31977R1466
No L 162/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 7. 77
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1466/77 of 30 June 1977
fixing, for the 1977/78 marketing year, the amounts of the levy in connection with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar and repeal COMMUNITIES , ing Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 (4), the quantity in store to be taken into consideration for the reim bursement of one month's storage costs is equal to the average quantities of sugar held in store at the begin Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European ning and at the end of the month in question ; whereas, Economic Community, for the 1977/78 marketing year, the quantities of Community sugar in store each month may be estimated by reference to anticipated stocks at the beginning of the marketing year, estimated monthly Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/ production, the quantities likely to be imported 74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organization outside preferential conditions in the month under of the market in sugar (x), as last amended by Regu consideration and the quantities likely to be disposed lation (EEC) No 1110/77 (2), and in particular the of for domestic consumption or exported during the last subparagraph of Article 8 (2) thereof, same month ; whereas total average monthly stocks during the 1977/78 marketing year can be estimated at approximately 61-8 million tonnes of sugar expres sed in white value ; whereas the total reimbursement Whereas Article 8 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 for Community sugar can thus be estimated at provides that storage costs for sugar and for certain approximately 185*4 million units of account for the Community syrups and for imported preferential 1977/78 marketing year ; sugar shall be reimbursed at a flat rate by the Member States ;
Whereas Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 provides that the amount of the levy for Community Whereas, for the 1977/78 marketing year, the monthly sugar shall be calculated by dividing total anticipated amount of the reimbursement has been fixed by reimbursements by the anticipated quantity of sugar Council Regulation (EEC) No 1113/77 of 17 May which will be disposed of during the sugar marketing 1977 fixing, for the 1977/78 sugar year, the derived year in question and produced within the maximum intervention prices, the intervention price for raw quotas ; whereas total anticipated reimbursements are beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold to be increased or decreased as the case may be by prices, the maximum amount of the production levy the amounts carried forward from preceding sugar and the amount of the repayment to offset storage marketing years ; whereas the amount carried forward costs (3) at 0-30 unit of account per 100 kilograms from the marketing year 1976/77 will probably be of white sugar ; zero ;
Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 442/70 provides also that the Member States shall charge of 9 March 1970 laying down detailed rules for the levies on sugar manufacturers and on importers or application of the system of offsetting storage costs refiners of preferential sugar ; for sugar (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1465/77 (8), provides that the levy is to be fixed per 100 kilograms of white sugar ; whereas the quantity of Community sugar which will be disposed of during Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) the 1977/78 marketing year for home consumption No 1358/77 of 20 June 1977 laying down general
(*) OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 156, 25. 6. 1977, p. 4. (2) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5 . 1977, p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 55 , 10. 3 . 1970, p. 10. (3) OJ No L 134, 28 . 5 . 1977, p. 11 . (•) See page 1 of this Official Journal .
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or for export may be estimated at approximately Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation 10*5 million tonnes of sugar expressed in white are in accordance with the opinion of the Management value ; whereas the amount of the levy for Community Committee for Sugar, sugar should therefore be 1 77 units of account per 100 kilograms of white sugar ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 Article 1 specifies that the amount of the levy for preferential sugar shall be calculated in the same way ; whereas 1 . For the 1977/78 marketing year, the amount of the total average monthly stocks during the 1977/78 levy referred to in Article 8 ( 1 ) (a) of Regulation (EEC) marketing year can be estimated at approximately No 3330/74 is hereby fixed at 1-77 unit of account 3-1 million tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ; per 100 kilograms of white sugar. whereas the total reimbursement for preferential sugar can thus be estimated at approximately 9-3 million 2. For the 1977/78 marketing year, the amount of units of account for the 1977/78 marketing year ; the levy referred to in Article 8 ( 1 ) (b) and (c) of whereas the quantity of preferential sugar to which Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is hereby fixed at 0-71 the evv will apply during the same period may be unit of account per 100 kilograms of white sugar. estimated at 1*3 million tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ; whereas the amount of the levy for Article 2 preferential sugar should therefore be 0-71 unit of account per 100 kilograms of white sugar ; 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 Brussels, 30 June 1977.
For the Commission
Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President