CELEX: 31978R0069
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 69/78 of 13 January 1978 fixing the price for sugar cane to be paid by sugar manufacturers to sellers of sugar cane in the French department of Réunion

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                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 69/78
                                                 of 13 January 1978
             fixing the price for sugar cane to be paid by sugar manufacturers to sellers of
                               sugar cane in the French department of Reunion
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                by applying a formula already used by planters and
COMMUNITIES,                                                  sugar manufacturers ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Economic Community,                                           are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                              ment Committee for Sugar,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­
zation of the market in sugar (J ), as last amended by        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular
Article 7 (2) thereof,
                                                                                      Article 1
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
provides that conditions for purchasing sugar cane are        This Regulation shall apply to cane processed into
governed by agreements within the trade between               sugar produced within the quota in the French depart­
sugar cane producers and sugar manufacturers ;                ment of Reunion during the 1977/78 sugar year.
whereas, where no agreements of this kind exist,
conditions of purchase, and in particular the
minimum proportion of the intervention price for                                      Article 2
cane sugar to be paid by sugar manufacturers to sellers
of sugar cane, are to be determined in accordance              1 . Without prejudice to the application of the provi­
with the procedure laid down in Article 36 of that            sions of Article 27 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No
Regulation ;                                                  3330/74, sugar manufacturers shall pay the sellers of
                                                              sugar cane a minimum price equal to 21-87 units of
Whereas no inter-trade agreement has been reached             account per tonne of standard quality cane on delivery
in Reunion on the price to be paid for cane in the            to the collecting centres used during the 1977/78
1977/78 sugar marketing year ; whereas it is therefore        sugar marketing year.
necessary to fix a minimum price for cane, to specify
the collection centres as the delivery stage to which it      2.     Standard quality cane shall have the following
                                                              characteristics :
should apply and to specify a standard quality which
may be considered as representative of the cane               (a) Sound, fair and of marketable quality ;
processed in that department ;
                                                              (b) Recoverable sugar content 11 % . The recoverable
                                                                   sugar content shall be calculated according to the
Whereas it is advisable for fix the minimum price for              formula set out in the Annex .
cane on the basis of the price received by the manufac­
turer ; whereas this may be calculated from the
derived intervention price fob Reunion for raw sugar,                                 Article 3
plus 4-4 % for the value of the molasses, less a lump
sum of 0-84 unit of account per 100 kilograms of raw
sugar with a 98 % yield for expenditure incurred              Where the recoverable sugar content of the cane
between the ex-factory stage and the fob stage ;               differs from that specified in Article 2, the minimum
                                                               price of the cane shall be calculated by weighting the
                                                               price referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) by a coefficient
Whereas it is appropriate to fix the minimum price             obtained by dividing by eight the percentage recover­
 for cane so that its value represents two-thirds of that      able sugar content of the cane, less three.
 received by the manufacturer ;
                                                                                      Article 4
Whereas the payment for cane with a sugar content
differing from the standard quality should be adjusted
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
(•) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                         following its publication in the Official Journal of
(2) OJ No L 303, 28. 1 *. 1977, p. 1 .                          the European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 13 January 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
                                                           ANNEX
           Subject to point 2, the formula to be used to obtain the sugar content is as follows :
                                            SR = 0.94 S (1 — 1.275 f) — 1.90
           0.94 = coefficient to take account of the difference between the sugar content on entry into the
                     factory and after processing as well as the non-representativity of samples taken in 1977/78,
           S     = sugar in grams % grams of press juice,
           f     = 0.5 b = weight of bagasse in the unit weight of cane,
           SR = % of raw sugar recoverable from a 98 % yield
           1.90 = standard allowance for sugar processing wastage.