CELEX: 31981R1811
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1811/81 of 30 June 1981 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 181 /30                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                2. 7. 81
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1811/81
                                                       of 30 June 1981
                                            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 (4) ;
                                                                 Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            tunities on the world market are being established, the
Economic Community,                                              Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                 mation on offers on the world market, on quotations
                                                                 on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     on prices recorded on important third-country markets
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization               and on sales concluded in international trade of which
of the market in sugar ('), and in particular Article 1 6        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
 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the           Whereas the Commission must disregard information
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;       if 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
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 1788/81 of 30 June 1981 fixing,
 for the 1981 /82 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 (2) ;                                              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               quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
 which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation               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 cit prices
 for sugar (3) ;                                                  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 fabour­              price is not available to the Commission and if the
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market                 offer prices which are available and which appear not
 established for each product on the basis of quotations           to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation               would entail sudden and considerable changes in the
 from the standard quality for which the threshold                 cif price ;
 price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for
 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)
                                                                   No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
 0 OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
 O OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 37.
  3) 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
     their effective parity ;
— 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 2 July 1981 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 June 1981 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                 Gaston THORN
                                                         ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1981 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.
 0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.