CELEX: 31978R1550
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1550/78 of 4 July 1978 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

5. 7. 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 182/ 17
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1550/78
                                                       of 4 July 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
Committee,
                                                                 and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in
                                                                 an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  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
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by              Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968              quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
determining the standard quality for raw sugar and               reductions fixed pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation
                                                                 (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 .
(3) OJ No  L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 6.                            not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
(4) OJ No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
(5) OJ No  L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .                            (6) 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 0-20 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 5 July 1978 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 July 1978 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                           Vice-President
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                                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 4 July 1978 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                                         raw sugar
                                                                                                                                       (u.a. / 100 kg)
                   CCT
                  heading                                                 Description                                                    Levy
                    No
            17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form :
                                    A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar                                                       28.03
                                    B. Raw sugar                                                                                       23.36 (')
           (') 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 .