CELEX: 31986R1981
Language: en
Date: 1986-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1981/86 of 26 June 1986 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 170/54                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  27. 6. 86
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1981 /86
                                                        of 26 June 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
                                                                   ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the Commission may for
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
No 934/86 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,           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
                                                                   the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) of that Regulation-;                 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               Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the               which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­          account being taken in particular of the differences in the
tion (EEC) No 1453/86 of 13 May 1986 fixing, for the               cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
 1986/87 marketing year, the derived intervention prices           and the port of destination and between the port of
for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the         loading and Rotterdam ;
minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices
and the amount of compensation for storage costs (3) ;
                                                                   Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
                                                                   quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the            the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
Commission for a Community frontier crossing point                 reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation                 Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
(EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the stan­
dard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Community fron­
tier 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 which
                                                                   served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
Whereas this price must be based on the most fabourable            price is not available to the Commission and if the offer
purchasing opportunities on the world market established           prices which are available and which appear not to be
for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on           sufficiently representative of actual market trends would
that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard           entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
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
                                                                   pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
(') OJ  No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
(2) OJ  No  L 87, 2. 4. 1986, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 6.
(<) OJ  No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3.                               0 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 (3),
                                                                                               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, 26 June 1986.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                              ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of 26 June 1986 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.
 (2) OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.
 (3) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .