31975R0660

20 . 3 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 72 / 7

REGULATION (EEC) No 660/75 OF THE COUNCIL

of 4 March 1975

fixing, for the 1975/76 sugar marketing year, derived intervention prices, intervention prices for raw beet sugar, minimum prices for beet, threshold prices and the maximum amount of the production levy

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , main be equal to the prices in the Community area having the largest surplus ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Whereas, with relatively high production costs, sugar European Economic Community ; production in Italy will probably not appreciably exceed the basic quantity fixed ; whereas a deficit of about 500 000 metric tons will therefore have to be Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) covered by production in Community surplus areas ; No 3330/74 (x ) of 19 December 1974 on the common organization of the market in sugar, and in particular Articles 3 (6), 4 (4), 9 (5 ), 13 (5 ) and 28 thereof; Whereas, in these circumstances, the level of market prices in Italy will be determined by the offer prices of sugar from Community surplus areas ; whereas the Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; derived intervention price for Italy may be fixed at 33 units of account per 100 kg, account being taken Having regard to the Opinion of the European on the one hand of the intervention price applicable Parliament ; in the north of France, plus the marketing costs for deliveries to Italy, and on the other hand, of the disposal costs of the Italian sugar industry ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee ; Whereas, given a normal harvest, sugar production in Ireland and the United Kingdom covers about 80 and 40% of the needs of their respective home Whereas Council Regulation (EEC ) No 659/75 (2 ) of markets ; whereas these needs must in part be covered 4 March 1975 fixing sugar prices and the standard by sugar available in Community surplus areas ; quality of beet for the 1975 /76 marketing year, fixed the intervention price for white sugar at 30-45 units of account per 100 kg for the Community Whereas, in these circumstances , the level of market area having the largest surplus ; prices in both Ireland and the United Kingdom will be largely determined by the offer prices of sugar from these regions ; whereas a single derived Whereas Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/ intervention price for white sugar which may be fixed 74 provides that derived intervention prices shall be at 31-45 units of account per 100 kg should be fixed for other areas, account being taken of the adopted for all regions of Ireland and the United regional variations which, given a normal harvest Kingdom, account being taken on the one hand of and free movement of sugar, might be expected to the intervention price applicable in the Community occur in the price of sugar under natural conditions area having the largest surplus, plus the commercial of price formation ; cost of delivery to Ireland and the United Kingdom , and on the other hand, of the marketing costs of the sugar industry of these Member States ; Whereas in view of the quotas fixed in the production areas of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Whereas there is considerable surplus production of the Netherlands, a balanced or surplus supply situation can be anticipated ; whereas, with the raw sugar in the French overseas departments ; whereas, the most favourable potential outlets for exception of the French overseas departments, the ex­ this sugar within the Community are in the south of factory prices in the areas mentioned will in the France and in Italy, where the sugar, after being refined, may be sold directly; whereas, on the basis of the foreseeable market prices in the deficit areas O OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 . of Italy, which will probably be 0-57 unit of account (2) See page 5 of this Official Journal . per 100 kg above the derived intervention price in

20 . 3 . 75 No L 72/8 Official Journal of the European Communities

Italy, and taking account of transport costs between Whereas, Article 13 (2) of Regulation (EEC) the overseas departments and these areas, the derived No 3330/74, provides that the threshold price for intervention prices for those departments should be white sugar should be the same as the target price fixed at 30-25 units of account per 100 kg of white for the Community area having the largest surplus sugar ; plus transport charges , calculated at a flat rate, from that area to the most distant deficit area in the Community ; whereas, given the supply situation within the Community, account should be taken of Whereas Article 3 (4) of Regualtion (EEC) transport charges between the departments of No 3330/74 provides that an intervention price for northern France and Palermo, the main port of raw sugar shall be fixed for those departments, such importation in Sicily; price to be derived from the intervention price for white sugar fixed for those departments, allowance being made for a uniform processing margin and a Whereas, the threshold price for raw sugar is to be standard yield ; whereas, on the basis of available derived from the threshold price for white sugar, information, the refining costs may be estimated at by reference to a standard processing margin and a 2-46 units of account per 100 kg of refined standard yield ; whereas the same criteria as are used sugar; whereas, moreover, in accordance with the in the derivation of the intervention price for raw definition of the standard quality for raw sugar laid sugar should therefore be applied ; down by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (*), a yield of 92% should be taken into account ;

Whereas the threshold price for molasses must be so fixed that the receipts from sales of molasses may Whereas Article 9 (5 ) of Regulation (EEC) reach the level of factories' receipts taken into No 3330/74 provides for the fixing of intervention account when minimum prices for beet are being prices for raw beet sugar ; whereas these prices should fixed, be derived from the intervention price for white sugar, account being taken of the factors already mentioned for fixing the intervention price for raw sugar in the French overseas departments, and of the forwarding costs for supplying raw sugar, these HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : being estimated at a standard rate of 0-50 unit of account per 100 kg;

Article 1 Whereas minimum prices for sugar beet, as referred to in the first indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74, must be determined for the areas This Regulation shall apply for the 1975/76 sugar other than that having the largest surplus on the marketing year. basis of the intervention prices for white sugar applicable in those areas, account being taken of the amounts used when fixing the minimum price for Article 2 beet for the area having the largest surplus, the processing margin, the yield, the receipts from molasses and the delivery costs of the beet ; For the regions other than those referred to in Article 2 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 659/75 derived intervention prices for 100 kg of white sugar shall Whereas, in view of sugar shortages within the be as follows : Community and on the world market, minimum prices for beet outside the basic quota, as referred to in the second indent of Article 4 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( a) 33-00 units of account for all regions of Italy ; (EEC ) No 3330/74, should, for the 1975/76 sugar marketing year, be fixed at the same level as the (b ) 30-25 units of account for the French overseas minimum prices for beet and the maximum amount departments ; of the production levy should be fixed at zero ; (c) 31*45 units of account for all regions of Ireland and the United Kingdom ;

(d) 30-45 units of account for the other regions of (x) OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 . the Community.

20 . 3 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 72/9

Article 3 (a) 26- 07 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 ( a ); 1 . Intervention prices for 100 kg of raw beet sugar shall be as follows : (b ) 24*05 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 (c); (a) 25-84 units of account for the Community area having the largest surplus and for the regions referred to in Article 2 ( d); (c) 22-75 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 ( d); ( b) 28-19 units of account for the regions referred to in Article 2 ( a);

(c) 26-76 units of account for the regions referred to Article 5 in Article 2 (c);

These intervention prices shall be valid for raw sugar Threshold prices shall be as follows : of standard quality, unpacked, ex-factory, loaded onto the means of transport chosen by the buyer. ( a) 35 -52 units of account per 100 kg of white sugar; 2. The derived intervention price for the French overseas departments for raw sugar as referred to (b) 30-97 units of account per 100 kg of raw sugar; in Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall, pursuant to the second indent of Article 3 ( 6) ( c) 3 "20 units of account per 100 kg of molasses . of that Regulation, be fixed at 26-12 units of account per 100 kg.

Article6¶

The minimum price for beet and the minimum price The maximum production levy referred to in for beet outside the basic quota shall be, per metric Article 28 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall ton : be 0-00 unit of account for 100 kg of white sugar.

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

Done at Brussels , 4 March 1975 .

For the Council

The President

M. A. CLINTON