CELEX: 31973R0689
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 689/73 of the Commission of 9 March 1973 laying down certain detailed rules necessary for the application of the subsidy provided for the refining of raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments

13 . 3 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 66/21
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 689/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 9 March 1973
              laying down certain detailed rules necessary for the application of the subsidy provided
                   for the refining of raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                            Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                1 . The amounts of subsidy specified in Article 3
pean Economic Community ;                                         of Regulation (EEC) No 239/73 , converted into
                                                                  amounts for 100 kilogrammes of standard quality
                                                                  raw sugar, are :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/
67/EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common                      ( a) 0-86 units of account for raw sugar refined
organization of the market in sugar, as last                           between 1 February 1973 and 30 June 1973 .
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and in                      inclusive ;
particular Articles 9 ( 8 ) and 38 thereof ;
                                                                  (b) 0-63 units of account for raw sugar refined
                                                                       during the 1973 /74 marketing year ;
Whereas, in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 239/73 (3) of 31 January 1973 on the marketing                 ( c) 0-40 units of account for raw sugar refined
                                                                       between 1 July 1974 and 28 February 1975
price for sugar imported into the United Kingdom                       inclusive .
under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agree­
ment and on measures to assist the marketing of
                                                                  2.     For raw sugar of a quality other than the
sugar produced in the French overseas departments,
a subsidy is provided for raw sugar produced in the               standard quality the amounts specified in paragraph
                                                                  1 shall be adjusted by a conversion factor. This
French overseas departments and refined in the
Community as originally constituted ; whereas                     conversion factor shall be equal to the yield of such
                                                                  raw sugar divided by 92. The yield shall be calcu­
certain provisions should be made to regulate the
                                                                  lated in accordance with Article 1 of Council Regu­
procedure for granting such subsidy ; whereas it
must be ensured that, in trade in such sugar, com­
                                                                 lation ( EEC) No 431 /68 (4) of 9 April 1968 deter­
                                                                  mining the standard quality for raw sugar and
petition is not distorted by the granting of other aids,
even where these take the form of an exemption in                 fixing the Community frontier crossing point for
whole or in part from a charge ;                                  calculating cif prices for sugar.
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas the amounts specified in Article 3 of Regu­
lation (EEC ) No 239/73 are for 100 kilogrammes of                The subsidy provied for in Article 2 of Regulation
white sugar ; whereas for administrative purposes                  ( EEC) No 239/73 shall be granted to any refiner
connected with the granting of the subsidy those                  who processes raw sugar into white sugar in one of
amounts should be converted into amounts for 100                  the Member States of the Community as originally
kilogrammes of raw sugar and provision should be                  constituted . The subsidy shall be granted, on appli­
made for the necessary adjustments where the yield                cation from the refiner to be submitted before the
differ from that of the standard quality ;                        sugar is refined, by the Member State in whose terri­
                                                                  tory the raw sugar is processed. The applicant shall
Whereas provision should be made for regular                      prove that the raw sugar in question was produced
commmunication which would help to ascertain                      in the French overseas departments . The concerned
how much of the sugar involved is being refined ;                 Member State takes this sugar under customs
                                                                  control, or under an administrative inspection
                                                                  offering equivalent guarantees.
Whereas the Management Committee for Sugar has
not delivered an opinion within the time limit set                                          Article 3
by its Chairman ;
                                                                  All other aids concerning the refining of the sugar
                                                                  specified in Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC ) No
(*) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973 , p. 1 .
(s) OJ No L 29, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 14 .                            (4) OJ No L 89, 10 . 4 . 1968 , p. 3 .
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239/73 , even in the form of exemption in whole or           the purposes of such communications the quantities
in part from any charge, is prohibited.                      shall be converted into standard quality raw sugar.
                       Article 4                                                     Article 5
Each of the Member States specified in Article 2             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
shall inform the Commission for each month within            its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
the next two months of the quantities on which the           pean Communities. It shall apply from 1 February
subsidy specified in Article 1 has been granted ; for        1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Dane at Brussels, 9 March 1973 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                          The President
                                                                     Francois-Xavier ORTOLI