CELEX: 51975PC0463
Language: en
Date: 1975-09-10
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EEC) No 766/68 as regards the granting of export refunds on sugars imported into the Community under preferential systems

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                                                     COM(75)463 final .
                                                                            "th.
                                                     Brussels , September 10     1975
                                        Proposal for a
                                 REGULATION ( SEC ) OP THE COUNCIL
                      amending Regulation ( EEC ) Nc "66/68 as regards the
                      granting; of export refunds on sugars imported into
                      the Community under preferential systems
                          ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
           CCr(75 ) 463 fiiipl .
 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY IIEIOEAIILUM
1 . The Commission has just introduced legislation concerning tendering with
    a view to fixing refunds or export levies , as the case nay "be , for vhite
    sugar for the 1975/76 marketing year . Produce must be exported from
    1 October 1975 onwards .
    In this connection , a problem arises concerning export refunds on sugar
    imported into the Community under a preferential system . Article 15 of
    Regulation ( EEC ) Ho 766/68 , which lays down that no export refund shall
    be granted on white cr raw sugar -unless produced from sugar beet or
    sugar cane harvested within the Community or on those products falling
    within headings ITcs 17*02 C to F and 17*05 0 of the Common Customs
    Tariff even if of Community origin , precludes the granting of refunds
    on "preferential " sugars .
2 . The Commission recalls that by virtue of paragraph 4 of Protocol 17 , until
    28 February 1975 vhite sugar produced from raw sugar imported under the
    terras of the Protocol was eligible for the export refund applicable in
    the United Kingdom .
    The Commission also points out that Protocol No 3 to the Lome Convention
    between the AOP countries and the EEC , like the Council Decision of
    25 February 1975 concerning the importation of cane sugar originating in
    the overseas countries and territories and the agreement on cane sugar
    between the EEC and the Republic cf India , introduced preferential
    systems involving - in particular - an undertaking to purchase at negotiated
    prices combined with a right of intervention and an undertaking to
    import into the Community :, Under these circumstances , this "preferential "
    sugar becomes identical with " Community " sugar .
    Finally , the Commission notes the virtual impossibility of distinguishing
    between beet sugar cr case sugar produced x:ithin the Community and that
    of other origins .
    Consequently , tho Commission intends to propose to the Council that the
     32rstem of expert refunds should be extended to "preferential " sugar .
                                                              ./.
 ---pagebreak---                                      Proposal of .
                         REJULATIOir (EEC ) OF THE COUfCIL
         amending Regulation ( EEC) W® 766/68 as regards the granting
         of export refunds on sugars imported into the Community
                          •under preferential systems
ÏHE CCUBCIL OP TH2 EUROPEAN CŒMJIŒTISS ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
Having regard to Regulation ( EEC) Bo 3330/74 of "the Council of 19 December 1974
on the common organization of the market in sugar' and in particular Article 1?
( 2 ) and ( 3 ) thereof;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                       2
Whereas Article 15 of Regulation ( EEC) H® 166/ 68 of the Council of 18 June 1968
laying dotra general rules for granting export refunds on sugar • , as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) Ho 1102/75^ » lays down firstly that no refund
shall be granted on the products listed in Article 1 ( l ) ( a) and ( c) of
Regulation Ho IOO9/67/EEC , now repealed and replaced by Regulation (EEC)
No3130/'i4» unless they have been produced' from sugar beet or sugar cane
harvested within the Community , and secondly that no export refund shall
be granted on the products listed in Article 1 ( l ) ( d ) of the aforementioned
regulation .-which are not of Community origin ;     '
whereas under paragraph 4 of Protocol ITo 17 to the act of accession^ and
notwithstanding the provisions of Article 15 ( l ) of Regulation ( EEC)
ITo "J66/6S , the export refund applicable in the United Kingdom may be granted
for white sugar produced from raw sugar imported under the terms of the
Protocol ;
Whereas preferential import systems applying to sugar combined with under-
talcing to purchase and import were subsequently introduced by Protocol N*3
on sugar to the Lome Convention between the ACP countries end the EEC , by
the Council Decision of 25 February 1975 concerning the importation of cane
 ^0J ÎTo L 359 of 31.12.1974, P.l
 2^0J Ho L 143 of 25. 6.19?8, p.6
 ^0J Ho L 110 of 30. 6.1975, P.l
4 '0J ITo L 73 of 27. 3.1972, p.17                       '' •/•
 ---pagebreak---  e xjtx                   in tho ov-arne-vs co-intries and territories
                                                                      , 5 ) , said by the
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 agreement between the SEC and the Republic of India on cane sngar ' ?
 whereas the implementation of these preferential Eystoms ajid in particular
 of the undertakings referred to calls for an extension of the system
 of export refunds to sugars imported under preferentiel systems ;
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                               Article 1
 Article 15 of Regulation ( EEC) Ho 766/68 shall be deleted and replaced
 by the following :
"Article 15
 1# Bo export refund shall be granted on the products listed in Article 1
          ( a) of Regulation ( EEC) Ho 3330/74 unless they have been :
        I
     a) produced from sugar beet or sugar cane harvested within the
             Community ;
     b ) imported into the Community by virtue :
             - of Protocol Ho 3 on sugar to the Lome Convention between the
               ACP countries and the ESC ;
             - of the Council Decision of 25 February 1975 concerning the
               importation of cane sugar originating in the overseas countries
               and territories ;
             - of the agreement between the EEC and the Republic of India on
               cane sugar ; .
     c ) produced from one of the products imported by virtue of the provisions
             referred to under ( b )«
      ι
 2# Ho export refund shall be granted on the products listed in Article 1
     ( l ) ( c) and ( d) of Regulation (EEC) Ho 3330/74 which are not of Comimi-
  «                                 ? : T,
    nity origin or have not? been produced from sugars imported into the
     Community by virtue of the .provisions referred to in paragraphe 1 (h)
     or from products specified' in paragraph 1 ( c)»
 5)
 -"OJ Ho                                ,sr. v
 6)oJ Ho L 190 of 23.7.1975.^ P .36
 ---pagebreak---                                  Article 2
This Regulation shall. be enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal fo the European Communities®
It shall apply fVom 1 October 1975 »
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all ITonber States .
Done at Brussels                          For the Council