31968R0749

Official Journal of the European Communities 5

No LI 37/2 • Official Journal of the European Communities 21.6.68

REGULATION (EEC) No 749/68 OF THE COUNCIL of 18 June 1968 on the financing of intervention expenditure in respect of the internal market in sugar during the 1967/68 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , premium is fixed in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 16 of Regulation No 44/67/ Haying regard to the Treaty establishing the European EEC ; Economic Community ; Whereas Article 3(1 ) (a) of Regulation No 25 5 on the Having regard to Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC 1 financing of the common agricultural policy , as amended .of 5 February 1964 on the conditions for granting aid by Regulation No 741/67/EEC 6 laid down that re­ from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee funds on exports to third countries granted in accord­ Fund, and in particular Article 5(2) thereof; ance with thfe provisions contained in the regulations concerning the products are eligible under the Fund; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; whereas as from the financial year 1967/68 such re­ funds are no longer to be calculated on the basis of the Whereas the conditions for granting aid from the Euro­ rate of refund in the Member State with the lowest aver­ pean Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund should age refund; be determined for Community financing of intervention expenditure in each sector of the common organization Whereas the largest possible amount of surplus sugar for of the markets ; animal feedingstuffs or for the maunfacture of certain products of the chemical industry should be marketed ; whereas , in view of the conditions for fixing export re­ Whereas Article 6 of Regulation No 44/67/EEC 2 of 21 funds, expenditure on denaturing premiums and produc­ February 1967 on certain measures for a common or­ tion refunds which Member States have actually in­ ganization of the market in sugar for the 1967/68 mar­ curred within the limits fixed by the provisions adopted keting year provides for the possibility of granting a under Article 6 of Regulation No 44/67/EEC should be denaturing premium for sugar which has been rendered fully reimbursed, unfit for human consumption and a production refund for sugar used in the manufacture of certain products of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the chemical industry ; whereas these two operations Article 1 meet the conditions laid down in Article 5(1 ) of Regula­ tion No 17/64/EEC ; 1 . Within the framework of the common organization of the market in sugar for the 1967/68 marketing year ac­ tions arising from the application of the first paragraph Whereas Regulation No 215/67/EEC 3 laid down gen­ of Article 6(1) and the first sentence of paragraph 1 of eral rules governing production refunds for sugar used in the chemical industry ; whereas the maximum amount Article 6(2) of Regulation No 44/ 67/EEC shall be con­ sidered as intervention on the internal market with an of such refund was fixed by the Council pursuant to Ar­ aim and purpose identical to those of refunds on exports ticle 6(2) of Regulation No 44/67/EEC ; to third countries in accordance with Article 5(1 ) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC . Whereas Commission Regulation No 235/67/EEC 4 of 30 June 1967 on the denaturing of sugar for animal fee­ 2 . The following expenditure shall be eligible for aid dingstuffs laid down the conditions for granting denatur­ from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guaran­ ing premiums ; whereas the maximum amount of the tee Fund :

1 OJ No 34, 27.2 . 1964, p.586/64. 2 OJ No 40, 3.3.1967, p.597/67. 3 OJ No 135 , 30.6.1967, p.2889/6 7. 3 OJ No 30, 20.4.1962, p. 991/62. 4 OJ No 137, 20.6.1967, p.2940/6 7. 6 OJ No 258, 25.10.1967, p.2 .

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(a) denaturing premiums granted by Member States in Article 2 respect of sugar which has been rendered unfit for The European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee human consumption ; Fund shall reimburse expenditure incurred by Member (b) refunds on production granted by Member States in States by virtue of the measures laid down in Article 1(2) respect of sugar used in the manufacture of certain within the limits fixed by the provisions adopted under products of the chemical industry . Article 6 of the Regulation No 44/67/EEC .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Luxembourg, 18 June 1968.

For the Council The President E. FAURE