CELEX: 31978R1398
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1398/78 of 20 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating the maximum quota

No L 170/4                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             27. 6 . 78
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1398/78
                                                      of 20 June 1978
               fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet
                              and the coefficient for calculating the maximum quota
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     grams of white sugar per tonne of beet with a 16 %
COMMUNITIES,                                                    sugar content ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas the abovementioned standard costs may be
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                estimated at 13.54 units of account per 100 kilograms
thereof,                                                        of white sugar ; whereas that standard amount is made
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                up of the sum of the real processing margin, ignoring
                                                                sugar storage costs, estimated at 11.90 units of
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­               account, the costs of delivering the beet to factories,
zation of the market in sugar (!), as last amended by           estimated at 2-37 units of account, and the cost
Regulation (EEC) No 1 396/78 (2), and in particular
                                                                relating to the minimum stock not covered by the
Articles 2 (2), 3 (5) and 4 (3) and the second subpara­         offsetting of storage costs, estimated at a flat-rate
graph of Article 25 (2) thereof,                                amount of 0.10 unit of account, less a flat-rate amount
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              of 0.83 unit of account representing factories' receipts
                                                                from the sale of molasses calculated on the basis of a
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­            yield of 38.5 kilograms per tonne of beet processed
ment (3),                                                       and an ex-factory price for molasses of 2.80 units of
                                                                account per 100 kilograms of molasses ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee (4),                                           Whereas the standard quality chosen for beet should
                                                                be a quality which takes account of production charac­
Whereas, when sugar prices are fixed, account should            teristics in the main beet-producing areas of the
be taken of the objectives of the common agricultural           Community ;
policy and of the contribution which the Community
intends to make to the harmonious development of                Whereas in the light of production trends resulting
world trade ; whereas the objectives of the common              from specialization on the one hand and of the
agricultural policy are in particular to ensure a fair          Community's sugar requirements and possible outlets
standard of living for the agricultural community, to           on the other, the coefficient for the maximum quotas
ensure that supplies are available and that they reach          laid down in Article 25 of Regulation (EEC) No
consumers at reasonable prices ;                                3330/74 should be fixed at 1.275,
Whereas, in order to attain these objectives, the target
price for sugar must be fixed at a level which, taking
into account in particular the resultant level of the
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
intervention price, ensures a fair remuneration for
beet and sugar cane producers while at the same time
respecting consumers' interests, and which is likely to
                                                                                       Article 1
maintain the balance between the prices of the prin­
cipal agricultural products ;
                                                                 1 . The target price for white sugar shall be 35-25
Whereas, as a result of the characteristics of the sugar        units of account per 100 kilograms.
market, the risks involved in this trade are relatively
slight ; whereas, consequently, when the intervention           2. The intervention price for white sugar shall be
price for sugar is being fixed, the difference between          33.49 units of account per 100 kilograms.
the target price and the intervention price may be
fixed at a relatively low level ;                               3. The area having the largest surplus consists of
                                                                the following French departments : Aisne, Oise,
Whereas the minimum price for beet must take                    Somme.
account of the intervention price and of the costs of
processing and delivering the beet to factories and be
based on an estimated Community yield of 130 kilo                                      Article 2
(*) OJ  No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                        The minimum price for beet for the area referred to
(}) OJ  No C 85, 10. 4. 1978, p. 31 .                           in Article 1 (3) shall be 25-94 units of account per
(<) OJ  No C 101 , 26. 4. 1978, p. 10.                          tonne delivered at the collection centre.
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                       Article 3                                                   Article 5
Standard quality beet shall :
(a) be of sound, genuine and merchantable quality ;
(b) have a sugar content of 1 6 % at the reception          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
    point.                                                  publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                             Communities.
                       Article 4
The coefficient referred to in Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be 1.275.                       It shall apply for the 1978/79 sugar year.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Luxembourg, 20 June 1978 .
                                                                       For the Council
                                                                         The President
                                                                         P. DALSAGER