CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1993-07-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 9 July 1993 altering the adjustment aid to the Portuguese refining industry for raw sugar imported from third countries at a reduced levy for the 1993/94 marketing year into Portugal

No L 168/52                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  10 . 7. 93
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 9 July 1993
                 altering the adjustment aid to the Portuguese refining industry for raw sugar
                 imported from third countries at a reduced levy for the 1993/94 marketing year
                                                         into Portugal
                                             (Only the Portuguese text is authentic)
                                                          (93/391 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         white sugar ; whereas this amount is higher than that
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               applicable for the 1992/93 marketing year ;
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas account should, however, be taken in the altera­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                tion in the aid in question that has already been made for
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   the 1990/91 , 1991 /92 and 1992/93 marketing years in
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­         order to neutralize the effect of successive storage levy
tion (EEC) No 1 548/93 (2), and in particular the seventh           reductions on the refining margin for the 1993/94 marke­
indent of Article 9 (6) thereof,                                    ting year ;
Whereas Article 9 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81            Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
provides that, during the 1993/94 marketing years, adjust­          accordance with the opinion of the Management
ment aid is to be granted as an intervention measure to             Committee for Sugar,
the refining industry for raw sugar imported into Portugal
at a reduced levy pursuant to Article 16 (a), of Regulation
(EEC) No 1785/81 , and refined into white sugar in                  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Portugal ; whereas that aid amounts to ECU 0,08 per 1 00
kilograms of sugar expressed as white sugar for quantities
of such sugar thus imported and refined in Portugal ;                                         Article 1
whereas the quantities of raw sugar imported at a reduced
levy are those referred to in the said Article 16 (a), para­        The adjustment aid provided for in the second subpara­
graphs 1 and 2, the import of which at a reduced levy is            graph of Article 9 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
authorized for the marketing year under consideration ;             shall be fixed et ECU 0,58 per 100 kilograms of sugar
                                                                    expressed as white sugar for the 1993/94 marketing year.
Whereas the third subparagraph of Article 9 (4c) of Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that the abovemen­
tioned adjustment aid may be altered for a given mar­                                         Article 2
keting year, in the light in particular of the amount of the
storage levy fixed for that year ; whereas although sugar           This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
imported into Portugal at a reduced levy is not subject to
the storage levy, in view of the quantities of such sugar
refined that levy is a determining factor for the prices as a       Done at Brussels, 9 July 1993 .
whole on the market for white sugar and therefore for the
margin of the Portuguese refineries ;                                                            For the Commission
Whereas the amount of the storage levy for the 1993/94                                             Rene STEICHEN
marketing year was fixed by Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 1710/93 (3) at ECU 3,50 per 100 kilograms of                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p . 4.
(2) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 10.
0 OJ No L 159 , 1 . 7. 1993, p. 83 .