31974R2479

1 . 10. 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 264/73

REGULATION (EEC) No 2479/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 30 September 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2637/70 as regards the application of the system of import and export licences in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN export licences and advance fixing certificates for agri­ COMMUNITIES , cultural products, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1454/74(6); Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009 / ment Committee for Sugar, 67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common organization of the market in sugar, as last amended HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (2) thereof ; Article I Whereas the third indent of Article 4 (3) of Commis­ sion Regulation ( EEC) No 1373/70 (3) on common The following Article 32b is added to Regulation detailed rules for the application of the system, of ( EEC) No 2637/70 : import and export licences and advance fixing certifi­ Article 32b cates for agricultural products subject to a single price system , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No By deroagtion from the third indent of paragraph 211 1 /74 (4), provides that no licence shall be required 3 of Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1373 /70 no for the purposes of operations relating to quantities licence shall be required for the purposes of opera­ such that the security for the corresponding licence tions relating to a quantity not exceeding 100 kilo­ would be less than two units of account ; whereas the grammes .' application of this provision in the sugar sector would entail the fixing, for certain products, of levels of Article 2 exemption which varied according to whether a This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day refund was fixed or not ; whereas it is thus desirable , following its publication in the Official Journal of for reasons of administrative simplification , to specify the European Communities. a single level of exemption for all sugar products, and accordingly to add an Article 32b to Commission It shall apply in respect of operations for which Regulation ( EEC) No 2637/ 70 (5 ) on special detailed customs import or export formalities are completed rules for the application of the system of import and on or after 1 October 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 September 1974 . For the Commission

The President Francois-Xavier ORTOL1

') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967 , p . 1 . -') See page 70 of this Official Journal . 3 ) OJ No L 158 , 20 . 7 . 1970 , p . 1 . 4 ) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p . 5 . 5 ) OJ No L 283 , 23 . 12 . 1970 , p . 15 . ( h) OJ No L 155 , 12 . 6 . 1974, p. 10 .