CELEX: 31976R1491
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1491/76 of 22 June 1976 laying down, for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, measures to facilitate the disposal of sugar produced in the French overseas departments

26 . 6 . 76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 167/ 17
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1491 /76
                                                      of 22 June 1976
               laying down, for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, measures to facilitate the
                        disposal of sugar produced in the French overseas departments
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     are disposed of in those regions ; whereas the amount
COMMUNITIES,                                                    of the subsidy should be determined on the basis of
                                                                 the value of the raw sugar delivered at the place of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            refining, the oulets after processing, the necessary
Economic Community,                                              refining margin for sugar refined in a refinery as
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     defined in Article 9 (7) of Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                3330/74 and the differential amount fixed by Council
zation of the market in sugar ( J ), as last amended by          Regulation (EEC) No 1490/76 of 22 June 1976 fixing,
Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular               for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, the differential
Article 9 (5) thereof,                                           charge to be levied on raw preferential sugar and the
                                                                 differential amount to be granted in respect of raw
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               cane sugar from the French overseas departments (3),
Whereas Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that appropriate measures are to be taken in            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the event of difficulties arising in the disposal of sugar
produced in the French overseas departments ;                                              Article 1
whereas the existence of such difficulties has been
recognized in the past and appropriate Community                 This Regulation shall apply for the 1976/77 sugar
measures have already been taken ; whereas these diffi­          marketing year.
culties still remain ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the economic relationship between the
French overseas departments and the European                      1.    Within the maximum quota a subsidy shall be
regions of the Community requires that the bulk of               granted for raw sugar produced in the French overseas
the sugar from the French overseas departments                   departments and refined in the Community.
should be disposed of in those regions ;
                                                                 2. The subsidy referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
Whereas a subsidy should be granted for the refining              1-29 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar
of the sugar concerned to ensure that these quantities           expressed as white sugar.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Luxembourg, 22 June 1976.
                                                                              For the Council
                                                                                The President
                                                                                J. HAMILIUS
(') OJ No L 359, 31 . .12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2 ) See page 9 of this Official Journal .                       (3 ) See page 15 of this Official Journal .