CELEX: 31978R1399
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1399/78 of 20 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the derived intervention prices, the intervention price for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices, the maximum amount of the production levy and the amount of the repayment to offset storage costs, and fixing the coefficient for calculating the special maximum quota

No L 170/6                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             27 . 6. 78
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1399/78
                                                     of 20 June 1978
              fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the derived intervention prices, the interven­
              tion price for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices,
              the maximum amount of the production levy and the amount of the repayment
              to offset storage costs, and fixing the coefficient for calculating the special
                                                    maximum quota
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in these circumstances, the level of market
COMMUNITIES,                                                    prices in Italy will be determined by the offer prices
                                                               of sugar from Community surplus areas ; whereas the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          derived intervention price for Italy may be fixed at
Economic Community,                                             35 09 units of account per 100 kilograms, account
                                                                being taken, on the one hand, of the intervention
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                price applicable in the north of France, plus the
                                                                marketing costs for deliveries to Italy and, on the
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­
                                                               other, of the disposal costs of the Italian sugar
zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by           industry ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular
Articles 3 (6), 4 (4), 8 (2), 9 (5), 13 (5), 28 and 32 (4)
thereof,
                                                               Whereas, given a normal harvest, the sugar production
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              in Ireland and the United Kingdom covers roughly
                                                                90 % and 40 % respectively of the needs of their
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1398/78 of 20               respective home markets ; whereas these needs must
June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the               in part be met by sugar available in Community
sugar prices, the standard quality of beet and the coef­        surplus areas ;
ficient for calculating the maximum quota (3), fixed
the intervention price for white sugar at 33-49 units of
account per 100 kilograms for the Community area
                                                                Whereas, in these circumstances, the level of market
having the largest surplus ;
                                                                prices in both Ireland and the United Kingdom will
                                                                be determined largely by the offer prices of sugar
Whereas Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74            from these areas ; whereas a single derived interven­
provides that derived intervention prices for white             tion price for white sugar, which may be fixed at
sugar shall be fixed for other areas, account being             34-49 units of account per 100 kilograms, should
taken of the regional variations which, given a normal          therefore be adopted for all regions of Ireland and the
harvest and free movement of sugar, might be                    United Kingdom, account being taken on the one
expected to occur in the price of sugar under natural           hand of the intervention price applicable in the
conditions of price formation ;                                 Community area having the largest surplus plus the
                                                                marketing costs of delivery to Ireland and the United
Whereas, in view of the quotas fixed in the produc­             Kingdom and, on the other, of the disposal costs of
tion areas of Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic            the sugar industry of these Member States ;
of Germany, France and the Netherlands, a balance or
surplus situation can be anticipated ; whereas, with the
exception of the French overseas departments, the ex­
factory prices in the areas mentioned will, to a large          Whereas there is a considerable surplus production of
extent, be equal to the prices in the Community area            raw sugar in the French overseas departments ;
having the largest surplus ;                                    whereas the most favourable potential outlets for this
                                                                sugar within the Community are in the south of
Whereas sugar production in Italy, with relatively              France and in Italy, where the sugar, after being
high production costs, will probably not exceed the             refined, may be sold directly ; whereas on the basis of
basic quantity fixed ; whereas an allowance should              the foreseeable market prices in the deficit areas of
therefore be made for the 1978/79 sugar year of                 Italy, which will probably be 2-43 units of account per
approximately 200 000 tonnes to be covered by                   100 kilograms above the derived intervention price in
production from Community surplus areas ;                       Italy, and taking account of transport costs between
                                                                the French overseas departments and these areas, the
0) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                           derived intervention prices for those departments
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.                        should be fixed at 33-29 units of account per 100 kilo­
(3) See page 4 of this Official Journal.                        grams of white sugar ;
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Whereas Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74            Whereas the threshold price for molasses should be
provides that an intervention price for raw sugar shall         fixed in such a way that the receipts from sales of
be fixed for those departments, such price to be                 molasses may reach the level of receipts of undertak­
derived from the intervention price for white sugar             ings taken into account in the fixing of minimum
fixed for those departments, account being taken of a            prices for beet ;
uniform processing margin and a standard yield ;
whereas, on the basis of available information, the
                                                                Whereas Article 28 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74
refining costs may be estimated at 2-75 units of                provides for the fixing of the maximum amount of
account per 100 kilograms of refined sugar ; whereas,           the production levy, for the fixing of the minimum
moreover, in accordance with the definition of the
                                                                prices for beet outside the basic quota for the sugar­
standard quality for raw sugar laid down by Regula­             beet producing areas for which an intervention price
tion (EEC) No 431 /68 (J ), a yield of 92 % should be           is fixed and for fixing the percentage determining the
taken into account ;
                                                                supplementary payment which manufacturers must,
                                                                where appropriate, make to beet sellers ; whereas, by
Whereas Article 9 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74            Article 27 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, the
provides for the fixing of intervention prices for raw           production levy may not exceed 30 % of the interven­
beet sugar ; whereas this fixing is not, however, neces­        tion price ; whereas for the area with the largest
sary for the Community regions in which this produc­            surplus the minimum price for beet outside the basic
tion is not actually marketed ; whereas these prices            quota should be fixed at 70 % of the minimum price
should be derived from the intervention price for                for beet ; whereas the the percentage taken for deter­
white sugar, account being taken of the factors already          mining the abovementioned supplementary payment
mentioned for fixing the intervention price for raw              may be fixed at 60, account being taken of the value
sugar in the French overseas departments and of the             of beet in relation to the intervention price for sugar ;
forwarding costs for supplying raw sugar, these being           whereas the same percentage should be taken to
estimated at a standard rate of 0*51 unit of account            determine the payment which sugar manufacturers
per 100 kilograms ;                                              may require of cane sellers ;
                                                                Whereas Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 (2)
Whereas the minimum prices for sugar beet, as                    provides that the amount of repayment in the context
referred to in the first indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regula­   of the offsetting of storage costs shall be fixed per
tion (EEC) No 3330/74, must be determined for the                month and per unit of weight taking account of
areas other than that having the largest surplus on the          financing, insurance and specific storage costs ;
basis of the intervention prices for white sugar appli­
cable in those areas, account being taken in particular
of the amounts used when fixing the minimum price               Whereas under Article 32 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No
for beet for the area having the largest surplus, the            3330/74 it is necessary, for the period or periods
processing margin, the yield, the receipts from                  subsequent to 30 June 1976, to determine the length '
molasses and the delivery costs of the beet ;                    of each period for which a decision not to apply
                                                                Article 30 of that Regulation may be taken, to fix the
                                                                 coefficient for calculating the special maximum quota
Whereas Article 13 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No                   and to specify the basic quota to which the said coeffi­
3330/74 provides that the threshold price for white              cient applies,
sugar should be the same as the target price for the
Community area having the largest surplus plus trans­
port charges, calculated at a flat rate, from that area to
the most distant deficit area in the Community, plus a
flat rate amount taking account of the storage levy,             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
which for 1978 /79 can be estimated at 1-77 units of
account per 100 kilograms of white sugar ; whereas,
given the state of supplies within the Community,
                                                                                          Article 1
account should be taken of transport charges between
the departments of northern France and Palermo ;
                                                                 For the regions other than the Community area
                                                                 having the largest surplus the derived intervention
Whereas the threshold price for raw sugar is to be
                                                                 prices for 100 kilograms of white sugar shall be :
derived from the threshold price for white sugar by
reference to a standard processing margin and a                 (a) 35 09 units of account for all regions of Italy ;
standard yield ; whereas the same criteria as are used
in the derivation of the intervention price for raw             (b) 33-29 units of account for the French overseas
sugar should therefore be applied ;                                  departments ;
0 ) OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                           (2) OJ No L 156, 25. 6 . 1977, p. 4.
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(c) 34-49 units of account for all regions of Ireland         (b) 34.45 units of account per 100 kilograms of raw
     and of the United Kingdom ;                                   sugar ;
(d) 33-49 units of account for the other regions of the       (c) 3.20 units of account per 100 kilograms of
     Community.                                                    molasses.
                        Article 2
                                                                                       Article 5
1 . The intervention price for 100 kilograms of raw
beet sugar shall be 27-81 units of account for the area
having the largest surplus and the regions referred to         1 . The maximum amount of the production levy
in Article 1 (d).                                             referred to in Article 28 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                              3330/74 shall be 10.05 units of account per 100 kilo­
This intervention price shall be valid for raw sugar of       grams of white sugar.
standard quality, unpacked, ex-factory, loaded on to
the means of transport chosen by the buyer.                   2. The percentages referred to in Article 27 (4) and
2. The derived intervention price for the French              (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be 60 .
overseas departments for raw sugar referred to in
Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be
28.10 units of account per 100 kilograms, account                                     Article 6
being taken of the second subparagraph of Article 3
(6) of the said Regulation.                                   The amount of repayment referred to in Article 8 of
                                                              Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be 0-30 unit of
                        Article 3                             account per month per 100 kilograms of white sugar.
 1 . The minimum price for beet shall be,      per tonne :
(a) 28-02 units of account for the regions     referred to                             Article 7
     in Article 1 (a) ;
(b) 27-24 units of account for the regions     referred to     1 . The period referred to in the first indent of
     in Article 1 (c) ;                                       Article 32 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall
(c) 25-94 units of account for the regions     referred to    run from 1 July 1978 to 30 June 1980. The Member
     in Article 1 (d).                                        State concerned must take its decision in respect of
                                                              this period not later than 30 June 1978 .
2. The minimum price for beet outside the basic
quotas shall be, per tonne :                                  2.     The coefficient referred to in the second indent
(a) 18.16 units of account for the Community area             of Article 32 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall
     having the largest surplus and for the regions           be 2-275 for the period referred to in paragraph 1 .
     referred to in Article 1 (d) ;                           The coefficient shall be applied to the basic quota for
(b) 20-24 units of account for the regions referred to        the 1978/79 marketing year.
     in Article 1 (a) ;
(c) 19-46 units of account for the regions referred to
     in Article 1 (c).                                                                 Article 8
                        Article 4                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
                                                              publication in the Official Journal of the European
The threshold price shall be :                                 Communities.
(a) 40-20 units of account per 100 kilograms of white
     sugar ;                                                  Articles 1 to 6 shall apply for the 1978/79 sugar year.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Luxembourg, 20 June 1978 .
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                             The President
                                                                            P. DALSAGER