CELEX: 31974R1643
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1643/74 of the Commission of 28 June 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

29 . 6 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 175/ 1
                                                                 I
                                              (Acts jvhose publication is obligator))
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1643/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 28 June 1974
                                 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68
COMMUNITIES,                                                         and that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     793/72 (5 ) of 17 April 1972 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                     Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/.                        tunities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                     Commission must take account of all available infor­
67/EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 mation on offers on the world market, on quotations
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 602/74 (2), and in particular               on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
Article 14 (7) thereof ; »                                           on prices recorded on important third-country
                                                                     markets, and on sales concluded in international trade
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         of which it has knowledge either directly or through
Committee ;                                                          the agency of the Member States ;
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                      Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­
67/ EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the               tion (EEC) No 784/68 (6) of 26 June 1968 laying
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;              down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar                 sugar and raw sugar, the Commission must disregard
                                                                     information if the goods concerned are not of sound
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;
whereas, the threshold price for each of these products              and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in
was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 600/74 (3)                an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­
of 29 April 1974 fixing for the 1974/75 sugar                        tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can
                                                                     be assumed not to be representative of the actual
marketing year the derived intervention prices, the
intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum                  market trends must also be disregarded ;
prices for beet, the threshold prices and the maximum
amount of the production levy ;                                      Whereas, of the offer price taken into consideration,
                                                                     those which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is               Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this
calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­                   adjustment is being made account must be taken of
tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by                  the difference in the cost of transporting the goods
Council Regulation ( EEC) No 431 /68 (4) of 9 April                  between the port of loading and the port of destina­
 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar                 tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for                 whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in
calculating cif prices for sugar ;                                   bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of account per
                                                                      100 kilogrammes under the t£rms of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                 No 784/ 68 ;
able purchasing opportunities on the world market
established for each product on the basis of quotations
or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation                  Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard
from the standard quality for which the threshold                    quality is to be comparable, the price increases or
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw                reductions fixed pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation
                                                                     No 1009 / 67/ EiiC must be added to or deducted from
                                                                     the offers taken into consideration in the case of white
(')  OJ  No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ  No L 172, 27 . 6. 1974, p. 7 .
(3)  OJ  No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p. 3 .                             (5) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4 . 1972, p. 1 .
(■») OJ  No L 89 , 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                             (') OJ No L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 175/ 2                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             29 . 6 . 74
sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the
factors provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 784/68            following should be used to calculate the levies :
must be applied ;                                             — for currencies the exchange rates for - which are
Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)                kept at any given moment within a band of
No 784/68 , a special cif .price may be established for           2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual
sugar which has been specially treated or specially               parity ;
packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower, than       — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the
the cif price established pursuant to the provisions              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each
referred to above ;                                               of these currencies against the .Community curren­
                                                                  cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception , be left            specified period ;
unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
which served as a basis for the previous calculation of       Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
the cif price is not available to the Commission and if       that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be
the offer prices which are available and which appear         fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ,
not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
trends would entail sudden and considerable changes
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in the cif price ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the                              Article 1
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase
or a reduction of not less than 010 unit of account           The levies referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation
per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously        No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
fixed ;                                                       standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
                                                              the Annex to this Regulation .
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion No 1009/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for                                   Article 2
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 28 June 1974.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                           P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission
 ---pagebreak--- 29 . 6. 74                     Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 175/3
                                                      ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar
                                                  and raw sugar
                                                                                      (u.d.ltOQ ku>)
                  CCT
                heading                          Description of goods                   l.evy
                   No
            17 01          Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                           Λ . Denatured :
                                 1 . White sugar                                          0
                                II . Raw sugar                                            0
                           15 . Undenatured :
                                 [. White sugar                                           0
                                II . Raw sugar                                            0