CELEX: 31978R2889
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-07
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2889/78 of 7 December 1978 fixing the amount of the production levy for the 1977/78 sugar marketing year

No L 344/28                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             8 . 12. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2889/78
                                                    of 7 December 1978
                fixing the amount of the production levy for the 1977/78 sugar marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   9 462 000 tonnes ; whereas preferential imports
COMMUNITIES,                                                      totalled 1 321 243-3 tonnes, expressed as white sugar ;
                                                                 whereas therefore, the guaranteed quantity is
                                                                 9 136 000 tonnes ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas Article 7 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  700/73 provides that a fixed amount shall be calcu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      lated on the basis of the average of losses incurred in
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                 disposing of sugar during the period from 1 October
zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by            of the relevant marketing year to 30 September of the
Regulation (EEC) No 1 396/78 (2), and in particular               following year ;
Article 27 (7) thereof,
                                                                 Whereas 2 930 670*3 tonnes of surplus production
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation                  were disposed of between 1 October 1977 and 30
(EEC) No 700/73 of 12 March 1973 laying down                      September 1978 ; whereas the fixed amount calculated
certain detailed rules for the application of the quota           on the above basis is 23.117 units of account per 100
system for sugar (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC)              kilograms ;
No 1 573/76 (4), provides that the amount of the
production levy must be fixed for each sugar
marketing year ; whereas the criteria for fixing the said
amount are laid down in Article 27 (2) of Regulation              Whereas the total losses incurred in disposing of
(EEC) No 3330/74 and in Article 7 (2) of Regulation               production in excess of the guaranteed quantity can
                                                                  thus be assessed at 367 887 715 24 units of account ;
(EEC) No 700/73 ;
Whereas the total Community sugar production for                  Whereas the total production above basic quotas but
the 1977/78 sugar marketing year, including quanti­               within maximum quotas and not carried forward was
ties carried forward pursuant to Article 31 of Regula­            1 886 937.0 tonnes ; whereas the amount of the
tion (EEC) No 3330/74, is 1 1 566 334.8 tonnes ;                  production levy is calculated by dividing the total
whereas the quantities carried forward to the 1978/79             losses by the lastmentioned quantity ; whereas the
sugar marketing year amounted to 23 256-7 tonnes                  amount so calculated is 19.50 units of account per
and the quantities produced during the sugar year in              100 kilograms ;
question but not carried forward exceeded the
maximum quotas by 793 424-9 tonnes ;
                                                                  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 111 3/77 of 1 7
                                                                  May 1977 fixing, for the 1977/78 sugar marketing
Whereas pursuant to Article 27 (2) of Regulation                  year, the derived intervention prices, the intervention
(EEC) No 3330/74, the guaranteed quantity is to be                price for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet,
equal to human consumption in the Community less                  the threshold prices, the maximum amount of the
the quantity imported on preferential terms during                production levy and the amount of the repayment to
the same period ; whereas the guaranteed quantity                 offset storage costs (5), fixed the maximum amount of
may not be less than the sum of the basic quotas ;                the production levy at 9-85 units of account per 100
                                                                  kilograms of white sugar ; whereas the levy should
                                                                  thus be fixed at 9.85 units of account ;
Whereas the quantity disposed of for human consump­
tion in the Community during the period 1 October
 1977 to 30 September 1978 may be estimated at                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
(») OJ No  L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                           ment Committee for Sugar,
(2) OJ No  L  170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No  L 67, 14. 3. 1973, p. 12.
(*) OJ No  L  172, 1 . 7. 1976, p. 52.                            (5) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 11 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                     Article 2
                     Article 1
The amount of the production levy for the 1977/78          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
sugar marketing year shall be 9.85 units of account        following its publication in the Official Journal of
per 100 kilograms of white sugar.                          the European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 7 December 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President