31976R1491

26 . 6 . 76 No L 167/ 17 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1491 /76 of 22 June 1976 laying down, for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, measures to facilitate the disposal of sugar produced in the French overseas departments

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN are disposed of in those regions ; whereas the amount COMMUNITIES , of the subsidy should be determined on the basis of the value of the raw sugar delivered at the place of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European refining, the oulets after processing, the necessary Economic Community, refining margin for sugar refined in a refinery as Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No defined in Article 9 (7) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ 3330/74 and the differential amount fixed by Council zation of the market in sugar ( J ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1490/76 of 22 June 1976 fixing, for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year, the differential Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular Article 9 (5) thereof, charge to be levied on raw preferential sugar and the differential amount to be granted in respect of raw Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, cane sugar from the French overseas departments (3),

Whereas Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 provides that appropriate measures are to be taken in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the event of difficulties arising in the disposal of sugar produced in the French overseas departments ; Article 1 whereas the existence of such difficulties has been recognized in the past and appropriate Community This Regulation shall apply for the 1976/77 sugar measures have already been taken ; whereas these diffi­ marketing year. culties still remain ; Article 2 Whereas the economic relationship between the French overseas departments and the European 1 . Within the maximum quota a subsidy shall be regions of the Community requires that the bulk of granted for raw sugar produced in the French overseas the sugar from the French overseas departments departments and refined in the Community. should be disposed of in those regions ; 2. The subsidy referred to in paragraph 1 shall be Whereas a subsidy should be granted for the refining 1-29 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of sugar of the sugar concerned to ensure that these quantities expressed as white sugar.

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

(') OJ No L 359, 31 . .12. 1974, p. 1 . (2 ) See page 9 of this Official Journal . (3 ) See page 15 of this Official Journal .