CELEX: 31978R1462
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1462/78 of 29 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 marketing year, the amounts of the levy in connection with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar

30 . 6. 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 176/ 3
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1462/78
                                                         of 29 June 1978
              fixing , for the 1978/79 marketing year, the amounts of the levy in connection
                                      with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     consideration and the quantities likely to be disposed
COMMUNITIES,                                                       of for domestic consumption or exported during the
                                                                   same month ; whereas total average monthly stocks
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             during the 1978/79 marketing year can be estimated
 Economic Community,                                               at approximately 64-6 million tonnes of sugar
                                                                   expressed in white value ; whereas the total reimburse­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       ment for Community sugar can thus be estimated at
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                  approximately 193-8 million units of account for the
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by               1978/79 marketing year ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the
last subparagraph of Article 8 (3) thereof,                        Whereas Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358 /77
                                                                   provides that the amount of the levy for Community
Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74             sugar shall be calculated by dividing total anticipated
provides that storage costs for sugar and for syrups               reimbursements by the anticipated quantity of sugar
shall be reimbursed at a flat rate by the Member                   which will be disposed of during the sugar marketing
States ;                                                           year in question and produced within the maximum
                                                                   quotas ; whereas total anticipated reimbursements are
Whereas, for the 1978/79 marketing year, the                       to be increased or decreased as the case may be by the
monthly amount of the reimbursement has been fixed                 amounts carried forward from preceding sugar
at 0-30 unit of account per 100 kilograms of white                 marketing years ; whereas the anticipated balance of
sugar, by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1399/78 of 20                 preceding sugar marketing years can be estimated at a
June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the                  negative amount of 19-9 million units of account ;
derived intervention prices, the intervention price for            whereas detailed rules for the application of the
raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the thres­            system of offsetting storage costs for sugar provide
hold prices, the maximum amount of the production                  that the levy is to be fixed per 100 kilograms of white
levy and the amount of the repayment to offset                     sugar ; whereas the quantity of Community sugar
storage costs and fixing the coefficient for calculating           which will be disposed of during the 1978 /79
the special maximum quota (3) ;                                    marketing year for home consumption or for export
                                                                   may be estimated at approximately 10-8 million
Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74             tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ; whereas the
provides also that the Member States shall charge                  amount of the levy for Community sugar should there­
levies on sugar manufacturers and on importers or                  fore be 1 -98 units of account per 100 kilograms of
refiners of preferential sugar ;                                   white sugar ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)                 Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77
No 1358/77 of 20 June 1977 laying down general                     specifies that the amount of the levy for preferential
rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar and                   sugar shall be calculated in the same way ; whereas
repealing Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 (4), as amended               total average monthly stocks during the 1978/79
by Regulation (EEC) No 1397/78 (5), the quantity in                marketing year can be estimated at approximately 2-9
store to be taken into consideration for the reimburse­            million tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ;
ment of one month's storage costs is equal to the                  whereas the total reimbursement for preferential sugar
average quantities of sugar held in store at the begin­            can thus be estimated at approximately 8 8 million
ning and at the end of the month in question ;                     units of account for the 1978/79 marketing year ;
whereas, for the 1978/79 marketing year, the quanti­               whereas that total anticipated reimbursements for pref­
ties of Community sugar in store each month may be                 erential sugar shall be increased or decreased, as the
estimated by reference to anticipated stocks at the                case may be, by the amounts carried forward from
beginning of the marketing year, estimated monthly                 preceding sugar marketing years ; whereas the amount
production , the quantities likely to be imported                  carried forward from the 1977/78 sugar marketing
outside preferential conditions in the month under                 year will probably be a positive amount of 0 3 million
                                                                   units of account ; whereas the quantity of preferential
(!) OJ  No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                            sugar to which the levy will apply during the same
(2) OJ  No L 170, 27.  6. 1978 , p. 1 .                            period may be estimated at 1-3 million tonnes of
P)  OJ  No L 170, 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 6 .
(4) OJ  No L 156, 25 . 6 . 1977, p. 4.                             sugar expressed in white value ; whereas, the amount
(5) OJ  No L 170, 27 . 6. 1978 , p. 3 .                            of the levy for preferential sugar should therefore be
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0.65 unit of account per 100 kilograms of white              of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is
sugar ;                                                      hereby fixed at 1.98 units of account per 100 kilo­
                                                             grams of white sugar.
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­            2.    For the 1978/79 marketing year, the amount of
ment Committee for Sugar,                                    the levy referred to in the third subparagraph under
                                                             (b) and (c) of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                3330/74 is hereby fixed at 0.65 unit of account per
                                                              100 kilograms of white sugar.
                        Article 1
                                                                                     Article 2
1 . For the 1978/79 marketing year, the amount of
the levy referred to in the third subparagraph under (a)     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              Stated.
              Done at Brussels, 29 June 1978 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President