CELEX: 31975R3118
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-28
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3118/75 of the Commission of 28 November 1975 fixing for the sugar marketing year 1974/75 the guaranteed quantity and the amount of the production levy and laying down certain associated special measures

29 . 11 . 75                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 309/ 67
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3118/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 28 November 1975
              fixing for the sugar marketing year 1974/75 the guaranteed quantity and the
              amount of the production levy and laying down certain associated special
                                                             measures
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the European Economic Community and the Repu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         blic of India on cane sugar, which entered into force
                                                                     on 18 July 1975, cane sugar originating in the States,
                                                                     countries and territories concerned has in the mean­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                time been allowed to be imported into the Commu­
Economic Community ;                                                 nity on preferential terms ; whereas the Council has
                                                                     consequently been unable to fix in time for the sugar
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         marketing year 1974/75 the said guaranteed quantity ;
3330/74 (*) of 19 December 1974 on the common                        whereas Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC has been
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 repealed with effect from 30 June 1975 by Regulation
by Regulation (EEC) No 2623/75 (2), and in particular                (EEC) No 3330/74 ;
Article 48 thereof ;
                                                                     Whereas the abovementioned provisions governing
Whereas under Article 26(1 ) and (2) of Council Regu­                the previous fixings, and the reasons which led the
lation No 1009/67/ EEC (3) of 18 December 1967 on                    Council to derogate therefrom as regards the
the common organization of the market in sugar, as                   marketing year 1974/75, should in spite of the repeal
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (4), the                 of Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC be given effect in
Council was to fix for each marketing year, at the                   respect of that year ; whereas the guaranteed quantity
same time as the derived intervention prices, a                      for the said marketing year should therefore be calcu­
guaranteed quantity based on anticipated human                       lated by subtracting the quantities imported on prefer­
consumption less the quantity of sugar permitted to                  ential terms over the period 1 October 1974 to 30
be imported under the arrangements laid down in                      September 1975 from the quantity disposed of for
Protocol 17 (5) to the Act annexed to the Treaty of                  human consumption during the same period ; whereas
Accession ; whereas, in respect of the sugar marketing               this latter quantity amounts to 9 587 000 metric tons
year 1974/75, paragraph 3 of the same Article, which                 while the imports in question amount to 1 158 000
was added by Regulation (EEC) No 1 602/74 (6),                       metric tons expressed in white value ; whereas the
provided by way of derogation from the preceding                     guaranteed quantity should therefore be fixed at
paragraphs of that Article that the guaranteed quantity               8 429 000 metric tons of white sugar ;
should be fixed after the commencement of the arran­
gements to be applied with effect from 1 January
 1975 in respect of imports into the Community of                    Whereas Article 7(1 ) of Commission Regulation
sugar originating in certain developing countries ;                  (EEC) No 700/73 ( u ) of 12 March 1973 laying down
                                                                     certain detailed rules for the application of the quota
                                                                     system for sugar provides that the amount of the
Whereas under Protocol 3 on ACP sugar annexed to                      production levy valid for a given marketing year shall
 the ACP-EEC Convention of Lome and provisionally                    be fixed before 1 December of the following
 implemented with effect from 28 February 1975 by                     marketing year ; whereas the amount of the produc­
 the Agreements (7) on cane sugar in the form of                      tion levy is to be calculated in particular by reference
 exchanges of letters between the Community and                       to the losses incurred in disposing of the quantity
 certain ACP States, and by virtue of the Council Deci­               produced in the Community in excess of the
 sion of 25 February 1 975 (8) on imports of cane sugar              guaranteed quantity ; whereas production within the
 originating in the overseas countries and territories                maximum quotas during the marketing year in ques­
 (OCT), as supplemented by the Council Decision of                    tion , including quantities carried forward to that
 26 March 1975 (9), and of the Agreement ( 10) between                marketing year, amounted to 8 363 175-1 metric tons ;
                                                                      whereas the production levy for the sugar marketing
 (') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                               year 1974/75 should therefore be fixed at zero ;
 (2 ) OJ No L 268 , 17. 10 . 1975, p. 1 .
 (3 ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 .
 C ) OJ No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p. 70 .
 (5 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 173 .                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 (0) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p . 7 .                              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 ( 7) OJ No L 268 , 17. 10 . 1975, p . 39 .                           ment Committee for Sugar,
 (s ) OJ No L 268 , 17 . 10 . 1975, p . 43 .
 O OJ No L 268 , 17 . 10 . 1975, p . 45 .
 ( 10) OJ No L 190 , 23 . 7. 1975, p . 36 .                           (") OJ No L 67, 14. 3 . 1973 , p. 12.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                     Article 3
                                                           The price to be paid by sugar manufacturers to sellers
                      Article 1                            of beet in respect of beets used for sugar produced
                                                           during the marketing year 1974/75 in excess of the
The guaranteed quantity for the sugar marketing year       basic quota but within the maximum quota shall be
1974/75 shall be 8 429 000 metric tons of white sugar.     not less than the minimum price for beet for that
                                                           year.
                      Article 2
                                                                                  Article 4
The amount of the production levy for the sugar            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
marketing year 1974/75 shall be 0-00 unit of account       following its publication in the Official Journal of
per 100 kilogrammes of white sugar.                        the European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 28 November 1975 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                 Member of the Commission