CELEX: 51989PC0067
Language: en
Date: 1989-02-15
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1785/81 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKETS IN THE SUGAR SECTOR

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              (c) Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 517/72 (') on the introduction of common rules for regular and
                  special regular services by coach and bus between Member States, which provides that the authori-
                  zation provided for in Article 3 of the Regulation shall be carried on the vehicle and be produced at
                  the request of any authorized inspecting officer;
              (d) Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 (2) on the harmonization of certain social legislation
                  relating to road transport, which entitles Member States to adopt measures which cover, inter alia, the
                  organization of, procedure for and means of a control system to ensure that the provisions of the
                  Regulation have been complied with;
              (e) Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 (3) on recording equipment in road transport which
                  entitles Member States to adopt measures which cover, inter alia, the organization of, procedure for
                  and means of carrying out, checks on whether the equipment complies with the provisions of the
                   Regulation.
              (f) Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3164/76 on the Community quota for the carriage of goods by road
                  between Member States (4) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1841/88 (s) which provides that
                  the Community authorization should be presented at the request of any authorized inspecting officer.
                                                                 PART II
                                                            National legislation
              Controls on driving licences of persons driving vehicles, on the carriage of goods and of persons and on
              the insurance certificates of vehicles.
              (') OJ No  L 67, 20. 3. 1972, p. 19.
              (2) OJ No   L 370, 31. 12. 1985, p. 1.
              O   OJ No   L 370, 31. 12. 1985, p. 8.
              (4) OJ No   L 357, 29. 12. 1976, p. 1.
              (5) OJ No   L 163, 30. 6. 1988, p. 1.
              Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the
                                      common organization of the markets in the sugar sector
                                                            COM(89) 67 final
                                         (Submitted by the Commission on 21 February 1989)
                                                              (89/C 58/08)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  sugar imported from third countries at a reduced levy in
                                                                         order to bring its price to the level of the Community
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     intervention price for raw sugar;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,                                                                 Whereas in the Joint Declaration attached to the Act of
                                                                         Accession on supplies to the sugar refining industry in
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                        Portugal it is stated that the sugar in question is to be
                                                                          supplied under price conditions similar to those for pref-
                                                                          erential sugars; whereas the arrangements for import at a
Having regard        to    the    opinion     of     the European         reduced levy enabled the sugar thus imported to comply
Parliament,                                                               with those conditions;
Whereas Portugal's white sugar requirements have tradi-                   Whereas Article 9 (4) (b) of Council Regulation (EEC)
tionally been met by the refining of imported raw sugar;                  No 1785/81 O , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
whereas to that end Article 303 of the Act of Accession                   No 2306/88 (2), introduces an aid scheme for the
of Spain and Portugal lays down appropriate measures                      refining of preferential raw sugar;
which are to apply during the transitional period for
 ensuring the supply of raw sugar to Portuguese
 refineries, drawing firstly on raw sugar imported from
 certain ACP countries and raw sugar produced in the                      (') OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.
 Community and secondly, where this is insufficient, raw                  (2) OJ No L 201, 27. 7. 1988, p. 65.
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Whereas the implementation of an aid scheme for                      '4c.     During the 1988/89 to 1990/91 marketing
refining preferential raw sugar, which can be applied also           years, adjustment aid shall be granted, as an inter-
to raw cane sugar produced in the French overseas                    vention measure, to the refining industry in Portugal
departments and to raw sugar obtained from beet                      for raw sugar imported from third countries under
harvested in the Community where these are refined into              Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain and
white sugar in specific refineries, creates an imbalance in          Portugal and refined into white sugar in Portugal.
the abovementioned price conditions which penalizes the
                                                                     This aid shall be granted only if the imported raw
Portuguese refineries, which obtain more than three-
                                                                     sugar is refined into white sugar in the refineries
quarters of their total raw sugar supplies from imports
                                                                     referred to in the third subparagraph of paragraph 4.
effected at a reduced levy which do not qualify for the
aid scheme; whereas in order to re-establish the balance,           This adjustment aid may be altered, for a given
therefore, the scheme should be extended to the refining             marketing year, in the light of the amount of the
of sugar imported into Portugal, under Article 303 of the            storage levy fixed for that year and/or to take
Act of Accession; whereas, in order to preclude for the              account of a change in refiners' margins which results
same marketing year any difference in treatment between              from the price review for that marketing year.'
raw sugar imported and refined prior to the date of
entry into force of these arrangements for extending the         2. The seventh indent of Article 9 (6) is replaced by the
aid scheme and sugar imported and refined after that                 following:
date, provisions should be made for the arrangements to              '— the adjustments referred to in the fourth
apply retroactively from the beginning of the 1988/89                     subparagaph of paragraph 4b and the third
marketing year,                                                           subparagraph of paragraph 4c'.
                                                                                            Article 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following that of its publication in the Official Journal of
                         Article 1                               the European Communities.
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is hereby amended as
                                                                 It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1988.
follows:
                                                                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
1. The following paragraph is added in Article 9:                directly applicable in all Member States.