31986R0452

1.3.86 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 53 / 3

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 452/86 of 25 February 1986 fixing, for the 1985/86 marketing year, the prices of sugar and sugar beet applicable in Spain and Portugal

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , Spain and Portugal in the sugar sector shall be as fol­ lows : Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, for Spain :

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and (a) the intervention price for white sugar shall be 62,78 Portugal and in particular Articles 89 ( 1 ) and 234 (2) ECU per 100 kg ; thereof,

(b) the prices for beet shall be as follows : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , — 47,98 ECU per tonne for the basic price, Whereas the first paragraph of Article 68 and the first — 47,16 ECU per tonne for the minimum price paragraph of Article 236 of the Act of Accession pro­ for A beet, vide that the prices to be respectively applied in Spain and Portugal before the first move towards price align­ — 31,83 ECU per tonne for the minimum price ment are to be fixed, in accordance with the rules prov­ for B beet ; ided for in the common organization of the market, at a level corresponding to that of prices fixed in Spain and Portugal under the previous national system for a representative period to be determined ; whereas, pur­ for Portugal : suant to Article 108 and 302 of the Act, this provision applies in the sugar sector to the intervention price for (a) the intervention price for white sugar shall be 49,24 white sugar and the basic price for beet ; whereas, in ECU per 100 kg ; accordance with the joint declarations attached to the Act, the prices for the 1985 / 86 marketing year should (b) the prices for beet shall be as follows : be used ; — 43,72 ECU per tonne for the basic price . Whereas the joint declaration concerning the prices of — 42,90 ECU per tonne for the minimum price agricultural products in Portugal provides that the agri­ for A beet , cultural prices should be those recorded in the acts of the Conference ; — 27,57 ECU per tonne for the minimum price for B beet . Whereas , as regards the fixing of the minimum prices for A and B beet, they must be obtained from the Span­ ish and Portuguese basic prices by deducting respec­ 2 . t'he prices for beet set out in paragraph 1 shall be tively the basic production levy and the B levy appli­ understood to refer to the delivery stage, collection cable to sugar for the 1985 / 86 marketing year ; centre, and shall apply to standard quality beet as defined in Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1483 / 85 («). Whereas, pursuant to Article 394 of the Act, the prices fixed by this Regulation are applicable from 1 March 1986 .

Article2¶

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1986.

Article1¶

1 . For the period from 1 March 1986 until the end of the 1985 / 86 marketing year, the prices applicable in (') OJ No L 151 , 10. 6 . 1985 , p. 3 .

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

Done at Brussels, 25 February 1986 .

For the Council The President G. BRAKS