CELEX: 31973R1738
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1738/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 176/30                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             30. 6. 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1738/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 29 June 1973
                                      fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing op­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         portunities on the world market are being esta­
                                                                     blished, the Commission must take account of all
                                                                     available information on offers on the world mar­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   ket, on quotations on the exchanges which are im­
pean Economic Community ;                                            portant for world trade, on prices recorded on im­
                                                                     portant third-country markets, and on sales con­
                                                                     cluded in international trade of which it has know­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/
EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­                    ledge either directly or through the agency of the
ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by                   Member States ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular
Article 14 (7) thereof ;                                             Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
                                                                     tion (EEC) No 784/68 (6) of 26 June 1968 laying
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/                   down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for
EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                   white sugar and raw sugar, the Commission must
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;              disregard information if the goods concerned are
                                                                     not of sound and fair marketable quality or if the
                                                                     price quoted in an offer relates to small quantities
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw                        and is not representative of the market ; whereas of­
sugar must be equal to the threshold price less the                  fer prices which can be assumed not to be representa­
cif price ; whereas the threshold price for each of                  tive of the actual market trends must also be disre­
these products was fixed by Council Regulation                       garded ;
(EEC) No 1637/73 (3) of 18 June 1973 fixing for the
1973 /74 marketing year the derived intervention
prices, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the              Whereas, of the offer prices taken into considera­
minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices, the                   tion, those which are not for goods delivered in bulk
guaranteed quantity, the maximum amount of the                       cif Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
production levy and the special maximum quota ;                       adjustment is being made account must be taken of
                                                                      the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
                                                                      between the port of loading and the port of destina­
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar                   tion and between the port of loading and Rotter­
is calculated by the Commission for a Community                       dam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates to
frontier crossing point which was fixed at Rotter­                    goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of ac­
dam by Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 (4) of 9                   count per 100 kilogrammes under the terms of Regu­
April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw                  lation ( EEC) No 784/68 ;
sugar and fixing the Community frontier crossing
point for calculating cif prices for sugar ;
                                                                      Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
                                                                      quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                  reductions fixed pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                     No 1009/67/EEC must be added to or deducted
established for each product on the basis of quota­                   from the offers taken into consideration in the case
tions or prices on that market adjusted for any devia­                of white sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar,
tion from the standard quality for which the thres­                   the corrective factors provided for in Regulation
hold price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality                    (EEC) No 784/68 must be applied ;
for raw sugar was defined by Regulation ( EEC) No
 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation
 (EEC) No 793 /72 (5 ) of 17 April 1972 ;                             Whereas, pusuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                      No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for
                                                                      sugar which has been specially treated or specially
                                                                      packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
                                                                      the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
 ( J ) OJ No 308, 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 .                             referred to above ;
 (2) OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1973 , p. 1 .
 (3) OJ No L 165 , 22 . 6 . 1973, p . 7.
 (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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Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be                                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price                               the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates
which served as a basis for the previous calculation                                  of each of these currencies recorded for a given
of the cif price is not available to the Commission                                  period, in relation to the Community currencies
and if the offer prices which are available and which                                 referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual
market trends would entail sudden and considerable                               Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
changes in the cif price ;                                                       was requested ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in                             Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
the elements used to calculate it would entail an in­                            sions that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar
crease or a reduction of not less than 010 unit of                               should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regu­
account per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy                              lation ;
previously fixed ;
                                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu­
lation No 1009/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided                                                               Article 1
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­
mon Customs Tariff ;                                                             The levies referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation
                                                                                 No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                              standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                             in the Annex to this Regulation.
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                                                               Article 2
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 %>, a rate of exchange                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July
    based on their effective parity ;                                            1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
               Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973 .
                                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                        Member of the Commission
                                                                       ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar
                                                                    and raw sugar
                                                                  ,                                                        (u.a.1100 kg)
                       CCT
                      heading                                       Description of goods                                      Levy
                        No
              17.01                     Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                        A. Denatured :
                                             I. White sugar                                                                  7-34
                                            II . Raw sugar                                                                   5-23 (>)
                                        B. Undenatured :
                                             I. White sugar                                                                  7-34
                                            II . Raw sugar                                                                   5-23 (»)
              ( ! ) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 °/o ; 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 .