31973R0478

No L 53 / 70 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 2.*73

REGULATION (EEC ) No 478/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 12 February 1973 fixing for the 1971 /72 sugar year the final amount of the production levy and the amount to be paid by sugar manufacturers to the beet sellers

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 1972/73 sugar year under Article 32 of Regulation COMMUNITIES , No 1009/67/EEC and produced within the maximum quota is 63 283 metric tons ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas a total of 902 593 metric tons of excess Economic Community ; production was disposed of in 1971/ 1972 ; whereas the standard amount per unit of weight to compen­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ sate for losses incurred in disposing of the sugar EEC (x) of 18 December 1967 on the common organi­ must be calculated in accordance with Article 6 (2) ( b) zation of the market in sugar as last amended by the of Regulation (EEC) No 142/69 ; whereas the amount Act (2) annexed to the Treaty ( 3) on the Accession so calculated is 8 '905 units of account per 100 kilo­ of new Member States to the European Economic grammes ; Communitiy and the European Atomic Energy Com­ munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 , and in particular Article 27 (7) thereof ; Whereas the overall losses incurred in disposing of Community production exceeding the guaranteed quantity can thus be estimated at 85 876 160 units Whereas Article 6 ( 1 ) of Commission Regulation of account ; (EEC) No 142/69 (4) of 25 January 1969 laying down certain detailed rules for the application of the quota system for sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 144/73. (5) provides that the final amount of the Whereas the sum of the quantities produced above production levy must be fixed for each sugar year ; the basic quotas but within the maximum quota whereas the criteria for fixing the amount are laid and not carried over is 1 228 563 metric tons ; whereas down by Article 27 (2) of Regulation No 1009/67/ the final amount of the production levy is calculated EEC and Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 142/69 ; by dividing the overall losses by the quantity last quoted ; whereas this gives a figure of 6'99 units of account per 100 kilogrammes ; Whereas total Community sugar production for 1971 /72, including quantities carried over pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC, is Whereas Article 27 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/ 8 133 635 metric tons ; whereas the guaranteed EEC provides that sugar manufacturers must, where quantity for 1971 /72 was fixed at 6 480 000 metric the production levy is less than the maximum , pay tons by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1062/71 (6) of to the beet sellers the difference between those two 25 May 1971 fixing, for the 1971 /72 sugar year, the amounts up to a percentage to be determined ; derived intervention prices, the intervention prices whereas , for the 1971/72 sugar year, Article 7 of for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the Regulation (EEC) No 1062/71 fixed that percentage threshold prices, the guaranteed quantity, the maxi­ at 59*12 and fixed the maximum amount of the mum amount of the production levy and the special production levy at 9-10 units of account per 100 maximum quota ; whereas 625 992 metric tons were kilogrammes of white sugar ; produced above the maximum quotas for the year in question ; whereas the quantity carried over to the

Whereas the amount to be paid per metric ton of sugar beet pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 27 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be fixed for the standard quality ; (*) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p. 14. (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 . Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation (4) OJ No L 20, 27. 1 . 1969, p. 1 . are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management (5) OJ No L 18 , 23 . 1 . 1973 , p. 13 . (6 ) OJ No L 115 , 27 . 5 . 1971 , p. 19 . Committee for Sugar ;

26 . 2 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 53 /71

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 2 Article 1 The amount to be paid pursuant to the second sub­ The final amount of the production levy for the paragraph of Article 27 (4) of Regulation No 1009/67/ 1971 /72 sugar year is 6-99 units of account per 100 EEC for the 1971/72 sugar year is 1-62 units of account kilogrammes. per metric ton of standard quality beet.

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

Done at Brussels, 12 February 1973 .

For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI