CELEX: 31970R1481
Language: en
Date: 1970-07-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1481/70 of the Commission of 24 July 1970 on the expression 'agricultural region' as used in Regulation (EEC) No 1898/68 on basic quotas for sugar

Official Journal of the European Communities                                   479
 No L 163 / 14                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               25.7.70
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1481 /70 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 24 July 1970
               on the expression 'agricultural region' as used in Regulation (EEC) No 1898/68 on basic
                                                     quotas for sugar
 THE . COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­                           deal with basic quotas referred to in that Regulation
 MUNITIES,                                                       may be applied only if their effects are confined to a
                                                                 single agricultural region ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     Whereas the expression 'agricultural region' should
European Economic Community;                                     be interpreted within certain well-defined limits;
Having      regard      to    Council   Regulation     No        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 1009/67/EEC1 of 18 December 1967 on the common                  are in accordance with the Opinion of Management
organisation of the market in sugar, as last amended             Committee for Sugar;
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1253/70,2 and in particular
Article 23 (4) thereof;                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the second paragraph of Article 5 of                                            Sole Article
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1898/683 of 26
November 1968 introducing measures to deal with                  For the purposes of the second paragraph of Article 5
 basic quotas for sugar in the event of undertakings             of Regulation (EEC) No 1898/68, the maximum
 being merged or transferred and of factories being              distance in a straight line between the two
transferred or leased, as amended by Regulation                  furthermost points of an agricultural region shall not
 (EEC) No 1207/70,4 provides that the measures to                exceed 2000 kilometres .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 24 July 1970.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                    Franco M. MALFATTI
1  OJ No 308, 18.12.1967, p. 1 .
2  OJ No L 143, 1.7.1970, p . 1 .
3  OJ No L 289, 29.11.1968, p. 2,
4  OJ No L 141, 29.6.1970, p. 6.