CELEX: 31974R3193
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3193/74 of the Council of 17 December 1974 fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year the derived intervention price for white sugar, the intervention price for raw beet sugar and the minimum prices for beet in Ireland and the United Kingdom

20 . 12. 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 341 /7
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3193/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 17 December 1974
              fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year the derived intervention price for
              white sugar, the intervention price for raw beet sugar and the minimum prices
                                       for beet in Ireland and the United Kingdom
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas in a year of normal harvest, sugar production
COMMUNITIES,                                                       in Ireland and the United Kingdom meets approxi­
                                                                   mately 80 % and 40 % respectively of market require­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              ments ; whereas those requirements must be covered
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                   in part by sugar from suplus areas of the Community ;
thereof ;
Having regard to the Treaty ( J) concerning the acces­            Whereas market prices in Ireland and the United
sion of new Member States to the European Economic                 Kingdom will consequently be determined to a large
Community and to the European Atomic Energy                        extent by the offer prices for sugar from those areas ;
Community, and in particular Article 62 ( 1 ) of the Act          whereas a single derived intervention price should
annexed thereto and paragraph 5 of Protocol 17 to                  therefore be fixed for white sugar for all areas of
that Act ;                                                         Ireland and the United Kingdom, taking into account
                                                                   on the one hand the intervention price applicable in
Having regard to the proposal from the, Commission ;               the area of the Community with the largest surplus,
                                                                   plus an allowance in respect of the cost of delivery to
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­               Ireland and the United Kingdom , and on the other,
ment ;                                                             hand the normal cost of marketing sugar in those
                                                                   Member States ; whereas with effect from 1 January
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1 600/74 (2) fixed for
                                                                    1975 common criteria - should be applied for the
the 1974/75 sugar marketing year the derived interven­
                                                                   purpose of deriving the intervention price for raw beet
tion prices, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar
and the minimum prices for beet ; whereas those                    sugar from the intervention price for white sugar ;
prices were raised by Commission Regulation (EEC)                  whereas as regards the minimum prices for beet as
                                                                   provided for in the first and second indents of Article
No 2518 /74 (3 ) of 4 October 1974 on the measures to
be taken following the all-round increase with effect              4 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No 1009/ 67/ EEC (4) of 18
from 7 October 1974 of agricultural prices ;
                                                                   December 1967 on the common organization of the
                                                                   market in sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
Whereas Article 56 of the Act of Accession provides                No 1 602/74 (5), the same criteria should be applied for
that, if world market prices are high in comparison                all areas of Ireland and the United Kingdom as were
with Community prices or if, in particular no refund               applied for the purpose of fixing those prices for all
is applicable, appropriate measures may be taken with              areas of the Community other than that area
a view to ensuring the proper functioning of the                   producing the largest surplus,
common organization of the market ; whereas for
some time there has been a shortage of sugar on the
world    market and      this  has   led   to  a considerable
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
increase in prices which are now much higher than
Community prices ; whereas this has led to a rise in
prices in Ireland and the United Kingdom , bringing
those prices to a level at least equal to that of prices in                                    Article 1
the other Member States ;
                                                                   From 1 January 1975 until the end of the 1974/75
Whereas the situation on the world market is unlikely              marketing year, for all areas of Ireland and the United
to change in the foreseeable future ; whereas it there­            Kingdom :
fore seems appropriate to raise the intervention prices
for white sugar and raw beet sugar and the minimum                 — the derived intervention price for 100 kilo­
prices for beet — these being at present lower than                      grammes of white sugar shall be 27-48 units of
the common prices — to the level of those common                         account ,
prices ; whereas the price referred to in Protocol 17 to           — the intervention price for 100 kilogrammes of raw
the Act of Accession at which sugar is marketed in                       beet sugar shall be 23-39 units of account,
the United Kingdom should therefore be fixed at a
corresponding level ;                                              — the minimum price for beet shall be 21-08 units
                                                                         of account per metric ton,
(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(2 ) OJ No L 172, 27. 6 . 1974, p. 3 .                             (4 ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. 1 .
(J) OJ No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                            (5 ) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p. 7 .
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— the minimum price for beet outside the basic              be 21-37 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of raw
    quota shall be 12-93 units of account per metric        cane sugar.
    ton .
                                                            2. This price shall relate to raw sugar of standard
                                                            quality, naked weight, delivered cif, free out, to ports
                       Article 2
                                                            in the United Kingdom .
1 . From 1 January 1975 until the end of the 1974/                                 Article 3
1975 marketing year, the price at which is marketed
sugar purchased under the Commonwealth Sugar                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Agreement and imported into the United Kingdom              publication in the Official Journal of the European
by virtue of Protocol 17 to the Act of Accession shall      Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 17 December 1974.
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                         The President
                                                                        M. DURAFOUR