No L 207/58 Official _Iournél of the European Communities 23.7. 92 COMMISSION DECISION of 13 July 1992 altering the adjustment aid to the Portuguese refining industry for raw sugar imported from third countries at a reduced levy for the 1992/93 marketing year into Portugal (92/391/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Commun_ity, 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 61/92(), and in particular the seventh indent of Article 9 (6) thereof, Whereas Article 9 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that, during the 1991 and 1992/93 marketing years, adjustment aid is to be granted as an intervention measure to the refining industry for raw sugar imported into Portugal at a reduced levy pursuant to Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal and refined into white sugar in Portugal ; whereas that aid amounts to ECU 0,08 per 100 kilograms of sugar expressed as white sugar for quantities of such sugar thus imported and refined in Portugal ; whereas the quantities of raw sugar imported at a reduced levy are those referred to in the first paragraph of Article 303 of the Act of Accession as well as the quantities lacking referred to in the third para- graph of that Article, the import of which at a reduced levy is authorized for the marketing year under considera- tion ; Whereas the third subparagraph of Article 9 (4c) of Regu- lation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that the abovemen- tioned adjustment aid may be altered for a given mar- keting year, in the light in particular of the amount of the storage levy fixed for that year; whereas although sugar imported into Portugal at a reduced levy is not subject to the storage levy, in view of the quantities of such sugar refined that levy is a determining factor for the prices as a whole on the market for white sugar and therefore for the margin of the Portuguese refineries ; Whereas the amount of the storage levy for the 1992/93 marketing year was fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1799/92 () at ECU 2,50 per 100 kilograms of white sugar; whereas this amount is identical to that applicable for the 1991/92 marketing year; Whereas account should, however, be taken in the altera- tion in the aid in question that has already been made for the 1990/91 and 1991/92 marketing years in order to neutralize the effect of successive storage levy reductions on the refining margin for the 1992/93 marketing year ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 The adjustment aid provided for in the second subpara- graph of Article 9 (4) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be fixed et ECU 1,58 per 100 kilograms of sugar expressed as white sugar for the 1992/93 marketing year. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic. Done at Brussels, 13 July 1992. For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission () OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. () OJ No L 6, 11. 1. 1992, p. 19. () OJ No L 182, 2. 7. 1992, p. 80.