Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2137/88 of 18 July 1988 adopting measures for the supply of raw sugar from beet harvested in the Community to Portuguese refineries during the 1987/88 marketing year

COMMISSION  REGULATION (EEC) No 2137/88
of 18 July 1988
adopting measures for the supply of raw sugar from beet harvested in the Community to Portuguese refineries during the 1987/88 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1107/88 (2), and in particular Article 9 (6) and the second subparagraph of Article 39 thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 of 11 June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purpose of the common agricultural policy (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1636/87 (4), and in particular Article 12 thereof,
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 stipulates that, to the extent necessary for the supply of refineries, provision may be made for the same measures as those taken in regard to raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments to be applied to raw sugar produced from beet harvested in the Community; whereas the raw sugar forward supply estimate for all refineries indicates that such sugar is available for Portuguese refineries for the 1988/89 marketing year;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2136/88 (5) lays down for the 1988/89 marketing year measures for the disposal of raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments and intended for refining in the European regions of the Community; whereas these measures consist of a flat-rate aid for transport to those regions and a refining aid; whereas the abovementioned raw sugar forward supply estimate indicates, after taking account of the quantities imported by Portugal at a reduced levy in accordance with the provisions of the first and second subparagraphs of Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, the existence of a supplementary requirement for the Portuguese refineries; whereas this requirement can be met for the said marketing year from supplies available in the Community by making available to the refineries a quantity of sugar, expressed as white sugar, obtained from beet harvested in the Community; whereas the application to this sugar of the measures provided for in the second subparagraph of Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 makes such action possible at the least cost; whereas consequently the same aid measures should be adopted for these quantities of raw beet sugar as those prescribed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2225/86 of 15 July 1986 laying down measures for the marketing of sugar produced in the French overseas departments and for the equalization of the price conditions with preferential raw sugar (6);
Whereas certain detailed rules relating to the determination of weights and sugar yields should be laid down, particularly in the case of transport in bulk in the same vessel but on behalf of several sellers;
Whereas in general a considerable period of time elapses between the date on which the sugar in question is loaded and that on which the formalities required for payment of the aid by the competent agency are concluded on arrival; whereas provision should therefore be made for advance payment;
Whereas suitable control provisions with regard to the refined sugar, including a definition of the term 'refining', should be laid down;
Whereas, for conversion into escudos of the aid amounts, the conversion rate applicable to the transport aid and to the advance of that aid should be the agricultural conversion rate in force on the day when the bill of lading is made out for the sugar transported, all of which will be transported by sea, and, in so far as the refining aid is concerned, the conversion rate should be the agricultural conversion rate in force on the day when the sugar in question is refined;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2146/87 (7) determined the quantities of raw sugar obtained from beet harvested in the Community intended, for the 1987/88 marketing year, for the Portuguese refineries and entitled hereby to benefit from the same aids as those granted for the raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments; whereas it was not possible for all of those quantities to be refined in good time but, in being considered as working stock, those quantities are eligible for the refining aid; whereas it is appropriate to provide that the refining aid should be applied to those quantities by attributing them to the quantities fixed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2146/87 for the 1987/88 marketing year;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar,