CELEX: 31976R1490
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1490/76 of 22 June 1976 fixing, for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, the differential charge to be levied on raw preferential sugar and the differential amount to be granted in respect of raw cane sugar from the French overseas departments

26. 6 . 76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 167/ 15
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1490/76
                                                     of 22 June 1976
               fixing, for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, the differential charge to be levied
               on raw preferential sugar and the differential amount to be granted in respect of
                               raw cane sugar from the French overseas departments
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     imported and refined in that region between 1
COMMUNITIES,                                                    November 1975 and 30 June 1976 was exempted
                                                                from the differential charge ; whereas, for the same
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           reasons, that exemption should be continued in
Economic Community,                                             respect of Ireland for the 1976/77 sugar marketing
                                                                year ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­               Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 9 (3) of
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by           Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 provides, in particular,
Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular              that where a differential charge has been fixed, a differ­
Articles 9 (5) and 47 ( 1 ) thereof,                            ential amount equal to that charge shall be granted in
                                                                respect of the raw sugar produced in the French over­
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,             seas departments and refined in a refinery defined in
                                                                paragraph 7 of that Article and situated in the
                                                                Community ; whereas that amount should therefore
Whereas Article 46 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                 be fixed at 1-20 units of account per 100 kilogrammes
3330/74 provides that where there is a difference               of white sugar,
between, on the one hand, the raw sugar refining
margin used to determine the intervention and thres­
hold prices for raw sugar and, on the other hand, the
margin necessary for the refining of raw preferential           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
sugar, a differential charge to be made on the latter
sugar shall be fixed for the sugar marketing year in
question ;                                                                              A rticle 1
Whereas the bulk of the raw preferential sugar cannot           This Regulation shall apply to the 1976/77 sugar
be refined unless use is made of the refineries defined         marketing year.
 in Article 9 (7) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330/74 ;
whereas the margin required for the refining of the
 said sugar in such refineries is greater, according to                                 Article 2
 the information at present to hand, than that taken
 into account when determining the intervention and             The differential charge provided for in Article 46 ( 1 )
 threshold prices for raw sugar for the 1976/77 sugar            of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330/74 shall be fixed at 1-20
 marketing year ; whereas a differential charge should           units of account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar
 therefore be fixed for that year ; whereas the amount           expressed as white sugar by reference to a raw sugar
 thereof may be fixed at a flat rate of 120 units of            yield calculated by doubling the degree of polarization
 account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar expressed as               of that sugar and deducting 100 therefrom . Neverthe­
 white sugar, taking into account the differences in             less, this charge shall not apply to raw preferential
 some of the components of the refining costs for the            sugar refined during the 1976/77 sugar marketing year
 raw sugar in question ;                                         in Ireland up to a maximum quantity of 30 000
                                                                 metric tons of sugar expressed as white sugar.
 Whereas Article 46 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
 3330/74 makes provision for the non-application of
 the whole of the differential charge, or part of that                                   Article 3
 charge, to any raw preferential sugar which is
 imported into regions of the Community and refined              The differential amount provided for in the second
 there in a production unit other than a refinery as             subparagraph of Article 9 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No
 defined in Article 9 (7) of that Regulation ; whereas,          3330/74 shall be fixed at 1-20 units of account per
 having regard to the traditional patterns of supplies of         100 kilogrammes of white sugar.
 the said sugar to Ireland, a total quantity of 30 000
 metric tons of that sugar expressed as white sugar
                                                                                         Article 4
 (') OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
 I2) See page 9 of this Official Journal .                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Luxembourg, 22 June 1976.
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                      The President
                                                                      J. HAMILIUS