CELEX: 31976R1564
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1564/76 of 30 June 1976 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

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                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1564/76
                                                        of 30 June 1976
                                fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
COMMUNITIES,                                                       on prices recorded on important third-country
                                                                   markets, and on sales concluded in international trade
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              of which it has knowledge either directly or through
Economic Community,                                                the agency of the Member States ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                  Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by              tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down
Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular                 detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                            and raw sugar (6), the Commission must disregard
                                                                   information if the goods concerned are not of sound
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in
Committee ,                                                        an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­
                                                                   tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                    be assumed not to be representative of the actual
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                 market trends must also be disregarded ;
the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar               Whereas, of the offer price taken into consideration,
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;          those which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
whereas the threshold price for each of these products             Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 834/76 of                 adjustment is being made account must be taken of
6 April 1976 fixing for the 1976/77 sugar marketing                the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
year the derived intervention prices, the intervention             between the port of loading and the port of destina­
prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for                  tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
beet, the threshold prices and the maximum amount                  whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
of the production levy and fixing the coefficient for              bags, it must be reduced by 0 06 unit of account per
calculating the special maximum quota (3) ;                        100 kilogrammes under the terms of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 784/ 68 ;
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is
calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by                Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
Council Regulation ( EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968               quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
determining the standard quality for raw sugar and                 reductions fixed pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation
fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                   (EEC) No 3330/74 must be added to or deducted from
calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ;                             the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
                                                                   sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­               factors provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                  must be applied ;
established 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                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw              No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for
sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68                   sugar which has been specially treated or specially
and that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No                    packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
793/72 of 17 ApTil 1972 (5 ) ;                                     the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
                                                                   referred to above ;
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
tunities on the world market are being established, the            Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                   unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations                which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
                                                                   the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
(')  OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 .                          the offer prices which are available and which appear
(2 ) OJ No L 167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 9 .                            not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
(3 ) OJ No L 100 , 14. 4. 1976, p. 25 .
(4 ) OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
(5 ) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4 . 1972, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ No L 145, 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .
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trends would entail sudden and considerable changes             of these currencies against the Community curren­
in the cif price ;                                              cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
                                                                specified period ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase      Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
or a reduction of not less than 0*10 unit of account        that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be
per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously      fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation,
fixed ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­
                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                                    Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the     The levies referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation
following should be used to calculate the levies :          (EEC) No 3330/74 are, in respect of white sugar and
— for currencies the exchange rates for which are           standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
    kept at any given moment within a band of               the Annex to this Regulation .
    2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual
    parity ;                                                                        Article 2
— for other currencies a conversion rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 30 June 1976.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1976 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                                          raw sugar
                                                                                                                                          (u.a. /100 kg)
                     CCT
                   heading                                             Description of goods                                                Levy
                      No
            17.01                    Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                     A. White sugar                                                                                       9.50
                                     B. Raw sugar                                                                                         8.15 (')
           f 1 ) 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 .