31978R1463

30 . 6 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 176/5

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1463/78 of 29 June 1978 determining in respect of the 1978/79 sugar marketing year the amounts for storage and packing costs and the premium for raw sugar referred to in Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 2103/ 77

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN account per 100 kilograms of raw sugar expressed in COMMUNITIES, white value ;

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330 /74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1396/ 78 (2), and in particular Articles 9 (6) and 1 1 (3) thereof, Article 1

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2103/77 1 . For the 1978/79 sugar marketing year the of 23 September 1977 laying down detailed rules for amount of the storage costs as referred to in the first the buying in by intervention agencies of sugar manu­ subparagraph of Article 8 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No factured from beet and cane harvested in the Commu­ 2103/77 shall be 0-026 unit of account per 100 kilo­ nity (3) provides that the storage costs applicable when grams of sugar per 10-day period. a storage contract is concluded in accordance with Article 2 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 447/68 2. For the 1978 /79 sugar marketing year the flat of 9 April 1968 laying down general rules for interven­ rate amount of the costs in respect of the types of tion buying of sugar (4), as last amended by Regulation packing referred to in Article 17 (2) (a) and (b) of Regu­ (EEC) No 1 359/77 (5), are to be determined at a flat lation (EEC) No 2103 /77 shall be 1-165 units of rate for each sugar marketing year per 100 kilograms account per 100 kilograms of sugar. and per 10-day period, and that the cost of any special packing required by and chargeable to the interven­ tion agency is also to be determined at a flat rate per 100 kilograms for each sugar marketing year ; Article 2

1 . For the 1978 /79 sugar marketing year the Whereas Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2103/77 amount of the premium referred to in Article 14 (4) of provides that, for Community regions in which a Regulation ( EEC) No 2103 /77 shall be 0-60 unit of quality premium is actually obtained on the market account per 100 kilograms of raw sugar expressed in when raw sugar is sold after refining, the intervention white value . agencies concerned shall grant a premium for such sugar and that the regions concerned and the amount 2. The amount referred to in paragraph 1 shall be of the premium are to be determined before the begin­ granted only for raw sugar produced and accepted for ning of the sugar marketing year ; whereas a survey of intervention in the regions of Belgium, France, the market situation in the various Community Germany and Italy . regions shows that, for the 1978 /79 sugar marketing year, as regards raw sugar produced and accepted for intervention in the producing regions of the Commu­ nity, the premium should be set at 0-60 unit of Article 3 (') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 170 , 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its (3 ) OJ No L 246, 27 . 9 . 1977, p. 12 . (4 ) OJ No L 91 , 12 . 4. 1968 , p. 5 . publication in the Official Journal of the European (5) OJ No L 156 , 25 . 6 . 1977, p. 7 . Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1978 .

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President