No L 159/94 Official Journal of the European Communities 1. 7. 93 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1713/93 of 30 June 1993 establishing special detailed rules for applying the agricultural conversion rate in the sugar sector THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, ‘Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula- tion (EEC) No 1548/93 (1) and in particular Article 6 (3), 8 (5), 28 (8) and 28a (5) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91 of 16 December 1991 introducing specific measures in respect of certain agricultural products for the benefit of the French overseas departements (%), and in particular Article 19 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 of 15 June 1992 introducing specific measures for the Azores and Madeira relating to certain agricultural products (), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3714/92 (%), and in particular Articles 10 and 25 (3) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 of 15 June 1992 introducing specific measures for the Canary Islands with regard to certain agricultural products (), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3714/92, and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (), and in pamcular Articles 3 (3), 6 (2) and 12 thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 of 30 April 1993 on detailed rules for determining and applying the agricultural conversion rates (¥) lays down, in particular, rules concerning the term ‘operative events’; whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92, in cases where the operative event as defined by that latter Regulation must be specified or cannot be taken into () OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. () OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 10. () OJ No L 356, 24. 12. 1991, p. 1. () O] No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 1. % OJ No L 378, 23. 12. 1992, p. 23. (9 OJ No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 13. () OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. () OJ No L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106. account for reasons peculiar to the market organization, a specific operative event must be determined taking account of special criteria; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3016/78 of 20 December 1978 laying down certain rules for applying conversion rates in the sugar and isoglucose sectors (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3823/92 ('), lays down all the operative events to be taken into account for the representative rates to be applied to amounts fixed within the framework of the common organization of the market in sugar; whereas almost all of those operative events meet both the criteria fixed in Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 and the special require- ments of that market organization; whereas, therefore, most of those operative events should be kept and to that end provision should be made for derogations to the corresponding Articles of Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 ; whereas the provisions concerning operative events already laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1487/92 ("), (EEC) No 1488/92 (%), (EEC) No 2177/ 92 ("), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 821/93 (*), and (EEC) No 3491/92 (") should be incorporated at the samte time ; whereas the operative events for denaturing premiums and production refunds should also be revi- ewed and a standard operative event should be fixed for refunds in order to take account of the many uses of sugar involved ; Whereas the agricultural conversion rates are likely to vary more in the future than they have in the past because of the new agrimonetary rules; whereas, therefore, because of the self-financing arrangements in the sugar sector, a single operative event for the whole Community should be laid down for minimum prices for sugarbeet in order to protect beet producers in particular ; whereas in order to achieve this and because of the close connection between minimum prices for sugarbeet and sugar prices under the aforementioned self-financing arrangements provided for in Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 as well as the fact that all those prices concernin operations carried out throughout the marke- ting year, in the interests of consistency, pursuant to () OJ No L 359, 22. 12. 1978, p. 11. (" OJ No L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 27. (") OJ No L 156, 10. 6. 1992, p. 7. (%) OJ No L 156, 10. 6. 1992, p. 10. (") O] No L 217, 31. 7. 1992, p. 71. () OJ No L 85, 6. 4. 1993, p. 16. (") OJ No L 353, 3. 12. 1992, p. 21.