CELEX: 31973R0174
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 of the Council of 22 January 1973 amending Regulation No 1009/67/EEC on the common organization of the market in sugar

30. 1 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 25/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory )
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 174/73 OF THE COtJNCIL
                                                       of 22 January 1973
              amending Regulation No 1009/67/EEC on the common organization of the market
                                                              in sugar
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             for a certain period, which was subsequently
                                                                     extended;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                       Whereas at present a substantial output of raw beet
Article 43 thereof;                                                  sugar continues to be produced both in the original
                                                                     and in the new Member States; whereas a further
                                                                     extension of the period of applicability of the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                   intervention system to raw beet sugar is therefore
                                                                     necessary ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European
Parliament;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Council Regulation No 1009/67/EEC (*) of
18 December 1967 on the common organization of
the market in sugar, as last amended by Regulation                                            Article 1
(EEC) No 2429/72 (2), provides in Article 9 (3 ) that
the intervention system for white sugar applies also,                1 . In Article 9 (3 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC,
for a period specified, to raw beet sugar;                           '30 June 1975 ' shall be substituted for '30 June 1973 '.
Whereas the extension of this system to raw beet                     2.    In Article 9 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC,
sugar is justified by the obligation on manufacturers                '1 July 1975 ' shall be substituted for '1 July 1973 '.
of such sugar to pay a fixed minimum price for beet,
that price being the same as the price paid by
manufacturers of white sugar; whereas, however, to                                            Article 2
take account of the tendency for production of such
sugar eventually to be discontinued owing to the                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
progressive modernization of the sugar industry, the                 day following its publication in - the Official Journal
system aforesaid was initially made applicable only                  of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 22 January 1973 .
                                                                                            For the Council
                                                                                             The President
                                                                                            L. TINDEMANS
(!) OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p . 1 .
(2) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p . 1 .