CELEX: 31974R2531
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2531/74 of the Commission of 4 October 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

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                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2531 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 4 October 1974
                                 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
COMMUNITIES,                                                         on prices recorded on important third-country
                                                                     markets , and on sales concluded in international trade
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                of which it has knowledge either directly or through
Economic Community ;                                                 the agency of the Member States ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009 /
67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                        Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 tion ( EEC) No 784/68 ( 7) of 26 June 1968 laying
by Regulation ( EEC) No 2476/74 (2 ), and in particular              down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white
Article 14 (7) thereof ;                                             sugar and raw sugar, the Commission must disregard
                                                                     information if the goods concerned are not of sound
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in
Committee ;
                                                                     an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) " of Regulation No 1009 /                   tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can
67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                be assumed not to be representative of the actual
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;              market trends must also be disregarded ;
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar
                                                                     Whereas, of the offer price taken into consideration ,
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;
                                                                     those which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
whereas the threshold price for each of these products
                                                                     Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 600 /74 (3 )
of 29 April 1974 fixing for the 1974/75 sugar                        adjustment is being made account must be taken of
marketing year the derived intervention prices, the                  the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
                                                                     between the port of loading and the port of destina­
intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum
                                                                     tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
prices for beet, the threshold prices and the maximum
amount of the production levy and amended by Regu­                   whereas , if the price or the offer relates to goods in
lation ( EEC) No 25 1 8 /74 (4 ) ;                                   bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of account per
                                                                      100 kilogrammes under the terms of Regulation ( EEC)
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is               No 784/ 68 ;
calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by                  Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
Council Regulation ( EEC) No 431 /68 (5 ) of 9 April                 quality is to be comparable , the price increases or
 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar                 reductions fixed pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                 No 1009 / 67 / EEC must be added to or deducted from
calculating cif prices for sugar ;                                   the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                 sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective
able purchasing opportunities on the world market                    factors provided for in Regulation ( EEC) No 784/ 68
established for each product on the basis of quotations              must be applied ;
or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation
from the standard quality for which the threshold                    Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation ( EEC)
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw                 No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for
sugar was defined by Regulation ( EEC) No 431 / 68                   sugar which has been specially treated or specially
and that for white sugar by Regulation ( EEC) No                     packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than
793/ 72 (6) of 17 April 1972 ;                                       the cif price established pursuant to the provisions
                                                                      referred to above ;
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
tunities on the world market are being established , the
Commission must take account of all available infor­                 Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception , be left
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations                  unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
                                                                     which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967 , p . 1 .                              the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
(-) O'l No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p . 70,                             the offer prices which are available and which appear
(3) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p . 3 .                               not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
(4) 0 | No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p . 1 .
(5) Oj No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
( b) O I No L 94, 21 . 4 . 1972 , p . I.                             ( 7 ) OJ No L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .
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trends would entail sudden and considerable changes              of these currencies against the Community curren­
in the cif price ;                                               cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
                                                                 specified period ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase      Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
or a reduction of not less than 0-10 unit of account         that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be
per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously       fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ,
fixed ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion No 1009/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                                     Article 1
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the      The levies referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation
following should be used to calculate the levies :           No 1009/67/ EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
                                                             standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
— for currencies the exchange rates for which are            the Annex to this Regulation .
    kept at any given moment within a band of
    2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual
                                                                                     Article 2
    parity ;
— for other currencies a conversion rate based on the        This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 October
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each         1974 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 October 1974 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                         P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission
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                                                       ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 4 October 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar
                                                   and raw sugar
                                                                                         ( tt.il .) tOO kg )
                   CCT
                 heading                          Description of goods                       levy
                    No
             17 01           Beel sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                             A. Denatured :
                                   I. White sugar                                              0
                                  II . Raw sugar                                               0
                             15 . Undenatured :
                                   I. White sugar                                              0
                                  11 . Raw sugar                                               0