CELEX: 31969R0297
Language: en
Date: 1969-02-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 297/69 of the Council of 18 February 1969 amending Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 to allow certain syrups to be included in the system of offsetting storage costs for sugar

Official Journal of the European Communities                                        45
No L 42 '2                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 19.2.69
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 297/69 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 18 February 1969
                 amending Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 to allow certain syrups to be included in the
                                        system of offsetting storage costs for sugar
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                                       Article 1
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                  1 . The following shall be substituted for Article 1
                                                                  of Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/
EEC1 of 18 December 1967 on the common organis­
ation of the market in sugar, as amended by Regu­                     ' Reimbursement shall be made within a      specified
lation (EEC) No 2100 ' 68 ,2 and in particular Article 8              period by the Member State on whose         territory
(2) thereof;                                                          the sugar or syrup referred to in the first subpara­
                                                                      graph of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation No   1009/67/
                                                                      EEC is held in store .'
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                  2.     The phrase 'of the sugar or, where appropriate,
                                                                  of the syrup held in store' shall be substituted for the
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2100/68 of 20                 phrase 'of the sugar held in store' in Article 2 ( 1) of
December 1968 amending Regulation No 1009/67/                     Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 .
EEC on the common organisation of the market in
sugar extended the provisions of Article 8 of Regu­
lation No 1009 6" EEC to include certain syrups pro­
duced prior to the crystallising stage in the system of           3.     The words 'and syrup' shall be added after the
offsetting storage costs ; whereas it is therefore necess­        phrase 'quantities of non-denatured white and raw
ary to make an appropriate amendment to Council                   sugar' in the first subparagraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of
Regulation (EEC) No 750/683 of 18 June 1968 laying                Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 .
down general rules for offsetting storage costs for
sugar; whereas provision should be made for the pos­
sibility of no reimbursement being made in respect of             4.     The words ' of sugar' shall be deleted from
syrups over a certain period in order to take the                 Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 .
storage period for beet into account ; whereas the
 storage of beet is not covered by the system of
offsetting storage costs ;
                                                                                          Article 2
1
   OJ No 308, 18.12.1967, p . 1 .
   OJ No L 305 , 24.12.1968, p . 4 .                              The following paragraph 3 shall be added to Article
   OJ No L 137, 21.6.1968, p . 4.                                 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 :
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   '3 . For payment of the reimbursement, the raw                                  Article 3
   sugar and syrup shall be converted into terms of
   white sugar on the basis of yield or sugar content.     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
   The reimbursement of storage costs for syrup            day following its publication in the Official Journal
   may be limited to a certain period.'                    of the European Communities.
                                                           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, 18 February 1969 .
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                 J. P. BUCHLER