Council Regulation (EEC) No 1069/89 of 18 April 1989 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) No 1069/89
of 18 April 1989
amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas Portugal's white sugar requirements have traditionally been met by the refining of imported raw sugar; whereas to that end Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the Community lays down appropriate measures which are to apply during the transitional period for ensuring the supply of raw sugar to Portuguese refineries, drawing firstly on raw sugar imported from certain ACP countries and raw sugar produced in the Community and secondly, where this is insufficient, raw sugar imported from third countries at a reduced levy in order to bring its price to the level of the Community intervention price for raw sugar;
Whereas in the Joint Declaration attached to the Act of Accession on supplies to the sugar refining industry in Portugal it is stated that the sugar in question is to be supplied under price conditions similar to those for preferential sugars; whereas the arrangements for import at a reduced levy enabled the sugar thus imported to comply with those conditions;
Whereas Article 9 (4b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2306/88 (2), introduces an aid scheme for the refining of preferential raw sugar;
Whereas the implementation of an aid scheme for refining preferential raw sugar, which can be applied also to raw cane sugar produced in the French overseas departments and to raw sugar obtained from beet harvested in the Community where these are refined into white sugar in specific refineries, creates an imbalance in the abovementioned price conditions which penalizes the Portuguese refineries, which obtain three-quarters of their total raw sugar supplies from imports effected at a reduced levy which do not qualify for the aid scheme; whereas in order to re-establish the balance, therefore, the scheme should be extended to the refining of sugar imported into Portugal, under Article 303 of the Act of Accession; whereas, in order to preclude for the same marketing year any difference in treatment between raw sugar imported and refined prior to the date of entry into force of these arrangements for extending the aid scheme and sugar imported and refined after that date, provision should be made for the arrangements to apply retroactively from the beginning of the 1988/1989 marketing year,