CELEX: 31981R1808
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1808/81 of 1 July 1981 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 181 /24                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                2 . 7 . 81
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1808 /81
                                                      of 1 July 1981
                              fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar
Economic Community,                                             and raw sugar (5), the Commission must disregard
                                                                 information if the goods concerned are not of sound
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common                            offer relates to small quantities and is not representa­
organization of the market in sugar ('), and in parti­           tive of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
cular Article 16 (8) thereof,                                    assumed not to be representative of the actual market
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     trends must also be disregarded ;
Committee,                                                       Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
                                                                 Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the
                                                                 adjustment is being made account must be taken of
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;
                                                                 the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar             between the port of loading and the port of destina­
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;        tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
whereas the threshold price for each of these products           whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1788 /81 of             bags, it must be reduced by 0-73 ECU per 100 kilo­
30 June 1981 fixing, for the 1981 /82 marketing year,            grams under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the             (EEC) No 784/68 ;
intervention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices             Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
for A and B beet, the threshold prices and the amount            quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
of compensation for storage costs (2) ;                           reductions fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is           (EEC) No 1785/81 must be added to or deducted from
calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­                the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by               sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective
Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968               factors provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)
determining the standard quality for raw sugar and                No 784/68 must be applied ;
fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
 calculating cif prices for sugar (3) ;                           No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­              sugar which has been specially treated or specially
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market                packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
 established for each product on the basis of quotations          the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation              referred to above ;
 from the standard quality for which the threshold                Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
 price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw            unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
 sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 and             served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
 that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of            price is not available to the Commission and if the
 17 April 1972 (4) ;                                              offer prices which are available and which appear not
 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­              to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends
 tunities on the world market are being established, the          would entail sudden and considerable changes in the
 Commission must take account of all available infor­              cif price ;
 mation on offers on the world market, on quotations              Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
 on the exchanges which are important for world trade,             elements used to calculate it would entail an increase
 on prices recorded on important third-country                     or a reduction of not less than 0-24 ECU per 100 kilo­
 markets, and on sales concluded in international trade           grams in relation to the levy previously fixed ;
 of which it has knowledge either directly or through              Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­
 the agency of the Member States ;                                 tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for
                                                                   in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
 (') OJ  No L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                            Customs Tariff ;
 (2) OJ  No L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 37.
 (3) OJ  No L  89, 10.  4. 1968 , p. 3.
  4  OJ  No L  94, 21 . 4. 1972,  p. 1.                            0 OJ No L 145, 27. 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .
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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                   the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as
                                                                       set out in the Annex hereto,
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    relation to each other at any given moment within
    a band of 2-25% , a rate of exchange based on their                                         Article 1
    effective parity,
                                                                       The import levies referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regu­
                                                                       lation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white
                                                                       sugar and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                  Annex hereto.
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded for a given period in                                             Article 2
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous indent ;                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 July 1981 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 1 July 1981 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                    Gaston THORN
                                                              ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 1 July 1981 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                             raw sugar
                                                                                                          (ECU/100 kg)
                     CCT
                    heading                                   Description                                    Levy
                      No
               17.01              Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form :
                                  A. White sugar : flavoured or coloured sugar                              16-83
                                  B. Raw sugar                                                              12-58 (')
               (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; 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 .