CELEX: 31981R1772
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1772/81 of 30 June 1981 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

1 . 7. 81                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 175/59
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1772/81
                                                       of 30 June 1981
                              fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
COMMUNITIES,                                                       on prices recorded on important third-country
                                                                   markets, and on sales concluded in international trade
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              of which it has knowledge either directly or through
Economic Community,                                                the agency of the Member States ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common
                                                                   tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down
organization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended           detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar
by Regulation (EEC) No 3455/80 (2), and in particular              and raw sugar (6), the Commission must disregard
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                            information if the goods concerned are not of sound
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an
Committee,                                                         offer relates to small quantities and is hot representa­
                                                                   tive of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                    assumed not to be representative of the actual market
 3330/74 provides fof charging a levy on imports of the            trends must also be disregarded ;
 products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;
                                                                   Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar               which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
 must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;         Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
 whereas the threshold price for each of these products            adjustment is being made account must be taken of
 was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/80 of               the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
 24 June 1980 fixing, for the 1980/81 sugar year, the              between the port of loading and the port of destina­
 derived intervention prices, the intervention price for           tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
 raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the thre­            whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
 shold prices, the maximum amount of the production                bags, it must be reduced by 1-40 ECU per 100 kilo­
 levy and the amount of the repayment to offset storage            grams under the terms of Regulation (EEC) No
 costs and the coefficient for calculating the special              784/68 ;
 maximum quota (3) ;
                                                                    Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
 Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is             quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
 calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­                 reductions fixed pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation
 tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by                (EEC) No 3330/74 must be added to or deducted from
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968                the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
 determining the standard quality for raw sugar and                 sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective
 fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                   factors provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)
 calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ;                             No 784/68 must be applied ;
 Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­               Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market                  No 784/68, a special cif price may be established for
 established for each product on the basis of quotations            sugar which has been specially treated or specially
  or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation               packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
  from the standard quality for which the threshold                 the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
  price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw             referred to above ;
  sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 and              Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
  that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of              unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
  17 April 1972(0 ;                                                  served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
  Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­                price is not available to the Commission and if the
  tunities on the world market are being established, the            offer prices which are available and which appear not
  Commission must take account of all available infor­               to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends
  mation on offers on the world market, on quotations                would entail sudden and considerable changes in the
                                                                     cif price ;
  (') OJ  No L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                           Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
  (2) OJ  No L  360, 31 . 12. 1980, p . 17.                          elements used to calculate it would entail an increase
  (3) OJ  No L  160, 26. 6. 1980 , p. 16.
  (4) OJ  No L  89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
  (*) OJ  No L  94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .                             (6) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 10 .
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or a reduction of not less than 0-24 ECU per 100 kilo­                 serious disturbances on the markets, it is necessary,
grams in relation to the levy previously fixed ;                       pending the Council's decision on the matter, to fix
                                                                       levies on the basis of the data used up to 30 June
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regula­                 1981 ;
tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided for
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                       Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
Customs Tariff ;                                                       the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    set out in the Annex hereto,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
    relation to each other at any given moment within                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    a band of 2-25% , a rate of exchange based on their
    effective parity,                                                                          Article 1
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of                The import levies referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regu­
    these currencies recorded for a given period in                    lation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be, in respect of white
    relation to the Community currencies referred to                   sugar and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the
    in the previous indent ;                                           Annex hereto.
Whereas the Council has not yet definitely fixed the
prices applicable for the new marketing year in the                                            Article 2
sugar sector ; whereas, in order to prevent a hitch of
continuity in the levy schemes that would cause                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1981 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                  «
                                                                                    Gaston THORN
                                                             ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1981 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                            raw sugar
                                                                                                         (ECU/100 kg)
                    CCT
                   heading                                   Description                                     Levy
                     No
              17.01              Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form :
                                 A. White sugar : flavoured or coloured sugar                              12-30
                                 B. Raw sugar                                                               8-81 (')
              (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 %, the levy applicable
                  is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68.