31973R0363

No L 39/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 12 . 2 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 363/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 31 January 1973 fixing normal stocks of sugar for the new Member States on 1 February 1973

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN to above is fixed at 941 583 tons for the United COMMUNITIES , Kingdom, 245 721 tons for Denmark and 127 052 tons for Ireland ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas Article 33a (3 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/ Economic Community ; EEC provides for the necessary measures to be taken to obviate such financial burdens as may result for the Community from the marketing of a quantity equal to the difference between the recorded stock Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ and the fixed normal stock ; whereas to that end EEC (x) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­ these quantities should be exported without Com­ ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by munity intervention and before an appointed date ; the Act ( 2), annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Gommunity and the European Atomic Energy Whereas notification by the new Member States on Community , signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 , the level of their recorded stocks and where appropri­ and in particular Articles 33a (4) and 38 thereof ; ate on the quantity exported without Community intervention is necessary for the proper management of the market in sugar ;

Whereas Article 33a ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC lays down that the new Member States shall Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation make an inventory of the stocks of sugar in free are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ circulation in their territory at 0.00 hours on 1 Feb­ ment Committee for Sugar ; ruary 1973 ; whereas it is desirable to provide for the conversion of the different types of sugar in accordance with the rules laid down in Commission HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Regulation (EEC) No 142/69 (4) of 25 January 1969, laying down certain detailed rules for the application Article 1 of the quota system for sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 144/73 (5) ; For the purposes of the inventory referred to in Article 33a ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC, the quantities of white sugar, of raw sugar, of invert Whereas Article 33a (2) of Regulation No 1009/67/ sugar and of syrups shall be expressed in terms of EEC lays down that a quantity of sugar which may white sugar according to the provisions of Article 1 (3) be regarded as representing a normal stock at 0.00 of Regulation (EEC) No 142/69 . hours on 1 February 1973 shall be fixed for each new Member State ; whereas this quantity shall be fixed taking into consideration a normal working stock, the anticipated consumption in the Member State Article 2 concerned until the new beet harvest and the supply situation based on national production and imports The normal stock on 1 February 1973 at 0.00 hours or exports of that Member State ; whereas, taking referred to in Article 33 a (2) of Regulation No 1009/ account of these criteria , the normal stock referred 67/EEC shall be :

(a) for the United Kingdom 941 583 metric tons of white sugar, (*) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (b) for Denmark 245 721 metric tons of white sugar, (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 . (4) OJ No L 20 , 27. 1 . 1969 , p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 18 , 23 . 1 . 1973 , p. 13 . (c) for Ireland 127 052 metric tons of white sugar.

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Article 3 (bb) the documents referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 1373/70 (*) for the 1 . If the quantity of the stocks of sugar established release of the deposit ; as a result of the inventory referred to in Article 33a (1) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC exceeds the quantity fixed for this Member State in Article 2, a quantity (b) for products for which export licences are not equal to the difference between those two quantities provided by the production of a proof which is shall be exported before 1 July 1973 to third countries comparable with the one referred to under (a) as undenatured sugar in the natural state or in the and approved by the Member State concerned. form of processed products without any refund accorded in the framework of a common organ­ ization of the markets . Article 4 2. For the quantity to be exported referred to in 1 . The new Member States shall communicate to Paragraph 1 , no export charges shall be applicable. the Commission before 1 April 1973 the level of their stocks established according to the provisions of 3 . The proof that the sugar has been exported Article 33a (1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC. according to the provisions of Paragraph 1 shall be constituted : 2. The new Member States in which the established stock exceeds the quantity fixed for it in Article 2, (a) for products for which export licences are provided shall communicate to the Commission before 1 August by the production of 1973 the quantity exported according to the provisions of Article 3 . (aa) these licences containing, in Section 12, the following endorsement : — 'for export in pursuance af Article 3 of Article 5 Regulation (EEC) No . . . /73' for export of sugar from the United Kingdom or This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of from Ireland , or its publication in the Official Journal of the European — 'til eksport i medfor af artikel 3 i forord­ Communities . ning (E0F) nr .../73 ', for export of sugar from Denmark ; and This Regulation shall apply from 1 February 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels , 31 January 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

i1) OJ No L 158 , 20. 7. 1970, p. 1 .