CELEX: 31973R1739
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1739/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 176/32                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              30. 6. 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1739/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 29 June 1973
                                                   fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          (EEC) No 785/68 (5) of 26 June 1968 determining
COMMUNITIES,                                                            the standard quality and laying down detailed rules
                                                                        for calculating the cif price f6r molasses ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing op­
pean Economic Community ;                                               portunities on the world market are being estab­
                                                                        lished, the Commission must take account of all
                                                                        available information on offers on the world mar­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/                         ket, on quotations on the exchanges which are im­
EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­                        portant for world trade, on prices recorded on im­
ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by                      portant third-country markets and on sales con­
Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular                      cluded in international trade of which it has know­
Article 14 (7) thereof ;                                                ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
                                                                        Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article
                                                                        7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/                      may for this purpose take an average of several
EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                      prices as a basis, provided this average can be re­
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                 garded as being representative of actual market
                                                                        trends ;
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal                       Whereas the Commission must disregard informa­
to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the                 tion if the goods concerned are not of sound and
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council                       fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an
Regulation (EEC) No 1637/73 (3) of 18 June 1973 fix­                     offer relates to a small quantity and is not represen­
ing for the 1973/74 marketing year the derived inter­                    tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can
vention prices, the intervention prices for raw beet                     be regarded as not representative of actual market
sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold                        trends must also be disregarded ;
prices, the guaranteed quantity, the maximum
amount of the production levy and the special
maximum quota ;                                                          Whereas, of the offer prices taken into considera­
                                                                         tion, those which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam
                                                                         must be adjusted, account being taken in particular
                                                                         of the differences in the cost of transporting the
Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by                      goods between the port of loading and the port of
the Commission for a Community frontier crossing                         destination and between the port of loading and Rot­
point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regu­                      terdam ;
 lation (EEC) No 431 /68 (4) of 9 April 1968 determin­
 ing the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the
 Community frontier crossing point for calculating cif                   Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
 prices for sugar ;                                                      quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending
                                                                         on the quality of the molasses offered, be increased
                                                                         or reduced in the light of the results obtained by
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­                     applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
able purchasing opportunities on the world market
established for each product on the basis of quota­                      Whereas cif price may, by way of exception, be left
tions or prices on that market adjusted for any devia­                   unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
tion from the standard quality for which the thres­                      which served as a basis for the previous calculation
hold price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality                       of the cif price is not available to the Commission
 for molasses was defined by Commission Regulation                       and if the offer prices which are available and
                                                                         which appear not to be sufficiently representative
                                                                         of actual market trends would entail sudden and
                                                                         considerable changes in the cif price ;
 (*) OJ  No  308, 18 . 12. 1967, p . 1 .
 (2) OJ  No  L 106, 20. 4. 1973 , p. 1 .
 (s) OJ  No  L 165 , 22. 6. 1973 , p . 1 .
 (4) OJ  No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                                   (5) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.
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Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas                    — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
(EEC) No 837/68 (*) of 28 June 1968 on detailed                            of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
rules for the application of levies on sugar, as last                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1491/70 (2), the                            in the previous subparagraph ;
levy is altered only if the variation in the elements
used to calculate it would entail an increase or a                    Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
reduction of not less than 0 05 unit of account per                    was requested ;
100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously                     Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
fixed ;                                                                sions that the levy for molasses should be fixed as
                                                                       shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu­
lation No 1009/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­
mon Customs Tariff ;                                                                           Article 1
                                                                       The levy referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    No 1009/67/EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                   fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation.
 — in the case currencies which are maintained in
                                                                                               Article 2
      relation to each other, at any given moment,
      within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange based              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July
      on their effective parity ;                                       1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
  (*) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p . 42 .
  (l) OJ No L 165 , 28 . 7. 1970, p . 8 .
                                                              ANNEX
                         to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1973 fixing the import levy on molasses
                                                                                                         (u.a.HOO kg)
                      CCT
                     heading                              Description of goods                             Levy
                       No
                 17.03                Molasses , whether or not decolourized                                  0