CELEX: 31993R1693
Language: en
Date: 1993-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1693/93 of 30 June 1993 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 159/36                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1 . 7. 93
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1693/93
                                                         of 30 June 1993
                                              fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community
                                                                    frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
                                                                    sugar P) ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                    Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                purchasing opportunities on the world market established
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)            that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard
No 1 548/93 (2), and in particular Article 1 6 (8) thereof,         quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
                                                                    standard quality for molasses was defined by Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92                (EEC) No 785/68 of the Commission of 26 June 1968
of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the                  determining the standard quality and laying down
conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the              detailed rules for calculating the cif price for molasses (8) ;
common agricultural policy (3), and in particular Article 5
thereof,
                                                                    Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                    nities on the world market are being established, the
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               Commission must take account of all available informa­
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;                  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
Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Council Decision
91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the               ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
overseas countries and territories with the European                Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
Economic Community (4), no levies shall apply on                    Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the Commission may for
imports of products originating in the overseas countries           this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
and territories ;                                                   provided this average can be regarded as being representa­
                                                                    tive of actual market trends ;
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the
                                                                    Whereas the Commission must disregard information if
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­
                                                                    the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
tion (EEC) No 1550/93 of 14 June 1993 fixing, for the
                                                                    quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
 1993/ 1994 marketing year, the derived intervention prices
                                                                    quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the
                                                                    offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices,              actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
the amount of compensation for storage costs (*) ;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/93 (6)                  Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable           which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a             account being taken in particular of the differences in the
result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93              cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
marketing year ;                                                    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                 Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 determining the              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
0   OJ  No  L 154,  25. 6. 1993, p. 10.                             Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
0   OJ  No  L 387,  31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 263 , 19. 9 . 1991 , p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 154,  25. 6. 1993, p. 15.                             0 OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
(6) See page 127 of this Official Journal.                          (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            1993, 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
sufficiently representative of actual market trends would          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of                                      Article 1
the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by Regu­       1 . The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the       lation (EEC) No 1785/81 is now ECU 0,20 per 100 kilo­
variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail        grams in respect of molasses falling within CN codes
                                                                   1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00 .
an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,06 per
 1 00 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;         2. However, no import levy applies to OCT originating
Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation           products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this           91 /482/EEC.
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
Tariff ;
                                                                                            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 1993 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 30 June 1993.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                Rene STEICHEN
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(<) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p . 42.
0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.