CELEX: 31973R0478
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 478/73 of the Commission of 12 February 1973 fixing for the 1971/72 sugar year the final amount of the production levy and the amount to be paid by sugar manufactures to the beet sellers

No L 53 /70                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             26 . 2.*73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 478/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 12 February 1973
             fixing for the 1971/72 sugar year the final amount of the production levy and the amount
                                    to be paid by sugar manufacturers to the beet sellers
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       1972/73 sugar year under Article 32 of Regulation
COMMUNITIES ,                                                        No 1009/67/EEC and produced within the maximum
                                                                     quota is 63 283 metric tons ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas a total of 902 593 metric tons of excess
Economic Community ;                                                 production was disposed of in 1971/ 1972 ; whereas
                                                                     the standard amount per unit of weight to compen­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/                      sate for losses incurred in disposing of the sugar
EEC (x) of 18 December 1967 on the common organi­                    must be calculated in accordance with Article 6 (2) (b)
zation of the market in sugar as last amended by the                 of Regulation (EEC) No 142/69 ; whereas the amount
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty ( 3) on the Accession                  so calculated is 8 '905 units of account per 100 kilo­
of new Member States to the European Economic                        grammes ;
Communitiy and the European Atomic Energy Com­
munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and
in particular Article 27 (7) thereof ;                               Whereas the overall losses incurred in disposing of
                                                                     Community production exceeding the guaranteed
Whereas Article 6 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation                     quantity can thus be estimated at 85 876 160 units
(EEC) No 142/69 (4) of 25 January 1969 laying down                   of account ;
certain detailed rules for the application of the quota
system for sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 144/73. (5) provides that the final amount of the                 Whereas the sum of the quantities produced above
production levy must be fixed for each sugar year ;                  the basic quotas but within the maximum quota
whereas the criteria for fixing the amount are laid                  and not carried over is 1 228 563 metric tons ; whereas
down by Article 27 (2) of Regulation No 1009/67/                     the final amount of the production levy is calculated
EEC and Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 142/69 ;                by dividing the overall losses by the quantity last
                                                                     quoted ; whereas this gives a figure of 6'99 units of
                                                                     account per 100 kilogrammes ;
Whereas total Community sugar production for
1971 /72, including quantities carried over pursuant
to Article 32 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC, is
                                                                     Whereas Article 27 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/
8 133 635 metric tons ; whereas the guaranteed
                                                                     EEC provides that sugar manufacturers must, where
quantity for 1971/72 was fixed at 6 480 000 metric
                                                                     the production levy is less than the maximum , pay
tons by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1062/71 (6) of                   to the beet sellers the difference between those two
25 May 1971 fixing, for the 1971 /72 sugar year, the
                                                                     amounts up to a percentage to be determined ;
derived intervention prices, the intervention prices
                                                                     whereas , for the 1971/72 sugar year, Article 7 of
for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the
threshold prices, the guaranteed quantity, the maxi­                 Regulation (EEC) No 1062/71 fixed that percentage
                                                                     at 59*12 and fixed the maximum amount of the
mum amount of the production levy and the special
maximum quota ; whereas 625 992 metric tons were
                                                                     production levy at 9-10 units of account per 100
produced above the maximum quotas for the year in                    kilogrammes of white sugar ;
question ; whereas the quantity carried over to the
                                                                     Whereas the amount to be paid per metric ton of
                                                                     sugar beet pursuant to the second subparagraph of
                                                                     Article 27 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must
                                                                     be fixed for the standard quality ;
(*)  OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ No L 73 , 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
(3)  OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 .                              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
(4)  OJ No L 20, 27. 1 . 1969, p. 1 .
(5)  OJ No L 18, 23 . 1 . 1973 , p. 13.                              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management
(6 ) OJ No L 115 , 27 . 5 . 1971 , p. 19 .                           Committee for Sugar ;
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                       Article 2
                      Article 1
                                                             The amount to be paid pursuant to the second sub­
The final amount of the production levy for the              paragraph of Article 27 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/
1971 /72 sugar year is 6-99 units of account per 100         EEC for the 1971/72 sugar year is 1-62 units of account
kilogrammes.                                                 per metric ton of standard quality beet.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 12 February 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI