CELEX: 31973R3266
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3266/73 of the Commission of 3 December 1973 fixing for the 1972/73 sugar marketing year the amount of the production levy and the amount to be paid by sugar manufacturers to beet sellers

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                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3266/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 3 December 1973
              fixing for the 1972/73 sugar marketing year the amount of the production levy
                        and the amount to be paid by sugar manufacturers to beet sellers
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    constituted may be estimated according to informa­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      tion   communicated      by   the  Member      States in
                                                                  6 696 000 metric tons ; whereas in accordance with
                                                                  Article 7 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 700 /73 the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            guaranteed quantity must be raised by the difference
Economic Community ;                                              between the guaranteed quantity and the sales for
                                                                  human consumption if the latter are higher ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/
67/EEC (1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                     Whereas 215 406 metric tons were produced above
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended              the maximum quotas for the sugar marketing year in
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2), and in particular             question ; whereas the quantity carried over to the
Article 27 (7) thereof ;                                          1973/74 sugar marketing year under Article 32 of
                                                                  Regulation No 1009/ 67/EEC and produced within the
                                                                  maximum quota is 19 790 metric tons ;
Whereas Article 7 (1 ) of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 700/73 (3) of 12 March 1973 laying down
certain detailed rules for the application of the quota          Whereas Article 7 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
system for sugar provides that the amount of the                  700 /73 provides that a standard amount shall be calcu­
production levy must be fixed for each sugar                      lated on the basis of the average of losses incurred in
marketing year ; whereas the criteria for fixing the              disposing of sugar during the period from 1 October
amount are laid down by Article 27 (2) of Regulation              of the relevant marketing year to 30 September of the
No 1009/67/EEC and by Article 7(2) of Regulation                  following year ; whereas, until the end of the 1971 /72
(EEC) No 700/73 ;                                                 sugar marketing year, that period coincided with the
                                                                  sugar year in question ; whereas, in the case of the
Whereas, in view of production conditions in the new              1972/73 sugar marketing year, it seems appropriate
Member States, the amount of the production levy for              that, as a temporary measure, that period should be
                                                                  deemed to have started on 1 July 1972 ;
the 1972/73 sugar marketing year should be fixed by
reference only to the production of the Community as
originally constituted ;                                          Whereas a total of 1 381 269 metric tons of excess
                                                                  production was disposed of in the Community
                                                                  between 1 July 1972 and 30 September 1973 ;
Whereas total Community sugar production for                      whereas the standard amount to be calculated as above
 1972/73, including quantities carried over pursuant to           indicated is 4-965 units of account per 100 kilo­
Article 32 of Regulation No " 1009 /67/EEC, is                    grammes ;
7 712 578 metric tons ; whereas the guaranteed quan­
tity for the 1972/73 sugar marketing year was fixed at
6 480 000 metric tons by Council Regulation (EEC)                 Whereas the total losses incurred in disposing of
No 795/72 (4), of 17 April 1972, fixing for the                   Community production in excess of the guaranteed
1972/73 sugar marketing year derived intervention                 quantity can thus be estimated at 38 795 606 units of
prices, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the           account ;
minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices, the
guaranteed quantity and the maximum amount of the
production levy, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                Whereas the sum of the quantities produced above
238/73 (5) ;                                                      the basic quotas but within the maximum quota and
                                                                  not carried over is 1 147 608 metric tons ; whereas the
                                                                  amount of the production levy is calculated by di­
Whereas the quantity disposed of for human consump­               viding the total losses by the quantity last quoted ;
tion during the period from 1 October 1972 to 30                  whereas this gives a figure of 3-38 units of account per
September 1973 in the Community as originally                     100 kilogrammes ;
(1) OJ   No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No L 199, 19. 7. 1973, p. 7.                             Whereas Article 27(4) of Regulation No 1009/
(3) OJ   No L 67, 14. 3. 1973, p. 12.                             67/EEC provides that sugar manufacturers must,
(4) OJ   No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 4.                             where the production levy is less than the maximum,
(5) OJ   No L 29, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 12.
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pay to the beet sellers the difference between those          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
two amounts to a percentage to be determined ;
whereas Article 6 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 700/73                                 Article 1
provides that this amount shall be fixed at the same         The amount of the production levy for the 1972/73
time as the amount of the production levy ; whereas,         sugar marketing year is 3-38 units of account per 100
for the 1972/73 sugar marketing year, Article 7 of            kilogrammes of white sugar.
Regulation (EEC) No 795/72 fixed that percentage at
60-00 and fixed the maximum amount of the produc­                                     Article 2
tion levy at 9-36 units of account per 100 kilo­
grammes of white sugar ;                                     The amount to be paid pursuant to the second sub­
                                                              paragraph of Article 27(4) of Regulation No 1009/
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation          67/EEC for the 1972/73 sugar marketing year is 4-66
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­            units of account per metric ton of standard quality
ment Committee for Sugar,                                    beet.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 3 December 1973 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                      Francois-Xavier ORTOLI