CELEX: 31975R1675
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1675/75 of the Commission of 30 June 1975 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

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                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1675/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 30 June 1975
                                fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    of which it has knowledge either directly or through
COMMUNITIES,                                                       the agency of the Member States ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
 Economic Community ;                                              tion (EEC) No 784/68, (5) of 26 June 1968 laying
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white
3330/74 (') of 19 December 1974 on the common                     sugar and raw sugar, the Commission must disregard
organization of the market in sugar, and in particular             information if the goods concerned are not of sound
Article 1 5 (7) thereof ;                                         and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in
                                                                  an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can
Committee ;                                                       be assumed not to be representative of the actual
                                                                   market trends must also be disregarded ;
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                Whereas, of the offer price taken into consideration,
the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;        those which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
                                                                  Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar              adjustment is being made account must be taken of
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;         the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
whereas the threshold price for each of these products            between the port of loading and the port of destina­
was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No                          tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
660/75 (2) of 4 March 1975 fixing for the 1975/76                 whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
sugar marketing year the derived intervention prices,             bags, it must be reduced by 0 06 unit of account per
the intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the                    100 kilogrammes under the term's of Regulation (EEC)
minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices and the              No 784/ 68 ;
maximum amount of the production levy ;
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is            Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­                quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by                reductions fixed pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation
Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (3) of 9 April                (EEC) No 3330/74 must be added to or deducted from
                                                                  the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for              sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective
calculating cif prices for sugar ;                                factors provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
                                                                   must be applied ;
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
established for each product on the basis of quotations            No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for
or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation               sugar which has been specially treated or specially
from the standard quality for which the threshold                 packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw             the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68                  referred to above ;
and that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No
793/72 (4) of 17 April 1972 ;                                     Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
                                                                  unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­               which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
tunities on the world market are being established, the           the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                  the offer prices which are available and which appear
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations               not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
on the exchanges which are important for world trade,             trends would entail sudden and considerable changes
on prices recorded on important third-country                     in the cif price ;
markets, and on sales concluded in international trade
                                                                  Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
(')  OJ  No L 3.59, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1                           elements used to calculate it would entail an increase
(2)  OJ No  L 72, 20 . 3. 1975, p.  7.
(3)  OJ No  L 89, 10 . 4. 1968, p.  3.
(4)  OJ  No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p.  1.                            (5 ) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 10 .
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or a reduction of not less than 0-10 unit of account         Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously       that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be
fixed ;                                                      fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation,
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the                              Article 1
following should be used to calculate the levies :
— for currencies the exchange rates for which are            The levies referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation
    kept at any given moment within a band of                (EEC) No 3330/74 are, in respect of white sugar and
    2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual         standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
    parity ;                                                 the Annex to this Regulation .
— for other currencies a conversion rate based on the
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each
    of these currencies against the Community curren­                                Article 2
    cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
    specified period ;                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1975.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1975.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                         P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                    ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1975 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                  raw sugar
                                                                                          (u.aJ100 kg)
                 CCT
                heading                         Description of goods                       Levy
              •   No '
          17.01          Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                        A. Denatured :
                             I. White sugar                                               6-66
                            II. Raw sugar                                                 7-61
                         B. Undenatured :
                             I. White sugar                                               6-66
                            II. Raw sugar                                                 7-61