31976R1490

26 . 6 . 76 No L 167 / 15 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1490/ 76 of 22 June 1976 fixing, for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, the differential charge to be levied on raw preferential sugar and the differential amount to be granted in respect of raw cane sugar from the French overseas departments

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN imported and refined in that region between 1 COMMUNITIES, November 1975 and 30 June 1976 was exempted from the differential charge ; whereas, for the same Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European reasons, that exemption should be continued in Economic Community, respect of Ireland for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 provides, in particular, zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by that where a differential charge has been fixed, a differ­ Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular ential amount equal to that charge shall be granted in Articles 9 (5) and 47 ( 1 ) thereof, respect of the raw sugar produced in the French over­ seas departments and refined in a refinery defined in Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , paragraph 7 of that Article and situated in the Community ; whereas that amount should therefore Whereas Article 46 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No be fixed at 1-20 units of account per 100 kilogrammes 3330/74 provides that where there is a difference of white sugar, between, on the one hand, the raw sugar refining margin used to determine the intervention and thres­ hold prices for raw sugar and, on the other hand, the margin necessary for the refining of raw preferential HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : sugar, a differential charge to be made on the latter sugar shall be fixed for the sugar marketing year in question ; A rticle 1

Whereas the bulk of the raw preferential sugar cannot This Regulation shall apply to the 1976/77 sugar be refined unless use is made of the refineries defined marketing year. in Article 9 (7) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330 /74 ; whereas the margin required for the refining of the said sugar in such refineries is greater, according to Article 2 the information at present to hand, than that taken into account when determining the intervention and The differential charge provided for in Article 46 ( 1 ) threshold prices for raw sugar for the 1976/77 sugar of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330/74 shall be fixed at 1-20 marketing year ; whereas a differential charge should units of account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar therefore be fixed for that year ; whereas the amount expressed as white sugar by reference to a raw sugar thereof may be fixed at a flat rate of 120 units of yield calculated by doubling the degree of polarization account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar expressed as of that sugar and deducting 100 therefrom . Neverthe­ white sugar, taking into account the differences in less, this charge shall not apply to raw preferential some of the components of the refining costs for the sugar refined during the 1976/77 sugar marketing year raw sugar in question ; in Ireland up to a maximum quantity of 30 000 metric tons of sugar expressed as white sugar. Whereas Article 46 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 makes provision for the non-application of Article 3 the whole of the differential charge, or part of that charge, to any raw preferential sugar which is imported into regions of the Community and refined The differential amount provided for in the second there in a production unit other than a refinery as subparagraph of Article 9 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No defined in Article 9 (7) of that Regulation ; whereas, 3330 / 74 shall be fixed at 1-20 units of account per having regard to the traditional patterns of supplies of 100 kilogrammes of white sugar. the said sugar to Ireland , a total quantity of 30 000 metric tons of that sugar expressed as white sugar Article 4 (') OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . I2) See page 9 of this Official Journal . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 22 June 1976.

For the Council

The President

J. HAMILIUS