CELEX: 31977R1113
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1113/77 of 17 May 1977 fixing, for the 1977/78 sugar year, the derived intervention prices, the intervention price for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices, the maximum amount of the production levy and the amount of the repayment to offset storage costs

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                                    COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1113/77
                                                     of 17 May 1977
              fixing, for the 1977/78 sugar year, the derived intervention prices, the interven­
              tion price for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices,
              the maximum amount of the production levy and the amount of the repayment
                                                 to offset storage costs
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     being taken , on the one hand, of the intervention
COMMUNITIES,                                                    price applicable in the north of France, plus the
                                                                marketing costs for deliveries to Italy and, on the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           other, of the marketing costs of the Italian sugar
Economic Community,                                             industry ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­               Whereas, given a normal harvest, the sugar production
zation of the market in sugar ( ! ), as last amended by         in Ireland and the United Kingdom covers roughly 90
Regulation (EEC) No 11 10/77 (2), and in particular             and 40 % respectively of the needs of their respective
Articles 3 (6), 4 (4), 8 (2), 9 (5), 13 (5) and 28 thereof,     home markets ; whereas these needs must in part be
                                                                met by sugar available in Community surplus areas ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1112/77 of 17               Whereas, in these circumstances, the level of market
May 1977 fixing, for the 1977/78 sugar year, the sugar          prices in both Ireland and the United Kingdom will
prices, the standard quality of beet and the coefficient        be determined largely by the offer prices of sugar
for calculating the maximum quota (3), fixed the inter­         from these areas ; whereas a single derived interven­
vention price for white sugar at 32-83 units of account         tion price for white sugar, which may be fixed at
per 100 kilograms for the Community area having the             33-83 units of account per 100 kilograms, should
largest surplus ;                                               therefore be adopted for all regions of Ireland and the
Whereas Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74            United Kingdom, account being taken on the one
provides that derived intervention prices for white             hand of the intervention price applicable in the
                                                                Community area having the largest surplus plus the
sugar shall be fixed for other areas, account being
taken of the regional variations which, given a normal          marketing costs of delivery to Ireland and the United
harvest and free movement of sugar, might be                    Kingdom and, on the other, of the disposal costs of
expected to occur in the price of sugar under natural           the sugar industry of these Member States ;
conditions of price formation ;
                                                                Whereas there is a considerable surplus production of
Whereas in view of the quotas fixed in the production           raw sugar in the French overseas departments ;
areas of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France and the              whereas the most favourable potential outlets for this
Netherlands, a balance or surplus situation can be anti­        sugar within the Community are in the south of
cipated ; whereas, with the exception of the French             France and in Italy, where the sugar, after being
overseas departments, the ex-factory prices in the              refined, may be sold directly ; whereas, on the basis of
areas mentioned will, to a large extent, be equal to the        the foreseeable market prices in the deficit areas of
prices in the Community area having the largest                 Italy, which will probably be 2-43 units of account per
surplus ;                                                        100 kilograms above the derived intervention price in
Whereas sugar production in Italy, with relatively               Italy, and taking account of transport costs between
high production costs, will probably not appreciably            the French overseas departments and these areas, the
exceed the basic quantity fixed ; whereas a deficit of          derived intervention prices for those departments
about 300 000 tonnes should be allowed for, which               should be fixed at 32-63 units of account per 100 kilo­
will therefore have to be covered by production from            grams of white sugar ;
Community surplus areas ;
Whereas, in these circumstances, the level of market            Whereas Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
prices in Italy will be determined by the offer prices           provides that an intervention price for raw sugar shall
of sugar from Community surplus areas ; whereas the             be fixed for those departments, such price to be
derived intervention price for Italy may be fixed at            derived from the intervention price for white sugar
35-36 units of account per 100 kilograms, account                fixed for those departments account being taken of a
                                                                uniform processing margin and a standard yield ;
                                                                whereas, on the basis of available information , the
(') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                         refining costs may be estimated at 2-70 units of
(J) See page 9 of this Official Journal.                         account per 100 kilograms of refined sugar ; whereas,
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  moreover, in accordance with the definition of the                 ings taken into account in the fixing of minimum
  standard quality for raw sugar laid down by Regula­                prices for beet ;
  tion (EEC) No 431 /68 ('), a yield of 92% should be
  taken into account ;                                              Whereas Article 28 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
                                                                     provides for the fixing of the maximum amount of
                                                                     the production levy, for the fixing of the minimum
 Whereas Article 9 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                prices for beet outside the basic quota for the sugar­
 provides for the fixing of intervention prices for raw             beet producing areas for which an intervention price
 beet sugar ; whereas this fixing is not, however, neces­           is fixed and for fixing the percentage determining the
 sary for the Community regions in which this produc­               amount of the supplementary payment which manu­
 tion is not actually marketed ; whereas these prices               facturers must, where appropriate, make to beet
 should be derived from the intervention price for                  sellers ; whereas, by Article 27 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
 white sugar, account being taken of the factors already             No 3330/74, the production levy may not exceed
 mentioned for fixing the intervention price for raw                30 % of the intervention price ; whereas for the area
 sugar in the French overseas departments and of the                with the largest surplus the minimum price for beet
 forwarding costs for supplying raw sugar, these being              outside the basic quota should be fixed at 70 % of the
 estimated at a standard rate of 0-51 unit of account               minimum price for beet ; whereas the percentage
 per 100 kilograms ;                                                taken for determining the abovementioned supple­
                                                                    mentary payment may be fixed at 60 % , account
                                                                    being taken of the value of beet in relation to the
                                                                    intervention price for sugar ; whereas the same percen­
 Whereas the minimum prices for sugar beet, as                      tage should be taken to determine the payment which
 referred to in the first indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regula­      sugar manufacturers may require of cane sellers ;
 tion (EEC) No 3330/74, must be determined for the
 areas other than that having the largest surplus on the
 basis of the intervention prices for white sugar appli­            Whereas Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 cable in those areas, account being taken in particular            750/68 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for
 of the amounts used when fixing the minimum price                  offsetting storage costs for sugar (2), as last amended by
 for beet for the area having the largest surplus, the              Regulation (EEC) No 152/71 (3), provides that the
 processing margin , the yield, the receipts from                   amount of repayment shall be fixed per month and
 molasses and the delivery costs of the beet ;                      per unit of weight taking account of financing, insur­
                                                                    ance and specific storage costs,
Whereas Article 13 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
 3330/74 provides that the threshold price for white                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 sugar should be the same as the target price for the
 Community area having the largest surplus plus trans­
 port charges, calculated at a flat rate, from that area to
the most distant deficit area in the Community, plus a                                         Article 1
 flat-rate amount taking account of the storage levy,
which for 1977/ 78 can be estimated at 1-77 units of               This Regulation shall apply for the 1977/78 sugar
account per 100 kilograms of white sugar ; whereas,                year .
given the state of supplies within the Community,
account should be taken of transport charges between
the departments of northern France and Palermo, the                                            Article 2
main port of importation in Sicily ;
                                                                    For the regions other than the Community area
                                                                   having the largest surplus the derived intervention
Whereas the threshold price for raw sugar is to be                 prices for 100 kilograms of white sugar shall be :
derived from the threshold price for white sugar by
reference to a standard processing margin and a                    (a) 35-36 units of account for all regions of Italy ;
standard yield ; whereas the same criteria as are used
in the derivation of the intervention price for raw                (b) 32-63 units of account for the French overseas
sugar should therefore be applied ;                                       departments ;
                                                                   (c) 33-83 units of account for all regions of Ireland
                                                                          and of the United Kingdom ;
Whereas the threshold price for molasses should be                 (d) 32-83 units of account for the other regions of the
fixed in such a way that the receipts from sales of                       Community.
molasses may reach the level of receipts of undertak­
                                                                   (2 ) OJ No L 137, 21 . 6 . 1968 , p . 4.
(') OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p . 3 .                           ( 3 ) OJ No L 22, 28 . 1 . 1971 , p . 1 .
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                        Article 3                             (b) 21 09 units of account for the regions referred to
                                                                   in Article 2 (a) ;
1 . The intervention price for 100 kilograms of raw
beet sugar shall be 27-25 units of account.                   (c) 1910 units of account for the regions referred to
                                                                   in Article 2 (c).
This intervention price shall be valid for raw sugar of
standard quality, unpacked, ex-factory, loaded on to                                   Article 5
the means of transport chosen by the buyer.
                                                              The threshold price shall be :
2. The derived intervention price for the French
overseas departments for raw sugar referred to in             (a) 39-72 units of account per 100 kilograms of white
Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be              sugar ;
27-53 units of account per 100 kilograms, account             (b) 34 06 units of account per 100 kilograms of raw
being taken of the second subparagraph of Article 3                sugar ;
(6) of the said Regulation .                                  (c) 3-20 units of account per 100 kilograms of
                                                                   molasses .
                        Article 4
                                                                                       Article 6
1 . The minimum price for beet shall be, per tonne :
(a) 28-72 units of account for the regions referred to         1 . The maximum amount of the production levy
     in Article 2 (a) ;                                        referred to in Article 28 of Regulation (EEC) No
(b) 26-73 units of account for the regions referred to         3330/74 shall be 9-85 units of account per 100 kilo­
     in Article 2 (c) ;                                       grams of white sugar.
(c) 25-43 units of account for the regions referred to         2. The percentages referred to in Article 27 (4) and
     in Article 2 (d).                                         (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be 60 % .
2. The minimum price for beet outside the basic
                                                                                       Article 7
quotas shall be, per tonne :
(a) 17-80 units of account for the Community area              The amount of repayment referred to in Article 8 of
     having the largest surplus and for the regions            Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be 0-30 unit of
     referred to in Article 2 (d) ;                            account per month per 100 kilograms of white sugar.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 17 May 1977.
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                               J. SILKIN