31973R0414

No L 44/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 16 . 2 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 414/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 February 1973 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing year the maximum amount of the contribution to storage costs which sugar manufacturers may require of beet and cane producers when sugar is carried forward

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN should be laid down as are fixed by Commission COMMUNITIES, Regulation (EEC) No 2497/69 (7) of 12 December 1969 on the increases and reductions applicable to Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ prices for sugar beet, and by Commission Regula­ pean Economic Community ; tion (EEC) No 2571 /69 (8) of 22 December 1969 on the reductions applicable to prices for sugar beet in Italy ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC ( x ) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­ ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by Whereas, to facilitate supervision of the carry-for­ Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and in particular ward system envisaged, it should be provided that Article 32 (4 ) thereof ; sugar manufacturers must inform the Member States of the total amounts charged to beet on cane sellers pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 748/68 ; 748/68 (3) of 18 June 1968 laying down general rules for postponing part of the sugar production to the following marketing year, as amended by Regu­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­ lation (EEC) No 2829/71 (4), provides that the sugar tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­ manufacturer may require beet or cane sellers to agement Committee for Sugar ; reimburse part of the storage costs up to a maxi­ mum amount ; whereas such amount is to be based on the reimbursement provided for in Article 8 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC and on the percentages HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : specified in Article 27 (4) and (5 ) of the said Regu­ lation ; Article 1 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1397/72 (5) of 30 June 1972 fixing the amount of 1 . For the 1972/73 sugar marketing year, the max­ the reimbursement and amount of the levy for offset­ imum amount provided for in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regula­ ting storage costs for sugar for the 1972/73 market­ tion (EEC ) No 748/68 shall, per month of storage ing year fixed the amount of the reimbursement of during the period specified in Article 32 of Regula­ storage costs at 0-163 unit of account per 100 kilo­ tion No 1009/67/EEC, be as follows : grammes of white sugar per month ; whereas the ( a) 013 unit of account per metric ton of sugar percentages mentioned above were fixed at 60-00 by beet of a sugar content of 16 % ; Article 7 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 795/72 (8) of 17 April 1972 fixing for the 1972/73 marketing year the ( b) 0-10 unit of account per quantity of cane derived intervention prices, the intervention prices required to manufacture 100 kilogrammes of for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the sugar. threshold price, the guaranteed quantity and the maximum amount of the production levy ; 2. The amount fixed in paragraph 1 ( a ) shall, as regards beet of a sugar content other than 16 % , be Whereas, moreover, the customary terms of pur­ adjusted by the percentages specified in Regulations chase for sugar cane in the French overseas depart­ ( EEC ) Nos 2497/69 and 2571 /69 . ments should be taken into account ;

Article 2 Whereas, for beet of a sugar content different from that for the standard quality, the same adjustments Any sugar manufacturer who, pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC, carries forward H OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . part of his production to the following marketing (2) OJ No L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973 , p . 1 . (8) OJ No L 137, 21 . 6 . 1968 , p . 1 . (4) OJ No L 285 , 29 . 12. 1971 , p . 65 . (5) OI No L 149, 1 . 7. 1972, p . 64. ( 7) OJ No L 316, 17. 12 . 1969 , p . 15 . (8) OJ No L 94, 21.4 . 1972, p . 4. (8) OJ No L 321 , 23 . 12 . 1969 , p . 30 .

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year shall, before 1 June in that marketing year, ated the total amounts charged to beet or cane communicate to the Member State in whose terri­ sellers pursuant to Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) tory the factory or undertaking in question is situ­ No 748 /68 .

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

Done at Brussels, 5 February 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI