Council Regulation (EEC) No 192/82 of 26 January 1982 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) No 192/82
of 26 January 1982
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,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (2) affords sugar-producing undertakings the possibility of carrying forward sugar produced in a given marketing year to be treated as part of the following year's production; whereas that Article lays down for the sugar carried forward an obligatory storage period of 12 months beginning on 1 February of the marketing year in which the sugar was produced with, as a counterpart, the reimbursement of storage costs during that period; whereas only undertakings situated in the French departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique have a specific storage period corresponding to their sugar production period;
Whereas these mandatory dates fixed for the start of the storage period no longer correspond to the requirements of sugar production as it has evolved in the various regions of the Community; whereas, in order to avoid inequalities in treatment between producers in these regions, according to whether they begin their production earlier or later, and thus to allow the earlier producers to make use of the aforesaid possibility as soon as their production exceeds their A quotas, the dates on which the obligatory storage period starts should henceforth no longer be laid down in the said Article 27 but, without affecting the principles involved, in the relevant detailed rules of application;
Whereas, having regard to production in the 1981/82 marketing year and to the need felt by undertakings to carry sugar forward, it is now appropriate for the carry-forward to the 1982/83 marketing year to provide measures which will retroactively allow all Community sugar-producing undertakings to make arrangements in this respect,