CELEX: 31984R1854
Language: en
Date: 1984-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1854/84 of 29 June 1984 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

30. 6. 84                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 172/53 .
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1854/84
                                                     of 29 June 1984
                             fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                markets, and on sales concluded in international trade
  COMMUNITIES,                                                  of which it has knowledge either directly or through
                                                                the agency of the Member States ;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Economic Community,                                          Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
                                                                tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar
   1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common                        and raw sugar (*), the Commission must disregard
  organization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended      information if the goods concerned are not of sound
  by Regulation (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular          and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an
  Article 16 (8) thereof,                                       offer relates to small quantities and is not representa­
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                  tive of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
  Committee,                                                    assumed not to be representative of the actual market
                                                                trends must also be disregarded ;
  Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
   1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the       Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
  products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;        which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
                                                                Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
  Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar          adjustment is being made account must be taken of
  must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;     the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
  whereas the threshold price for each of these products        between the port of loading and the port of destina­
  was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1106/84 of           tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
  31 March 1984 fixing for the 1984/85 marketing year          whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
  the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the         bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100 kilo­
  intervention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices         grams under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
  for A and B beet, the threshold prices and the amount        (EEC) No 784/68 ;
 of compensation for storage costs (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 15 of Regulation
 tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by           (EEC) No 1785/81 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
on the exchanges which are important for world trade,          cif price ;
on prices recorded on important third-country                  Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
                                                               elements used to calculate it would entail an increase
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                           or a reduction of not less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilo­
I1) OJ No L 74, 18. 3. 1982, p. 1 .                           grams in relation to the levy previously fixed ;
(3) OJ No L 113, 28. 4. 1984, p. 14.
0 OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
O OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .                            («) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 10.
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Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regula­                     in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for                      cient ;
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                      Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
                                                                       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                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    relation to each other at any given moment within
    a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on                                             Article 1
    their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
    provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)                The import levies referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­
    No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                    lation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white
    No 855/84,                                                         sugar and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the
                                                                       Annex hereto.
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of                                        Article 2
    these currencies recorded over a given period in
    relation to the Community currencies referred to                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 29 June 1984.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   Poul DALSAGER
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
              to die Commission Regulation of 29 June 1984 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                             45,61
                                  B. Raw sugar                                                            40,53 (')
              (') 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.