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25 . 6 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 156 / 1

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COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 1356/ 77 of 20 June 1977 fixing , for the 1977 / 78 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 charge, to any raw preferential sugar which is COMMUNITIES , imported into regions of the Community and refined there in a production unit other than a refinery as Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European defined in Article 9 (7) of that Regulation ; whereas, Economic Community, having regard to the traditional patterns of supplies of the said sugar to Ireland , a maximum quantity of Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 30 000 tonnes of that sugar expressed as white sugar 3330 / 74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ refined in that region in the 1976/77 sugar marketing zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by year was exempted from the differential charge ; Regulation ( EEC) No 111 0 /77 (2 ), and in particular whereas , for the same reasons , that exemption should Articles 9 (5) and 47 ( 1 ) thereof, be continued in respect of Ireland for the 1977/78 sugar marketing year ; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 9 (3 ) of Whereas Article 46 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No Regulation ( EEC) No 3330 / 74 provides , in particular, 3330 / 74 provides that where there is a difference that where a differential charge has been fixed , a differ­ between , on the one hand , the raw sugar refining ential amount equal to that charge shall be granted in margin used to determine the intervention and respect of the raw sugar produced in the French over­ threshold prices for raw sugar and , on the other hand , seas departments and refined in a refinery defined in the margin necessary for the refining of raw preferen­ paragraph 7 of that Article and situated in the tial sugar, a differential charge to be made on the Community ; whereas that amount should therefore latter sugar shall be fixed for the sugar marketing year be fixed at 1-64 units of account per 100 kilograms of in question ; white sugar , Whereas the bulk of the raw preferential sugar cannot be refined unless use is made of the refineries defined in Article 9 ( 7) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330 / 74 ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : whereas the margin required for the refining of the said sugar in such refineries is greater, according to the information at present to hand , than that taken Article 1 into account when determining the intervention and threshold prices for raw sugar for the 1977/ 78 sugar This Regulation shall apply to the 1977/ 78 sugar marketing year ; whereas a differential charge should marketing year. therefore be fixed for that year ; whereas the amount thereof may be fixed at a flat rate of 1 64 units of account per 100 kilograms of sugar expressed as white Article 2 sugar, taking into account certain differences in the costs concerned ; The differential charge provided for in Article 46 ( 1 ) Whereas Article 46 ( 2 ) ( b ) of Regulation ( EEC) No of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330 / 74 shall be fixed at 1-64 3330 / 74 makes provision for the non-application of units of account per 100 kilograms of sugar expressed the whole of the differential charge , or part of that as white sugar by reference to a raw sugar yield calcu­ lated by doubling the degree of polarization of that C ) 0 | No 1 . W , } 1 . 12 . IST4 , p . 1 . sugar and deducting 100 therefrom . Nevertheless , this O Oj No L I H, 28 . v p. i . charge shall not apply to raw preferential sugar

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refined during the 1977/78 sugar marketing year in 3330/74 shall be fixed at 1-64 units of account per Ireland up to a maximum quantity of 30 000 tonnes 100 kilograms of white sugar. of sugar expressed as white sugar.

Article 3 Artie e 4 The differential amount provided for in the second subparagraph of Article 9 (3) of Regulation ( EEC) No This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1977 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 20 June 1977.

For the Council

The President J. SILKIN

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