CELEX: 31967R1043
Language: en
Date: 1967-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 1043/67/EEC of the Commission of 22 December 1967 on detailed rules for fixing basic quotas for sugar

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                              REGULATION No 1043/67/EEC OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 22 December 1967
                                    on detailed rules for fixing basic quotas for sugar
THE    COMMISSION        OF     THE   EUROPEAN      COM­         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
MUNITIES ,                                                       are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                 Management Committee for Sugar ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/EEC1
of 18 December 1967 on the common organisation of
the market in sugar, and in particular Article 23 (4)                                     Article 1
thereof;
                                                                 1 . For the purposes of Article 23 of Regulation No
Whereas Article 23 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC                  1009/67/EEC, 'sugar production' means total
provides for the fixing of basic quotas for factories or         manufacture of white, raw and liquid sugar from
undertakings, these quotas being established by                  beet, cane or molasses .
multiplying their average annual sugar production
during the 1961 /62 to 1965/66 marketing years by a
coefficient expressing the ratio of the relevant                 2. The following shall not be regarded as sugar
Member State's basic quantity to the average annual              production for the purposes of that Article :
sugar production of that State during the same
period ;                                                         ( a) the manufacture of white sugar from raw sugar;
Whereas the term 'production ' as used in that Article           (b) the manufacture of liquid sugar from white or
                                                                       raw sugar ;
must be defined ;
                                                                 ( c) the    manufacture    of    sugar   under     inward
Whereas to simplify the administrative task of                         processing arrangements ;
calculating average production, provision should be
made for converting the different types of sugar into            (d) the manufacture of sugar from molasses if the
white sugar and for expressing the quotas granted in                   Member State concerned did not allow this sugar
terms of white sugar;                                                  to be disposed of on the domestic market.
Whereas Member States should only make use of the
possibilities offered by Article 1 of Council                                             Article 2
Regulation No 1027/67/EEC2 of 21 December 1967
on the fixing of basic quotas for sugar to the extent
that this is necessary ;                                         For the purposes of calculating the average annual
                                                                 sugar production of a factory or undertaking referred
                                                                 to in Article 23 or Regulation No 1009/67/EEC :
1 OJ No 308 , 18.12.1967, p . 1 .                                — production of white sugar shall be taken into
 2 OJ No 313 , 22.12.1967, p . 2 .                                    account, disregarding differences in quality;
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— production of raw sugar shall be expressed in                                       Article 4
    terms of white sugar;
— production of liquid sugar shall be expressed in            The basic quotas allocated shall be expressed in
    terms of white sugar.                                     terms of white sugar.
                        Article 3
                                                                                      Article 5
Member States may invoke the provisions of Article 1
of Regulation No 1027/67/EEC only to the extent               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
that this is justified by the circumstances of a given        day following its publication in the Official Journal
case .                                                        of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 22 December 1967.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                                    Jean REY