CELEX: 31977R1466
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1466/77 of 30 June 1977 fixing, for the 1977/78 marketing year, the amounts of the levy in connection with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar

No L 162/4                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 7. 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1466/77
                                                      of 30 June 1977
               fixing, for the 1977/78 marketing year, the amounts of the levy in connection with the
                                           offsetting of storage costs for sugar
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar and repeal­
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                    ing Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 (4), the quantity
                                                                   in store to be taken into consideration for the reim­
                                                                   bursement of one month's storage costs is equal to the
                                                                   average quantities of sugar held in store at the begin­
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            ning and at the end of the month in question ; whereas,
  Economic Community,                                              for the 1977/78 marketing year, the quantities of
                                                                   Community sugar in store each month may be
                                                                   estimated by reference to anticipated stocks at the
                                                                   beginning of the marketing year, estimated monthly
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/                production, the quantities likely to be imported
 74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organization                 outside preferential conditions in the month under
  of the market in sugar (x), as last amended by Regu­             consideration and the quantities likely to be disposed
 lation (EEC) No 1110/77 (2), and in particular the                of for domestic consumption or exported during the
 last subparagraph of Article 8 (2) thereof,                       same month ; whereas total average monthly stocks
                                                                   during the 1977/78 marketing year can be estimated
                                                                   at approximately 61-8 million tonnes of sugar expres­
                                                                   sed in white value ; whereas the total reimbursement
 Whereas Article 8 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74            for Community sugar can thus be estimated at
 provides that storage costs for sugar and for certain             approximately 185*4 million units of account for the
 Community syrups and for imported preferential                    1977/78 marketing year ;
 sugar shall be reimbursed at a flat rate by the Member
 States ;
                                                                  Whereas Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77
                                                                  provides that the amount of the levy for Community
 Whereas, for the 1977/78 marketing year, the monthly             sugar shall be calculated by dividing total anticipated
 amount of the reimbursement has been fixed by                    reimbursements by the anticipated quantity of sugar
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1113/77 of 17 May                    which will be disposed of during the sugar marketing
 1977 fixing, for the 1977/78 sugar year, the derived             year in question and produced within the maximum
 intervention prices, the intervention price for raw              quotas ; whereas total anticipated reimbursements are
 beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold           to be increased or decreased as the case may be by
 prices, the maximum amount of the production levy                the amounts carried forward from preceding sugar
 and the amount of the repayment to offset storage                marketing years ; whereas the amount carried forward
 costs (3) at 0-30 unit of account per 100 kilograms              from the marketing year 1976/77 will probably be
 of white sugar ;                                                 zero ;
Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74           Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 442/70
provides also that the Member States shall charge                 of 9 March 1970 laying down detailed rules for the
levies on sugar manufacturers and on importers or                application of the system of offsetting storage costs
refiners of preferential sugar ;                                 for sugar (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 1465/77 (8), provides that the levy is to be fixed per
                                                                 100 kilograms of white sugar ; whereas the quantity of
                                                                 Community sugar which will be disposed of during
Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)               the 1977/78 marketing year for home consumption
No 1358/77 of 20 June 1977 laying down general
(*) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                           (4) OJ No L 156, 25. 6. 1977, p. 4.
(2) OJ No L 134, 28. 5. 1977, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ No L 55, 10. 3 . 1970, p. 10.
(3) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 11 .                           (•) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
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or for export may be estimated at approximately               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
10*5 million tonnes of sugar expressed in white               are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
value ; whereas the amount of the levy for Community          Committee for Sugar,
sugar should therefore be 1 77 units of account per
100 kilograms of white sugar ;
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77                                      Article 1
specifies that the amount of the levy for preferential
sugar shall be calculated in the same way ; whereas           1 . For the 1977/78 marketing year, the amount of the
total average monthly stocks during the 1977/78               levy referred to in Article 8 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC)
marketing year can be estimated at approximately              No 3330/74 is hereby fixed at 1-77 unit of account
3-1 million tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ;       per 100 kilograms of white sugar.
whereas the total reimbursement for preferential sugar
can thus be estimated at approximately 9-3 million            2. For the 1977/78 marketing year, the amount of
units of account for the 1977/78 marketing year ;             the levy referred to in Article 8 ( 1 ) (b) and (c) of
whereas the quantity of preferential sugar to which           Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is hereby fixed at 0-71
the evv will apply during the same period may be              unit of account per 100 kilograms of white sugar.
estimated at 1*3 million tonnes of sugar expressed in
white value ; whereas the amount of the levy for                                       Article 2
preferential sugar should therefore be 0-71 unit of
account per 100 kilograms of white sugar ;                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1977.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President