CELEX: 31988R1966
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1966/88 of 4 July 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 173/ 14                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 5. 7. 88
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1966/88
                                                         of 4 July 1988
                                  fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        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 Treaty establishing the European              tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Economic Community,                                                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 the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,                                                          knowledge either directly or through the agency of the
                                                                   Member States :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regulation
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed
No 1 107/88 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,         rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw
                                                                   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 Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81            whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be
                                                                   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
                                                                    must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being
                                                                    made account must be taken of the difference in the cost
Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices              of transporting the goods between the port of loading and
for the 1988/89 marketing year, which commences                     the port of destination and between the port of loading
on 1 July 1988 ; whereas the price factors determined               and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1912/88 (3) should                to goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100
accordingly be taken into account for the calculation of            kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
the levies in order to ensure that the import arrangements          (EEC) No 784/68 ;
continue to operate in the sector concerned ;
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is              Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier               is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council              fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers
Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining
the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­            taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ;
nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for         whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
sugar (4) ;                                                         provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
                                                                    must be applied ;
Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable
purchasing opportunities on the world market established            Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on            784/68, a special cif price may be established for sugar
that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard            which has been specially treated or specially packed if the
quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the        offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­
standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation            blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ;
(EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation
(EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972 0 ;
                                                                    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 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 20.                              served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
(3) OJ  No  L 168, 1 . 7. 1988, p. 115.
(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
     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 5 July 1988.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 4 July 1988 .
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                                    Vice-President
                                                                          ANNEX
                   to the Commission Regulation of 4 July 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                                         raw sugar
                                                                                                                             (ECU/100 kg)
                                            CN code                                                        Levy
                                           1701 11 10                                                     28,76 (')
                                           17011190                                                       28,76 (')
                                           1701 12 10                                                     28,76 (')
                                           1701 12 90                                                     28,76 (')
                                           1701 91 00                                                    40,22
                                           1701 99 10                                                    40,22
                                           1701 99 90                                                    40,22
                   (') 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.
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .