CELEX: 31979R0043
Language: en
Date: 1979-01-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 43/79 of 10 January 1979 fixing for the 1978/79 marketing year the maximum amount of the contribution to storage costs which sugar manufacturers may require of beet and cane producers when sugar is carried forward

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                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 43/79
                                                            of 10 January 1979
                 fixing for the 1978 /79 marketing year the maximum amount of the contribution
                 to storage costs which sugar manufacturers may require of beet and cane
                                                 producers when sugar is carried forward
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas, to facilitate supervision of the carry-forward
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           system envisaged, sugar manufacturers should be
                                                                        required to inform the Member States of the total
                                                                        amounts charged to beet or cane sellers pursuant to
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 748/68 ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                      ment Committee for Sugar,
 zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
 Regulation ( EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular
Article 31 (4) thereof,
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
748 /68 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 2829 /71 (4 ), provides that the sugar manufacturer may
 require beet or cane sellers to reimburse part of the
 storage costs up to a maximum amount ; whereas such                                            Article 1
amount must be calculated on the basis of the reim­
bursement provided for in Article 8 of Regulation
( EEC) No 3330/74 and of the percentages referred to                     1.    For the 1978 /79 sugar marketing year, the
 in Article 27 (4) and (5) of that Regulation ;                         maximum amount provided for in Article 2 ( 1 ) of
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 748 /68 shall, per month of
                                                                        storage during the period specified in Article 31 of
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 399/78 (5)                        Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, be as follows :
 fixed the amount of the reimbursement of storage
costs at 0-30 unit of account per month per 100 kilo­                   (a) 0-234 unit of account per tonne of sugar beet
grams of white sugar and the percentages referred to                        having a sugar content of 16 % ;
above at 60 % ;
                                                                        (b) 0-180 unit of account per quantity of cane
                                                                            required to manufacture 100 kilograms of sugar.
Whereas, moreover, the customary terms of purchase
for sugar cane in the French overseas departments
should be taken into account ;                                          2. The amount fixed in paragraph 1 (a) shall , as
                                                                        regards beerhaving a sugar content other than 16 % ,
                                                                        be adjusted by the percentages laid down in Regula­
Whereas the said maximum amount should be fixed
                                                                        tions (EEC) No. 2497/69 and (EEC) No 2571 /69 .
 per tonne of sugar beet with an assumed yield of 130
 kilograms of white sugar and a sugar content of 16 % ,
and for beet having a sugar content different from that
of the standard quality, the same adjustments should                                             Article 2
be laid down as are provided for in Commission Regu­
 lations ( EEC) No 2497/69 (6) and Commission Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 2.571 /69 n ;                                            Any sugar manufacturer who, pursuant to Article 31
                                                                        of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, carries forward part
(')  OJ   No  L 359 ,  31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                            of his production to the following marketing year
(2 ) OJ   No  L 170 ,  27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .                           shall, before 1 June in that marketing year, inform the
(3 ) OJ   No  L 137,   21 . 6 . 1968 , p. 1 .                           Member State in whose territory the undertaking in
O    OJ   No  L 28.5 , 29 . 12 . 1971 , p. 65 .                         question is situated of the total amounts charged to
  5) OJ   No  L 170 ,  27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 6 .
(<•) OJ   No  L 316 ,  17 . 12 . 1969 , p. 15 .                         beet or cane sellers pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regula­
(7)  OJ   No  L 321 ,  23 . 12 . 1969 , p . 30 .                        tion (EEC) No 748 /68 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 10 January 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President