31969R0297

Official Journal of the European Communities 45

No L 42 '2 Official Journal of the European Communities 19.2.69

REGULATION (EEC) No 297/69 OF THE COUNCIL

of 18 February 1969

amending Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 to allow certain syrups to be included in the system of offsetting storage costs for sugar

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ Article 1 pean Economic Community ;

1 . The following shall be substituted for Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 : Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC 1 of 18 December 1967 on the common organis­ ' Reimbursement shall be made within a specified ation of the market in sugar, as amended by Regu­ period by the Member State on whose territory lation (EEC) No 2100 ' 68 ,2 and in particular Article 8 the sugar or syrup referred to in the first subpara­ (2) thereof; graph of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC is held in store .'

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;

2 . The phrase 'of the sugar or, where appropriate, of the syrup held in store' shall be substituted for the Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2100/68 of 20 phrase ' of the sugar held in store' in Article 2 ( 1 ) of December 1968 amending Regulation No 1009/67/ Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 . EEC on the common organisation of the market in sugar extended the provisions of Article 8 of Regu­ lation No 1009 6" EEC to include certain syrups pro­ 3 . The words ' and syrup' shall be added after the duced prior to the crystallising stage in the system of phrase ' quantities of non-denatured white and raw offsetting storage costs ; whereas it is therefore necess­ sugar' in the first subparagraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of ary to make an appropriate amendment to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 750/68 . Regulation (EEC) No 750/683 of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar; whereas provision should be made for the pos­ sibility of no reimbursement being made in respect of 4. The words ' of sugar' shall be deleted from syrups over a certain period in order to take the Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 . storage period for beet into account ; whereas the storage of beet is not covered by the system of offsetting storage costs ;

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1 OJ No 308, 18.12.1967, p . 1 . OJ No L 305 , 24.12.1968, p . 4 . The following paragraph 3 shall be added to Article OJ No L 137, 21.6.1968, p . 4. 4 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 750/68 :

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'3 . For payment of the reimbursement, the raw Article 3 sugar and syrup shall be converted into terms of This Regulation shall enter into force on the third white sugar on the basis of yield or sugar content. day following its publication in the Official Journal The reimbursement of storage costs for syrup of the European Communities. may be limited to a certain period.' It shall apply from 1 July 1968 .

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

Done at Brussels, 18 February 1969 .

For the Council

The President

J. P. BUCHLER