CELEX: 31988R1887
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1887/88 of 30 June 1988 fixing the import levy on molasses

I. 7. 88                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 168/53
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1887/88
                                                        of 30 June 1988
                                            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
                                                                  tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
Portugal,                                                         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 1 107/88 (2), and in particular Article 16 (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
                                                                  quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products           offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
listed in Article 1 (1) (c) of that Regulation ;                  actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices            Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
for the 1988/89 marketing year, which commences                   which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
on 1 July 1988 ; whereas the price factors determined             account being taken in particular of the differences in the
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1912/88 (3) should              cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
accordingly be taken into account for the calculation of          and the port of destination and between the port of
the levies in order to ensure that the import arrangements        loading and Rotterdam ;
continue to operate in the sector concerned ;
                                                                  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
0 OJ No L 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 20.
(3) See page 115 of this Official Journal.
b) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                  O 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
 100 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 :
                                                                                           Article 1
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band          The import levy referred to in Article 16(1 ) of amended
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central         Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of
     rate, multiplied by the correcting factor provided for        molasses, falling within CN codes 1703 10 00 and
     in the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Regulation         1703 90 00, 0,75 ECU/ 100 kg.
     (EEC) No 1 676/85 (3), as last 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 1 July 1988 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                    Done at Brussels, 30 June 1988 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                Vice-President
(') OJ   No L  151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
0   OJ   No L  171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.
(3) OJ   No L  164,  24. 6. 1985, p. 1.
{*) OJ  No  L  153,  13. 6. 1987, p. 1.