CELEX: 31983R1789
Language: en
Date: 1983-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1789/83 of 30 June 1983 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 176/48                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 7. 83
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1789/83
                                                       of 30 June 1983
                              fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    markets, and on sales concluded in international trade
COMMUNITIES,                                                      of which it has knowledge either directly or through
                                                                  the agency of the Member States ;
Haying regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                               Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
                                                                  tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common                             and raw sugar (6), the Commission must disregard
organization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended          information if the goods concerned are not of sound
by Regulation (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular              and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an
Article 16 (8) thereof,                                           offer relates to small quantities and is not representa­
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                      tive of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
Committee,                                                        assumed not to be representative of the actual market
                                                                  trends must also be disregarded ;
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the            Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;           which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
                                                                  Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar               adjustment is being made account must be taken of
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;          the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
whereas the threshold price for each of these products             between the port of loading and the port of destina­
was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1586/83 of                tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
14 June 1983 fixing, for the 1983/84 marketing year,              whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the              bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100 kilo­
intervention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices              grams under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
for A and B beet, the threshold prices and the amount             (EEC) No 784/68 ;
of compensation for storage costs (3) ;                            Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is             quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­                 reductions fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by                (EEC) No 1785/81 must be added to or deducted from
Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968                the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
determining the standard quality for raw sugar and                 sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective
fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                   factors provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)
calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ;                             No 784/68 must be applied ;
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­               Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                  No 784/68, a special cif price may be established for
established for each product on the basis of quotations            sugar which has been specially treated or specially
or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
from the standard quality for which the threshold                  the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw              referred to above ;
sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 and               Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of              unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
 17 April 1972 0 ;                                                 served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­                price is not available to the Commission and if the
tunities on the world market are being established, the            offer prices which are available and which appear not
Commission must take account of all available infor­               to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations                would entail sudden and considerable changes in the
on the exchanges which are important for world trade,              cif price ;
on    prices recorded on          important third-country          Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
                                                                   elements used to calculate it would entail an increase
(') OJ  No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              or a reduction of not less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilo­
(2) OJ  No  L 74, 18 . 3 . 1982, p. 1 .                            grams in relation to the levy previously fixed ;
(3) OJ  No  L 163 , 22. 6. 1983 , p. 33
(4) OJ  No  L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
0   OJ  No  L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ No L 145, 27 . 6. 1968 , p. 10 .
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Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­                 Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for                   the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                        set out in the Annex hereto,
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                                              Article 1
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on the                   The import levies referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regu­
     central rate,                                                      lation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white
                                                                        sugar and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                   Annex hereto.
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded for a given period in                                             Article 2
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous indent ;                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1983.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 30 June 1983 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                     Poul DALSAGER
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1983 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                             raw sugar
                                                                                                           (ECU/100 kg)
                      CCT
                    heading                                   Description                                      Levy
                       No
               17.01               Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form :
                                  A. White sugar : flavoured or coloured sugar                               29,88
              \                    B. Raw sugar                                                              26,24 (')
               (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the levy applicable
                   is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 .