CELEX: 31969R0911
Language: en
Date: 1969-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 911/69 of the Council of 13 May 1969 on measures to assist in the marketing of sugar produced in the French overseas departments

Official Journal of the European Communities                                   225
 17.5.69                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 118 / 1
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 911/69 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 13 May 1969
                        on measures to assist in the marketing of sugar produced in the French
                                                   overseas departments
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        that area were able, through the system applicable in
                                                                 France prior to the common organisation of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     market in sugar, to sell their sugar after refining at
 European Economic Community ;                                   the same price as that of manufacturers in northern
                                                                 France ; whereas, on the basis of that French system,
Having      regard     to    Council    Regulation     No        the refineries concerned marketed practically all their
 1009/67/EEC1 of 18 December 1967 on the common                  production in the form of sugar of certain qualities
 organisation of the market in sugar, as amended by              and in certain specific packaging even for
 Regulation (EEC) No 2100/68 ,2 and in particular the            consumption in quite distant areas ;
 first indent of Article 9 (7) thereof;
                                                                 Whereas, moreover, the system of price
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              regionalisation provided for in Regulation No
                                                                 1009/67/EEC necessitates reorganisation of the
Whereas the existence of some surplus areas and                  refining of sugar from the French overseas
deficit areas is a characteristic of the Community               departments as regards quality and packaging so as
sugar market; whereas there are substantial surpluses            to allow the marketing of such sugar in a consumer
in northern France, Belgium and the French overseas              area near to the port refineries ;
 departments ; whereas Italy and southern France may
be considered the most significant deficit areas ;               Whereas transitional arrangements should therefore
                                                                 be provided to enable refineries to reorganise their
Whereas economic relations between the French                    production and marketing; whereas it is appropriate,
overseas departments and Europe make it necessary                to this end, for the French Republic to be authorised
to market in Europe a minimum quantity of sugar                  to grant a national aid for specific quantities of raw
from those departmerts ;                                         sugar coming from French overseas departments ,
                                                                 refined on its territory; whereas, however, steps
Whereas, as a result of the price derivation adopted             should be taken to prevent any refinery from
for regionalisation, a considerable quantity of sugar            processing, because of such aid, a larger quantity of
from the French overseas departments must be                     raw sugar than that refined during a reference period ;
marketed in Italy for refining and consumption there ;           whereas, as an inducement to the desired
whereas at present the deficit area of southern Italy            reorganisation, provision should be made for a
cannot absorb all the sugar traditionally sent to                progressive reduction in the maximum amounts of
Europe ; whereas another outlet must therefore be                the aid to be granted during a specific period ;
ensured for the sugar in question , taking into account
however the total amount which can be marketed in
Italy ;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the traditional outlets for the sugar in
question are in southern France ; whereas refineries in                                 Article 1
                                                                 1.    During the 1968/69 to 1972/73 marketing years
1 OJ No 308 , 18.12.1967, p . 1 .                                the French Republic may, under measures intended
- OJ No L 309, 24.12.1968, p . 4 .                               to assist the marketing of sugar produced in the
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French overseas departments, grant a national aid for                                      Article 2
raw sugar coming from those departments and
refined in the refineries referred to in paragraph 2.           1.    The aid referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) shall not, in
                                                                respect of 1000 kilogrammes of standard-quality raw
                                                                sugar, exceed :
2.     The actual quantity of the raw sugar referred to
in paragraph 1 in respect of which the aid may be               — 11-73 units of account for raw sugar refined
granted shall be restricted to :                                    during the 1968/69 marketing year;
(a) 110 000 metric tons for the refinery in Marseilles,         — 6-57 units of account for raw sugar refined during
                                                                    the 1969/70 marketing year;
(b) 140 000 metric tons for the refineries in Bordeaux
      and Nantes .                      '                       —   6-10 units of account for raw sugar refined during
                                                                    the 1970/71 marketing year;
The quantity of raw sugar in respect of which the aid               5-63 units of account for raw sugar refined during
may be granted shall not, however, exceed 90 000                    the 1971/72 marketing year ;
metric tons for any one of the refineries referred to in
( b).                                                               516 units of account for raw sugar refined during
                                                                    the 1972/73 marketing year.
The French Republic may furthermore, at its
discretion, allocate to the refineries referred to in (a)       2. If the quality of the raw sugar in question
and (b), and within the overall tonnage, a quantity of          deviates from the standard quality, the amounts
up to 10 000 metric tons of the raw sugar in respect            referred to in paragraph 1 shall be multiplied by a
of which the aid may be granted.                                coefficient equal to the yield of the raw sugar in
                                                                question divided by 92. Such yield shall be calculated
                                                                in accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of
3.     Should difficulties arise with regard to the             Council Regulation (EEC) No 431/681 of 9 April
supply of raw sugar from the French overseas                    1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
departments to be refined on Italian territory for              and fixing the Community frontier-crossing point for
local human consumption, the quantities referred to             calculating c.i.f. prices for sugar.
in paragraph 2 ( a) and (b) may be reviewed in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
40 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC.                                                          Article 3
Any reduction as a result of such a review shall not            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
exceed the quantity necessary for the supply referred           day following its publication in the Official Journal
to in the preceding subparagraph.                               of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              Stages .
              Done at Luxembourg, 13 May 1969 .
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                         J. P. BUCHLER
                                                                1 OJ No L 89, 10.4.1968, p. 3.