CELEX: 31987R2089
Language: en
Date: 1987-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2089/87 of 15 July 1987 fixing the import levy on molasses

16. 7 . 87                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 195/27
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2089/87
                                                         of 15 July 1987
                                             fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        ning the standard quality and laying down detailed rules
                                                                   for calculating the cif price for molasses (*) ;
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 know­
                                                                    ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)            this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
No 229/87 (2), and in particular Article 1 6 (8) thereof,           provided this average can be regarded as being representa­
                                                                    tive of actual market trends :
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                    Whereas the Commission must disregard information if
                                                                    the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
listed in Article 1 (1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;                   offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
                                                                    actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to                Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the                which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­           account being taken in particular of the differences in the
tion (EEC) No 1913/87 of 2 July 1987 fixing, for the                 cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
 1987/88 marketing year, the derived intervention prices             and the port of destination and between the port of
for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the           loading and Rotterdam ;
minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices
and the amount of compensation for storage costs (3) ;
                                                                     Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
                                                                     quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the              the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
 Commission for a Community frontier crossing point                  reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation                   Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
(EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the stan­
 dard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Community fron­
 tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ;
                                                                     Whereas" the cif price may, by way of exception, be left
                                                                     unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
                                                                     served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
Whereas this price must be based on the most fabourable              price is not available to the Commission and if the offer
 purchasing opportunities on the world market established            prices which are available and which appear not to be
 for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on            sufficiently representative of actual market trends would
 that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard            entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
 quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
 standard quality for molasses was defined by Commission
 Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 of 26 June 1968 determi­                 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 25, 28 . 1. 1987,  p. 1.
 0   OJ  No  L 183, 3 . 7. 1987,  p. 3.
 (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 Regu­               these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the               tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail                previous indent and the aforesaid correcting factor ;
an increase or a reduction of not less than 0,06 ECU per
1 00 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;              Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
                                                                        the levy for molasses should be as set out in the Annex
Whereas in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regulation               hereto,
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
Tariff ;
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
should be calculated on currencies following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­                                       Article 1
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central             -The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation
     rate, multiplied by the correcting factor provided for             (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of molasses, as set
     in the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation             out in the Annex hereto .
     (EEC) No 1 676/85 (3), as amended by Regulation
     (EEC) No 1636/87 (4),
                                                                                                Article 2
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of                This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 July 1987.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                   Done at Brussels, 15 July 1987.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                  Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                     Vice-President
                                                              ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of IS July 1987 fixing the import levy on molasses
                                                                                                        (ECU/100 kg)
                        CCT
                       heading                                Description                                  Levy
                         No
                   17.03            Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                   0,54
 (') OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968, p. 42.
 (2) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.
 0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 V) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .