CELEX: 31985R1810
Language: en
Date: 1985-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1810/85 of 28 June 1985 fixing the import levy on molasses

29 . 6. 85                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 169/79
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1810/85
                                                         of 28 June 1985
                                              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 Q ;
 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 1482/85 (2), and in particular Article 16            it has knowledge, either directly or through the agency
(8) thereof,                                1                       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 1484/85 of 23 May 1985 fixing,
for the 1985/86 marketing year, the derived interven­               Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
tion prices for white sugar, the intervention price for             which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be
raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the                 adjusted, account being taken in particular of the diffe­
threshold prices and the amount of compensation for                 rences in the cost of transporting the goods between
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
(EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the                    the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
standard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Commu­                 reduced in the light of the results obtained by
nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices             applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
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
(2) OJ  No  L   151 , 10. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L   151 , 10. 6. 1985, p. 5.
(4) OJ  No  L   89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                           0 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 1985.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 June 1985.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                  Vice-President
                                                           ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 1985 fixing the 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.