CELEX: 31987R1113
Language: en
Date: 1987-04-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1113/87 of 22 April 1987 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 108 / 12                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 23 . 4. 87
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1113/87
                                                        of 22 April 1987
                                             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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the Commission may for
No 229/87 (2), and in particular Article 1 6 (8) thereof,          this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
                                                                   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
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;                 quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
                                                                   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
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­          Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
tion (EEC) No 1453/86 of 13 May 1986 fixing, for the               which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
1986/87 marketing year, the derived intervention prices            account being taken in particular of the differences in the
for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the         cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices              and the port of destination and between the port of
and the amount of compensation for storage costs (3), as           loading and Rotterdam ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 987/86 (4) ;
                                                                   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 on
Commission for a Community frontier crossing point                 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 applying
(EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the stan­             Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
dard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Community fron­
tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (*) ;
                                                                   Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left
                                                                   unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
Whereas this price must be based on the most fabourable            served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
purchasing opportunities on the world market established           price is not available to the Commission and if the offer
for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on           prices which are available and which appear not to be
that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard           sufficiently representative of actual market trends would
quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the       entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
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
(>) OJ  No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
(2) OJ  No  L 25, 28. 1 . 1987, p. 1 .                              No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
(3) OJ  No  L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 6.
(4) OJ  No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 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 23 April 1987.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 22 April 1987.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                             ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 22 April 1987 fixing the import levy on molasses
                                                                                                      (ECU/100 kg)
                        CCT
                      heading                               Description                                  Levy
                         No
                  17.03            Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                  0,27
(') OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.
O OJ No L 164, 24. 6 . 1985, p . 1 .