CELEX: 31968R0188
Language: en
Date: 1968-02-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 188/68 of 15 February 1968 on the price increases and reductions applicable to the price of beet

16                                 Official Journal of the European Communities
  No L 43/6                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 2. 68
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 188/68
                                                    of 15 February 1968
                           on the price increases and reductions applicable to the price of beet
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 of less than 14-5% are however quite common in
  COMMUNITIES,                                                   Italy;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   Whereas Article 45 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC
  European Economic Community,                                   makes express      provision    for the    adoption      of
                                                                 transitional measures as to the method of payment
                                                                 for beet in Italy; whereas, given its special difficulties,
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/                 Italy should be authorized to maintain its current
 EEC     of  18    December     1967   on   the   common         method of payment for beet for the next two
  organization of the market in sugar (*), and in                marketing years ;
  particular Articles 5 (2) and 45 thereof,
                                                                 Whereas the scale fixed by this Regulation should be
 Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC                  reviewed as soon as sufficient experience has been
 requires sugar manufacturers buying beet for                    acquired ;
 processing into sugar to pay at least the minimum
 price for sugar beet, adjusted by price increases or            Whereas the Management Committee for Sugar has
 reductions to allow for deviations from the standard
                                                                 not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
 quality;                                                        its Chairman,
 Whereas the quality, and hence the value, of sugar
 beet largely depends on sugar content;                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                                         Article 1
 Whereas the most appropriate method of establishing
 the value of beet of a quality differing from the
 standard quality is to establish a scale of price               1 . The minimum price for beet referred to in the
 increases and reductions expressed as a percentage of           first indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/
 the minimum price of beet;                                      67/EEC shall, for each 0-10% sucrose content:
                                                                 — be increased by not less than :
Whereas, for extreme polarizations, certain factors
 linked to climatic and harvesting conditions may                    — 0-9% for contents exceeding 16% but not
hinder the extraction of sugar; whereas, in the                          exceeding 17% ,
 absence of sufficiently precise information on
 extraction rates, the Community scale of price                      — 0-8% for contents exceeding 17% but not
 increases and reductions should be limited, for the                     exceeding 18% ;
time being, to sugar contents which may be
considered as normal in the northern countries of                — be reduced by not more than :
the Community, that is to say between 14-5 and                       — 0-9% for contents falling below 16% but not
 18% ;                                                                   below 15-5% ,
Whereas on the whole beet with a sugar content of                    — 1-0% for contents falling below 15-5% but
                                                                         not below 14-5% .
less than 14-5% is not grown in the northern
countries of the Community ; whereas sugar contents
                                                                 The price for beet with a sucrose content in excess
                                                                 of 18% shall be the minimum price adjusted for beet
f1) OJ No 308, 18. 12. 1967, p. 1 .                              with an 18% sucrose content.
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2. Contracts, and agreements within the trade                1967/68 marketing year, taking into account the
within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation No             minimum price for beet referred to in the first indent
1009/67/EEC, may provide for larger increases and            of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC.
smaller reductions than those specified in paragraph 1 ;
they may provide for further increases for sucrose
contents in excess of 18% and further reductions for
sucrose contents below 14-5% .
                                                                                       Article 3
                      Article 2
The Italian Republic is hereby authorized to apply           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July
the method of payment for beet in force during the           1968 . It shall apply until 30 June 1970.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 15 February 1968 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                       Jean REY