To ensure that the necessary guarantees in respect of employment and standards of living are maintained for Community growers of sugar beet and sugar cane, provision should be made for measures to stabilize the market in sugar and for this purpose there should be fixed annually a target price for white sugar and, for the areas having no deficit, an intervention price for white sugar, as well as an intervention price for raw sugar, and, for each of the deficit areas, a derived intervention price for white sugar and, should the case arise, for raw sugar; whereas the above objective could be attained by making provision for buying-in by intervention agencies at the intervention prices; whereas, moreover, a compensation system for storage costs for sugar produced both from raw materials of Community origin, including molasses, and preferential sugar could serve the same purpose; whereas these price guarantees given for sugar also benefit sugar syrups and isoglucose, the prices of which are based on those of sugar.
