31973R0239

No L 29 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 2 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC ) No 239/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 31 January 1973

on the marketing price for sugar imported into the United Kingdom under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement and on measures to assist the marketing of sugars produced in the French overseas departments

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN tion ( EEC ) No 911 / 69 (3 ) of 13 May 1969 on COMMUNITIES, measures to assist the marketing of sugar produced in the French overseas departments by which France was authorized to grant national aid for the refining Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ of such sugar; whereas that French national aid pean Economic Community ; should be replaced from now on by Community aid applicable in the Community as originally consti­ tuted ; Having regard to the Treaty concerning the Accession of the new Member States to the European Economic Community and to the European Atomic Energy Community and in particular paragraph 5 of Protocol No 17 annexed to the Act ( l ) appended to that HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Treaty ;

Article 1 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC (2 ) of 18 December 1967 on the common organi­ zation of the market in sugar, as last amended by 1 . The marketing price of sugar imported into the the Act and in particular Article 9 (7 ) first indent United Kingdom pursuant to Protocol No 17 of the thereof ; Act shall be fixed per 100 kilogrammes of raw cane sugar : Having regard to the proposal from the Commis­ ( a ) at 14- 88 units of account for the period from sion ; 1 February 1973 to 30 June 1973 ;

Whereas Protocol No 17 annexed to the above­ ( b ) at 15·78 units of account for the period from 1 July 1973 to 30 June 1974 ; mentioned Act authorizes the United Kingdom to im­ port, under special conditions, certain quantities of ( c) at 16·68 units of account for the period from sugar from the exporting countries and territories 1 July 1974 to 28 February 1975 . referred to in the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement ;

2 . This marketing price shall apply to raw sugar Whereas paragraph 3 of the said protocol provides of the standard quality , in bulk , cif, free out , United that the price at which the sugar in question is Kingdom ports. marketed in the United Kingdom shall be fixed at a level such as to allow the quantities in question effectively to be marketed without prejudicing the marketing of Community sugar; whereas these quantities refer to raw cane sugar; Article 2

Whereas Article 9 (5 ) of Regulation No 1009/ 67/EEC During the period from 1 February 1973 to provides for suitable measures to be taken if dif­ 28 February 1975 a subsidy shall be granted to any ficulties are encountered in the marketing of sugar refiner who processes , within the framework of the produced in the French overseas departments ; maximum quota, raw sugar produced in the French whereas when the common organization of the overseas departments and in an undertaking belong­ market in sugar was first applied such difficulties ing to him situated in one of the Member States of in marketing were accounted for by Council Regula the Community as originally constituted .

(») OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14. (2 ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 118 , 17 . 5 . 1969, p . 1 .

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Article 3 ( c) 0·43 units of account during the period from 1 July 1974 to 28 February 1975 .

The subsidy referred to in Article 2 per 100 kilo­ Article 4 grammes of white sugar produced from the raw sugar referred to in the said Article shall be equal to : Regulation (EEC ) No 911 /69 shall be repealed.

fa ) 0-93 units of account during the period from Article 5 1 February 1973 to 30 June 1973 ;

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day ( b) 0·68 units of account for the 1973/74 sugar of its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­ marketing year; 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