CELEX: 31986R2051
Language: en
Date: 1986-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2051/86 of 30 June 1986 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

1 . 7. 86                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 173 /91
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2051 /86
                                                        of 30 June 1986
                                  fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Commission must take account of all available informa­
                                                                   tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
Economic Community,                                                recorded on important third-country markets, and on
                                                                   sales concluded in international trade of which it has
                                                                   knowledge either directly or through the agency of the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 Member States :
Portugal,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regulation
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw
No 934/86 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,           sugar (6), the Commission must disregard information if
                                                                   the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to small
                                                                   quantities and is not representative of the market ;
                                                                   whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81            representative of the actual market trends must also be
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            disregarded ;
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar               Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;          which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Rotterdam
whereas the threshold price for each of these products was         must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being
fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1453/86 of 21 May             made account must be taken of the difference in the cost
1986 fixing for the 1986/87 marketing year the derived             of transporting the goods between the port of loading and
intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price        the port of destination and between the port of loading
for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the            and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates
threshold prices and the amount of compensation for                to goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100
storage costs (3) ;                                                kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 784/68 ;
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is
calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier
crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council             Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining            is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­           fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No
nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for        1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers
sugar (4) ;                                                        taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ;
                                                                   whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable            provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
purchasing opportunities on the world market established           must be applied ;
for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on
that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard
quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the       Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation           784/68 , a special cif price may be established for sugar
(EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation            which has been specially treated or specially packed if the
(EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972 0 ;                               offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­
                                                                   blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ;
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                   Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
(')  OJ No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
(2)  OJ No  L 87, 2. 4. 1986, p. 1 .                               served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
 3   OJ No  L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 6.
(4)  OJ No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.
M OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .                                 (6) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 10.
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price is not available to the Commission and if the offer                      these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
prices which are available and which appear not to be                          tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
sufficiently representative of actual market trends would                      previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
                                                                           Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
Whereas the levy i§ altered only if the variation in the
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a                the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set
                                                                           out in the Annex hereto,
reduction of not less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilograms in
relation to the levy previously fixed ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
Tariff ;
                                                                                                      Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                           The import levies referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regula­
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­                  tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white sugar
    tion to each other at any given moment within a band                   and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the Annex
    of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central                  hereto.
    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
    Article 3 (1 ), last indent 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 1 July 1986.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 30 June 1986.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                      Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                         Vice-President
                                                                 ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1986 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                                raw sugar
                                                                                                              (ECU/100 kg)
                        CCT
                       heading                                   Description                                      Levy
                         No
                  17.01               Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form :
                                     A. White sugar : flavoured or coloured sugar                               49,39
                                      B. Raw sugar                                                              43,1 2 (')
                  (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the levy applicable
                      is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68.
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .