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20 . 12 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 341 /7

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3193/ 74 OF THE COUNCIL

of 17 December 1974

fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year the derived intervention price for white sugar, the intervention price for raw beet sugar and the minimum prices for beet in Ireland and the United Kingdom

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas in a year of normal harvest, sugar production COMMUNITIES, in Ireland and the United Kingdom meets approxi­ mately 80 % and 40 % respectively of market require­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European ments ; whereas those requirements must be covered Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 in part by sugar from suplus areas of the Community ; thereof ;

Whereas market prices in Ireland and the United Having regard to the Treaty ( J) concerning the acces­ Kingdom will consequently be determined to a large sion of new Member States to the European Economic extent by the offer prices for sugar from those areas ; Community and to the European Atomic Energy whereas a single derived intervention price should Community, and in particular Article 62 ( 1 ) of the Act therefore be fixed for white sugar for all areas of annexed thereto and paragraph 5 of Protocol 17 to that Act ; Ireland and the United Kingdom, taking into account on the one hand the intervention price applicable in Having regard to the proposal from the, Commission ; the area of the Community with the largest surplus, plus an allowance in respect of the cost of delivery to Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­ Ireland and the United Kingdom , and on the other, ment ; hand the normal cost of marketing sugar in those Member States ; whereas with effect from 1 January Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1 600/74 (2) fixed for 1975 common criteria - should be applied for the the 1974/75 sugar marketing year the derived interven­ purpose of deriving the intervention price for raw beet tion prices, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar sugar from the intervention price for white sugar ; and the minimum prices for beet ; whereas those whereas as regards the minimum prices for beet as prices were raised by Commission Regulation (EEC) provided for in the first and second indents of Article No 2518 /74 (3 ) of 4 October 1974 on the measures to 4 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No 1009/ 67/ EEC (4) of 18 be taken following the all-round increase with effect December 1967 on the common organization of the from 7 October 1974 of agricultural prices ; market in sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Whereas Article 56 of the Act of Accession provides No 1 602/74 (5), the same criteria should be applied for that, if world market prices are high in comparison all areas of Ireland and the United Kingdom as were with Community prices or if, in particular no refund applied for the purpose of fixing those prices for all is applicable, appropriate measures may be taken with areas of the Community other than that area a view to ensuring the proper functioning of the producing the largest surplus, common organization of the market ; whereas for some time there has been a shortage of sugar on the world market and this has led to a considerable HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : increase in prices which are now much higher than Community prices ; whereas this has led to a rise in prices in Ireland and the United Kingdom , bringing Article 1 those prices to a level at least equal to that of prices in the other Member States ; From 1 January 1975 until the end of the 1974/ 75 Whereas the situation on the world market is unlikely marketing year, for all areas of Ireland and the United to change in the foreseeable future ; whereas it there­ Kingdom : fore seems appropriate to raise the intervention prices for white sugar and raw beet sugar and the minimum — the derived intervention price for 100 kilo­ prices for beet — these being at present lower than grammes of white sugar shall be 27-48 units of the common prices — to the level of those common account , prices ; whereas the price referred to in Protocol 17 to — the intervention price for 100 kilogrammes of raw the Act of Accession at which sugar is marketed in beet sugar shall be 23-39 units of account, the United Kingdom should therefore be fixed at a corresponding level ; — the minimum price for beet shall be 21-08 units of account per metric ton , (') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (2 ) OJ No L 172, 27. 6 . 1974, p. 3 . (4 ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. 1 . (J) OJ No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . (5 ) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p. 7 .

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— the minimum price for beet outside the basic be 21-37 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of raw quota shall be 12-93 units of account per metric cane sugar. ton . 2. This price shall relate to raw sugar of standard quality, naked weight, delivered cif, free out, to ports Article 2 in the United Kingdom .

1 . From 1 January 1975 until the end of the 1974/ Article 3 1975 marketing year, the price at which is marketed sugar purchased under the Commonwealth Sugar This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its Agreement and imported into the United Kingdom publication in the Official Journal of the European by virtue of Protocol 17 to the Act of Accession shall Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1974.

For the Council

The President

M. DURAFOUR