31975R1455

6 . 6 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 145/ 15

REGULATION (EEC) No 1455/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 June 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 as regards the additional amount to be applied on the buying-in of white sugar by intervention agencies

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas in the past it has been found that in periods COMMUNITIES, of surplus, sugar of grade 1 in particular has been offered to the intervention agencies and that this kind Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European of sugar has on export to third countries not obtained Economic Community ; a significant premium compared with sugar of grade 2, while in periods of shortage sugars of different Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No grades have been valued at the same price level in 3330/74 (!) of 19 December 1974 on the common most of the regions of the Community ; organization of the market in sugar, and in particular Article 9 (6) thereof ; Whereas in the light of the foregoing, and even on Whereas white sugar has under the rules governing the assumption that a premium of 0-60 unit of the common organization of the market in sugar been account might normally be obtained on the Commu­ classified into four grades according to the different nity market, the increase in the intervention price for qualities produced in the Community before 1967 ; sugar of grade 1 should be reduced appropriately ; whereas on the basis of that classification increases and reductions in the intervention price have been Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation fixed which reflect the differences recognized before are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ the year mentioned above by certain Member States in ment Committee for Sugar, fixing national prices ;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1280/71 (2) of 18 June 1971 laying down detailed rules for the buying-in of sugar by intervention agen­ cies, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No Article 1 2733/73 (3), provides that an increase of 0-60 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes of white sugar shall In Article 13(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1280/71 the apply on the intervention price when the intervention amount '0-60 unit of account' is replaced by '0-30 unit agencies buy sugar of grade 1 ; of account'. Whereas since 1967/68 sugar production in the Community has been concentrated increasingly on Article 2 grade 1 , which in several Member States is the only grade produced ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1975.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 June 1975.

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 133 , 19. 6. 1971 , p. 34. (3) OJ No L 282, 9 . 10 . 1973, p. 8 .