuring scheme. No such applications had been submitted in the other Member States, including the UK and France, and therefore their basic sugar quotas remained unchanged. Details of the basic sugar quotas for the Member States in question, as set out in Annex III to Council Regulation (EC) No 318/2006, are given in the table below.

As sugar beet for fuel production does not come within the scope of the EU regime, I do not have information about the extent of beet growing for that purpose in other Member States.