CELEX: 31983R1790
Language: en
Date: 1983-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1790/83 of 30 June 1983 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 176/50                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                1 . 7. 83
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1790/83
                                                          of 30 June 1983
                                               fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       standard quality and laying down detailed rules for
COMMUNITIES,                                                         calculating the cif price for molasses (*) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
Economic Community,                                                  tunities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                      Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                      mation on offers on the world market, on quotations
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization                    on prices recorded on important third-country markets
                                                                      and on sales concluded in international trade of which
of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular Article 16                it has knowledge, either directly or through the agency
(8) thereof,                                                          of the Member States ; whereas, under the terms of
                                                                     Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the
                                                                      Commission may for this purpose take an average of
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          several prices as a basis, provided this average can be
Committee,                                                            regarded as being representative of actual market
                                                                      trends ;
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas the Commission must disregard information
 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the               if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;           marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer
                                                                      relates to a small quantity and is not representative of
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to                  the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the                  regarded as not representative of actual market trends
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council                     must also be disregarded ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 1586/83 of 14 June 1983 fixing,
 for the 1983/84 marketing year, the derived interven­                Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
 tion prices for white sugar, the intervention price for              which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be
 raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the                  adjusted, account being taken in particular of the diffe­
 threshold prices and the amount of compensation for                   rences in the cost of transporting the goods between
 storage costs (3) ;                                                   the port of loading and the port of destination and
                                                                      between the port of 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
 which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation                    quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
                                                                       the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
 (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the                      reduced in the light of the results obtained by
 standard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Commu­
                                                                       applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
 nity frontier 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
 Whereas this price must be based on the most fabour­                  served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market                     price is not available to the Commission and if the
 established for each product on the basis of quotations               offer prices which are available and which appear not
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                   to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends
 from the standard quality for which the threshold                     would entail sudden and considerable changes in the
 price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for                     cif price ;
 molasses was defined by Commission Regulation
 (EEC) No 785/68 of 26 June 1968 determining the                       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   74, 18 . 3 . 1982, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ No   L   163 , 22. 6. 1983 , p. 33 .
  4  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                 relationg to the Community currencies referred to
 Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered                   in the previous indent ;
 only if the variation in the elements used to calculate
 it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less             Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
 than 0,06 ECU per 100 kilograms in relation to the                 the levy for molasses should be as set out in the
 levy previously fixed ;                                            Annex hereto,
 Whereas in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , 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,
                                                                                           Article 1
 levies should be calculated on currencies following
 basis :
                                                                    The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regula­
— in the case of currences which are maintained in
                                                                    tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of
      relation to each other at any given moment within             molasses, as set out in the Annex hereto.
      a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on the
      central rate ,
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                                      Article 2
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
      these currencies recorded for a given period in               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1983 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 June 1983 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                Poul DALSAGER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1983 fixing the import levy on molasses
                                                                                                   (ECU/100 kg)
                      CCT
                     heading                              Description                                 Levy
                       No
                17.03            Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                   0
'<) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p . 42.
;2 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p . 34.