CELEX: 31974R1599
Language: en
Date: 1974-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1599/74 of the Council of 29 April 1974 fixing the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating the maximum quota for the 1974/75 marketing year

27. 6 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 172/ 1
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                                           (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1599/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 29 April 1974
             fixing the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating
                                   the maximum quota for the 1974/75 marketing year
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        vention price, ensures a fair remuneration for beet
                                                                  and cane producers while at the same time respecting
                                                                  consumers' interests, and which is likely to maintain
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                the balance between the prices of the principal
pean Economic Community, and in particular Article                agricultural products ;
43 thereof;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/                  Whereas as a result of the characteristics of the sugar
EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­                 market the risks involved in this trade are relatively
ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by               slight; whereas, consequently, when the intervention
Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2), and in particular               price for sugar is being fixed, the difference between
Articles 2 (2), 3 (5 ) and 4 (3 ) and the second sub­            the target price and the intervention price may be
paragraph of Article 24 (2) thereof;                             fixed at a relatively low level;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
                                                                 Whereas the minimum price for beet must take
                                                                 account of the intervention price and of the standard
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Par­                amounts covering the costs of processing and deliv­
liament;                                                         ering beet to factories and be based on an estimated
                                                                 Community yield of 130 kilogrammes of white sugar
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and                 per metric ton of beet with a 16% sugar content;
Social Committee;
Whereas, when sugar prices are being fixed, account              Whereas the above standard costs may be estimated
should be taken of the objectives of the Common                  at 10-73 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of
Agricultural Policy and of the contribution which                white sugar; whereas that amount is made up of the
the Community desires to make to the harmonious                  sum of the processing margin, estimated at 9-74 units
development of world trade; whereas the objectives               of account, and the costs of delivering beet to facto­
of the Common Agricultural Policy are in particular              ries, estimated at 1-82 units of account, less a stan­
to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural         dard amount of 0-83 unit of account representing
community, to ensure that supplies are available and             factories' receipts from the sale of molasses calculated
that they reach consumers at reasonable prices ;                 on the basis of a yield of 38-5 kilogrammes per metric
                                                                 ton of beet processed and an ex-factory price for
                                                                 molasses of 2-80 units of account per 100 kilo­
Whereas, to attain these objectives, the target price            grammes .
for sugar must be fixed at a level which, taking into
account in particular the resultant level of the inter­
                                                                 Whereas the standard quality chosen for beet should
                                                                 be a quality which takes account of production
(*) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .                            characteristics in the main beet producing areas of
(2) OJ No L 199 , 19 . 7. 1973 , p. 7.                           the Community;
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Whereas, in the light of production trends seen in                                     Article 3
terms of specialization, the Community's sugar
supply and marketing opportunities, the maximum                The minimum price for beet for the area referred to
quotas referred to in Article 24 of Regulation No              in Article 2 (3 ) shall be 18-84 units of account per
1009/67/EEC should be fixed at 145% of the basic               metric ton at the stage of delivery to the collection
quotas,                                                        centre .
                                                                                       Article 4
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                        Article 1
                                                               Standard quality beet shall present the following
                                                               characteristics :
The provisions of this Regulation shall apply for the          ( a) sound, fair and of marketable quality ;
 1974/75 sugar marketing year.
                                                               (b) sugar content of 16% at the reception point.
                        Article 2
                                                                                       Article 5
 1 . The target price for white sugar shall be 26-55
 units of account per 100 kilogrammes.                         The coefficient referred to in Article 24 ( 1 ) of
                                                               Regulation No 1009/67/EEC shall be 1-45 .
2. The intervention price for white sugar shall be
 25-22 units of account per 100 kilogrammes.                                           Article 6
 3 . The area having the largest surplus includes the          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July
 following French departments : Aisne, Somme, Oise.            1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Luxembourg, 29 April 1974.
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                         J. ERTL