CELEX: 51977PC0231
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-31
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION modifying Regulation (EEC) No 447/68 laying down general rules for intervention buying of sugar (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(77 ) 231 final .
                                                    Brussels , 31 May 1977
                                Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION
            modifying Regulation (EEC ) No 447/68 laying down
             general rules for intervention buying of sugar
              ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
COM(77 ) 231 final .
 ---pagebreak---                EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
When fixing the agricultural prices to apply in the sugar sector
in the marketing year 1977/78 » the Council , in contrast with previous
years , established intervention prices for white and raw sugar exclusive
of the storage levy .
This new practice will not affect the producer 's effective selling price
at the ex-factory stage } on the other hand , since intervention agencies
will "be required to pay the levy on sale from intervention it is necessary
to provide , as in the present proposal , that they may include the levy
in their selling price .
 ---pagebreak---                             PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
                     amending Regulation (EEC ) No 447/68 laying down
                    general rules for intervention "buying of sugar
 TOE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common
organisation of the market in sugar ( 1 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No . .../77
 ( 2 ), and in particular Article 9 ( 5 ) thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the intervention prices for white and raw sugar have been fixed , with effect
from 1 July 1 977 » without taking account of the levy provided for in Article 8 of
Regulation (EEC ) No 3330/74 ? whereas the producer 's effective market price at the
ex-factory stage is one which necessarily takes into account the said levy which is
payable at the time of production ; whereas therefore , the same rule should apply when
sugar is put on sale by the intervention agency , which is also required to pay the
said levy when such sugar is marketed; whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 447/68 of
9 April 1968 laying down general rules for intervention buying of sugar ( 3 ), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 2274/70 (4 )» should be amended accordingly ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                       Article 1
In Article 3 of Regulation (EEC ) No 447/68 the following paragraph 2a is hereby
inserted :
H 2a    The selling price or the minimum selling price at the time when the sugar
        is put on sale shall take into account the levy referred to in Article 8
        of Regulation (EEC ) No 3330/74 which applies during the sugar marketing year
        in which the sugar is put on sale".
                                       Article 2
        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1 977 •
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applioable in all
Member States .
                                                             Done at
                                                             For the Council .
1 OJ No L 359 , 31.12.1974 , p.1
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3 ) OJ No L 91 , 12.4.1968 , p. 5
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4 ) OJ No L 246 , 12.11.1970 , p. 3