CELEX: 31975R0260
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-31
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 260/75 of the Commission of 31 January 1975 laying down detailed rules for the grant of a premium for the production of sugar from molasses

1 . 2. 75                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 27/39
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 260/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 31 January 1975
                laying down detailed rules for the grant of a premium for the production of
                                                        sugar from molasses
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       two-thirds of the basic quota for the 1974/75 sugar
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         marketing year — in respect of liquid sugar as defined
                                                                      in paragraph 3 hereof, produced between 1 February
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                and 30 September 1975 under the conditions speci­
 Economic Community ;                                                 fied in the preceding subparagraph, by any under­
                                                                      taking operating for its own account, a plant,
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009 /                        producing sugar from molasses in respect of which a
 67/EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common                         premium is granted under that subparagraph .
 organization of the market in sugar, as last amended
 by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular                2.    If the sugar referred to in paragraph 1 does not
 Articles 25 (3) and 38 thereof ;                                     form part of a quota the grant of the premium shall
                                                                      be conditional on the giving by . the applicant of an
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         undertaking in writing to sell on the internal market
 3330/74 P) of 19 December 1974 on the common                         of the Community the quantity of sugar in respect of
 organization of the market in sugar, and in particular              which the premium is applied for.
 Article 1 0 (2) thereof ;
                                                                      In such cases the charge referred to in Article 25 (3) of
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 75/75 (4) of                   Regulation No 1009/67/EEC shall not be levied and
 21 January 1975 on special intervention measures for                Article 16(1 ) of that Regulation shall apply.
 sugar allows measures of support to be provided until
 30 September 1975 in order to make the production
 of sugar from molasses competitive ;                                 3.    For the purposes of this Regulation 'liquid sugar'
                                                                      means a syrup produced from sugar beet and
Whereas the grant of a premium of 12 units of                        containing 98 % or more by dry weight of sucrose,
 account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar expressed as                    including invert sugar converted into sucrose .
white sugar is a measure of support sufficient to make
the production of sugar from molasses a viable
activity ; whereas such other provisions should be                                               Article 2
adopted as are necessary in order to put the measure
into operation ;                                                      1 . The premium provided for in Article 1 shall in
                                                                      respect of white sugar be 12 units of account per 100
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation                  kilogrammes of sugar expressed as white sugar.
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
ment Committee for Sugar,                                            2. The premium on 100 kilogrammes of raw sugar
                                                                     shall be equal to orie-hundredth of the premium for
                                                                     white sugar, multiplied by the yield of the raw sugar
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                     in question as calculated in accordance with Article 1
                                                                     of Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (5 ).
                           A rticlc 1                                3 . The premium on 100 kilogrammes of liquid
                                                                     sugar shall be equal to one-hundredth of the premium
 1 . Subject as provided in paragraph 2 hereof, a                    for white sugar, multiplied by the sucrose content of
premium shall be granted for the extraction in plants                the liquid sugar in question .
producing sugar from molasses of solid white and raw
sugar from molasses which are less than 76 % pure
and in free circulation in the Community.                                                        Article 3
Such a premium shall also be granted — as to                         For the purposes of this Regulation ' plant producing
amounts produced over and above an amount equal to                   sugar from molasses' means a technical unit using a
                                                                     process by which not less* than 40 % of the sucrose
(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. 1 .                               content of the molasses is extracted as sugar.
(2) OJ No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p. 70 .
(3 ) OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12 . 1975 , p. 1 .
h) OJ No L 20, 25. 1 . 1975, p. 2.                                   (5 ) OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p. 3 .
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                      Article 4                            (a) before 28 February 1975, particulars of the under­
                                                                takings operating plants producing sugar from
1 . The premium shall be granted on written appli­              molasses being plants recognized by such States as
cation to the competent authority of the Member                 satisfying the definition laid down in Article 3 and
State concerned in which extraction takes place.                particulars of plants so recognized after that date
2. The premium shall be paid only when proof has                shall be communicated subsequently ;
been furnished that the sugar has been produced
under the conditions specified in Article 1 . Payment       (b) every month, in respect of the preceding month ,
shall be made within four weeks following the day on            particulars of the quantities of sugar in respect of
which such proof is furnished.                                  which the proof referred to in Article 4 (2) has
                                                                been furnished .
                      Article 5
Member States shall adopt all measures necessary to
ensure that the operation of this Regulation is prop­
                                                                                     Article 7
erly supervised.
                      Article 6
                                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
Member States shall communicate to the Commis­               1975 . It shall apply in respect of sugar produced
sion :                                                      between 1 February and 30 September 1975.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 31 January 1975 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission