CELEX: 31975R1456
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-05
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1456/75 of the Commission of 5 June 1975 on special arrangements for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year under the system of offsetting storage costs for sugar

No L 145/ 16                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               6. 6. 75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1456/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 5 June 1975
               on special arrangements for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year under the system
                                             of offsetting storage costs for sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas in view of the extraordinary shortage of sugar
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      in the 1974/75 marketing year it appears, however,
                                                                   injustifiable to apply this provision ; whereas therefore
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             it is necessary to suspend temporarily the minimum
 Economic Community ;                                              stocks requirement in respect of the abovementioned
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                      recipients of reimbursement ;
 67/EEC (1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 organization of the market in sugar, as last amended              are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
 by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular             ment Committee for Sugar,
Article 8 (3) thereof ;
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 750/68 (3) of 18 June 1968( laying down general rules
 for offsetting storage costs for sugar, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 152/71 (4), provides that reim­                                     Article 1
bursement shall be made inter alia to manufacturers
 of powdered, lump or candy sugar and to specialized               By way of derogation from Article 1 (4) of Regulation
 sugar traders approved by the Member State                        (EEC) No 442/70 retrospective withdrawal of approval
 concerned ;                                                       shall not apply for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year,
                                                                   provided that in the 1 973/74 marketing year the recip­
Whereas Article 1 (4) of Commission Regulation                     ients of reimbursement were approved and held the
(EEC) No 442/70 (5) of 9 March 1970 laying down                    prescribed minimum stocks.
 detailed rules for the application of the system of
 offsetting storage costs for sugar, as last amended by                                    Article 2
 Regulation (EEC) No 1688/74 (6), provides for the
 retrospective withdrawal of approval as aforesaid if              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 monthly average stocks during a sugar marketing year              following its publication in the Official Journal of
do not correspond to certain minimum quantities ;                  the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 5 June 1975.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(!) OJ  No  308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 264, 1 . 10. 1974, p. 70.
(3) OJ  No  L 137, 21 . 6. 1968, p. 4.
(4) OJ  No  L 22, 28 . 1 . 1971 , p. 1 .
(5) OJ  No  L 55, 10. 3. 1970, p. 10.
(6) JO  No  L 176, 30 . 6. 1974, p. 5 .