CELEX: 31975D0614
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 25 February 1975 concerning the importation of cane sugar originating in the overseas countries and territories (OCT)

17. 10 . 75                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 268 /43
                                                  COUNCIL DECISION
                                                   on 25 February 1975
                concerning the importation of cane sugar originating in the overseas countries
                                                   and territories (OCT)
                                                       (75/61 4/ EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the OCT sugar exporters shall deliver the quantities
COMMUNITIES,                                                      referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ), subject always to any adjust­
                                                                  ments resulting from the application of Article 6.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             They shall also deliver the quantities referred to in
Economic Community, and in particular Article 136                 Article 2 (2) in the period up to 30 June 1975, which
thereof ;
                                                                  shall also be regarded as a delivery period.
Having regard to the recommendation from the                      2. The quantities to be delivered up to 30 June
Commission ;
                                                                   1975, referred to in Article 2 (2), shall include supply
Whereas it is desirable to provide in respect of cane             en route from port of shipment.
sugar originating in the overseas countries and territo­          3 . Deliveries of OCT cane sugar in the period up to
ries arrangements analogous with those contained in               30 June 1975 shall benefit from the guaranteed prices
interim Agreements with certain ACP states                        applicable in the delivery period beginning 1 July
concerning sugar,                                                 1975. Identical arrangements may be made for
                                                                  subsequent delivery periods.
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                                           Article 4
                          A rticle 1
                                                                   1 . The white or raw cane sugar shall be marketed
1.    The European        Economic Community shall,               on the Community market at prices freely negotiated
under the conditions laid down hereunder, ensure the
                                                                  between buyers and sellers.
purchase and import, at guaranteed prices, specific
quantities of cane sugar, raw or white, originating in            2.     The Community shall not intervene if and when
the overseas countries and territories (OCT) which the            a Member State allows selling prices within its borders
OCT deliver to it .                                               to exceed the Community's threshold price .
2. The implementation of this Decision shall be                   3 . The Community shall purchase, at the
carried out within the framework of the management                guaranteed price, quantities of white or raw sugar,
of the common organization of the sugar market.                   within specified quantities, which cannot be marketed
                                                                  in the Community at a price equivalent to or in
                          Article 2                               excess of the guaranteed price .
1 . The quantities of cane sugar referred to in                   4 . The guaranteed price , expressed in units of
Article 1 expressed in metric tons of white sugar,                account, shall refer to unpacked sugar, cif European
hereinafter referred to as 'specified quantities', for            ports of the Community, and shall be fixed in respect
delivery in each 12-month period referred to in                   of standard quality sugar, as defined in Community
Article 3 ( 1 ), shall be as follows :                            Regulations .
      Belize                                   39 400
                                                                  5.     For the period from 1 February 1975 to 30 June
      St. Kitts — Nevis — Anguilla              14 800             1976 inclusive the guaranteed prices shall be as
      Surinam                                                     follows :
2.     Nevertheless, in respect of the period up to 30            (a) for raw sugar, 25-53 units of account per 100 kilo­
June 1975 the specified quantities, expressed in                       grammes ;
metric tons of white sugar, shall be as follows :                 (b) for white sugar, 31-72 units of account per 100
      Belize                                    14 800                 kilogrammes.
      St. Kitts — Nevis — Anguilla               7 900
     Surinam                                                                               Article 5
                          Article 3                               Purchase at the guaranteed price, referred to in Article
                                                                  4 (3), shall be assured through the medium of the
1.     In each 12-month period from 1 July to 30 June             intervention agencies or of the other agents appointed
inclusive, herinafter referred to as the 'delivery period',       by the Community.
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                         Article 6                             ered quantity shall be re-allocated between the other
                                                               OCT referred to in Article 2 .
1.    If, during any delivery periods, an OCT exporter
of sugar fails to deliver its specified quantity in full for
                                                                                       Article 7
reasons of force majeure, the Commission, at the
request of the Member State with which the OCT                 The provisions of this Decision shall enter into force
concerned has special relations, shall allow the neces­        on 28 February 1975. They shall continue to apply up
sary additional period for delivery.                           to the date on which the future Decision of the
2.    If an OCT exporter of sugar informs the                   Council enters into force concerning the Association
Commission during the course of a delivery period              of OCT with the European Economic Community,
that it will be unable to deliver its specified quantity       and not later than 30 June 1976. If the future Deci­
in full and that it does not wish to have the additional        sion enters into force before 30 June 1976, appro­
period referred to in paragraph 1 above, the shortfall          priate measures shall be taken to ensure the applica­
shall be re-allocated by the Commission for delivery            tion up to 30 June 1976 of the guaranteed price laid
during the delivery period in question .                        down in Article 4 (5).
3.    If during any delivery period, an OCT sugar
exporter fails to deliver its specified quantity in full        Done at Brussels, 25 February 1975.
for reasons other than force-majeure, that quantity
shall be reduced in respect of each subsequent                                              For the Council
delivery period by the undelivered quantity.
                                                                                             The President
4.    It may be decided by the Commission that in
respect of subsequent delivery periods, the undeliv­                                        G. FITZGERALD