CELEX: 31976R1566
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1566/76 of 30 June 1976 fixing the import levies on molasses

No L 172/36                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 7. 76
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1566/76
                                                           of 30 June 1976
                                                fixing the import levy on molasses
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       mation on offers on the world market, on quotations
  COMMUNITIES,                                                        on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
                                                                      on prices recorded on important third-country
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               markets and on sales concluded in international trade
  Economic Community,                                                 of which it has knowledge, either directly or through
                                                                      the agency of the Member States ; whereas, under the
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      terms of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­
                                                                      Commission may for this purpose take an average of
 zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by                several prices as a basis, provided this average can be
 Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular                   regarded as being representative of actual market
 Article 15 (7) thereof,                                              trends ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
 Committee,                                                           Whereas the Commission must disregard information
                                                                      if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair
 Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                      marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer
 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                   relates to a small quantity and is not representative of
 the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;          the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
                                                                      regarded as not representative of actual market trends
 Whereas the import levy on molasses must be eqi^al                   must also be disregarded ;
 to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the
 threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council
 Regulation (EEC) No 834/76 of 6 April 1976 fixing                    Whereas, of the offer prices taken into consideration,
 for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year the derived inter­              those which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must
 vention prices, the intervention prices for raw beet                 be adjusted, account being taken in particular of the
 sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the                              differences in the cost of transporting the goods
 threshold prices and the maximum amount of the                       between the port of loading and the port of destina­
 production levy and fixing the coefficient for calcu­                tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
 lating the special maximum quota (3) ;
                                                                     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
 Commission for a Community frontier crossing point                  on 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
 (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the                    applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
 standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­
 nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices
 for sugar (4) ;                                                     Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be
                                                                     left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                 which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market                   the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
 established for each product on the basis of quotations             the offer prices which are available and which appear
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                 not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
 from the standard quality for which the threshold                   trends would entail sudden and considerable changes
 price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for                   in the cif price ;
 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
standard quality and laying down detailed rules for                  pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation
calculating the cif price for molasses (5) ;                         (EEC) No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules
                                                                     for the application of levies on sugar (6), as last
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (7), the
tunities on the world market are being established, the              levy is altered only if the variation in the elements
Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                     used to calculate it would entail an increase or a reduc­
                                                                     tion of not less than 0-05 unit of account per 100 kilo­
(•) OJ  No  L  359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                            grammes in relation to the levy previously fixed ;
(2  OJ  No  L   167, 26 . 6 . 1976, p. 9 .
(3) OJ  No  L   100, 14. 4. 1976, p. 25.
(«) OJ  No  L  89 , 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                            (6) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42.
(») OJ  No  L   145, 27. 6. 1968 , p . 12.                            7) OJ No L 165, 28 . 7 . 1970, p. 8 .
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Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­               Whereas the opinion of the Monetary Committee was
tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided                      requested ;
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                  Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
Customs Tariff ;
                                                                      that the levy for molasses should be fixed as shown in
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                   the Annex to this Regulation,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                                            Article 1
     within a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                      The levy referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                  (EEC) No 3330/74 is, in respect of molasses, hereby
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                 fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in                                     Article 2
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous subparagraph ;                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 30 June 1976.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                           ANNEX
                                                                                                       (u.a. /100 kg)
                     CCT
                   heading                             Description of goods                             Levy
                      No
               17.03            Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                     0