CELEX: 31987R2054
Language: en
Date: 1987-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2054/87 of 10 July 1987 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 192/38                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 11 . 7. 87
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2054/87
                                                         of 10 July 1987
                                  fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Commission must take account of all available informa­
                                                                   tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
Economic Community,                                                recorded on important third-country markets, and on
                                                                   sales concluded in international trade of which it has
                                                                   knowledge either directly or through the agency of the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 Member States ;
Portugal,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regulation
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed
market in sugar (^ as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw
No 229/87 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,            sugar (*), the Commission must disregard information if
                                                                    the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to small
                                                                    quantities and is not representative of the market ;
                                                                    whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             representative of the actual market trends must also be
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             disregarded ;
listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar                Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;           which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Rotterdam
whereas the threshold price for each of these products was          must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being
fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1913/87 of 2 July              made account must be taken of the difference in the cost
 1987 fixing for the .1987/ 1988 marketing year the derived         of transporting the goods between the port of loading and
intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price         the port of destination arid between the port of loading
for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the             and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates
threshold prices and the amount of compensation for                 to goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100
storage costs (3) ;                                                  kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 784/68 ;
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is
calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier
crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council               Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining              is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
 the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­            fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No
 nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for         1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers
 sugar (4) ;                                                         taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ;
                                                                     whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable              provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
 purchasing opportunities on the world market established            must be applied ;
 for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on
 that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard
 quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the        Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
 standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation            784/68 , a special cif price may be established for sugar
 (EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation             which has been specially treated or specially packed if the
 (EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972(0 ;                                offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­
                                                                     blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ;
 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
 nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                     Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
 (') OJ  No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
 0   OJ  No  L 25, 28 . 1. 1987,  p. 1.                              served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
 (3) OJ  No  L 183, 3.  7. 1987,  p. 3.
 (4) OJ  No  L 89, 10.  4. 1968,  p. 3.
 0   OJ  No  L 94, 21 . 4. 1972,  p. 1.                                  OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 10.
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price is not available to the Commission and if the offer                                 these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
prices which are available and which appear not to be                                     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
sufficiently representative of actual market trends would                                 previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the                             Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a                          the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set
                                                                                     out in the Annex hereto,
reduction of not less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilograms in
relation to the levy previously fixed ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
Tariff ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies                                                           Article 1
should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­                            The import levies referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regula­
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band                             tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white sugar
     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central                             and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the Annex
                                                                                      hereto ;
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
     Article 3 ( 1 ), last indent of Regulation (EEC) No
     1 676/85 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
     1636/87 (2);                                                                                                     Article 2
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 July 1987.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States.
                     Done at Brussels, 10 July 1987.
                                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                                   Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                                      Vice-President
                                                                            ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of 10 July 1987 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                                           52,31 0
                   l                      B. Raw sugar                                                                           43,92 (l)(2)
                     (') 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 .
                     (*) These amounts will be adjusted, where appropriate, on the basis of the decisions taken in respect of prices for the
                         1987/88 marketing year.
 (') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .