CELEX: 31978R1503
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1503/78 of 30 June 1978 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1503/78
                                                           of 30 June 1978
                                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
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                     Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
zation of the market in sugar ( J), as last amended by                tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular                    detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                               and raw sugar (6), the Commission must disregard
                                                                      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
Committee,
                                                                      an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) Nov                      tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                    be assumed not to be representative of the actual
the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;           market trends must also be disregarded ;
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;             Whereas, of the offer prices taken into consideration,
whereas the threshold price for each of these products                those which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1399/78 of                   Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
20 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the                  adjustment is being made account must be taken of
derived intervention prices, the intervention price for               the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the                      between the port of loading and the port of destina­
threshold prices, the maximum amount of the produc­                   tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
tion levy and the amount of the repayment to offset                   whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
storage costs, and fixing the coefficient for calculating             bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of account per
the special maximum quota (3 ) ;                                       100 kilograms under the terms of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                      No 784/68 ;
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is
calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­                    Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by                   quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968                   reductions fixed pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation
determining the standard quality for raw sugar and                    (EEC) No 3330/74 must be added to or deducted from
fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                      the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ;                                sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                  factors provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                     must be applied ;
established for each product on the basis of quotations
or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                   Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
from the standard quality for which the threshold                     No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw                 sugar which has been specially treated or specially
sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68                      packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
and that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No                       the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
793/72 of 17 April 1972 (5) ;                                         referred to above ;
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
tunities on the world market are being established, the               Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception , be left
Commission must take account of all available infor­                  unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations                   which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
                                                                      the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
(>)  OJ No L 359, 31 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 .                              the offer prices which are available and which appear
(2 ) OJ No L  170 , 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 1 .                             not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
(3)  OJ No L  170 , 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 6.
(4)  OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p. 3 .
(5 ) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4 . 1972, p. 1 .                                (*) OJ No L 145, 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .
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trends would entail sudden and considerable changes              of these currencies against the Community curren­
in the cif price ;                                               cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
                                                                 specified period ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase      Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
or a reduction of not less than 0-10 unit of account         that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be
per 100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously         fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation,
fixed ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­
                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                                     Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the     The levies referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation
following should be used to calculate the levies :          (EEC) No 3330/74 are, in respect of white sugar and
— for currencies the exchange rates for which are           standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
    kept at any given moment within a band of                the Annex to this Regulation .
    2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual
    parity ;                                                                         Article 2
— for other currencies a conversion rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1978 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                           Vice-President
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                                                                         ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1978 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                                       raw sugar
                                                                                                                                      (UM. / 100 kg)
                  CCT
                 heading                                                 Description                                                    Levy
                   No
          17.01                    Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form :
                                  A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                        27.73
                                   B. Raw sugar                                                                                       22.99 (1)
          (') 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 .