CELEX: 31988R4139
Language: en
Date: 1988-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 4139/88 of 29 December 1988 fixing the production refund for white sugar used in the chemical industry

No L 362/24                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               30. 12. 88
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 4139/88
                                                      of 29 December 1988
                    fixing the production refund for white sugar used in the chemical industry
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Regulation (EEC) No 1729/78 provides that the pro­
                                                                    duction refund for white sugar shall be fixed at three­
                                                                    monthly intervals for the periods beginning 1 July, 1
naving regaru lu me ireaiy esiauiisiiing uic curupcan
                                                                    October, 1 January and 1 April ; whereas the application
Economic Community,                                                 of the abovementioned method entails fixing the pro­
                                                                    duction refund as stated in Article 1 for the period
                                                                    referred to therein ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,                                                           Whereas the amendment of the definition of white sugar
                                                                    and raw sugar referred to in Article 1 (2) (a) and (b) of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 has the consequence that
                                                                    flavoured sugars or sugars containing added colouring
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                agents or other substances are no longer considered as
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   falling within these definitions but are to be considered as
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regu­           'other sugars' ; whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
lation (EEC) No 2306/88 (2), and in particular Article 9 (6)        1010/86 provides for these sugars to be eligible as basic
thereof,                                                            products to the production refund ; whereas a method of
                                                                    calculation based on their sucrose content should be laid
                                                                    down for establishing the production refund applicable to
Whereas under Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No                  these products ;
 1785/81 it may be decided to grant production refunds on
the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (f) and on the        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
syrups listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) thereof which are in one        in accordance with the opinion of the Management
of the situations referred to in Article 9 (2) of the Treaty        Committee for Sugar,
and wh'ich are used in the manufacture of certain
products of the chemical industry ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 of 25
March 1986 laying down general rules for the production
refund on certain sugar products used in the chemical
industry (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                                          Article 1
 2306/88 (4), establishes the framework within which the
 production refunds may be determined and lists the
 chemical products of which the manufacture makes it                The production refund per 100 kilograms of white sugar
 possible to grant a production refund for the basic                referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 is
 products used in their manufacture ; whereas Articles 5, 6          hereby fixed at 33,895 ECU for three months from 1
 and 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1010/86 provide that the              January to 31 March 1989. For flavoured sugars or sugars
 production refund granted for raw sugar, sucrose syrups            containing added colouring agents or containing other
 and unprocessed isoglucose shall be derived from the               substances obtained from white sugar or raw sugar the
 refund fixed for white sugar according to a method of               production refund shall be established by multiplying this
 calculation peculiar to each of these basic products ;              amount by the sucrose content of the sugar in question
                                                                     determined in accordance with the polarimetric method
                                                                    as a percentage of the dry matter weight.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1729/78 of
 24 July 1978 laying down detailed rules of application in
 respect .of the production refund for sugar used in the                                      Article 2
 chemical industry (*), as last amended by Regulation
 (EEC) No 1053/88 (*), specifies the method to be used for
 establishing the production refund ; whereas Article 1 of
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(')  OJ No  L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
                                                                     publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                     Communities.
(2)  OJ No  L 201 , 27. 7. 1988 , p. 65.
(3)  OJ No  L 94, 9. 4. 1986, p. 9 .
(4)  OJ No  L 201 , 27. 7. 1988 , p. 65.
0    OJ No  L 201 , 25. 7. 1978, p. 26.                              It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1989.
(<•) OJ No  L  103, 22. 4. 1988 , p. 25.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 29 December 1988 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                       Vice-President
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