51996AP0117(05)

Proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet and the amount of compensation for storage costs for the 1996/97 marketing year (COM(96)0044 - C4- 0164/96 - 96/0903(CNS))

The proposal was approved with the following amendments:

(Amendment 104)

Recital 6a (new)

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Whereas in order to ensure normal supplies in certain EU regions which have suffered exceptional conditions such as drought, management measures may be adopted such as reducing the period of compulsory storage for carried over sugar;

(Amendment 20)

ARTICLE 4

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The reimbursement referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) N0 1785/81 shall be ECU 0.41/100 kg white sugar per month.

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The reimbursement referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be ECU 0.45/100 kg white sugar per month.

(Amendment 105)

ARTICLE 4a (new)

Article 27(4a) (new) (Regulation 1785/81)

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Article 4a

The following paragraph 4a is added to Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81:

'4a. In the event of natural disasters (drought, etc.) affecting an EU region and when application of the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article cannot ensure normal supplies to that region, it may be decided, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 41, to reduce the one- year period of compulsory storage for a quantity of sugar sufficient to ensure normal supplies for the region concerned.'

Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation fixing the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet and the amount of compensation for storage costs for the 1996/97 marketing year (COM(96)0044 - C4-0164/96 - 96/0903(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

- having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council, COM(96)0044 - 96/0903(CNS) ((OJ C 125, 27.4.1996, p. 10.)),

- having been consulted by the Council (C4-0164/96),

- having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development and the opinions of the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on External Economic Relations and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection (A4-0117/96),

1. Approves the Commission proposal subject to Parliament's amendment;

2. Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

3. Asks to be consulted again should the Council intend to make substantial modifications to the Commission proposal;

4. Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.