CELEX: 31974R1688
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1688/74 of the Commission of 28 June 1974 complementing Regulation (EEC) No 442/70 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of offsetting storage costs for sugar

30 . 6 . 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 176/ 5
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 1688 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 28 June 1974
               complementing Regulation ( EEC) No 442/70 laying down detailed rules for the
                            application of the system of offsetting storage costs for sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            ' Article 5 a
COMMUNITIES ,
                                                                           1.    Reimbursement of storage costs shall be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     granted to rightful claimants in respect of raw beet
Economic Community ;                                                      sugar or white sugar in transit from an approved
                                                                          warehouse in one of the Member States at zero
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/
67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                             hours on the first day of a month , and which on
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                      arrival is stored in another approved warehouse in
                                                                          the same Member State .
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 602/74 (2), and in particular
Article 8 (3) thereof ;                                                   2.     In respect of the calculation of the quantity
Whereas for sugar which is from an approved ware­                         of sugar qualifying for reimbursement of storage
house in one of the Member States , in transit at zero                    costs as referred to in Article 4 (2) of Regulation v
hours on the first day of a month , and which on                          (EEC) No 750 / 68 (5 ), the sugar referred to in para­
arrival is stored in an approved warehouse in the same                    graph 1 shall be considered as still stored in the
Member State, no offsetting of storage costs is                           departure warehouse at zero hours on the last day
provided for up to now, as it is the case for sugar                       of the preceding month and as already stored in
subject to the same transit on arrival before this                        the arrival warehouse at zero hours on the first day
moment ; whereas, in this case, a system should be                        of the following month .
provided for which corresponds substantially with the                     3.     The Member States shall take all the neces­
provisions set out in Commission Regulation ( EEC)
No 442/70 (3) of 9 March 1970 laying down detailed                        sary measures in particular for checking the imple­
                                                                          mentation of this Article .'
rules for the application of the system of offsetting
storage costs for sugar, as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 700/73 (4), for cane sugar from the French
                                                                                                 Article 2
overseas departments ;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                 The following is added to Article 10 ( 1 ) (a) of Regula­
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                    tion (EEC) No 442/ 70 :
ment Committee for Sugar,
                                                                          'the quantities referred to in Articles 5 and 5a of
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                          this Regulation .'
                             Article 1
                                                                                                 Article 3
The following Article 5a is inserted in Regulation
(EEC) No 442/70 :                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 June 1974.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ   No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No 172, 27. 6 . 1974, p. 7.
(*) OJ   No L 55 , 10 . 3 . 1970, p. 10 .
(4) OJ   No L 67, 14. 3 . 1973 , p. 12 .                            (5 ) OJ No L 1 37 , 21 . 6 . 1968 , p. 4.