CELEX: 31974R1644
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1644/74 of the Commission of 28 June 1974 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 175/4                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                29 . 6 . 74
                                 REGULATION ( EEC) No 1644/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 28 June 1974
                                                  fixing the import levy on molasses
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         on     prices  recorded     on     important third-country
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                           markets and on sales concluded in international trade
                                                                        of which it has knowledge, either directly or through
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  the agency of the Member States ; whereas, under the
  Economic Community ;                                                   terms of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                            Commission may for this purpose take an average of
 67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                          several prices as a basis, provided this average can be
 organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                   regarded as being representative of actual market
                                                                        trends ;
 by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 602/74 (2), and in particular
 Article 1 4 (7) thereof ;
                                                                        Whereas the Commission must disregard information
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                           if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair
 Committee ;                                                            marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer
                                                                        relates to a small quantity and is not representative of
 Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                        the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
 67/ EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                 regarded as not representative of actual market trends
 products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                must also be disregarded ;
 Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal
 to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the                Whereas, of the offer prices taken into consideration ,
 threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council                      those which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must
 Regulation ( EEC) No 1 600/74 (3) of 29 April 1974                     be adjusted, account being taken in particular of the
 fixing for the 1 974/75 sugar marketing year the                       differences in the cost of transporting the goods
 derived intervention prices, the intervention prices for               between the port of loading and the port of destina­
 raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the                       tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
 threshold prices and the maximum amount of the                                             i
 production levy ;                                                      Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
                                                                        quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending
 Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the                on the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
 Commission for a (Community frontier crossing point                    reduced in the light of the results obtained by
 which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation                     applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
 (EEC) No 43 1 /68 (4 ) of 9 April 1968 determining the
 standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­
                                                                        Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception , be
 nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices
                                                                        left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
 for sugar ;                                                            which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
 Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                   the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market                      the offer prices which are available and which appear
 established for each product on the basis of quotations                not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                    trends would entail sudden and considerable changes
 from the standard quality for which the threshold                      in the cif price ;
 price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for
 molasses was defined by Commission Regulation                         Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
(EEC) No 785/68 (5 ) of 26 June 1968 determining the                    pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation
standard quality and laying down detailed rules for                    (EEC) No 837/68 (b) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules
calculating the cif price for molasses ;                                for the application of levies on sugar, as last amended
                                                                       by Regulation ( EEC) No 149 1 /70 ( 7), the levy is altered
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­                    only if the variation in the elements used to calculate
tunities on the world market are being established , the                it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less
Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                       than 0 05 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in rela­
 mation on offers on the world market, on quotations                   tion to the levy previously fixed ;
on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
                                                                       Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( I ) of Regula­
(')  OJ No   30 «, IX . 12 . 1967, p. I.
(2 ) OJ No   L 1 72, 27 . 6 . 1 974, p. 7 .                            tion No 1009 /67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for
(»)  OJ No   L 172, 27. 6 . 1974, p. 3 .
(■») OJ No   L 89 , 10 . 4 . 196 «, p. 3 .                             ( b) O ) No L 151 , .W. 6 . 1968 , p. 42 .
(5)  OJ No   L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 12 .                           ( 7) OJ No L 165 , 28 . 7 . 1970 , p. 8 .
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in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                    Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
Customs Tariff ;                                                    that the levy for molasses should be fixed as shown in
                                                                    the Annex to this Regulation ,
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                                           A rticle 1
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                The levy referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each               1009/67/ EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby fixed
     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in            as shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous subparagraph ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
requested ;                                                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 June 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                                                                                                      (tt.a.HOO kg)
                                                               '
                     CCT
                    heading                           Description of goods                               Levy
                      No
               17.03             Molasses , whether or not decolourized                                    0