CELEX: 31988R2336
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2336/88 of 27 July 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 203/22                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                28 . 7. 88
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2336/88
                                                         of 27 July 1988
                                  fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        (EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972 0 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                   nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                   Commission must take account of all available informa­
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Portugal,                                                          exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
                                                                   recorded on important third-country markets, and on
                                                                   sales concluded in international trade of which it has
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               knowledge either directly or through the agency of the
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  Member States ;
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 2250/88 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,          Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed
                                                                   rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            sugar (*), the Commission must disregard information if
                                                                   the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81            quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to small
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            quantities and is not representative of the market ;
listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;                      whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be
                                                                   representative of the actual market trends must also be
                                                                   disregarded ;
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;          Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
                                                                   which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Rotterdam
                                                                   must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar               made account must be taken of the difference in the cost
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;          of transporting the goods between the port, of loading and
whereas the threshold price for each of these products was         the port of destination and between the port of loading
fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2252/88 of 19 July            and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates
1988 fixing for the 1988/89 marketing year the derived             to goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100
intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price        kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the            (EEC) No 784/68 ;
threshold prices and the amount of compensation for
storage costs (3) ;
                                                                   Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
                                                                   is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is             fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No
calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier               1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers
crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council             taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ;
Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining            whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­           provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for        must be applied ;
sugar (4) ;
                                                                   Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    784/68, a special cif price may be established for sugar
Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable            which has been specially treated or specially packed if the
purchasing opportunities on the world market established           offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­
for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on           blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ;
that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard
quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation           Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
                                                                   unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
                                                                    served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
(') OJ No   L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
0   OJ No   L 198, 26. 7. 1988.
0   OJ No   L 198, 26. 7. 1988.                                     0 OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .
0   OJ No   L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                fó 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 it follows from applying these provisions that
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the                            the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a
                                                                                    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
     1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
     1 636/87 (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 28 July 1988 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 27 July 1988 .
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                                    Vice-President
                                                                          ANNEX
                   to the Commission Regulation of 27 July 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                                        raw sugar
                                                                                                                            (ECU/100 kg)
                                            CN code                                                       Levy
                                          1701 11 10                                                     30,94 0
                                           17011190                                                      30,94 (')
                                           1701 12 10                                                    30,94 (')
                                           1701 12 90                                                    30,94 0
                                           1701 91 00                                                    42,68
                                           1701 99 10                                                    42,68
                                           1701 99 90                                                    42,68 0
                   (') 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.
                   (2) In accordance with Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 this amount is also applicable to sugar
                       obtained from white and raw sugar containing added substances other than flavouring or colouring matter.
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(2 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .