CELEX: 31992R1700
Language: en
Date: 1992-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1700/92 of 30 June 1992 fixing the import levy on molasses

1 . 7. 92                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 179 / 17
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1700/92
                                                       of 30 June 1992
                                            fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 determining the
                                                                  standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community
                                                                  frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             sugar (6) ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  purchasing opportunities on the world market established
market in sugar (l), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on
No 61 /92 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,          that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard
                                                                  quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
                                                                   standard quality for molasses was defined by Regulation
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             (EEC) No 785/68 of the Commission of 26 June 1968
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products           determining the standard quality and laying down
listed in Article 1 (1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;
                                                                   detailed rules for calculating the cif price for molasses Q ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1) of Council Decision
91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the             Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
overseas countries and territories with the European               nities on the world market are being established, the
 Economic Community (3), no levies shall apply on                  Commission must take account of all available informa­
imports of products originating in the overseas countries          tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
and territories ; whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (4) of the      exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
abovementioned Decision, a special amount shall be                 recorded on important third-country markets and on sales
charged on imports of certain products originating in the          concluded in international trade of which it has know­
overseas countries and territories in order to prevent             ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
products originating from these countries and territories          Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
from receiving more favourable treatment than similar              Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for
 products imported from Spain or Portugal into the                 this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
 Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 ;                    provided this average can be regarded as being representa­
                                                                   tive of actual market trends ;
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to
 the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­          Whereas the Commission must disregard information if
tion (EEC) No 1718/91 of 13 June 1991 fixing, for the              the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
 1991 /92 marketing year, the derived intervention prices          quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the         quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices,             offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
the amount of compensation for storage costs and the               actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
prices to be applied in Spain and Portugal (4);
Whereas, pending the fixing of the prices applicable for           Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
the 1992/93 marketing year, the threshold prices appli­            which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
cable on 30 June 1992 should be laid down pursuant to              account being taken in particular of the differences in the
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1599/92 of 24 June                  cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
 1992 on precautionary measure and the suspension of               and the port of destination and between the port of
advance fixing in certain agricultural sectors (*),                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                 quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Regulation (EEC) No                the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
                                                                   reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying
0)  OJ  No L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
0   OJ  No L  6, 11 . 1 . 1992, p. 19.
0   OJ  No L  263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L  162, 26. 6. 1991 , p. 23.                            («) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
0   OJ  No L  169, 24. 6. 1992, p. 12.                             O OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.
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Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left                 in the last subparagraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council
unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which                 Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (3), as last amended by
served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif               Regulation (EEC) No 2205/90 (4),
price is not available to the Commission and if the offer          — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
prices which are available and which appear not to be                   average of the ecu rates published in the Official
sufficiently representative of actual market trends would               Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;               a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas                      cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of             Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on 29
the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the           June 1992,
application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the
variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,06 per
100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;                                      Article 1
Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation            1 . The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this            lation (EEC) No 1785/81 is now ECU 1,09 per 100 kilo­
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs                   grams in respect of molasses falling within CN codes
Tariff ;                                                            1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00 .
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally, levies           2. However, no import levy applies to OCT originating
should be calculated on currencies on the following basis :         products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision
                                                                    91 /482/EEC.
— 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 correcting factor provided for        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1992.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 June 1992.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                               O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.                                (4) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.