CELEX: 31994R1575
Language: en
Date: 1994-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1575/94 of 30 June 1994 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 166/ 104                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1 . 7. 94
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1575/94
                                                         of 30 June 1994
                                              fixing the import levy on molasses
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
                                                                    sugar 0 ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,                                                        Whereas this price must be based on the most , favourable
                                                                     purchasing opportunities on the world market established
                                                                     for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                 quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
  market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC)           standard quality for molasses was defined by Regulation
  No 1 33/94 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,         (EEC) No 785/68 of the Commission of 26 June 1968
                                                                    determining the standard quality and laying down
                                                                    detailed rules for calculating the cif price for molasses (8) ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92
 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the
 conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the             Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
 common agricultural policy (3), as amended by Regulation           nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                    Commission must take account of all available informa­
 (EC) No 3528/93 (4), and in particular Article 5 thereof,
                                                                    tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
                                                                    exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
                                                                    recorded on important third-country markets and on sales
 Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              concluded in international trade of which it has know­
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
 listed in Article 1 (1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;                  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 several prices as a basis,
                                                                    provided this average can be regarded as being representa­
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision          tive of actual market trends ;
 91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
 overseas countries and territories with the European
 Economic Community (*) no levies shall apply on imports
 of products originating in the overseas countries and terri­      Whereas the Commission must disregard information if
 tories :                                                          the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
                                                                   quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
                                                                   quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
                                                                   offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices             actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
 for the 1994/95 marketing year, which commences on 1
July 1 994 ; whereas the price factors determined by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1518/94 (6) should
accordingly be taken into account for the calculation of           Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
the levies in order to ensure that the import arrangements         which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
continue to operate in the sector concerned ;                      account being taken in particular of the differences in the
                                                                   cost of transporting the goods between 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
Commission for a Community frontier crossing point
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Regulation (EEC) No
431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 determining the             Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community            quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
                                                                   the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
(') OJ   No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying
(2) OJ   No L 22, 27. 1 . 1994, p. 7.                              Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
0   OJ   No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ   No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
0   OJ   No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .                            O OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968, p. 3 .
h OJ No L 162, 30. 6. 1994, p. 43.                                 (8) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.
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 Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left            rate established during the reference period from 29 June
 unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which            1994, as regards floating currencies, should be used to
 served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif          calculate the levies,
 price is not available to the Commission and if the offer
 prices which are available and which appear not to be
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 sufficiently representative of actual market trends would
 entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
                                                                                             Article 1
 Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas                 1 . The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­
 pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of             lation (EEC) No 1785/81 is now ECU 0,00 per 100 kilo­
 the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the           grams in respect of molasses falling within CN codes
 application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by Regu­       1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00 .
 lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the
 variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail        2. However, no import levy applies to OCT originating
 an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,06 per           products according to Article 101 (1) of Decision
                                                                    91 /482/EEC.
 100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;
                                                                                             Article 2
 Whereas, in order to make it possible for the levy arrange­
 ments to function normally, the representative market              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1994.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 June 1994.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Rene STEICHEN
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
(2) OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.