CELEX: 31992R1887
Language: en
Date: 1992-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1887/92 of 8 July 1992 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 189/34                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                   9 . 7. 92
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1887/92
                                                         of 8 July 1992
                                             fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
                                                                   sugar 0 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable
                                                                   purchasing opportunities on the world market established
                                                                   for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on
                                                                   that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  standard quality for molasses was defined by Regulation
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           (EEC) No 785/68 of the Commission of 26 June 1968
No 61 /92 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,           determining the standard quality and laying down
                                                                   detailed rules for calculating the cif price for molasses (6) ;
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
listed in Article 1 (1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;                   nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                    Commission must take account of all available informa­
                                                                    tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision           exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the               recorded on important third-country markets and on sales
                                                                    concluded in international trade of which it has know­
overseas countries and territories with the European
Economic Community (3), no levies shall apply on                    ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
imports of products originating in the overseas countries           Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
and territories ; whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (4) of the       Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for
abovementioned Decision, a special amount shall be                  this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
charged on imports of certain products originating in the           provided this average can be regarded as being representa­
                                                                    tive of actual market trends :
overseas countries and territories in order to prevent
products originating from these countries and territories
from receiving more favourable treatment than similar
products imported from Spain or Portugal into the                   Whereas the Commission must disregard information if
Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 ;
                                                                    the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
                                                                    quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
                                                                    quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to                offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the                actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1 748/92 (4) fixing, for the 1992/93 marke­
ting year, the derived intervention prices for white sugar,
the intervention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices            Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
for A and B beet, the threshold prices, the amount of               which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
compensation for storage costs and the prices to be                 account being taken in particular of the differences in the
applied in Spain and Portugal ;                                     cost of transporting the goods between 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
Commission for a Community frontier crossing point
                                                                    Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 determining the              quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community             the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
                                                                    reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying
                                                                    Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
(') OJ No  L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ No  L  6, 11 . 1 . 1992, p. 19.
(3) OJ No  L  263, 19 . 9. 1991 , p. 1 .                            0 OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3.
(*) OJ No  L  180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 13.                              (6) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.
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Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left                 in the last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council
unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which                 Regulation (EEC) No 1 676/85 (3), as last amended by
served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif               Regulation (EEC) No 2205/90 (4),
price is not available to the Commission and if the offer          — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
prices which are available and which appear not to be                   average of the ecu rates published in the Official
sufficiently representative of actual market trends would               Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;               a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas                      cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of             Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on 7
the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the           July 1992,
application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the
variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,06 per
100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;                                      Article 1
Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation            1 . The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this            lation (EEC) No 1785/81 is now ECU 1,04 per 100 kilo­
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs                   grams in respect of molasses falling within CN codes
Tariff ;                                                            1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00 .
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally, levies           2. However, no import levy applies to OCT originating
should be calculated on currencies on the following basis :         products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision
                                                                    91 /482/EEC .
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band                                     Article 2
     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
     rate, multiplied by the correcting factor provided for        This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 July 1992.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 8 July 1992.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                         Member of the Commission
O OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                                (3) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.                                (4) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.