CELEX: 31970R0853
Language: en
Date: 1970-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 853/70 of the Council of 12 May 1970 amending Regulation No 1009/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in sugar

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No L 103/2                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 13.5.70
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 853 /70 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 12 May 1970
              amending Regulation No 1009/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in
                                                          sugar
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        system and a uniform system of trade with third
                                                                 countries with effect from 1 July 1968 ; whereas the
                                                                 system of trade with third countries includes a system
                                                                of levies ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 43 thereof;
                                                                "Whereas the preferential treatment accorded by the
                                                                Netherlands to        sugar from Surinam should be
                                                                mentioned in the provisions of Regulation No
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              1009/67/EEC ; whereas it is therefore necessary to
                                                                 amend that Regulation to allow the Netherlands to
                                                                import, free of levy, a certain quantity of sugar
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                    originating in and coming from Surinam; whereas
Parliament1 ;                                                   this quantity should be limited to a maximum of
                                                                4000 metric tons per marketing year ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee;                                               Whereas these arrangements must be applied from
                                                                 the same date as Regulation No 1009/67/EEC and
                                                                 should be limited to the period during which the
                                                                 provisions of Title III of that Regulation apply ;
Whereas the Kingdom of the Netherlands, invoking
the provisions of the Protocol on Goods originating
in and coming from certain countries and enjoying
special treatment when imported into a Member
State, which is annexed to the Treaty, has for several
years been according special' import treatment to a              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
certain quantity of sugar from Surinam ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 1009/67/EEC2 of 18                                          Article 1
December 1967 on the common organisation of the
market in sugar, as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2485/69,3 introduced a uniform price
                                                                 The following subparagraph shall be added to Article
                                                                 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC :      . .
1 OJ No C 139, 28.10.1969, p. 51 .                                   'Until the end of the 1974/75 marketing year,
2 OJ No 308 , 18.12.1967, p. 1 .                                     however, the levy shall not be charged on imports
3 OJ No L 314, 15.12.1969, p. 6.                                     into the Netherlands of sugar originating in and
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coming from Surinam, up to a maximum of 4000                                     Article 2
metric tons in one marketing year, provided a
guarantee is given that this sugar cannot be              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
disposed of on the internal market at a price             day following its publication in the Official Journal
which, allowing for the characteristics of the            of the European Communities.
imported sugar, is lower than the intervention
price for white sugar.'                                   It shall apply from 1 July 1968 .
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 12 May 1970. *
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                 The President
                                                                                 P. HARMEL