CELEX: 31990D0546
Language: en
Date: 1990-11-09 00:00:00
Title: 90/546/EEC: Commission Decision of 9 November 1990 altering the adjustment aid to the Portuguese refining industry for raw sugar imported from third countries at a reduced levy for the 1990/91 marketing year into Portugal (Only the Portuguese text is authentic)

10 . 11 . 90                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 311 /33
                                                   COMMISSION
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 9 November 1990
                  altering the adjustment aid to the Portuguese refining industry for raw sugar
                  imported from third countries at a reduced levy for the 1990/91 marketing year
                                                         into Portugal
                                            (Only die Portuguese text is authentic)
                                                          (90/546/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas the amount of the storage levy for the 1990/91
                                                                   marketing year was fixed by Commission Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 1725/90 (3) at ECU 2,50 per 100 kilograms of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              white sugar ; whereas that amount represents a reduction
Economic Community,                                                of ECU 0,50 per 100 kilograms of white sugar by compa­
                                                                   rison with that applicable for the 1989/90 marketing
                                                                   year ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­        Whereas, on the basis of data available to the Commis­
tion (EEC) No 1069/89 (2), and in particular the seventh           sion, it transpires that the reduction in that levy was actu­
indent of Article 9 (6) thereof,                                   ally passed on from 1 July 1 990, resulting in a correspon­
                                                                   ding effect on the margins of the Portuguese refining
                                                                   industries, jeopardizing the balance sought through the
Whereas Article 9 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81           granting of the aids in question and therefore the objec­
provides that, during the 1988/89 to 1990/91 marketing             tives pursued ; whereas a corresponding alteration in the
years, adjustment aid is to be granted as an intervention          adjustment aid therefore appears necessary ; whereas
measure to the refining industry for raw sugar imported            account should in addition be taken of the alteration in
into Portugal at a reduced levy pursuant to Article 303 of         the aid in question that has already been made for the
the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal and refined             1989/90 marketing year in order to neutralize the effect of
into white sugar in Portugal ; whereas that aid amounts to         successive storage levy reductions on the refining margin
ECU 0,08 per 100 kilograms of sugar expressed as white             for the 1990/91 marketing year ;
sugar for quantities of such sugar thus imported and
refined in Portugal ; whereas the quantities of raw sugar
imported at a reduced levy are those refered to in the first       Whereas the Management Committee for Sugar has not
paragraph of Article 303 of the Act of Accession as well           delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
                                                                   chairman,
as the quantities lacking referred to in the third paragraph
of that Article, the import of which at a reduced levy is
authorized for the marketing year under consideration ;
Whereas the third subparagraph of Article 9 (4) (c) of             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that the above­
mentioned adjustment aid may be altered for a given
marketing year, in the light in particular of the amount of
the storage levy fixed for that year ; whereas although                                       Article 1
sugar imported into Portugal at a reduced levy is not
subject to the storage levy, in view of the quantities of
such sugar refined that levy is a determining factor for the       The adjustment aid provided for in the second subpara­
prices as a whole on the market for white sugar and there­         graph of Article 9 (4) (c) pf Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
fore for the margin of the Portuguese refineries ;                 shall be increased to ECU 1,58 per 100 kilograms of sugar
                                                                   expressed as white sugar for the 1990/91 marketing year.
(■) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 114, 27. 4. 1989, p. 1 .                               (') OJ No L 160, 26. 6. 1990, p. 30.
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                                                   Article 2
             This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
             Done at Brussels, 9 November 1990.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                              Member of the Commission