CELEX: 31982R1717
Language: en
Date: 1982-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1717/82 of 30 June 1982 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 189/44                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 7 . 82
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1717/82
                                                            of 30 June 1982
                                                 fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         standard quality and laying down detailed rules for
COMMUNITIES,                                                           calculating the cif price for molasses (*) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
Economic Community,                                                    tunities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                       Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                       mation on offers on the world market, on quotations
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization                     on prices recorded on important third-country markets
                                                                       and on sales concluded in international trade of which
of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular Article 16                 it has knowledge, either directly or through the agency
(8) thereof,                                                           of the Member States ; whereas, under the terms of
                                                                       Article 7 of Regulation ( EEC) No 785/68 , the
                                                                       Commission may for this purpose take an average of
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                           several prices as a basis, provided this average can be
Committee ,                                                            regarded as being representative of actual market
                                                                       trends ;
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No                         Whereas the Commission must disregard information
1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the                 if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair
products listed in Article 1(1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;              marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer
                                                                       relates to a small quantity and is not representative of
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to                   the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the                   regarded as not representative of actual market trends
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council                      must also be disregarded ;
Regulation ( EEC) No 1411 / 82 of 18 May 1982 fixing,
for the 1982/ 83 marketing year, the derived interven­                 Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
tion prices for white sugar, the intervention price for                which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be
raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the                    adjusted, account being taken in particular of the diffe­
threshold prices and the amount of compensation for                    rences in the cost of transporting the goods between
storage costs (3) ;                                                    the port of loading and the port of destination and
                                                                       between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the                Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
Commission for a Community frontier crossing point
                                                                       quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation                     the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
( EEC) No 431 / 68 of 9 April 1968 determining the
                                                                       reduced in the light of the results obtained by
standard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Commu­                    applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices
for sugar (4) ;
                                                                       Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception , be left
                                                                       unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
Whereas this price must be based on the most fabour­                   served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                      price is not available to the Commission and if the
established for each product on the basis of quotations                offer prices which are available and which appear not
or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                    to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends
from the standard quality for which the threshold                      would entail sudden and considerable changes in the
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for                      cif price ;
 molasses was defined by Commission Regulation
( EEC) No 785 / 68 of 26 June 1968 determining the                     Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
                                                                        pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
(') OJ No   L   177 , 1 . 7 . 1981 , p . 4 .                            No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
(2  OJ No   L   74. 18 . 3 . 1982, p . 1 .
(3) OJ No   L   162 , 12 . 6 . 1982 , p . 3
0   OJ No   L   89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p . 3 .                           O OJ No L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p . 12 .
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application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by                  relationg to the Community currencies referred to
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered                    in the previous indent ;
only if the variation in the elements used to calculate
it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less              Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
than 0-06 ECU per 100 kilograms in relation to the                  the levy for molasses should be as set out in the
levy previously fixed ;                                             Annex hereto,
Whereas in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                                           Article 1
levies should be calculated on currencies following
basis :
                                                                    The import levy referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regula­
— in the case of currences which are maintained in
                                                                    tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of
     relation to each other at any given moment within              molasses, as set out in the Annex hereto .
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on the
     central rate,
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                                      Article 2
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded for a given period in                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1982.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 30 June 1982.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Poul DALSAGER
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1982 fixing the import levy on molasses
                                                                                                  (ECU / 100 kg)
                      CCT
                    heading                                Description                                 Levy
                       No
                17.03             Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                  0
 (') OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42.
 n OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6 . 1978 , p. 34.