No L 299/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 23. 10. 86 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3214/86 of 22 October 1986 adopting measures for the supply of raw sugar from beet harvested in the Community to Portuguese refineries during the 1986/87 marketing year 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 934/86 (), and in particular Article 9 (6) and the second paragraph of Article 39 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 of 11 June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and the convesion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (), and in particular Article 12 thereof, Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 stipulates that, to the extent necessary for the supply of refineries, provision may be made for the same measures as those taken in regard to raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments to be applied to raw sugar produced from beet harvested in the Community ; whereas the raw sugar forward supply estimate for all refineries indicates a re- quirement for such sugar only for the Portuguese refine- ries for the 1986/87 marketing year ; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2750/86 (¥) lays down for the 1986/87 marketing year measures for the disposal of 270 000 tonnes of raw sugar produced in the French overseas departments and for its refining in the European regions of the Community ; whereas these measures consist of a flat-rate aid for transport to those regions and a refining aid ; whereas the abovementioned - raw sugar forward supply estimate indicates, after taking into account the quantities imported by Portugal at a reduced levy in accordance with the provisions of the first and second subparagraphs of Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, the existance of a supplementary requirement for the Portuguese refineries ; whereas tis requirement can be met for the said marke- ting year from supplies available in the Community by making available to the refineries a quantity equivalent to 40 000 tonnes of white sugar obtained from beet harvested in the Community ; whereas the application to this sugar of the measures provided for in the second subparagraph of Article 9 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No () OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. () OJ No L 87, 2. 4. 1986, p. 1. () O] No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1. (9 OJ No L 253, 5. 9. 1986, p. 8. 1785/81 makes such action possible at the least cost; whereas consequently the same aid measures should be adopted for these quantities of raw beet sugar as those prescribed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2225/86 of 15 July 1986 laying down measures for the marketing of sugar produced in the French overseas departments and for the equalization of the price conditions with preferen- tial raw sugar (%) ; Whereas certain detailed rules relating to the determina- tion of weights and sugar yields should be laid down, particularly in the case of transport in bulk in the same vessel but on behalf of several sellers; Whereas in general a considerable period of time elapses between the date on which the sugar in question is loaded and that on which the formalities required for payment of the aid by the competent agency are concluded on arrival ; whereas provision should therefore be made for advance payment ; Whereas suitable control provisions with regard to the refined sugar, including a definition of the term refining, should be laid down; Whereas, for conversion into Escudos of the aid amounts, the conversion rate applicable to the transport aid and to the advances of that aid should be the agricultural conver- sion rate in force on the day when the bill of lading is made out for the sugar transported, all of which will be transported by sea, and, insofar as the refining aid is concerned , the conversion rate should be the agricultural conversion rate in force on the day when the sugar in question is refined ; : Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sugar, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 For the 1986/87 marketing year, flat-rate Community aids shall be granted, as an intervention measure, in accor- dance with the conditions set out in this Regulation, for the transport to and refining in Portugal of raw sugar obtained from beet harvested in the Community, up to a limit equivalent to 40 000 tonnes of white sugar. () OJ No L 194, 17. 7. 1986, p. 7.