CELEX: 31974R2980
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2980/74 of the Council of 26 November 1974 on the imposition of an export charge on certain products processed from fruit and vegetables and containing added sugar in the event of sugar supply difficulties

No L 318/2                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             28 . 11 . 74
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2980/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 26 November 1974
              on the imposition of an export charge on certain products processed from fruit
              and vegetables and containing added sugar in the event of sugar supply diffi­
                                                             culties
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         white sugar, the imposition of a charge on exports of
COMMUNITIES,                                                        the products specified in Article 1 of Regulation
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               (EEC) No 865/68 containing a minimum of 35 %
Economic Community ;                                                added sugar may be decided in accordance with the
                                                                    procedure laid down in paragraph 4.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
865/68 ( !) of 28 June 1968 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in products processed from fruit                 2. The amount of the export charge shall be fixed
and vegetables, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                 taking into account :
No 2429/72 (2), and in particular Article 9 ( 1 ) thereof ;
                                                                    — the nature of the product processed from fruit or
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                     vegetables which contains added sugar,
Whereas, pursuant to the second subparagraph of
Article 16 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No 1009/                     — the added sugar content of the product in ques­
                                                                        tion,
67/EEC (3) of 18 December 1967 on the common
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                — the prices of white sugar in the Community and
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 602/74 (4), provision may be                   on the world market,
made for a special levy to be charged on exports of
sugar in the event of Community sugar supply diffi­                 — the special levy applicable to white sugar,
culties ;                                                           — the economic implications of applying the said
Whereas experience gained in applying this measure                      charge.
has shown that its effectiveness may be impaired in
cases where sugar is exported in the form of certain                3. The added sugar content shall be considered to
products processed from fruit and vegetables and                    be given by the figure shown against the product in
containing added sugar ; whereas this is particularly               question in column 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
the case for certain products processed from fruit and              No 865/68 . However, at the request of the exporter,
vegetables which have a relatively high added sugar                 the rules laid down in Article 2 (6), (7) and (8) of that
content ; whereas provision should therefore be made                Regulation shall apply.
for a charge to be imposed on exports of the products
in question, fixed on the basis of the special levy on              4. Detailed rules for the application of this Article
sugar exports when that levy exceeds a certain amount               shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
and excessive exports are recorded ;                                laid down in Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas this additional measure must be adopted by                  865/ 68 .
derogating from the rule provided for in Article 9 ( 1 )
of Regulation (EEC) No 865/68,
                                                                                            Article 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                            Article 1
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
1 . Where a special levy exceeding five units of                    publication in the Official Journal of the European
account per 100 kilogrammes is charged on exports of                 Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 26 November 1974 .
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                 J. LECANUET
(')  OJ No  L 153, 1 . 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
(2 ) OJ No  L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No  308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ No  L 172, 27. 6 . 1974, p. 7.