CELEX: 51974PC0601
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Date: 1974-04-26
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL on a tax to be charged on exports of certain sugar products based on cereals, rice and milk in the event of supply difficulties with regard to sugar (submitted to the Concil by the Comission)

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                                PROPOSAI.
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                                          FOR A
                       REGULATION ( EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
        on a tax to "be charged on exports of certain sugar products
          based on cereals , rice and milk in the event of supply
                    difficulties with regard to sugar
               (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
    COM(74) 601 Final
 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLAMTORY MMORA1TOUM
Article 16 of the basic sugar Regulation provides for a charge of a special
export levy when you have the risk that the sugar supply in the entire
Community or in an area of the Community cannot "be secured at a price level ,
which does not exceed the threshold price * In November 1973 the situation
on the world market and on the internal market of the Community necessitated
the establishment of this special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar#
Since then the world market price concerning sugar has gone up so that this
price has reached a level at about the double of the Community price#
The internal sugar market of the Community , being in a state of total
equilibrium considering the internal production , imports from some Commonwealth
countries and the predicted consumption , has recently been characterized by
a sensible price increase .
The basic sugar regulation does not provide for the possibility to expand the
application of a levy 011 sugar exports to processed sugar products based on
milk or other agricultural products# What the sugar products based on cereal
or rice concern it is particularly a question of certain mixtures of glucose
and sucrose which can give rise to abuse in order to avoid the special levy
on sugar exports#
With regard to all the economical factors on the internal and external sugar
market and in particular the favourable position of the sugar products in
the Community, it proves necessary to provide for the possibility to esta­
blish an export tax to avoid an increasing export of sugar products based
on cereal , rice and millc#
The proposed provision allows the use of a tax on exports of these different
products according to the procedures of the Management Committee for " cereal ",
"rice " and "milk"*
 ---pagebreak---                                   iiR.VFT U? PROPOSAL OP
                             REGULATION. (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
                on a tax to "be charged on exports of certain sugar products
                "based on cereals , rice and milk in the event of supply
                             difficulties with regard to sugar
  THE COUNCIL OP THE EUREPEAN COMMUNITIES , •
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 120/67^ of 13 June 1967 »
  on the common organization of the market in cereals , as last amended "by
  Regulation (EEC) No ..../74^» and in particular Article 18 (2) thereof;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) NO 359/67^of 25 July 1967 * on
  the common organization of the market in rice , as last amended "by Regulation
  (EEC) NO          /74^\ and in particular Article 20 (2) thereof;,
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 804/68"^ of 27 Juae 1968 on
  the common organization of the market in milk and milk products , as last
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 662/74^1 and- in particular Article 19 (2)
  thereof ;                     '
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
  Whereas pursuant to the                 ' ,                             -   /,„ / 7)
  second subparagraph - of Article lo (l ) of Council Regulation No 1009/67/EEC
  of 18 December 1 967 on the common organization of the market in sugar , as
  last amended by Régulation (EEC ) NO             /74 » provision may be made for
  a special levy to be charged on exports of sugar in the event of supply
  difficulties within the Community with regard to sugar ;
  Whereas from experience gained in applying this measure it has been clear
  that its effectiveness may be endangered in cases where sugar is exported
  in the form of certain products based on cereals , rice or milk ; whereas
. this danger exist in particular for certain mixtures of sugar and these
                                      1       and
  products based on cereals and rice so for certain milk products , particularly
  as skimmed milk powder and condensed milk , when these mixtures or milk products
  have a relatively high sugar content ; whereas provision should therefore
  1 ) OJ Nr . 117 , 19.6.1967 , p. 2269/67
   2 ) OJ Nr .
   3 ) OJ Nr . 174 . 31.7.1967 , p.l
  4} OJ Nr.
   5 ) OJ Nr . L 148 , 28.6.1968 , p. 13
   6 ) OJ Nr . L 85 , 29.3.1974 » S. 51
   7 ) OJ Nr . 308 , 18.12.1967 , S.l                   1
   8 ) OJ Nr .
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        for
be made/a charge to "be levied on exports of the products in question,
calculated on the basis of the special levy on sugar when this levy-
is exceeding a certain amount j whereases desirable for applying this
measure to take in account , as the case may be , the charge on export
levied pursuant the Regulation. Ho I2O/67/EEC , Ho 359/67/EEC and (EEC )
No 804/685
Whereas this additional measure must be adopted by derogating from the
rules provided for respectively in paragraph 2 of Articles 18,20 and 19
of Regulations No 120/67/EEC , No 359/67/EEC and (EEC ) No 804/68 .
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 ---pagebreak---                                   Article 1
   1# Where a special levy exceeding 5 units of account per 100 kilogrammes is
       charged on exports of sugar , the charging of a tax on exports of products
       containing sugar referred to in Article 1 of Regulations Nq 120/67/EEC ,
       No 359/67/EEC and Ho 804/68 may "be decided in accordance with the
       procedure laid down in paragraph 3 *
   2« The amount of the export tax shall he fixed in relation to the sugar
       content of the sugar product based on cereals , rice or milk concerned ,
       to the special levy applying to white sugar and, should the case happen,
       to the charge on export of the same products pursuant respectively to
       Regulations No I20/67/EEC, No 359/67/EEC and (EEC) No 804/68.
   3 « Detailed rules for the application of this article shall be adopted in .
       accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation
       No 120/67/EEC or, as the case may be , in the corresponding article of
       Regulation No 359/67/EEC and (EEC) No 804/68,
                                    Article 2
   This regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
   publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities »
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at Brussés ,                           Per the Council