CELEX: 31972R0794
Language: en
Date: 1972-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 794/72 of the Council of 17 April 1972 fixing the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating the maximum quota for the 1972/73 marketing year

Official Journal of the European Communities                                   301
  No L 94/2                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                21.4.72
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 794/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 17 April 1972
               fixing the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating
                                   the maximum quota for the 1972/73 marketing year
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        slight; whereas, consequently, when the intervention
                                                                  price for sugar is being fixed the difference' between
                                                                  the target price and the intervention price may be
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     fixed at a relatively low level ;
 European Economic Community, and in particular
 Article 43 thereof;
                                                                 Whereas the minimum price for beet must be
                                                                  established taking account of the intervention price
 Having     regard     to     Council   Regulation     No         and of standard amounts for the costs of processing
 1009/ 67/EEC 1 of 18 December 1967 on the common
                                                                  and of the delivery of beet to factories and taking as
  organization of the market in sugar, as last amended            a basis a Community yield which may be evaluated
 by Regulation (EEC) No 607/722 and in particular                 at 130 kilogrammes of white sugar per ton of beet
 Articles 2 (2), 3 (5 ) and 4 (3 ) and the second                 with a 16% sugar content;
 subparagraph of Article 24 (2) thereof;
                                                                 Whereas the costs referred to above may be evaluated
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              at a standard rate of 9-74 units of account per 100
                                                                  kilogrammes of white sugar ; whereas that amount is
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                     made up of the sum of the processing margin,
 Parliament;                                                      evaluated at 8-84 units of account, and the costs of
                                                                  delivery of the beet to factories, evaluated at 1-73
 Whereas, when sugar prices are being fixed, account             units of account, less a standard amount of 0-83 units
 should be taken of the objectives of the common                 of account representing factories' receipts from the
 agricultural policy and of the contribution which the            sale of molasses calculated on the basis of a yield of
 Community desires to make to the harmonious                     38-5 kilogrammes per metric ton of beet processed
 development of world trade ; whereas the objectives              and an ex-factory price for molasses of 2-80 units of
 of the common agricultural policy are in particular to           account per 100 kilogrammes ;
 ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural
 community, to guarantee the availability of supplies            Whereas the standard quality chosen for beet should
 and to ensure that supplies reach consumers at                  be a quality which takes account of production
 reasonable prices ;                                             characteristics in the main beet producing areas of
                                                                 the Community ;
 Whereas, to attain these objectives, the target price
 for sugar must be fixed at a level which, taking into           Whereas account being taken of the trend of
 account in particular the resultant level of the                production from the point of view of specialization
 intervention price, ensures a fair remuneration for             and marketing opportunities, the maximum quotas
 beet and cane producers while at the same time                  referred to in Article 24 of Regulation No
 respecting consumers' interests and which is likely to          1009/67/EEC should be fixed at 135% of the basic
 maintain the balance between the prices of the                  quotas ;
 principal agricultural products ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas as a result of the characteristics of the sugar
market the risks involved in this trade are relatively
                                                                                          Article 1
1 OJ No 308 , 18.12.1967, p. 1 .                                 The provisions of this Regulation shall apply for the
2 OJ No L 75 , 28.3.1972, p . 4.                                 1972/73 marketing year.
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                        Article 2                                                    Article 4
1 . The target price for white sugar shall be 24-55          Standard quality beet shall present the following
units of account per 100 kilogrammes.                        characteristics :
                                                             ( a) sound, fair and marketable quality,
2.    The intervention price for white sugar shall be
23-34 units of account per 100 kilogrammes.       1          (b) sugar content of 16% at the reception point.
3 . The area having the largest surplus comprises                                    Article 5
the following French departments : Aisne, Somme,
Oise.                                                        The coefficient referred to in Article 24 ( 1 ) of
                                                             Regulation No 1009/67/EEC shall be 1-35 .
                        Article 3
                                                                                     Article 6
The minimum price for beet for the area referred to
in Article 2 (3 ) shall be 17-68 units of account per        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
metric ton at the stage of delivery to the collection        day following its publication in the Official Journal
centre .                                                     of the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 17 April 1972.
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                   J. P. BUCHLER