CELEX: 31977R2725
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2725/77 of 8 December 1977 fixing for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year the amount of the production levy

9 . 12 . 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 315/ 17
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2725/77
                                                      of 8 December 1977
                fixing for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year the amount of the production levy
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     totalled 1 415 176-7 tonnes, expressed as white sugar ;
COMMUNITIES,                                                       whereas, therefore, the guaranteed quantity is
                                                                   9 136 000 tonnes :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas Article 7 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    700/73 provides that a fixed amount shall be calcu­
                                                                   lated on the basis of the average of losses incurred in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       disposing of sugar during the period from 1 October
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                  of the relevant marketing year to 30 September of the
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by               following year ;
Regulation (EEC) No 11 10/77 (2), and in particular
Article 27 (7) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas 1 908 719-1 tonnes of surplus production
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Common Regulation (EEC)                 was disposed of between 1 October 1976 and 30
No 700/73 of 12 March 1973 laying down certain                     September 1977 ; whereas the fixed amount calculated
detailed rules for the application of the quota system              on the above basis is 18-227 units of account per 100
for sugar (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    kilograms ;
1 573/76 (4), provides that the amount of the produc­
tion levy must be fixed for each sugar marketing year ;
whereas the criteria for fixing the said amount are laid           Whereas the total losses incurred in disposing of
down in Article 27 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                       production in excess of the guaranteed quantity can
3330/74 and in Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                 thus be assessed at 124 518 844-12 units of account ;
700/73 ;
Whereas the total Community sugar production for                   Whereas the total production above basic quotas but
the 1976/77 sugar marketing year was 10 002 723-5                  within maximum quotas and not carried forward was
                                                                    1 220 496-7 tonnes ; whereas the amount of the
tonnes ; whereas the quantities carried forward to the
1977/78 sugar marketing year pursuant to Article 31                 production levy is calculated by dividing the total
of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 amounted to                          losses by the last-mentioned quantity ; whereas the
30 784-2 tonnes and the quantities produced during                  amount so calculated is 10-20 units of account per
the sugar campaign in question but not carried                      100 kilograms ;
forward exceeded the maximum quotas by 152 783-3
tonnes ;
                                                                    Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No ,834/76 of 6
                                                                   April 1976 fixing for the 1976/77 sugar marketing
Whereas, pursuant to Article 27 (2) of Regulation                   year the derived intervention prices, the intervention
(EEC) No 3330/74, the guaranteed quantity shall be                  prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for
equal to human consumption in the Community less                    beet, the threshold prices and the maximum amount
the quantity imported on preferential terms during                  of the production levy, and fixing the coefficient for
the same period ; whereas the guaranteed quantity                   calculating the special maximum quota (5), fixed the
may not be less than the sum of the basic quotas ;                  maximum amount of the production levy at 9-94
                                                                    units of account per 100 kilograms of white sugar ;
                                                                    whereas the levy should thus be fixed at 9-94 units of
Whereas the quantity disposed of for human consump­                 account ;
tion in the Community during the period 1 October
1976 to 30 September 1977 may be estimated at
8 977 000 tonnes ; whereas preferential imports                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
(') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                              ment Committee for Sugar,
(2) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No L 67, 14 . 3 . 1973 , p. 12 .
h) OJ No L 172, 1 . 7. 1976, p. 52.                                 (5 ) OJ No L 100, 14. 4. 1976, p. 25 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                     Article 2
                     Article 1
The amount of the production levy for the 1976/77          This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
sugar marketing year shall be 9-94 units of account        following its publication in the Official Journal of
per 100 kilograms of white sugar.                          the European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 8 December 1977 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Vice-President