31975R1456

No L 145/ 16 6 . 6. 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1456/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 June 1975 on special arrangements for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year under the system of offsetting storage costs for sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas in view of the extraordinary shortage of sugar COMMUNITIES, in the 1974/75 marketing year it appears, however, injustifiable to apply this provision ; whereas therefore Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European it is necessary to suspend temporarily the minimum Economic Community ; stocks requirement in respect of the abovementioned Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/ recipients of reimbursement ; 67/EEC (1) of 18 December 1967 on the common Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation organization of the market in sugar, as last amended are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular ment Committee for Sugar, Article 8 (3) thereof ;

Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 750/68 (3) of 18 June 1968( laying down general rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar, as last amended Article 1 by Regulation (EEC) No 152/71 (4), provides that reim­ bursement shall be made inter alia to manufacturers By way of derogation from Article 1 (4) of Regulation of powdered, lump or candy sugar and to specialized (EEC) No 442/70 retrospective withdrawal of approval sugar traders approved by the Member State shall not apply for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year, concerned ; provided that in the 1 973/74 marketing year the recip­ Whereas Article 1 (4) of Commission Regulation ients of reimbursement were approved and held the (EEC) No 442/70 (5) of 9 March 1970 laying down prescribed minimum stocks. detailed rules for the application of the system of offsetting storage costs for sugar, as last amended by Article 2 Regulation (EEC) No 1688/74 (6), provides for the retrospective withdrawal of approval as aforesaid if This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day monthly average stocks during a sugar marketing year following its publication in the Official Journal of do not correspond to certain minimum quantities ; the European Communities.

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 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p. 70 . (3) OJ No L 137, 21 . 6. 1968 , p. 4. (4) OJ No L 22, 28 . 1 . 1971 , p . 1 . (5) OJ No L 55, 10 . 3 . 1970 , p. 10 . (6) JO No L 176, 30 . 6. 1974, p. 5 .