No L 85/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 3. 88 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 831/88 of 29 March 1988 fixing advance payments in respect of the production levies in the sugar sector for the 1987/88 marketing year THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula- tion (EEC) No 3993/87 (%), and in particular Article 28 (7) thereof, Whereas Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1443/82 of 8 June 1982 laying down detailed rules for the “application of the quota system in the sugar sector (%), as last amended by Regulation- (EEC) No 3819/85 (%), provides for the fixing before 1 April, and the collection before the following 1 June, of the unit amounts to be paid by sugar producers and isoglucose producers as advance payments of the production levies for the current " marketing year ; whereas the estimate of the basic produc- tion levy and of the B levy, teferred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1443/82, gives an amount which is more than 60 % of the maximum amounts indicated in Article 28 (3) and (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ;. whereas, in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1443/82, the unit amounts for sugar should therefore be fixed at 50 % of the maximum amounts concerned and for isoglucose the unit amount of the advance payment should therefore be fixed at 40 % of the unit amount of the basic production levy estimated for sugar ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The unit amounts referred to in Article 5(1)(b). of Regulation (EEC) No 1443/82 in respect of the 1987/88 marketing year are hereby fixed as follows: (a) the advance payment of the basic production levy for A sugar and B sugar shall be 0,542 ECU per 100 kilo- grams of white sugar; (b) the advance payment of the B levy for B sugar shall be 10,159 ECU per 100 kilograms of white sugar; (c). the advance payment of the basic production levy for A isoglucose and B isoglucose shall be 0,433 ECU per 100 kilograms of dry matter. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of tbe European Communities. t This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 29 March 1988. () OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. () OJ No L 377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 24. () OJ No L 158, 9. 6. 1982, p. 17. () OJ .No L 368, 31. 12. 1985, p. 25. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President