CELEX: 31973R0254
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 254/73 of the Commission of 31 January 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 30/30                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                             1 . 2 . 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 254/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 31 January 1973
                                          fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing op­
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                           portunities on the world market are being esta­
                                                                          blished, the Commission must take account of all
                                                                          available information on offers on the world mar­
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      ket, on quotations on the exchanges which are im­
 pean Economic Community ;                                               portant for world trade, on prices recorded on im­
                                                                         portant third-country markets, and on sales con­
                                                                         cluded in international trade of which it has know­
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/
  EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­                       ledge either directly or through the agency of the
                                                                         Member States ;
  ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and in particular
 Article 14 ( 7 ) thereof ;                                              Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
                                                                         tion ( EEC) No 784/68 (7) of 26 June 1968 laying
 Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/                      down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for
 EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                      white sugar and raw sugar, the Commission must
                                                                         disregard information if the goods concerned are
 products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;
                                                                         not of sound and fair marketable quality or if the
                                                                         price quoted in an offer relates to small quantities
 Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw                          and is not representative of the market ; whereas of­
 sugar must be equal to the threshold price less the                     fer prices which can be assumed not to be representa­
 cif price ; whereas the threshold price for each of                     tive of the actual market trends must also be disre­
 these products was fixed by Council Regulation                          garded ;
 (EEC) No 795 /72 (3 ) of 17 April 1972 fixing for the
 1972/73 marketing year the derived intervention pri­
 ces, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the                    Whereas, of the offer prices taken into considera­
 minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices, the                      tion, those which are not for goods delivered in bulk
 guaranteed quantity and the maximum amount of                           cif Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
the production levy, as amended bv Regulation (EEC )                     adjustment is being made account must be taken of
 No 238 /73 ( 4);                                                        the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
                                                                         between the port of loading and the port of destina­
                                                                        tion and between the port of loading and Rotter­
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar                      dam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates to
 is calculated by the Commission for a Community                         goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of ac­
 frontier crossing point which was fixed at Rotter­                      count per 100 kilogrammes under the terms of Regu­
 dam by Coucil Regulation (EEC ) No 431 /68 (5 ) of 9                   lation ( EEC ) No 784/68 ;
 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw
 sugar and fixing the Community frontier crossing
point for calculating cif prices for sugar ;                            Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
                                                                        quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
                                                                        reductions fixed pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                    No 1009 /67/EEC must be added to or deducted
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                       from the offers taken into consideration in the case
established for each product on the basis of quota­                     of white sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar,
tions or prices on that market adjusted for any devia­                  the corrective factors provided for in Regulation
tion from the standard quality for which the thres­                     ( EEC ) No 784/68 must be applied ;
hold price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality
for raw sugar was defined by Regulation ( EEC ) No
431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation                          Whereas, pusuant to Article 7 of Regulation ( EEC )
 (EEC ) No 793 /72 («) of 17 April 1972 ;                               No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for
                                                                        sugar which has been specially treated or specially
                                                                        packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
(») OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 .                                 the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
( 2 ) OJ No L 25 , 30 . 1 . 1973 , p . 1 .                              referred to above ;
( 3 ) OJ No L 94 , 21.4 . 1972 , p . 4 .
( 4 ) OJ No L 29 , 1 . 2 . 1973 .
(*) OJ No L 89 , 10. 4 . 1968 , p . 3 .
(«) OJ No L 94 , 21.4 . 1972 , p . 1 .                                  ( 7 ) O I No L 145 , 27.6 . 1968 , p . 10 .
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Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be                               Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price                         sions that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar
which served as a basis for the previous calculation                           should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regu­
of the cif price is not available to the Commission                            lation ;
 and if the offer prices which are available and which
appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
market trends would entail sudden and considerable
changes in the cif price ;                                                                                  Article 1
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in
the elements used to calculate it would entail an in­                          The levies referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation
crease or a reduction of not less than 0-10 unit of                            No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
account per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy                            standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown
previously fixed ;                                                             in the Annex to this Regulation.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu­                                                      Article 2
lation No 1009/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
mon Customs Tariff ;                                                           1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 January 1973 .
                                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar
                                                                  and raw sugar
                                                                                                                       (u.a.1100 kg)
                      CCT
                    heading                                     Description of goods                                     Levy
                       No
              17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                      A. Denatured :
                                           I. White sugar                                                                5-54
                                          II. Raw sugar                                                                  3-49 (!)
                                      B. Undenatured :
                                           I. White sugar                                                                5-54
                                          II. Raw sugar                                                                  3-49 (»)
             f1 ) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92°/o; if the yield is other than 929/o» the levy applicable is calculated
                  in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68.