CELEX: 51980PC0456
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Date: 1980-07-19
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC.) No 1488/76 laying down provisions for the introduction of a system of minimum stocks in the sugar sector

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                            Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
amending Regulation ( EEC.) No 1488/ 76 laying down provisions for
   the introduction of a system of minimum stocks in the sugar
                                sector
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C0M(80 ) 456 final
 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MH&IORAKDUM
Starting with the 131.S/ 11 sugar production year a system of minimum
sugar stocks was introduced.       This placed ao. obligation on Sugar
manufacturers and suge.r refiners to store , permanently , at least 10 %
of certain quantities? of refined sugar .                        '
This system , and the . percentage referred to , were provided for in
Article 18 in the           new basic sugar Regulation ( EEC ) No 3330/74 in
order to ensure normal supplies of sugar ' in the whole Community or
one of its regions . The innovatory nature of the scheme was the
jresult of the shortage situation at that time on the Community and
Bforld markets , when , world prices reached levels four times higher
than Community prices and the Community was obliged to import about
500.000 tonnes of sugar from third countries with import subsidies#
It was a period in which Community sugar production was less than
consumption#    "
This situation led the Community firstly to establish the system in
principle and later to specify the 10 $ stocking obligation.
Since then the Community 's supply situation has changed completely.
Since the 1977/78 sugar year the excess of Community production over
consumption has regularly been' of the order of 2 mio tonnes . So the
Commission believes that it is appropriate 1 to introduce more flexibility
into the Bbheme and for this purpose to provide the necessary instruments
                          «          *   .
In these circumstances what is required is an appropriate procedure . which
when necessary , would allow the Commission , acting within the framework
of the day-to-day management of the sugar markets , to change the per-
centage®
                                                           «
This proposal covers arrangements of a purely procedural character.
It would not , of itself , involve any financial implications .
In the event that the Commission used these arrangements there would
be a reduction in storage costs ( financed by FEOGA-Guarantee ) and in
storage levies ( own resources ). There would be larger supplies available
to the internal market . Also the increase - in quantities liable to be
exported would involve economies when the world market price was high.
 ---pagebreak---                                       Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
    ^      amending Regulatiop (EEC) WO 1488/76 laying down provisions for
           the introduction of a system of minimum stocks in the sugar sector
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                                                t
 THE CCXJNCIL CP THE EUROPEAN COMMUBITIES , \
       {
 Haviflg regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) NO 3330/74 of 19 December 1974
 on ^e common organisation of the market in sugar (-l ) , as last amended "by
 Rgulation (EEC) No 1396/-78 ( 2 ), and in particular Article 18(3) thereof ,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
 Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1488 / 76 ( 3 ) introduced the system of
 ijiinirfium stocks provided for in Article 18 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 3330/ 74 ;
 whereas Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 1488/ 76 lays down that the minimum
 stock of each sugar manufacturer and of each refiner of preferential sugar
         «
 may not.be less than 10 % of a certain quantity of , respectively , manufactured
 or refined sugar ; whereas this percentage was Caid down at a time when the
 production of sugar in the Community twas less than consumption ; whereas , this
 supply situation having completely changed , it is appropriate to provide
 henceforth that this percentage may be changed within the framework of the .
 day-to-day management of the sugar market ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 (1) OJ No L 359 , 31.12.1974 , P.l.
 ( 2) OJ No L 170, 28. 3.1978 , p.l.
 ( 3 ) OJ No L 167 , 26. 6.1976 , p.ll.                                ./.
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                                 Article 1
   Regulation ( EEC) Bfo 1488/76 is hereby amended as follows :
   1 * The following is added as the second      paragraph of Article 1 :
        " However / the percentages laid down in the first
              paragraph may "be changed to the extent that such
'          changes are not liable to impede the objectives of Article 18
  5        of Regulation (EEC ) No 3330/74. The changed percentages
            may not "be less than 5 $ or higher than 10
   2 - Article 7 shall be replaced by the following :
                                 Article 7
           Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation ,
                    u
           the changes referred to in the second     paragraph of
            Article l t the amount laid down in Article 6 and any
            derogations from Article 2 , shall be adopted in accor­
            dance with the procedure laid down in Article 36 of
            Regulation (EEC) Ho 3330/74.".
                                Article 2
                                                           «
  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
  following its publication in the Official Journal of the
  European Communities#
                                                             *
  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
  applicable in all Member States *
  Done at Brussels .                                  For the Council