29. 1. 82 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 21/1 i (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 192/82 of 26 January 1982 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament ('), Whereas Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (%) affords sugar-producing undertakings the possibility of carrying forward sugar produced in a given marketing year to be treated as part of the follo- wing yeat’s production ; whereas that Article lays down for the sugar carried forward an obligatory storage period of 12 months beginning on 1 February of the marketing year in which the sugar was produced with, as a counterpart, the reimbursement of storage costs during that period ; whereas only undertakings situated in the French departments of Guadeloupe and Marti- nique have a specific storage period corresponding to their sugar production period ; Whereas these mandatory dates fixed for the start of the storage period no longer correspond to the requi- rements of sugar production as it has evolved in the various regions of the Community ; whereas, in order to avoid inequalities in treatment between producers in these regions, according to whether they begin their production earlier or later, and thus to allow the earlier producers to make use of the aforesaid possibility as soon as their production exceeds their A quotas, the (*) Opinion delivered on 22 January 1982 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (® OJ No L 177,1. 7. 1981, p. 4. dates on which the obligatory storage period starts should henceforth no longer be laid down in the said Article 27 but, without affecting the principles involved, in the relevant detailed rules of application ; Whereas, having regard to production in the 1981/82 marketing year and to the need felt by undertakings to carry sugar forward, it is now appropriate for the carry-forward to the 1982/83 marketing year to provide measures which will retroactively allow all Community sugar-producing undertakings to make arrangements in this respect, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Atrticle 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is hereby amended as follows : 1. the first and second subparagraphs of paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following : 2. Undertakings which take the decision referred to in paragraph 1 shall: -—— inform the Member State concerned, before 1 February, of the quantity or quantities of sugar being carried forward, and — undertake to store such quantity or quantities for a period of 12 consecutive months from a date to be determined. For this period storage costs, including those of any C sugar carried forward shall be reimbursed under Article 8. For undertakings situated in the French depart- ments of Guadeloupe and Martinique the date referred to in the first indent of the first subpara- graph shall be 1 May’