CELEX: 31973R0239
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-31
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 239/73 of the Council of 31 January 1973 on the marketing price for sugar imported into the United Kingdom under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement and on measures to assist the marketing of sugars produced in the French overseas departments

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                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 239/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 31 January 1973
               on the marketing price for sugar imported into the United Kingdom under the terms of
               the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement and on measures to assist the marketing of sugars
                                      produced in the French overseas departments
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    tion ( EEC) No 911 / 69 (3 ) of 13 May 1969 on
  COMMUNITIES,                                                  measures to assist the marketing of sugar produced
                                                                in the French overseas departments by which France
                                                                was authorized to grant national aid for the refining
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­            of such sugar; whereas that French national aid
 pean Economic Community ;                                      should be replaced from now on by Community aid
                                                                applicable in the Community as originally consti­
                                                                tuted ;
 Having regard to the Treaty concerning the Accession
  of the new Member States to the European Economic
  Community and to the European Atomic Energy
  Community and in particular paragraph 5 of Protocol
  No 17 annexed to the Act ( l ) appended to that               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Treaty ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/                                             Article 1
 EEC (2 ) of 18 December 1967 on the common organi­
 zation of the market in sugar, as last amended by
                                                                1.      The marketing price of sugar imported into the
 the Act and in particular Article 9 (7 ) first indent
 thereof;                                                       United Kingdom pursuant to Protocol No 17 of the
                                                                Act shall be fixed per 100 kilogrammes of raw cane
                                                               sugar :
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commis­
 sion ;                                                         ( a ) at 14- 88 units of account for the period from
                                                                      1 February 1973 to 30 June 1973 ;
Whereas Protocol No 17 annexed to the above­                    ( b ) at 15·78 units of account for the period from
mentioned Act authorizes the United Kingdom to im­                    1 July 1973 to 30 June 1974 ;
port, under special conditions, certain quantities of
sugar from the exporting countries and territories              ( c) at 16·68 units of account for the period from
 referred to in the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement ;                    1 July 1974 to 28 February 1975 .
 Whereas paragraph 3 of the said protocol provides             2.      This marketing price shall apply to raw sugar
 that the price at which the sugar in question is              of the standard quality , in bulk, cif, free out , United
 marketed in the United Kingdom shall be fixed at              Kingdom ports.
 a level such as to allow the quantities in question
effectively to be marketed without prejudicing the
 marketing of Community sugar; whereas these
quantities refer to raw cane sugar;
                                                                                            Article 2
 Whereas Article 9 (5 ) of Regulation No 1009/ 67/EEC           During the period from 1 February 1973 to
provides for suitable measures to be taken if dif­
                                                               28 February 1975 a subsidy shall be granted to any
ficulties are encountered in the marketing of sugar            refiner who processes, within the framework of the
 produced in the French overseas departments ;                 maximum quota, raw sugar produced in the French
whereas when the common organization of the                    overseas departments and in an undertaking belong­
market in sugar was first applied such difficulties            ing to him situated in one of the Member States of
in marketing were accounted for by Council Regula              the Community as originally constituted .
(») OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(2) OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .                           (3 ) OJ No L 118 , 17 . 5 . 1969, p . 1 .
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                       Article 3                             ( c) 0·43 units of account during the period from
                                                                  1 July 1974 to 28 February 1975 .
The subsidy referred to in Article 2 per 100 kilo­                                    Article 4
grammes of white sugar produced from the raw
sugar referred to in the said Article shall be equal to :
                                                              Regulation (EEC ) No 911 /69 shall be repealed.
fa ) 0-93 units of account during the period from
                                                                                      Article 5
      1 February 1973 to 30 June 1973 ;
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
( b) 0·68 units of account for the 1973/74 sugar              of its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
     marketing year;                                         pean Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                     A. LAVENS