CELEX: 31975R1455
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1455/75 of the Commission of 5 June 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 as regards the additional amount to be applied on the buying-in of white sugar by intervention agencies

6 . 6. 75                            Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 145/ 15
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1455/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 5 June 1975
               amending Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 as regards the additional amount to be
                        applied on the buying-in of white sugar by intervention agencies
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas in the past it has been found that in periods
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   of surplus, sugar of grade 1 in particular has been
                                                                offered to the intervention agencies and that this kind
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          of sugar has on export to third countries not obtained
 Economic Community ;                                           a significant premium compared with sugar of grade
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   2, while in periods of shortage sugars of different
 3330/74 (!) of 19 December 1974 on the common                  grades have been valued at the same price level in
 organization of the market in sugar, and in particular         most of the regions of the Community ;
 Article 9 (6) thereof ;
                                                                Whereas in the light of the foregoing, and even on
 Whereas white sugar has under the rules governing              the assumption that a premium of 0-60 unit of
 the common organization of the market in sugar been            account might normally be obtained on the Commu­
 classified into four grades according to the different         nity market, the increase in the intervention price for
 qualities produced in the Community before 1967 ;              sugar of grade 1 should be reduced appropriately ;
 whereas on the basis of that classification increases
 and reductions in the intervention price have been             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 fixed which reflect the differences recognized before          are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 the year mentioned above by certain Member States in           ment Committee for Sugar,
 fixing national prices ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 1280/71 (2) of 18 June 1971 laying down detailed
 rules for the buying-in of sugar by intervention agen­
 cies, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                          Article 1
 2733/73 (3), provides that an increase of 0-60 unit of
 account per 100 kilogrammes of white sugar shall               In Article 13(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 the
 apply on the intervention price when the intervention          amount '0-60 unit of account' is replaced by '0-30 unit
 agencies buy sugar of grade 1 ;                                of account'.
Whereas since 1967/68 sugar production in the
 Community has been concentrated increasingly on                                       Article 2
grade 1 , which in several Member States is the only
grade produced ;                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1975.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 5 June 1975.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 133, 19. 6. 1971 , p. 34.
(3) OJ No L 282, 9. 10. 1973, p. 8 .