31978R0069

No L 11 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 14 . 1 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 69/78 of 13 January 1978 fixing the price for sugar cane to be paid by sugar manufacturers to sellers of sugar cane in the French department of Reunion

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN by applying a formula already used by planters and COMMUNITIES, sugar manufacturers ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ Economic Community, ment Committee for Sugar,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ zation of the market in sugar (J ), as last amended by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular Article 7 (2) thereof, Article 1 Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 This Regulation shall apply to cane processed into provides that conditions for purchasing sugar cane are sugar produced within the quota in the French depart­ governed by agreements within the trade between ment of Reunion during the 1977/78 sugar year. sugar cane producers and sugar manufacturers ; whereas, where no agreements of this kind exist, conditions of purchase, and in particular the Article 2 minimum proportion of the intervention price for cane sugar to be paid by sugar manufacturers to sellers of sugar cane, are to be determined in accordance 1 . Without prejudice to the application of the provi­ with the procedure laid down in Article 36 of that sions of Article 27 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No Regulation ; 3330/74, sugar manufacturers shall pay the sellers of sugar cane a minimum price equal to 21-87 units of account per tonne of standard quality cane on delivery Whereas no inter-trade agreement has been reached to the collecting centres used during the 1977/78 in Reunion on the price to be paid for cane in the sugar marketing year. 1977/78 sugar marketing year ; whereas it is therefore necessary to fix a minimum price for cane, to specify 2. Standard quality cane shall have the following the collection centres as the delivery stage to which it characteristics : should apply and to specify a standard quality which may be considered as representative of the cane (a) Sound, fair and of marketable quality ; processed in that department ; (b) Recoverable sugar content 11 % . The recoverable sugar content shall be calculated according to the Whereas it is advisable for fix the minimum price for formula set out in the Annex . cane on the basis of the price received by the manufac­ turer ; whereas this may be calculated from the derived intervention price fob Reunion for raw sugar, Article 3 plus 4-4 % for the value of the molasses, less a lump sum of 0-84 unit of account per 100 kilograms of raw Where the recoverable sugar content of the cane sugar with a 98 % yield for expenditure incurred differs from that specified in Article 2, the minimum between the ex-factory stage and the fob stage ; price of the cane shall be calculated by weighting the price referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) by a coefficient Whereas it is appropriate to fix the minimum price obtained by dividing by eight the percentage recover­ for cane so that its value represents two-thirds of that able sugar content of the cane, less three. received by the manufacturer ;

Article 4 Whereas the payment for cane with a sugar content differing from the standard quality should be adjusted This Regulation shall enter into force on the day (•) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . following its publication in the Official Journal of (2) OJ No L 303 , 28 . 1 *. 1977, p. 1 . the European Communities.

14 . 1 . 78 No L 11 / 13 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 13 January 1978 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

ANNEX

Subject to point 2, the formula to be used to obtain the sugar content is as follows : SR = 0.94 S (1 — 1.275 f) — 1.90 0.94 = coefficient to take account of the difference between the sugar content on entry into the factory and after processing as well as the non-representativity of samples taken in 1977/78 , S = sugar in grams % grams of press juice, f = 0.5 b = weight of bagasse in the unit weight of cane, SR = % of raw sugar recoverable from a 98 % yield 1.90 = standard allowance for sugar processing wastage.