CELEX: 31974R1601
Language: en
Date: 1974-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1601/74 of the Council of 29 April 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 239/73 on the marketing price for sugar imported into the United Kingdom under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement

No L 172/6                           Official Tournal of the European Communities                                 27. 6 . 74
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1601/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 29 April 1974
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 239/73 on the marketing price for sugar imported into
                  the United Kingdom under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas, therefore, the marketing price and the
COMMUNITIES ,                                                   refining subsidy should be fixed at a new level for
                                                                the period 1 July 1974 to 28 February 1975 and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               Council Regulation (EEC ) No 239/73 (4 ) of 31 Janu­
pean Economic Community ;                                       ary 1973 on the marketing price for sugar imported
                                                                into the United Kingdom under the terms of the
Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the                  Commonwealth Sugar Agreement and on measures
Accession of new Member States to the European                  to assist the marketing of sugars produced in the
Economic Community and the European Atomic                      French overseas departments, as amended by Regu­
Energy Community and in particular paragraph 5                  lation (EEC ) No 1639/73 (5), should be amended
of Protocol No 17 annexed to the Act appended to                 accordingly,
the Treaty;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas paragraph 3 of Protocol No 17 annexed
to the Act of Accession provides that the marketing              Regulation (EEC) No 239/73 is amended as follows :
price of the sugar imported into the United Kingdom
under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agree­                 ( a) in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) the amount 16-86 units of
ment shall be fixed at a level such as to allow the                    account is replaced by the amount 16'-39 units of
quantities in question effectively to be marketed                      account ;
without prejudicing the marketing of Community
                                                                 (b) the following subparagraph is added to Article 1
sugar ;
                                                                       ( 1 ):
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1599/74 (2)                        'Where the market price in the United Kingdom
of 29 April 1974 fixing the sugar prices, the standard                 is in excess of the level of the intervention price,
quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating                    the Commission shall adjust the marketing price
the maximum quota for the 1974/75 marketing year,                      referred to in (c) in accordance with that excess.';
and Council Regulation (EEC) No 1600/74 (3) of                    (c) in Article 3 (c) the amount 0-43 unit of account is
29 April 1974 fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing                   replaced by the amount 0-94 unit of account.
year, the derived intervention prices, the intervention
prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for
beet, the threshold prices and the maximum amount                                           Article 2
of the production levy, have fixed the intervention
 prices for sugar at new levels ;                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Luxembourg, 29 April 1974.
                                                                                           For the Council
                                                                                            The President
                                                                                               J. ERTL
 0 OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
 (2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                         (4) OJ No L 29 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p. 14.
 (3) See page 3 of this Official Journal.                          (5) OJ No L 165, 21 . 6. 1973 , p. 5.