CELEX: 31984R1855
Language: en
Date: 1984-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1855/84 of 27 June 1984 fixing the import levy on molasses

30. 6. 84                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 172/55
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1855/84
                                                     of 27 June 1984
                                          fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 standard quality and laying down detailed rules for
COMMUNITIES,                                                   calculating the cif price for molasses (*) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
Economic Community,                                            tunities on the world market are being established, the
                                                               Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                               mation on offers on the world market, on quotations
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization             on prices recorded on important third-country markets
                                                               and on sales concluded in international trade of which
of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular Article 16         it has knowledge, either directly or through the agency
(8) thereof,                                                   of the Member States ; whereas, under the terms of
                                                               Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the
                                                               Commission may for this purpose take an average of
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                   several prices as a basis, provided this average can be
Committee,                                                     regarded as being representative of actual market
                                                               trends ;
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  Whereas the Commission must disregard information
 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the        if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair
products listed in Article 1 (1) (c) of that Regulation ;      marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer
                                                               relates to a small quantity and is not representative of
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to           the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the           regarded as not representative of actual market trends
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council              must also be disregarded ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1106/84 of 31 March 1984
fixing, for the 1984/85 marketing year, the derived            Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention          which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be
price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B            adjusted, account being taken in particular of the diffe­
beet, the threshold prices and the amount of compen­           rences in the cost of transporting the goods between
sation for storage costs (3);                                  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        Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
Commission for a Community frontier crossing point
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation
                                                               quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
                                                               the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
(EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the               reduced in the light of the results obtained by
standard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Commu­            applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices
for sugar (4) ;
                                                               Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left
                                                               unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
Whereas this price must be based on the most fabour­           served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
able purchasing opportunities on the world market              price is not available to the Commission and if the
established for each product on the basis of quotations        offer prices which are available and which appear not
or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation            to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends
from the standard quality for which the threshold              would entail sudden and considerable changes in the
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for              cif price ;
molasses was defined by Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 785/68 of 26 June 1968 determining the                Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
                                                               pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                           No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
0 OJ No L 74, 18 . 3. 1982, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 113, 28. 4. 1984, p. 14.
M OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                               H OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.
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application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
only if the variation in the elements used to calculate               these currencies recorded over a given period in
it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less                relation to the Community currencies referred to
than 0,06 ECU per 100 kilograms in relation to the                    in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­
levy previously fixed ;                                               cient ;
Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regula­            Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for            the levy for molasses should be as set out in the
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                 Annex hereto,
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally,                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
levies should be calculated on currencies following
basis :                                                                                  Article 1
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in              The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1) of Regula­
     relation to each other at any given moment within            tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of
     a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on              molasses, as set out in the Annex hereto.
     their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
     provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)                                  Article 2
     No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
     No 855/84,                                                  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, 27 June 1984.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              Poul DALSAGER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
                                                         ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 27 June 1984 fixing die import levy on molasses
                                                                                                 (.ECU/100 kg)
                      CCT
                    heading                             Description                                  Levy
                      No
                17.03          Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                   0
 (■) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
 (2) OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.