CELEX: 31975R0660
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 660/75 of the Council of 4 March 1975 fixing, for the 1975/76 sugar marketing year, derived intervention prices, intervention prices for raw beet sugar, minimum prices for beet, threshold prices and the maximum amount of the production levy

20 . 3 . 75                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 72/ 7
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 660/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                        of 4 March 1975
               fixing, for the 1975/76 sugar marketing year, derived intervention prices, intervention
               prices for raw beet sugar, minimum prices for beet, threshold prices and the maximum
                                                amount of the production levy
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                          main be equal to the prices in the Community area
                                                                     having the largest surplus ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       Whereas, with relatively high production costs, sugar
 European Economic Community ;                                      production in Italy will probably not appreciably
                                                                    exceed the basic quantity fixed ; whereas a deficit of
                                                                     about 500 000 metric tons will therefore have to be
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                           covered by production in Community surplus areas ;
 No 3330/74 (x ) of 19 December 1974 on the common
 organization of the market in sugar, and in particular
 Articles 3 (6), 4 (4), 9 (5 ), 13 (5 ) and 28 thereof;             Whereas, in these circumstances, the level of market
                                                                    prices in Italy will be determined by the offer prices
                                                                    of sugar from Community surplus areas ; whereas the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                derived intervention price for Italy may be fixed at
                                                                   33 units of account per 100 kg, account being taken
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                       on the one hand of the intervention price applicable
 Parliament ;                                                      in the north of France, plus the marketing costs for
                                                                    deliveries to Italy, and on the other hand, of the
                                                                    disposal costs of the Italian sugar industry ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and
 Social Committee ;
                                                                   Whereas, given a normal harvest, sugar production
                                                                    in Ireland and the United Kingdom covers about 80
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 659/75 (2 ) of                 and 40% of the needs of their respective home
4 March 1975 fixing sugar prices and the standard                  markets ; whereas these needs must in part be covered
quality of beet for the 1975 /76 marketing year,                    by sugar available in Community surplus areas ;
fixed the intervention price for white sugar at
30-45 units of account per 100 kg for the Community                Whereas, in these circumstances, the level of market
 area having the largest surplus ;                                 prices in both Ireland and the United Kingdom will
                                                                   be largely determined by the offer prices of sugar
                                                                   from these regions ; whereas a single derived
Whereas Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/                  intervention price for white sugar which may be fixed
74 provides that derived intervention prices shall be              at 31-45 units of account per 100 kg should be
fixed for other areas, account being taken of the                  adopted for all regions of Ireland and the United
regional variations which, given a normal harvest                  Kingdom, account being taken on the one hand of
 and free movement of sugar, might be expected to                  the intervention price applicable in the Community
occur in the price of sugar under natural conditions               area having the largest surplus, plus the commercial
 of price formation ;                                              cost of delivery to Ireland and the United Kingdom ,
                                                                   and on the other hand, of the marketing costs of
                                                                   the sugar industry of these Member States ;
Whereas in view of the quotas fixed in the production
areas of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and
the Netherlands, a balanced or surplus supply                      Whereas there is considerable surplus production of
situation can be anticipated ; whereas, with the                   raw sugar in the French overseas departments ;
exception of the French overseas departments, the ex­              whereas, the most favourable potential outlets for
factory prices in the areas mentioned will in the                  this sugar within the Community are in the south of
                                                                   France and in Italy, where the sugar, after being
                                                                   refined, may be sold directly; whereas, on the basis
                                                                   of the foreseeable market prices in the deficit areas
O OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 .                             of Italy, which will probably be 0-57 unit of account
(2) See page 5 of this Official Journal.                           per 100 kg above the derived intervention price in
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Italy, and taking account of transport costs between            Whereas, Article 13 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
the overseas departments and these areas, the derived           No 3330/74, provides that the threshold price for
intervention prices for those departments should be             white sugar should be the same as the target price
fixed at 30-25 units of account per 100 kg of white             for the Community area having the largest surplus
sugar ;                                                         plus transport charges, calculated at a flat rate, from
                                                                that area to the most distant deficit area in the
                                                                Community ; whereas, given the supply situation
                                                                within the Community, account should be taken of
Whereas     Article   3   (4)     of Regualtion     (EEC)       transport charges between the departments of
No 3330/74 provides that an intervention price for              northern France and Palermo, the main port of
raw sugar shall be fixed for those departments, such            importation in Sicily;
price to be derived from the intervention price for
white sugar fixed for those departments, allowance
being made for a uniform processing margin and a
standard yield ; whereas, on the basis of available             Whereas, the threshold price for raw sugar is to be
information, the refining costs may be estimated at             derived from the threshold price for white sugar,
2-46 units of account per 100 kg of refined                     by reference to a standard processing margin and a
sugar; whereas, moreover, in accordance with the                standard yield ; whereas the same criteria as are used
definition of the standard quality for raw sugar laid           in the derivation of the intervention price for raw
down by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (*), a yield                 sugar should therefore be applied ;
 of 92% should be taken into account ;
                                                                Whereas the threshold price for molasses must be so
Whereas Article 9 (5 ) of Regulation (EEC)                      fixed that the receipts from sales of molasses may
No 3330/74 provides for the fixing of intervention              reach the level of factories' receipts taken into
prices for raw beet sugar ; whereas these prices should         account when minimum prices for beet are being
                                                                fixed,
be derived from the intervention price for white
sugar, account being taken of the factors already
mentioned for fixing the intervention price for raw
sugar in the French overseas departments, and of
the forwarding costs for supplying raw sugar, these             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
being estimated at a standard rate of 0-50 unit of
 account per 100 kg;
                                                                                        Article 1
 Whereas minimum prices for sugar beet, as referred
to in the first indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 3330/74, must be determined for the areas             This Regulation shall apply for the 1975/76 sugar
other than that having the largest surplus on the               marketing year.
basis of the intervention prices for white sugar
applicable in those areas, account being taken of the
amounts used when fixing the minimum price for
beet for the area having the largest surplus, the                                       Article 2
processing margin, the yield, the receipts from
 molasses and the delivery costs of the beet ;
                                                                For the regions other than those referred to in
                                                                Article 2 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 659/75 derived
Whereas, in view of sugar shortages within the                  intervention prices for 100 kg of white sugar shall
                                                                 be as follows :
Community and on the world market, minimum
prices for beet outside the basic quota, as referred to
in the second indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation           ( a) 33-00 units of account for all regions of Italy ;
(EEC) No 3330/74, should, for the 1975/76 sugar
marketing year, be fixed at the same level as the                (b ) 30-25 units of account for the French overseas
minimum prices for beet and the maximum amount                        departments ;
of the production levy should be fixed at zero ;
                                                                (c) 31*45 units of account for all regions of Ireland
                                                                      and the United Kingdom ;
                                                                (d) 30-45 units of account for the other regions of
(x) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                                  the Community.
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                           Article 3                            (a) 26- 07 units of account for the regions referred
                                                                     to in Article 2 (a);
1 . Intervention prices for 100 kg of raw beet sugar
shall be as follows :                                           (b ) 24*05 units of account for the regions referred to
(a) 25-84 units of account for the Community area                    in Article 2 (c);
     having the largest surplus and for the regions
      referred to in Article 2 ( d);                            (c) 22-75 units of account for the regions referred
                                                                     to in Article 2 ( d);
( b) 28-19 units of account for the regions referred
     to in Article 2 ( a);
(c) 26-76 units of account for the regions referred to
      in Article 2 (c);                                                                    Article 5
These intervention prices shall be valid for raw sugar          Threshold prices shall be as follows :
of standard quality, unpacked, ex-factory, loaded
onto the means of transport chosen by the buyer.
                                                                ( a) 35 -52 units of account per 100 kg of white sugar;
2. The derived intervention price for the French
overseas departments for raw sugar as referred to               (b) 30-97 units of account per 100 kg of raw sugar;
in Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
shall, pursuant to the second indent of Article 3 ( 6)         ( c) 3 "20 units of account per 100 kg of molasses .
of that Regulation, be fixed at 26-12 units of account
per 100 kg.
                                                                                           Article 6
                           Article 4
The minimum price for beet and the minimum price               The maximum production levy referred to in
for beet outside the basic quota shall be, per metric          Article 28 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall
ton :                                                           be 0-00 unit of account for 100 kg of white sugar.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 4 March 1975.
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                 The President
                                                                               M. A. CLINTON