CELEX: 31971R2723
Language: en
Date: 1971-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2723/71 of the Council of 20 December 1971 on the rules for production refunds for white sugar used in the manufacture of the products listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 765/68

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1005
No L 282/2                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               23.12.71
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2723 /71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 20 December 1971
               on the rules for production refunds for white sugar used in the manufacture of the
                                  products listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 765 /68
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          the industries concerned should not fall below 13-30
                                                                   units of account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar, have
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       proved to be sensible and beneficial; whereas these
European Economic Community;                                       rules have enabled the industry producing sorbitol
                                                                   from sugar to develop rapidly without, so far,
Having      regard     to     Council     Regulation     No        causing any appreciable harm to the competing
1009/67/EEC1 of 18 December 1967 on the common                     industry using starches ; whereas, in short, these rules
organisation of the market in sugar, as last amended               have both brought about a degree of balance between
by Regulation (EEC) No 1060/71 ,2 and in particular                the two types of production and have allowed them
Article 9 (7) thereof;                                             to achieve some measure of progress ;
                                                                  Whereas the continuation of the action carried out
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                hitherto in this field will impose practically no
                                                                  financial burden on the Community, since human
Whereas Article 5 (3 ) of Council Regulation (EEC)                consumption       has  in   the    meantime     exceeded
No 765 /683 of 18 June 1968 laying down general                   production within the basic quotas and has reached
rules for the production refund on sugar used in the               the level of the guaranteed quantity; whereas,
chemical industry, as amended by Regulation (EEC)                  therefore, sugar used by the chemical industry may
No 2486/694, lays down in particular that the                     be deemed to be part of production outside the basic
Council must make a decision on the rules which                   quotas and consequently has to bear the production
shall apply from 1 February 1972 to production                    levy, the level of which corresponds broadly to the
refunds on the products listed in Annex I to the said              level of the production refunds in question ;
Regulation ; whereas the said rules must be based on
the criteria laid down in the above Article;                      Whereas under these conditions it seems advisable to
                                                                  pursue the experiment and whereas it is appropriate
Whereas examination of the information supplied by                to extend the application of the rules laid down in
the Member States has enabled the Commission to                   Regulation (EEC) No 765 /68 for a period equal to
prepare and submit to the Council since 1968 three                the first; whereas, consequently, the text of that
annual reports relating, in particular, to the                     Regulation should be amended accordingly ;
production of sorbitol and mannitol within the
Community ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas an assessment of the information on the
                                                                                          Article 1
basis of the * various criteria which have been
determined shows that the rules laid down in                      In Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 the
Regulation (EEC) No 765/68, by limiting the                       words 'until 30 June 1975 ' shall be substituted for
production refunds for sugar intended for thei                     'until 31 January 1972'.
manufacture of products covered by Annex I to the
said Regulation so that the disposal price of sugar to                                    Article 2
                                                                  The following shall be substituted for Article 5 (3 ) of
1 OJ No   308, 18.12.1967, p. 1 .                                 Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 :
2 OJ  No  L 115, 27.5.1971 , p . 16.
3 OJ  No  L 143, 25.6.1968, p . 1 .                                    '3 .   Before 1 April 1975 , the Council, acting on
4 OJ  No  L 314, 15.12.1969, p. 8 .                                     a proposal from the Commission in accordance
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    with the voting procedure laid down in Article               (d) competition from synthetic products ;
    43 (2) of the. Treaty, shall decide on the rules
    which shall apply from 1 July 1975 to production             (e) the competitive position . of industries
    refunds on the products listed in Annex I, on the                processing the products concerned .'
    basis of:
    (a) the use of sugar by the industry concerned ;
                                                                                    Article 3
  . (b) trends which have become apparent in the
         technical field;
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
     (c) the financial consequences of the proposed          following its publication in the Official Journal of the
         measures ;                                          European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 20 December 1971 .     '
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                     M. PEDINI