31973R0238

No L 29 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 1.2 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 238/73 OF THE COUNCIL

of 31 January 1973

amending Regulation (EEC) No 795 /72 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing year the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar and the minimum prices for beet in respect of the new Member States

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN within the basic quota, account should be taken of COMMUNITIES , the same factors which contributed towards the calculation of the minimum prices fixed for the area having the highest surplus and as concerns beet Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ wiithout the basic quota no encouragement should pean Economic Community ; be offered to producers with relatively high produc­ tion costs ; Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1009 / 67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the com­ Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 795/72 (4) mon organization of the market in sugar as last of 17 April 1972 fixed for the 1972/73 marketing amended by the Act (2 ) concerning the Conditions year the derived intervention prices for white sugar, of Accession and the Adjustments to the Treaties , the intervention prices for raw beet sugar and the and in particular Articles 3 ( 6 ), 4 ( 4 ), 9 (7 ) and 28 minimum prices for beet in respect of the new Mem­ thereof ; ber States applicable in the Community as originally constituted ; whereas as a result of the enlargement of the Community that Regulation should be supple­ Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; mented by the determination of the aforesaid prices in respect of the new Member States ; Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 794/ 72 ( s ) of 17 April 1972 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing Whereas Article 51 (2) of the Act provides for the year, the sugar prices , the standard quality of beet fact that before the first move towards price align­ and the coefficient for calculating the maximum ment, the prices to be applied in each new Member quota fixed the intervention price for white sugar State shall be fixed in accordance with the rules at 23'34 units of account per 100 kilogrammes for provided for in the common organization of the the Community area having the largest surplus ; market in the sector in question at a level which allows producers in that sector to obtain returns Whereas Article 3 (2 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/ equivalent to those obtained under the previous EEC provides for derived intervention prices to be national system ; whereas paragraph 3 of the same fixed for other areas , account being taken of the Article provides , however, that in respect of the regional variations , which given a normal harvest United Kingdom in particular those prices shall be and free movement of sugar, might be expected to fixed at a level such that the application of the occur in the price of sugar under natural conditions Community rules results in a level of market prices of price formation ; comparable with the level recorded in the Member State concerned during a representative period pre­ ceding the implementation of the Community rules ; Whereas Article 9 (7 ) of Regulation No 1009/ 67/ whereas, in respect of sugar, pursuant to Articles EEC provides for the determination of intervention 51 ( 1 ) and 81 of the Act, these provisions shall apply prices for raw beet sugar ; whereas these prices to the derived intervention price for white sugar, should be derived for the prices of white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar and the mini­ account being taken of a processing margin, of a mum price for beet ; flat rate yield and costs of conveying supplies ;

Whereas Article 4 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : for the determination of minimum prices for beet within and without the basic quota for every sugar beet production area in respect of which an inter­ Article 1 vention price has been fixed ; whereas as concerns the determination of a minimum price for beet The text of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 795/72 shall be replaced by the following : (') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (») OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 2. (*) OJ No L 94, 21 , 4. 1972, p . 4.

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'For the regions other than that referred to in loaded onto the means of transport chosen by Article 2 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 794/72, the the buyer. derived intervention price for 100 kg of white sugar shall be : 2. The derived intervention price for the French overseas departments for raw sugar referred to ( a) 24·84 units of account for all regions of Italy ; in Article 3 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC shall be 20·01 units of account per 100 kg.' (b) 23·01 units of account for the French over­ seas departments ; Article 3 (c) 23·34 units of account for the other regions of the Community as originally constituted ; The text of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 795/72 shall be replaced by the following: (d) 23·34 units of account for all regions of Den­ mark ; ' 1 . The minimum price for beet shall be, per metric ton : (e) 21·06 units of account for all regions of Ire­ land ; ( a) 19·63 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 (a); ( f) 18·96 units of account for all regions of the United Kingdom .' ( b) 17·68 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 (c) and (d);

Article 2 (c) 15·95 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 (e); The text of Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 795 /72 shall be replaced by the following : (d) 14·29 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 (f). ' 1 . The intervention price for 100 kg of raw beet sugar shall be : 2. The minimum price for beet outside the basic quota shall be, per metric ton : ( a) 19·85 units of account for the Community area having the largest surplus and the regions ( a) 10·40 units of account for the area having referred to in Article 2 (c) and (d); the largest surplus determined in Article 2 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 794/72 and for the (b) 21·23 units of account for the regions referred areas referred to in Article 2 ( c); to in Article 2 (a); (b ) 12·35 units of account for the regions referred (c) 17·90 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 (a).' to in Article 2 (e);

Article 4 (d) 14·79 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 (f). This Regulation shall enter into force on the day This intervention price shall be valid for raw of its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­ sugar of standard quality, unpacked, ex-factory, pean Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .

For the Council

The President A. LAVENS