CELEX: 31974R2479
Language: en
Date: 1974-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2479/74 of the Commission of 30 September 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 as regards the application of the system of import and export licences in the sugar sector

1 . 10. 74                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 264/73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2479/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 30 September 1974
                amending Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 as regards the application of the system
                                      of import and export licences in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        export licences and advance fixing certificates for agri­
COMMUNITIES,                                                          cultural products, as last amended by Regulation
                                                                      ( EEC) No 1454/74(6);
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                      are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                          ment Committee for Sugar,
67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1 1 (2) thereof ;
                                                                                                  Article I
Whereas the third indent of Article 4 (3) of Commis­
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1373/70 (3) on common                        The following Article 32b is added to Regulation
detailed rules for the application of the system, of                  ( EEC) No 2637/70 :
import and export licences and advance fixing certifi­                       Article 32b
cates for agricultural products subject to a single price
system , as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                             By deroagtion from the third indent of paragraph
211 1 /74 (4), provides that no licence shall be required                   3 of Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1373/70 no
for the purposes of operations relating to quantities                        licence shall be required for the purposes of opera­
such that the security for the corresponding licence                        tions relating to a quantity not exceeding 100 kilo­
would be less than two units of account ; whereas the                       grammes .'
application of this provision in the sugar sector would
entail the fixing, for certain products, of levels of                                              Article 2
exemption which varied according to whether a                         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
refund was fixed or not ; whereas it is thus desirable ,
                                                                      following its publication in the Official Journal of
for reasons of administrative simplification , to specify              the European Communities.
a single level of exemption for all sugar products, and
accordingly to add an Article 32b to Commission                        It shall apply in respect of operations for which
Regulation ( EEC) No 2637/70 (5) on special detailed                  customs import or export formalities are completed
rules for the application of the system of import and                  on or after 1 October 1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 September 1974.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOL1
 ')  OJ  No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967 , p . 1 .
 -') See page 70 of this Official Journal .
 3)  OJ  No L 158 , 20 . 7 . 1970 , p . 1 .
 4)  OJ  No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p . 5 .
 5)  OJ  No L 283 , 23 . 12 . 1970 , p . 15 .                          ( h) OJ No L 155 , 12 . 6 . 1974, p. 10 .