31973R0552

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REGULATION (EEC) No 552/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 21 February 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 authorizing the United Kingdom to grant aid as a transitional measure for sugar to be consumed in its territory

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN — amounting to the estimated human consump­ COMMUNITIES, tion for each of the periods specified in Article 2 ( 1 ) in the case of sugar manufac­ tured or refined in the United Kingdom and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ disposed of for consumption without further pean Economic Community ; processing ; Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the — amounting to 6 000 metric tons per month in Accession of new Member States to the European the case of sugar expressed as white sugar Economic Community and the European Atomic imported and disposed of in the United Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 Kingdom, either without being further January 1972, and in particular Article 63 ( 1 ) of the processed or in the form of products falling Act (2) annexed thereto ; within subheadings Nos 18.06 A III and ex 21.07 F ; Whereas, in order to facilitate the operation of — imported and disposed of for consumption Commission Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 (3) of 31 in the United Kingdom in the form of January 1973 authorizing the United Kingdom to products specified in the Annex, excluding grant aid as a transitional measure for sugar to be products falling within subheadings Nos consumed in its territory, certain of its provisions 18.06 A III and ex 21.07 F. should be clarified and further provisions made ; whereas, furthermore, in order to prevent any distor­ The United Kingdom shall determine the tion of competition and any deflection of trade, and . amount of estimated human consumption in view of the fact that it is impossible to ensure referred to in the first indent above.' that sugar which is disposed of for human consump­ tion, and for which aid has consequently been granted, is not subsequently exported, it is necessary Article 2 to provide that white sugar in free ciculation in the United Kingdom may not be exported to third coun­ tries under cover of a licence issued under Commis­ The following paragraph is added to Article 4 of sion Regulation (EEC) No 1897/72 (4) of 1 September Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 : 1972 on a standing invitation to tender to determine '3 . White sugar in free circulation in the the export refund for white sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2847/72 (5) ; United Kingdom shall not be exported under cover of an export licence issued under the standing tendering procedure governed by Regu­ Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­ lation (EEC ) No 1897/72 .' tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar ; Article 3

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : The following Article is added after Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 473 /73 :

Article1¶

Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 473/73 is 1 . The United Kingdom shall forthwith replaced by the following : communicate to the other Member States and to the Commission the quantities of sugar, '2. Aid is granted for quantities of sugar : expressed as white sugar, referred to in the first indent of the first subparagraph of Article 1 (2) which have been determined for each of the (*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . periods specified in Article 2 ( 1 ). (») OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 . (») OJ No L 53, 26. 2 . 1973 . (*) OJ No L 201 , 2. 9 . 1972, p. 8 . 2. The United Kingdom shall communicate («) OJ No L 299, 31 . 12 . 1972, p. 4 . to the other Member States and to the Commis­

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sion by the end of each month at the latest the Article 4 quantities of sugar which have benefited from 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the aid under Article 1 (2) during the preceding day of its publication in the Official Journal of the month . This information shall be communicated European Communities . in terms of white sugar, and shall specify the amounts in respect of each of the divisions 2. Articles 1 and 3 shall apply from 1 February contained in that paragraph .' 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 February 1973 .

For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI