31990R3254

10. 11 . 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 311 /29

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3254/90 of 9 November 1990 altering, for the 1990/91 , marketing year, the adjustment aid and additional aid to the sugar refining industry

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, to a corresponding effect on the margin of profit for the refining industries concerned, jeopardizing the balance Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European which is the aim of the aids in question and thus of the Economic Community, objectives pursued ; whereas those aids must therefore be Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 altered ; of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the Whereas account should in addition be taken of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1069/89 (2), and in particular the alteration in the aid in question that has already been seventh indent of Article 9 (6) thereof, made for the 1989/90 marketing year in order to neutralize the effect of successive storage levy reductions Whereas Article 9 (4b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the refining margin for the 1990/91 marketing year ; provides that during the 1987/88 to 1990/91 marketing years adjustment aid of ECU 0,08 per 100 kilograms of Whereas the Management Committee for Sugar has not sugar expressed as white sugar is to be granted as an delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its intervention measure to the Community's preferential raw Chairman, cane sugar refining industry ; whereas, as provided for in those provisions, additional aid equal to that amount is to be granted during the same period for the refining of raw HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : cane sugar produced in the French overseas departments and for the refining of quantities of raw beet sugar Article 1 harvested in the Community and qualifying for the refining aid pursuant to the second subparagraph of The amounts of the adjustment aid and of the additional Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and in aid provided for respectively in the second and third accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No subparagraphs of Article 9 (4b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1836/90 (3) ; 1785/81 shall be increased to ECU 1,58 per 100 Whereas the fourth subparagraph of Article 9 (4b) of kilograms of sugar expressed as white sugar for the Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that the 1990/91 marketing year. adjustment aid and the additional aid referred to above For the same marketing year, the amount referred to in may be altered in respect of a given marketing year in the the first subparagraph shall also be granted, as additional light in particular of the storage levy fixed for that year ; aid, for the refining of the quantity of raw beet sugar whereas the storage levy for the 1990/91 marketing year referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1836/90 . was fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1725/90 (4) at ECU 2,50 per 100 kilograms of white sugar ; whereas that amount represents a reduction of ECU 0,50 Article 2 per 100 kilograms of white sugar in that applicable for the 1989/90 marketing year ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Whereas using as a basis the data available to the Communities. Commission shows that the reduction in that levy has actually been passed on since 1 July 1990, which has led It shall apply with effect from 1 July 1990.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 November 1990.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. 0 OJ No L 114, 27. 4. 1989, p. 1 . (J) OJ No L 168, 30. 6. 1990, p. 3. b) OJ No L 160, 26. 6. 1990, p. 30.