CELEX: 31973R0552
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 552/73 of the Commission of 21 February 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 authorizing the United Kingdom to grant aid as a transitional measure for sugar to be consumed in its territory

27. 2 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 54/21
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 552/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 21 February 1973
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 authorizing the United Kingdom to grant aid
                         as a transitional measure for sugar to be consumed in its territory
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        — amounting to the estimated human consump­
COMMUNITIES,                                                                 tion for each of the periods specified in
                                                                             Article 2 ( 1 ) in the case of sugar manufac­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                           tured or refined in the United Kingdom and
pean Economic Community ;                                                    disposed of for consumption without further
                                                                             processing ;
Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the                        — amounting to 6 000 metric tons per month in
Accession of new Member States to the European                               the case of sugar expressed as white sugar
Economic Community and the European Atomic                                   imported and disposed of in the United
Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22                                   Kingdom, either without being further
January 1972, and in particular Article 63 ( 1 ) of the                      processed or in the form of products falling
Act (2) annexed thereto ;                                                    within subheadings Nos 18.06 A III and ex
                                                                             21.07 F ;
Whereas, in order to facilitate the operation of
                                                                      — imported and disposed of for consumption
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 (3) of 31                              in the United Kingdom in the form of
January 1973 authorizing the United Kingdom to                                products specified in the Annex, excluding
grant aid as a transitional measure for sugar to be                          products falling within subheadings Nos
consumed in its territory, certain of its provisions                         18.06 A III and ex 21.07 F.
should be clarified and further provisions made ;
whereas, furthermore, in order to prevent any distor­                        The United Kingdom shall determine the
tion of competition and any deflection of trade, and
                                                                           . amount of estimated human consumption
in view of the fact that it is impossible to ensure                           referred to in the first indent above.'
that sugar which is disposed of for human consump­
tion, and for which aid has consequently been
granted, is not subsequently exported, it is necessary                                         Article 2
to provide that white sugar in free ciculation in the
United Kingdom may not be exported to third coun­
tries under cover of a licence issued under Commis­                The following paragraph is added to Article 4 of
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1897/72 (4) of 1 September                Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 :
1972 on a standing invitation to tender to determine
the export refund for white sugar, as last amended                    '3 .      White sugar in free circulation in the
by Regulation (EEC) No 2847/72 (5) ;                                  United Kingdom shall not be exported under
                                                                      cover of an export licence issued under the
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­                     standing tendering procedure governed by Regu­
                                                                      lation (EEC) No 1897/72.'
tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the
Management Committee for Sugar ;
                                                                                               Article 3
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                   The following Article is added after Article 4 of
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 473 /73 :
                           Article 1                                  'Article 4a
Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 is                         1.       The    United    Kingdom      shall   forthwith
replaced by the following :                                           communicate to the other Member States and to
                                                                      the Commission the quantities of sugar,
     '2.   Aid is granted for quantities of sugar :                   expressed as white sugar, referred to in the first
                                                                      indent of the first subparagraph of Article 1 (2)
                                                                      which have been determined for each of the
(*)  OJ  No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5 .                                 periods specified in Article 2 ( 1 ).
(»)  OJ  No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
 (») OJ  No L 53, 26. 2. 1973 .
 (*) OJ  No L 201 , 2. 9. 1972, p. 8.                                 2.       The United Kingdom shall communicate
 («) OJ  No L 299, 31 . 12. 1972, p. 4.                               to the other Member States and to the Commis­
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   sion by the end of each month at the latest the                                   Article 4
   quantities of sugar which have benefited from             1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the
   aid under Article 1 (2) during the preceding              day of its publication in the Official Journal of the
   month. This information shall be communicated
                                                             European Communities.
   in terms of white sugar, and shall specify the
   amounts in respect of each of the divisions               2.     Articles 1 and 3 shall apply from 1 February
  contained in that paragraph .'                             1973 .
             This Regulation 'shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
            Done at Brussels, 21 February 1973 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                     Francois-Xavier ORTOLI