CELEX: 51988PC0120(14)
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1785/81 ON THE COMMON ORGANISATION OF THE MARKETS IN THE SUGAR SECTOR

No C 139/16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   30. 5. 88
market; whereas the varieties for which demand exists               1988/1989 marketing year shall be 330 ECU per hectare for
normally have lower crop yields than those of the varieties         the countries referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EEC)
that are traditionally grown;                                       No ... .
Whereas the production aid must be fixed at a level which
enable the lower revenue resulting from the decreased                                         Article 2
yields to be offset,
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                    European Communities.
                            Article 1                               It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1988.
The production aid for certain varieties of rice referred to in     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
Article 8a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and sown in the           applicable in all Member States.
               Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common
                                        organization of the markets in the sugar sector
                                                           (88/C 139/14)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            guaranteed prices are to be fixed at which the Community
                                                                    undertakes to purchase, within agreed quantities, quan-
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               tities of the said sugars which cannot be marketed in the
Economic Community and in particular Articles 42 and 43             Community at a price equivalent to or in excess of the
thereof,                                                            guaranteed price;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                  Whereas the guaranteed prices for preferential raw sugar
                                                                    have not, since 1985/1986, enabled the Community refiners
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,            concerned to pay the suppliers in question the said price
                                                                    without any undue adverse effect on their margins;
                                                                    whereas that adverse effect has since been offset by a
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social             Community contribution granted under a temporary
Committee,                                                          scheme the period of validity of which has been renewed;
                                                                    whereas it is now advisable to introduce a similar but more
Whereas under the terms of Protocol 7 on ACP sugar                  suitable scheme, whereby adjustment aid is paid by the
annexed to the Lome Convention (*) and of the Agreement             Community for the refining of preferential raw sugar in the
between the European Economic Community and the                     Community;
Republic of India on cane sugar (2), the Community has
undertaken to purchase and import at guaranteed prices
specific quantities of cane sugar, raw or white, which              Whereas, in order to preserve a balance between the price
originate in certain ACP States and the Republic of India           of preferential raw cane sugar and that of raw cane sugar
and which they undertake to deliver it; whereas the                 from the French overseas departments at the stage where
provisions referred to stipulate that they are to be                those products enter the refinery, raw cane sugar from
implemented within the framework of the management of               those departments and, when it is processed into white
the market organization concerned which is laid down in             sugar in refineries in the Community, raw sugar obtained
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (3), as last amended            from beet harvested in the Community qualify for an
by Regulation (EEC) No 3993/87 ( 4 ); whereas those                 additional Community subsidy which is identical to that
provisions further stipulate that, after negotiation, annual        paid in respect of preferential raw sugar; whereas it is
                                                                    advisable that this Regulation include such provisions;
(!) OJ  No L  86, 31. 3. 1986, p. 164.
(2) OJ  No L  190, 23. 7. 1985, p. 35.                              Whereas a provision should be introduced whereby the
(3) OJ  No L  177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4.                                amount of the adjustment aid for the sugars in question
(4) OJ  No L  377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 24.                             can, where appropriate, be altered in order to maintain the
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said balance when changes occur in the storage levy and/or           expressed as white sugar, shall be granted for the
prices;                                                              refining of raw cane sugar produced in the French
                                                                     overseas departments, in order to restore the price
Whereas in view, on the one hand, of the special situation           balance between that sugar and preferential sugar. The
of the United Kingdom's market in white sugar and of its             aid shall also be granted in respect of raw sugar
raw-sugar refining industry which relies entirely on                 obtained from beet harvested in the Community in cases
supplies of preferential raw sugar and, on the other, the            where the provisions of the second subparagraph of
abovementioned commitments by virtue of which the                    paragraph 4 are applied.
Community is very much dependent on the existence of a
viable refining industry in the United Kingdom, where the            The amount of the adjustment aid and of the additional
guaranteed prices by the Community are applicable, it is             aid referred to above may be altered in respect of a given
advisable to introduce arrangements whereby the United                marketing year in the light of the amount of the storage
Kingdom may, to the extent which is felt to be necessary,             levy fixed for that year and/or to take account of a
grant national flat-rate adjustment aid to its refiners of            change in refiners' margins which results from the price
preferential raw sugar and whereby part of the aid, namely            review for that marketing year'.
that corresponding to the obligations which the Com-
munity places on the said refiners, would be chargeable to        2. The following indent is added to Article 9{6):
the Community;
                                                                      '— the alterations referred to in the fourth sub-
Whereas it is advisable that measures should be introduced            paragraph of paragraph 4b'.
for a certain period only, namely until the end of the period
of validity of the production-quota system, to allow their        3. The following paragraph is added to Article 46:
impact to be assessed, and whereas they should apply as
from 1987/1988, the marketing year in which the existence             '6. From 1987/1988 to 1990/1991 the United King-
of the problems surrounding the preferential raw-sugar                dom may, to the extent which it feels is necessary, grant
refining margin was recognised,                                       adjustment aid for the refining of preferential raw cane
                                                                      sugar.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                          The aid referred to in the first subparagraph may be
                                                                      granted only in respect of the quantities eligible under
                           Article 1                                  Article 33 which are refined into white sugar in the
                                                                      United Kingdom. The aid granted for the sugar thus
Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is hereby amended as                      produced shall not exceed 0,50 ECU per 100 kg,
follows:                                                              expressed as white sugar.
1. The following paragraph is added to Article 9:                     The Community shall, as an intervention measure,
                                                                      reimburse the United Kingdom 25 % of the aid granted
    '4b. From 1987/1988 until 1990/1991 adjustment aid
                                                                      in respect of each marketing year.'
    shall, as an intervention measure, be granted to the
    Community's preferential raw cane sugar refining
    industry.                                                                               Article 2
    The aid referred to in the first subparagraph shall be        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
    granted only in respect of the quantities eligible under      following its publication in the Official Journal of the
    Article 33 which are refined into white sugar at the          European Communities.
    refineries referred to in the third subparagraph of
    paragraph 4. The aid for the white sugar in question          It shall apply from the beginning of the 1987/1988
    shall be 0,08 ECU per 100 kg, expressed as white sugar.       marketing year.
    Throughout the marketing years specified in the first         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
    subparagraph, additional aid of 0,08 ECU per 100 kg,          applicable in all Member States.