CELEX: 31986R0600
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 600/86 of 28 February 1986 laying down detailed rules for the application of the arrangements for imports into Portugal at a reduced levy of certain quantities of raw sugar intended for Portuguese refineries

No L 58 / 20                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                       1.3.86
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 600/86
                                                          of 28 February 1986
                 laying down detailed rules for the application of the arrangements for imports into
                 Portugal at a reduced levy of certain quantities of raw sugar intended for Portugese
                                                                refineries
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                            tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (3),
                                                                         the levy shall be adjusted on the basis of this difference
                                                                         according to the customary rules for raw sugar transac­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    tions on the world market ;
Economic Community,
                                                                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Portugal ,                                                               Committee for sugar,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC)                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
No 1785 / 81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organ­
ization of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last
amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 3768 / 85 (2), and in
                                                                                                    Article 1
particular Article 13(2), Article 16(7 ) and the second
subparagraph of Article 39 thereof,
                                                                         1 . The levy applicable to raw sugar of the standard
                                                                         quality as defined in Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC)
Whereas Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain                     No 431 /68, which is imported from the third countries
and Portugal, hereinafter called 'the Act', provides in                  referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 303 of
particular that, during the period of seven years follow­                the Act, hereinafter called the reduced levy, shall be
ing accession, the levy on raw cane sugar originating in                 equal to :
certain third countries , which is imported into Portugal                (a) the intervention price for raw sugar referred to in
up to a maximum annual quantity of 75 000 tonnes                               Article 3 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1785 /81
expressed as white sugar, shall be equal to the amount                         applicable at the time of import,
of the levy on raw sugar calculated in accordance with
the rules of the common organization of the markets,                           less
reduced by the difference between the threshold price                    (b) an amount equal to the average of the spot prices
and the intervention price for raw sugar ;                                     for raw sugar quoted on the London sugar market,
                                                                               brought, where appropriate, to the cif stage, during
                                                                               the first 20 days of the month preceding the month
Whereas the common organization of the markets in                              in respect of which the reduced levy is fixed .
the sugar sector is based, in particular, on the notion of
the marketing year defined in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1785/81 as beginning on 1 July and                         2 . Where the polarization of the imported raw sugar
expiring on 30 June of the following year ; whereas,                     deviates from 96° the reduced levy shall , according to
therefore, in order to facilitate the management of the                  the circumstances, be increased or reduced by 0,14%
arrangements provided for in Article 303 of the Act, the                 for each tenth of a degree of deviation recorded .
periods of application of the maximum annual quan­
tity referred to above should be determined by refer­                    3 . The reduced levy shall be fixed each month in res­
ence to the marketing year ;                                             pect of the following month .
Whereas to ensure that these import arrangements are                                                 Article 2
properly managed and fulfil their purpose, specific
provisions on import licences and communications
should be laid down ; whereas, to the same end, it                        1.   The maximum annual quantity referred to in the
should be laid down that, if the yield of the raw sugar                   first subparagraph of Article 303 of the Act to which
in question is different from that of the standard                        the reduced levy shall apply for each of the marketing
quality as defined in Council Regulation ( EEC)                           years included in the period of seven years following
 No 43 1 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard                     accession shall be equal to 75 000 tonnes expressed as
                                                                          white sugar.
 (') OJ No L 177 , 1.7 . 1981 , p. 4.
 O   OJ No L 362, 31 . 12 . 1985 , p. 8 .                                 O OJ No L 89, 10.4. 1968 , p. 3 .
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 2. The maximum annual quantity referred to in the                  3 . The following indication shall be included in box
 second subparagraph of Article 303 of the Act to which              12 of the application for the import licence and of the
the reduced levy shall apply shall :                                licence itself :
                                                                         ' import of raw sugar at a reduced levy originating
(a) for the period 1 March to 30 June 1986, be equal to                  in . . . (indication of the country or countries
        25 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar ;                         referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 303 )
(b) for the period 1 July to 31 December 1992, be equal                  pursuant to Regulation ( EEC) No 600/ 86 .'
        to 37 500 tonnes expressed as white sugar.
                                                                    4. The amount of the security relating to the licences
                                                                    referred to in paragraph 2 shall be 0,25 ECU per 100
                                                                    kilograms net weight of sugar.
                            Article 3
Any quantities of raw sugar imported into Portugal at a                                        Article 5
reduced levy during either of the periods referred to in
Article 2 that are in excess of the maximum quantity                Portugal shall communicate to the Commission :
fixed for the corresponding period, may, at the
importer's request, be charged , up to a limit of 5 % of            (a) each month, in respect of the preceding month :
the maximum quantity in question , against the period
immediately following the period of import. No quan­                — the tel quel quantities of raw sugar in respect of
tity may be so charged after 31 December 1992 .                          which the import licences referred to in Article 4
                                                                         have been issued ,
                                                                    — the tel quel quantities of raw sugar that have been
                            Article 4                                    effectively imported using the licences referred to
                                                                         in Article 4 ;
1 . Licences for imports of raw sugar under the
arrangements provided for in Article 303 of the Act                 (b) every three months , the tel quel quantities of raw
shall be valid from the date on which they were issued                   sugar in question expressed as white sugar that
until the end of the relevant period referred to in                      have been refined during the three months preced­
                                                                         ing the communication .
Article 2 during which they were issued .
                                                                         However, the communication shall be made not
2 . Applications for the licences referred to in para­                   later than 31 July 1986 for the quantities of raw
graph 1 must be presented to the competent body of                       sugar refined during the period 1 March to 30 June
                                                                         1986 .
Portugal and be accompanied by a declaration from a
refiner in which the latter shall undertake to refine the
quantity of raw sugar in question in Portugal within six
                                                                                               Article 6
months of import.
Where the sugar in question has not been refined                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
within the specified time, the importer must pay an                 publication in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                    Communities.
amount equal to the difference between the threshold
price and the intervention price for raw sugar appli­
cable at the time this sugar was imported .                         It shall apply with effect from 1 March 1986 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all the Mem­
                   ber States .
                   Done at Brussels, 28 February 1986 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                  Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                     Vice-President