CELEX: 31978R1505
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1505/78 of 30 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar marketing year, the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

No L 178 /44                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                1 . 7. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1505/78
                                                         of 30 June 1978
              fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar marketing year, the import levies on sugar beet and
                                                            sugar cane
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      intervention prices, the intervention price of raw beet
COMMUNITIES,                                                        sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold
                                                                    prices, the maximum amount of the production levy
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               and the amount of the repayment to offset storage
Economic Community,                                                 costs, and fixing the coefficient for calculating the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        special maximum quota (5),
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­
zation of the market in sugar (!), as last amended by               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation (EEC) No 1 396/78 (2), and in particular
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                                                        Article 1
Whereas Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74                   The levies provided for in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation
provides that an import levy must be fixed by the                   (EEC) No 3330/74 applicable to imports of the
Commission on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b)            products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) of that Regulation
of that Regulation ; whereas that levy must be calcu­               are hereby fixed as follows for the 1978 /79 marketing
lated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose
                                                                    year :
content of each of those products and the levy on
white sugar ;
                                                                          CCT
                                                                                                                    u.a . per
Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                        heading                 Description          tonne
                                                                           No
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the                  12.04            Sugar beet, whole or sliced,
levy applicable to these products, which is fixed for                                fresh, dried or powdered ;
                                                                                     sugar cane :
each marketing year, is obtained by multiplying by a
coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilograms                              A. Sugar beet :
of white sugar, between the threshold price valid for                                      I. Fresh                  43-71
the relevant marketing year and the arithmetic average
                                                                                         II. Dried or powdered      150-26
of cif prices recorded during a reference period ;
whereas the coefficients and the reference period were                                B. Sugar cane                  30-05
fixed by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
Whereas the threshold price for white sugar was fixed                                          Article 2
by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1399/78 of 20 June
 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the derived               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1978 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                    Vice-President
(») OJ No  L 359,   31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L  170,  27.  6. 1978, p. 1 .
(J) OJ No  L  151 , 30.  6. 1968, p. 42.
(<) OJ No  L  171 , 28.  6. 1978, p. 34.                            (5) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 6.