CELEX: 31987R0959
Language: en
Date: 1987-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 959/87 of 1 April 1986 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 90/36                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                     2. 4. 87
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 959/87
                                                            of 1 April 1986
                                               fixing the import levy on molasses
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          ning the standard quality and laying down detailed rules
                                                                        for calculating the cif price for molasses ^;
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
' Economic Community,                                                   Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                        nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                        Commission must take account of all available informa­
   Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
   Portugal,                                                            exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
                                                                        recorded on important third-country markets and on sales
                                                                        concluded in international trade of which it has know­
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
   of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
   market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for
   No 229/87 (2), and in particular Article 1 6 (8) thereof,            this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
                                                                       provided this average can be regarded as being representa­
                                                                       tive of actual market trends ;
   Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                       Whereas the Commission must disregard information if
  Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
  provides for charging a levy on imports of the products              quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
  listed in Article 1 (1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;                    quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
                                                                       offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
                                                                       actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
  Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to
  the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the
  threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­            Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
  tion (EEC) No 1453/86 of 13 May 1986 fixing, for the                 which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
   1986/87 marketing year, the derived intervention prices             account being taken in particular of the differences in the
  for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the           cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
  minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices                and the port of destination and between the port of
  and the amount of compensation for storage costs (3), as             loading and Rotterdam ;
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1987/86 (4) ;
                                                                       Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
  Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the              quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
  Commission for a Community frontier crossing point                   the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
  which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation                   reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying
  (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the stan­              Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
  dard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Community fron­
  tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (*) ;
                                                                      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 fabourable             served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
  purchasing opportunities on the world market established            price is not available to the Commission and if the offer
  for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on            prices which are available and which appear not to be
  that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard            sufficiently representative of actual market trends would
  quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the        entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
  standard quality for molasses was defined by Commission
  Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 of 26 June 1968 determi­
                                                                      Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
 (')  OJ No   L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 0    OJ No   L 25, 28. 1 . 1987, p. 1 .                              No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
   3) OJ No   L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 6.
 0    OJ No   L 171 , 28. 6. 1986, p. 6.
 0    OJ No   L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                                («) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.
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 application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by Regu­              these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
 lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the              tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail               previous indent and the aforesaid correcting factor ;
 an increase or a reduction of not less than 0,06 ECU per
 100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;              Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
                                                                       the levy for molasses should be as set out in the Annex
 Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation              hereto,
 (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this
 Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
 Tariff ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
 should be calculated on currencies following basis :
                                                                                                Article 1
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band              The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation
     of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central             (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of molasses, as set
     rate, multiplied by the correcting factor provided for            out in the Annex hereto.
     in the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation
     (EEC) No 1676/85 0,
                                                                                                Article 2
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of               This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 April 1987.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 1 April 1987.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                    Vice-President
                                                              ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 1 April 1987 fixing the import levy on molasses
                                                                                                       (ECU/100 kg)
                        CCT
                      heading                                Description                                  Levy
                         No
                  17.03             Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                  0,12
(') OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
(2) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.
O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .