Report for the Hearing delivered in Case 278/84

1 Language of the Case: German.

2 The market and intervention prices given for sugar relate solely to white sugar since unrefined sugar was not the subject of any commercial dealings in the Federal Republic of Germany. The market price of white sugar includes the charge for storage costs payable by the seller. Besides the intervention price the table thus also shows in brackets the intervention price increased by the said charge.

3 There is no market price for sugarbeet sold to sugar refineries at a price fixed before the harvest.

4 The minimum prices of A and B sugarbeet are average prices obtained by weighting the various conversion rates in force.

8 Since the market prices of potatoes are not part of official statistics only the production prices can be shown.

10 There are no minimum prices for potatoes other than for those intended for starch production The production prices for potatoes do not differ from the minimum prices plus the production refunds provided for in Article 3 of Regulation No 2742/75. The minimum prices for the 1984/85 marketing year are average prices obtained by weighting the various conversion rates in force durine that year