31974R1601

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

REGULATION (EEC) No 1601/74 OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 1974

amending Regulation (EEC) No 239/73 on the marketing price for sugar imported into the United Kingdom under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, therefore, the marketing price and the COMMUNITIES , refining subsidy should be fixed at a new level for the period 1 July 1974 to 28 February 1975 and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ Council Regulation (EEC ) No 239/73 (4 ) of 31 Janu­ pean Economic Community ; ary 1973 on the marketing price for sugar imported into the United Kingdom under the terms of the Having regard to the Treaty (*) concerning the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement and on measures Accession of new Member States to the European to assist the marketing of sugars produced in the Economic Community and the European Atomic French overseas departments, as amended by Regu­ Energy Community and in particular paragraph 5 lation (EEC ) No 1639/73 (5), should be amended of Protocol No 17 annexed to the Act appended to accordingly, the Treaty ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; Article 1 Whereas paragraph 3 of Protocol No 17 annexed to the Act of Accession provides that the marketing Regulation (EEC) No 239/73 is amended as follows : price of the sugar imported into the United Kingdom under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agree­ ( a ) in Article 1 ( 1 ) ( c) the amount 16-86 units of ment shall be fixed at a level such as to allow the account is replaced by the amount 16'-39 units of quantities in question effectively to be marketed account ; without prejudicing the marketing of Community (b) the following subparagraph is added to Article 1 sugar ; ( 1 ): Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1599/74 (2) 'Where the market price in the United Kingdom is in excess of the level of the intervention price, of 29 April 1974 fixing the sugar prices, the standard the Commission shall adjust the marketing price quality of beet and the coefficient for calculating referred to in (c) in accordance with that excess.'; the maximum quota for the 1974/75 marketing year, and Council Regulation (EEC) No 1600/74 (3) of ( c) in Article 3 (c) the amount 0-43 unit of account is 29 April 1974 fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing replaced by the amount 0-94 unit of account. year, the derived intervention prices, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices and the maximum amount Article 2 of the production levy, have fixed the intervention prices for sugar at new levels ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 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

0 OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (2) See page 1 of this Official Journal. (4) OJ No L 29 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p. 14. (3) See page 3 of this Official Journal . (5) OJ No L 165 , 21 . 6. 1973 , p. 5 .