CELEX: 31985R1657
Language: en
Date: 1985-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1657/85 of 18 June 1985 fixing for the 1985/86 marketing year the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

19 . 6. 85                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 159/43
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1657/85
                                                        of 18 June 1985
              fixing for the 1985/86 marketing year the import levies on sugar beet and sugar
                                                               cane
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      derived intervention prices for white sugar, the inter­
COMMUNITIES,                                                        vention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A
                                                                    and B beet, the threshold prices and the amount of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               compensation for storage costs (*),
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1482/85 (2), and in particular Article 16
(8) thereof,                                                                                    Article 1
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 785/8 1                 The import levies referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­
provides that an import levy must be fixed by the                   lation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the products listed in
Commission on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b)            Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) of that Regulation shall be as follows
of that Regulation ; whereas that levy must be calcu-               for the 1985/86 marketing year :
lated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose
content of each of those products and the levy on                        CCT
white sugar ;                                                           heading                 Description           ECU per
                                                                                                                        tonne
                                                                          No
Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by              12.04             Sugar beet, whole or sliced,
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the                                    fresh, dried or powdered ;
                                                                                      sugar cane :
levy applicable to these products, which is fixed for
each marketing year, is obtained by multiplying by a                                  A. Sugar beet :
coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilograms
of white sugar, between the threshold price valid for               l                      I. Fresh                      77,36
the relevant marketing year and the arithmetic average                                    II. Dried or powdered        265,93
of cif prices recorded during a reference period ;                                    B. Sugar cane                      53,19
whereas the coefficients and the reference period were
fixed by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
Whereas the threshold price for white sugar was fixed                                           Article 2
by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1484/85 of 23 May
 1985 fixing for the 1985/86 marketing year the                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1985.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
               Done at Brussels, 18 June 1985.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                    Vice-President
 (') OJ No  L  177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
 (2) OJ No  L  151 , 10. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 0   OJ No  L  151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p. 42.
 (4) OJ No  L  171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.                          O OJ No L 151 , 10. 6. 1985, p. 5.