31973R2733

No L 282/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 9 . 10 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 2733/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 8 October 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 laying down detailed rules for the buying-in of sugar by intervention agencies

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Article 1 Economic Community ; In the second subparagraph of Article 7 (4) of Regula­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/ tion (EEC) No 1280/71 , the words '0-018 unit of 67/EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common account' are replaced by the words '0-020 unit of organization of the market in sugar, as last amended account'. by Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2), and in particular Article 9 (8) thereof ; Article 2 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 (3) of 18 June 1971 laying down detailed The following is added to Article 17 (2) of Regulation rules for the buying-in of sugar by intervention agen­ (EEC) No 1280/71 : cies, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2417/71 (4), fixes standard amounts for the costs of storage and '(c) new jute bags of a minimum weight of 700 defines the various types of packing which interven­ grammes lined inside with polyethylene of a tion agencies may, against payment of specific minimum thickness of 0-07 mm, with a standard amounts require sellers to provide ; content of 100 kg net.' Whereas the standard amounts for the costs of storage have remained the same for several marketing years Article 3 and whereas, moreover, a new type of packaging not provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 is being The following is added to Article 17 (3) of Regulation used increasingly on the market in some Member (EEC) No 1280/71 : States ; whereas, in view of increases in the actual costs of storage, the amounts fixed in that Regulation '(e) 0-81 unit of account for the type of packing should be altered and whereas the rules for interven­ described in paragraph 2 (c).' tion buying-in should be amplified to take account of new packaging methods before the beginning of the Article 4 production year ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­ following its publication in the Official Journal of agement Committee for Sugar, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 October 1973 . For the Commission

The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . (2 ) Of No L 199 , 19 . 7 . 1973 , p . 7 . p) O'j No L 133, 19 . 6 . 1971 , p. 34. (4 ) 0 | No L 250 , 11 . II . 1971 , p . 30 .