CELEX: 51974PC0382
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-21
Title: AMENDMENTS TO THE PROPOSALS FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL concerning "the lovel of the maximum quota applicable to sugar during the 1974/75 marketing year

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OJ? THE EUROIEAN COMMUMÏIE3
                                                          COM(74)382 Final
                                                          Brussels , 21 March 1974
                                AMENDMENTS TO THE PROPOSALS
                           FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL
      concerning "the lovel of the maximum quota applicable to sugar during
                                the 1974/ 75 marketing year
    I. Amendment to the proposal for a Regulation (EEC ) of the Council
        amending Regulation No IOO9/67 /EEC on the common organization of
        the market in rugar (Doc . COM(74 ) 30 Final , part X ).
   II . Amendment to the proposal for a Reflation (EEC ) of the Council
        fixing for the 1974/75 marketing year sugar prices , the standard
        quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating the maximum
        quota (Doc . COM ( 74 ) 30 Final , part VII ).
  III . Amendment to the proposal for a Re;rul?tion (EEC ) of the Council
        fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year derived intervention
        prices , intervention prices for raw beet sugar , minimum prices for
        beet , threshold prices , the .guaranteed quantity and the maximum
        amount of the production levy (Doc . C0M(74 ) 30 Final , part VIII ).
        ( presented by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second
          paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty ).
        C0M(74 ) 382 Final
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMQRAKDOM
                                1
. The Commission has proposed     to the Council that the maximum quota for
  the 1974/75 sugar marketing year "be fixed at 1.35i° of the basic quota.
  The Commission had made this proposal on the basis of assumptions of
  normal output from present areas under beet , imports of at least
  1.4 million metric tons from associated States and the fact that sugar
  produced in excess of the maximum' quota ("C" sugar ) could always be
  brought within the Community arrangements if need be .
  In the meantime , new factors have arisen .    In the first place , world
  market prices are presently far higher than Community prices (the export
  levy is already 30 u.a./100 kgs 2 ) so that if" MC"' sugar were to' be
  brought within the Community arrangements the associated requests for
  compensation from producers would be considerable
  Further ,       the negotiations on sugar imports from certain developing
  countries have not yet begun between the Community and the countries
  concerned ,                         ■ 1
  If the maximum quota were to be fixed at 1 35%» then to secure its sugar
  supplies in the case of a "normal harvest the Community would require total
  imports of 1.28 million metric tons and in the case of a low harvest ,
  total imports of 1.54 million metric tons .
  In paying regard to these exceptional circumstances the Commission considers
  it must adapt its initial proposal by increasing- the level of the maximum
  quota from 135 i° "to 145 $>•
   See proposal for a regulation of the Council fixing for - the 1974/75
   marketing year .sugar prices , thp- standard quality of beet and the
   coefficient for calculating the maximum quota.
  2-   .  .                       ' -
   The intervention' price being 23*57 u.a . per 100 kgs .
 ---pagebreak---  II . Article 24(2 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/®£ » as amended "by the Act of
       Accession^, provides that the maximum quota for the United Kingdom shall
       he fixed at 100$ of the basic quota for the period until the end of
       the 1974/75 sugar marketing year.
       Having regard to the exceptional circumstances which are inducing the
       Commission to amend its proposal regarding the level of the maximum
       quota t>y raising it from 135 to       145 ,!° ( see l )> it would appear
     . justified to increase the maximum quota applicable to the United
       Kingdom for the 1974/75 marketing year by the same proportion, viz from
       100 to 110    fo,
III . The fixing of a maximum quota different to the basic quota in the
       United Kingdom necessitates the fixing of a maximum price for beet
       produced in excess of the basic quota ; Article 4(2 ) of the proposal for
       a regulation of the Council fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year
       derived intervention prices , intervention prices for raw beet sugar ,
       minimum prices for beet , threshold prices , the guaranteed quantity and
       the maximum amount of the production levy , should therefore be amended
       to this effect .                   ■ :
 IV. Finally, the increase in the maximum quota of 135$ to 145 f3            implies
       one final change in the Community rules , viz in the level of the special
       maximum quota, fixed for producers applying the compound price system
       ( the Netherlands and Belgium ) at 230$ for the two sugar marketing years
       197 3A4 and 1974A5 -
       Under these conditions the special maximum quota should, be changed
       from 230$ to 235           ,:
         Act of Accession, Annex I , II , B), h), l ) (OJ No L 73 » 27 March 1972 , P
       ^Article 8(2 ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 1637/73 (OJ No L 165 , 22 June 1973
 ---pagebreak--- Amendment to the proposal for a Regulation ( EEC ) of the Council
amending Regulation No IOO9/67/EEC on the common organization of the
market in sugar (Doc . C0M(74 ) 30 final, part X).
This proposal should be amended as follows :
1 . The following recital should be added after the final recital
    "Whereas the Community 1 s sugar supply situation has caused the
    maximum quota to be increased from its traditional level , fixed
    since the 1968/69 sugar marketing year at 135% of the basic quota,
    to the level fixed for the 1974/75 marketing year of . 145 • -
    whereas these circumstances warrant the fixing of a maximum quota
    applicable to the United Kingdom equal to 110 fo of the basic quota;"
2 . Insert the following subparagraph in Article 2(a).
In Article 24(2 ) of Regulation No IOO9/67 /EEC the third subparagraph is
replaced by the following :
    "However , the coefficient to be applied to the United Kingdom in
     determining the maximum quota shall be fixed at :
       ( i ) 1.0 for the period until the end of the 1973/74 sugar marketing
             year ; and
     ( ii ) 1&10        for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year ."
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H. Amendment to the proposal for a Regulation (EEC ) of the Council
    fixing for the 1974/75 marketing year sugar -prices,' the standard
    quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating the maximum
  - quota (Doc. COM(74 ) 30 final , part VII ).
    This proposal should "be amended as follows :
    1 . The final recital is replaced "by the following recital :
        "Whereas , having regard , on the one hand , to production trends seen
        in terms of specialization and , on the other hand , to Community
        sugar supplies and marketing possibilities the maximum quotas
        referred to in Article 24 of Regulation lTo 1009/67/EEC should
       "be fixed at           145 $ of "the basic quotas :
    2 . In Article 4 "the figure w 1.35" is replaced by that of    1#45 »
 ---pagebreak--- III . Amendment to the proposal for a Regulation ( EEC ) of the Council fixing,
      for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year, derived intervention prices ,
      intervention prices for raw beet sugar , minimum prices for "beet , .
      threshold prices , the guaranteed quantity and the maximum amount of
      the production levy (Doc. CCM(74 ) 30 final , part VII ).
      This proposal should "be amended as follows :
      1 . The following recitals should be added after the final recital :
           "Whereas the Community ^ sugar supply situation has caused the
            maximum quota to be increased from this traditional level , fixed
            since the 1968/69 sugar marketing year at 135$ of "the basic quota,
            to the level fixed for the 1974/75 marketing year of 145
          • Whereas , these circumstances warrant an increase in the special
            maximum quota fixed for the 1973/74 and 1974/75 marketing years
            at 230$ by Article 8(2 ) of Council Regulation (EEC ) No 1637/73 of
            18 June 1973 fixing for the 1973/74 sugar marketing year derived
            intervention prices , intervention prices for raw beet sugar ,
            maximum prices for beet , threshold prices of the guaranteed
            quantity , the maximum amount of the production levy and the
            special maximum quota ;
            Whereas , since a maximum quota has been fixed for the United Kingdom
            at    110      io of the basic quota, a maximum price must be fixed
            in respect of this Member State for beet produced in excess of the
            basic quota ;"
50J No L 165 , 23 June 1973, p.1
 ---pagebreak---                                 - 6 -                    135M/T4-E
Article 8 should Tie added as follows *                 " J
"Article 8                                       ■»:
The coefficient referred to, in the second indent of Article 31 (4 ) of
Regulation Kb 1009/67 /EEC , fixed for the period from 1 July 1973 to
30 June 1975 at 2,30 T^y Article 8(2 ) of Regulation (EEC ) no 1 6 37/73 »
is amended to   2»35
Article 4(2)(a) is replaced 'by the following:
wa) 10.82 units of account for the area having the largest surplus ,
    as specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC ) Uo.«.«..../74 » and
    for the regions referred to in Article 2(c ) (d ) and ( e ). M .