CELEX: 51979PC0191
Language: en
Date: 1979-04-09 00:00:00
Title: RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AUTHORISING THE COMMISSION TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE ACP STATES REFERRED TO IN PROTOCOL No 3 ANNEXED TO THE ACP-EEC CONVENTION OF LOME AND WITH THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA CONCERNING THE GUARANTEED PRICES FOR CANE SUGAR TO APPLY IN THE 1979/80 DELIVERY PERIOD (Presented by the Commission to the Council)

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COM (79) 191
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 ---pagebreak---          COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                     COM(79)191 final
                                                     Brussels , 9 April 1979
                           RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION .     •
                AUTHORISING THE COMMISSION TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE
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                     ACP STATES REFERRED TO IN PROTOCOL No 3 ANNEXED
                     TO THE ACP-EEC CONVENTION OF LOME AND WITH THE
                       REPUBLIC OF INDIA CONCERNING THE GUARANTEED
                               PRICES FOR CANE SUGAR TO APPLY
                               IN THE 1979 / 80 DELIVERY PERIOD
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 ---pagebreak---                                 "EXPLANATORY NOTE
1 . Protocol No 3 on ACP sugar annexed to the ACP-EEC Convention of Lome
    and the Agreement with India on cane sugar place an obligation on the
    Community to purchase - at guaranteed prices – cane sugar which the                       i
    exporting countries concerned cannot commercially market in the Community
    at prices equivalent to or in excess of the guaranteed prices .
    The Protocol and the Agreement also require that the guaranteed prices
    shall "be negotiated annually .
2 . The current guaranteed prices apply until 30 June 1979 * The attached         ,         !
    recommendation for a Council Decision accordingly seeks authority for                  j-
    the Commission to negotiate , on "behalf of the Community , the guaranteed             ;
    prices to be applied to the 1979/80 delivery period which "begins on
    1 July 1979 .
3 . The Council 's attention is drawn to the following :
                                                                   :    • -               I.
    - During last year 's negotiations                                        " -        ! ■
        ( a) The Community was unable to accept an ACP request that the
              guaranteed prices agreed for 1978/79 should be applied retro­
            . actively .
       (b ) The ACP states requested that the Community should consider
              ways and means of providing some compensation for the freight
       •                                       !           ' -                         !
              charges borne by the ACP sugar-exporting states in transporting
              their preferential sugar to the Community . The ' Community took        '
              note of this request .                                                 j
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Financial implications                                                               i
This recommendation for a Decision does not involve financial implications          T
other than those already taken into acoount in the agricultural price               i
proposais (Doo . COM (79) 10 Vol II of 2.2.1979).                    '              !
 ---pagebreak---                       RECOMMENDATION FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
           author 5. sing the Commission to open negotiations with the ACP states
           referred to in Protocol No 3 annexed, to the ACP-EEO Convention of Lome
           and. with the Republic of India concerning the guaranteed prices for
           cane sugar to apply in the 1979/80 delivery period
THE COUNCIL OP TIIE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community , and
in particular Article 11.3 thereof ,
Having regard to the recommendation from the Commission ,
Whereas the ACP-EBC Convention of Lome ( 1 ) entered into force on 1 April 1976 ;
Whereas an agreement on cane sugar between the European Economic Community and
the Republio of India ( 2 ), hereinafter referred to as the " Agreement ", entered into
force on 18 July 1975 /'
Wherea3 Protocol No 3 on ACP sugar annexed to the said Convention , hereinafter
referred to as the "Protocol ", and the Agreement provide that the guaranteed prices
for the quantities of cane sugar concerned shall be negotiated annually ,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                             Sols Article
1 . The Commission is hereby authorised to open negotiations with the ACP states
     referred to in the Protocol and with the Republic of India on the guaranteed
     prices referred to in the Protocol and the Agreement to apply in the 1979/80
     delivery period. These negotiations shall be opened as soon as possible after
     the Council has determined the Community 's internal sugar prices for 1979/80 ,
     and in any case before 1 Mav 1979 .
2 . The Commission shall conduct these negotiations in consultation with representatives
     of the Member States and. in conformity with the following guidel ine :
     - The guaranteed prices ciffo         should be negotiated in such a way that the return
       guaranteed to the ACP countries arid to the Republio of India for their raw cane
       sugar delivax'-ies to the Community are        comparable with the guaranteed net
       return to the Community producers of raw beet sugar «
     - The prices thua negotiated shall apply only in respaot of the delivery period
       which begins on 1 July 1979®
     Done at Brussels ,                                                 For the Council
( 1 ) OJ No L 25 , 30.1.1976 , p.l
( 2 ) OJ No L 190 , 23.7.1975 » p. 35