31978R1462

30 . 6 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 176/ 3

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1462/78 of 29 June 1978 fixing , for the 1978/79 marketing year, the amounts of the levy in connection with the offsetting of storage costs for sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN consideration and the quantities likely to be disposed COMMUNITIES, of for domestic consumption or exported during the same month ; whereas total average monthly stocks Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European during the 1978/79 marketing year can be estimated Economic Community, at approximately 64-6 million tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ; whereas the total reimburse­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ment for Community sugar can thus be estimated at 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ approximately 193-8 million units of account for the zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by 1978/79 marketing year ; Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular the last subparagraph of Article 8 (3) thereof, Whereas Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358 /77 provides that the amount of the levy for Community Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 sugar shall be calculated by dividing total anticipated provides that storage costs for sugar and for syrups reimbursements by the anticipated quantity of sugar shall be reimbursed at a flat rate by the Member which will be disposed of during the sugar marketing States ; year in question and produced within the maximum quotas ; whereas total anticipated reimbursements are Whereas, for the 1978 /79 marketing year, the to be increased or decreased as the case may be by the monthly amount of the reimbursement has been fixed amounts carried forward from preceding sugar at 0-30 unit of account per 100 kilograms of white marketing years ; whereas the anticipated balance of sugar, by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1399/78 of 20 preceding sugar marketing years can be estimated at a June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the negative amount of 19-9 million units of account ; derived intervention prices, the intervention price for whereas detailed rules for the application of the raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the thres­ system of offsetting storage costs for sugar provide hold prices, the maximum amount of the production that the levy is to be fixed per 100 kilograms of white levy and the amount of the repayment to offset sugar ; whereas the quantity of Community sugar storage costs and fixing the coefficient for calculating which will be disposed of during the 1978 /79 the special maximum quota (3) ; marketing year for home consumption or for export may be estimated at approximately 10-8 million Whereas Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ; whereas the provides also that the Member States shall charge amount of the levy for Community sugar should there­ levies on sugar manufacturers and on importers or fore be 1 -98 units of account per 100 kilograms of refiners of preferential sugar ; white sugar ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1358/77 No 1358/77 of 20 June 1977 laying down general specifies that the amount of the levy for preferential rules for offsetting storage costs for sugar and sugar shall be calculated in the same way ; whereas repealing Regulation (EEC) No 750/68 (4), as amended total average monthly stocks during the 1978/79 by Regulation (EEC) No 1397/78 (5), the quantity in marketing year can be estimated at approximately 2-9 store to be taken into consideration for the reimburse­ million tonnes of sugar expressed in white value ; ment of one month's storage costs is equal to the whereas the total reimbursement for preferential sugar average quantities of sugar held in store at the begin­ can thus be estimated at approximately 8 8 million ning and at the end of the month in question ; units of account for the 1978 /79 marketing year ; whereas, for the 1978 /79 marketing year, the quanti­ whereas that total anticipated reimbursements for pref­ ties of Community sugar in store each month may be erential sugar shall be increased or decreased, as the estimated by reference to anticipated stocks at the case may be, by the amounts carried forward from beginning of the marketing year, estimated monthly preceding sugar marketing years ; whereas the amount production , the quantities likely to be imported carried forward from the 1977/78 sugar marketing outside preferential conditions in the month under year will probably be a positive amount of 0 3 million units of account ; whereas the quantity of preferential (!) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . sugar to which the levy will apply during the same (2) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 1 . period may be estimated at 1-3 million tonnes of P) OJ No L 170, 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 6 . (4) OJ No L 156, 25 . 6 . 1977, p. 4. sugar expressed in white value ; whereas, the amount (5) OJ No L 170, 27 . 6. 1978 , p. 3 . of the levy for preferential sugar should therefore be

No L 176/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 6 . 78

0.65 unit of account per 100 kilograms of white of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is sugar ; hereby fixed at 1.98 units of account per 100 kilo­ grams of white sugar. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ 2. For the 1978/79 marketing year, the amount of ment Committee for Sugar, the levy referred to in the third subparagraph under (b) and (c) of Article 8 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 is hereby fixed at 0.65 unit of account per HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 100 kilograms of white sugar.

Article 1 Article 2 1 . For the 1978/79 marketing year, the amount of the levy referred to in the third subparagraph under (a) This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President