§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what percentage of total national markets the leading sugar firms hold in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and the Federal Republic on the assumption that the merger between Co-operative Vereiniging Suiker 438W Unie and Centrale Suiker Mij is approved.
§ Mr. GodberI have been asked to reply.
Information on market shares is not available, but Decision 73/109 of the EEC Commission, published in the Official Journal of the European Communities on 26th May 1973, states that the undertakings listed below produce, or control the production of, or market, the following percentages of the total sugar output of the Member State concerned:
Per cent. France* Société Anonyme Sucre-Union 26 Société des Sucreries et Raffineries Say† 14 Société F. Béghin SA† 14 Général Sucriére‡ 19 Belgium Raffinerie Tirlemontoise 85 Netherlands Co-operatieve Vereniging Suiker Unie UA 100 Centrale Suiker Maatshappij NV Germany Norddeutschen Zucker GmbH 27 Westdeutschen Zuckervetriebsgesellschaft GmbH 35 Südzucker Verkaufsgesellschaft mbH 38 * The production figure on which the percentages are calculated includes production in the French Overseas Departments † These two enterprises have merged. ‡ Including Société Nouvelle de Raffinerie Lebaudy-Sommier and Lebaudy SUC.