31978R1505

No L 178 /44 1 . 7. 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1505/78

of 30 June 1978

fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar marketing year, the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN intervention prices, the intervention price of raw beet COMMUNITIES, sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices, the maximum amount of the production levy Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European and the amount of the repayment to offset storage Economic Community, costs, and fixing the coefficient for calculating the special maximum quota (5), Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ zation of the market in sugar (!), as last amended by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Regulation (EEC) No 1 396/78 (2), and in particular Article 15 (7) thereof, Article 1 Whereas Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 The levies provided for in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation provides that an import levy must be fixed by the (EEC) No 3330/74 applicable to imports of the Commission on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) of that Regulation of that Regulation ; whereas that levy must be calcu­ are hereby fixed as follows for the 1978 /79 marketing lated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose year : content of each of those products and the levy on white sugar ; CCT u.a . per heading Description Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC) tonne No No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by 12.04 Sugar beet, whole or sliced, Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the fresh, dried or powdered ; levy applicable to these products, which is fixed for sugar cane : each marketing year, is obtained by multiplying by a coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilograms A. Sugar beet : of white sugar, between the threshold price valid for I. Fresh 43-71 the relevant marketing year and the arithmetic average 150-26 II . Dried or powdered of cif prices recorded during a reference period ; B. Sugar cane 30-05 whereas the coefficients and the reference period were fixed by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;

Whereas the threshold price for white sugar was fixed Article 2 by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1399/78 of 20 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the derived This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(») OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 . (J) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42. (<) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34. (5) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 6.