31971R2719

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22.12.71 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 281 / 15

REGULATION (EEC) No 2719/71 OF THE COMMISSION of 21 December 1971 amending Regulation (EEC) No 142/69 as regards the adjustment of the maximum quota under the 'mixed price' system for sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ production figures for a marketing year must be MUNITIES, established within certain time limits for each undertaking ; whereas that Article lays down provision for carrying forward and for paying the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the production levy where the provisional production European Economic Community ; figures differ from the final production figures ; whereas provision should also be made for the maximum quota fixed pursuant to Article 31 of Having regard to Council Regulation No Regulation No 1009/67/EEC to be adjusted under 1009/67/EEC 1 of 18 December 1967 on the common the same conditions ; organisation of the market in sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1060/71 ,2 and in particular Articles 27 (7) and 31 (6) thereof; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar ; Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 31 (3 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC provides that, where the 'mixed price' system is applied , the Member States must fix a maximum quota for each sugar HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : undertaking ; whereas the sum of the maximum quotas to be fixed in this way must not, during a given period, exceed a previously determined Article 1 quantity equal to the special maximum quota ; whereas in certain cases the maximum quota has been fixed under this system at the level of the The following paragraph 5 shall be added to Article provisional production figures for the undertaking "in 2 of Regulation (EEC ) No 142/69 : question ; whereas in view of the fact that when the maximum quota is being fixed the actual production '5 . Where the production figures established figures are not yet known the maximum quota pursuant to paragraph 2 differ from those should be adjusted in the light of the definitive established pursuant to paragraph 1 , and if the production figures ; Member State has , pursuant to Article 31 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC , fixed the maximum Whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation ' ( EEC ) quota for a sugar undertaking at the level of the No 142/693 of 25 January 1969 laying down certain production figures established pursuant to detailed rules for the application of the quota system paragraph 1 , the Member State shall, without for sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No prejudice to the special maximum quota, adjust 334/71 ,4 provides that the provisional sugar the maximum quota in question on the basis of the difference recorded .' production figures and the definitive sugar

Article 2 1 OJ No 308 , 18.12.1967, p. 1 . - OJ No L 115 , 27.5.1971 , p . 16. 3 OJ No L 20 , 27.1.1969 , p . 1 . This Regulation shall apply from the date of the * OJ No L 39, 17.2.1971 , p . 14. entry into force of Regulation (EEC) No 142/69.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1971 .

For the Commission

The President

Franco M. MALFATTI