CELEX: 
Language: en
Date: 1988-08-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 18 July 1988 authorizing Portugal to import from third countries at a reduced levy certain quantities of raw sugar during the period 1 July 1988 to 31 January 1989

13. 8 . 88                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 223/43
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 18 July 1988
                   authorizing Portugal to import from third countries at a reduced levy certain
                     quantities of raw sugar during the period 1 July 1988 to 31 January 1989
                                            (Only the Portuguese text is authentic)
                                                         (88/462/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      production of the French overseas department of
                                                                  Reunion, to be known accurately and therefore to be able
                                                                  to fix as a second step the final quantities lacking ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas, in order to ensure sound management of the
                                                                  markets in the sector and, in particular, effective control
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               of operations, it is necessary firstly to apply to the sugar
 Portugal, hereinafter referred to as 'the Act', and in           concerned the normal rules for performance of the
 particular the third subparagraph of Article 303 thereof,        customs formalities for import and, secondly, to provide
                                                                  for notification by Portugal of the quahtities of raw sugar
                                                                  imported and refined within the meaning of this
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             Decision ;
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by              Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
 Regulation (EEC) No 1107/88 (2), and in particular               accordance with the opinion of the Management
Articles 13 (2) and 16 (7) and the second subparagraph of         Committee for Sugar,
Article 39 thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to the first and second subparagraphs
of Article 303 of the Act, the maximum quantities of raw          HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
sugar to be imported at a reduced levy from certain ACP
States, together with the relevant periods of application in
order to supply the Portuguese refineries, have been                                       Article 1
determined by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 600/86 (3) ;
                                                                  Portugal is hereby authorized to import from third
                                                                  countries during the period 1 July 1988 to 31 January
Whereas the third subparagraph of Article 303 of the Act          1989 a quantity of raw sugar equivalent to 120 000 tonnes
provides in particular that, where, during the specified          of white sugar, at the reduced levy determined in
periods of application, the Community forward estimate            accordance with Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 600/86.
for raw sugar for a given marketing year or part thereof
shows that the availability of raw sugar is insufficient to
ensure adequate supply of Portuguese refineries, Portugal                                  Article 2
may be authorized to import from third countries under
the marketing year or part thereof concerned, the                 1.    The import licences for the raw sugar referred to in
quantities which it is estimated are lacking, under the           Article 1 shall be valid from the date of issue until 30
same conditions regarding the reduced levy as those               June 1989.
provided for in respect of the quantities to be imported
from the ACP States in question ; whereas the forward
estimate, for the period from 1 July 1988 to 30 June              2. The application for the licence referred to in
 1989, of Community raw sugar available for refining does         paragraph 1 must be made to the competent authority in
not at this stage enable the quantities that the Portuguese       Portugal, during the 1988/89 marketing year, and must be
refineries are lacking to be determined withany acurancy ;        accompanied by a declaration from a refiner in which he
whereas to ensure adequate supplies in these circum­              undertakes to refine the quantity of raw sugar concerned
stances there should be fixed as a first step a quantity to       in Portugal within six months following the month in
be imported from third countries at a reduced levy for a          which the customs import formalities take place.
specified period enabling the actual availabilities of
Community raw sugar, particulary as regards the                   If the sugar in question is not refined within the
                                                                  prescribed time limit the importer must pay an amount
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              equal to the difference between the threshold price and
0 OJ No L 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 20.                                the intervention price for raw sugar applicable on the day
0 OJ No L 58, 1 . 3. 1986, p. 20.                                 of acceptance of the import declaration concerned.
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3.    The application for the import licence and the            (a) the quantities of raw sugar expressed by weight tel
licence itself shall include in box 12 the following :              quel' for which the licences referred to in Article 2
                                                                    have been issued ;
    'import of raw sugar at reduced levy in accordance
    with Decision 87/429/EEC'.                                  (b) the quantities of raw sugar, expressed by weight 'tel
                                                                    quel' actually imported under the licences referred to
4. The rate of deposit applicable to the licence referred           in Article 2 ;
to in paragraph 1 is hereby fixed at 0,25 ECU for each          (c) the total quantities of sugar in question, by weight 'tel
 100 kilograms of sugar net.                                        quel' and expressed as white sugar, which have been
                                                                     refined.
                          Article 3
                                                                                          Article 5
If the volume of applications for licences exceeds the          This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
quantity provided for in Article 1 , Portugal shall proceed
with a fair apportionment of this quantity among the
applicants concerned.                                            Done at Brussels, 18 July 1988 .
                          Article 4                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN
 Portugal shall communicate to the Commission each
 month in respect of the previous month :                                                        Vice-President