CELEX: 31989R1920
Language: en
Date: 1989-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1920/89 of 30 June 1989 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

1 . 7. 89                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 187/ 13
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1920/89
                                                       of 30 June 1989
                                 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        (EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 793/72 0 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                   nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                   Commission must take account of all available informa­
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Portugal,                                                          exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
                                                                   recorded on important third-country markets, and on
                                                                   sales concluded in international trade of which it has
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               knowledge either directly or through the agency of the
                                                                   Member States :
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1069/89 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas, however, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    784/68 of the Commission of 26 June 1968 laying down
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and
                                                                    raw sugar (*), the Commission must disregard information
                                                                    if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marke­
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              table quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             small quantities and is not representative of the market ;
listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;                      whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be
                                                                    representative of the actual 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 the threshold price for each of these products was          Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
 fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1255/89 of 3 May              which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Rotterdam
 1989 fixing, for the 1989/90 marketing year, the derived           must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being
                                                                    made account must be taken of the difference in the cost
 intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price
 for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the            of transporting the goods between the port of loading and
 threshold prices, the amount of compensation for storage           the port of destination and between the port of loading
 costs and the prices to be applied in Spain and Portu­             and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates
gal (3);                                                            to goods in bags, it must be reduced by ECU 0,73 per 100
                                                                    kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 784/68 ;
 Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is
 calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier
 crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Regula­             Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
 tion (EEC) No 431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968               is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
 determining the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing          fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers
 the Community frontier crossing point for calculating cif
 prices for sugar (4) ;                                             taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ;
                                                                    whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
                                                                    provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
                                                                    must be applied ;
 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           Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
 quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the       784/68, a special cif price may be established for sugar
 standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation           which has been specially treated or specially packed if the
                                                                    offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­
                                                                    blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ;
 (') OJ  No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
 (J) OJ  No L 114, 27. 4. 1989, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ  No L 126, 9. 5. 1989, p. 4.                                (*) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .
 (4) OJ  No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3 .                               («) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 10.
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Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left                the last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regu­
unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which              lation (EEC) No 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regu­
served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif            lation (EEC) No 1636/87 0,
price is not available to the Commission and if the offer       — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
prices which are available and which appear not to be                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
sufficiently representative of actual market trends would            these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;            tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
                                                                     previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in -the
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a     Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
reduction of not less than ECU 0,24 per 100 kilograms in        the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set
relation to the levy previously fixed ;                         out in the Annex hereto,
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs                                          Article 1
Tariff ;
                                                                The import levies referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regula­
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies       tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white sugar
should be calculated on the following basis :                    and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the Annex
                                                                 hereto.
— 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 corrective factor provided for in   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1989.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 June 1989.
                                           I
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
                                                                 (') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
                                                                  2) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1989 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                               raw sugar
                                                                                                                   (ECU/100 kg)
                                   CN code                                                       Levy
                                 1701 11 10                                                     26,04 0
                                 1701 11 90                                                     26,04 0)
                                  1701 12 10                                                    26,04 (')
                                 1701 12 90                                                     26,04 0)
                                  1701 91 00                                                    26,72
                                  1701 99 10                                                    26,72
                                  1701 99 90                                                    26,72 0
          (') 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 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 (OJ No L 151 , 30. 6.
              1968, p, 42).
          (2) In accordance with Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 this amount is also applicable to sugar
              obtained from white and raw sugar containing added substances other than flavouring or colouring matter.