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27 . 6 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 172/ 1

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

REGULATION (EEC) No 1599/74 OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 1974 fixing the sugar prices, the standard quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating the maximum quota for the 1974/75 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , vention price, ensures a fair remuneration for beet and cane producers while at the same time respecting consumers' interests, and which is likely to maintain Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ the balance between the prices of the principal pean Economic Community, and in particular Article agricultural products ; 43 thereof;

Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ Whereas as a result of the characteristics of the sugar EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­ market the risks involved in this trade are relatively ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by slight; whereas, consequently, when the intervention Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2), and in particular price for sugar is being fixed, the difference between Articles 2 (2), 3 (5 ) and 4 (3 ) and the second sub­ the target price and the intervention price may be paragraph of Article 24 (2) thereof; fixed at a relatively low level;

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission; Whereas the minimum price for beet must take account of the intervention price and of the standard Having regard to the Opinion of the European Par­ amounts covering the costs of processing and deliv­ liament; ering beet to factories and be based on an estimated Community yield of 130 kilogrammes of white sugar per metric ton of beet with a 16% sugar content; Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee;

Whereas, when sugar prices are being fixed, account Whereas the above standard costs may be estimated should be taken of the objectives of the Common at 10-73 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of Agricultural Policy and of the contribution which white sugar; whereas that amount is made up of the the Community desires to make to the harmonious sum of the processing margin, estimated at 9-74 units development of world trade; whereas the objectives of account, and the costs of delivering beet to facto­ of the Common Agricultural Policy are in particular ries, estimated at 1-82 units of account, less a stan­ to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural dard amount of 0-83 unit of account representing community, to ensure that supplies are available and factories' receipts from the sale of molasses calculated that they reach consumers at reasonable prices ; on the basis of a yield of 38-5 kilogrammes per metric ton of beet processed and an ex-factory price for molasses of 2-80 units of account per 100 kilo­ Whereas, to attain these objectives, the target price grammes . for sugar must be fixed at a level which, taking into account in particular the resultant level of the inter­

Whereas the standard quality chosen for beet should be a quality which takes account of production (*) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . characteristics in the main beet producing areas of (2) OJ No L 199 , 19 . 7. 1973 , p. 7. the Community;

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Whereas, in the light of production trends seen in Article 3 terms of specialization, the Community's sugar supply and marketing opportunities, the maximum The minimum price for beet for the area referred to quotas referred to in Article 24 of Regulation No in Article 2 (3 ) shall be 18-84 units of account per 1009/67/EEC should be fixed at 145% of the basic metric ton at the stage of delivery to the collection quotas , centre .

Article 4 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Standard quality beet shall present the following Article 1 characteristics :

The provisions of this Regulation shall apply for the ( a) sound, fair and of marketable quality ; 1974/75 sugar marketing year. (b) sugar content of 16% at the reception point. Article 2 Article 5 1 . The target price for white sugar shall be 26-55 The coefficient referred to in Article 24 ( 1 ) of units of account per 100 kilogrammes. Regulation No 1009/67/EEC shall be 1-45 . 2. The intervention price for white sugar shall be 25-22 units of account per 100 kilogrammes. Article 6

3 . The area having the largest surplus includes the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July following French departments : Aisne, Somme, Oise. 1974 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 29 April 1974.

For the Council The President

J. ERTL