CELEX: 31973R0872
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 872/73 of the Commission of 30 March 1973 fixing production refunds on white sugar used in the chemical industry

31 . 3 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 85/69
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 872/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 30 March 1973
                     fixing production refunds on white sugar used in the chemical industry
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     sugar shall be fixed by reference to the chemical
COMMUNITIES,                                                       products listed in the various annexes in whose manu­
                                                                   facture they are to be used ; whereas, in pursuance of
                                                                  Article 4 of that Regulation, those refunds are fixed
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              quarterly each 1 July, 1 October, 1 January and 1
Economic Community ;                                              April ; whereas pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 765/68 the production refunds on raw sugar
                                                                   and on the abovementioned syrups are to be calcu­
Having regard to the Treaty (]) concerning the Acces­              lated from the production refund on white sugar ;
sion of new Member States to the European Economic
Community and to the European Atomic Energy
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 63 (1 ) of the Act (2) annexed          Whereas under Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 one of
thereto ;                                                          the common bases to be used in calculating produc­
                                                                   tion refunds on white sugar is the intervention price
                                                                   for white sugar valid for the area in which the place of
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                       processing of the sugar is situated ; whereas, with
67/EEC (3) of 18 December 1967 on the common                       respect to Ireland and the United Kingdom, Regula­
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended               tion (EEC) No 364/73 provides that production
by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (4), and in particular               refunds for regions other than those of Italy and the
Article 9 (8) thereof ;                                            French overseas departments are to be reduced by any
                                                                   'Accession' compensatory amount on the one hand
                                                                   and on the other hand that these refunds are granted
                                                                   as a transitional measure by the new Member States
Whereas Article 9 (6) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC
                                                                   also to a basic product used in the manufacture of
provides for the granting of a production refund on
the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) of that Regula­         certain products listed in the Annex thereof ;
tion, and on the syrups containing sucrose listed in
Article 1 ( 1 ) (d), are used in the manufacture of certain
products of the chemical industry ;                                Whereas production refunds on white sugar used in
                                                                   the manufacture of the products listed in Annex I to
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 are equal to the differ­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 (5) of                  ence between the relevant intervention price, or
18 June 1968 laying down general rules for the                     derived intervention price, for white sugar and the
production refund on sugar used in the chemical                    sum of 13-30 units of account ;
industry, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2723/71 (6) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No
364/73 (7) of 31 January 1973 adopting special
measures for new Member States for white sugar used                Whereas production refunds on white sugar used in
in the chemical industry, specified the chemical                   the manufacture of the products listed in Annex II to
products in respect of whose manufacture production                Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 are equal to the relevant
refunds are to be granted on the corresponding basic               intervention price, or derived intervention price, for
products ; whereas those chemical products were listed             white sugar, less (i) the figure obtained by dividing by
in three annexes ;                                                 0-48 the price specified for molasses in Article 6 ( 1 ) (a)
                                                                   of that Regulation and (ii) 0-50 unit of account ;
                                                                   whereas those production refunds may, however, not
Whereas Articles 5 to 7 of Regulation (EEC) No                     exceed the refunds on white sugar used in the manu­
765/68 provide that production refunds on white                     facture of the products listed in Annex III to that
                                                                    Regulation ;
(') OJ   No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 1 .
P)  OJ   No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
P)  OJ   No  308, 18. 12. 1967, p. 1 .                             Whereas production refunds on white sugar used in
(«) OJ   No  L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 1 .                             the manufacture of the products listed in Annex III to
(5) OJ   No  L 143, 25. 6. 1968 , p. 1 .
(*) OJ   No  L 282, 23. 12. 1971 , p. 2.                            Regulation (EEC) No 7.65/68 are equal to the arith­
P)  OJ   No  L 39, 12. 2. 1973, p. 22.                              metic mean of the intervention price for white sugar
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valid for the Community area having the largest                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
surplus and the intervention price, or derived interven­
tion price, for the white sugar in question, less (i) the
arithmetic mean of prices recorded on the world
                                                                                                               Article 1
market over a reference period and (ii) 2-00 units of
account ;
                                                                           The production refunds on white sugar referred to in
Whereas, however, when the production refund is
                                                                           Articles 5 to 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 shall
being fixed for a quarter, an alteration may be made
                                                                           be as shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
only if a variation in the factors used to calculate it
results in the refund per 100 kg of white sugar being
at least one unit of account higher or lower than the
refund valid for the previous quarter ;                                                                        Article 2
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
ment Committee for Sugar ;                                                  1973 ,
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 March 1973 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                               The President
                                                                                         François-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                  ANNEX
             Production refunds on white sugar used in the manufacture of the products listed in Annexes I
             to III of Regulation (EEC) No 765/68 and in the manufacture of the products listed in the
                                                  Annex of Regulation (EEC) No 364/73
                                                                                                Quarter running from
                                                                                             1 April 1973 to 30 June 1973
                                     Area of application
                                                                                  Annex I             Annex II         Annex III
                                                                                 u. a. /100 kg       u. a./ 100 kg     u.a./100 kg
             1 . All regions of Italy                                                11-54               0-25             0-25
             2. French overseas departments                                            9-71                 0               0
             3. Other regions of the Community                                       10-04 0 )              0               0
             (') With respect to Ireland and the United Kingdom , this amount is to be reduced by any 'Accession ' compensatory
                 amount fixed pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 364/73 for the trade between those Member States with the
                 other Member States .