CELEX: 31974R2533
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2533/74 of the Commission of 4 October 1974 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 271 /34                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               5. 10 . 74
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2533/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 4 October 1974
                                              fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      mation on offers on the world market, on quotations
COMMUNITIES,                                                        on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
                                                                    on prices recorded on important third-country
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               markets and on sales concluded in international trade
Economic Community ;                                                of which it has knowledge, either directly or through
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                        the agency of the Member States ; whereas, under the
67/EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common                        terms of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                Commission may for this purpose take an average of
by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular               several prices as a basis, provided this average can be
Article 1 4 (7) thereof ;                                           regarded as being representative of actual market
                                                                    trends ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                         Whereas the Commission must disregard information
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                     if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair
67/ EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the              marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;             relates to a small quantity and is not representative of
                                                                    the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal                   regarded as not representative of actual market trends
to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the              must also be disregarded ;
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1 600/74 (3) of 29 April 1974                   Whereas, of the offer prices taken into consideration,
fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year the                      those which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must
derived intervention prices, the intervention prices for             be adjusted, account being taken in particular of the
raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the                     differences in the cost of transporting the goods
threshold prices and the maximum amount of the                       between the port of loading and the port of destina­
production levy and amended by Regulation (EEC)                      tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
 No 251 8 /74 (4);
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
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation                   on the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
 (EEC) No 431 /68 (5) of 9 April 1968 determining the                reduced in the light of the results obtained by
 standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­                applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
 nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices
 for sugar ;                                                         Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be
 Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market                   which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
 established for each product on the basis of quotations              the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                  the offer prices which are available and which appear
 from the standard quality for which the threshold                    not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
 price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for                    trends would entail sudden and considerable changes
 molasses was defined by Commission Regulation                        in the cif price ;
 (EEC) No 785/68 (6) of 26 June 1968 determining the
 standard quality and laying down detailed rules for                  Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
 calculating the cif price for molasses ;                             pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation
                                                                      (EEC) No 837/68 (7) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules
 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­                  for the application of levies on sugar, as last amended
  tunities on the world market are being established, the             by Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (8), the levy is altered
  Commission must take account of all available infor­                only if the variation in the elements used to calculate
                                                                      it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less
  (•)  OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .                              than 0-05 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in rela­
  (2)  OJ No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p. 70 .
  (3 ) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p. 3 .                             tion to the levy previously fixed ;
  (4)  OJ No L 270, 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .
  (5)  OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                              ( 7) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42 .
  (*)  OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 12.                              (8 OJ No L. 165, 28 . 7 . 1970 , p. 8 .
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Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­            Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
tion No 1009/ 67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for               that the levy for molasses should be fixed as shown in
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                   the Annex to this Regulation,
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                                         Article 1
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
    on their effective parity ;                                    The levy referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the               1009/67/EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby fixed
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each               as shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
    relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                                          Article 2
    in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 October
requested ;                                                        1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 October 1974 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
                                                         ANNEX
                                                                                                    (u. a. / 100 kg)
                    CCT
                  heading                           Description of goods                              Levy
                     No
              17.03             Molasses, whether or not decolourized                                   0