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market; whereas the varieties for which demand exists 
normally have lower crop yields than those of the varieties 
that are traditionally grown; 
Whereas the production aid must be fixed at a level which 
enable the lower revenue resulting from the decreased 
yields to be offset, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
The production aid for certain varieties of rice referred to in 
Article 8a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and sown in the 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community and in particular Articles 42 and 43 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social 
Committee, 
Whereas under the terms of Protocol 7 on ACP sugar 
annexed to the Lome Convention (*) and of the Agreement 
between the European Economic Community and the 
Republic of India on cane sugar (2), the Community has 
undertaken to purchase and import at guaranteed prices 
specific quantities of cane sugar, raw or white, which 
originate in certain ACP States and the Republic of India 
and which they undertake to deliver it; whereas the 
provisions referred to stipulate that they are to be 
implemented within the framework of the management of 
the market organization concerned which is laid down in 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (3), as last amended 
by Regulation (EEC) No 3993/87 (4); whereas those 
provisions further stipulate that, after negotiation, annual 
(!) OJ No L 86, 31. 3. 1986, p. 164. 
(2) OJ No L 190, 23. 7. 1985, p. 35. 
(3) OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. 
(4) OJ No L 377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 24. 1988/1989 marketing year shall be 330 ECU per hectare for 
the countries referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) 
No ... . 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1988. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly 
applicable in all Member States. 
guaranteed prices are to be fixed at which the Community 
undertakes to purchase, within agreed quantities, quan­
tities of the said sugars which cannot be marketed in the 
Community at a price equivalent to or in excess of the 
guaranteed price; 
Whereas the guaranteed prices for preferential raw sugar 
have not, since 1985/1986, enabled the Community refiners 
concerned to pay the suppliers in question the said price 
without any undue adverse effect on their margins; 
whereas that adverse effect has since been offset by a 
Community contribution granted under a temporary 
scheme the period of validity of which has been renewed; 
whereas it is now advisable to introduce a similar but more 
suitable scheme, whereby adjustment aid is paid by the 
Community for the refining of preferential raw sugar in the 
Community; 
Whereas, in order to preserve a balance between the price 
of preferential raw cane sugar and that of raw cane sugar 
from the French overseas departments at the stage where 
those products enter the refinery, raw cane sugar from 
those departments and, when it is processed into white 
sugar in refineries in the Community, raw sugar obtained 
from beet harvested in the Community qualify for an 
additional Community subsidy which is identical to that 
paid in respect of preferential raw sugar; whereas it is 
advisable that this Regulation include such provisions; 
Whereas a provision should be introduced whereby the 
amount of the adjustment aid for the sugars in question 
can, where appropriate, be altered in order to maintain the Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common 
organization of the markets in the sugar sector 
(88/C 139/14) 
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said balance when changes occur in the storage levy and/or 
prices; 
Whereas in view, on the one hand, of the special situation 
of the United Kingdom's market in white sugar and of its 
raw-sugar refining industry which relies entirely on 
supplies of preferential raw sugar and, on the other, the 
abovementioned commitments by virtue of which the 
Community is very much dependent on the existence of a 
viable refining industry in the United Kingdom, where the 
guaranteed prices by the Community are applicable, it is 
advisable to introduce arrangements whereby the United 
Kingdom may, to the extent which is felt to be necessary, 
grant national flat-rate adjustment aid to its refiners of 
preferential raw sugar and whereby part of the aid, namely 
that corresponding to the obligations which the Com­
munity places on the said refiners, would be chargeable to 
the Community; 
Whereas it is advisable that measures should be introduced 
for a certain period only, namely until the end of the period 
of validity of the production-quota system, to allow their 
impact to be assessed, and whereas they should apply as 
from 1987/1988, the marketing year in which the existence 
of the problems surrounding the preferential raw-sugar 
refining margin was recognised, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is hereby amended as 
follows: 
1. The following paragraph is added to Article 9: 
'4b. From 1987/1988 until 1990/1991 adjustment aid 
shall, as an intervention measure, be granted to the 
Community's preferential raw cane sugar refining 
industry. 
The aid referred to in the first subparagraph shall be 
granted only in respect of the quantities eligible under 
Article 33 which are refined into white sugar at the 
refineries referred to in the third subparagraph of 
paragraph 4. The aid for the white sugar in question 
shall be 0,08 ECU per 100 kg, expressed as white sugar. 
Throughout the marketing years specified in the first 
subparagraph, additional aid of 0,08 ECU per 100 kg, expressed as white sugar, shall be granted for the 
refining of raw cane sugar produced in the French 
overseas departments, in order to restore the price 
balance between that sugar and preferential sugar. The 
aid shall also be granted in respect of raw sugar 
obtained from beet harvested in the Community in cases 
where the provisions of the second subparagraph of 
paragraph 4 are applied. 
The amount of the adjustment aid and of the additional 
aid referred to above may be altered in respect of a given 
marketing year in the light of the amount of the storage 
levy fixed for that year and/or to take account of a 
change in refiners' margins which results from the price 
review for that marketing year'. 
2. The following indent is added to Article 9{6): 
'— the alterations referred to in the fourth sub­
paragraph of paragraph 4b'. 
3. The following paragraph is added to Article 46: 
'6. From 1987/1988 to 1990/1991 the United King­
dom may, to the extent which it feels is necessary, grant 
adjustment aid for the refining of preferential raw cane 
sugar. 
The aid referred to in the first subparagraph may be 
granted only in respect of the quantities eligible under 
Article 33 which are refined into white sugar in the 
United Kingdom. The aid granted for the sugar thus 
produced shall not exceed 0,50 ECU per 100 kg, 
expressed as white sugar. 
The Community shall, as an intervention measure, 
reimburse the United Kingdom 25 % of the aid granted 
in respect of each marketing year.' 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
It shall apply from the beginning of the 1987/1988 
marketing year. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly 
applicable in all Member States.