CELEX: 31973R0238
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 238/73 of the Council of 31 January 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 795/72 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing year the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar and the minimum prices for beet in respect of the new Member States

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                                REGULATION (EEC) No 238/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 31 January 1973
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 795 /72 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing year the
                derived intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar
                         and the minimum prices for beet in respect of the new Member States
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     within the basic quota, account should be taken of
   COMMUNITIES ,                                                   the same factors which contributed towards the
                                                                   calculation of the minimum prices fixed for the area
                                                                   having the highest surplus and as concerns beet
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­              wiithout the basic quota no encouragement should
  pean Economic Community ;                                        be offered to producers with relatively high produc­
                                                                   tion costs ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No
   1009/67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the com­               Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 795/72 (4)
  mon organization of the market in sugar as last                  of 17 April 1972 fixed for the 1972/73 marketing
  amended by the Act (2 ) concerning the Conditions                year the derived intervention prices for white sugar,
  of Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties ,               the intervention prices for raw beet sugar and the
  and in particular Articles 3 ( 6 ), 4 ( 4 ), 9 (7 ) and 28       minimum prices for beet in respect of the new Mem­
  thereof;                                                         ber States applicable in the Community as originally
                                                                   constituted ; whereas as a result of the enlargement
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              of the Community that Regulation should be supple­
                                                                   mented by the determination of the aforesaid prices
                                                                   in respect of the new Member States ;
 Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 794/72 (s ) of
  17 April 1972 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing
  year, the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet             Whereas Article 51 (2) of the Act provides for the
  and the coefficient for calculating the maximum                  fact that before the first move towards price align­
 quota fixed the intervention price for white sugar                ment, the prices to be applied in each new Member
                                                                   State shall be fixed in accordance with the rules
  at 23'34 units of account per 100 kilogrammes for
  the Community area having the largest surplus ;                  provided for in the common organization of the
                                                                   market in the sector in question at a level which
                                                                   allows producers in that sector to obtain returns
 Whereas Article 3 (2) of Regulation No 1009/67/                   equivalent to those obtained under the previous
 EEC provides for derived intervention prices to be               national system ; whereas paragraph 3 of the same
 fixed for other areas, account being taken of the                Article provides , however, that in respect of the
 regional variations , which given a normal harvest               United Kingdom in particular those prices shall be
 and free movement of sugar, might be expected to                  fixed at a level such that the application of the
 occur in the price of sugar under natural conditions              Community rules results in a level of market prices
 of price formation ;                                             comparable with the level recorded in the Member
                                                                  State concerned during a representative period pre­
                                                                  ceding the implementation of the Community rules ;
 Whereas Article 9 (7) of Regulation No 1009/67/                  whereas, in respect of sugar, pursuant to Articles
 EEC provides for the determination of intervention               51 ( 1 ) and 81 of the Act, these provisions shall apply
prices for raw beet sugar; whereas these prices                   to the derived intervention price for white sugar,
 should be derived for the prices of white sugar,                 the intervention price for raw sugar and the mini­
 account being taken of a processing margin, of a                 mum price for beet ;
 flat rate yield and costs of conveying supplies ;
Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for the determination of minimum prices for beet
within and without the basic quota for every sugar
beet production area in respect of which an inter­
                                                                                          Article 1
vention price has been fixed ; whereas as concerns
the determination of a minimum price for beet
                                                                 The text of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 795/72
                                                                 shall be replaced by the following :
(') OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(*) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
(») OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 2.                              (*) OJ No L 94, 21 , 4. 1972, p. 4.
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      'For the regions other than that referred to in                   loaded onto the means of transport chosen by
      Article 2 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 794/72, the                 the buyer.
      derived intervention price for 100 kg of white
      sugar shall be :                                                 2. The derived intervention price for the French
                                                                       overseas departments for raw sugar referred to
      ( a) 24·84 units of account for all regions of Italy ;           in Article 3 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC
                                                                       shall be 20·01 units of account per 100 kg.'
      (b) 23·01 units of account for the French over­
            seas departments ;
                                                                                             Article 3
      (c) 23·34 units of account for the other regions
            of the Community as originally constituted ;           The text of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 795/72
                                                                   shall be replaced by the following:
      (d) 23·34 units of account for all regions of Den­
            mark ;                                                     '1.     The minimum price for beet shall be, per
                                                                       metric ton :
      (e) 21·06 units of account for all regions of Ire­
            land ;                                                     ( a) 19·63 units of account for the regions referred
                                                                            to in Article 2 (a);
    ( f) 18·96 units of account for all regions of the
           United Kingdom .'                                           ( b) 17·68 units of account for the regions referred
                                                                            to in Article 2 (c) and (d);
                            Article 2                                  (c) 15·95 units of account for the regions referred
                                                                            to in Article 2 (e);
The text of Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 795/72
shall be replaced by the following :                                   (d) 14·29 units of account for the regions referred
                                                                            to in Article 2 (f).
    ' 1 . The intervention price for 100 kg of raw
     beet sugar shall be :                                             2.     The minimum price for beet outside the
                                                                       basic quota shall be, per metric ton :
     ( a) 19·85 units of account for the Community
          area having the largest surplus and the regions              ( a) 10·40 units of account for the area having
           referred to in Article 2 (c) and (d);                            the largest surplus determined in Article 2 (3 )
                                                                            of Regulation (EEC) No 794/72 and for the
    (b) 21·23 units of account for the regions referred                     areas referred to in Article 2 (c);
           to in Article 2 (a);
                                                                       (b) 12·35 units of account for the regions referred
    (c) 17·90 units of account for the regions referred                     to in Article 2 (a).'
           to in Article 2 (e);
     (d) 14·79 units of account for the regions referred                                    Article 4
           to in Article 2 (f).
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
    This intervention price shall be valid for raw                 of its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
    sugar of standard quality, unpacked, ex-factory,               pean Communities.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .
                                                                                         For the Council
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                           A. LAVENS